From March 21st-June 9th, More Real: Art in the Age of Truthiness can be seen at Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the home institution of curator Liz Armstrong, who organized the show (which had a first opening last July at SITE Santa Fe). It has been AdobeAirstream’s great pleasure as the years have passed — and this posting occurs one day shy of our turning, officially, four years old on March More …
Santa Fe University of Art and Design will lower tuition by 38 percent across four of its arts programs beginning in spring 2013 through spring 2014, the school announced Tuesday. The program concentrations receiving tuition reductions are Graphic Design, Creative Writing, Digital Arts and Arts Management, which will see tuition prices drop to $17,800. Departments of Studio Art, Contemporary Music, Film/Video (Moving Image Arts), Performing Arts and Photography tuitions will More …
Santa Fe was unrecognizable June 10, for the opening night of Currents 2011, a festival for international, new media art. Amidst the bustling Railyard District were: people on bikes, Axle Contemporary’s mobile gallery, video art projected on buildings, the train running through the district, young hipsters on skateboards, experimental music in the streets, and bystanders. El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, where Currents was held, sits in the middle of More …
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How’d You Get the Name? Let me invoke now the photo shoot that unearthed a stuccoed travel trailer and the immortal words, “the only thing better than an Airstream is an AdobeAirstream. The History AdobeAirstream hatched as an idea on a hike near the Continental Divide in Colorado back when in 2008. By March 2009 we were publishing five new posts twice a week. By 2012 we were way way More …
Tattooing has come a long way since the days when it was associated mainly with drunken sailors and prison inmates. Today the human body is regarded, by many, as a blank canvas and the work being done by the best tattooists is, undeniably, art. That was clearly evident last Friday and Saturday evening, at a highly unconventional show dedicated to the work of celebrated tattoo artist, Dawn Furlong (better known More …
Lee Krasner told Barbaralee Diamonstein in 1978, “Yellow is an extremely difficult color.” What would Lee Krasner say if she could walk in on the show 1960s Revisited at David Richard Contemporary in Santa Fe? There, spread across three spacious rooms, are major yellow notes: Minoru Kawabatas Yellow Slow (1965) at the front, and in the second room, works by Lawrence Calcagno and Hisao Hanafusa announcing that yellows distinction – More …
Sundance has found a new home, or at least a second home, in New Mexico. Call the picture Bill Richardson and the Sundance Kid. With the states purchase of the 148-acre Cabot ranch, Los Luceros, in Rio Arriba County near the village of Alcalde, New Mexico anticipates creating a new outpost for the Sundance Institutes Native American and Indigenous Programs. The program will produce Native American films and train Native More …