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
Author Interview: Pulitzer Prize-Winner Junot Díaz A Brief And Wondrous Interview With Junot Díaz Junot Díaz is the “It Kid” in literature today. The author of the 1996 short story collection Drown, he was awarded this year’s [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Sep 18, 2008 Read More Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz (Nancy Crampton)
Culture Shock Dragons, Sci-Fi And Skills, Oh My! The New York Times review of Christopher Paolini’s dragon-loving Eragon perhaps describes it best: "For all its flaws, is an authentic work of [...] Amy Dalness \ Sep 18, 2008 Read More
Poetry News: Stir: A Festival Of Words A Poetry Love-In, Burque Style Lisa Gill likes to say that the impetus behind the upcoming STIR festival came as a whim. Since she’s a poet, perhaps she [...] Erin Adair-Hodges \ Sep 11, 2008 Read More Book art by Becky Holtzman
Culture Shock ’Tis The Season Theater seasons generally run the same way school years do—opening in the fall and closing in early summer. Once upon a time, I [...] Amy Dalness \ Sep 11, 2008 Read More
Art News: The Big Read And Currents Of Change The Rio Grande Nature Center Welcomes The Big Read And Currents Of Change A politically tinged eco-art piece and a large-scale reading project are taking the Rio Grande Nature Center by storm.For the second year in [...] Simon McCormack \ Sep 04, 2008 Read More Two boys read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and genuinely enjoy it. (Courtesy of the Santa Fe Opera)
Performance Preview: The Pearl Fantasy A Circus Tale Retold A decades-old cassette provided the script and the spark for The Pearl Fantasy. Local performer Amaya, in her early days, ran off to [...] Marisa Demarco \ Sep 04, 2008 Read More Danielle Chavez as Flower of the Orient in The Pearl Fantasy (Steve Hurst)
Culture Shock Linen And Pearls New Grounds Print Workshop and Gallery is not asking for gifts to celebrate its 12-year anniversary. Instead, it’s hosting the works of Ando [...] Amy Dalness \ Sep 04, 2008 Read More Flower of Forest by Ando Shinji
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
Culture Shock Inprint Albuquerque artist (and former Alibi graphic designer) Neal Ambrose Smith’s print of Batman isn’t just a pink-and-orange rendering of the dark knight. It’s [...] Amy Dalness \ Aug 28, 2008 Read More Print by Neal Ambrose Smith
