The following are openings/closings for Austin, TX and Santa Fe, NM for the weekend of August 5, 6, and 7, 2011. In Santa Fe, this weekend, the big event is certainly SOFA West. Several events and openings will concur with the fair. Canyon Road Gallery Night in conjunction with SOFA West, tonight, Friday, August 5 from 6 pm to 8 pm. Galleries will stay open late for SOFA visitors. Tom More …
I have known for quite a while that I wanted to write about the show at Stubb’s happening on Saturday, August 6th. Avi Buffalo and Nik Freitas playing on the same bill! I know, right? Pretty awesome! But then I realized that I needed to choose one of them for the focus of this article… My penchant for the underdog finally won over my unbridled love for Avi Buffalo, so More …
The last night of Art Santa Fe, I asked critic and historian Peter Frank about his experience here. He said (I’m paraphrasing) that he was disappointed to find that Santa Fe is more of a market than a community. He left New York a few decades back for that very reason. For those of you who don’t know the history of New York’s art market, I’ll give a very brief, More …
1. Because a talking cowboy is even better than a laconic cowboy The myth of the ranch man wearing a slight bow to his legs and striding with stature of the free range is longstanding in our culture. Buck (Brannaman) though doesn’t merely bite a blade of grass between his teeth and decline to answer. He says things like, “I help horses with human problems,” and “this horse tells me More …
The last time I saw Andrew Kenny perform was at a wedding at the Elks Lodge in Austin, Texas. I am guessing that Kenny probably never aspired to become a wedding singer and this was far from a typical gig for him. His band at the time–American Analog Set–had all but faded away and I would not be surprised if this scaled down wedding gig (I remember it being a More …
Centro-matic’s tour concludes at The Mohawk in Austin, TX (with Sarah Jaffe opening) on Sunday, July 10th. And, AdobeAirstream chatted with Centro-matic’s songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Will Johnson as he and bandmates—Scott Danbom (keyboards, violin, harmonies), Matt Pence (drummer), and Mark Hedman (bass, guitar)—neared the end of their tour in support of their newest album Candidate Waltz. As Johnson explains, Centro-matic’s new album “focuses more on elements of restraint, even More …
Why yes! I do know that I am declaring Facebook’s Myspace land (like descent into Pets.com) immediately after Zuckerberg gloriously announced video calling for all FB users. Well sorta, not for you smart-phone users, which of course would have been the only real revolution in that sort of announcement. Hey listen, Zuckerbook and Co. just might sprint away with this repackaged Skype hype and become the global leaders in video More …
In a remote village in the Thar desert of Pakistan, the women are primarily Hindu in a Muslim country. Not only that, but they are from the bottom of the untouchable caste system. They have very few options in life for what they can do to earn a living. Most of the women are illiterate and are forbidden to travel without their husbands or a male relative. The men dye More …
Here come the Mormons. Forget about the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, where two of the aspirants are Mormon — one announced (or revealed, as religious parlance would have it), one not. The Book of Mormon, brought to you on Broadway by your friends from South Park, took 9 Tony Awards last Sunday night. The coup reminds you that satire is alive and well on Broadway, even on the More …
Xander Singh and Luc Laurent, aka Pepper Rabbit, currently reside in Los Angeles, but they are originally from New Orleans, which might explain the hauntingly ethereal qualities of their debut full-length Beauregard (2010). Drawing frequent comparisons to Mercury Rev, Flaming Lips and label mates Grizzly Bear, Pepper Rabbit’s brand of sublimely atmospheric, lo-fi folk-pop is unique in its underlying cheerful vibrations. To faithfully reproduce in a live setting such intricately More …
Artists like Robert Smithson or Christo who use the earth as a medium have nothing on the mining companies that are out-bulldozing them to redefine the landscape in West Virginia, and threatening to do so wherever there is money to be made. The Last Mountain is a case study in the rape of that landscape. Over the past 30 years, as miners’ unions were crushed, coal companies shifted from expensive More …
Dunn and Brown Contemporary, a 12-year-old Dallas gallery focusing in high-end contemporary art, is changing its name in conjunction with partial changes in the business’s ownership. I spoke with Talley Dunn Tuesday to learn more about the changes that we can expect as Dunn and Brown Contemporary becomes Talley Dunn Gallery, and Dunn takes on full ownership of the gallery. For the past 12 years, Dunn and Brown Contemporary was More …