New Mexico Museum Of Art Presents Pulling Strings: The Marionettes And Art Of Gustave Baumann Marionettes are strange things. The most complex type of puppet, they are carved from wood, jointed and controlled by a “manipulator” who works [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Jan 29, 2009 Read More Gustave Baumann, hand-carved mixed-media marionettes, circa 1930s. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Gift of Jane Baumann.
Culture Shock S.w.a.k. Sinatra may have sung “Love is a Many-Splendored Thing,” but I tend to think Nazareth had it right with its classic version of [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Jan 29, 2009 Read More
Book Profile Nancy Benson’s New Mexico Colcha Club: Spanish Colonial Embroidery And The Women Who Saved It When the first settlers made their way from Spain to what is now New Mexico in the early 1600s, they brought with them [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Jan 22, 2009 Read More
Art News: Pins And Needles Albuquerque Tattoo Artists Unite The way Noel Ortiz gushes about the tattoo culture in Albuquerque, you’d think his body was covered in ink.In fact, Ortiz brandishes only [...] Simon McCormack \ Jan 22, 2009 Read More
Culture Shock While listening to “Studio 360” on the radio this morning (thank you, 89.1 KANW, for the awesomeness of your a.m. programming), I heard [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Jan 22, 2009 Read More
Culture Shock Though we’re firmly in the midst of a recession, with the very real possibility of slipping into a full-on depression, that’s not all [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Jan 15, 2009 Read More
Chicana Badgirls: Las Hociconas At 516 Arts Delilah Montoya says that Chicana Badgirls: Las Hociconas is simply part of her desire to “demonstrate the history of Chicana artists.” A photographer, [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Jan 15, 2009 Read More Self Portrait Speaking Fire and Flowers by Maya Gonzalez
Culture Shock This Sunday sees a host of interesting literary events that, unfortunately, take place at the same time. Can you make all of them? [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Jan 08, 2009 Read More
Theater News What’s A Seven-Letter Word For Collaboration? Ka-HOOTZ Theatre Company is the brainchild of playwrights Lou Clark and Clareann Despain. After graduating with MFAs from UNM, they realized that the [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Jan 08, 2009 Read More Demet Vialpando and Nick Lopez do the dance of exploitation.
Performance Preview Directed By Becca Holmesstarring Demet Vialpando And Nick Lopez Ka-HOOTZ’s first production at Aux Dog is the regional premiere of The True History of Coca-Cola in Mexico, a work Holmes believes is [...] Alibi \ Jan 08, 2009 Read More
