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• Santa Fe Complex Closes. Stephen Guerin on Hybridity’s Lessons. June 1, 2012
  When the Santa Fe Complex closes this Friday night in Santa Fe, it will be capping off a four-year run in which the organization, with support from the City of Santa Fe’s economic development arm, gave ...
  Ellen Berkovitch
• New Nature for Animal Reuse, Co-Lab Austin May 31, 2012
  New Nature, an exhibition by Austin-born Calder Kamin, opens this Saturday, June 2. “Fabricated ceramic fauna” and collected trash enliven Co-Lab’s exhibition space. The artist will also walk guests through the nearby neighborhood to collect trash ...
  Katy Crocker
• Public School, a New Model for Design Collaboration May 30, 2012
  Public School is a new generation design collective, located in east Austin. Comprised of seven members with two photographers and five graphic designers: Casey Dunn, Cody Haltom, Jay B. Sauceda, Justin Cox, Matthew Genitempo, Shaun Lind, ...
  Rowan Ogden
• Remotely Sensing William Betts (at Plus Gallery in Denver) May 29, 2012
  William Betts is getting noticed. At least that’s what a recent announcement in Artdaily.org tells readers. Betts is a Houston-based artist who paints using a complex painting machine and proprietary software designed by the artist. He is ...
  Leanne Goebel
• Crochet Coral Reefs, A Feminist Practice. And: Hideaway in Release. May 28, 2012
  In 2005, twin sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim formed the Institute for Figuring in Los Angeles. Its key project: The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, which, according to the HCCR site, “resides at the intersection of mathematics, marine ...
  Ellen Berkovitch
• Chaos in Tejas, Austin May 28, 2012
  I will always feel a unique kinship with Chaos in Tejas being that it was the subject of my very first post on Adobe Airstream. The funny thing is – I decided to re-read that post ...
  Don Simpson
• Oscar, A Co-Production, To Premiere at Santa Fe Opera’s 2013 Season May 25, 2012
  When the 2013 Santa Fe Opera season gets under way , its big ticket will be the world premiere on July 27th of Theodore Morrison’s new opera, Oscar, based on the life of Oscar Wilde. Morrison ...
  Ellen Berkovitch
• New Mexico Experimental Glass Fellows Address Waste Through Art May 24, 2012
  Let’s talk about New Mexico Experimental Glass Workshop (NMEGW)—an innovative, non-profit organization founded by artist Stacey Neff in Santa Fe. The goal of NMEGW is to introduce, through workshops, hot glass to artists that don’t work ...
  Katy Crocker
• Saul’s Universe – Pard Morrison at James Kelly May 23, 2012
  Pard Morrison’s sculptures, currently on view at James Kelly Contemporary in Phantom Limbs, defy cubic assembly.  Each spread of colorful squares unfolds from a central square.  Perspectival lines sometimes look like preliminary childhood box constructions—four sides ...
  Hannah Hoel
• 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