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    Notes From The Uncanny Valley, (At) Boulder’s DiMe

    At the Digital Media Symposium at the St. Julien Hotel ballroom in Boulder, the room’s vibe is outdoorsy brainaic, personified in the casual styling of so many lean men (and fewer women), sporting pedigrees from Harvard, Kellogg, Stanford, Netscape, the US Air Force, and (future) household names you maybe haven’t heard yet. The speakers at the DiMe, their bios printed in a deliberately low-budget program, offer “insider perspectives” to virtual More …

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    Ricardo Legorreta, 1931-2011

    Ricardo Legorreta, perhaps Mexico’s best-known architect, died in Mexico City on December 30, 2011. In the month since his death there have been several substantive obituaries with thoughtful reviews of his career, such as, and, and, and in Mexico, and. The New York Times did not publish an original obit, and instead ran a wire article, perhaps because the only project Legorreta did in New York was the redesign of More …

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    Pop West – Ed Ruscha Elucidates Jack Kerouac

    During three weeks in April 1951, Jack Kerouac famously wrote On The Road  by typing continuously onto a 120-foot roll of teletype paper. The novel is based upon several roads trip taken by Kerouac and Neal Cassady between 1947 and 1950. For those who haven’t read it, Denver is an important setting for the characters, a destination that is more than a plot point. Kerouac’s On The Road was published More …

  • Part of Jan 2012 by

    Pissing On (or Near) Art at the Clyfford Still Museum

    First, there was Duchamp’s “Fountain,” and since then piss, dung, feces, even menstrual blood have been handy tools of art. Andy Warhol made piss paintings and Andres Serrano pissed off the Catholic Church with his recently damaged “Piss Christ.” Unfortunately, it appears that Carmen Tisch’s recent drunken escapade at the Clyfford Still Museum was nothing more than the behavior of a woman with an alcohol problem and not, in fact, performance More …

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    MCA Denver, Exploring the Counterculture (West Coast Style)

    The counterculture movement was in essence a western phenomenon. That’s the premise of West of Center: Art and the Counterculture Experiment in America, 1965-1977, a book and exhibition currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. Yes, significant moments played out at Woodstock and in Greenwich Village, but the American West allowed for (and provided space for), the counterculture to “drop out” and explore how fully art More …

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    Best of 2011: Clyfford Still in Denver, De Kooning at MoMA

    On November 22, I visited the newly opened Clyfford Still museum in Denver, which for the first time presented the artist’s work as it developed, in stages, visually highlighting how Still got from landscapes and figures to abstraction. A few days later I was in New York taking in the Willem De Kooning retrospective at MoMA. The retrospective covered De Kooning’s development as a painter from the earliest years until More …

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    Best of 2011: Austin Music

    I cannot recall a single calendar year in which Austin was privy to a deep well of varied, talented musicians. If 2011 was not the best year for our local, independent music scene here in Austin, it came damn close. What I came to appreciate the most about the independent music scene here in Austin is how supportive the bands are of each other. (I have played in enough bands More …

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    In Memoriam: Hitchens, Havel – and Cesaria Evora

    Writer and thinker Christopher Hitchens (center, above) died last Thursday night, December 15, at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas. He was 62.  Great tributes to him (in my view) include this one, by his pal (another great writer) Ian McEwan: Here.  Vaclav Havel, who was a poet, a dissident and eventual president of the Czech Republic, died Sunday, December 18th at age 75.  He changed everything in 1989. And More …

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    Documentaries: From IDFA to Sundance

    As the year of film festivals gives way to a stampede of hype for annual awards, eyes are now directed toward the Sundance Film Festival. Having been at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, I got an early view of some documentaries that will be at Sundance. The doc that opened IDFA and should entertain or infuriate the crowds in Park City is The Ambassador, a mockumentary in which the filmmaker More …

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    Miami Art Week, As Trashy As Saatchi’s Tirade Suggests?

    For Andrew Berardini, Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 was stressful, according to his report in Artforum from the celebrity-filled weekend. His story seemed honest. Read article here. Other reports indicate this year was as outrageous and successful as ever in Miami. The Art Newspaper reminded us of Art Basel’s modest beginnings; ten years ago a gallery might have sold one piece, profiting a total of $640; that same gallery hopes More …

  • Part of Nov 2011 by

    Marmalakes Celebrate Album Release in Austin

    Austinites Max Colonna, Josh Halpern & Chase Weinacht — collectively known as Marmalakes — released their sophomore EP EvenClothed on November 15th. They will be celebrating with a record release show at the Blue Theatre (916 Springdale, Austin, TX) on Saturday, November 19th with Buxton and DanaFalconberry opening. AdobeAirstream sat down with Max last week at Quack’s — Hyde Park’s iconic bakery and coffee shop — to chat about all More …

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    Fort Collins to Make a Rocky Mountain Regional Arts Incubator

    Fort Collins, Colorado, tasked with creating a Rocky Mountain Regional Arts Incubator, won a $100,000 “Our Town” grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. The collaborators on this public-private “creative placemaking” initiative include the city of Fort Collins’s Cultural Services Department, Colorado State University and Beet Street, a cultural programmer behind Fort Collins’s creative industry. When developed, AIR (Arts Incubator of the Rockies), plans to serve 10 states. The creative More …