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“In Search of America” (and Santa Fe) – excerpt from a new book by Robert Wolf
Among its many virtues Santa Fe has always been a refuge for dreamers, eccentrics and artists. Some of these magnificent souls bring with them an unmistakable effervescence, a radiant and slightly skewed take on the world that reminds us of what a life of complete freedom, with both its rewards and its costs, looks like. If there were a poster child for Santa Fe artistic eccentricity it would…
Happy birthday to Man Ray, who produced works in a variety of artistic styles, including the production of photograms (which he called rayograms)—photographs created without the use of a camera by placing objects on light-sensitive material and then exposing the material to light.
“Man Ray,” 1934, by Carl Van Vechten
Always extraordinary.
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FALL OF MODERNISM: The Modernist Impulse
“Wonderful place. You must come. Am sending ticket. Bring me a cook.” Mabel Dodge Lujan’s telegram to artist Andrew Dasburg is a seminal moment in New Mexico art history. Lujan, a prominent arts champion from New York, had fallen in love with the Taos art colony and was determined to summon artists there from the East. The efforts of Lujan and her counterparts in Santa Fe and Albuquerque sparked…
Janet Lippincott: A 70-Year Retrospective
Among the personal artifacts that will appear in our upcoming retrospective for Janet Lippincott (1918-2007), there’s a scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings. The folio of yellowed papers chronicles a tipping point in the New Mexico artist’s career—and the many wonders that came after—but it’s not the whole story. For the first half of Lippincott’s life, success was obscured behind…
Talked to Heather Bhandari for our latest episode of the pod and we talk about this book (invaluable - never too early to holiday shop for your loved ones OR YOURSELF!) and asked her WHAT SHOULD YOU KNOW!? and her generosity of answers is only matched by her wealth of knowledge! LISTEN!
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Man arrested after smearing Mona Lisa with cake at Louvre
Art should not be the target of climate change protest! That is a crime against humanity … to “save” humanity. Makes no sense.
