Interview: The Tamarind Institute Looks To The Future The Tamarind Institute Looks To The Future With the 50 th anniversary of Tamarind Institute still glimmering in the rearview mirror, I sat down to talk with gallery director Arif [...] David Leigh \ Feb 10, 2011 Read More “Dust Mine Marketing #2” by Ethan Murrow (Courtesy of the Tamarind Institute)
Art News: Waxing Philosophic On Frescos, Kanye West And Impermanence Waxing Philosophic On Frederico Vigil’s New Fresco, Kanye West And Impermanence It’s odd that we invest in stuff . Every thing we buy gets frozen in its moment, in our past, and achieves obsolescence [...] David Leigh \ Jan 20, 2011 Read More Frederico Vigil and his NHCC fresco (Kim Jew Photography)
Year Of The Rainbow: Art Faves For 2010 Art Faves For 2010 Albuquerque didn’t have a months-long Marina Abramovic show to torture us into art world obeisance (the “Grandmother of Performance Art” sat immobile for [...] David Leigh \ Dec 30, 2010 Read More ROYGBIV and the Anasazi (John Bear)
Gallery Review: Figurative Drawing At The Normal Gallery Figurative Drawing At The Normal Gallery There’s that joke: What do you get when you play country music backward? You get your house, your truck and your wife back. [...] David Leigh \ Dec 16, 2010 Read More She’s not sleeping. (“Open Eyes” by Tamara Zibners)
Anonymous Art Benefits The Harwood Art Center Nearly 100 Square Feet Of Art On Sale The most common route an arts organization takes when it sets up a fundraiser is to indiscriminately shove 3,000 works into a gallery [...] David Leigh \ Dec 02, 2010 Read More We have no idea who did this. All the art is anonymous.
Art News: Where Art Is A Vocation Cnm’s Visual Individuals At Harwood Art Center Black Mountain College closed in 1957, and when the finances ran out, the faculty were paid in beef allotments from the cows roaming [...] David Leigh \ Sep 03, 2009 Read More Student Julia Lambright’s “Cryptic Sibyl”
Art News: Land/Art Ambitious Series Goes Beyond Walls This is a preview of LAND/ART . I state this up front simply as a foil against the gargantuan nature in describing the [...] David Leigh \ Jun 25, 2009 Read More “137.5 Degrees” by Katie Holten; crocheted yarn and tacks
Art News: Hey, Hey, Goodbye An Elegy For The College Of Santa Fe Something that struck me the first time I read Romeo and Juliet was the thought that, well hell, now that the kids are [...] David Leigh \ May 14, 2009 Read More From the College of Santa Fe’s 2008 BFA exhibition
Arts Interview Larry Bob Phillips recently completed a mural in the men’s restroom at the Atomic Cantina. It’s a beautifully complex mess of desire, sadness [...] David Leigh \ Apr 09, 2009 Read More “The Piss-Teen Chapel” by Larry Bob Phillips
The De La Torre Brothers’ Meso-Americhanics At The National Hispanic Cultural Center The De La Torre Brothers’ Meso-Americhanics At The National Hispanic Cultural Center When nine-months pregnant M.I.A. performed at the Grammy Awards a few weeks ago, it seemed a real possibility that she could have her [...] David Leigh \ Mar 12, 2009 Read More “Baja Kali”by Einar and Jamex de la Torre; 2001Blown glass, mix media