Culture Shock: Dancing In The Streets New Mexico Salsa Congress Offers A Wide Variety Of Dance Experience To The City After five years of running the Albuquerque Latin Dance Festival, James Foley stepped down to relax into life outside of the hectic business [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 12, 2018 Read More New Mexico Salsa Congress offers opportunities for social dance as well opportunities to learn (courtesy of New Mexico Salsa Congress)
Found Objects Write On Albuquerque’s local calligrapher’s guild, Escribiente, is celebrating its 40th birthday with an exhibition opening this Friday, April 6 at Matrix Fine Art (3812 [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 05, 2018 Read More
Culture Shock: Hallelujah, Hallelujah The Book Of Mormon Brings Big Questions And Clever Tunes To Popejoy On the stage, a newborn version of an old fashioned medium unfolds, and is consistently playing to impressed evangelized and non-believing audience members [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 05, 2018 Read More The Book of Mormon company (Julieta Cervantes)
Arts Interview: New Geology Artist Nicholas B Jacobsen Shows Us What We Can Learn From The Natural World Around Us What does being a rock look like to you? To artist nicholas b jacobsen the practice of being a rock is the practice [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 05, 2018 Read More Artist nicholas jacobsen finds stillness in his artistic practice of being a rock (Nicholas Jacobsen)
Culture Shock: Finding A Way To The Future Author Mohsin Hamid Discusses Transience, Migration And The Power Of Story Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West is a novel that examines the beauty of transience—movement and change through migration, time and by way of personal [...] Maggie Grimason \ Mar 29, 2018 Read More
Art News: Dance Dance Revolution Yjastros 32 Brings Contemporary Flamenco To The Nhcc Stage Albuquerque, N.M., is something of an enigma in the US and the world of flamenco, becoming a hotbed for the evolution of the [...] Maggie Grimason \ Mar 29, 2018 Read More (The National Institute Of Flamenco)
Found Objects Edit Out The Patriarchy It’s that time of year again—the annual Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon is here, and happening on Saturday, March 24, from 11am to 4pm. The [...] Maggie Grimason \ Mar 22, 2018 Read More
Culture Shock: The Life Of A Hand Letterer Calligraphy Is Far From Dead At Silver Swirl Studios “You have to be ready to put miles in your pen,” Theresa D. Varela explained right off the bat when I asked her [...] Maggie Grimason \ Mar 22, 2018 Read More Theresa Varela of Silver Swirl Studios creates hand lettered works of art (Theresa Varela)
Theater Preview West End’s Latest Brings Deeply Affecting Questions To The Stage Love, depression and neuroscience. You could say that’s what Lucy Prebble’s The Effect is about. The play, staged at the VSA North Fourth [...] Maggie Grimason \ Mar 22, 2018 Read More The small cast of The Effect brings heady questions to bear on stage (James Cady)
Arts Interview: A Lit Weekend Book Your Weekend At The Abq Antiquarian Book Fair For those of us who still thrill to turn the pages of a book or explore the faded terrain of old maps, the [...] Maggie Grimason \ Mar 15, 2018 Read More