When I lived near the corner of Market and Castro in San Francisco in the ’70s, I’d enter my second-floor apartment up a staircase between a Swedish market, where I learned the word “lutefisk,” and a …

Collaborators Eiko and Koma performed three dances from their Retrospective Project Saturday night at the North Fourth Arts Center in Albuquerque.  This brave little venue has brought unparalleled national and international avant-garde dance to our state …

Cosanti Foundation, whose principal project is Arcosanti, architect Paolo Soleri’s mesa-top urban laboratory in Paradise Valley, AZ, has chosen Jeff Stein as president to succeed its nonagenarian founder. Soleri, 92, had been looking for two years …

The Dan Graham kinesthetic experience, on the roof of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Lauren Ball and Ryan McLennan both paint animals in their unnatural state rendered in detailed watercolor and acrylic. The authority of traditional presentation heightens the irony of the artists distempered interpretations. Of course John Currin and …

On the subject of sculpture and the thoughts of Frank Gehry and Claes Oldenburg on where art and architecture meet. (image: Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao)

FOLKyTONKs members include T.W. Man on guitar,  The Rev. Otis Moon (who wrote the song, “New Mexico Swing”) on washtub bass, washboard and keyboard, Shelley Horton-Trippe on vocals and percussion, and  Zeke Zeberson on bass and …

The Paolo Soleri Amphitheater stands eccentric in a world of increasingly generic architecture.  The late Lloyd Kiva New, artist and educator, worked with Soleri in 1965 to design the Amphitheater and build it with help from …

Mierle Laderman Ukeles has performed as an artist for 40 years, setting up her work as situations that show the overlooked civic sanitation worker. Ukeles spoke at the Santa Fe Art Institute May 10.  The Denver-born …

Museum design opened the arena for innovative architecture beginning with Richard Rogers and Renzo Pianos Pompidou Center (Paris, 1977).  The institutions in Museums in the 21st Century at the New Mexico Museum of Art illustrate a …