52 Search Results for “Tuned in”

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    Report from Aspen: Aspen Art Museum, Design by Shigeru Ban, Opens

    Shigeru Ban is this year’s winner of the Pritzker Prize; has an upcoming appearance in Prospect 3, the New Orleans biennial; and on August 9th saw the public opening of his Aspen Art Museum many years in the planning. The coverage of the building got fast-reduced to the snap over tortoises, whom artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s “Moving Ghost Town” exhibit had constrained to carry iPads on their backs in a rooftop More …

  • Part of Mar 2013 by

    Art Week in NY – Street at the Met – The Slower the Better

    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 …

  • Part of May 2012 by

    Silencing My Linear Self: Richard Tuttle on the Spiritual in Contemporary Art

    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 …

  • Part of May 2012 by

    Red Rocks 2012: Somebody Better Put a Dome on that Sucker (Bird Poop Alert)

    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 …

  • Part of Jan 2012 by

    Disaster, as in Unfavorable Star: Von Trier, Hodges, Khorramian

    Current exhibitions by Jim Hodges at Barbara Gladstone, and Laleh Khorramian at Nicole Klagsbrun, along with Lars Von Trier’s Melancholia evoke the current winter solstice –  2012 zeitgeist. We seem to be especially attracted to disaster, or it to us, but on the positive side, the attempt to think beyond the human via science or mythological thinking is strong. This is fertile ground for paranoid or fanciful internet theories, but More …

  • Part of Dec 2011 by

    AdobeAirstream Gift Guide 2011: More Experiences, Less Stuff!

    Okay, well maybe a little stuff enters into our first writer’s AdobeAirstream gift guide. Such as (above): A mahogany bicycle down to the rims by a ninth-generation Japanese shipwright who also made a pretty nifty mahogany sailing canoe a couple years ago. The Japanese mahogany precision engineering came to my attention courtesy one of the coolest design blogs going: Cool Hunting dot com. Check out the link here and see More …

  • Part of Nov 2011 by

    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 …

  • Part of Aug 2011 by

    The Spell of Schubert at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

    There is undoubtedly a serious air of music-making that happens after sundown during the justly celebrated Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival — something about the sound, as night comes on, of strings being tuned before a Brahms Quintet –  setting up nighttime expectations of virtuosic performances by this year’s pianist Joyce Yang, musician-in-residence; soprano Dawn Upshaw; or the Shanghai String Quartet.  Still, I’m ever happy to walk from the sweltering More …

  • Part of Apr 2011 by

    The Rumpus on High-Speed Rail in the Rockies

    Politicians love to talk about the fiscal deficit, but what about Americas infrastructure and transportation deficit? Take high speed rail, for example. What should have been a bipartisan slam dunk has turned into an ideological battlefield pitting the Obama Administration against some budget hawk Republican governors who have rejected high-speed rail funding initially allotted to their states as part of the $8 billion approved by Congress in the American Recovery More …

  • Part of Oct 2010 by

    Chinati Open House: Time and Place, Marfa 2010

    Much ado about minimalism in rural Marfa, Texas during the Chinati Foundations annual weekend October 8-10 – and still more on how time and place concerns continue as art currency. There was much ado about minimalism in rural Marfa, Texas during the Chinati Foundations annual weekend October 8-10. The sprawling contemporary art museum, which occupies 340 acres of land, two former artillery sheds and six army barracks on the site More …

  • Part of Oct 2010 by

    Empathy and Technology at Design Santa Fe

    Citing the seminality of Daniel Pinks book,  A Whole New Mind, and averring that being in Santa made her wish to belt out the Atchison-Topeka-and Santa Fe lyric as the train rolled into the Railyards –  Metropolis Magazine editor in chief Susan S. Szenasy opened a panel on Empathy and Technology offering this thought. “What we need right now is creativity, analysis, ideas.” Speaking to a roomful of interior designers, More …

  • Part of Jul 2010 by

    Rockstar Mayhem Tour in Denver 2010

    The modern-day model for all successful festival tours was created by a man named Kevin Lyman.  If hes not a billionaire yet he soon will be.  He started out by running Perry Ferrells incredibly famous and horribly named Lollapalooza.  (It was actually genius-ly named 20 years ago but now that everything from wheelbarrow races to political campaigns are called blank “….palooza” it basically ruins the whole deal.)  This year Mr. More …