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From adobeairstream.com- The Great Gatsby – Part Bonfire, Part Moulin Rouge 2 May 16, 2013Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of the much-adapted novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald looks a lot like The Bonfire of the Vanities, Brian DePalma’s adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s lurid catalog of the excesses of the 1980′s. It sounds ...David D'Arcy
- The Truthiness Show, Part 3: Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak On Art and More Real Life May 11, 2013During the months that AdobeAirstream has worked at or virtually near to Minneapolis Institute of Arts to create three podcasts engaging audience responses to the contemporary art show, More Real: Art in the Age of Truthiness, life ...Ellen Berkovitch
- SITE Santa Fe Announces Biannual Series on Art of the Americas, Tilts on North-South Axis May 9, 2013“A radical rethinking of SITE’s signature exhibition,” and a “reimagined series,” were just two of the phrases that SITE Santa Fe Phillips director and chief curator Irene Hofmann used on Monday night at the Farmer’s Market ...Ellen Berkovitch
- Darius Brubeck Plays Benefit Concert for Humankind Foundation May 3, 2013On May 5th in Santa Fe, jazz pianist Darius Brubeck will play a concert, “Darius Brubeck and Jazz Friends,” to benefit Humankind Foundation. The Humankind Foundation was founded by Santa Fe R.N. Kristin St. Clair in ...Ellen Berkovitch
- Michelle Wilmot, The Desert Warrior, Practices Art as Combat Healing April 23, 2013What do you call an Iraq woman combat veteran – yes, Virginia, there are some – who speaks seven languages, has been featured in a documentary and a book, paints and sculpts, and is exhibiting her ...Lily Casura
- Tribeca – Big Men, Big Oil, Big Money April 22, 2013Big Men (at the Tribeca Film Festival) drills away at the exploitation of the oil riches of two African countries – Ghana and Nigeria. Is that wealth a resource curse — a characterization that’s used widely with ...David D'Arcy
- Contemporary in Santa Fe: Kris Cox at LewAllen April 19, 2013Kris Cox is a Basalt, Colorado painter whose first solo show in Santa Fe, Failure, runs through April 28th at LewAllen Galleries’ Railyard location (1613 Paseo de Peralta). The show engages examples from three bodies of ...Ellen Berkovitch
- Trust the Audience. MIA Viewers Respond to “More Real: Art in the Age of Truthiness” April 17, 2013It was my great pleasure this year to be invited to go to Minneapolis Institute of Arts in residency, to capture audience interviews around the opening of the contemporary art show, “More Real: Art in the ...Ellen Berkovitch
- White Snake Ritual Performance Animates Parse Gallery in NoLA April 15, 2013On view at Parse Gallery, through April, is an interactive ritual and healing art performance, presented by artists Amanda Stone and VnessWolfCHild. Parse Gallery is a contemporary art gallery and artist situation space in New Orleans, as ...Rachel Avena Brown
- ArtPlace Announces America’s Top 12 Small-Town Art Places April 10, 2013Crested Butte, CO.; Taos, NM; Marfa, TX and Saratoga, WY made the list of the Top Twelve Small-Town ArtPlaces for 2013. The twelve communities on the list were chosen based upon per capita numbers of arts ...Leanne Goebel
- The Great Gatsby – Part Bonfire, Part Moulin Rouge 2 May 16, 2013
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Is a Titan IV Stage II rocket engine a work of art? It was designed to fly to Saturn, but never made the journey. How about a B61 Thermonuclear Bomb? According to Adam Lerner and Paul Andersen, curators of Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts from the Landscape of Glorious Excess “nuclear weapons are designed to produce fear, and thereby they are made specifically to prevent their own use.” Try telling that to the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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