artInformant in Utah Artifacts Case Kills SelfTed Gardiner Commits Suicide in HolladayReports have emerged this month about the suicide of Ted Gardiner in a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah. He was the federal informant in the case that has accused 20 Mormons of trafficking in archeology artifacts. Read More >> artDenver Post: Biennial in Good Hands
Denver Biennial is in good hands according to Kyle McMillan at the Denver Post. Those hands belong to Paola Santoscoy, a 35- year old curator and writer from Mexico. Read More >> performanceColorado Bands At SxSWThe sheer scope of this music at SxSW is overwhelming on paper and deer-in-the-headlights making in person. It's like Daytona Spring Break at a mixer with NAMM.Read More >> artTino Sehgal Activates the GuggenheimThe Museum As Street At 50 this year, Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue continues to inspire art and acts. Read More >> artThe Whitney Biennial's Controversial SnapshotLorraine O'Grady and Michael JacksonThe room Francesco Bonami calls a "snapshot" of his Whitney Biennial is the new target for an appropriation kerfluffle in which a 1993 magazine portrait of Michael Jackson made it into Lorraine O'Grady's diptychs.Read More >> performance"O Rose - On Finding Harryette Mullen"Voice Project by XThe artist X performs a song. ©X Baczewska.Read More >> artAnsel Adams Mural ProjectEpic landscapes at InteriorSecretary of the Interior Ken Salazar unveils completed Ansel Adams mural project begun in 1941 by former Interior secretary Harold Ickes.Read More >>film & tvRIP Howard Zinn, Wake Up Progressives"Think for yourself. Don't believe what the people up there tell you," Howard Zinn said. "Don't depend on saviors or the founding fathers or our leaders to do what must be done." Leanne Goebel contemplates Zinn's death and what his message means for American progressives today.Read More >>other links |