Gallery Preview: Get Thee Downtown In March, Downtown Awakens “Springtime is the land awakening,” Lewis Grizzard wrote, “The March winds are the morning yawn.” With renewed efforts to revitalize Downtown, spring isn’t [...] Maggie Grimason \ Feb 25, 2016 Read More
Culture Shock: The Collectors Of Movement Keshet Celebrates Dance's Power And Diversity At New Festival “[The desire to create] is stronger than me. It’s a force that I was born with,” Anat Grigorio explained as she spooned steamed [...] Maggie Grimason \ Feb 25, 2016 Read More Anat Grigorio invites the audience to participate in the construction of her dance, Memo (Gadi Dagon)
Culture Shock: Grabbing The Mystery Garo Antreasian Illuminates His Life And His Art Throughout my tenure at Indiana University as a student of English and art history, I spent an enormous amount of time under the [...] Maggie Grimason \ Feb 18, 2016 Read More The Gorgon Girls (Medusa, Ceto, Stheno) (Garo Z. Antreasian)
Culture Shock: Fun-A-Day Graft Marks Its One Year Anniversary With Fun-A-Day Opening About a year ago the intrepid new collective calling themselves GRAFT held their inaugural art show on the historic block in Barelas that [...] Maggie Grimason \ Feb 11, 2016 Read More The members of the GRAFT collective (courtesy of GRAFT)
Ocean Man Leads Me To The Land A Conversation With Martin Facey Martin Facey, a painter with the sea in his heart and the land and culture of New Mexico in his soul, came to [...] August March \ Feb 04, 2016 Read More Martin Facey: Map No. 25 “For Rain/For Rain” (Courtesy of the artist)
Gallery Preview: Winter's Rapture February Art Openings Celebrate The Unconventional “Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jan 28, 2016 Read More
Culture Shock: What We Listen For In Lightning Speak Raven Chacon Composes Music That Celebrates Silence I went to pay the parking meter. Several hundred yards, a few dollars and a jog down the steps of the UNM Museum [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jan 28, 2016 Read More From Gauge (Sarah McNair-Landry)
Culture Shock: The Trappings And The Suits Of Woe The Vortex Theatre Tackles Immense Emotion In Hamlet As a teenager in shades of black, thoughts as dark as my dress, I rivaled even the famously complicated Hamlet in displays of [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jan 21, 2016 Read More Grey Blanco as Hamlet, Caroline Graham as Ophelia (Christy Lopez)
Culture Shock: The Space Between The Images 7000 Bc Teaches A New Kind Of Literacy “I must’ve been five or six,” Bram Meehan began, “a neighbor my family used to catsit for had some key Marvel collections and [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jan 14, 2016 Read More Goby Sick (Jim Lynch)
Culture Shock: Around The World In 21 Days Three Week Festival Brings Theater From Four Continents To Albuquerque “Not everyone has the luxury of being able to travel. Finances, family obligations, schedules, et cetera, make it difficult, but Revolutions is a [...] Maggie Grimason \ Jan 07, 2016 Read More Members of NYC’s Aztec Economy perform in Butcher Holler Here We Come (Scott Eslinger)