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• 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
• 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