What are your strategies for landing tours? Most of my playing career (15 years) I have been a side man. Only in the past 2 years have I started taking my own band on the road. It’s a whole new ball game when you’re the one in charge. When I was a side man all I had to do was show up and play. Now that I’m in charge I More …
Merry Scully is the curator of special projects at the New Mexico Museum of Art. This year she is working on a series of small one-person shows in the alcove spaces of the New Mexico Museum of Art. The Alcove 12.1-9 exhibitions will showcase 45 artists from New Mexico, each for five weeks at a time. The spaces vary in size from 6.5’ deep and 14’ wide to 11′ deep by More …
There has probably been no more sparky political question in our home burg than “what’s the future for a (more) urban Santa Fe?” If this city is “different,” it’s also been in recent history same as many other places — unkind to real-estate and civic values that include density and pedestrian-friendly streetscapes along with single-family sprawl and parkview acreage. A September 21-23 Re-MIKE “Kickoff” of what is being called an “urban prototyping More …
Last Friday was the grand opening of the International New Media Festival (a.k.a. Currents) and the Plaza was packed with tourists ogling at a car show while the Railyard remained a safe harbor for locals and art geeks. Before sunset all the action was inside El Museo Cultural, which offered more artworks than can be seen in a single night. Over ninety international artists had space to display the best from More …
Often, for artists, a move to New Mexico from Los Angeles or New York has been perceived as a drop out of sight, off the map, and even into insanity. This may be offset if the artist was established enough before the move and retains strong ties to the powers that be. Bruce Nauman‘s reputation seems intact, to say the least. Nonetheless, questions arise. What was the artist getting away More …
Brooklyn-based managing partner of artMRKT Productions and heir to the Forum Gallery “throne” built by Bella Fishko, Max Fishko brought dazzle to Houston with his company’s third fair, Texas Contemporary, held from October 20-23. Jeffrey Wainhause (the other half of artMRKT) and Fishko expressed enthusiasm about Houston, describing the strong art scene, highlighted by renowned institutions like the Rothko Chapel, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, the Menil Collection and others. More …
Alexis Marceaux’s sophomore release — Orange Moon — was recorded upon moving back to the Crescent City after her family lost everything during Hurricane Katrina and was forced to vacate for a while. Upon her return to New Orleans, Marceaux assembled a band, known collectively as the Samurai and comprised of university-trained, Jazz musicians: drummer Paul Thibodeaux and bassist Ted Long. Last to join was producer Sam Craft who happened 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 …
Santa Fe may have invented its own genre of “new age graffiti,” giving further credence to Jeffrey Deitch’s statement for his Art in The Streets exhibition, that the global phenomenon is continuing to thrive and evolve forty years after its beginnings. Jogging along the Arroyo Chamisa trail recently, I looked up hill next to the railroad track and saw the word “breathe” in quotes, stylishly spray painted on a metal More …
Cosanti Foundation, whose principal project is Arcosanti, architect Paolo Soleri’s mesa-top urban laboratory in Paradise Valley, AZ, has chosen Jeff Stein as president to succeed its nonagenarian founder. Soleri, 92, had been looking for two years to retire, prompting the board through the uneasy process of appointing a successor. Stein, who departs his former job as Dean of the Boston Architectural College to assume the position, brings a deep history with More …
From September 16th through October 23rd – only four and a half weeks- three brand new dogs will fire up the art fair race faster than you can say barbie. Because everything is bigger in Texas, Houston is getting two first-time art fairs – a month apart, in the same venue. The inaugural Houston Fine Arts Fair (HFAF), will run September 16-18, at Brown Convention Center. It’s a production of More …
From the Harwood Museum Website: Libby Lumpkin, art historian, curator, and professor of contemporary art history and art theory at University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, served as the primary juror. “Although most of the submissions were relatively traditional in terms of media, the intentions and sensibilities of the artists ranged widely, from sophisticated and urbane to really ‘out there’ quirky,” Ms. Lumpkin said. “Some of the quirkiest were just too More …