Category: Culture

  • The world needs more spontaneous art

    Maybe all of the out of work performers in America could perform for those in unemployment lines, play music, make art. At least everyone would be happy for a moment! And who knows where that might lead…. Check this video out at adobeairstream.com

  • Softcore porn on the Travel Channel

    Bridget has a Masters Degree in Communications, but one would never know it by the dialogue on the show. Nothing is original, everything is clichéd and she doesn’t delve her mind deeper than the sand in which she digs her toes. “It’s so beautiful” was repeated about a dozen times in Spain.

  • Dreaming New Mexico runner up for Bucky Prize

    Dreaming the future can create the future. That is the premise behind Dreaming New Mexico (DNM), a Bioneers project with support from Google Earth’s Outreach Program. Dreaming New Mexico was selected runner up for the 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge.

  • The Stinks and Rapids: Is Art Important?

    We need fewer artists doing the same thing and more artists pushing the boundaries stretched by artists from the past. We need independent voices willing to speak out and act as regulators of the marketplace—not regulators of the Art. We need critics willing to debate and stand up for what they believe. We need to…

  • New Perspectives: Art, Journalism and the NEA International Institute

    Seven days at the NEA International Arts Journalism Institute based in Washington DC with art writer Leanne Goebel.

  • It strikes when your often afraid on AdobeAistream

    Follow this link to a recent post about the CELL (Center for Empowered Living and Learning) in Denver and their exhibition on terrorism. Copyright Leanne Goebel. May not be used without permission.

  • Transgressing Culture at Culture Unplugged

    Read my latest work Transgressing Culture at Culture Unplugged an international website of film and culture. Copyright Leanne Goebel. May not be used without permission.

  • New Art & Culture Magazine Launches

    Dear friends, For the past few months I have been working with Ellen Berkovitch on an exciting new media project. Adobe Airstream will be a state-of-the-art new media website providing unique content about art, culture and design in the West and Southwest. Independently, Ellen and I came up with very similar ideas and decided to…

  • Locals resist arts cuts, Durango Herald, February 6, 2009

    State proposes slashing budget by Leanne Goebel Imagine Durango without the arts. No music festivals, no dance, no theater, no art galleries, no children’s programs, no singing, no film festivals, no sculpture, no debates in the newspaper about differing perspectives, and probably no opportunity to read this article, because without the arts, there’s no need…

  • The Art Market, Philistinism and the NEA

    Art sales figures show interesting declines in the markets. A Feb. 16, 2009 article in The Telegraph stated that Sotheby’s ($5.3 billion) inched ahead of Christie’s ($5.1 billion) in global art sales last year. Both figures, however, are down from the previous year, when Christie’s was ahead by $6.3 billion to Sotheby’s $6.2 billion. “At…