January 16, 2012
The Best of Broadway
The Cantina at La Casa Sena has one of the best nights out downtown Santa Fe. Not only do you get a great meal but you get a show by your servers 7 nights a week. Serving up a classic northern New Mexico cuisine while featuring Santa Fe’s young and brightest talent performing jazz and musical revues of the Best of Broadway nightly! How’s that for a mix or mashup? Up to 10 servers with angelic voices are ready to make sure you have the best night our on the town in Santa Fe.
Supper Shows are the best especially when the conversation runs dry and you have those awkward quiet moments rising up. All jokes aside, this is a wonderful evening out downtown Santa Fe.
Nestled in the trendy and historic Sena Plaza, The Cantina at La Casa Sena is well worth the night out and get your feel for some great food and even better entertainment. Get your fill of Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Chicago, plus originals and much much more
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February 17, 2012
Time Capsule Lounge
Join us at the Time Capsule Lounge for a terrific event during SITE Santa Fe’s public opening of Time-Lapse including a short lecture, a play and dance performances, all by Santa Fe’s very own Meow Wolf!
Throughout the run of Time-Lapse, Meow Wolf will present a series of flowing performance, discussion, and moving image meditation that will slip into and out of the Lounge’s expanse of space and time, activating the room with a theater piece, video projection morphing and manipulating the interpretation of motion within space, and a two-man philosophical conversation exploring the basic question “Is Time Real?”. More rogue-like moments will include spontaneous poetry and dance, costumed characters, and live creation of visual art.
Time-Lapse challenges the notion that an exhibition is a fixed entity with artworks that remain consistent throughout the time the exhibition is on view. Time-Lapse explores the possibility of a more dynamic exhibition environment by including artworks that change over time and utilizing curatorial structures that are based on change. With hourly, daily, and weekly alterations to the works in the show, no two days of Time-Lapse will be the same. Questioning the nature of time is a subtext for some of the works in the exhibition; other works question the nature of current curatorial practice by exploiting alternative time-based exhibition platforms such as the performance series or the Internet.
Time-Lapse consists of works of art in which the notion of change over time is integral to the structure of the artwork itself. Mary Temple’s Currency is a drawing project the artist began on September 24, 2007 and has continued every day since. Temple creates a new drawing from images and headlines from various internet news sites, including The New York Times and others. She makes a portrait of a political figure depicted in the news and creates accompanying text that is an amalgam of the headline and the image caption. During the run of Time-Lapse, Temple will scan her daily drawings and send a digital image to SITE, where the image will be printed out and added to a growing grid of drawings on the gallery walls. Byron Kim’s Sunday Painting is a project he has been engaged in since 2001. Each Sunday, Kim creates a painting of the sky from wherever in the world he finds himself. The skyscapes are coupled with diaristic text, creating a dialogue between the infinite and the everyday. Each week of Time-Lapse, Kim will send a new Sunday Painting to SITE. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will present a selection from a body of technological-based artworks he refers to as Recorders, which depend upon audience participation to take form. Pulse Index, for example, is an interactive installation in which participants fingerprints and heartbeats are recorded and become the visual and sonic material of the artwork.
Eve Sussman and Rufus Corporation’s whiteonwhitealgorithmicnoi
Time-Lapse also incorporates curatorial models that emphasis the daily, weekly, or monthly changing of the artworks in the exhibition. These are epitomized by the March 2012 project and the Time Capsule Lounge.
In 1969, Seth Siegelaub, pioneering supporter of conceptual art, organized March 1969 a.k.a. One Month, an exhibition that existed only in catalogue form. Siegelaub invited thirty-one to contribute a work; one for each day of the month. Time-Lapse curators Irene Hofmann and Janet Dees have conceived of a project that is an homage to Siegelaub’s ground-breaking “exhibition,” updated for today’s virtual, technological world. March 2012 will be hosted on the homepage of SITE’s website. Each day during March one work by a different artist will be featured. The participating artists are an intergenerational group currently working with conceptual, time-based and media-orientated practices. March 2012 artists include: Axle Contemporary Art, Daniel Bejar, Beth Coleman, Ron Cooper, Brent Green, Jennie C. Jones, Tellervo Kallainen & Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Linda Montano, Geof Oppenheimer, Ben Patterson, Dawit Petros, Adrian Piper, Liliana Porter, Postcommodity, Mark Tribe, and Donald Woodman among others. A cumulative archive of the project will be presented in the galleries. If you visit SITE during the month of March you will be able to view all the works presented on the website up to that day. During the months of April and May an archive of all thirty-one works will be on view.
The Time Capsule Lounge occupies a physical space within the exhibition for a constantly evolving series of activities and events including film screenings, performances, discussion groups and lectures. As part of the programming in the Time Capsule Lounge, Santa Fe-based art collective Meow Wolf will present a series of performances on selected Fridays. A film series exploring the different ways time has been treated within the history of cinema will be screened continuously. Also, in a unique collaboration with Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse, the Time Capsule Lounge offers visitors the opportunity to relax and read. Time travel to your heart’s content with selections from a library of science fiction, classics and contemporary additions to the genre, including Time Machine by H.G. Wells; Now Wait for Last Year by Philip K. Dick; Doomsday Book by Connie Willis; How to Live Safely in a Science Fiction Universe by Charles Yu; Map of Time by Felix Palma; and 11/22/63, by Stephen King, among others. Curated by Cynthia Melchert, Collected Works’ sci-fi specialist, many of the titles will be available for purchase from the SITE bookstore. Information about events in the lounge will be constantly updated and made available at SITE as well as online at SITE’s website and social media platforms.
Time-Lapse is co-curated by Irene Hofmann, Phillips Director and Chief Curator, and Janet Dees, Assistant Curator. Special thanks to David Merrill for the design of the Time Capsule Lounge; Joanne Lefrak, Director of Education and Outreach and Juliet Myers, Curator of Public Programs for organizing programming in the Time Capsule Lounge; and to Jason Silverman, Director of CCA’s Cinematheque for organizing the film series in the Time Capsule Lounge.
Join Meow Wolf on the 16th if you are a member of SITE Santa Fe from 6-7 PM
February 19, 2012
Young Brides Old Treasures
Young Brides Old Treasures: Macedonian Embroidered Dress. In the Cotsen Gallery, Neutrogena Wing through January 6th, 2013
Until the twentieth century, Macedonian women wove, embroidered, and wore magnificent ensembles of dress that indicated to a knowing eye what village and region they came from and where they were in the cycle of life. From puberty through betrothal, marriage, child bearing, and old age, dress changed to reflect status change. Historic ensembles, no longer made but preserved in the museum, also illustrate the tumultuous political history of the region; pan-Slavic, Byzantine, and Ottoman influences can be seen in embroidered motifs, materials, garments, and jewelry. The outstanding collection of the Museum has dates primarily from 1890 to 1920 with some later pieces from the 1950′s. On display will be 27 mannequins in multi-layered ensembles as well as individual garments and pieces of jewelry belonging to Museum of International Folk Art; the Collection was made completed with a recent, large donation from the Macedonian Arts Council…so that is today the largest and most comprehensive museum collection in the United States. The exhibition will accompanied by a catalog of the same name, and closes January 6, 2013.
*Photo: Detail, Wedding dress. Miyak, Smilevo, Demir Hisar municipality, c. 1900. Wool, cotton, silk, metallic thread, metal, glass beads, plastic. The Ronald Wixman/Steven Glaser Collection. Photography by Addison Doty
*CLOSE MONDAYS
DAILY 10 – 5
Multiple Visions A Common Bond
Visit this long-term exhibition assembled in the Girard wing of the Museum. Multiple Visions: A Common Bond is a unique exhibition designed by the collector and donor, Alexander Girard. Since the opening of the museum in 1982, more than a million visitors have been delighted by the richly varied display of toys, and traditional folk art from more than 100 countries. Take a tour with a Docent, or explore the text-free gallery on your own with the printed gallery guide or Ask about the NEW multimedia tour at the front desk
Folk Art of the Andes
A major exhibition featuring over 850 works of art from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This diverse group of Andean folk arts includes weaving, embroidery, woodcarving, ceramics, painting, and metalwork, reflecting the interweaving of indigenous craft traditions with European art forms and techniques.
The exhibition provides a window into a rich spirit and culture shared by the peoples of the highland region of South America through works ranging from costumes, jewelry, utilitarian items, and toys to those used in religious practices and festivals. The exhibit will be accompanied by a richly illustrated 300 page catalog. In addition, public programming related to the Andes will take place throughout the year.
Funding for this exhibition was generously provided by the International Folk Art Foundation, the Friends of Folk Art of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Connie Thrasher Jaquith, and the Museum of International Folk Art Development Team.
* Closed Sundays
10-5 Daily
April 20, 2012
Jerry Ingram’s Beads and Regalia
Jerry Ingram is of Cherokee and Choctaw descent. He was born and raised in Battiest, Oklahoma and now resides in Ilfield, New Mexico just east of Pecos, New Mexico. He began his art career at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) and continued his education at Oklahoma State Technical University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Commercial Art. While working as a commercial artist, his paintings on Native American subject matter were influenced by Blackbear Bosin, Allen Houser and Indian artists of the 1800’s. To ensure the accuracy of his portrayals, he began to learn beading, quill working and regalia, which he used to dress models that he painted. After working in this field for 20 years, he became a self-employed wax carver, bead- and quill-worker with occasional stints teaching beading classes at his alma mater, IAIA and Poeh Center. Jerry’s interest in Native American attire and regalia led him to research into his own tribes’ history and found very little in the way of items decorated with beads and quills. Yet, he found a plethora of Plains and Plateau examples of such items and his interest in authentic replication inspired the traditional methods and techniques that he uses today. Jerry explains, “After many years of making apparel and regalia decorated with beads and quills for my own use, I began to display and sell the work along with my paintings.” Some of his apparel and weapons have been featured in the award-winning film, “Pow Wow Highway.” In 2002, he was awarded a Native Artist Fellowship from the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian. In 2004, he received an Artist Fellowship from the Southwestern Association of Indian Arts. When asked about his art, he tells a story about how the bead- or quill-work was used to give distinction to the art and meaning to both the piece itself and the tribe where it originated. Thus, the admirer learns about the specific designs and receives a valuable cultural history of the art and tribe.
May 9, 2012
Metropolitan Opera Scenery Display
Metropolitan Opera Scenery Display is two huge painted scenic backdrops from the old Metropolitan Opera house in New York, bought in the 1950′s with money won on “The $64,000 Question” TV show by an opera enthusiast from Long Island, New York, will be on display, Wednesday evenings at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe in the railyard, May 9th to June 6th. The story of the scenery, painted by famed Met designer Joseph Urban, will be presented in a talk given by Webster Young, a composer, music journalist, and New York opera director. Young was invited twice by the White House to be a candidate for director of the National Endowment for the Arts. He will talk, play his concert grand piano, and host a Q&A with the audience.
The scenic backdrops by Urban date from 1928 and 1935, and are 50 x 24 feet. They will take up the entire width of one of the museum’s large rooms. Many of the Met’s great singers sang in front of this scenery.
This event also celebrates a book release by Webster Young: “Berkeley-Paris Express – The Education of a Composer, 1968-80″. Copies of the book will be available for signing. Young is composer of 10 ballets and 6 operas and studied with followers of Stravinsky and Milhaud. He has been a music journalist for New York Newsday, the National Catholic Register, and the InterCollegiate Review. Numerous videos of his operas and ballets may be found on Youtube under “Webster Young”.
Wednesdays May 9th, 16, 23, 30 & June 6
Doors open 7:00 PM, talk at 7:30
May 18, 2012
$5 Cab Rides Friday and Saturday Nights
It’s the weekend and our amazing Capital Cab Co. is trying to help keep us safe as we venture out to have a good time!
Life, both yours and mine, is much more valuable then drinking beyond your limit and causing a horrible accident.
GET A RIDE FROM YOUR HOME TO A BAR AND THEN FROM THE BAR BACK TO YOUR HOME!
SIMPLE AS THAT!
Please be responsible
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Life is too precious to waste
May 19, 2012
Spanish Colonial Market
Join us Saturday for the Spanish Colonial Market with OVER 40 BOOTHS!! Everyone is invited to come and Shop! Shop! Shop! This will be our first ever market held on the grounds of the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art. We have over 40 artists, staff, and members setting up for a sale of art and gently used items. We are inviting all our members, friends, family, and the general public to join us at the museum for this fun sale of someone’s new treasures. We will have a food vendor on site so you can come and browse to your heart’s content. It’s much more than a “flea” market!! There will be a food vendor on site to sell refreshments and lunch.
Free admission all day so come down and enjoy the Spanish Colonial Market
Flamenco Dinner at El Farol
Flamenco music encapsulates all your senses. From the sound to the sights to scent of Spanish tapas in the air mixing the magical energy to create a wonderful evening in this historic adobe on the famed and prestigious Canyon Road. Saturday Night is a time to enjoy a wonderful meal inspired by the home country of the original settlers of Santa Fe. Travel the country of Spain through the food of El Farol. Spanish olives to one of the best paella in the city different, El Farol has a menu that captures the best of Spain and her cuisine.
Sitting is outdoors in an enclosed space with wonderful wisteria growing on the walls. The perfect setting.
Saturday Nights
Dinner at 7PM
Show at 8 PM