SFR Picks This Week
Anat Cohen Quartet
Any artists worth their salt understand that one has to know all the rules before one can break all the rules. Few genres of music exemplify this tenet better than live improvisational jazz, and Israeli saxophonist Anat Cohen is an international jazz star. Since age 12, Cohen has been well-versed in clarinet and saxophone.
Documentary Filmmaking: Getting Started
With the Santa Fe Film Festival creeping closer every day, many Santa Feans are feeling the movie bug’s insistent bite. In a free public lecture, Hank Rogerson and Jilann Spitzmiller offer basic advice on filmmaking from idea development to how to get funding—and something tells us they know their stuff.
Fay Ku: Double Entendre
A mermaid dons a skeletal crown, women bed down with fish and children glance surreptitiously over shoulders as they do precisely what their parents told them not to. The figures in Fay Ku’s drawings demonstrate that the ridiculous restraints that bind our sexual urges lead to hilarious, if disconcerting, appetites—in this case, bestial couplings of the piscine and avian persuasion.
Josh Martin Trio
Santa Fe loves Americana. Almost any night of the week one can head somewhere in town to catch someone picking away on an old guitar, singing a beautiful melody or shredding the mandolin. While it’s hard to say one musician is better than the next, a few names rise to the top as local standouts. Josh Martin, for example, plays a contemporary style of roots music.
Events
Search results for events from 07/10/09.
Search OptionsA Thousand Words…
The Monroe Gallery of Photography presents an allusion to the worth of just one picture, A Thousand Words…. Here, though, there is more than one picture; rather, a vast panoply of American history is available, beginning in 1934—a family peering out of the car they call home, a Beatles pillow fight, Muhammad Ali standing over a prone Sonny Liston, four long-legged beauties lying in the sand, villagers in Vietnam, protesters in China—the list goes on.
Wild Wild West Show
Visually charged and thoroughly contemporary, the works of Deborah Oropallo mix and match photography, painting and digital media to create unique statements on gender, power and the ever-present importance of striking a pose. Oropallo opens an exhibition and offers a lecture this week.
Forth and Fingerprints
In the works featured in Forth, the combination of oil and chalk pastels allows Emmi Whitehorse to shift between levels of focus so that some symbols appear bright, conscious and clear, while others are nebulous, almost lurking behind the colors. The lingering of landscapes in the mind pairs well with what lingers after a simple interaction with the world: Fingerprints.
The Artists of Gee’s Bend
The small, predominantly black community of Gee’s Bend, Ala. has a long and rich quilting tradition that stretches back to pre-Civil War slavery and has strong connections to the civil rights movement. In recent years, these quilts have gained great acclaim in artistic circles, and it’s no secret why.
Open Heart Dancing
Like poetry, dance is difficult to define and almost impossible to explain. Nevertheless, Julie Brette Adams manages to explain quite a lot in her solo contemporary dance concert. Adams’ method is not conceptual or abstract, modes she sees as “a reflection of our culture’s emphasis on technology, instant gratification, the external,” but rather her dance is “a journey inward.” Her performances investigate pathos, grieving, loss and humor.
Native American Picture Books of Change
Hopi, Navajo, Apache and Pueblo writers and illustrators.
Telling: New Mexico Stories Then and Now
The museum's permanent exhibition is a century spanning, eye-popping example of contemporary museum theory and technology. Even the wallpaper participates in taking visitors from Pre-Columbian civilization through colonization, statehood, the nuclear era and beyond.
Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe
A history of Santa Fe in photography.
Welcome to Bohemia
Traditional and classic European, Gypsy-influenced music.
