Originally from Michigan, Dana Falconberry went to a small college in Arkansas and then blindly moved to Austin about seven years ago with the hopes of thriving in a dynamic music scene. After playing open mics and coffee houses for several months, Falconberry met Redding Hunter and joined Peter and the Wolf. She enjoyed her first show in Austin with her own fleshed-out band in August 2010; now she is More …
Long ago, “friend” was a noun and “city” was a location: Santa Fe, at the weary end of the Santa Fe Trail, from which dusty travelers launched the ambitious start of cultural tourism some 75 years ago.(This story was commissioned by the Santa Fe Reporter where it appeared on the cover on October 19.) Then, last decade, new monikers began cropping up concerning cities. Who’s Your City?, a book written by More …
Tools for All was the motto of Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog. Just take a pause and think about those three words a second, relative to Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs died yesterday in California, age 56. One of the most widely circulated Jobs’isms since he had to resign his job as CEO at Apple this August was his 2005 Commencement speech at Stanford, “as close to a College commencement as More …
Pacific Standard Time, a so-called “unprecedented collaboration of cultural institutions across Southern California,” tracks the recent history of art in CA. SITE Santa Fe got involved by way of offering lectures, a series executed throughout August. For PST, it’s the shear volume of programming and participating organizations, which makes it a stand-out event. Additionally, you can customize your experience on their interactive website, watching videos in your time zone. AdobeAirstream More …
David Floria Gallery in Aspen is a thumbnail-sized space, in which a show of two- dimensional works by 11 artists, often incorporating sculptural gestures and shapes, asks you right off to unbind your imagination. Pay little mind to how up close and personal you are, between gallery walls, to works that hang flush with their surface yet obtrude; are ultra-thin or pokey and dense; appear to hug their support yet More …
Chairs have been the subject of paintings throughout history. Van Gogh painted one, so did John Singer Sargent, Henri Matisse and David Hockney. Edward Hopper chose a train car filled with mostly empty dark green chairs, focusing on a blonde female figure for his painting “Chair Car.” An exhibit currently open at Shy Rabbit Contemporary Art in Pagosa Springs, called “The Chair” hearkens back to these traditions. But the subject More …
“Archaeology and The Shape of Time” at Fisher Press (August 26-Sept. 27) is an exhibition of small scale black-and-white photographs by Richard “Chip” Benson and Edward Ranney. The exhibit spans work made from 1968 to 2009, from Peru to Connecticut to Paris, and is timed with the release of a book by the same name. If you like your photography straight, rigorous, modest, patient, handsome, faithful, and traditional, you will More …
Rulan Tangen’s Of Bodies of Elements presented to a packed house at the James A. Little Theater on Friday night, August 19. Tangen, the founder and director of Dancing Earth, the seven-year-old company that is the only contemporary indigenous dance troupe of its kind – emerged in a red silk wrap to describe the trajectory of this performance on a national tour and back to Santa Fe, where it was More …
Indian Market weekend brings a particular glut of art events of which the contemporary need to be culled out, and that’s why we’re here. In the years that Darren Vigil Gray’s work often has won solo shows at Indian Market time, he has changed his brushstroke and the teeming characteristics of his canvases quite a bit. Often now it is the shamanic that interests him. Figures instead of acting among More …
The word from Aspen this month proves to nobody’s amazement that Aspen remains the Rockies resort town where hedge-fund managers and A-list partygoers and pundits show up in August to ante up for art. The weekend of August 5th found the art fair Art-Aspen in its second year, (as it was last year), held to coincide with Aspen Art Museum’s fundraiser, Art-Crush, that raised a whopping $1.7 million. While exhibitors More …
Art Exhibit at Kirkland Museum, featuring artists who broke with tradition, closed on August 14th. “The influence of decadent Parisians…Picasso and Cezanne..has even been felt in the West. Santa Fe has been damaged by it and Denver has not wholly escaped the blight… . In Western art, Western literature and bourbon, I’ll take mine straight,” wrote Lee Casey in The Rocky Mountain News on February 11, 1948. Some still feel More …