158 Search Results for “February 6”

  • Part of Sep 2011 by

    Solyndra Bankruptcy: Why Solyndra Blood Smells So Green

    Reuters reported yesterday that the bankrupt Fremont, Calif.-based solar firm Solyndra has been cleared for bankruptcy auction on October 27th – with a Delaware bankruptcy judge directing the firm to attend a major solar trade show in Dallas in October to solicit a buyer. And  yesterday in California, the state treasurer announced “a pause” in the state’s clean-energy funding that provides tax breaks for green manufacturers, of which Solyndra was More …

  • Part of Sep 2011 by

    Music Blowing Austin’s Eardrums This Weekend: Metro Area

    There are plenty of music-related events going on this weekend; you know, with the ACL Music Festival and all of its bastard offspring… And, well, it is one of those bastard offspring gigs that really caught my eye (and ear) this week: the Learning Secrets Party on Saturday, September 17th at The Beauty Bar (RSVP here: www.learningsecretsmusic.com/rsvp). Presented by Silverton Partners (and sponsored by Lamebook) the party’s main attraction is More …

  • Part of Aug 2011 by

    15 Artists at Kirkland Museum Not Radical At All

    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 …

  • Part of Jun 2011 by

    Dia’s Statement on Spiral Jetty Lease

    Dia was stunned to read “Control of iconic sculpture Spiral Jetty in dispute,” in the online edition of the June 8, 2011, Salt Lake Tribune, which seems to assert that the status of the special-use lease for Spiral Jetty is in question. Spiral Jetty, by Robert Smithson, is one of the most significant works of American art of the twentieth century and a centerpiece of Dia’s collection. It was donated More …

  • Part of Jun 2011 by

    Now, Would You Call This Ridiculous?

    According to Money magazine, Smart cars (which have sold 750,000 in the EU) topped off in the US at about 45,000 sold  – and even with news that Smart cars are being sold at Mercedes-Benz dealerships (the brand is part of Daimler-Benz), sales in the US last year were under 6,000 – a factor which reports like this one in February attributed to gas prices staying below $3/gallon.  That’s so More …

  • Part of Apr 2011 by

    Ai Weiwei “Dropping the Urn” – But “Where is Weiwei” Today?

    Editors Note: Ai Weiwei has been arrested in Beijing and on April 4, 2011 there are fears for his safety amid a crackdown on intellectuals in China. The catalog of Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn, Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE – 2010 CE, begins ominously, with the declaration, “…ceramics is kind of crazy. I hate ceramics… I think if you hate something too much, you have to do it. You have More …

  • Part of Feb 2011 by

    Interview with RAW Founder Heidi Luerra

    When I first heard about RAW it sort of sounded like the arts version of the “McIndie with a side of cheese fries please” but that was coming from my expectation that it was just another piece of corporate ballast dropped over the side for a tax write off. However, for the interesting plot twist we are all looking for, RAW is an independent organization pushing up and not a More …

  • Part of Dec 2010 by

    December Texas Museum Happenings

    Vernon Fisher sitting in a stuffed-animal chair designed by the Campana brothers with one leg of the chair in Texas, Mexico, Arizona and New Mexico–this is the Texas museum scene this month. The perfect mash-up of the Texas museum scene this month is: Vernon Fisher sitting in a stuffed-animal chair designed by the Campana brothers with one leg of the chair in Texas, Mexico, Arizona and New Mexico. I realize More …

  • Part of Nov 2010 by

    Art Review: Immaterial At Ballroom Marfa

    Immaterial (on view at Ballroom Marfa until February), explores arts potential to transcend conscious states, while not privileging the metaphysical over the sensuous. Large-scale paintings, sculptures, photographs and videos span all three spacious galleries. Though the 12 international artists – all women – work in various media, they are all united as artists sticking true to process to create works that are often hard to categorize, but stand critically in-between More …

  • Part of Oct 2010 by

    Chinati Open House: Time and Place, Marfa 2010

    Much ado about minimalism in rural Marfa, Texas during the Chinati Foundations annual weekend October 8-10 – and still more on how time and place concerns continue as art currency. There was much ado about minimalism in rural Marfa, Texas during the Chinati Foundations annual weekend October 8-10. The sprawling contemporary art museum, which occupies 340 acres of land, two former artillery sheds and six army barracks on the site More …

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    New Video and Drawings Flaunt Dystopias

    Layers characterize work now on view in Denver by video artist Cliff Evans, and muralist-draughtsman Bill Amundson. One working in video, the other in drawing, both communicate that the collapse (of society?) is coming. Brooklyn-based artist Cliff Evanss exhibit, Citizen is on view at the Myhren Gallery at the University of Denver through February 21. This three-channel HD video installation is made from recognizable images and personalities culled from the More …

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    Marvels of Palm Springs Modern

    For California Modernism aficionados the annual Palm Springs Modernism Week, Feb. 12-21 this year, makes a valuable pilgrimage. While Palm Springs most iconic houses include masterworks by  first and second generation modernists Rudolph Schindler, who designed Coachellas first modern building, a cabin, in 1922, and Richard Neutra, designer of the Kaufmann House (1946), most modern design in Palm Springs came from the drafting boards of local architects. The Palm Springs More …