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    Nick Cave on Practice, Performance and Violence

    Twigs are unassuming, irregular, trodden-upon nuisances to be swept up with the leaves in the fall. However, in Nick Cave’s Soundsuit (1991), the humble twig, collected and assembled into a garment, becomes deeply powerful. Soundsuit’s texture seems both shaggy and rigid; its form is ponderous and dynamic, strange and familiar. Further, the imposing anthropomorphic structure also serves as regalia for Cave’s performances, which animate his artworks with dance and music. More …

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    John Connell: Works and John Connell: Earth-Touching Buddha, A Review

    Coming face to face with John Connell’s art, both in person and in reproduction, imparts a sense of quizzicality. Puzzlement about the way that artworks so earthbound as to express particles of dirt, sand and tar can also appear shot with air. Roots curl toward water as wings lift off ground; liminality meets ascendance. I moved full-time to Santa Fe in 1993; that summer, Linda Durham Gallery, where Connell exhibited, showed Works II: Selections from More …

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    Facts vs. Emotions on El Rio and Affordable Housing

    Editor’s Note: This opinion piece in favor of El Rio and affordable housing by affordable-housing proponent Daniel Werwath was solicited by Ellen Berkovitch for AdobeAirstream. Invitations were also extended to opponents of the project who have been vocal on Facebook. No one accepted the invitation to write the alternative point of view. An investigative article, Santa Fe Land Use, The Past and The Future, was published here in April and can More …

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    Matt Peterson On Abe Makes A Movie

    The words Albuquerque and comedy are not frequently heard in the same sentence, but the city has come a long way to provide venues for local stand-up comedians to perform—open mic nights, etc.—as well as theater and film productions of which they can be a part. Venues like The Box Performance Space host improv classes, and there are well-attended comedy events popping up all of the time. So it was no surprise that More …

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    Improvising Rachel Rosenthal, Always Avant-Garde

    The contemporary art world’s performance fervor and cross-pollination of artistic media are a throwback to the late 1950’s when visual and performing artists began to liberate from the strict confines of Modernism. Performance and theater artist Rachel Rosenthal was an early member of Merce Cunningham’s New York dance company and befriended artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Rosenthal and Rauschenberg exchanged ideas that would  influence their life and work for More …

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    Wistful “September,” Odd Strangeways at Revolutions Theater Festival

    Try to remember the kind of September when life was slow, and oh so mellow. I kept thinking of those wistful lyrics as I watched, as part of the opening weekend of the Revolutions International Theater Festival in Albuquerque, Laurel Butler and Ewen Wright’s show “September,” a smart, moving and incredibly funny series of vignettes steeped in the absurdities of technology and what it has wrought upon our relationships. The two More …

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    Films to See at Sundance

    As the Sundance Film Festival is about to open on Jan. 22, the film audience is declining. Making an independent film guarantees years of unpaid toil, and usually no return. Yet film school enrollments are soaring. Go figure. Faith-based media? Sundance takes the temperature of film in the world beyond the studios every year. Yet if anything in the volatile entertainment landscape seems healthy, it is Park City Utah, which More …

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    Rape Culture, Rolling Stone, and the Homesman

    There is nothing new about rape culture although some of its purveyors are indeed new. Britons’ radicalizing extends to British women acting as wardens over imprisoned sex slaves in ISIS prisons in Iraq and Syria. ISIS in September 2014 had forced 3000 Yazidi women into sex slavery and continues to sell them as jihadi brides for $25. These radicalized British women are now actively recruiting their sistren on social media to More …

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    Wavelengths at TIFF: Grand Shorts Tell Epic Stories

    The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) was mass urbanism once again this year, as closed streets formed a public mall that seemed like a treadmill, a continuous loop of Hollywood stars. In the Wavelengths section at TIFF, shorts outnumbered features four to one and commercial potential was barely an afterthought. Nor was the Oscar-mongering obvious, for which TIFF’s opening night now seems to be the starting pistol.     Much More …

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    Jody Guralnick’s Subject to Change: Painted Explorations

    The plant materials that attach the surface of Jody Guralnick’s new paintings in Subject to Change: Unnatural Selection (at Wyly Annex, downtown Basalt, through October 11th) are largely gathered by the artist on walks near and around Aspen. A forager and gatherer (when in cities she frequents natural history museums), Guralnick is very precise about including the Latin names of the plants that she culls (e.g., rudbeckia occidentalis, rumex crispus) More …

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    Hockey, Pasolini and Another Serial Killer at Toronto International Film Festival

    With 300 films, some 150 of them world premieres, the Toronto International Film Festival resists being reduced to a few themes. One inconvenient truth that haunts this and other festivals won’t go away. As the movie audience shrinks, especially among the young who used to sustain the film business, hundreds (maybe thousands) of films are still trying into connect with it. At a festival like TIFF, those films and their More …

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    Painters Point the Way at Richard Levy Gallery

    Painting, inextricable from human and social evolution, continues as a ready target for provocateurs lobbing the contention that the medium’s expressive force of action has finally achieved irrelevance to hands-free digital imaging. The conversation generated within “That’s Where You Need to Be,” a juried exhibition at Albuquerque’s Richard Levy Gallery, refutes such critical claims and even co-opts them with a demonstration of how the act of painting remains married to More …