Get Lit: Four Amazing Authors Hitting Abq This Week Beautiful Provocateur Angry? Disillusioned? Age 35 or under? Chances are pretty good you’ve broken Rules One and Two of Fight Club—by talking about it nonstop [...] Alibi \ Oct 23, 2014 Read More
Stage Whispers: Careful What You Wish For And Wedding Crash Careful What You Wish For We’ve all played the three wishes game. (My three would be fame, fortune and unlimited Chipotle anytime I snapped my fingers.) But as [...] Alibi \ Oct 23, 2014 Read More Free wishes? What could go wrong? (Caroline Graham)
Theater Review: Gothic Rompings Charm In The Mystery Of Irma Vep There are many words to describe a Ken Ansloan production. Bright, bawdy and boisterous all come to mind when contemplating Ansloan’s shows for [...] Nora Hickey \ Oct 16, 2014 Read More Alcazar (Bryan Andrew Lambe) and Lord Edgar (Garrick Milo) (photos by Alan Mitchell)
Body, Sun, Wind And Rain: Radicles Releases Dance From Its Staged Confines Radicles Releases Dance From Its Staged Confines Modern dance is about human bodies in motion. Other bodies watch, without moving, from darkened seats. Artificial light cascades onto skin and stage, [...] August March \ Oct 16, 2014 Read More Radicles walking. Pictured from left to right: Dalila Baied, Kaitlin Innis, Emily Innis, Ty Redding and Sonia Engman (Photos by Kelsey Paschich)
It’s Not Exactly Beaux-Arts. Oh, Wait, It Is. Hunky Heroes And Dramatic Deities Descend On Duke City Have you ever looked at a piece of modern art, say a papier-mâché rock with expressionistic paint streaks, and thought, “Yeah, okay. But [...] Gail Guengerich \ Oct 09, 2014 Read More “The Wrath of Achilles” by Michel-Martin Drolling, 1810, oil on canvas
Culture Shock: Haiku In A Paper Sash, Go Out Of Your Gourd And Wilderness Speaks To The City Haiku In A Paper Sash In a Möbius strip of words evoking images suggesting feelings, Anne Cooper blends the performance of poetry and the sensory stimulation of made [...] Holly von Winckel \ Oct 09, 2014 Read More Anne Cooper’s “a soft whirling drunk a scattering of leaves,” tissue paper, leaf, vellum, cotton thread, bamboo, graphite
Culture Shock: Cezannesque, Like Ironing With Paint And More Cezannesque Sumner & Dene Gallery (517 Central NW) launches a show for Jeannie Sellmer on Friday, Oct. 3, 5-8pm. Sellmer’s abstract and landscape paintings [...] Holly von Winckel \ Oct 02, 2014 Read More “Deep Sky and Field” by Jeannie Sellmer
The World Is Ending Or Light Is Dying: Lev Grossman’s Journey To Lit Magic Lev Grossman’s Journey To Lit Magic I had been invited to read at the Brooklyn Book Festival and was supposed to be signing books afterward on the North Stage. [...] Erika T. Wurth \ Oct 02, 2014 Read More
Love That Green Skin You’re In: Wicked Romps Across The Popejoy Stage Wicked Romps Across The Popejoy Stage With a technicolor design, musical hook and LOL-worthy dialogue, Wicked has been celebrated by pop culture—if not always critics—since it debuted on Broadway [...] Lisa Barrow \ Sep 25, 2014 Read More Elphaba (Emma Hunton) may be using her Manic Panic wrong. (Joan Marcus)
Art Scenester: Form And Abstraction Painting isn’t dead. In an art market dominated by post-craft concerns and conceptual conceits, plenty of folks still pick up palettes loaded with [...] August March \ Sep 18, 2014 Read More “Collage Abstract I,” collage, oil on canvas (Eliza M Schmid)