A captivating blend of stillness and action emanates from most of the photographs in Niki Boon: Summer, opening at the Obscura Gallery on Friday, June 21.
Juxtaposing Ken Price’s work with Georgia O’Keeffe’s can jump-start a conversation that broadens the view of both artists’ works. That’s part of the purpose for Contemporary Voices: Ken Price, on exhibit at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum through Oct. 23.
Santa Fe-based artist Cynthia West’s The New Sun, a collection of nine artists’ books in a collaged shadow box, appears in Speaking to the Imagination: The Contemporary Artist’s Book, a group show opening at Peters Projects on Friday, June 21.
The Inn of the Anasazi, which opened just off the Plaza in 1991, redesigned its interior in 2015, adding a distinctive lounge area between the bar and restaurant, creating more casual seating at the front of the house and a more intimate space in the formal dining room. A striking screen of large, slab-cut tree trunks divides the lounge from the dining room, while neutral tones of brown, white, and grey, along with additional natural woods and stone, contribute to a comfortably elegant backdrop for socializing, drinking, and dining.
Book Review
Making sense of madness: "The Edge of Every Day"
Marin Sardy reads from her experimental, essayistic memoir, Edge of Every Day, on Wednesday, June 26, at Collected Works Bookstore.
Movie Review
Back to the future: "Framing John DeLorean"
Framing John DeLorean, the story of the legendary automaker's rise and fall, is rich with daring, danger, and disaster.
When Luciano Pavarotti died of pancreatic cancer in 2007, many opera lovers had mixed feelings. The tenor was only 71 and it hadn’t been so long since he was the reigning star of his generation, still giving magnificent performances of his core repertoire into the 1990s.
Movie Review
Digital killed the publishing star: "Non-fiction"
Much of the new film from French director Olivier Assayas has to do with our head-spinningly rapid transition away from traditional books into the brave new world of Kindle.
Terrell's Tune-Up
Punk unzipped: The Jackets
The new album by The Jackets is good, strong, punked-up variations of that wonderful 1960s sound of teenage Americans trying to imitate British bands imitating African-American blues and soul.
Writers Kate McCahill, Monica Prince, Wendy J. Fox, and Elizabeth Geoghegan participate in a panel discussion, “Flying Solo: How Traveling Alone Influences Writing,” at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 22, at Garcia Street Books; admission is free.
Book Review
"The Porpoise" by Mark Haddon
Mark Haddon has written a terrifically exciting novel called The Porpoise. Could we just stop there? Almost anything else I say about this book risks scattering readers like startled birds.
Judy Chicago: The Birth Project from New Mexico Collections is on display through Nov. 10 at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos.
Rickie Lee Jones plays at the KiMo Theatre in Albuquerque at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 25; Patty Griffin plays there at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 27, with guest Carrie Rodriguez.
Random Acts
Songs of summer: Minnesota Boychoir
This month, the Twin Cities-based Minnesota Boychoir — the oldest in that state — arrives in the Southwest for the first time as part of its 36th annual summer tour and will play at two locations in Santa Fe on Friday, June 21: noon at the New Mexico State Capitol and 5:15 and 6:15 p.m. at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi.
Summer begins this Friday as the sun slides into Cancer. Let that light into every corner of the soul.
In Santa Fe, LGBTQ+ pride is so mainstream that there’s a family-oriented event that is alcohol- and smoke-free, and perfect for kids, pets, and anyone looking for a fun afternoon outdoors, from noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 23 at the Railyard Park.
Béla Fleck & the Flecktones play Taos Mesa Brewing, 20 ABC Mesa Road in El Prado, on Saturday, June 22.
Festival Flamenco Albuquerque features more than 30 workshops for students and professionals, some of whom travel from all over the country to study with the masters.
Bloomsday 2019
Dublin down: A daunting literary classic explained
Published in 1922, James Joyce’s Ulysses is considered one of the most important novels in the Western literary canon, as well as one of the most difficult.
Palace of the Governors
Follow the Camino Real: Palace archival history on display in a new book
Alicia Romero is co-editor with Daniel Kosharek of the new book New Mexico’s Palace of the Governors: Highlights from the Collections.
Here is something different: a major exhibition of Lowbrow, Post-Pop, and Pop Surrealism in the heart of downtown Santa Fe that features plenty of local and regional artists, as well as major players from a movement that began on the West Coast in the 1970s.
Some 80 years after it was first released, John Ford’s 1939 Western Stagecoach still has the power to grab and keep your attention, despite the now-familiar tropes of the genre.
Amuse-Bouche
Tiki life
With soft Exotica tunes lilting in the background, tasty rum potions can send the land-locked sailor on a journey to exotic ports of call, where willing wahines sway in the warm climes of an eternal summer.”
Book Review
"The Tale Teller" by Anne Hillerman
In the opening pages of Spider Woman’s Daughter (2013), Lt. Joe Leaphorn gets shot. In that moment, Leaphorn, the protagonist of the late Tony Hillerman’s best-selling mystery series set on the Navajo Nation, was written out of his lead status. The culprit? Mr. Hillerman’s daughter, Anne Hillerman, who has continued her father’s series since his death in 2008. Her fifth installment, The Tale Teller, begins with Leaphorn — now retired from the force — sitting in his car, complaining to himself.
Random Acts
Universal tunes: Music of the Spheres
The New Mexico Performing Arts Society engages the idea of "music of the spheres" in its concerts at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 15, at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Retreat and Conference Center.
Random Acts
Ziggy Stardust: The 2019 InterPlanetary Festival
Presented by the Santa Fe Institute, the InterPlanetary Festival celebrates the complexities of science and human ingenuity in the Railyard Park and features music, screenings of classic sci-fi movies, outdoor art, food, beer, and a roster of informal educational panels from Friday, June 14, through Sunday, June 16. General admission is free.
Book Review
"City of Girls" by Elizabeth Gilbert
Chances are you don’t know a wonderful debut novel published almost 20 years ago about lobster fishing called Stern Men. But you know its author: Elizabeth Gilbert. Her 2006 book, Eat, Pray, Love, became one of the best-selling memoirs of the modern age and effectively eclipsed her earlier, better work.
Movie Review
Funny girl: "Late Night"
The queen of Late Night is Thompson, whose character’s impeccable timing and dry-as-gin wit makes you wonder why she hasn’t been dominating the late-night TV talk show scene for the last quarter century.
Movie Review
Like father, unlike son: "The Image You Missed"
This film is director Dónal Foreman’s redemptive exploration of the similarities and differences between him and his father, told in three separate sections through voice-over narration, still photographs, home movies, and documentary footage of The Troubles, the bitter dispute between the nationalist Catholic minority and the Protestant government.
Movie Review
Riches and Rags: "Halston"
Writer-director Frédéric Tcheng (Dior and I) has, by and large, done a worthy job of tracing the rise and fall of the man described as America’s first great international fashion superstar.
Movie Review
Bring me the archives of Luis Barragán!
Jill Magid’s extraordinary art project, the genesis and execution of which unfold in this strange, almost dreamlike documentary, is like a story devised by Edgar Allen Poe, or perhaps Edward Gorey.
Random Acts
Dogged animal lovers: The Hounds of El Delirio
In 1923, Amelia Elizabeth White and her sister Martha White moved into a house on Garcia Street that they called El Delirio. The sisters bred Irish wolfhounds there until Martha’s death in 1937. Two years later, in her sister’s honor, Amelia donated funds to establish the Santa Fe Animal Shelter.
Subtexts
New Mexico hiking guides
Any Midwestern transplant can tell you that hiking in New Mexico is worlds away from strolling through a suburban forest preserve.
It was billed as three days of peace, love, and music. And against all odds, and the dyspeptic forebodings of parents, pundits, and the press, that’s what it turned out to be.
Random Acts
All that jazz: The Cookers
Here comes a truly super septet, The Cookers, playing the intimate Gig Performance Space on Saturday, June 15.
AMuse-Bouche
Arroyo Vino’s vegetable tempura
Arroyo Vino is a casually elegant restaurant and wine shop tucked into the La Tierra neighborhood — about a 10-minute drive from downtown Santa Fe — that hosts a happy hour from 5 to 6 p.m.
We have a planetary traffic jam this week. Free will and grace always co-create with the planetary patterns. We could easily feel overwhelmed or called to protect something important, like our relationships, country, or ecosystem.
Santa Fe Bandstand concerts begin Wednesday, June 19 several times a week and continue through Aug. 10. Most are held on the Plaza, but a few take place on the Southside at Swan Park on Jaguar Drive at Highway 599.
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer N. Scott Momaday received the 2019 Ken Burns American Heritage Prize at a ceremony held May 1 at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The prize was presented by American Prairie Reserve, a nonprofit organization that has a three-million-acre wildlife conservation area in northeastern Montana.
Currents New Media Festival
The art that came in from the code: "Currents New Media"
When you come to Currents New Media 2019, Santa Fe’s annual new media art expo, you won’t just be an observer, you’ll also be an interface.
Currents - Robotics
Digital art-omation
Robotics is a broad art medium driven by robotic or automated technology. Pieces can respond to viewer input, be operated remotely, and often utilize sensors, computer programs, and other innovations.
Currents - Experimental documentaries
Distorted reality
Experimental documentaries are art films or videos that, like traditional documentary films, are grounded in reality, but the images are manipulated, or perhaps the sound is distorted.
Currents - Multimedia Performance
The music of random objects
Multimedia performance: a live performance that’s often interactive and combines elements of theater, dance, music, film projection, video, props, and immersive enviro…
Currents - Outdoor videos and installations
Collective flight simulation
Outdoor videos and installations: art that doesn’t fit inside, such as larger-than-life sculpture and wall projections. Pieces might incorporate the environment or a local setting and can be interactive.
Currents - Sound art
The life-giving waters
Sound art is distinct from music but in which sound is primary. The sound might be aesthetically challenging; it might even be silence.
Currents - Virtual reality
Ready, Player One
A virtual reality, or VR, environment is a fabricated realm that emulates a real environment by using computer hardware and software technology.
Currents - Interactive new media environments
Radar love
Either you’re the agent affecting the art, or the art is the agent affecting you.
The 2014 Tony-winning Broadway show Beautiful, honoring the work of Carole King, stops at University of New Mexico’s Popejoy Hall in Albuquerque from Wednesday, June 12, to June 16.
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The pride of Central Avenue: Loyola's Family Restaurant
Even though reality seems stranger than fiction a lot these days, life is not a TV show, and Albuquerque is more than what’s presented in Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. You probably won’t see the leader of a drug cartel discussing business over chicken-fried steak in a booth at Loyola’s Family Restaurant, but what you will see is a lovely and true slice of life in the Duke City.
The exhibit Courage and Compassion: Our Shared Story of the Japanese American WWII Experience runs through Nov. 3 at the Albuquerque Museum. It focuses on many aspects of the Japanese American experience, including military service and forced relocation, and also honors people who challenged the war hysteria that demonized Japanese Americans and reached out to help their neighbors.
The cast of the Tony-winning musical Fun Home, which opens at the Santa Fe Playhouse on Thursday, June 13, takes that journey with cartoonist Alison Bechdel. The show deconstructs linear time, as the adult Alison recalls milestones in her life, and begins to look for the truth around a period in college that changed her life.
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Restaurant ReviewMagical mealism: Fiesta Oaxaca
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Random ActsA drink (or two) for a good cause: Beer & Cider Festival
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