170 Search Results for “February 8”

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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 …

  • Part of Jul 2012 by

    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 …

  • Part of May 2012 by

    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 …

  • Part of Mar 2012 by

    Vivian Maier’s Humanist Eye: An Overdue Introduction

    Monroe Gallery’s exhibit of photographs by the recently “discovered” Vivian Maier is a is a long overdue introduction to Maier’s marvelous images, and a revelation on multiple levels.  While her corpus is a historic discovery, it’s also a cool blast of unpretentiousness, and a reminder of what good photography looks like. Maier’s story tends to the textbook risen-from-obscurity: She was a poor, periodically homeless woman who obsessively photographed with cheap cameras, More …

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    Doodle 4 Google – At Three Western Museums

    The Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming has been chosen to team up with Google for the fifth annual “Doodle 4 Google” contest. On February 25, 2012, from 1-4 p.m. students of all ages can drop by the Discovery Center and doodle around during this special event. Students nationwide, from kindergarten through 12th grade, are also invited to doodle their own rendition of the Google logo for a chance to More …

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    Learning Secrets Presents Teengirl Fantasy and Jacques Renault

    We didn’t think we would ever recover from that bombastic 8th anniversary party Learning Secrets threw for themselves a couple of weeks ago. But now that we are finally seeing straight, Learning Secrets have announced their next big throw-down — on February 25th they are bringing Teengirl Fantasy and Jacques Renault to Austin for an epic 18 and up night at the brand new Beauty Ballroom location off of East More …

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    Caldera Gallery Brings Some New (Cool) Heat to Santa Fe

    We in Santa Fe, have been suffering from an epidemic of awful, unimaginative, hotel-ready art.   Neon coyotes, sad Indians, and post-modern splatterings have nearly eviscerated our cultural soul.  This isn’t hyperbole; our economic lifeblood, after all, is art (and tourism).  To be pigeonholed as a kitsch capital could mean the death sentence. And yet, and yet. For those many who might have thought that Santa Fe had become a depressing More …

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    Santa Fe Artist Susan Begy Exhibits in Brooklyn

    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 …