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Wednesday, February 4,2009
Art Features

Simple Complication

If you meet the painter on the road, kill him.

Zane Fischer

Paintings persist through intuition, through disruptions of the expected, through playfulness, through the artist’s legerdemain, just as koans have been doing for well over 1,000 years.

Wednesday, January 28,2009
Art Features

Culture Clock

Time isn’t on everyone’s side

Zane Fischer

When is a painting not a painting and what the hell does time have to do with it?

Wednesday, January 21,2009
Art Features

Scholder Smolder

Many sides of Fritz Scholder are seen at IAIA Museum

Zane Fischer

There are a lot of very bad Fritz Scholder paintings at the IAIA Museum right now. Not bad as in naughty—an apt description for many of Scholder’s works and for the way he blew the conventional view of Native American art out of the water back in the 1970s—but bad as in poorly executed.

Tuesday, January 13,2009
Art Features

In the Public Eye

A struggle with image comes into focus

Charlotte Jusinski

Georgia O'Keeffe learned to control her image after Alfred Stieglitz first manipulated it.

Wednesday, January 7,2009
Art Features

Houston Dispatch

A lost passport makes for a good trip

Zane Fischer
Being stupid and irresponsible has its rewards in a forced viewing of Houston's Menil Collection.
Wednesday, December 24,2008
Art Features

Deflatable

Uncertainty follows a good year for art

Zane Fischer
The past year, after all, has been an energetic and explosive one in the annals of art in Santa Fe. But what's to come?
Tuesday, December 16,2008
Art Features

But is it Art?

Give me one good reason why I should care

Zane Fischer
What if Clayton Porter made skateboards and David Leigh and Ben Meisner made ramps? Would their art be much different?
Tuesday, December 9,2008
Art Features

Vroom with a View

What’s pastel is prologue

Zane Fischer
Don't let a deep and reasonable fear of pastels prevent you from investigating Reinhard Ziegler.
Wednesday, December 3,2008
Art Features

Local Looking Glass

Photography has an influence on Santa Fe’s identity

Zane Fischer
The photography exhibition currently on view at the Palace of the Governors has a homey, scrapbook sensibility that, especially for locals, reads like a gathering of friends and neighbors complete wit
Wednesday, November 26,2008
Art Features

A Long Draw

We don’t need no stinking pencils

Zane Fischer
Two exhibitions embrace simple—and complex—drawing in all its quirky glory.
 
 
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