266 Search Results for “August”

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    John Connell: Works and John Connell: Earth-Touching Buddha, A Review

    Coming face to face with John Connell’s art, both in person and in reproduction, imparts a sense of quizzicality. Puzzlement about the way that artworks so earthbound as to express particles of dirt, sand and tar can also appear shot with air. Roots curl toward water as wings lift off ground; liminality meets ascendance. I moved full-time to Santa Fe in 1993; that summer, Linda Durham Gallery, where Connell exhibited, showed Works II: Selections from More …

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    Santa Fe Land Use, the Past and the Future

    SANTA FE—As the Santa Fe City Council prepares to vote on April 8th to approve or reject Mayor Javier Gonzales’s two new nominees to the Planning Commission, one land-use controversy at play in front of the city finds old neighborhoods and new agendas sparking hot in polarized opposition. (See an interview with Mayor Javier Gonzales here. Photos: Dianne Stromberg) The fights reveal the historically wide rift in public attitudes about More …

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    Crowdfunding Succeeds for Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return

    Santa Fe arts collective Meow Wolf has successfully funded House of Eternal Return on March 2nd through a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. 880 donors pledged $105,221, 105% of the organization’s $100k goal. This new spate of funding follows on a $150-a-head fundraising gala at the Scottish Rite Temple in Santa Fe and a $25,000 first-place award from Creative Startups Albuquerque in the fall. Game of Thrones creator George R.R. Martin, who More …

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    Nic Nicosia Installs the Hoffman Tower Room Project

    Contemporary artist Nic Nicosia  installed a room dedicated to his work in a patron’s gallery in Dallas called the Hoffman Tower Project Room, in February 2015. He describes creating the installation specifically for the room. With the installation in Marguerite Hoffman’s, Tower Room, I have presented photographs, drawings, sculpture, and a site-specific wall drawing. The photographs represent three separate bodies of work. in the absence of others, 2010-2011, stories, 2013, and the grid piece, More …

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    A Conversation with Daniel Joseph Martinez

    Daniel Joseph Martinez traveled to Alaska in two successive summers. He found that Alaska is more than a state of mind but a state apart. He sent postcards to himself back home. His portrait in mail art is the subject of our conversation.   Featured image: She could See Russia from Her House, Those who wish for peace should prepare for war! —Old Sasquatch Proverb (In search of the Tribe Called More …

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    Wavelengths at TIFF: Grand Shorts Tell Epic Stories

    The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was mass urbanism once again this year, as closed streets formed a public mall that seemed like a treadmill, a continuous loop of Hollywood stars. In the Wavelengths section at TIFF, shorts outnumbered features four to one and commercial potential was barely an afterthought. Nor was the Oscar-mongering obvious, for which TIFF’s opening night now seems to be the starting pistol.     Much More …

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    Report from Aspen: Aspen Art Museum, Design by Shigeru Ban, Opens

    Shigeru Ban is this year’s winner of the Pritzker Prize; has an upcoming appearance in Prospect 3, the New Orleans biennial; and on August 9th saw the public opening of his Aspen Art Museum many years in the planning. The coverage of the building got fast-reduced to the snap over tortoises, whom artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s “Moving Ghost Town” exhibit had constrained to carry iPads on their backs in a rooftop More …

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    Red Star and a Rising Star Meet for Live Paint Event

    Acclaimed Crow painter Kevin Red Star and emerging contemporary Native American painter George Alexander, “live-painted” side by side on August 21st, on the opening day of the new Indigenous Fine Art Market in Santa Fe, for an appreciative audience at the Farmers’ Market Pavilion. DJ Brian Frejo live-mixed the soundtrack. IFAM, in this its first year, was created to respond to contemporary native artists’ desires to exhibit contemporary cultural objects rather than strictly More …

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    Unsettling, Unsettled Landscapes: SITElines in Review

    One of the ways a culture responds to unsettled landscapes is to create architectural space.  SITE Santa Fe’s new biennial, “SITElines: New Perspectives on Art in the Americas,” announces Santa Fe as a locus where multiple cultures and histories touch. The first edition of this three-part biennial sees the museum reaching for new contemporary work along a site line stretching from Nunavut in far northern Canada to Tierra del Fuego More …

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    Getting Your Groove Back with Land Ho!

    When Colin (Paul Eenhoorn) is invited to travel in tandem with his ex-brother-in-law, Mitch (Earl Lynn Nelson), on a road trip across Iceland, he is justifiably apprehensive. No longer married to the sisters who once connected them, Colin and Mitch are technically not related. Colin, a mild-mannered and reserved Australian-American, seems to be a bit intimidated by Mitch’s overweeningly brash demeanor. Maybe they cannot stand each other, but now that More …

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    Is Arts Incubator of the Rockies Imperiled by Rent Default?

    The future of Fort Collins’s national grant-winning arts organization Beet Street/Arts Incubator of the Rockies may be imperiled after the organization was recently in default on a year of rent to the City of Fort Collins.  Reached by telephone, Beet Street/AIR executive director Beth Flowers told AdobeAirstream that the mission for AIR is changing. With that change comes AIR’s removal from Beet Street’s management. Each organization now has its own board of directors. That More …

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    Saving Llewyn Davis – A Review

    If ever a character needed the Coen brothers, it is Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac), a folk singer with a passable soulfulness, scrounging in 1961 at the Gaslight Café for his next good meal while Bob Dylan foretold haunts the club amid swirls of cigarette smoke. With his Welshman’s ancestral good looks, black beard, black eyes, and bohemian self-effacement, Davis doesn’t disappoint our first minutes of innocence – there is promise. More …