229 Search Results for “February 2”

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    New Affordable Housing, When the Working Poor Are Artists

    On January 8th, Artspace, the Minneapolis-based developer of affordable artists’ housing nationwide, visited Santa Fe for a public event hosted by Creative Santa Fe, its local nonprofit partner. That followed closely on Artspace getting the green light from the El Paso, Texas city council for a 51-unit affordable artists’ lofts project. Now Artspace and the El Paso Community Foundation will be taking that proposal to competitive application for federal tax More …

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    Godfrey Reggio’s Visitors Return Life to A Legend

    I first met Godfrey Reggio when I was 10 years old. I was fascinated at the time with anything to do with the occult – witches, goblins, true-crime Satanist stories. My mother — infinitely fed up with my poor taste — sat me down to a film called Koyaanisqatsi. I squinted hard, laughed her off, and approached it like one would a long amusement park line – with unbridled hope More …

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    Telluride Fest: Docs On Rumsfeld, Iranian Exiles, French Radio

    One of Telluride Film Festival‘s many idiosyncracies is that the festival does not announce its program in advance. The festival has begun once the program is out. Here are a few suggestions about movies that have been much-awaited. In my view the most-awaited film at the festival, is The Unknown Known by Errol Morris, his portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, the man who brought you the war in Iraq and some great neologisms, More …

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    Boulder’s DiMe Taps Entrepreneurs and Environmentos

    The St. Julien Hotel ballroom in Boulder was bustling February 15th with an all-star cast of start-up entrepreneurs, filmmakers, and media visionaries, who gathered to speak to a crowd of tech-heads, young and old, paying $65 to attend Boulder Film Festival’s fourth annual Digital Media Symposium. With keynote speakers Blaise Aguera y Arcas of Microsoft and Louie Psihoyos, Oscar-winning director of “The Cove”, the crowd got an afternoon’s worth of More …

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    Art and Activism with Shepard Fairey in Santa Fe, on the SFUAD campus

    Launched in 2011 by the Now in its second year, the theme is “Art and Political Activism.”  Behold Shepard Fairey, who came to campus Sunday night (February 17, 2013) for a Q&A with SFUAD’s graphic design department chair, David Grey.  During the week of February 18, Fairey will also design and paint a permanent outdoor mural on the school campus.  This is the artist whose 1990s Andre the Giant sticker More …

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    On Georgia O’Keeffe, Annie Leibovitz, and the Calculated Cliche

    Our age has a “my sister-my daughter” relationship with celebrity. Is it our twin or our spawn? An interesting question deals not in the obvious worshipful condition, but in how to define a role – and a difference – for art objects in an image- and celebrity-inebriated society like ours. Walter Benjamin wrote the famous Mechanical Reproduction essay back in 1928, but even a seer like him couldn’t forsee Steve More …

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    Ordinary and “Lifelike” Objects: A Debut Review from the City of New Orleans

    In the city of New Orleans, two exhibitions that ran concurrently, as cogeneration extends from one source, appeared as if an intrinsic grandfather birthed the concepts presented. “Lifelike, ” which closed at the New Orleans Museum of Art February 3, encompassed work made from the late 1960’s to the present. Artists including Robert Bechtle, Vija Celmins, John Clem Clarke, Chuck Close, Daniel Douke, Alex Hay, Jasper Johns, Sylvia Plimack Mangold, More …

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    Here Far Away – Pennti Sammallahti’s Nomadic Photographs

    In 1991 the Scandinavian photographer, Penti Sammallahti, was awarded a 15-year grant from the Finnish government to go do what he does best—travel and take photographs. His recent exhibition at Photo-Eye Gallery (December 7—February 9) is the culmination of Sammallahti’s past 15 years as well as honors the recently published retrospective book, Here Far Away. The book spans forty years of his career and documents 175 photographs from countless cities. More …

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    SFUAD Cuts Tuition in Four Programs: An Interview with President Larry Hinz

    Santa Fe University of Art and Design will lower tuition by 38 percent across four of its arts programs beginning in spring 2013 through spring 2014, the school announced Tuesday. The program concentrations receiving tuition reductions are Graphic Design, Creative Writing, Digital Arts and Arts Management, which will see tuition prices drop to $17,800. Departments of Studio Art, Contemporary Music, Film/Video (Moving Image Arts), Performing Arts and Photography tuitions will More …

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    Men of God, Men of Nature Makes Denver Art Museum A Mecca

    The Fuse Box Gallery on level four of the Denver Art Museum’s Hamilton Building is all angles with slanted walls and sloping ceiling, as designed by architect Daniel Libeskind. A walk-through installation conceived by artist Laleh Mehran interacts with Libeskind’s angles by placing a large, black, acrylic cube near the far end of the long, tilted space. Mehran’s installation is attentive to the most sacred site in Islam–the The walk More …

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    Well Somebody Has Discovered a Cash (Sea) Cow

    I have too much data inbound at any time and here is proof.  I was working on some email interactions where I am basically bargaining with various publicists on all the coasts (publicists live on coasts it’s against their code to live in Des Moines) for coverage of shows, and shwag, and whatever else I can think of at the time.  Then literally simultaneously a commercial comes on the TV More …

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    Christo Gets Thumbs-Up for Over the River Installation

    The Fremont county commissioners on March 27th granted the artist Christo permission for his Over the River project, involving fabric panels slated to horizontally cover a total of 5.9 miles of a 40-plus section of the Arkansas River, to go forward. The opening is scheduled for the first two weeks of August 2015. Christo and his late wife Jeanne-Claude began working on Over the River 16 years ago. The four-phase commissioners’ More …