2273 Search Results for “Same new”

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    Alan Berliner’s First Cousin Once Removed: On Dementia and Poetry

    Does poetry run deeper than perception? Alan Berliner spent five years examining how Alzheimer’s disease closes down a poet’s creative life in First Cousin Once Removed.  At the risk of making light of that affliction, this is a memorable film. Always the narrator of personal stories, this time Berliner has connected with a dilemma that a generation faces with its parents (his mother’s cousin, in this case. The same generation More …

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    Santa Fe Art in Review: “Useless Things”, Canned Snow and Zachariah Reike

    SFUAD BFA Thesis Show Useless Things & Other Stuff, the SFUAD BFA Thesis show, opened on November 30th, with a solo show by Sandra Halpin who is the only graduate this semester from Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s BFA program.  Halpin filled the Southwest Annex with four video installations, some Kool-Aid, a trough of goldfish and well, useless things. Reporting as her classmate, Halpin’s studio was notoriously swallowed all semester by what More …

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    Lordy Rodriquez Gets Art Swapped

    Lordy Rodriquez is the living definition of an American. Born in the Philippines, raised in Texas and now living in California, the artist began his artistic exploration into the language of cartography as an undergraduate by reconstructing the States of America via maps. Albeit, maps that were condensed, reshaped and revised based upon his experience of being a naturalized citizen and those long drives between Houston and New York City. More …

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    Steel and Graphite at James Kelly

    The latest show at James Kelly presents two artists, Aldo Chaparro and Wes Mills, whose work couldn’t be more different. Chaparro, based in Mexico City, came to Santa Fe to fabricate his large stainless steel sculptures, for his inaugural show at James Kelly, I’ve Lost Control Again, which opened on October 19. Wes Mills is a draftsman who relocated from Taos to Montana and whose new body of work opened the same More …

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    Becoming Van Gogh at the Denver Art Museum

    Becoming Van Gogh might be Dr. Timothy J. Standring’s defining exhibition. Standring is the Gates Foundation Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Denver Art Museum and has curated nine exhibitions there since 1989, including Inspiring Impressionism, El Greco to Picasso from the Phillips Collection and Impressionism: Paintings Collected by European Museums. Becoming Van Gogh examines the evolution of the largely self-taught artist through more than 70 paintings and drawings, More …

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    Alma Thomas, Garden Seen from Space, at Aaron Payne Fine Art

    About a week before Election Day I encountered, at Aaron Payne Fine Art, a painting titled Circle of Flowers (1969) by Alma Thomas. President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama selected two Thomas paintings for the White House after President Obama’s first election, borrowed from institutions including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Alma Thomas then was singled out for mention in a critic’s notebook by Holland Cotter, in The New York Times, More …

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    John Barker at Eggman and Walrus: Practicing Distractionism

    Eggman & Walrus’s new show Paint Forward opened last Friday with a live performance by Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s Treemotel and 40 acrylic paintings by John Barker, an emerging artist and Santa Fe native whose family dates back to 1879 when Barker’s great grandfather rode into Santa Fe on a horse. Barker is gaining recognition after his first show last year at Eggman opened to great success.  More …

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    Dallas Contemporary Loves-Hates Fashion: Inez & Vinoodh and K8 Hardy

    Almost alien, skinny, young white women hardly clothed with a look of wanting in their faces and perfectly messy hair—these are the muses of fashion photography. We’ve seen spread after glossy spread of them. Pretty Much Everything, on loan from the Gagosian to Dallas Contemporary, reveals all in a hundreds-plus exhibition of photographs by notorious fashion photographers Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin. Paramount in this exhibition, however, were not More …

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    David X Levine Gets Personal at Eight Modern

    An exhibition of drawings by David X Levine opened October 19th at Eight Modern, the gallery’s second show of his work.  The first, She Kept Her Heart Parked On A Hill, which paid homage to music of the 20th-century, happened in 2010. Using Levine’s signature colored pencil on paper, She Kept Her Heart Parked On A Hill showed bulbous shapes that escaped anthropomorphizing save a cheeky personality hidden within the meticulous Prismacolor More …

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    The Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival Blossums Into Polari

    This being its 25th year, the Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival (aGLIFF) opted for a major facelift. A clever new re-branding scheme changed the name of the festival to Polari, thus removing any gender-specific terminology (which seems to be in a constant state of flux anyway) in an attempt to make the festival more open to everyone (not just gays and lesbians, as suggested by the aGLIFF name). More …

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    Vincent Van Gogh and Clyfford Still – Painterly Reinventions Explored in Denver

    David Anfam has spent 40 years of his life studying Clyfford Still. On September 14, he gave a lecture at the Denver Art Museum about an exhibition that opened that same day at the Clyfford Still Museum—“Vincent/Clyfford.” The exhibit explores threads between the work of Still and Vincent Van Gogh. (DAM is opening a Denver only exhibition “Becoming Van Gogh,” which highlights 90 artworks that illustrate key developments in in More …

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    You Like the Nightlife? AHA Fest Invites You In Daylight (Sunday, 11-9)…

    AHA Fest is days away (Sunday, September 16th, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.) and after last year’s huge success, this year’s Railyard extravaganza promises to be another cultural pinnacle for the City that was in the past indifferent to nightlife and alternative concerns for those under 35 (or over 50).  In anticipation of this year two for the nascent art fair-music festival filling up Railyard pathways and stages, I spoke to AHA More …