It’s Thursday April 28th and we’re in San Francisco for the press preview of the new SFMOMA. The redone San Francisco Museum of Modern Art opened to the public on May 14th. SFMOMA was closed for nearly three years for its expansion. The expansion cost $305 million. Today SFMOMA has 170,000 square feet of gallery space. The architecture firm Snohetta and one of its founders, lead architect Craig Dykers designed the new More …
While Georgia O’Keeffe in Abiquiu captured the rugged austerity of red rocks and of white and black places, and Agnes Martin in Taos produced paintings as spare and silent as Buddhist meditation, a flame-haired housewife on Lama Mountain was making fantastical paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, books and toys by interpreting her own connection to the mystical. Marylou Reifsnyder was her name. Reifsnyder created some 4000 works that were never seen by the public until More …
The Denver Post reported that so much tax money has been raised from the legalization of marijuana in Colorado that the state may soon find itself in the position of refunding taxes to the taxpayers. With $14 million in recreational marijuana sales and more than $2 million in rec taxes just in January that has launched a whole new industry which is making a whole bunch of people very happy, More …
Editor’s Note: This email was found by technicians nearly ten years after Lady Gaga entered a convent following the release of ARTPOP (on November 6, 2013) and the Interscope Records debacle — ARTPOP being an album which, with one exception, repackaged prior songs to such an extent that fans could not help but notice. Gaga’s release ArtRave, held at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, featured her singing “Aura” next to Jeff Koons’s portrait More …
Just after The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) closed its annual event in Maastricht – it is the best and most wide-ranging art fair in the world – the news came that hedge fund king Steven A. Cohen of the embattled SAC Capital Advisers bought Picasso’s Le Reve, a 1932 portrait of the artist’s blonde mistress owned by Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn. The price was $155 million. The picture More …
Just turn a camera on a New York street, and you’re likely to get drama or characters, maybe even beauty. Or maybe a fight, maybe a murder. In Street, James Nares mounted a camera on an SUV, and he filmed the street as the vehicle drove through New York. Then he slowed some three minutes down to a length of 61 minutes and set it to the seemingly random improvisations More …
If ever there was an incentive to practice it was the Shame Flute. Lousy musicians in the Middle Ages had the thing locked around their neck and their hands clamped to the flute’s body. I learned about the diabolical device last week from Randy Cohen, vice president of research and policy with Americans for the Arts, who presented data on the economic impact of the arts to the Economic Forum, More …
Tomorrow night, August 17, Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival hosts a Salute to Indian Market Program, at 6:30 p.m. in the Saint Francis Auditorium. (It is free and open to the public, who can come and go as they please.) The program featuring Emanuele Arciuli on piano presents an “Indian Gallery” of works in which new music composers citing influence from visual artists include KYLE GANN, Earth Preserving Chant (inspired by Dan Namingha); More …
Yet another meeting of science and art coalesced in Santa Fe last Wednesday, when the Scientific Animation Shortfest at the Capriccio Foundation, found animator and illustrator Graham Johnson invoking the liveliness of scientific imagery through its relationship with film. (The event was part of the weekly goings-on of Currents: Santa Fe International New Media Festival, but also reflects Capriccio’s longstanding interest in bringing out the art in science.) Johnson, a PhD scientist and illustrator currently at University More …
The Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming has been chosen to team up with Google for the fifth annual “Doodle 4 Google” contest. On February 25, 2012, from 1-4 p.m. students of all ages can drop by the Discovery Center and doodle around during this special event. Students nationwide, from kindergarten through 12th grade, are also invited to doodle their own rendition of the Google logo for a chance to More …