Tuesday, December 6, 2011
For Andrew Berardini, Art Basel Miami Beach 2011 was stressful, according to his report in Artforum from the celebrity-filled weekend. His story seemed honest. Read article here. Other reports indicate this year was as outrageous and successful as ever in Miami. The Art Newspaper reminded us of Art Basel’s modest beginnings; ten years ago a [...]
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Santa Fe was unrecognizable June 10, for the opening night of Currents 2011, a festival for international, new media art. Amidst the bustling Railyard District were: people on bikes, Axle Contemporary’s mobile gallery, video art projected on buildings, the train running through the district, young hipsters on skateboards, experimental music in the streets, and bystanders. [...]
Although no major biography has been published about him, and his name might scarcely ring a bell, Cady Wells (1904-1954) was a prominent New Mexico artist, who widely contributed to the Southwest art scene. When cultural and biographical historian Lois Rudnick told people about her upcoming book Cady Wells and Southwestern Modernism, people often responded, [...]
Monday, November 15, 2010
Keep Adding is a multimedia art collective of artists Brian Bixby and Noah McDonaldl that emerged in Las Cruces, New Mexico in 2000. Although Keep Adding has executed projects throughout the country and Europe, the group returned to Las Cruces in September this year to paint “Wave Nest”—a 24-foot by 48-foot mural. I interviewed Noah [...]
The current status of the world is alarming: between inundation of digital data and environmental crises in the so-called first world, disease and catastrophe unrelenting in the second and third. As the unemployment rate in the U.S. intractably high, one could infer there are too many people for America to employ; the same Americans, especially [...]
In relation to nature’s power, we humans are lesser. The sublimity of nature—the fathomless ocean, ominous tornado, or infinite sky—was excavated during Romanticism through realism. In opposition to both Romanticism and realism, Eric Cruikshank paints the sublime abstractly. Cruikshank grew up on a farm in Scotland, where he sometimes returns to work. Full story at [...]
In World War II, the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The controversial testing of those bombs, which occurred prior to the obliteration of the two Japanese cities, took place near San Antonio, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. The location of the first nuclear explosion is called Trinity Site. Full story [...]
Thursday, August 26, 2010
The hippest thing that I do all year is buy my produce locally at the Santa Fe Farmer’s Market from my brother, Ryan. Ryan recently moved from the UK back to the US to start homesteading in Northern New Mexico. Although his interest in sustainability persisted throughout his life, he manifested his dream a year [...]
What? Adobe Airstream, online arts and culture magazine, popularized due to its syndication to Arts Journal, Saatchi Online, and many others. “Adobe Airstream” brings readers and now listeners the most compelling art stories, direct from the Southwest: Santa Fe, NM. Adobe Airstream radio is now live. Check the following link. With Santa Fe consistently a [...]
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Who is my brother? Ryan Crocker, an organic farmer in Northern New Mexico. Currently, he farms with Eric at Worthwhile Farms. He also has his own plot of land, which he farms independently in La Madera, NM. Stop by and say, “hi,” to Ryan this Saturday (August 14, 2010) at the Santa Fe Farmer’s Market. [...]