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News just in that in June 2010 SITE Santa Fe director Laura Steward will step down from her post as director of the contemporary art space. She joined SITE in 2005 from Mass MoCA -  fellow kunsthalle in the Berkshires. Laura wrote in comments accompanying the press release that she is expecting her second child in March (congratulations!) and that she will pursue independent curatorial projects as well as spending more time with her family.

October 10th marks the next SITE opening of "Talking Pictures," a video show that includes work by Bruce Nauman, James Drake, Nic Nicosia, Nadine Robinson and other artists. October 16th, a Friday, will find 2010 biennial co-curators Daniel Belasco and Sarah Lewis discussing their plans for the show at SITE. The video housing is to be designed by David Adjaye, architect of MCA Denver and of the to-come National Museum of African American History and Culture on the Washington, DC mall. 

Amid driving rain and early snow in Santa Fe I am poised to remark that fall is my favorite time of year. This fall is doubly poignant because it marks a year since adobeairstream was just a glimmer of idea, and so the sense of time passing comes with a companion sense of small personal milestones and a still uphill climb for the economy to recover and the country to recover its civility. This morning as I pulled an Ed Grothus wisdom forward into a subhedline for a GoWest! post, "No one is secure unless everyone is secure," I thought of the profundity of that remark.  And I still muse, not happily, why it is in this country that fights over public access to health insurance create such vicious have-and-have-not politics. As an entrepreneur invested both ethically and practically in a new media economy, I can say  that in my view a secure future bears on more than fiscal and political economies. It bears on a shared desire in that larger polity we call American culture to understand the co-reliance of all to create a shared future and legacy.

As to this practice, Leanne and I just learned today that artsjournal picked up her Denver-Minneapolis story last week, September 11. My Jeremy Deller interview video is in the queue for Saatchi. And we hope and think that Jeremy Foote's wife Lisa (our excellent Web developer) was a major pie contest contender at the State Fair today. Waiting for pictures.