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Fungtastic Voyage
5 September 2007 - 3:22pm — Zane Fischer
Curator Lance FungPossibly bionic, but noncommital on the role of emergency eyewash stations in the next biennial During one of his now-patented Rock n’ Roll flythroughs, Lance Fung blazed
through town in the final week of August so quickly, and in such a torrential
flurry of sneakers, eyeglasses, and raw art energy, it seems possible that a
team of scientists may have bionicized him in an effort to create a better,
faster, stronger, more exciting breed of curator.
CCA Runs Out of Buck
29 August 2007 - 4:34pm — Zane Fischer
CCA RenderingBuck's departure comes between renovation phases. At the Thursday, August 23rd preview reception
for the opening of CCA’s Muñoz Waxman Gallery, it was clear by the way
Executive Director Steve Buck was talking about having a lot of free time to
play golf, that persistent rumors about his imminent departure from the
organization were true. Indeed, the Center for Contemporary Arts issued a press
release on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 29, announcing Buck’s resignation.
Your Community [insert function here]
21 August 2007 - 9:39pm — da-brq
If you read the August issue of the CCA schedule carefully, I mean so carefully that you even read the ad copy (does that make me sick?), then you will have noticed that the UBS blurb features not one but two instances of the generic nightmare [this city] while attempting to prove its allegiance to the Santa Fe community. So much for civic pride.
Loose Arrow Lucero
15 August 2007 - 8:22pm — Zane Fischer
Trevor Lucero, Nocturn, 2007
Yeah. We missed Trevor Lucero's recent show in Santa Fe at the Jo Basiste Gallery, but that's cool: TL is a bona fide YouTube celeb.
The $425 Mistake
11 August 2007 - 4:15pm — Gregory Pleshaw
Monty Singer, Sheep Camp Dreams #2Damaged work and non-payment are haunting the Gary Farmer Contemporary Gallery
One Angry Artist with a MySpace Account Can Ruin Your Whole Day
News flew into Native art-intrigued inboxes around the city early Wednesday morning, July 26--FLASH!--Micah Wesley, Native American painter, and a member of the popular band Chocolate Helicopter, had posted a bulletin to his MySpace account claiming that he was owed money by Gary Farmer Contemporary Galley in downtown Santa Fe.
Local Motives
11 August 2007 - 11:09am — Zane Fischer
unTRAINedThe contemporary boxcar gallery opened with a gutsy display of art by railroad workers. Ann Hamilton did it. Kara Walker did it. Kiki Seror did it. All of them did it in a boxcar, on the side of SITE Santa Fe, in the Railyard District. Now, a group of railroad workers have commandeered the car, moved it across the street and, with the blessing of Santa Fe Southern, mounted an exhbition of their own work inside it.
