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 …
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 …
In one county in New Mexico, archeological and eco-tourist conservation staved off fracking. But we appear to be the lucky few so lets not count our blessings — but count ourselves activated. About three years ago in Santa Fe County, New Mexico, citizen outrage combusted around land-leases to natural gas companies planning to “frack,” or hydraulic fracture for natural gas in nearly 70,000 acres of the Galisteo Basin of New More …
Remember the myth of Sisyphus – story of a man whos condemned to push a boulder up a mountain, only to watch it roll down again. Its alive and well in Brazil, not too far from the beautiful bodies on Ipanema. In Rio de Janeiro, the garbage dumps that spill toward the ocean on the outskirts of the city are some of the largest in the world. As world records More …
Last Saturday Robert Franks film Cocksucker Blues (CSB) (1972) played at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where a 50th anniversary exhibition of Franks The Americans runs through January 3. Frank looked at ordinary Americans, and at the unkept promises of the land of plenty in The Americans, his last work in still photography before abandoning the medium for moving pictures. In CSB, he peered behind the scenes while traveling with More …
The Whitney Museum opens Georgia OKeeffe: Abstraction, a new look at the artists abstract works. Works include photographs of the artist such as “Hands, Georgia OKeeffe” (1918) by Alfred Stieglitz. Lifetime TV premiered the OKeeffe biopic September 18. I cant help but find this an interesting coincidence. September 18, the same day that Huffington Post led its living page with a story about the declining happiness of women (Part 1 More …