Month: May 2008

  • Riding into Telluride, Durango Herald, May 16, 2008

    Jon Bailey and Chad Cheeney’s documentary “Mallethead,” from which this photo is taken, will be shown in Telluride’s Mountain Film over Memorial Day weekend. A 60-mile bicycle journey from Durango through New Mexico to Mancos for seven mountain-biking polo players became the basis for a 19-minute film called “Mallethead.” The film debuted last October at…

  • Art in springtime, Durango Herald, May 9, 2008

    Explore Downtown during Durango’s Gallery Walk Jami Tobey will be at the Rain Dance Gallery to talk about her paintings like “Wildflowers,” shown here. Twice a year, Durango galleries get together and host a gallery walk. They invite artists to show up and mingle with guests, chill the Pellegrino and put out a plate of…

  • DAC exhibits director resigns, Durango Herald, April 25, 2008

    Susan Andersen resigned as the exhibits director of Durango Arts Center this month. Andersen, who came to Durango from Portland, Ore., New York and Orlando, Fla., took the job as exhibits director in January 2005. She brought her business savvy and aesthetic sensibility to the 30- hour-a-week job. “When I came to the art center,…

  • Fireworks artist shows at Guggenheim, Durango Herald, April 15, 2008

    Cai Guo-QiangInopportune: Stage One, 2004Nine cars and sequenced multichannel light tubesDimensions variableSeattle Art Museum, Gift of Robert M. Arnold, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum, 2006Exhibition copy installed at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2008© Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation New York. Photo by David Heald. NEW YORK – Chinese…