Santa Fe artist Susan Begy soon to have drawings in exhibition at B. Conte—167 N. 9th St in Brooklyn—through March 18, 2012. Primordial Soup and Other Things opens Friday, February 17, 2012. Begy, who recently began a local artist salon in Santa Fe, received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She splits her time between New York and New Mexico. Although the artist’s drawings will More …
What I like most about One Hundred Flowers is that they are utterly impossible to pigeonhole into any one musical genre. Their debut LP, Mechanical Bride, could be over-simplified as complex and heady indie-pop, one might even resort to lazy journalism and compare One Hundred Flowers to The New Pornographers, The Shins, Stars, DeVotchka and/or Belle & Sebastian; but a sublime knack for surrealist song architectures also showcases their propensity More …
Steven Holl Architects has prevailed over architecture firms Snøhetta and Morphosis to design an expansion for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, it was announced February 2d. Core to the program will be a new building to house art after 1900, on a two-acre site currently being used as a parking lot. That property is adjacent to the Isamu Noguchi-designed Cullen Sculpture Garden, and across the street from two other architecturally More …
Wow. More serious news from the gallery closing world. BOX Gallery, at 1611 Paseo de Peralta, owned by Michelle Ouellette since 2000, and home to an emerging/contemporary program as well as hosting shows by some of New Mexico’s established contemporary artist-leaders, will close at the end of February, AdobeAirstream has learned. This follows news that Dwight Hackett Projects will cease holding exhibitions, and last year’s contemporary gallery closings by Linda More …
Texas’ beloved New York artist Joel Shapiro opens in solo exhibition at the Rice University Gallery today, February 2, 2012. The show exhibits through March 18. “In a gravity-defying array of color and form, Shapiro will suspend wooden planks, vibrantly painted with supersaturated pigment, from the gallery’s sixteen-foot ceiling,” according the University’s website. Shapiro adds, “I feel like I’ve been working for so long to have finally built up this More …
Ink Tank is the latest cooperative, contemporary art lab in Austin—home of DIY. Projects from the new artist collective include: Future: Diorama!, and most recently Last New Year, which will be open for private tours in February. Curated by artist Matthew Winters, a Saint Louis transplant who attended DePaul University, Last New Year overtakes an older east Austin home with the theme: the inevitable apocalypse. Art busts through the frame More …
In November, The Denver Post reported that the City of Denver had settled with starchitect Santiago Calatrava, agreeing to pay him a $250,000 licensing fee to utilize his designs for a hotel, bridge, train station and terminal extension at Denver International Airport. The article reports that the agreement between the City and Calatrava’s design firm preclude them from utilizing proprietary design elements including some white architectural elements on the upper More …
Art Basel Miami Beach has 206 exhibitors this year. I am not there but have spent the better part of the morning browsing the website to see what the major galleries are exhibiting. (Mind the opulence of minimalist surfaces.) And so here is just a short (very short) selection of some things I found really interesting (out of the overall glut of visual information on view down south) – and a More …
On October 25th an invitation-only crowd celebrating the artist Theaster Gates filled the Rose Bar at the Gramercy Park Hotel with art, fashion and buzz. Gates has been commissioned as the artist who will create the visual identity for the 2012 Armory Show, to be held March 8th-11th in New York. Gates’s visual identity work will be used in the design for the exhibition catalog, VIP brochure and bag, and all printed 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 …
I have a thing for globes, maps and flags and, of course, for books, even while not proving a devotee of my Ipad. So, while browsing at William Stout Publishing a couple of Saturdays ago I found one of those books that is sorta legendary, not new, but new to me in its physical book-ness and objecthood. OIO Publishers published that is such a pleasure to peruse. You engross yourself More …
With Governor Rick Perry throwing his proverbial hat into the race for Republican presidential nominee, Texas has been thrust into the national spotlight. I wish I could say the country is learning favorably about the Lone Star State; as a native Texan it’s a dear place to me. However, what the nation has been reading about–from local papers such as the Austin Chronicle to national and international publications like the More …