With funding to New Mexico AIDS Services facing state and federal cuts, Saturday's AIDS Walk is especially important, said Maggie Smith, director of resource development. Cuts to its budget were made July 1, Smith said. But since that time, the money was given back to the program, she said.
Newcomers to UNM's new art studio graduate program aren't wasting any time. "Incoming: New Graduates in Art Studio" opened at the Jonson Gallery last week. Although some pieces fail to tell viewers much about the students, others such as Mary Goodwin's lenticular photography and Erin Emiko Kawamata's mixed-media pieces, are worth making the trip for.
Cement plants, mines, gravel pits or oil refineries aren't generally considered things of beauty. They serve their purpose to society and are typically hidden away from the metropolis. Those who use their products hardly think of them. UNM student Nina Elder's sense of wonder extends far beyond the norm to see these industrial plants as beauty and as art.
Picture this: it's Germany, 1941, shortly before the United States enters World War II. Two nuclear physicists, one German, one Jewish, have a meeting that goes sour, but no one knows what was really said. From this true-life encounter, playwright Michael Frayn made "Copenhagen," a Tony Award-winning drama.
For 18 years the Festival Flamenco Internacional de Albuquerque has not settled for anything but the best. This year is no exception. The National Institute of Flamenco has booked nearly 40 artists from all over the world to perform, teach and judge competitions for 10 days starting Friday at Rodey Theater.
Aldizorontophoskyphorniostikos believes in happy accidents. Can anyone say it three times fast? Can anyone say it at all? Probably not, but that's the group's point. This group of nine artists wants to have a dialogue about accidents and chaos in everyday life in the South Broadway Cultural Center show, and what they call it doesn't matter.
Public art took a leap into a gallery space last weekend when "Contemporary Arts in the Public Realm" opened at Magn°fico. What exactly is art in the public realm? "That's the question we want people to think about," Melody Mock, Magn°fico's director of exhibits and programs said.
Robert Creeley is known for his countless awards and more than 30 volumes of poetry. Gus Blaisdell, who died last fall, is remembered for his 25 years of teaching at UNM, his poetry and essays. Get the two long-time friends together talking about poetry and art, have UNM Media Arts instructor Bryan Konefsky and his class tape the talk, and the film, "Robert Creeley and Gus Blaisdell in Conversation" is born.
UNM film students will be sharing screen time with some of the Americas' most talented filmmakers Saturday at the Sin Fronteras Film Festival. Sin Fronteras, or without boarders, is in its second year thanks to UNM's Student Organization for Latin American Studies.
American Indian Movement Chairman Dennis Banks had more than his new autobiography, Ojibwa Warrior, to address Monday night to a standing-room only crowd in the SUB's Lobo room. Banks was aware of the events that transpired at the Duck Pond on April 1, and saw the videotape of the incident.
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