Culture Shock: Returned To The World Craig Childs' Latest Book Explores Pre-History And What It Means To Modernity “Maybe I’d release a pinch of ochre to the breeze while saying out loud, ‘Welcome to the land of beavers that stood six [...] Maggie Grimason \ May 03, 2018 Read More
Found Objects Drunk In Love Bard Crawl is back! The crawl—which brings professional actors to informal settings (read: breweries!) to perform one of of Shakespeare’s plays—approximates what it [...] Alibi \ May 03, 2018 Read More (Natalie Voelker)
Culture Shock: Stories In Clay And Canvas A Legacy Of Creativity Is Illustrated In Three Generations “I just love clay pots,” Tammy Garcia put it simply as we spoke over the phone. “They’ve always played an important role in [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 26, 2018 Read More (Wiz Allred of Desert Moon)
Found Objects: Art On Point, Independence Day, Pay Up, Mighty & Micro Art On Point You may have seen Lynnette Haozous’ work in the Artist Rooms at Nativo Lodge, or a mural at Hotel Chaco, or perhaps you [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 26, 2018 Read More
Arts Interview: Putting Form To The Past The Adult Students At Gordon Bernell Share Their Personal Narratives In Telling Stories For seven years Gordon Bernell Charter School, which explicitly serves adult learners at six different campuses, has produced an art show with the [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 26, 2018 Read More The students of Gordon Bernell translate their lives into art artifacts in Telling Stories (Gordon Bernell Arts Department)
Culture Shock: Conjuring Wonder Paper Engineer Matt Shlian Brings New Work To Tamarind's Wonder Cabinet When Matt Shlian picks up the phone and we start chatting he’s a dozen feet in the air, gluing together the pieces of [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 19, 2018 Read More Matthew Shlian, 2013. (Scott Soderberg)
Death And Coffee Adobe Theater's Black Coffee Satisfies The Craving For Traditional Noir “Poignant human drama,” is what Hercule Poirot declares to be afoot at the manor of the Amory’s, an uppity British family, who—of course—have [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 19, 2018 Read More Nick Fleming and Dehron Foster in Agatha Christie's Black Coffee (Adobe Theater)
Found Objects Gettin' Dirty In The Kitchen If you’re not hip to Her Dirty Dishes, they are exactly what they sound like—dishes as in kitchen finery, and dirty as in [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 19, 2018 Read More (Central Features)
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)
Arts Interview: Internet Famous Artist Gina Beavers Renders Social Media As High Art New York City-based artist Gina Beavers approaches social media a little bit differently than many of us—she sees art as she scrolls through [...] Maggie Grimason \ Apr 12, 2018 Read More Gina Beavers examines the way we look at, and present, the world and ourselves (Gina Beavers)