I left San Francisco 2 months ago for my last tour of 2011. I started my journey in Los Angeles and Miami, and then I proceeded to Sao Paolo and continued to Ljubljana. Then came Amsterdam, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro. Today I am back for one day in SF, en transit to Brussels. I am exhausted, no shit! It sounds quite glamorous but in actuality, it isn’t. This More …
Long ago, “friend” was a noun and “city” was a location: Santa Fe, at the weary end of the Santa Fe Trail, from which dusty travelers launched the ambitious start of cultural tourism some 75 years ago.(This story was commissioned by the Santa Fe Reporter where it appeared on the cover on October 19.) Then, last decade, new monikers began cropping up concerning cities. Who’s Your City?, a book written by More …
AdobeAirstream’s “picks” — art events and happenings in Austin, Santa Fe, and Denver for October 14-23, 2011. AUSTIN October 14 Yadir Quintana and Matthew Schenning exhibits open at Champion, 800 Brazos St, at E 8th St, through November 12th, 7-9pm. B Scene: Afrobeat, a party, at the Blanton Museum, 2 San Jacinto Blvd, south of E 1st St, 6-10pm, $12. Opening Reception! Opening: The Austin Series, Part IV – Featuring More …
Zozobra, fiestas in Santa Fe, and ACL and Wild Frontier Festival in Austin—so many festivals, parties and events are going off this weekend. So, let’s get right to it. SANTA FE September 9, tonight, Hip Hop Hope OPENING exhibition and dance party starts at 6 pm with Monkia Bravo and Greg Sholette at the Santa Fe Art Institute. Also, SFAI will have a reading and film screening, including a film More …
As the 2011 Armory show, opening on Piers 92-94 on March 3d, makes its second annual Exhibitors Focus a look at Latin America, it seems high time to take a look back at highlights of last Novembers Pinta fair – a show that in the last four years has showcased new Latin American Modern & Contemporary Art in New York City – and last November moved the venue to pier More …
SANTA FE-There was a rumble or three at the NCECA Critical Santa Fe symposium, as Garth Clark played human trip-wire during a recurrent fireworks display. His detonators included Professor and critic Donald Kuspit (SUNY Stony Brook) and art critic Janet Koplos (Art in America, American Craft), who assert that Clarks twin lives as a nationally-awarded art critic who makes money dealing in ceramics puts him in overt conflict when he More …
Graphite is what pencil leads are made of. Soft, opaque and dense (and electrically conductive), it is a polymorph of carbon, malleable into sculpture, as well as into the elliptical curves and straight lines of the written sentence. Like British sculptor Antony Gormley, Susan York is a meticulous craftsman of her art. York, who speaks tonight at Santa Fe Art Institute, is currently showing graphite drawings (along with one small 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 …
Artist Jay De Feo was for the duration of her life associated with the Bay Area, and sometimes mistaken, by her name, for a man (some speculate that being named Jay helped her win the 1951 UC Berkeley fellowship that took her, after graduation, to Europe and North Africa for a year and a half, Florence for six months of that). However, her work is that of a brilliant changeling More …
When I walked in to David Floria Gallery the morning I left Aspen I had the sense I knew everything about Herbert Bayer, even though I actually knew very little. The creator of an all-lower-case typeface he used in Bauhaus publications called universal, Bayers life followed a trajectory from Bauhaus graphic designer to New York emigre to Aspen artist who worked in lithography, painting and sculpture – much of the More …
Editor’s Note: Nancy Holt died in New York of complications of leukemia on February 8, 2014. This post was first published in June 2012. Nancy Holt’s Sightlines, curated by Alena J. Williams, is a touring show now enjoying a stop at Santa Fe Art Institute through June 29th. (Meantime, a group show dedicated to the land art movement, Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 opened May 27th at More …
There has probably been no more sparky political question in our home burg than “what’s the future for a (more) urban Santa Fe?” If this city is “different,” it’s also been in recent history same as many other places — unkind to real-estate and civic values that include density and pedestrian-friendly streetscapes along with single-family sprawl and parkview acreage. A September 21-23 Re-MIKE “Kickoff” of what is being called an “urban prototyping More …