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30 years of Pasatiempo memories

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Scrap-happy: Kathamann contributes works made from objects she found in arroyos to the International Women’s Day show at the Armory for the Arts.

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Elaine Turner flexes. Storyteller Joe Hayes

Untitled work from Santa Fe’s Photo Graffiti show.

College of Santa Fe student Gigi Mills makes her directorial debut with Packard.

Pasatiempo profiles Nicholas Potter, whose bookstore and photo gallery on Palace Ave. appeals to the inquisitive mind and“requires a quiet and reflective approach.”

Digital enhancement: Space Hand 3, a ceramic work by Amber Archer, goes on display at the Artists’Gallery.

Linda Kolsky, Bob Gaylor and Lee Leibler at Rising Sun Gallery

Coup de screen: Brent Kliewer takes over the Collective Fantasy Cinema.

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Rafaello Dante draws in the crowds at Cafe Riviera with his“zesty renditions of Broadway showtunes.”


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‘ You blew it up — you maniacs! Theatre Mask Ensemble appears at the Armory for the Arts.

Paulette Bethel teaches master classes in“street dance” at Gotta Dance studio. Hoop dreams: Peter the Adequate (Peter Hinrichs) performs his last show in Santa Fe before heading to Dallas with the hope of making it big.

’85 was the other Year of the Cat.

Artist Stuart Sherman pays homage to Santa Fe in a performance piece incorporating a Cole Porter song,“dune-colored”carpet, and an adobe doll house with a star map on the roof.

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Just what do you think you’re doing, Dave?

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Steve Terrell performs at the first Halloween party Sunday night at The Forge, where he’s played every Sunday night for 3½ years.

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Husband-and-wife country, blues, and folk-singing duo Bill and Bonnie Hearne perform at The Line Camp in Pojoaque.

Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zanes kick off the Armory for the Arts’1986 dance calendar.

In Paper Rabbit, Beryl Markowitz presents a sprightly, urbane rabbit created from newsprint. The work is on display at the Jean Cocteau Cinema.

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History opens in Albuquerque. Greeting visitors is a skeletal reconstruction of an allosaurus.

At the Artists’Gallery, Stuart Ashman’s punk expressionist works disclaim conventional form and finish.

Rozy, an area heavy-metal band, is a contender in Q106’s Battle of the Bands at Club West.

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Richard J. Burkard’s sculpture In The Wake is a large humanoid shape in the cake decoration style.

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New gallery Channing, Dale, Throckmorton, presents Two Women of New Mexico: Painters of the American Landscape, showcasing the work of Myrtle Stedman and Helen Blumenschein.

The filming of The Milagro Beanfield War brings with it jobs, excitement, and political intrigue.

The new-media services room at the new main branch of the Santa Fe Public Library has the latest in computer technology. Annette Funicello performs “Jamaica Ska”with Fishbone in Back to the Beach. She and Frankie Avalon are the parents this time around. Barbara Perlman’s tribute to Native American sculptor Allan Houser is published.

The Scarlet Ladies, also known as the Tap Dancing Grandmothers, strut their stuff in the 1987 Fiesta Melodrama at the Community Theater.

Of the nearly 550 movies released in 1987, Broadcast News ranked number one on many critics’lists. It was nominated for seven Oscars, but lost the best-picture contest to The Last Emperor.

The Theater of Music’s artistic director, Jinx Junkin, emphasizes the virtues of large-scale musicals such as The Music Man.

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The Museum of International Folk Art commissions six Northern New Mexico woodworkers to produce doors and windows for the museum’s Hispanic Heritage Wing. Wilberto Miera’s doors were fashioned after a mid-19th century door found in the village of Arroyo Hondo.

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A giant puppet is prepared for the 8th Annual All Species Day. The 1988 celebration honors naturalist Aldo Leopold.

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Electronic-music composer Morton Subotnick uses personalized software to compose.“It may look easy, but it’s not,”he says.“It will be someday.”

DECEMBER 9 Santa Fe’s Repertory Theater presents its second annual Space (X)mas Fine Art and Fun Toys show to raise money for the Festival Gallery.

And — worse — Brewster so is Punky Brewster, having been canceled by NBC.

David, Mary Lee, and Ama Ortiz typically cook about 2,000 burgers and an equal number of hot dogs at their booth on the Plaza during Fiestas de Santa Fe weekend.

Buffy Sainte-Marie performs at the Greer Garson Theatre in a concert to support efforts to fight Navajo and Hopi relocation and to help obtain justice for activist Leonard Peltier.

NOVEMBER 18

Betty Hall Jones returns to Santa Fe for a six-week engagement at Carmelita’s Cantina at the Sheraton. Seventy-seven-year-old Betty Blue (akaThe Mad Hatter,The Queen of Funk, andThe Grand Old Lady of Jazz), once again brings her wry humor, supple voice, jazz piano, encyclopedic memory, and outlandish hats.

Nine to five: many New Mexico musicians, including She-Bop’s Nancy Kenney, Eloise Burrell, and Elisabeth Cutler, need day jobs to survive.

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‘ Willa Shallit makes a life mask of Ryan Shaening Pokrasso for Connect/US-USSR, a two-week festival at the Santa Fe Children’s Museum.

Rosalea Murphy, owner of the Pink Adobe, throws a party to celebrate 45 years in business.

Upwardly mogul: gallerist Gerald Peters in a reflective mood.

A program of eight short fims by Czech surrealist animator Jan Svankmajer includes The Extinct World of Gloves (above) and Dimensions of Dialogue, in which a giant head fashioned out of vegetables is chewed up by another head made of forks, knives, and graters.

Pasa reviews The Living Tradition of Maria Martinez, Susan Peterson’s book about the Tewa potter.

The Leaping Lizard, an art gallery for children, opens on Canyon Road, hosted by a dinosaur named It Zwibble and a moose named Fred. VHS-capades: A scene from Steven Soderbergh’s Sex, Lies, and Videotape.

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Orchestra of Santa Fe founder William Kirschke.

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Prof. Joe Atteberry leaves this world better than he found it. A successful artist, his advice and guidance were always in demand by co-workers, associates, and students.

Carlos Santana rearranges our molecular structure by blending Latin percussion, mighty funk/rock grooves, soulful vocals, and wailing guitar solos at Paolo Soleri.

AbiquiĂş author Lesley Poling-Kempes puts out a call for help in recording the oral history of Ghost Ranch.

Photographer Ed Vidinghoff captures the scene at Club Floozy. Joel-Peter Witkin, whose work is described as bizarre, grotesque, and macabre, has a show at Sena East Gallery.

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Restaurant reviewer Paquita Pasqual conceals her identity with wigs and a variety of dress styles. But her most effective trick is changing the color of her nail polish.

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Another Christmas season, another Holiday Open House at the Museum of International Folk Art, where children and adults learn the art of origami from Yuki Revelle.

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Cathy Smith, a technical advisor for Dances With Wolves, works on costumes to be worn by the cast.

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Singer-storyteller Mirabel says that she typically tells a story many times before hearing what it has to say to her.

New Mexico resident Val Kilmer breaks on through as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone’s The Doors.

Martha Graham (below with a young admirer) passes away on April 1, 1991.

Riva Yares Gallery, in light of the Gulf War and the recession, decides it is time for experimentation. This mixed media collage by Conrad Marca-Relli, titled C-X-15-74, is just one piece in a group show which includes work by 24 of the gallery’s artists.

Music From Angel Fire director Ida Kavafian

The Dalai Lama visits Santa Clara Pueblo.

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If ’60s were ’90s: Santa Fe Performing Arts Company’s production of Hair opens.

Rack ’em and stack ’em: Electronic musician and composer Bill Martin

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Copeland-Rutherford Fine Arts opens a show of works by Stuart Ashman and Bonita Barlow; below, Ashman’s Lizard Head.

The College of Santa Fe introduces its contemporary music degree program.

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A fundraising masquerade party for the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts takes place; below, gallerist Nedra Matteucci.

Me and you and a club named Luna: the popular night spot opens; below, owners Stephen Krause and Randy and Lila Mulkey.

Pasa profiles the“nearly-caffeine-addicted coffeehouse buddies”(including Karen Stern and Ron Ramsey, pictured) responsible for the West Caffeine Street newsletter.

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‘ Across Generations: Hispanic Children and Folk Traditions opens at the Museum of International Folk Art.

Morethan30photogalleriesarerepresented inPhotoSantaFeattheSweeneyCenter; above,NapoleoninExilebyArthurTrees. King of controversy: Edward Albee speaks about“The PlaywrightVersus theTheater” at the Greer Garson Theatre.

Pasa celebrates the life and work of artist Pop Chalee, who died on Dec. 11.

An 1850s hog oiler features in Tools, an exhibit of 18th- and 19th-century farm and industrial implements atWill Channing’s Gallery.

Pasa profiles Juan Quezada (center), father of the Mata Ortiz pottery revival.

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Artist William Lumpkins remembers Santa Fe’s early days as a magnet for artists.

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A workshop, symposium, and exhibit at the Institute of American Indian Art museum introduces students to digital imaging; above, Andrew Rodney’s Dog Flying Over Vancouver.

Six panels from Santa Fe are added to the AIDS Memorial Quilt, also known as the Names Project. The thunder rolls: Taos-based rock band Red Thunder’s video“Heartbeat”is played on VH-1.

Santa Fe street style: Wearable art gets its own conference.

When word gets around that Santa Fe musician Jono Manson’s car and a sizable amount of musical equipment has been stolen, the community decides that a benefit is in order.

Floor decor: the pillow room at Café Oasis.

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Astrologer Edith Hathaway creates a Vedic chart for Steven Spielberg, who was born on Dec. 18, 1946, at 6:16 p.m. EST.

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Francisco Farreras, considered one of Spain’s living master artists, begins working in wood. His new work shows for the first time in the U.S. at Peyton Wright Gallery.

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David Ellsworth’s elegant white oak, silver maple, and white ash vessels are on view at Okun Gallery. Z Gallery bills itself as a gallery for“people with short attention spans”; below, a piece by Glynis Kevan.

Beak to Work Day: New York artist John Alexander shows his paintings and mono prints at Allene Lapides Gallery.

Myrtle Stedman, named a Santa Fe Living Treasure, speaks at Friends of Open Hands’Day of Living History: Reminiscences of Old Santa Fe. Give him the Le Pew-litzer: Chuck Jones celebrates his 83rd birthday with a new limited-edition cel titled Happy 50th Pepe atThe Chuck Jones Showroom.

Peter Joseph’s Thurible Steel, featured in Insight/Onsite/ Santa Fe, which opened with a summer solstice ritual at the Center for Contemporary Arts Warehouse.

The beat goes on:“Sonny and Cher”perform at Northern New Mexico Community College in Española.

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The Birdcage with Nathan Lane and Robin Williams plays in Santa Fe.

Kirsten Wilson, whose performance pieces tackle domestic violence and the objectification of women, presents, Odalisque, the final show in her trilogy at the Armory for the Arts.

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Pasa interviews Carl Gorman who, at 88, is one of the oldest living Navajo Code Talkers.

Santa Fe Violin & Guitar Works hosts Steve Terrell and Gregg Turner playing a program of love songs, patriotic marches, and Samoan polkas.

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Margaret Tafoya, 91-year-old matriarch and master artist of traditional Santa Clara basketry.

Modern dance soloist Margie Gillis appears at the Armory for the Arts.

Pasatiempo’s People’s Choice Awards named Bert’s Burger Bowl the big winner in the green chile cheeseburger category.

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‘ As gripping as the Fiesta Melodrama: Fred Willard, Catherine O’Hara, Christopher Guest, Parker Posey, and Eugene Levy in Waiting for Guffman

Sorry, I’m a little behind: Santa Fe artist Michael Conine puts the finishing touches on his cheeky bronze Crazy Girls before its unveiling at Las Vegas, Nevada’s Riviera Hotel and Casino.

Writer Cliff Simon (with a little help from Moses) answers the four questions.

The last days of Woolworth’s.

17-something: singer-songwriter Janice Ian performs at Santa Fe Music Hall.

Won’t you sit down: Susan Cantor’s mixedmedia sculpture Gertrude features in a show of the artist’s work at Fred Kline Gallery.

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The Santa Fe Opera closes for a massive renovation that includes extending the roof, adding in-seat text displays, and improving handicapped accessibility.

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The Santa Fe Children’s Museum continues to fascinate children of all ages. Ariane Silver is drawn to the world of magnets.

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Jodi Carson, who served as assistant director or exhibitions and publications at SITE Santa Fe, is celebrated in a memorial.

James Brown plays The Pit.

Delilah Montoya’s photomural La Guadalupana goes on display at the Museum of Fine Arts.

Wise Fool Puppet Intervention’s production of Nzingai at Santa Fe Playhouse incorporates capoeira.

Vincent Price: A Daughter’s Biography by Victoria Price is released.

Karaoke fans at Punky’s Place, in the Silva Lanes bowling alley. Jazz flautist Herbie Mann, an early practitioner of world music, performs at Espiritu Canyon Road on Valentine’s Day.

Woodystock, a tribute to Santa Fe musician Woody Thompson who passed away on Feb. 6, is held at Club Alegría.

Enter the matrix at Harambe.

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The city’s Historic Design Review Board and Board of Adjustment give preliminary approval for the expansion and restoration of the historic Lensic Theater.

A tribute to Genoveva Chávez, the First Lady of Fiestas, is held at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe. Here she is in 1997, on the day of her last Fiesta performance.

Amy Stein took action when Santa Fe public schools cut art programs. Scraping together donations and support from the community, she is able to offer 90 children a summer arts program.

3 x 5: Stories of the Americas opens at Cruz Gallery after showing in Caracas, Venezuela (it would go on to show in New York). Above, untitled photograph by Dwight Primiano used in a mixed-media composition by Primiano, Susana Endo, and Chris Sawyer.

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Barbielupe by Katherine Wells fails to ignite an international arts crisis. Rio! Carnivale takes place. The masked ball features a tropical-punch atmosphere, a colorfully costumed waitstaff, contemporary dance music, and a midnight appearance by Madonna backup singer and dancer Donna De Lory. Lady Blue (below) is in attendance.

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Eric Zener’s Two Lovers Submerged features in a group show at LewAllen Contemporary.

Marionette, a coil-built ceramic by Virgil Ortiz, shows at Robert F. Nichols gallery, along with more of the artist’s figurative work.

The Genoveva Chavez Community Center, designed by Edward Mazria, opens in Santa Fe.

Michael Bergt’s The Vault at Turner Carroll Gallery.

Galisteo artist Harmony Hammond is the author of Lesbian Art in America: A Contemporary History.

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‘ Authors Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje, and Robert Hass take part in the closing of the fourth season of the Lannan Foundation’s Readings & Conversations Series.

The Wheelwright Museum celebrates the publication of Marcella Ruch’s new book, Pablita Velarde: Painting Her People.

Collected Works Bookstore owner Dorothy Massey

Toots Thielemans and Kenny Werner appear in the opening concert of Jazz 3x2, a trio of concerts pairing jazz masters. High flyer: Amy Bertucci in Wise Fool’s production of The Curtain.

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The Rivals opens the College of Santa Fe’s theater season, with Peter Zapp and Sofia Antelo.

Kmart features the special-edition Route 66 Barbecue Bash Barbie.

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Drama club: Chris DeVore, Howard Korder, Danny Rubin, Joan Buck and Joan Tewkesbury participate in the Lensic’s Under Construction series, reading from their new works.

Editor Kristina Melcher and sidekick cruise the backroads of New Mexico in an Airstream (and dressed to the nines) in search of invigorating art scenes. Today they visit Silver City.

The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum exhibit Edward Weston: Photography and Modernism includes Civilian Defence (1942), above (which became an icon of modernist photography), and works by Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Willard Van Dyke.

New Mexico’s Millicent Rogers, a bold style-setter, died one month short of her 51st birthday in 1953, at the end of what is referred to as“the golden age of couture.”

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Desmond Richardson, hailed by The New York Times as “one of the most majestic dancers ever to tread the Met stage,”appears in Aspen Santa Fe Ballet’s mixedrepertory program to the music of Prince.

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The Harwood Museum opens a trio of exhibits celebrating the Taos Moderns; above, circa 1955, from left: Doel Reed, Louise Ganthiers, Beatrice Mandelman, William Heaton, Michael Klein, Emil Bisttram, Tom Benrimo, and Gene Kloss.

Gussie Fauntleroy’s book Roxanne Swentzell: Extraordinary People, profiles the New Mexico sculptor; above, Reality Check.

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Santa Fe resident and screenwriter Danny Rubin is on hand at the Lensic to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his movie Groundhog Day.

Young Celtic de Santa Fe School and Company dancers celebrate St. Patrick’s day a little early at the Duane Smith Auditorium in Los Alamos.

JUNE 13 Santa Fe Workshops presents free lectures on photography. This photo, by John Weiss, is from The Irish Mug: Portraits From Western Ireland.

In the Pecos outback, an ever-revolving group of young artists lives in a commune whose mission it is to foster imaginatiion in artists with a pioneer spirit. The outdoor stage is called Hueyhaus. This is the Hueyhaus squad.

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JoAnne Russo’s black ash, pine needles, and porcupine quills basket shines among an extraordinary group of basketry in Morning Star Gallery’s Coiling & Twining: Diversity in Native American Basketry exhibit.

The Suzanne Farrell Ballet Company performs at the Lensic. Here she is with George Balanchine in the New York City Ballet’s production of Don Quixote, which premiered in 1965.

Santa Fe Opera’s production of Offenbach’s comedy La Belle Hélène stars Susan Graham and William Burden.

Marcia deChadenèdes and New Mexico’s mobile museum, theVan of Enchantment, take exhibits to towns, schools, and pueblos throughout the state.

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Members of Black Eagle perform a song from their album Flying Free, which received the Best Native American Music Album award at the 46th annual Grammys.

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Photographer Robert Stivers’show Sestrina opens at Riva Yares Gallery.

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Russian bummer: while waiting for Rasputin to die from the poison they had fed him, his killers listened to a phonograph recording of George M. Cohan’s“Yankee Doodle Dandy.”

A gala dinner for arts education is held by the Santa Fe Rotary Foundation in honor of Michael Naranjo, who receives the foundation’s 2004 Distinguished Artist Award. The 10 members of Stephen Scott’s Bowed Piano Ensemble use nontraditional methods for playing the instrument. The ensemble performs at the Center for Contemporary Arts.

Pasa meets Hampton Sides, whose new book, Americana: Dispatches From the New Frontier, is a collection of 30 stories profiling the patriarchs and matriarchs of what he calls America’s“archipelago of tribes.”

J. Patrick Lannan Jr., who assumed the Lannan Foundation’s helm following his father’s death in 1983, receives the Governor’s Award for his contributions to the arts.

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History in silver gelatin: photojournalist Carl Mydans’ retrospective opens at Monroe Gallery of Photography.

Mizria Odems Dzurec’s design for Warehouse 21’s new home in the Railyard.

Jemez Pueblo sculptor Cliff Fragua’s 7-foot Tennessee marble statue of Popé is unveiled at San Juan Pueblo before making its way to Washington, D.C., where it will permanently reside in the National Statuary Hall.

Buff Puff at Cruz Gallery features the work of artists who are“tough but still feminine.”Deborah Fleig submits an Iris print titled Godzilla.

Escape artist Sir Mark Logsdon performs at the End of Trail Wild West Jubilee & Cowboy Action Shooting World Championships in Edgewood.

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Aspen Santa Fe Ballet dancers Sam Chittenden and Katie Dehler perform Edwaard Liang’s Flight of Angels.

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Brent Harvey, left, and Christopher Clements in Parkside Déjeuner, part of Bench Warmers V at Santa Fe Playhouse.

Pasa reviews Paris Hilton’s Paris and Beyoncé’s B’Day. Guess whose voice is described as“nothing but a wheezing annoyance throughout.” This 1993 lithograph titled Kamahungittuq Ukpik (Audacious Owl) by Kenojuak Ashevak features in the exhibit Our Land: Contemporary Art From the Arctic at the Institute of American Indian Arts.

The“open-book”ceiling of Santa Fe Preparatory School’s new library is chock-full of greenprinciple materials and engineering. Spears Architects designed the interior.

Navajo weaver Clara Sherman, 92, receives the Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.

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Mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, who passed away in July, is pictured with her husband, composer Peter Lieberson.

Gerald Peters Gallery presents Joan Miró: The Last Bronze Sculptures. Included is Chien-Oiseau (Dog-Bird), above.

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Marcia Muth reads from her book A World Set Apart: Memory Paintings at Garcia Street Books. Below is Muth’s painting Villagra Book Store, which she painted in 2000.

Santa Fe resident Alan Arkin with the cast of Little Miss Sunshine

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The Summer in the Dark 2007 film-noir festival kicks off at The Screen.

This photograph of artist Janet Lippincott, who had recently passed away, was taken by Herb Lotz in her studio in the late 1970s.

Work by Gee’s Bend quilter Mary Lee Bendolph (below, with her granddaughter)features in the Museum of International Folk Art show Gee’s Bend Quilts and Beyond. Artist Johnny Swing welds together 7,000 nickels to create Nickel Couch, which is shown at C Gallery. That’s $350 worth of Jeffersons.

Thirteen students ranging in age from 7 to 15 write and perform Palimpsest — a show that includes music, dancing, acting, and one-liners — presented by Santa Fe Opera.

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A circa-1900 Zuni polychrome canteen features in Dwight P. Lanmon and Francis H. Harlow’s book The Pottery of Zuni Pueblo

Pasa highlights the book Ichthyo: The Architecture of Fish, a gallery of X-rays demonstrating the precisely tailored skeletal structure of underwater animals.

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The Theater of Insects, featuring Jo Whaley’s prints of moths, butterflies, and other insects, opens at Photo-eye Gallery.

Charlotte Jackson, director of Art Santa Fe, transforms the international contemporary art fair into a yearly event. Local force: Bruce Dunlap, Alan Arkin, and Jonathan Richards take part in Poetry and Music, a Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival presentation at St. Francis Auditorium.

Sita Sings the Blues screens as part of the Santa Fe Film Festival.

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The Golden Dragon Acrobats celebrate 30 years on the road with multiple performances at the Lensic.


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Ceylon, suckers: tea-bag fashion at the Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival.

Ruben Ochoa’s concrete slab, rebar, and dirt sculpture hummin’ ... comin’ at cha — a SITE Santa Fe commission — is on view at the art space.

The exhibition Pulling Strings: The Marionettes and Art of Gustave Baumann starts today at the New Mexico Museum of Art.

Indian love call: Pasa discusses Native stereotypes in film.

The Kayonan ( or Tree of Life), a shadow figure from central Java, can be seen in the Museum of International Folk Art Museum exhibit Dancing Shadows, Epic Tales: Wayang Kulit of Indonesia.

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Man as myth: the book Art for Obama: Designing “Manifest Hope” and the Campaign for Change includes Scott Siedman’s Man From Illinois.

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Madame Butterfly Santa Fe Opera’s 54th season

Pick of the pickers: members of Bayou Seco perform at the 36th Annual Bluegrass and Old Time Music Festival.

Baton man: Oliver Prezant conducts members of the Santa Fe Community Orchestra in a concert at St. Francis Auditorium.

Los Angeles-based band Missincinatti take the stage at High Mayhem Emerging Arts.

Ruth Duckworth, 1919-2009: Modernist Sculptor opens at Bellas Artes. Above, an untitled bronze from 2002.

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Plastic fantastic love it: Robert Gaylor’s Untitled XXXVIII (2008) features in Poetic Archaeology at Linda Durham Contemporary Art.

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Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art presents its holiday group show featuring the work of 12 gallery artists; below, Flo Perkins’Pin Muff (2006).

The new Tamarind Institute building in Albuquerque. The institute celebrates its 50th birthday this weekend.

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Pasa writers (including Jonathan Richards, creator of the illustration below) face off about the Oscars.

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Combustible conspiracy: The 2011 Fiesta Melodrama takes on“beauty and love and that one slimeball who wants to destroy it all.”

History in harmony: Dolores Valdez de Pong, author of A New Mexican Treasury of Songs and Plays for Children, with her class at Carlos Gilbert Elementary School.

A wedding dress, circa 1900, features in the Museum of International Folk Art’s Young Brides, Old Treasures: Macedonian Embroidered Dress.

Body Burden, a play about human radiation experiments during the Cold War, opens at the Armory for the Arts; below, 1951 children’s portable playlab, with real (low-level) radioactive materials.

Techno-box rocks: Edison plays a lunchbox Monome. Bug wild: amateur entomologist Oliver Greer shares his obsession in Metamorphosis, an exhibit of insects and arachnids at the Santa Fe Children’s Museum.

Radio days: Art Encinias preaches“the gospel of Santa Fe”on Sundays in his show The Santa Fe Hometown Project on KTRC-AM 1260.

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The Julian Pollack Jazz Trio performs at St. John’s College to benefit the Santa Fe Botanical Garden.

JULY 6

AUGUST 31

OCTOBER 19

Carol Mothner’s mixed-media work Women in Armor, Joan is part of the exhibit Armor and Companions at Gerald Peters Gallery.

The Backyard Astronomy program at the Santa Fe Community College planetarium takes New Mexicans out of this world, all the way to Pluto.

Ilan Ashkenazi’s dragon sculpture prepares to take its perch atop Ellsworth Gallery on East Palace Avenue.

Laura Stoke’s Stable anchors BINGO!, a program of experimental performances from Santa Fe Performing Arts and Meow Wolf.

New Mexico achieved statehood in 1912. One hundred years later, Pasa commemorated the occasion with a special-edition issue that is now only available from discerning collectors.

Civil War reenactors recreate the March 1862 battle at Glorieta Pass and Apache Canyon, often called the Gettysburg of the West.

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Fiat Trocks: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet presents Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. The Jean Cocteau Cinema, under the ownership of George R.R. Martin and with Jon Bowman as manager, reopens with screenings of Forbidden Planet, Orpheus Orpheus, and Dark Star.

Singin’them prison blues: Theodore Morrison’s opera Oscar receives its first performance at Santa Fe Opera.

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Richard Pearce’s Women and Ledger Art: Four Contemporary Native American Artists includes work by Dolores Purdy Corcoran. Her Warrior, above, was made with pencils and ink on an 1891 clerk’s register of warrants.

AUGUST 9

The Johnny Tapia documentary Tapia runs as part of the Santa Fe Independent Film Festival.

Chirstine Nofchissey McHorse’s Spine. Spine

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