42 Search Results for “santa fe complex”

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    Artist-Technologist Re-Animates Extinct Species

    “New media” is actually middle-aged. It’s been half a century since The Kitchen’s debut in New York; Mark Tribe founded Rhizome dot org in 1996. Kitchen co-founders Woody Vasulka and Steina, residing in Santa Fe since the ‘80s, still create, and they host a massive online archive. Currents is an annual festival of international new media art occurring, for the last six years, at El Museo Cultural and other Santa More …

  • Part of Nov 2012 by

    John Barker at Eggman and Walrus: Practicing Distractionism

    Eggman & Walrus’s new show Paint Forward opened last Friday with a live performance by Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s Treemotel and 40 acrylic paintings by John Barker, an emerging artist and Santa Fe native whose family dates back to 1879 when Barker’s great grandfather rode into Santa Fe on a horse. Barker is gaining recognition after his first show last year at Eggman opened to great success.  More …

  • Part of Aug 2012 by

    Writing on the Wall: Tom Joyce Fabricates for the National September 11 Memorial Museum

    Ten words and thirty-seven forged steel letters, their material having had genesis as World Trade Center steel, spell out a sentence by Virgil, from The Aeneid: “No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” As epitaph to unidentified human remains from the September 11 tragedy, the thought will hang in one line, along a 100-foot span of concrete wall of the National September 11 Memorial Museum in New More …

  • Part of Jun 2012 by

    The Kid With a Bike in Review

    If you’re used to film fluff-lights, fast cuts, CGI, stunts, movie scores—I dare you to sit through the raw sounds of a boy and his bicycle speeding alone down an empty street. No close-ups, no extra lights, no complex camera moves, just the character with his thoughts, and within the sounds of turning wheels you fill in the saddened blanks of an orphan’s life. The audience at the Santa Fe More …

  • Part of Feb 2012 by

    Ricardo Legorreta, 1931-2011

    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 …

  • Part of Oct 2011 by

    Karim Rashid and Tom Dixon: The Poetics of Product

    On October 6 Karim Rashid speaks on a poetics of “product” at the World Design Insight Forum in Seoul, South Korea. His Karimanifesto deals in  how the human experience criterion leads design (body as site of poetical intervention?). Manufacturing, next, enters the picture. “The business of beauty,” per Karimanifesto, is a complex physics of “capital, market share, production, distribution, maintenance, service, performance, quality, ecological issues and sustainability.” Never mind. Sometimes things More …

  • Part of Aug 2011 by

    Pay The Devil Later? This Faust Transacts Silliness

    Doctor Faustus, who originated with the German writer Goethe, is that character for whom the phrase, “Faustian bargain” was coined. A Faustian bargain occurs when you make a pay-later deal with the devil; by definition, that lends (high) anxiety to the eponymous character. In Goethe’s tragic 19th-century play, Faust begins the drama as a striver after knowledge – God’s favorite. Mephistopheles agrees to do Faust’s bidding on earth, in exchange More …

  • Part of May 2011 by

    A Bear? Where? Over There

    I am a real sucker for charcoal drawings when they are good, and when they are very good,  something gets ignited in my often intellectually-mediated experience of art that I didn’t know had grown cold. The hand being right there in the application of the material to paper, what the great Delacroix called “la touche” (the stroke), makes for a filling up of space that had been blank, is the More …

  • Part of Dec 2010 by

    Living Paintings: Tattoos by Dawn Furlong

    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 …

  • Part of Nov 2010 by

    Interview: Keep Adding’s Mural Project in Las Cruces

    Keep Adding is a multimedia art collective of artists Brian Bixby and Noah McDonald that emerged in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 2000. Although Keep Adding has executed projects throughout the country and Europe, the group returned to Las Cruces in September this year to paint “Wave Nest”””a 24-foot by 48-foot mural. I interviewed Noah MacDonald, about graffiti art, the work of Keep Adding, and their latest mural project, “Wave More …

  • Part of Nov 2010 by

    Review: 1960’s Revisited at David Richard Contemporary

    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 …

  • Part of Oct 2010 by

    Hickenlooper v. Tancredo and the Pinon Canyon Expansion

    A long roadtrip from Santa Fe to Denver and back finds the author ruminating on how many times she has wondered: Just what is Pinon canyon expansion anyway? One thing has changed along the road from Santa Fe to Denver, and not just the confusing roadwork at Trinidad, Colorado  – but the signs about the Pinon Canyon expansion a few miles further north in Las Animas county. Now, hanging beneath More …