2273 Search Results for “Same new”

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    “Endurance” Counseling, “Durational” Art

    SITE Santa Fe presented Always Creative, a retrospective of Linda Mary Montano’s 40-year career. Montano, who lives and works in Saugerties, NY, is best known for Rope Piece, her collaboration with Taiwanese performance artist Tehching Hsieh—in which the artists were tied together by an eight-foot section of rope for one full year from July 4, 1983, to July 3, 1984. (All photos,installation views of Linda Mary Montano’s Always Creative:©Kate Russell, More …

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    Artist-Technologist Re-Animates Extinct Species

    “New media” is actually middle-aged. It’s been half a century since The Kitchen’s debut in New York; Mark Tribe founded Rhizome dot org in 1996. Kitchen co-founders Woody Vasulka and Steina, residing in Santa Fe since the ‘80s, still create, and they host a massive online archive. Currents is an annual festival of international new media art occurring, for the last six years, at El Museo Cultural and other Santa More …

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    Is Art As Essential As Food?

    Is art as essential as food? Or is there something in contemporary art’s asset status (viz. the Detroit Institute of Arts mess, the marvelous sums perfuming “sales” at Christie’s and the Sotheby’s) that prevents it from being seen as an everyday need? That leads to its further marginalization as inessential to our lives in the polity? I have been musing about this question this year as I got interested in More …

  • Part of Jul 2013 by

    The Venice Biennale – Small Countries on the Extremes

    Venice isn’t far away from Vogue in the days when the Biennale comes around. The hype is, to use a hyped word, intense. You can visit the French pavilion and see another group of works by Ai Weiwei. More by the Chinese artist is on the Giudecca, just across a channel south of Venice. You can visit the German Pavilion, serving this time as the French Pavilion, and see three More …

  • Part of May 2013 by

    The Great Gatsby – Part Bonfire, Part Moulin Rouge 2

    Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of the much-adapted novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald looks a lot like The Bonfire of the Vanities, Brian DePalma’s adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s lurid catalog of the excesses of the 1980’s. It sounds a lot like someone’s idea of Moulin Rouge II. Fitzgerald’s book is narrated by Nick Carraway (Tobey McGuire in the new film), a Fitzgerald-surrogate observer on the sidelines who’s drawn into the boozy mix More …

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    TEFAF — More than a Few Museums in Maastricht

    It’s often said that The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, Netherlands is like a museum. True enough, but few museums have such a vast range of objects. Few have such good ones. Museums were certainly buying at Maastricht, and every year that I have visited the art fair that specializes in Old Masters, there has been a painting for a huge price on the wall of the booth of More …

  • Part of Mar 2013 by

    How Many Websites Now Cover the Arts in Colorado?

    Last September, I was invited as guest art critic to give an update on the status of art criticism in the digital age to the Art Student’s League of Denver. (Fellow panelists were Denver dealer Ivar Zeile and artist/blogger Theresa Anderson.) In the past seven years more than half of all arts journalism jobs have been eliminated in American newsrooms and according to Pew Research Center, all newsroom jobs have declined More …

  • Part of Feb 2013 by

    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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    From Sundance to Berlin to the Public

    Look hard at the Berlin International Film Festival, and you will see where many of these films premiered – the Sundance Film Festival. No surprise – Sundance begins the year, and festivals build upon each other.There’s another thing worth noting. If a film is shown at Sundance, and then in Berlin, you might even get a chance to see it in a theater. Let’s hope so. Here are some to More …

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    The “Les Mis” Mess Misses

    The best thing you can say about Les Miserables, now piling up box office numbers all over the world, is that the great Victor Hugo, who wrote the book on which it is based, won’t have to see it.  There are some good things about being dead. It’s also a book worth reading – you can download it legally for free — unfortunately, I fear that far more people will download More …

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    Best of 2012: Santa Fe

    Just in case the Mayan Calendar holds true, A2 recognizes the cream of Santa Fe for making 2012 so splendidly arty. Alcove Shows The New Mexico Museum of Arts began their Alcove Shows in March of 2012 and will complete them in April of 2013.  Their five recessed bays (6.5’ deep and 14’ wide to 11′ deep by almost 19’ wide) have enlivened Santa Fe’s art life with their intimate settings More …

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    Zero Dark Thirty — The Long Game

    Zero Dark Thirty is a tautly constructed account of the pursuit by the US military of a terrorist leader who ordered the 9/11 attacks, with most of those US characters constructed to seem professional, competent and committed to delivering justice. It expands the cinematic military vocabulary that Bigelow deployed in The Hurt Locker, adding visual textures to bring realism to the worlds of military intelligence and covert operations. The film More …