Year In Review: Arts & Lit A Look Back At 2015 In Arts & Lit Shitty Seaworld, Birds of Paradise, Mammoth … Art in the Police State, Exploring Climate Change Through the Arts … Desert Oracle, The Japanese [...] Maggie Grimason \ Dec 31, 2015 Read More Camus the Whale at Shitty Sea World ABQ
Gallery Guide Check One Resolution Off Your List On New Year's Day This year, Albuquerque’s First Friday ARTScrawl just so happens to coincide with the first day of 2016, and there are plenty of events [...] Maggie Grimason \ Dec 31, 2015 Read More
Culture Shock: The Meaning In The Metaphor Jimmy Santiago Baca On Anger, Exercise And The Poetry Of Singing At The Gates I ran along the Bosque with the questions I wanted to ask Jimmy Santiago Baca taking shape in my mind. The earliest of [...] Maggie Grimason \ Dec 24, 2015 Read More
Culture Shock: The Keepers Of Stories Wordcraft Circle Celebrates And Promotes Indigenous Writing And Storytelling “I was raised on story. I wrote my first story when I was four and a half years old,” Dr. Lee Francis IV [...] Maggie Grimason \ Dec 17, 2015 Read More (Original image courtesy of wordcraftcircle.org)
Culture Shock: Spaces On The Edge Pop-Up Collective Creates Fleeting Experiences In The City's Vacant Places I pass by the soft green, pink and blue colored adobe walls of the empty Sanitary Tortilla Factory on Second Street nearly every [...] Maggie Grimason \ Dec 10, 2015 Read More “Curacao Perched Bird” by Angie Poynter Rehnberg
Arts Feature: A Stitch In Time Colcha Evolves As A Craft While Preserving New Mexican Heritage At the confluence of the Rio Grande and Chama rivers in northern New Mexico, early Spanish colonists forged lives designed by their surroundings—gulping [...] Maggie Grimason \ Dec 03, 2015 Read More
Culture Shock: Presence And Absence In The Landscape Local Painters Take On Climate Change In Diverse Works “It’s amazing that the power that structures a landscape can be exposed through the little intervention of painting,” Beau Carey told me just [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 26, 2015 Read More “La Bajada Bluff” by Scott Greene (Scott Greene)
Gallery Preview: Welcome The Holiday Season Visit Old Town For First Friday And More Festivities November. L.M. Montgomery described it as a month with “uncanny witchery in its changed trees.” Soon, however, the month will change and the [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 26, 2015 Read More Works by Dahl Delu (Yucca Art Gallery)
Bookstore Events A Conversation With Isabel Allende In 1972, just a year before his death, Isabel Allende visited the poet Pablo Neruda in his home. At the time Allende was [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 19, 2015 Read More (Isabel Allende)
Culture Shock: Her Murder Ballad Her Murder Ballad Explores Where Sensuality And Violence Intersect Four women stand on the raised stage at Tricklock Company, blindfolded, in white jumpsuits, in near darkness amid attentive silence. With a gasp, [...] Maggie Grimason \ Nov 12, 2015 Read More Actresses Katy Houska and Hannah Kauffmann of “Her Murder Ballad”. (Dahveed Torres)
