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 …
ASPEN–Richard Carters New Paintings: Future Beauty, constitute a 44-painting series, exploring fire in its contemporary apocalyptic forms””forest fires, prairie fires, fires burning oil in the Gulf of Mexico from the Deep Horizon well, flames of meteor fragments entering the atmosphere. He will show some of them – and an unrelated suite of seven digital prints – at David Floria Gallery in Aspen from September 10 to October 6. “Even as More …
Abq. Studios came to New Mexico in 2007 with what I reported in January was a $91.5 million investment in real estate driving enterprise. Eight soundstages, proximity to great locations like the Very Large Array, a concierge to meet talents personal needs, all got rolled into the pitch which led productions as large as Terminator: Salvation and iconic as the AMC series Breaking Bad, to choose Abq. Locally in New More …
No One Knows About Persian Cats (a film by Bahman Ghobadi) is, among many other things, a band-on-the-run film, with the bands in question scrambling to stay one step ahead of the police in Tehran. You might even get away with calling it “A Hard Days Night”, if that title werent already taken, and if you were ready for a dark ending. The proto-documentary of freedom-seeking vs. authority in Iran More …
Theres no theme to the recently opened Whitney Biennial, in a year when the themes of collapse and disillusion that haunt the real world and the film world couldnt be more apt. This themeless-ness may be the only way in which the Whitney is bucking trends in the show that has defined the museum. The other theme might simply be that all the artists are American, which could mean anything 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 …
It must have been poetic justice that Conrad and I sat in the very back of the bus. It made a good vantage from which to photograph the first roadcut that angled upward from Frijoles Canyon to the New Mexico Ranch School, which the government annexed in 1942 for the Manhattan Project. (The Ranch School educated Gore Vidal, William S. Burroughs, as well as other notables who had been sickly More …
It sounds too easy to describe Food Inc. (Dir., Robert Kenner, 2008, USA) as a movie that you might not be able to stomach, but thats just what it is, and more. Director Robert Kenners collaboration with the authors Eric Schlosser (Fast Food Nation) and Michael Pollan (The Omnivores Dilemma) is not a feel-good movie. Kenners documentary investigation of the corporatization of food takes a hard look at what food More …