Griselda, the tale from which Vivaldi’s Opera (and its brilliant new interpretation by director Peter Sellars and conductor Grant Gershon at Santa Fe Opera) derives, is an old one: 14th century, from Bocaccio’s Decameron, with an overlay of Canterbury Tales and wives harried beyond measure.
What, you may ask, are vintage radios doing in a contemporary arts and crafts gallery? It’s a good question and the answer provided by Kurt Nelson, owner of the Palette gallery in Albuquerque, is as unexpected as the pairing. “It’s an offshoot, a diversion if you like, related to the economy. By expanding our inventory, we’re reaching out to markets that are relatively untapped by traditional galleries. And this is More …
AdobeAirstream caught up with The Parsons’ singer-songwriter Evan Way as the band made their way across the U.S. The Parson Red Heads—an essentially four-person band from Portland, Oregon—stopped off in Austin to play Stubbs Jr last Saturday, June 25th, with Alela Diane & the Wild Divine. Photo: Angela Joy Dietz (photo credit, above: Angela Joy Dietz) For the recording of their upcoming album Yearling (due out on Arena Rock Recording Company More …
Xander Singh and Luc Laurent, aka Pepper Rabbit, currently reside in Los Angeles, but they are originally from New Orleans, which might explain the hauntingly ethereal qualities of their debut full-length Beauregard (2010). Drawing frequent comparisons to Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips and label mates Grizzly Bear, Pepper Rabbit’s brand of sublimely atmospheric, lo-fi folk-pop is unique in its underlying cheerful vibrations. To faithfully reproduce in a live setting such intricately More …
In 1962, Austrian artist Hermann Nitsch crucified the carcass of a slaughtered lamb while an assistant poured the animals blood over him, staining the white fabric tunic he wore, producing what the artist called a relic. The event was called Blood Organ, a precursor to Nitschs blood paintings currently on display at MCA Denver and the genesis for Nitschs extravagantly staged and choreographed ritual performances – Aktionen, performed by his More …
It may seem futuristic cinema to picture men in helicopters stampeding wild horses down the Western range – but rather than a hybrid of Mad Max and the Misfits, this is a description of the cyborg future that is now. Wild horses being rounded up for holding in BLM pens are run to the point of injury or death. Estimates hold there are more wild horses being held (38,000) now More …
Its a revelation when a painting by a master is discovered. Its still a revelation when a painting is newly attributed to one of the great 17th-century painters. In the case of Portrait of a Man, now on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the revelation is actually a case of reattribution to the Spanish artist Diego Velazquez (1599-1661). The painting had been acquired by the More …
It is somewhat ironic that Julian Schnabels current exhibition, “Julian Schnabel: Art and Film”, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Torontos version of New York Citys MoMA, is following in the footsteps of the museums King Tut exhibition, as both men are known for doing things in a very big way – King Tut with his tomb, and Schnabel, highly in evidence here, with his titanic canvases that all but More …
NEW YORK- 271 works by Pablo Picasso (including more than 200 drawings) are now in the hands of a French cultural police force called the National Office against Traffic in Cultural Goods (office central de lutte contre le trafic des biens culturels). The pictures havent been seen since at least the 1970s. The Picasso family now believes they were stolen at that time by an electrician, Pierre Le Guennec, who More …
When you grok the size of Ron Nagles ceramic sculpture on view at James Kelly Contemporary in Santa Fe to 9/25 — often theyre only about 4 inches tall, as slim as 2 â… deep, and maxing out at about 8 inches wide — you come face to face with why scale and size are not, never in (good) art, equal. For Nagles packed little ceramics achieve in scale what More …
FOLKyTONKs members include T.W. Man on guitar, The Rev. Otis Moon (who wrote the song, “New Mexico Swing”) on washtub bass, washboard and keyboard, Shelley Horton-Trippe on vocals and percussion, and Zeke Zeberson on bass and fiddle. Zeberson joined the band for their gallery gig at SITE Santa Fe August 27.