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• Is Film History? New Media Film Fest Might Say So. February 9, 2012
  Film is (maybe) almost history. Soon, it looks like, those hot reels–romanticized in the 1990s vehicle, Cinema Paradiso–may be relegated to folklore, the way the Kindle or iPad threatens to eclipse printed books.  According to Maxwell ...
  Hannah Hoel
• Ultimate Love Party Jamz with One Hundred Flowers & Elaine Greer February 8, 2012
  What I like most about One Hundred Flowers is that they are utterly impossible to pigeonhole into any one musical genre. Their debut LP, Mechanical Bride, could be over-simplified as complex and heady indie-pop, one might ...
  Don Simpson
• Ricardo Legorreta, 1931-2011 February 7, 2012
  Ricardo Legorreta, perhaps Mexico’s best-known architect, died in Mexico City on December 30, 2011. In the month since his death there have been several substantive obituaries with thoughtful reviews of his career, such as, and, and, ...
  Khristaan Villela
• Steven Holl Architects To Design Expansion for MFAH February 7, 2012
  Steven Holl Architects has prevailed over architecture firms Snøhetta and Morphosis to design an expansion for the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, it was announced February 2d. Core to the program will be a new building to ...
  Ellen Berkovitch
• Ion Ionescu: AGTA Award-Winning Jeweler February 6, 2012
  Santa Fe jeweler Ion Ionescu was awarded the prestigious AGTA Spectrum award for evening-wear jewelry last October. He won for “Pillow for Dreaming,”  a palladium and black rhodium ring in which a. 36 ct. carved labradorite ...
  Ellen Berkovitch
• BOX Gallery in Santa Fe To Close February 4, 2012
  Wow. More serious news from the gallery closing world. BOX Gallery, at 1611 Paseo de Peralta, owned by Michelle Ouellette since 2000, and home to an emerging/contemporary program as well as hosting shows by some of ...
  Ellen Berkovitch
• Mike Kelley Dies, Apparent Suicide February 2, 2012
  The New York Times has reported that artist Mike Kelley was found dead Wednesday, age 57, at his home in South Pasadena, an apparent suicide over despair about a broken love affair. An American tragedy. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/arts/design/mike-kelley-influential-american-artist-dies-at-57.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries
  Ellen Berkovitch
• Pop West – Ed Ruscha Elucidates Jack Kerouac February 2, 2012
  During three weeks in April 1951, Jack Kerouac famously wrote On The Road  by typing continuously onto a 120-foot roll of teletype paper. The novel is based upon several roads trip taken by Kerouac and Neal ...
  Leanne Goebel
• Joel Shapiro Installation Opens at Rice Gallery February 2, 2012
  Texas’ beloved New York artist Joel Shapiro opens in solo exhibition at the Rice University Gallery today, February 2, 2012. The show exhibits through March 18. “In a gravity-defying array of color and form, Shapiro will ...
  Katy Crocker
• Austin’s Ink Tank Survives Last New Year February 1, 2012
  Ink Tank is the latest cooperative, contemporary art lab in Austin—home of DIY. Projects from the new artist collective include: Future: Diorama!, and most recently Last New Year, which will be open for private tours in ...
  Katy Crocker