Culture Shock: Ships Not At Sea The Work Of Nyc Artist Alex Branch's Residency At Sanitary Tortilla Factory Lined up in long-necked Tabasco bottles or stout jam jars, Alex Branch‘s water collection sits on a weathered white shelf in her New [...] Maggie Grimason \ Sep 07, 2017 Read More Some of Alex Branch's water collection at home in New York City. (Alex Branch)
Steam Genius: Hollow Knight In the world of indie games many titles are often forced into one of two categories: strong game play at the cost of [...] Desmond Fox \ Sep 07, 2017 Read More
Poetry News: From Couch To Couch, Never Leaving The House A Selection Of Poems From Local A.m. Langston’s New Release there’s a smell coming from the southwestit blows northand it ain’t leavingso while you wake up on the porch witha french pressthe air [...] Alibi \ Aug 31, 2017 Read More
Culture Shock: Fly By Night The “Moth Migration Project” Lands In Downtown Albuquerque A grizzly bear can eat as many as 40,000 moths everyday. That detail is a small one, but one that lingered in artist [...] Maggie Grimason \ Aug 31, 2017 Read More (Suzanna Sbarge / 516 ARTS)
Culture Shock: Frida Kahlo Through The Lens Her “Battlefield Of Suffering” Illumined In 241 Photos From Her Private Collection Tucked beyond the galleries, corridors and the vast stage of Popejoy Hall are the offices of the staff of the UNM Museum of [...] Maggie Grimason \ Aug 24, 2017 Read More Frida Kahlo ca. 1944 (by Lola Alvarez Bravo, courtesy of Frida Kahlo Museum)
Culture Shock: Something For The Makers Spoiler Alert: We're All Makers Once a year for the past six, science dressed up as a raucous party comes to Albuquerque to celebrate art and invention. What [...] Maggie Grimason \ Aug 17, 2017 Read More 3-D printing is hands-on at the Mini Maker Faire (Craig Goldsmith)
Culture Shock: The Good News “The New Mexico Inquisition” Fights Injustice With Jokes Sheridan Johnson described going to the public ceremony for Mayor Berry’s public safety award, anticipating getting some choice interviews from protesters, when, unexpectedly [...] Maggie Grimason \ Aug 10, 2017 Read More Isiah Yazzie, Danger K Varoz and Sheridan Johnson get the scoop on "The New Mexico Inquisition" (courtesy of “The New Mexico Inquisition”)
Theater News: The Global Resonance Of The Stage At The International Theatre Institute I walked into the chapel at the university and took a seat in the back. There was a long table on the stage [...] Juli Hendren \ Aug 10, 2017 Read More
Culture Shock: The Gallery On Gold Albuquerque's Only Micro-Gallery Brings Multimedia Art To The Streets I was walking down Gold late last summer, fairly tuned out of the familiar landscape when something in the corner of my eye [...] Maggie Grimason \ Aug 03, 2017 Read More From Jon Pearson's upcoming exhibition, American Spice, at Pacific Exhibits (Jon Pearson)
Culture Shock: Greater Tuna Pokes Fun At Small-Town Texas Life ‘80S Play Still Frighteningly Relevant Today As a native Texan living in New Mexico, I find myself having to apologize for my state quite often. It’s a bastion for [...] Robin Babb \ Jul 27, 2017 Read More Brennan Foster and Shawn Boyd do all the heavy lifting in the two man show, Greater Tuna. (Ryan Dobbs)