42 Search Results for “santa fe complex”

  • Part of Aug 2010 by

    Postcommodity at Museum of Contemporary Native Art

    While driving from Denver back to Santa Fe, I was listening to the Wisconsin Public Radio show, “To The Best of Our Knowledge.” The discussion constellated around national parks, exile, “wilderness,” and specifically the imposed definition, by white people, that “wilderness” ever implied absence of human habitation. Mark Dowie wrote a book on this, Conservation Refugees: The Hundred Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples (MIT Press, 2009) — and More …

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    Review: “Past As Presence”: Joanne Lefrak

    White images, scratches on Plexiglas, reflecting on the white light of history, the urge to indelible amid the prevalence of invisible. In World War II, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The controversial testing of those bombs, which occurred prior to the obliteration of the two Japanese cities, took place near San Antonio, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. The location of the first nuclear explosion More …

  • Part of May 2010 by

    Theater Review: Damon Faulke play at Armory for Arts Theater

    The Sun is in the West is an atmospheric play about the importance of place and the roots of history that bind us together throughout generations. Its also a play about remembering and the importance of sharing and passing down stories. The production, produced by Square Top Repertory Theatre in cooperation with Santa Fe Performing Arts will run for two nights only at the Armory for the Arts Theater May More …

  • Part of Nov 2009 by

    New Art in Denver

    There is something cowgirlish in traversing Denver. Up this draw is Rhino, behind that canyon is LoDo, and over yonder is the Santa Fe Arts District. Occasionally, one has to travel to the Golden Triangle or Highlands or Cherry Creek, and those arent even the outlying suburbs of the metro area. Saddle up your pony and put on your walking boots. First stop, Denver Art Museum. If were talking cowboys More …

  • Part of Nov 2009 by

    At Thornburg Campus, Contemporary Architecture Prizes

    The three winners of the Jeff Harnar Award for Contemporary Architecture shared a stage Thursday night in Santa Fe. Equally honored in the prize, endowed by Thornburg Charitable Foundation, were Chris Calott and Tom Gifford for Richmond Street Studios; Mark Baker, for Duranes Elementary School; and Kramer Woodard, a professor at University of New Mexico School of Architecture and Planning, for Lot K, a single-family dwelling. All the projects chosen More …

  • Part of Oct 2009 by

    New Art From Cuba, in Albuquerque

    “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 …