.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Art Schreiber took a magic carpet ride through the 1960s and landed with photographs, autographs and taped interviews with the most popular band on the planet. Art Schreiber is a former KOB manager who at one point worked as a radio reporter and managed to be on the Beatles’ first tour of the the U.S. He is now blind and has written a book detailing his experiences. Above is Art at home with his Beatles memorabilia. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)The onetime general manager of KOB radio spent three weeks with the Beatles, covering their first American tour, in 1964. This month marks the 50th anniversary of “Abbey Road.”Schreiber’s blue press pass sits behind glass in his La Vida Llena apartment, scrawled with four of the most-wanted … [Read more...] about Up close with the Fab Four
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Talent ‘On the Rise’
.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........Copyright © 2019 Albuquerque JournalOwen Mike Yazzie has no problem assessing his painting “Leading Into the Future,” a watercolor in warm shades of yellow, orange, ocher and pale green. He sees it with a critical eye but with a deeper vision as well. Owen Mike Yazzie, now a freshman at Arizona State University, created this watercolor, “Leading into the Future,” last year when he was a student at Navajo Preparatory School in Farmington. (Greg Sorber/Albuquerque Journal)“I had not worked with watercolors before,” Yazzie said. “I felt if I had more experience I could have made it better, a bit more touched up.” But he has no misgivings about the message in the painting, which shows several figures marching uphill in a desert landscape, … [Read more...] about Talent ‘On the Rise’
An Improbable Relic of Auschwitz: a Shofar That Defied the Nazis
Sections SEARCH Skip to content Skip to site index Arts Log In Log In Today’s Paper Arts | An Improbable Relic of Auschwitz: a Shofar That Defied the Nazis Advertisement Supported by The daughter of a Holocaust survivor has brought forward a ram’s horn trumpet and her father’s account of the power of belief amid death. ByRalph Blumenthal Sept. 21, 2019 Updated 6:45 p.m. ET For years there have been fragmentary reports of almost unbelievable acts of faith at the Nazi death camps during World War II: the sounding of shofars, the ram’s horn trumpets traditionally blown by Jews to welcome the High Holy Days. These stories of the persistence of hope even in mankind’s darkest moments have been passed down despite limited evidence and eyewitness detail. But could camp prisoners have found ways to sound these horns, piercing the heavens with sob-like wails and staccato blasts, without … [Read more...] about An Improbable Relic of Auschwitz: a Shofar That Defied the Nazis
Carmen Argote’s New Museum Solo Show Will Make You Think of Home
Carmen Argote, Manéjese Con Cuidado, 2019. Public action: PAOS GDL, the Museo Taller José Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara, Mexico. Courtesy Carmen Argote, photo Itzel Hernández Gómez Los Angeles-based artist Carmen Argote’s work is deeply personal—drawing from her surroundings, she finds materials like coffee, cochineal dye or locally sourced produce that she incorporates into sculpture, performance and installation works that relate to both her past and present. Yet, these intimate investigations of her own experiences conjure something undoubtedly universal that invites viewers to reflect on their own memories of home.Argote’s career has gained significant momentum in recent years. In 2018 she was featured in the Hammer Museum’s biennial “Made in L.A.” She was also a recipient of the 2019 Artadia Award for artists based in Los Angeles, alongside Diedrick Brackens and Ron Athey. The artist currently has work at the Sculpture … [Read more...] about Carmen Argote’s New Museum Solo Show Will Make You Think of Home
Reader: Lakeside Amusement Park Could Use a New Coat of Paint
This weekend, during Doors Open Denver, you can visit famous places all around the city. One that won't be open: Lakeside Amusement Park, which closed for the season last Sunday.But then, Lakeside is not actually part of Denver. Robert Speer, who was elected mayor of Denver in 1904, got together with brewer Adolph Zang to create Lakeside at the edge of Lake Sylvan, at West 46th Avenue and Sheridan Boulevard, to lift Denver from its dirty, bar-brawling roots into a dream city that Speer envisioned as “Paris on the Platte.”As part of Zang’s master plan, and to avoid Denver’s blue laws prohibiting the sale of liquor on Sundays, the home of the future amusement park was incorporated as the town of Lakeside in 1907, which would allow the brewer-owned facility to serve liquor daily once it opened. Although Zang envisioned the land surrounding the park becoming an upscale housing development, that idea never took hold. The park, however, did. An estimated 50,000 people … [Read more...] about Reader: Lakeside Amusement Park Could Use a New Coat of Paint