Forbes, the magazine that loves to categorize things, came out with a new ranking August 20th – The top 10 American cities for cultural tourism. The results. Not surprising? New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and Washington DC are the consecutive top 5. This report based its results on numbers of overnight visits to these cities in 2008, and the number of cultural institutions AOL City Guides lists for each More …
The words Albuquerque and comedy are not frequently heard in the same sentence, but the city has come a long way to provide venues for local stand-up comedians to perform—open mic nights, etc.—as well as theater and film productions of which they can be a part. Venues like The Box Performance Space host improv classes, and there are well-attended comedy events popping up all of the time. So it was no surprise that More …
In Sophocles’ tragedy Antigone, the figure of Antigone confronts the unburied body of her brother Polyneices. Creon, king of Thebes, has consigned him to lie un-shrouded on the battlefield where he fell, prey for vultures and carrion. Pitiless human nature and predatory politics cast a residual image from the drama of 441 B.C.E. Antigone, whether fighting in the antique setting of the civil wars of Thebes or the modern one More …
Count on Tricklock Company to find unusual fare for the Revolutions International Theatre Festival. I can definitely say this was the first time I sat in an igloo to watch a play. Teatret OM, an international troupe based in Denmark, created the structure in the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque for the its play “’79 Fjord” and it was quite impressive. I see the most interesting, creative output each More …
“Confluencias: Arte Cubano Contemporaneo,” at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, assembles what organizers are calling the largest group show of contemporary Cuban art to occur in the United States, since Alfred Barr in 1944 mounted “Modern Painters of Cuba” at MoMa. “Confluencias” offers some 90 paintings, drawings, video, photography, mixed media, and sculpture, by a group of roughly 40 artists all of whom live and work in Cuba. More …