Category: Santa Fe

  • First English speaking film made in Pakistan in 30 years directed by a woman

    Khan left Lahore in 2007 to finish editing the film because the city was often without electricity. Her furniture is still in storage in Lahore. She was hoping to purchase the home where she shot some of the film. She was hoping to be able to remain part-time in Pakistan.

  • Creating a global community: One Story at a time

    This global focus of the art world, the film world, the creative world on the demand of the market has eroded a sense of community.

  • 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…

  • Time for an upgrade

    A blogger since July 2005 Leanne Goebel has moved her blog to wordpress. Her preferred subject matter continues to be contemporary art and culture based in or connected to the Rocky Mountain West and Southwest.

  • David Adjaye, Sarah Lewis and Daniel Belasco to create quintessential video biennial at SITE Santa Fe?

    Another post at Adobe Airstream on the 2010 SITE Santa Fe Biennial. Read it by clicking on this link. Copyright Leanne Goebel. May not be used without permission.

  • Beyond Beauty, Durango Herald, March 17, 2009

    SITE Santa Fe exhibit pushes boundaries of aesthetics “You are here, 2008” Judith Schaechter Much contemporary art is highly intellectualized, sprouting from institutes of higher learning, embedded in a system that eschews beauty and prefers provocation. Art today is in-your-face, shocking, gigantic, but rarely is it pretty. At SITE Santa Fe, Laura Heon has curated…

  • 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…

  • Mind the Gap–Or Not

    Review of recent exhibit at Eight Modern Gallery in Santa Fe, NM Katherine Lee, “Exterior 13, New Mexico” “Mind the Gap” is a warning phrase and a reminder to passengers in the London Underground of the significant—and potentially dangerous—space between the train door and the station platform. To “Mind the Gap” means that one does…

  • 1,000 artworks to see before you die

    1,000 artworks to see before you die. The Guardian writers pick the essential art of the world. Hint: O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe, the nearest location to find one of these works. Copyright Leanne Goebel. May not be used without permission.

  • Infinity

    William Metcalf’s Infinity Series was on display at Charlotte Jackson in July. Using fabric to bridge the world between painting and sculpture, these objects explore the basic elements of space and the play of light against and within that space. William MetcalfInfinity Series #44, 2008 28″x28″x2/38″ Acrylic, Polyester fabric, wood, DiBond 162WM The photographs do…