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At the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas, the exhibition The Last Chief, the First Statesman (2025-28) summarizes this duality of Quanah Parkerâs life, how he negotiated between the Indigenous world and the encroach of American settler colonization.
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Arrows on the Quanah Parker Trail
Described as the âlargest art installation in the worldâ the Quanah Parker Trail covers the land in Texas that was once ComancherĂa.
https://southwestcontemporary.com/arrows-on-the-quanah-parker-trail/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=SWC%20Weekly%3A%20Your%20Primer%20on%20New%20Mexico%20s%20Performing%20Arts%20Scene&utm_campaign=Newsletter%20-%20SWC%20Weekly%20-%2005%2F19%2F26%20%28Copy%29
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"We shed people, even mountains."
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What Jack Kerouac Left Behind
A recent exhibition at the Grolier Club featured ashes that fell from a cigarette the novelist was probably smoking on the day he died. Joyce Johnson reflects on her time with Kerouac, and what sheâs ...
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-jack-kerouac-left-behind#intcid=recommendations_the-new-yorker-article-bottom-recirc-personalized_6565242d-5ae7-43cc-9182-7e59754eba33_cygnus-personalized_fallback_closr_bktb
29 days ago
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"With little ceremony and even less exposition, Martel will drop us into a buzzing, teeming hive of activity, cultivating a feverish, miasmal disorientation. The opening moments of her dĂ©but feature, âLa CiĂ©nagaâ (2001), unfolded as a discordant symphony of visual and aural fragments."
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âOur Landâ Is a Blistering Denunciation of Colonialist Oppression
In her first documentary feature, âOur Land,â Lucrecia Martel deepens her commitment to Indigenous, anti-colonial stories that harness the elusiveness of film itself.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-current-cinema/the-furious-moral-clarity-of-lucrecia-martel
about 2 months ago
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âI work with [the cinematographer] Fred Elmes, who worked with both Cassavetes and [David] Lynch, and I feel beautifully connected to both directors through Fred. Iâm not a surrealist like David, nor am I quite as visceral as Cassavetes, but Iâm a humanist romantic, as John was.â
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âIâm not a commercial director â Iâm not even a professional film-makerâ: Jim Jarmusch on the seven-year journey to make his new film
The 73-year-old has been at the cutting edge of US independent cinema since the 1980s. As Father Mother Sister Brother opens in the UK, he talks about grief, greed and âdoing crazy shitâ with Steve Co...
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/10/im-not-a-commercial-director-im-not-even-a-professional-film-maker-jim-jarmusch-on-the-seven-year-journey-to-make-his-new-film
2 months ago
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When you're framing houses 40 hours a week, it's easy to think about it all night, whether you want to or not.
thecarpentryway.blog/2009/10/the-...
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The âGambrel or Mansard?â Problem
This post has been revised umpteen times, as the topic to be covered is somewhat complicatedâŠEnglish is a language, like all languages, that is in a continual process of change. Some of theseâŠ
https://thecarpentryway.blog/2009/10/the-gambrel-or-mansard-problem/
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3 months ago
Hereâs a gift link to an inspiring article about someone who makes the world a better place. I hope that it helps lift your spirits, even a little, after this fucking horrible day: How Did Black Music Take Over the World? Let Melvin Gibbs Explain.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/a...
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How Did Black Music Take Over the World? Let Melvin Gibbs Explain.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/arts/music/melvin-gibbs-how-black-music-took-over-the-world.html?unlocked_article_code=1.ZVA.WnEb.ICieoGURkvxg&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Readymade Remix, San Antonio Museum of Art
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Navajo Nation: the fight for cultural survival â photo essay
Rick Findler, photographer and Joan Wakelin bursary recipient, speaks to Navajo communities attempting to save a language and traditions that are being diluted by modern life
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/06/navajo-nation-the-fight-for-cultural-survival-photo-essay
3 months ago
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"In Vetruvian proportions his head would probably poke out right about Kanopolis, Kansas, but for now itâs just the right thumb, held high like the Liberty torch. I opted not to check it out, but Iâm told the towerâs top floor features a bar that has a gigantic window in the shape of a thumbnail."
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Altered States, Part Six | Glasstire
(Note: This is the sixth installment in a series of stories published in conjunction with the traveling project âAltered Statesâ which opened November 2016 and is still on the move. For Part One, go h...
https://glasstire.com/2018/10/29/altered-states-part-six/
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"evocation of a haunted countryside"
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Once It Comes Time â THE BITTER SOUTHERNER
Michael Adno held no artistâs work in higher esteem than Alabamaâs William Christenberry. After Christenberry died in late 2016, Adno retraced the footsteps of the great artist, whose camera faithfull...
https://bittersoutherner.com/once-it-comes-time-william-christenberry-southern-photography
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"For Five Bridges, I imagined an Irishman, illegal in San Francisco, realising the danger if he stayed. A year after it was published, elements of the story came true."
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âIâve learned first-hand how evil is toleratedâ: Colm TĂłibĂn on living in the US under Trump
The Brooklyn author on immigration and the inspiration behind his latest collection of stories
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/mar/21/ive-learned-first-hand-how-evil-is-tolerated-colm-toibin-on-living-in-the-us-under-trump
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"'Thereâs the distant horizon; thereâs whatâs at your feet. Thereâs no middle ground, from a classical perspective⊠you can kind of see too far and take in too much,' says Chris Taylor, architect and Director of the Land Arts of the American West program at Texas Tech University (TTU) in Lubbock."
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Artists Engage with the Precarious Ecology of the Llano Estacado | Glasstire
Natalie Hegert on Texas Panhandle artistsâ responses to environmental concerns and visions of a post-agricultural future.
https://glasstire.com/2026/03/16/dry-land-living-water-artists-engage-with-the-precarious-ecology-of-the-llano-estacado/
3 months ago
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"When Penn won the Oscar for best actor in 2004 for his role in âMystic River,â he took to the stage and said, 'If thereâs one thing actors know, other than that there werenât any W.M.D.s, itâs that thereâs no such thing as best in acting.'"
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Sean Penn Wins Best Supporting Actor but Opts for Ukraine, Not the Oscars
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/movies/sean-penn-oscars.html
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"Andersonâs visual imagination, however active, is disciplined by a stern aesthetic that becomes almost moral in its insistence."
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The Perverse, Tender Worlds of Paul Thomas Anderson
The filmmaker behind âOne Battle After Anotherâ specializes in stories about people who are cut off, adrift, desperately seeking connection. His films are studies of American loneliness.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/03/16/the-perverse-tender-worlds-of-paul-thomas-anderson?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_03152026&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_term=tny_daily_digest&bxid=5fd55135b7a88c183651f1d3&cndid=63150299&hasha=230c520a8eb361b3d17904be7ff5912e&hashb=bcf550809af30365dd4dafa06694a37bd052d7d7&hashc=10ffe9134f0cea1292869d1b6438875a738fdf9737987161f0a1b664dd62e88a&esrc=MARTECH_ORDERFORM&mbid=CRMNYR012019
3 months ago
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The fantastic and rational aspects inherent in each artistâs work is revealed to feel drawn out of the other, the rational in one revealing the capricious in the other, scheme of story placed next to molecular schematic, in some kind of monoclonal conversation in which the extra cells are pals.
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cactusBARN: âThorns & Living Systemsâ and âBeauty & The Beastâ | Glasstire
Hills Snyder on cactusBARN, the San Antonio collaborative studio/exhibition space of artists Jayne Lawrence and Leigh Anne Lester.
https://glasstire.com/2026/03/02/cactusbra-cactusbarn-thorns-and-living-systems-and-beauty-and-the-beast/
3 months ago
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Land Arts of The American West, 2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWQ-...
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Don't Tell Me We're in Cabinetlandia
YouTube video by Jennifer Seas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWQ-34j_jFo
3 months ago
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Recalling something learned as a childâthe proportions of 7 5 5 7 5 5 7 for assigning vertices to aid in the creation of a grid from which all manner of shapes, notably the hexagon, prominent in Islamic geometry, may be derived. It is a grid with a haiku for a mother and a palindrome for a father.
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Looking Through to Some Greater Grid: Nima Nabavi: Visiting at the Roswell Museum
The centerpiece of Nima Nabavi: Visiting is the intricate geometry that he practices, letting the silent slide of his pens continue their daily run to infinity.
https://southwestcontemporary.com/looking-through-to-some-greater-grid-nima-nabavi-visiting-at-the-roswell-museum/
3 months ago
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For four months, beginning in the summer of 2024, the Chicago-based artist Bethany Collins woke up every day before dawn, brewed coffee and sat down at her dining table to copy out Herman Melvilleâs âMoby-Dickâ (1851) with a nib pen. Writing in midnight blue acidic ink on onionskin paper.
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Why One Artist Transcribed All 900-Plus Pages of âMoby-Dickâ by Hand
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t-magazine/bethany-collins-moby-dick.html
4 months ago
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With Tongue in Both Cheeks Trump's foreign policy seems to be based on a literalist interpretation of Randy Newman's 1972 song Political Science. He doesn't hear it as satire, but as a compendium of good ideas. Trump has even said these exact words: "let's see what happens."
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Political Science (2002 Remaster)
YouTube video by Randy Newman - Topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5mAuPg1ZZw
4 months ago
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Interview: Jim Jarmusch on Father Mother Sister Brother
Family relations: the legendary American filmmaker talks about his latest, a funny, sad, and haunting portrait of parents and children
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/interview-jim-jarmusch-on-father-mother-sister-brother/
4 months ago
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Glasstire Contributor Interview: Hills Snyder | Glasstire
Leslie Moody Castro speaks with Glasstire writer Hills Snyder about his artistic practice, his move to New Mexico, and his approach to writing.
https://glasstire.com/2026/02/23/glasstire-contributor-interview-hills-snyder/
4 months ago
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A Conversation with Joe Harjo | Glasstire
Colette Copeland speaks with San Antonio artist Joe Harjo about the roles of text, humor, and performance in his work.
https://glasstire.com/2025/10/12/indian-removal-act-iii-we-are-a-wounding-a-conversation-with-joe-harjo/
4 months ago
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"Two Bears wanted to bring energy sovereignty to his community and other tribal nations. He started the nonprofit Indigenized Energy in 2017. 'I do this because of energy and energy sovereignty as well, but it creates a sense of hope for our tribal nations,' he said."
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Native Families Were Promised Free Solar. Trump Took It Away.
Trumpâs gutting of the Solar for All program is deeply felt on the Northern Plains reservations.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/native-families-were-promised-free-solar-trump-took-it-away/
4 months ago
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Distance in Miles from The Kennedy Center to The Gulf of Mexico, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 30, Hills Snyder, 2026
5 months ago
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www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
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âHe used the trumpet as a songbirdâ: 100 years of Miles Davis, by jazz greats Sonny Rollins, Yazz Ahmed and more
Ahead of the centenary of Davisâs birth, musicians including Terence Blanchard and John Scofield analyse his brilliance: from his soft phrasing and spiritual feel to his raspy cussing and leather outf...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/30/100-years-of-miles-davis-by-jazz-greats-sonny-rollins-yazz-ahmed-terence-blanchard-john-scofield
5 months ago
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Sala Diaz, San Antonio, TX, still going strong. This December will be 31 years.
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Ruth Arts Awards Texas Organizations $150,000 Grants | Glasstire
Ruth Arts, a Milwaukee-based granting organization, has announced four Texas recipients of its 2025-2028 Core Grants program.
https://glasstire.com/2026/01/17/ruth-foundation-for-the-arts-awards-four-texas-arts-organizations-150000-grants/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Sunday%201-18-26&utm_content=Sunday%201-18-26+CID_10ab91d65af9743e8e31fcc447fd6a4f&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Ruth%20Foundation%20for%20the%20Arts%20Awards%20Four%20Texas%20Organizations%20150000%20Grants
5 months ago
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Inside Larry Brown's Writing Shack
ââIn the Mississippi Hill Country, the novelist built a writerâs cabin beneath tall pines. Little did he know that, beam by beam, he was building it for others
https://gardenandgun.com/feature/inside-larry-browns-writing-shack/
5 months ago
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"Thatâs the beauty of the writing process. Itâs almost like something arises out of me thatâs a little smarter, a little more fair, a little more curious, and hovers over the desk for a while. Then the theory is the book urges that spirit out of the reader as well, and the two things merge. "
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George Saunders Says Ditching These Three Delusions Can Save You
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/magazine/george-saunders-interview.html
5 months ago
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"Samuel Johnsonâs pre-1776 comment that 'patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel' has long lingered in my mind as a question. It has always seemed there was more wisdom in his comment than can be contained in the simple explanation that it was an indictment of false patriotism, mere display."
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I Wish We Could Swim | Glasstire
Artist Hills Snyder on his concerns about voting and the imagery of patriotic flags in relation to music and his own work.
https://glasstire.com/2022/11/07/i-wish-we-could-swim/
6 months ago
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that fool on the hill didnât live there before heâs living there still a stain marks his door his castle beset all blind will and threat a hollow tribune donât follow his tune go go go go to the well I said well well well go to the well
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Oh Well, by Wolverton
from the album Paper Kisses
https://wolvertonmusic.bandcamp.com/track/oh-well
6 months ago
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Natalia Lafourcade: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert
YouTube video by NPR Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JODaYjDyjyQ
6 months ago
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/w...
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Before This Physicist Studied the Stars, He Was One
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/world/europe/brian-cox-astronomy-profile.html
6 months ago
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www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/o...
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Opinion | Martin Scorsese: Rob Reiner Had Me in the Palm of His Hand
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/opinion/culture/martin-scorsese-rob-reiner.html
6 months ago
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www.salon.com/2025/12/23/m...
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Merry Krimble from The Beatles: A year-by-year tour of their holiday singles
Released annually from 1963 to 1969, these collectible albums now feel like a holiday time capsule.
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/23/merry-krimble-from-the-beatles-a-year-by-year-tour-of-their-holiday-singles/
6 months ago
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www.salon.com/2025/12/18/n...
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Not the last picture show: A small-town theater brings hope to the heartland - Salon.com
So it turns out you can go home again â and what I found in two North Dakota movie theaters was marvelous
https://www.salon.com/2025/12/18/not-the-last-picture-show-a-small-town-theater-brings-hope-to-the-heartland/
6 months ago
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Shakin' Grape Jelly, by Wolverton
from the album Paper Kisses
https://wolvertonmusic.bandcamp.com/track/shakin-grape-jelly
6 months ago
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muurformules.nl
7 months ago
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Tina Deschenie and Michael Thompson poetry reading at kind of a small array, Magdalena, NM
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Poetry reading: Tina Deschenie and Michael Thompson
Poetry reading on Saturday October 11, 2:00 pm, kind of a small array, 505 Spruce St. (new location), Magdalena, New Mexico. Please welcome Michael and
https://southwestcontemporary.com/event/poetry-reading-tina-deschenie-and-michael-thompson/
9 months ago
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Spoiler Alert: Ari Aster and Eddington
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A review of Eddington (2025)
Spoiler Alert: Ari Aster and Eddington Hills Snyder, July 2025 Eddington is a fictional town in New Mexico. It is May 2020. A pandemic is daily fare as Black Lives Matter protests, rumors of antifa, s...
https://letterboxd.com/hillssnyder/film/eddington/1/
10 months ago
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Once Upon A Time in Magdalena Stephonik, a New York-based Production Designer, rolled into Magdalena with a crew of 20, and set to work on a new Ross Brothers film. Stephonikâs work includes Prince of Broadway, The Florida Project, Red Rocket, and Bleeding Love.
glasstire.com/author/hills...
11 months ago
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Somewhere A Village Is Missing Its Idiot Film Festival List compiled 2003, view them in this order: A Face in The Crowd (Elia Kazan) Donât Look Back (D.A. Pennebaker) Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins) The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese) Being There (Hal Ashby)
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Somewhere A Village Is Missing Its Idiot
Somewhere A Village Is Missing Its Idiot (List compiled 2003, view them in this order) A Face in The Crowd (126 minutes, Elia Kazan, 1957) Donât Look Back (96 minutes, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967) Bob Rober...
https://letterboxd.com/hillssnyder/list/somewhere-a-village-is-missing-its-idiot/
11 months ago
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The Ross Brothers have been shooting a film in Magdalena. One scene featured four local riders that were inspiring to watch during several retakes. This piece brought them to mind. Stay tuned for a Glasstire interview with Production Designer, Stephonik.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
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The cowboy as a symbol of America: Jim Krantzâs best photograph
âWhen I look at this photograph I want to be that guy. Heâs super alive and in the moment. Everything about it is energising, masculine, powerfulâ
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/jul/16/the-cowboy-as-a-symbol-of-america-jim-krantzs-best-photograph
11 months ago
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As much as I love Tarantino films, I had never made it to see Jackie Brown. Poking around found this brilliant piece by Joseph Giovannini: "an exercise in stark realism, a pared-down film that intentionally avoids looking art-directed."
www.nytimes.com/1997/12/28/s...
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Through Los Angeles Starkly, Tarantino Style (Published 1997)
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/28/style/through-los-angeles-starkly-tarantino-style.html
12 months ago
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Please enjoy reading recent writing about these artists: Kim Arthun, Michael Bisbee, Nina Elder, Jeffrey Gibson, Patrick Kikut, Nima Nabavi, Judy Richardson, Dario Robleto, Rachel Rose, Masha Sha, James Surls, Bryan Wheeler, Jeff Wheeler, Cedra Wood.
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Hills Snyder Archives
Writer, artist, musician Hills Snyder lives in Magdalena, New Mexico, where he operates kind of a small array. His writing has appeared in SWC, Glasstire, Art Matters, âŠmight be good, and other public...
https://southwestcontemporary.com/authors/hills-snyder/
12 months ago
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âSo little thought has been given to what will happen if we give human beings an entertainment device they can fit in their pocket, one that connects them instantly to every truth and every lie ever conceived?, we have, as a society, been caught unprepared.â
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Making of Kurt Vonnegutâs âCatâs Cradleâ
How the novelist turned the violence and randomness of war into a cosmic joke
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/08/kurt-vonnegut-cats-cradle-hiroshima/683255/
12 months ago
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Last Saturday millions turned out to protest Trump. A few thousand showed up for his "parade." 230 protested his mendacity and corruption in Socorro, New Mexico (including several from Magdalena). Protest has been growing, this last one covering all four corners of the main intersection in Socorro.
about 1 year ago
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Opening: Andy Benavides: Goodbye Blue Skies
Andy Benavides, native son of San Antonio, Texas, knows well what commitment to community means. In this exhibition, he pours that sensibility into art.
https://southwestcontemporary.com/event/opening-andy-benavides-goodbye-blue-skies/
about 1 year ago
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www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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âPeople were repressed into silenceâ: the Spanish artist creating a visual memory of fascismâs horrors
A Madrid exhibition of work by the celebrated comic book artist Paco Roca marks 50 years since the death of Franco
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/05/paco-roca-comic-artist-madrid-franco-fascism-exhibition
about 1 year ago
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Twice as nice because I'm reading it twice.
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THE DIRECTOR | Kirkus Reviews
A freely imagined conjuring of the life and career of celebrated German-language film director G.W. Pabst by one of Germanyâs boldest contemporary novelists.
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/daniel-kehlmann/the-director-2/
about 1 year ago
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www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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A New Wave of Cinematic Riches Arrives at Cannes
In its first week, the seventy-eighth film festival showcased new movies by Richard Linklater, Spike Lee, Lynne Ramsay, and Mascha Schilinski.
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-current-cinema/a-new-wave-of-cinematic-riches-arrives-at-cannes
about 1 year ago
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