42 Search Results for “santa fe complex”

  • 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 …

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    Santa Fe Land Use, the Past and the Future

    SANTA FE—As the Santa Fe City Council prepares to vote on April 8th to approve or reject Mayor Javier Gonzales’s two new nominees to the Planning Commission, one land-use controversy at play in front of the city finds old neighborhoods and new agendas sparking hot in polarized opposition. (See an interview with Mayor Javier Gonzales here. Photos: Dianne Stromberg) The fights reveal the historically wide rift in public attitudes about More …

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    IMPACTS! Cute, Grotesque and Almost Perfect

    In the 1990s, some seven years before Sofia Coppola released “Lost in Translation” — and we got to watch Scarlett Johansson and Bill Murray transact disassociation in Tokyo — I visited Japan for nearly a month. The first experience sticks with me: being locked into the bus from the airport, by the driver, listening as a fellow passenger sneezed over and over again. On foot in the Tokyo subway came my first More …

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    Fotofest Biennial Showcases “Contemporary Arab” Art

    Houston, Texas –  long the epicenter of the U.S. oil industry, and expanding rapidly with a 385-acre, 14-building new campus for ExxonMobil in the Woodlands –  should provide a cross-cultural audience for the Fotofest 2014 Biennial. Fotofest’s principal exhibit this year, “View From Inside: Contemporary Arab Video, Photography and Mixed Media Art” presents artists from 14 countries in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, collectively known by the geo-political acronym MENASA. The More …

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    Santa Fe Opera Neuters Oscar Wilde

    Little of Oscar Wilde’s wit or queer hunger is evident in Oscar, which world-premiered at the Santa Fe Opera on July 27th. Wilde would recognize his signature burgundy coat, and hear something of his own mezzo in countertenor David Daniels – who wears red hair, but lacks Wilde’s flouncy elegance. He would recognize the grim libretto remembering his two years’ hard labor at Reading Gaol, after being convicted of sodomy More …

  • Part of Jul 2012 by

    Scientific Animation Shortfest: Weighing Bigness and Smallness

    Yet another meeting of science and art coalesced in Santa Fe last Wednesday, when the Scientific Animation Shortfest at the Capriccio Foundation, found animator and illustrator Graham Johnson invoking the liveliness of scientific imagery through its relationship with film. (The event was part of the weekly goings-on of Currents: Santa Fe International New Media Festival, but also reflects Capriccio’s longstanding interest in bringing out the art in science.) Johnson, a PhD scientist and illustrator currently at University More …

  • Part of May 2012 by

    Creative Santa Fe: Coals to Newcastle?

    Four speakers for Creative Santa Fe’s inaugural “Imagined Futures” IF event, told a New Mexico History Museum auditorium full house on Saturday that: Tourist towns are “brands.” Attention to historic architecture can make a place a mecca. Affordable housing for artists can retrofit vacant building stock, and is desirable. (image: Artspace affordable housing in Patchogue, NY) Yes. So: what’s new? The question goes ultimately to whether this new-old nonprofit called More …

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    Heart-to-Heart at Outdoor Vision Fest

    Santa Fe University of Art and Design‘s Arts Complex, on the night of April 27th, electrified numerous senior-thesis shows with just enough photons for a good after-dark rave. Art show with prom night trappings, the soiree of Outdoor Vision Fest had promised ahead of time a grand finale of student creativity. It featured “environmental projections and outdoor art installations of design, animation, full motion video, video mapping, motion graphics and interactive multimedia.”  More …

  • Part of Oct 2011 by

    Gallery Fridays: Austin, Denver, Santa Fe

    Openings and closings for Austin, Denver and Santa Fe for the weekend of October 7-9, 2011.   AUSTIN October 6 – November 12, 2011 Margaret Meehan, Hystrionics and the Forgotten Arm Women and Their Work   October 7-9, 2011 7th Annual Art Outside Apache Pass, Rockdale, TX   CLOSING October 7, 2011 Austin Community College Faculty Exhibit Pump Project Art Complex   CLOSING October 8, 2011 Jennifer Caine Chronotope Co-lab More …

  • Part of Aug 2011 by

    The Spell of Schubert at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival

    There is undoubtedly a serious air of music-making that happens after sundown during the justly celebrated Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival — something about the sound, as night comes on, of strings being tuned before a Brahms Quintet –  setting up nighttime expectations of virtuosic performances by this year’s pianist Joyce Yang, musician-in-residence; soprano Dawn Upshaw; or the Shanghai String Quartet.  Still, I’m ever happy to walk from the sweltering More …

  • Part of Jul 2011 by

    Gallery Fridays, Santa Fe

    In 1976-78 while the rest of us were watching Saturday Night Fever and listening to Stayin’ Alive, some hard-at-work California painters were closing in on the relationship between surface and illusion, form and anti-matter, and the gravity of floating apparent objects inside a frame that could just as easily turn edgeless for its breaking limitations. CLOSING JULY 31 is  a show of 1970s California Painting at David Richard Contemporary, in More …

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    Peter Garland at Santa Fe New Music

    Composer Peter Garland had traveled so many years in Guatemala, Bali, Java, Australia, the Philippines, and for a significant time in Mexico, “hanging out,” as he said, ” in places where most people dont even have cell phones,” that when he returned to the United States he saw himself a kind of “Rip Van Winkle,” rubbing his eyes awake after the dot com revolution to an accelerated cyber-nation. He heard More …