Art Schmart These Days, Even Art Might Need A Government Bailout The students, faculty and staff (myself included, as I work at the college’s Fine Arts Gallery) at the College of Santa Fe are [...] David Leigh \ Dec 11, 2008 Read More “Sex Dream” by Tuscany Wenger, part of Mind the Gap , currently showing at Santa Fe’s Eight Modern.
Gallery Review: Cautionary Tales: A Visual Dystopia And Finding A Pulse At 516 Arts Cautionary Tales: A Visual Dystopia And Finding A Pulse At 516 Arts Andrew Bird’s Armchair Apocrypha is a near-perfect album. It’s crept onto my mix albums, my iPod, my car and my home stereo. I’m [...] David Leigh \ Oct 09, 2008 Read More Shivananda Yoga Vacation by Sasha Bezzubov and Jessica Sucher
Gallery Review: Current Shows At [Ac]2 Gallery And Mov-In Gallery Cosmic Maintenance And Executions And Democracy At [Ac] 2 Gallery, And Metropolis 3 At Mov-In Gallery I’ve always been fascinated with artist biographies—poring over who did what, when and at what age. Like how Joseph Kosuth wrote Art After [...] David Leigh \ Sep 18, 2008 Read More Still from Metropolis 3 by Jordan Glazer and Spencer Neale
Gallery Review: Take Back At The Land/Gallery Take Back At The Land/Gallery Three weeks ago, my fear of flying shot to the surface as I flew out from Vermont in a twin-prop plane to New [...] David Leigh \ Aug 28, 2008 Read More Drawn From Experience by Matt Brackbill
Inception At Sca Contemporary Art Inception At Sca Contemporary Art Though the area just south of I-40, where SCA Contemporary Art has laid roots, seems ready for a deluge of artist activity, for [...] David Leigh \ Jul 17, 2008 Read More Angelus , an installation by Matt Kazimierski
A New New Investing In The Local When Robert Rauschenberg died three weeks ago, I started thinking of his time teaching at Black Mountain College and of stills I’d seen [...] David Leigh \ May 29, 2008 Read More Bathroom by Daniel Kaufmann
Diamonds And Wood Caminos Distintos At The National Hispanic Cultural Center The April cover of Artforum depicts Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God , a skull made of platinum, diamonds and human teeth. [...] David Leigh \ May 01, 2008 Read More Untitled (Four Heads and Two Animals), by Patrocinio Barela
Journeys Africa Global Dancefest 2008 Certain endeavors—sports, art, music, chess—serve as bridges between countries and cultures. Their universality creates an understanding between all involved. The difficulty of these [...] David Leigh \ Mar 06, 2008 Read More Julie Dossavi (Antoine Tempé)
In Frame Rookies At The Richard Levy Gallery It doesn’t seem far-fetched for Oprah to rent out the Roman Colosseum to give a speech to the students of her leadership academy [...] David Leigh \ Feb 07, 2008 Read More 50 Derby 50 by Jacob Goble