I hate cable. Do you remember when The History Channel had programming about stuff that happened in the universe before this present moment and not: “WAS HITLER BIGFOOT’S LOVE CHILD!?!” “I just gotta find out!” The answer is always, “ummmm, probably not. Where’s the closest bank? I have to cash this check.” They slap down the cheese, we always leap for it, and then the cold steel bar slaps down More …
Anna Tsouhlarakis’ installation Edges of the Ephemeral is currently on exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in downtown Santa Fe. Her work is part of TIME 2012—Temporary Installations Made for the Environment—an exhibition in which eight Anglo and Diné artists were commissioned by the Art in Public Places Program of New Mexico Arts to create environmentally oriented works under the theme of Hózhó Náhásdlíí – or, Harmony in More …
When the Santa Fe Complex closes this Friday night in Santa Fe, it will be capping off a four-year run in which the organization, with support from the City of Santa Fe’s economic development arm, gave a bricks-and-mortar locus to projects intended to model working hybrids of technology, science and art. Now, founding director and board chairman Stephen Guerin reflected in a telephone conversation Thursday, the physical Santa Fe Complex More …
When the 2013 Santa Fe Opera season gets under way , its big ticket will be the world premiere on July 27th of Theodore Morrison’s new opera, Oscar, based on the life of Oscar Wilde. Morrison and John Cox are co-writing the libretto. Countertenor David Daniels, will star in the title role. In a situation that is increasingly becoming familiar to opera fans, Oscar is a co-production of the Santa More …
About seventy people gathered on May 10th to hear Creative Santa Fe’s presentation on affordable live/work spaces for artists. With the mysterious arrival of Artspace, Creative Santa Fe’s initiative to enliven Santa Fe felt a little more actionable than in previous years. After all, as a young arts professional living in Santa Fe since 2005 (the same year Creative Santa Fe started), it is a little alarming that I learned More …
Rational thought is overrated. Structured. Ordered. Sequential. Converging to find that one right answer. This was not the process shared by the artist Richard Tuttle during his Logan Lecture at the Denver Art Museum in March. Some would not define it as a lecture or a talk, but instead the ramblings of a non-linear thinker. Tuttle’s thoughts meandered and he struggled to find language to accurately describe his brilliant philosophical More …
I could be wrong but there seems to be a lot more Red Rocks shows this year than the last couple-few. Which is awesome because as a human being you intrinsically know at birth that Red Rocks is the best total-pain-in-the-ass venue in the sentient universe and yes: My hyperbole drive is stuck on ludicrous again. Okay, so let’s get started with the first nostalgia tour on the calendar. Get More …
Fabrication and myth-busting about making and its categories, all are part of the refreshing “Urban Untitled,” the inaugural show of a former private gallery space turned nonprofit, Capriccio Foundation for Modern and Contemporary Art (at 333 Montezuma in Santa Fe, with gallery hours.) Four artists’ works are included: David McDonald, whose compositions of forms from found to handled track a certain distance toward the abject (heimlichkeit rips my flesh). Sarah More …
Alison Keogh’s show, Arrythmic Visions (on view concurrent with new work by Jamie Hamilton) can be seen at Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, through June 10. Donna Ruff recently interviewed her. Visit Alison Keogh’s website by clicking this link. Let’s start with your connection to place. You moved here in 2010 and you’ve mentioned in your artist’s statement that you led a “nomadic existence.” What brought you here and More …
Fashion as art is nothing new. The first exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for a living artist happened in 1983 when Diana Vreeland organized Yves Saint Laurent for the Costume Institute. In 2011, Alexander McQueen’s Savage Beauty became the best attended exhibition in the Met’s history. The populism of fashion and design as art displayed in art museums is far more accepted these days More …
Peter Sarkisian grew up in Cerillos, New Mexico in the early seventies on what sounds like a hippie commune. His family used an outhouse that was possibly shared between multiple families. He may or may not have gone to conventional school and maybe sometimes watched one of the three channels on his parents’ Zenith T.V.—during his off time from having seminal experiences in the country. He definitely watched the moon More …
Armed with a globe and a bag loaded with cans of Lone Star, a beery Bob Ray (Hell on Wheels) delivers us into Slacker 2011 on a bus. Ray hops onto a pedicab and commences a sprawling monologue to no one and anyone riffing on this and that and everything in between. Ray’s character — fittingly named in the end credits as “Should Have Stayed at the Bus Stop” — More …