Culture Shock: Looking Backward Gay Kid On A Cattle Ranch Recounts Joy And Pain Of Coming Of Age In N.m. Ranchlands “I was living in Albuquerque and coming out as a gay man. I was looking for a place to meet men that wasn’t [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 15, 2017 Read More John Burns brings his one-man show to Albuquerque (courtesy of John Burns)
Culture Shock: Fuerza Flamenca The 30Th Annual Flamenco Festival Internacional De Alburquerque Brings Adrián Santana To watch Adrián Santana dance is a study in moods—in videos of workshops he throws a bata de cola around his hips with [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 08, 2017 Read More Dancer and choreographer Adrián Santana returns to the Festival Flamenco Internacional de Alburquerque for the third time (Courtesy of Adrián Santana)
Book Review: Another Brooklyn Jacqueline Woodson's Visit And Her Novel, Another Brooklyn “What’s tragic isn’t the moment, it’s the memory,” Jacqueline Woodson writes in Another Brooklyn, the powerhouse piece of fiction that was a National [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 08, 2017 Read More Jacqueline Woodson visits the KiMo on June 13 (courtesy of Bookworks/Jacqueline Woodson)
Culture Shock: Red Planet Rising Albuquerque's First Indigenous-Centric Bookstore Opens Its Doors “To me, the idea of a new bookstore opening is thrilling,” I said to Lee Francis IV, the CEO of Native Realities Press, [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 01, 2017 Read More "This World Renounced!" from Tewa Tales of Suspense! Serigraph Edition of 20, by Jason Garcia, whose work will be on display at Red Planet (Jason Garcia)
Art Preview: Surface Currents Emerging Artists Ascend At The Harwood Rising from the mural-rich streets of Barelas or the soft slopes of The Heights, materializing through the doorway of a shotgun shack in [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jun 01, 2017 Read More "The Creation," intaglio etching / serigraphy, 2016 (Jessica Gross)
Culture Shock: What The Frame Holds Bruce Warren Davis Makes Art On The Edge As we sat in his home (which does double duty as his studio), Bruce Warren Davis described a long-ago visit to a museum [...] Maggie Grimason \ May 25, 2017 Read More "Frame, 17.3" by Bruce Warren Davis, 2017 (Bruce Warren Davis, courtesy of Richard Levy Gallery)
Culture Shock: On Beauty & Mystery Mary Tsiongas Creates Scenes With Haunting Resonance In Mary Tsiongas’ “Mountain Park” a house surfaces from the flat blackness of night that surrounds it. The shadows of trees climb to [...] Maggie Grimason \ May 25, 2017 Read More "Mountain Park" by Mary Tsiongas, 2017 (Mary Tsiongas, courtesy of Richard Levy Gallery)
Pretty In Print Writing Contest Alibi Writing Contest Brings Local Lit To Light The Weekly Alibi is seeking submissions for the newly minted, first-ever Pretty in Print writing contest. Authors from across the state are invited [...] Alibi \ May 25, 2017 Read More
Culture Shock: Shutters Snapping On Summer Traci Quinn Previews 2017'S Photosummer “To collect photographs is to collect the world,” Susan Sontag once wrote. She continues, saying “Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera [...] Maggie Grimason \ May 18, 2017 Read More “At the Corral-Nikolayev Matvey Gathering Reindeer," 2007; from the series "Even and the Climate," (Courtesy of the Lannan Foundation, by Subhankar Banerjee)
Getting Schooled In '80S Liverpool We All Receive A Lesson In Educating Rita Taking a seat at the small theater of the VSA North Fourth Art Center, the stage was well set for the the first [...] Maggie Grimason \ May 18, 2017 Read More