Ricardo Legorreta, perhaps Mexico’s best-known architect, died in Mexico City on December 30, 2011. In the month since his death there have been several substantive obituaries with thoughtful reviews of his career, such as, and, and, and in Mexico, and. The New York Times did not publish an original obit, and instead ran a wire article, perhaps because the only project Legorreta did in New York was the redesign of More …
I love acronyms. ISEA is pronounced like a word, which—according to my college Linguistics professor—distinguishes it from initialism, and officially makes it an acronym. Think: idea with an ‘s,’ not I.S.E.A. Here’s another: GOLF, an alleged acronym meaning “gentlemen only ladies, forbidden.” ISEA isn’t an alleged acronym, however; it stands for International Symposium for Electronic Arts–and, ISEA is cooler than GOLF for more reasons than one, not the least of More …
Rulan Tangen’s Of Bodies of Elements presented to a packed house at the James A. Little Theater on Friday night, August 19. Tangen, the founder and director of Dancing Earth, the seven-year-old company that is the only contemporary indigenous dance troupe of its kind – emerged in a red silk wrap to describe the trajectory of this performance on a national tour and back to Santa Fe, where it was More …
Mierle Laderman Ukeles has performed as an artist for 40 years, setting up her work as situations that show the overlooked civic sanitation worker. Ukeles spoke at the Santa Fe Art Institute May 10. The Denver-born New Yorker cited the freedom of her “kin,” 20th-century artists Pollock, Duchamp and Rothko, as inspiring her to become an artist. Ukeles, 71, said the “epiphany” of recognizing that motherhood was maintenance work stimulated More …
Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes were at Santa Fe Art Institute working on a book, Radical Performance Pedagogy (forthcoming from Routledge Press, London). Ellen Berkovitch interviewed them about their cross-border performance collective La Pocha Nostra.
I heard Neil Denari speak last September in Santa Fe, connected with his giving a class at Santa Fe Art Institute. Hes the former head of SCI-Arc, now a tenured prof at UCLA. And hes the architect of hot buildings like HL 23 on New Yorks High Line, private banking quarters in Ginza, Tokyo, a much-published 4-girl house (1 boy) thats wrapped an LA family in compound curves, and other More …
Today is January 25, 2022. Adobeairstream first took shape over a small table where Leanne Goebel and I sat having coffee in Santa Fe. This was maybe 2008, summer, and it was during a trip to Aspen that year to visit one of my best friends that I recognized with clarity the end of my former professional life and a sense of a mission to restart a new one. I More …
The four members of Postcommodity collective are Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, Kade L. Twist and Nathan Young. Raven Chacon lives in Albuquerque, Kade Twist in Santa Fe. Cristóbal Martínez, who was raised in northern New Mexico, is finishing his PhD at Arizona State University. He will be defending his dissertation in the art galleries at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, near the collective’s exhibition titled southwestNET: Postcommodity, sometime during the More …
It’s not exactly the very beginning of the year but it’s the end of the beginning. On January 2, Reviewjournal.com reported that Zappo’s CEO Tony Hsieh, brought to Santa Fe by Creative Santa Fe for a talk about Las Vegas (NV) last year, when AdobeAirstream was in France, wants the some 20 Airstreams belonging to Vegas’s Downtown Project to be part of the world’s “largest residential hotel.” We don’t want to start More …
As Prospect.3 gets under way in New Orleans (opening to the public on October 25th), the state of the conversation about contemporary art biennials keeps re-telling a story of the festival staircase and the critical railing that biennials have to ascend and grasp at the same time. Biennial or bust? (“What’s the point?” wrote the Art Newspaper in 2011.) Battle of the Biennials ensued in The Economist in 2012. The issue had actually gotten More …
Artist Jane Lackey’s Enveloping Space: Walk, Trace, Think, was at the Center for Contemporary Art from April 11 to June 1. The artist’s drawings on translucent Japanese paper were the inspiration for the ambitious installation, which consisted of four discrete works that together formed an interactive and contemplative space. Jane Lackey is contributing faculty at Santa Fe University of Art and Design. The title is apt for the project- directing More …