Art Preview: Sonder: Transformations Arts Hub Presents Sonder: Transformations What I never liked about transmogrification was the idea of waking up like a cockroach or having some creepy portrait growing old in [...] Clarke Conde \ Apr 04, 2019 Read More (Photos by Josh Bien.)
Arts Interview: The Myth Of The Prairie Fisher King The American Midwest And Chelsea Darter There is little more prone to mythmaking than your own perception of where you grew up. Revisited, distance is skewed. Places and people [...] Clarke Conde \ Apr 04, 2019 Read More From the exhibit A Prairie Fisher King opening this Saturday (Chelsea Darter)
Arts Interview: A Reasonable Fear Of Tubas Stacy Patterson’s One Woman Show Though giraffes struggle, apes are the only mammal that does not instinctually swim. Fear rides high when not put in check by our [...] Clarke Conde \ Mar 28, 2019 Read More Stacy (Hagen) Patterson will explain more about why she wears the top part of a shark piñata as a hat at her show. (courtesy of the artist)
Arts Interview: Function Follows Form The Challenge Of Adaptive Biomedical Design Necessity, as we’ve all heard a million times, is the mother of invention. University of New Mexico associate professor Heather Canavan’s Adaptive Biomedical [...] Clarke Conde \ Mar 28, 2019 Read More Heather Canavan, PhD leads the Adaptive Biomedical Design program at UNM. (Clarke Condé)
The Art Of The Living Flower Annual Hanami Celebration And Ichiyo Ikebana Exhibition As the last remnants of snow fade from view on the Sandias, Albuquerque turns to the approaching spring. A naturally perfumed moment of [...] Clarke Conde \ Mar 28, 2019 Read More Cherry blossoms bloom in the Albuquerque Bio Park. (Clarke Condé)
Found Objects Forgotten Raincoats Among the earliest ravages of aging is the loss of wonder and play. As mundane tasks begin to fill the daily effort to [...] Clarke Conde \ Mar 28, 2019 Read More
Art Preview: In Our Own Backyard 516 Arts Looks To Our Local Past Reaganomics, that discredited pile of monetary policies that fueled the greed boom of the 1980s, brought vacant storefronts to downtowns across the country. [...] Clarke Conde \ Mar 21, 2019 Read More Contemporary Casta Portraiture: Nuestra “Calidad,” Casta 9 by Delilah Montoya (Delilah Montoya)
Found Objects Trash Talk It is hard to say exactly how many municipal solid waste departments around the country have their own custom designed T-shirts that they [...] Clarke Conde \ Mar 21, 2019 Read More Solid Waste Management Marketing Manager Diane Wikler. (Callie Interiano)
Punch Line: Roasted Byrd Local Comedian Catches Insults For Cancer Why on Earth would anyone invite a group of vicious local comedians to roast her in public? Charity, of course. More specifically, cancer. [...] Michael Rascon \ Mar 14, 2019 Read More The local, the lady, the legend, Holly Byrd (courtesy of the artist)
Arts Interview: Andrew Fearnside Forever Now: New Portraits By Andrew Fearnside Andrew Fearnside staggered after the election of Donald Trump, unsure of his footing and unable to clearly see his next step. The will [...] Clarke Conde \ Mar 14, 2019 Read More Andrew Fearnside in studio with new paintings at Harwood Art Center (Clarke Condé)