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• AMoA-Arthouse Texas Prize Winner Announced May 22, 2012
  As of May 18, 2012 AMoA-Arthouse announced its Texas Prize winner Jeff Williams—University of Texas faculty member. Jeanne Claire van Ryzin of Austin 360 reports that the Texas Prize will be a triennial award from this ...
  Katy Crocker
• Attendance Records Releases Benefit Album May 21, 2012
  Last Thursday, some of my favorite local bands gathered at the Mohawk for an Attendance Records benefit/CD release party. Over the last six months, The Sour Notes have been telling me about their specific participation in ...
  Don Simpson
• Well Somebody Has Discovered a Cash (Sea) Cow May 17, 2012
  I have too much data inbound at any time and here is proof.  I was working on some email interactions where I am basically bargaining with various publicists on all the coasts (publicists live on coasts ...
  Groovey
• SXSW-Award Winning Film Dragonslayer, Worthy or Worthless? May 16, 2012
  Nick Schager of Slant Magazine wrote of Dragonslayer in his review, “…it’s a film that makes a strong, if unintentional, case for the pathetic emptiness of the punk-rock life.” If Schager had seen past the main ...
  Katy Crocker
• Placemaking in Santa Fe: Are We Artists or Monkeys? May 15, 2012
  About seventy people gathered on May 10th to hear Creative Santa Fe’s presentation on affordable live/work spaces for artists.  With the mysterious arrival of Artspace, Creative Santa Fe’s initiative to enliven Santa Fe felt a little ...
  Hannah Hoel
• Creative Santa Fe: Coals to Newcastle? May 14, 2012
  Four speakers for Creative Santa Fe’s inaugural “Imagined Futures” IF event, told a New Mexico History Museum auditorium full house on Saturday that: Tourist towns are “brands.” Attention to historic architecture can make a place a ...
  Ellen Berkovitch
• Friends of Anton Hold Charity Auction. Sebastian Junger Discusses War Reporting. May 11, 2012
  On May 15th in New York,  top auction house Christie’s holds a first time-ever dedicated photojournalism auction. It’s a charity event organized by Friends of Anton dot org to benefit South African photographer Anton Hammerl’s three children. Hammerl was ...
  Ellen Berkovitch
• Barbara Buhler Lynes Resigns as O’Keeffe Museum Curator in Santa Fe May 11, 2012
  Barbara Buhler Lynes, who became curator of the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum when it opened in 1999, resigned that post today, effective immediately, and also relinquished her title and position as Emily Fisher Landau director of the ...
  Ellen Berkovitch
• School’s Out Forever Rockaway Beach Party (May 19 – 20) May 11, 2012
  With an impressive line-up of over 50 bands on four stages — including Sleep Over, The Long Tangles, Shakey Graves, The Boxing Lesson, Schmillion, The Zoltars, One Hundred Flowers, Crack Pipes, Elaine Greer, Lean Hounds, Bad ...
  Don Simpson
• Original Readymades at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston May 10, 2012
  Original readymades? Hm. Oxymoron? Not if they are slightly altered readymades, like Duchamp’s. The Contemporary Art Museum Houston calls into question the notion of the readymade tomorrow for their opening reception of It is what it ...
  Katy Crocker