266 Search Results for “August”

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    Front Range Women, Abstract Line and More: Denver Art Preview

    A Denver Art Preview. From  a focus on women artists of the Front Range, through painting and sculpture with abstract line, the first few months of 2014 reveal a span of new art shows in Denver, worth viewing between football games, snowboarding trips and waiting in line at the marijuana shops. The Transit of Venus: Four Decades, Front Range Women in the Visual Arts January 10 – February 23, 2014 More …

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    Is Art As Essential As Food?

    Is art as essential as food? Or is there something in contemporary art’s asset status (viz. the Detroit Institute of Arts mess, the marvelous sums perfuming “sales” at Christie’s and the Sotheby’s) that prevents it from being seen as an everyday need? That leads to its further marginalization as inessential to our lives in the polity? I have been musing about this question this year as I got interested in More …

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    Two Weekends of Home and Garden Tours in Santa Fe

    Held over two weekends, August 9–11 and August 16–18, Design Santa Fe 2013’s annual Home & Garden Tour features five homes that combine exceptional architecture and design with the latest in sustainable technologies. Among the offerings: #1 The Dream Home, a showcase of the latest in green technology for the home #2 The Sundial House, an award-winning example of energy- and water-efficient design #3 The Bridge House, a sustainable home More …

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    ArtPlace Announces America’s Top 12 Small-Town Art Places

    Crested Butte, CO.; Taos, NM; Marfa, TX and Saratoga, WY made the list of the Top Twelve Small-Town ArtPlaces for 2013. The twelve communities on the list were chosen based upon per capita numbers of arts related non-profits, arts-oriented businesses and workers in creative occupations among small towns in the United States. The small towns were defined as being single-town zip codes in non-metropolitan areas with a population of 100,000 More …

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    A Feminist Print Show at Tamarind; A New Fine Arts Dean for UNM

    I first encountered Sue Coe’s lithograph, The Unspeakable Pursuing the Uneatable (1996), near to the date when it was printed at Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, in 1997. At that time I wrote a biweekly art criticism column for Albuquerque Journal North that ran 1000 words in the Thursday edition. Coe’s lithograph, created a dense field of black both very long and very deep.  It constellated hunters encircling a small band of More …

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    Broad Ambitions in the Heartland: Zaha Hadid Designs Broad Art Museum at MSU

    Ninety minutes from Detroit, the home of the hard-core MC5, heavy metal has risen its graceful stubborn head. The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, designed by Zaha Hadid, is a sleek formation of pleated stainless steel that unites an ensemble of trapezoidal spaces. If it isn’t an homage to the industrial past of the heartland, it’s a challenge to anything in the man-made environment nearby. If challenge weren’t the More …

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    ALOTTATHISALOTTATHAT – Art Intersecting “Innovation” and Equaling Nothing

    Described as “part freestyle musical theater, part dessert reception,” the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver created a special event for participants of the Colorado Innovation Network (COIN) Summit, held in Denver at the Art Museum August 29-30. Adam Lerner, who sits on the board of COIN and his MCA creative team put together ALOTTATHISALOTTATHAT to show that innovative thinking begins with breaking away from conventional ways of seeing the world. Seen More …

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    William Morrow Named Associate Contemporary Art Curator at DAM

    The Denver Art Museum has announced the appointment of William Morrow as the Polly and Mark Addison Associate Curator of Contemporary Art. The press release sent out late morning on Friday, August 31, states that the museum concluded an extensive international search with his hiring. Morrow’s first project for the museum will be to join the curatorial team for Nick Cave: Sojourn debuting at DAM in June 2013. “William Morrow is More …

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    A Conversation with Hamilton Fish on The Marfa Dialogues: Politics and Culture of Climate and Sustainability

    The Marfa Dialogues get under way tonight, August 31, in Marfa, TX, with an opening of an art exhibit, Carbon 13, at Ballroom Marfa. Tomorrow and Sunday, the Crowley Theater, Marfa Book Company and other venues around town are host to the two-day dialogues, the second edition of a project that Ballroom Marfa presents in conjunction with the Washington Spectator, The Big Bend Sentinel, Marfa Public Radio and Marfa Book Company.  I spoke this morning to Hamilton More …

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    At Play in the Fields of Fat Boy: Three Wyoming Artists at CLUI Wendover

    Wendover, Utah is a town on US 80, on the state line between Utah and Nevada, situated in the salt-flats and desert of the Great Salt Lake. Before the Center for Land Use Interpretation acquired property for an artist’s residence it runs in Wendover, Wendover’s assets included an airfield where training for the atomic bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, took place. The Bonneville Salt Flats, also in Wendover, were where More …

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    The Book of Mormon Debuts in Denver (and leaves one thinking politics)

    You and me, but mostly me Are gonna change the world forever ‘Cause I can do most everything (And I can stand next to you and watch)   And now we’re seeing eye to eye It’s so great, we can agree That Heavenly Father has chosen you and me Just mostly me.” These are lyrics from “You and Me (But Mostly Me)” the third number in Act 1 of The More …

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    Wild Nothing Does More Than Just Gaze at Shoes

    Virginia native Jack Tatum first began home-recording songs under the moniker Wild Nothing during the summer of 2009. Quickly joining the ranks of other C-86 scene and Creation Records throwback bands such as The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Tatum recruited Jeff Haley (bass), Nathan Goodman (guitar) and Max Brooks (drums) to flesh out the band for touring purposes. Wild Nothing’s debut LP, Gemini (Captured Tracks), was released in More …