57 Search Results for “santa fe art institute”

  • Part of Mar 2013 by

    How Many Websites Now Cover the Arts in Colorado?

    Last September, I was invited as guest art critic to give an update on the status of art criticism in the digital age to the Art Student’s League of Denver. (Fellow panelists were Denver dealer Ivar Zeile and artist/blogger Theresa Anderson.) In the past seven years more than half of all arts journalism jobs have been eliminated in American newsrooms and according to Pew Research Center, all newsroom jobs have declined More …

  • Part of Feb 2013 by

    A Feminist Print Show at Tamarind; A New Fine Arts Dean for UNM

    I first encountered Sue Coe’s lithograph, The Unspeakable Pursuing the Uneatable (1996), near to the date when it was printed at Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, in 1997. At that time I wrote a biweekly art criticism column for Albuquerque Journal North that ran 1000 words in the Thursday edition. Coe’s lithograph, created a dense field of black both very long and very deep.  It constellated hunters encircling a small band of More …

  • Part of Dec 2012 by

    Santa Fe Art in Review: “Useless Things”, Canned Snow and Zachariah Reike

    SFUAD BFA Thesis Show Useless Things & Other Stuff, the SFUAD BFA Thesis show, opened on November 30th, with a solo show by Sandra Halpin who is the only graduate this semester from Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s BFA program.  Halpin filled the Southwest Annex with four video installations, some Kool-Aid, a trough of goldfish and well, useless things. Reporting as her classmate, Halpin’s studio was notoriously swallowed all semester by what More …

  • Part of Oct 2012 by

    With Contemporary Eye, Merry Scully Curates New Mexico Museum of Art Alcove Shows

    Merry Scully is the curator of special projects at the New Mexico Museum of Art. This year she is working on a series of small one-person shows in the alcove spaces of the New Mexico Museum of Art. The Alcove 12.1-9 exhibitions will showcase 45 artists from New Mexico, each for five weeks at a time. The spaces vary in size from 6.5’ deep and 14’ wide to  11′ deep by More …

  • Part of Jun 2012 by

    “More Real” To Open at SITE Santa Fe. Woody Allen’s Roman Boredom.

    More Real: Art in the Age of Truthiness, opens at SITE Santa Fe on July 6th with a weekend of special events. Curated by Elizabeth Armstrong of Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and co-organized by SITE Santa Fe, the show brings 28 international artists to SITE, and is SITE’s antidote this year to an international biennial. As a co-production of two arts organizations, More Real will travel in March 2013 to More …

  • Part of Jun 2012 by

    PREVIEW: Currents International New Media Festival Opens Tonight

    Today, Currents—the international new media festival—hosts 90 artists including 26 international participants, also 11 venue partners this year, which will feature off-site events in tandem with the festival. Founders Mariannah Amster and Frank Ragano will attest much has changed in the past 10 years since Parallel Studios began exhibiting video artists. Opening tonight, June 22, at El Museo (8:30 p.m. through midnight), Currents boasts more satellite venues and off-site installations More …

  • Part of Jun 2012 by

    Santa Fe Complex Closes. Stephen Guerin on Hybridity’s Lessons.

    When the Santa Fe Complex closes this Friday night in Santa Fe, it will be capping off a four-year run in which the organization, with support from the City of Santa Fe’s economic development arm, gave a bricks-and-mortar locus to projects intended to model working hybrids of technology, science and art. Now, founding director and board chairman Stephen Guerin reflected in a telephone conversation Thursday, the physical Santa Fe Complex More …

  • Part of May 2012 by

    Barbara Buhler Lynes Resigns as O’Keeffe Museum Curator in Santa Fe

    Barbara Buhler Lynes, who became curator of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum when it opened in 1999 1997, resigned that post today, effective immediately, and also relinquished her title and position as Emily Fisher Landau director of the Museum’s O’Keeffe Research Center. Lynes has been recognized as the world’s premier authority on Georgia O’Keeffe, about whom she co-authored the Georgia O’Keeffe: Catalogue Raisonne (1999), and wrote the critical work,  O’Keeffe: Stieglitz and the More …

  • Part of Feb 2012 by

    Meow Wolf at SITE Santa Fe’s Time-Lapse Opening

    I am five minutes late, walking through the doors of SITE Santa Fe’s new show, Time-Lapse, to see Meow Wolf and the merry pranksters perform in the Time Capsule Lounge.  In the lounge, oversized beanbag chairs litter big spots of royal blue carpet; it’s a little slice of Jetson’s heaven, offered up to visitors as a place to watch movies, read up on time-travel, chill out, pass time. DJ Dirt More …

  • Part of Jan 2012 by

    Craig Anderson Resigns from Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe

    Craig Anderson has resigned as executive director of the Center for Contemporary Arts in Santa Fe to “focus on curatorial pursuits.” In what appears to inject a note of managerial uncertainty for an organization that has endured a lot of it,  “Anderson will continue to offer his services to CCA as an advisor and as a curator,” the board of directors announced in a press release. The last line of the release More …

  • Part of Dec 2011 by

    Cowbird, Wikipedia for Real Life

    Cowbird is the latest from artist/programmer Jonathan Harris. If you’re not familiar with his work already you can learn more about past projects here. I met Jonathan over a year ago when he was in residency at the Santa Fe Art Institute. I recall that he would stay in a room solo in front of a computer–coding. Imagine programming 140,000 lines of code—that’s what Cowbird took! But, I knew his More …

  • Part of Dec 2011 by

    Creative Santa Fe Announces New Board Chair, Executive Director, and Initiative

    Creative Santa Fe, a nonprofit that emerged in 2005 out of the University of New Mexico BBER economic-impact study, and has been funded by the City of Santa Fe to increase arts and cultural awareness and advocate for arts and creative industries, has announced it has a new board chairman and a new executive director. Philanthropist and entrepreneur William A. Miller will lead the reorganized nonprofit “to fully implement our More …