The New Mexican’s Weekly Magazine of Arts, Entertainment & Culture
December 12, 2014
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PASATIEMPO I December 12 - 18, 2014
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Days of Christmas at the AGAVE Lounge
You’ve been very good this year. Celebrate with these 12 culinary treats from the AGAVE Lounge at the Eldorado Hotel & Spa!
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Spiced Pear Collins, Spiced Pear Hot Toddy (Dec 12)
Enjoy a nice warm hot toddy by the fire and a hand crafted pear Collins with fresh house made ingredients. $10
Chocolate Martini with Viennese Chocolate Cookies (Dec 13) $1 fresh Viennese chocolate cookies, freshly baked and served warm, perfect for dunking in your Godiva Chocolate, Vanilla Infused Hennessey & fresh espresso martini. $14
Coq au Vin with Wine Pairing (Dec 14)
$20, tender chicken, pancetta & shallots braised in French red wine pan jus- with parsnip puree. Try it with a specially paired glass of wine!
Stuffed Quail, Filled with Wild Rice & Forest Mushrooms (Dec 15) $25 masala pan sauce & crispy polenta cake & kale.
Donut Flight with Spiced Hot Cocoa (Dec 16)
House made, American/Italian ricotta & Mexican cajeta donuts flight with mango & chocolate $10. Enjoy some hot chocolate spiked with Kahlua or Baileys and whipped cream. $11
Chef ’s Fantastic Scotch Egg & Scotch Ale (Dec 17)
Seasoned crispy pork wrapped soft boiled egg with chipotle BBQ & arugula $12 for the pair.
Paella (Dec 18)
Shrimp, calamari, mussels & Spanish chorizo with short grain saffron rice, grilled rustic crostini $25
Wine and Cheese Flight (Dec 19)
Blue- NM chile goat & taleggio. 20% off any bottle of wine & mini cheese plate.
Ladies Night (Dec 20)
20% off all wine and cocktails. $6. Sushi flight for ladies. Spicy tuna, California & salmon nigiri.
Eat like a king. (Dec 21)
$30 for 3 courses from the winter Old House dinner menu (some restrictions may apply).
Cupcakes and cocoa (Dec 22)
Three mini cupcakes chocolate/ red velvet & vanilla $12. Enjoy with fresh house made hot cocoa.
Beer and Slider Flight Night (Dec 23)
Buffalo chicken, Asian pork belly & Kobe beef sliders. Enjoy any one of our drafts with a flight of our specialty sliders. $14 309 W San Francisco St Santa Fe, NM 87501 EldoradoHotel.com Facebook.com/AgaveLoungeNM 505-995-4530
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THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN
December 12 - 18, 2014
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ON THE COVER 32 To Paris with love In the years that Alfred Morang (1901-1958) was active in Santa Fe he was central to the vibrant art scene of Canyon Road, starting his own fine-arts school, hosting salon parties, hanging out with the bohemian set at Claude’s Bar, and playing his violin. Morang was a trained musician, writer, and painter. He was influenced by the French masters, particularly the Impressionists, and dubbed “the ToulouseLautrec of Santa Fe.” He experimented with nonobjective abstraction as well as painting landscapes and figurative works. Morang and Friends, an exhibition that opens on Friday, Dec. 12, at Matthews Gallery, traces the artist’s influence and includes never-before-seen paintings and items recovered from the studio fire that ended his life. On the cover is his Untitled (Abstract), an undated oil on canvas.
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In Other Words Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians
MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE 20 25 28 30
Hi-fidelity holidays Christmas in Santa Fe Random Acts Chuscales A cross-dressing caper Twelfth Night Movin’ on up from the eastside Christmas at the Palace & the History Museum
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Dragon the line Donato Giancola
Pasatiempo is an arts, entertainment & culture magazine published every Friday by The New Mexican. Our offices are at 202 E. Marcy St., Santa Fe, NM 87501. Editorial: 505-986-3019. E-mail: pasa@sfnewmexican.com
Untitled, 2014 (detail), by McCreery Jordan
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Elizabeth Hahn: Untitled, 2014, acrylic on paper
Artists helping artists
When Carlos Carulo was ill, the Santa Fe Artists’ Medical Fund came to the rescue. Now the sculptor and painter, born in Chile but a Santa Fe resident for over 25 years, is one of more than 250 artists who have donated works for the 17th Annual Santa Fe Artists’ Medical Fund Party and Silent Auction. “This fund helped me when I was very sick, and it has helped other artists in the community,” Carulo said. “We are so grateful to have this opportunity to give back to a fund that has helped us. Who knows who will need it next?” The fund is a great alternative to an ad hoc fundraiser that may be set up by the friends and associates of an artist whose creative output has been interrupted by a serious malady or accident. Organizers point out that many artists are not able to purchase health-care coverage without high deductibles, even under the Affordable Care Act. This year’s event is at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 14, at Yares Art Projects (123 Grant Ave.). Attendees bid on and purchase the donated artworks — 6 x 6-inch paintings and small sculptures — and the proceeds go into the fund, which is controlled by the Santa Fe Community Foundation. “We are proud to be able to administer these funds to support artists who are the heart of Santa Fe — a community whose history is deeply entwined with the arts,” said Christa Coggins, the foundation’s vice president for community philanthropy. Party coordinator Shari Morrison said the event is “like a family reunion for all of these artists, who are used to being alone in their studios. Last year we had about 550 people attending. These are tiny paintings, but we can make $20,000 to $30,000 each year. I think this year will set a record because of how many artists we have. Even artists from Texas sent pieces.” Morrison is not an artist herself, but she helped found the Scottsdale Artists’ School about 30 years ago and is now an editor for Western Art & Architecture magazine. She has been involved in the Santa Fe Artists’ Medical Fund for a decade. “This is the only charity in the city that is for artists, with monies raised by artists donating their art: a true brotherhood and sisterhood.” Holiday attire is encouraged. For information, call Morrison at 505-660-9340. — Paul Weideman
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occasionally funny, spontaneous busyness. Relationships are pleasant if not particularly intimate, occasionally upstaged by community demands. True cultural transformation can take place. This weekend’s Virgo moon brings a nervy energy that asks us to critique our habits and improve. People can be a little high-strung and in need of sympathy and reassurance. The sun and Mercury in energized and honest Sagittarius carries us along where we express ourselves freely. But this Sagittarian truth can be a compulsive and hasty honesty — if we feel we’re not being heard or if our truth has been discarded, denied, or invalidated, we can get seriously ticked off. Early next week the Libra moon can use ordinary social interactions to make us more comfortable but turns up the volume on the question of what’s fair and beautiful and what’s not. Midweek, we need to take care of business, or we can easily get off-center. Rediscover the gift of solitude before the winter solstice. All this seasonal activity hovers over the deep, transformational aspects that stir real sociopolitical change around the world. We may also experience this personally as large, sweeping changes swirl in the background of our lives. We can feel the wheel turn, catalyzed by the ongoing great Uranus square to Pluto from 2012 through 2015, with an exact station this week. This ongoing Uranus/Pluto square dances on America’s chart with steeltoed boots. It’s a big deal. This energy is destabilizing and exciting; our identity as a country is being challenged to grow. To use this transit well, we need to take our deepest-held values and create a lighthouse to guide us. Friday, Dec. 12: Use problem-solving ingenuity as Mercury trines expansive Jupiter. Overtures are appreciated this afternoon. Evening is potentially magical — just be careful around sloppy conditions or confusion. Saturday, Dec. 13: Let’s not criticize the ones we love. A grumpy streak can leave us finding fault with just about anything and anyone unless we direct our thoughts toward healing. Stand back and see the beauty of the overall pattern. Sunday, Dec. 14: The friendly Libra moon help us open our hearts, but we acutely feel the pain if our hopes are dashed. The sun trines generous Jupiter and encourages us to act proud and to spend more time, energy, and money. Monday, Dec. 15: What is fair? Think about and work toward big changes on personal, professional, and sociological levels. Tuesday, Dec. 16: It’s a day to follow up on unfinished business and get the package in the mail, the petition signed, and agreements made. Follow through on upcoming travel arrangements and international contacts. Tonight, as Mercury enters Capricorn, feel the need to plan ahead. Wednesday, Dec. 17: The mood is introspective, reserved, and serious as the moon enters Scorpio. Tonight, as the moon trines Neptune, we can either let go of an old misconception or get lost in our imaginations.
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IN OTHER WORDS book reviews Rebel Souls: Walt Whitman and America’s First Bohemians by Justin Martin, Da Capo Press, 352 pages Justin Martin’s Rebel Souls is as much about Henry Clapp Jr. as it is about Walt Whitman. In the years before and during the Civil War, Clapp hosted an eclectic circle of artists and performers at Pfaff’s Restaurant and Lager Bier Saloon, a tworoom Greenwich Village tavern tucked away in the basement at 647 Broadway, just north of Bleecker Street. A journalist, Clapp had gone to Paris in 1849, plunging into the bohemian arts scene there. The French, he said, were “addicted to talk.” When he came back to America, he introduced New York to his own brand of café society — Pfaff’s Bohemians, as they were known. Clapp curated his crowd carefully, selecting extroverted eccentrics to join in the outrageous, often boisterous conversation.Whitman, who came to the party late — in 1858, two years after Clapp had launched his salon — was almost forty and still living in Brooklyn with his mother at the time. The Pfaff’s meetings offered the poet a perfect environment for letting loose. Whitman could not only witness aggressive, even outrageous, dialogue at the long table in the saloon’s narrow backroom but search among the men in Pfaff’s public front room for some after-hours companionship. The veracity of Martin’s claim that the Pfaff circle constituted “America’s first bohemians” hangs on what we understand the term bohemian to mean. Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and other luminaries were gathering in Concord, Massachusetts, to discuss literature while Clapp was in the midst of his Paris sojourn. The Concord group was dedicated to art as well, as all good bohemians are. But they weren’t party animals, like those who came later at Pfaff’s. Drawing from high and low culture, Clapp’s collection of journalists, poets, actresses, and other unconventional characters blurred the line between art and entertainment even further. But they all knew about the poverty suffered by many artists. “What wit, humor, repartee, word wars, and sometimes bad blood,” Whitman wrote of the gatherings. The banter, afloat on a “roiling sea of egos,” often got nasty, and Whitman recalled his fellow Pfaffians as sometimes being “the enemy.” Each member did their best to assert superiority over the others. Whitman mostly stayed out of such frays, and no one cared much what he thought at that point anyway. By forty, he was still an obscure poet with only bad reviews; despite the nice things Ralph Waldo Emerson had written about him — which Whitman printed without permission on the cover of Leaves of Grass — he didn’t yet carry the clout of celebrity. Martin doesn’t overplay the importance of Pfaff’s Bohemians to the struggling poet. At the saloon, Whitman mixed with other poets. He acquired some barfly fluency that would later surface in his writing. And Clapp published Whitman’s work in his weekly cultural journal, The Saturday Press. While a member of Clapp’s circle, Whitman wrote numerous poems that appeared in later versions of Leaves of Grass. Martin 18
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suggests that Whitman may have been inspired by the soaring theatrical language he heard at Pfaff’s, even if the poet himself did his best to stay out of what he described as the verbal “rubbing and drubbing.” “My own greatest pleasure at Pfaff’s was to look on — to see, talk little, absorb,” Whitman wrote. “I never was a great discusser, anyway — never.” Biographical bits about others involved in the circle make for some of the best reading here. They include details about the actress Ada Clare, who, Martin writes, reacted to her posh upbringing by well-heeled grandparents by becoming a “spirituelle,” a woman who “led a free and easy life in pursuit of art,” and about Charlie Brown, a journalist who dropped his decidedly unglamorous given name to become Artemus Ward. Martin offers stories about Fitz Hugh Ludlow, a man known to ingest “heroic doses of hashish” and who authored a popular Thomas De Quinceystyle confession about his indulgences, as well as about Adah Isaacs Menken, who, Martin claims, was “one of the great sex symbols of the nineteenth century.” There are tales about the thespian Edwin Booth (John Wilkes Booth’s older brother), a sort of Pfaff’s charter member who spent little time at the saloon but who knew the players there and was living in New York during the autumn of 1858, while “in the midst of a colossal drinking binge.” Against the backdrop of all this flagrant excess, Clapp and Whitman (especially Whitman, who wasn’t a zealous drinker) can seem a little dull. Social and political events of the time, of course, colored such a group’s mood — but once the Civil War is under way, the book begins to wander far afield from Pfaff’s. Ludlow and some of the others eventually head west, where a new bohemian outpost is being established in California. Whitman goes to Washington, D.C., to minister to fallen soldiers, and decides to stay there. Other chapters include the long story of the publication of the poet’s third edition of Leaves of Grass, and his poor health after the war is over. In the end, Lincoln’s assassination sucks the last of the oxygen out of Clapp’s scene. Rebel Souls illuminates an intriguing but poorly documented page in American cultural history — one to which even David S. Reynolds devotes only a few pages in his weighty work from 1996, Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography. Though we wish for more “bohemian” anecdotes, for more eyewitness accounts of the Pfaff’s long-table conversations, for more direct associations between Whitman’s experiences there and his poetry, Martin does manage to do a good job with what little archival material he has. But he loses his focus when the bohemians stumble upstairs to street-level Broadway and wander off into the larger world: That party downstairs is much more fun. Clapp’s crowd, with their egos, their anger, their opinions, and their passions, sets the stage for all the bohemian movements, from the Beatniks on (Allen Ginsberg has been called “the modern Walt Whitman”), that followed. As Martin states in his first pages, “Everyone from Lady Gaga to George Carlin to Dave Eggers owes a debt to these originals.” — Bill Kohlhaase
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Christmas here, there, and every ryw ywhere w Four well-known Santa Feans — Ali MacGraw, Bob Martin, Carol McGiffin, and Jonathan Richards — return to read classic stories for the season at the sixth annual performance by the Collected Works Holiday Players. The event begins at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 18, at Collected Works Bookstore (202 Galisteo St.). “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” the 1952 radio poem-play by Dylan Thomas, is read by Richards, an author, journalist, actor, and cartoonist. If you prefer more contemporary works, McGiffin reads “Six to Eight Black Men,” a humorous essay by David Sedaris, who relays information about the St. Nicholas Christmas tradition of the Netherlands. St. Nick is a mythical deliverer of presents who bears some similarity to Santa Claus but is assisted by humans rather than reindeer and elves, and is believed to live in Spain rather than the North Pole. McGiffin was a radio broadcaster and television personality in England before moving to Santa Fe. MacGraw, the Academy Awardnominated actress, philanthropist, and animal-rights activist, reads from English author Kenneth Grahame’s much-loved 1908 novel, The Wind in the Willows, whose poetic passages about nature, memorable animal characters, wild adventures, and witty social commentary have made children and grown-ups alike embrace it for more than a century. Martin, artistic and executive director of the Lensic Performing Arts Center, reads “Dancing Dan’s Christmas,” a short story by Damon Runyon, the post-Prohibition era writer whose street-smart stories were the basis for the musical Guys and Dolls. The readings continue for about an hour. The festive, familyfriendly event is free of charge. For information, call 505-988-4226. — Jennifer Levin
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you have musician friends, you are doubtless familiar with the drill at this time of year. A few days into December, they look at you with a combination of apprehension and anticipatory weariness, and they sigh, “See you in January.” In the musical profession, it can be either feast or famine, and the Christmas season is unquestionably a feast of music-making. In fact, from thedayPasatiempohitsthenewsstands — Friday, Dec. 12 — through to the end of the year, there is not a single day on which one or another of our local musiccal organizations does not beckon for an audience to asssemble for some Christmas fare. Already in the rear-view mirror are two-thirds of the seasonal offeringss of the Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (its an nnual Messiah and its free holiday bash at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi), but it has a third concertt now arriving: Christmas Treasures, on Sunday, Dec. 14, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. The guest conducctor for the event is Jason Altieri, who is director of orchestras at the University of Nevada and associate conducttor of the Reno Philharmonic. Like all of the Symphony’s other conductors this season, he is being eyeballed to o fill the organization’s opening on the podium. Although h the concert includes Corelli’s elegant Christmas Concerrto (Op. 6, No. 8), the program will otherwise focus on lighter material, including Leroy Anderson’s A Chriistmas Festival, a charmingly contrived suite that touchees down on eight favorite carols or traditional songs of the season. Curious fact: Anderson wrote this medleey in 1950 for the Boston Pops, and when do you thin nk they premiered it? On June 12 of that year. Go figure. Balletomanes kn now that this is the season when dance companies revisitt The Nutcracker, among the strangest of ballets when it comes to plots (which is saying something!) but a beloved classic nonetheless. One early critic complained,, “In The Nutcracker there is no subject whatever.” Possib bly that overstated the case, although whatever subjectt there is veers into bizarrerie. That was perhaps inevitable since the scenario was derived from a story by E.T.A. Hoffmann, one of the weirdest of all the Roman ntics. In any case, Aspen Santa Fe Ballet sees to it th hat young Clara pays her annual visit to town and that a Nutcracker who has morphed into a Prince kills the Mouse King and then sweeps Clara off to enjoy a variety show in the domain of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Four performances take place at the Lensic on Dec. 20 and Dec.. 21 (two each day), in a production that involves a casst of 60, including ballet and flamenco practitioners, Ch hinese sword dancers, and an aerialist. Even though The Nutcracker was a flop when it was unveiled in St. Petersburg in 1892, people at least admired Tchaikovvsky’s attractive score, which remained popular even in th he years before the ballet itself earned its current renown. In 1960, Duke Ellington and his alterego arranger, Billyy Strayhorn, paid Tchaikovsky’s score the compliment (so they intended it, at least) of transforming it into a jazz version. That setting has itself become a holidayy standard, and if it is the sort of thing
thatringsyourbells,youcanhearitrenderedbyConcordia SantaFeatSt.FrancisAuditoriumonWednesday, Dec.17. The group will present its snazzy movements in a faceoff with classically oriented chamber arrangements of Tchaikovsky’s originals. Speaking of ringing one’s bells, the Dec. 19 installment of First Presbyterian Church’s T.G.I.F. concerts features the 13 members of the church’s Chancel Bell Choir, whose tintinnabulation will enliven seven beloved carols. “Ding Dong Merrily on High” is curiously missing from the playlist — one would imagine it to be essential repertoire for a bell choir — but perhaps the group will intone it as a surprise encore. The church’s free, half-hour T.G.I.F. concerts take place every Friday at the end of the afternoon, and during this season they might provide welcome rest for the feet and stimulation for the ears following a stint of downtown shopping. Other offerings this month: On Dec. 12, the eSSO Eternal Summer String Orchestra plays music by Handel, Vivaldi (Winter, from The Four Seasons), and others; and on Dec. 26, six instrumentalists present French music for Christmas by Marcel Samuel-Rousseau, Marcel Tournier, and other composers. Aficionados of choral music get an earful this season. The Santa Fe Desert Chorale, conducted by Joshua Habermann, assembles as it does every year at this time for a holiday-oriented program. This year’s incarnation of its Carols and Lullabies concert comprises short works by a variety of composers, from the Franco-Flemish Renaissance master Jean Mouton to the Norwegian post-Romanticist Edvard Grieg, plus carols from various nations, with singalong opportunities for the intrepid. It receives six go-rounds in town, at the Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi (on Tuesday, Dec. 16; Thursday, Dec. 18; Dec. 19; Dec. 20; and Dec. 23) and at Cristo Rey Church (Dec. 22). The Chorale also presents the close-harmony a cappella octet Voasis in a pop-oriented program at The Lodge at Santa Fe in six performances from Dec. 27 through Dec. 31. The Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble, conducted by Linda Raney, launches its 34th season on Friday, Dec. 12, with a program called Songs of Peace, which it repeats on Sunday, Dec. 14, and Thursday, Dec. 18, all at the Loretto Chapel. A further performance of the same program ensues on Dec. 20 at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel. The concert ranges from chant and music by the Spanish Renaissance composer Tomás Luís de Victoria to African American spirituals, and, as is the ensemble’s habit, it includes premieres of commissioned works. Being unveiled this year are two separate treatments of Words of Peace, which mixes English and Hebrew texts — one setting by Mickey Bond and Sue Katz, the other by Linda Rice Beck. Another unisex group offers a holiday concert on Friday, Dec. 12, at First Presbyterian Church: the New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus. We’d love to tell you what they’ll be singing, but apparently the group didn’t get the memo about “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” being over. We asked, but they wouldn’t tell. Among the hardest-working groups this month is the Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe, which specializes in medieval and Renaissance chant and polyphony along with a cappella renditions of Christmas carols. On continued on Page 22
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Voasis ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Dec. 27; 4 p.m. Dec. 28; 8 p.m. Dec. 29, 30, and 31 The Lodge at Santa Fe, 750 N. St. Frances Drive $35-$100, discounts available; 505-988-2282 www.desertchorale.org
Santa Fe Women’s Ensemble SONGS OF PEACE 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, Sunday, Dec. 14, and Thursday, Dec. 18 Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra CHRISTMAS TREASURES 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. $22-$76; 505-988-1234, www.ticketssantafe.org
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet THE NUTCRACKER 2 and 7:30 p.m. Dec. 20; 1 and 5 p.m. Dec. 21
Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail
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Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel, 50 Mount Carmel Road $20-$35 at Loretto Chapel; $25 at Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel Tickets Santa Fe at the Lensic (505-988-1234, www. ticketssantafe.org)
New Mexico Gay Men’s Chorus LET’S GO OUT FOR THE HOLIDAYS! 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. $25-$72; 505-988-1234,www.ticketssantafe.org
Concordia Santa Fe THE NUTCRACKER (SWING!) 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17
St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W. Palace Ave. $30, discounts available; www.concordiasantafe.org
T.G.I.F. Concerts eSSO ETERNAL SUMMER STRING ORCHESTRA 5:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12 CHANCEL BELL CHOIR 5:30 p.m. Dec. 19 FRENCH MUSIC FOR CHRISTMAS 5: 30 p.m . Dec. 26 First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Ave. Donations accepted; 505-982-8544, Ext. 16
Santa Fe Desert Chorale CAROLS AND LULLABIES 8 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, Thursday, Dec. 18, Dec. 19, 20, and 23 Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi 131 Cathedral Place
First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Ave. $20, discounts available; www.nmgmc.org
Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe CHRISTMAS AT THE PALACE OF THE GOVERNORS 6:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12 Palace of the Governors, 105 W. Palace Ave. No charge, no tickets necessary
SILENT NIGHT 7 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 16, and Dec. 28
Various artists A CELTIC CHRISTMAS 2 p.m. Dec. 20
Scottish Rite Center, 463 Paseo de Peralta $20, $10 for wee bairns; Tickets Santa Fe at the Lensic (505-988-1234, www.ticketssantafe.org )
Belisama Irish Dance and Moving People Dance IRISH JIGS AND WINTER TREATS 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, Saturday, Dec. 13; 2: 30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14
James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf 1060 Cerrillos Road $15, discounts available; Tickets Santa Fe at the Lensic (505-988-1234, www.ticketssantafe.org)
Santa Fe Concert Band HOLIDAY PERFORMANCE 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13
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HOLIDAY CONCERT 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 15
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. No charge, no tickets necessary
Performance Santa Fe Orchestra CHRISTMAS EVE CONCERT 5 p.m. Dec. 24 (2 p.m. “family preview” open dress rehearsal) NEW YEAR’S EVE CONCERT 5 p.m. Dec. 31 (2 p.m. “family preview” open dress rehearsal)
Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail $20, discounts available; www.schola-sf.org or at the door
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. Concerts $27-$100 ($10-$25 for family previews) Tickets Santa Fe at the Lensic (505-988-1234, www.ticketssantafe.org) and www.performancesantafe.org
Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe , 100 S. Guadalupe St. Donations accepted; no tickets necessary
Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble A BAROQUE CHRISTMAS 6 and 8 p.m. Dec. 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24
NOCHE DE PAZ 7 p.m. Dec. 21
GREGORIAN CHANT CHRISTMAS EVE MASS 5 p.m. Dec. 24 San Miguel Mission, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail No charge; no tickets necessary
GREGORIAN CHANT CHRISTMAS MIDNIGHT MASS Midnight Dec. 25 (i.e., begins at midnight on Christmas morning and runs an hour until 1 a.m.) Church of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Valle de Pojoaque, 9 Grazing Elk Drive, Pojoaque No charge; no tickets necessary
8 p.m. Dec. 22
Cristo Rey Church, 1120 Canyon Road $20-$70, discounts available; 505-988-2282 www.desertchorale.org
Música Antigua de Albuquerque SO MERRILY THE SHEPHERDS SANG 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14
Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail $20-$70; Tickets Santa Fe at the Lensic (505-988-1234, www.ticketssantafe.org)
Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra MUSIC FOR THE ROYAL FIREWORKS 3 p.m. Dec. 28, 6 p.m. Dec. 29
St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art 107 W. Palace Ave. $20-$65; Tickets Santa Fe at the Lensic (505-988-1234, www.ticketssantafe.org)
Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1701 Arroyo Chamiso $16, discounts available; 505-842-9613
Hi-fidelity holidays, continued from Page 21 Friday, Dec. 12, the ensemble offers a Christmas at the Palace performance at the Palace of the Governors. The group’s seasonal program Silent Night takes place at the Loretto Chapel on Tuesday, Dec. 16, and on Dec. 28, and on Dec. 21 it performs Noche de Paz at the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Although Pasatiempo tends not to cover performances that are part of a religious service, we nonetheless take the liberty of alerting interested parties to the Schola Cantorum’s participation in a Gregorian Chant Christmas Midnight Mass at the Church of Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe del Valle de Pojoaque in Pojoaque, which some of our readers might find of unusual musical interest, and similarly its Gregorian Chant Christmas Eve Mass a few hours 22
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earlier at the historic San Miguel Mission in Santa Fe. Also in the spirit of the distant past, Música Antigua de Albuquerque will travel to Santa Fe with a program titled So Merrily the Shepherds Sang, consisting of medieval and Renaissance Christmas music from all over Europe. You can catch the group on Sunday, Dec. 14, at Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church. Irish and Scottish music have a way of tugging at the heartstrings and stirring the soul. The Scottish Rite Center has newly opened its doors again to community cultural events and ostensibly is no longer for sale, although that huge “For Sale” sign remains planted in front. On Dec. 20, it will be the locale for A Celtic Christmas, an extravaganza featuring performances by the Santa Fe Men’s Camerata, the Coleman Academy of Irish Dance, fiddler Karina Wilson, multi-instrumentalist
Gerry Carthy, the Anslover Family Band, and The Order of the Thistle Pipes and Drums. The event is a benefit for the Scottish Rite Center, and we are informed that attendees can sample “Christmas savories from the Celtic heartlands of Ireland and Scotland” prior to the concert. Another event of related ilk is Irish Jigs and Winter Treats, a dance showcase offered by Belisama Irish Dance and Moving People Dance at the James A. Little Theater on Friday, Dec. 12; Saturday, Dec. 13; and Sunday, Dec. 14. Not everything will be specifically Irish in the program — there is also to be modern dance, jazz dance, and ballet — but you can expect a generous representation of material in the “Riverdance style.” The Santa Fe Concert Band, conducted by Greg Heltman, has Christmas treats up its sleeve, and you can find out what they are in either of two free performances: on Saturday, Dec. 13, at Santa Fe Place Mall, and on Monday, Dec. 15, at the Lensic. Performance Santa Fe Orchestra, conducted by Joseph Illick, can be depended on to provide classical enrichment on both Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. Both of those concerts take place at the Lensic. On Dec. 24, the musical menu consists of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (with thirteenyear-old pianist Emily Bear, who will also play some of her own compositions) and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. On Dec. 31, a big name occupies the soloist’s spotlight: Ukrainian-Israeli violinist Vadim Gluzman, who will play Bruch’s beloved Violin Concerto No. 1. His recording of that piece, on the Bis label, won him a 2011 Diapason d’Or award from the greatly respected French music magazine Diapason. His instrument deserves attention in its own right; he plays a violin crafted by Antonio Stradivari in 1690, an unusually fine example of the legendary builder’s early style, on extended loan from the Stradivari Society. It is known as the “ex-Leopold Auer,” as it was owned from 1875 to 1895 by that legendary violinist, who was the teacher of Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, and Nathan Milstein, among others. Also on the New Year’s Eve program are arias by Handel and Lehár (with soprano Ava Pine) and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1. A dependably endearing event in the city’s lineup of Christmas concerts is the annual presentation of A Baroque Christmas by the Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble at the Loretto Chapel. The group’s formula doesn’t vary much from year to year, hewing to trio sonatas or other small-ensemble works by established German, French, Italian, and English masters of the 17th and 18th centuries, with a solo singer joining the instrumentalists for perhaps a cantata and certainly some tasteful carol arrangements in the olden style. This year, the program is to include music by Telemann, Handel, and Vivaldi, and the solo singer will be either Deborah Domanski or Drea Pressley (mezzo-sopranos both), depending on the performance. These popular concerts have become a holiday tradition for many music-lovers, who can choose from two performances each night from Dec. 19 through Dec. 24. Then, on Dec. 28 and Dec. 29, music director Thomas O’Connor leads the Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra in a Baroque program at the St. Francis Auditorium, visiting largerscale works by the same composers: Telemann’s Water Music, the Autumn and Winter concertos from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons (featuring violinist Cármelo de los Santos), and Handel’s always-thrilling Music for the Royal Fireworks. ◀
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Saxophonist Doug Lawrence leads a quartet playing in the latest Santa Fe Music Collective concert at 7 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 12. A Louisiana native, Lawrence has worked with Frank Sinatra, Rosemary Clooney, Benny Goodman, and many other music legends. His bandmates for this concert, presented at the Museum Hill Café (710 Camino Lejo), are pianist Bert Dalton, bassist Maren Hatch, and drummer John Trentacosta. They are expected to perform “Shiny Stockings” by Frank Foster, “Jumpin’ at the Woodside” by Count Basie, the Eddie Heywood tune “Canadian Sunset,” which was popularized by Gene Ammons, and several songs by Dexter Gordon and other past masters of bebop. Call the collective at 505-983-6820 for tickets ($25) or more information. — Paul Weideman
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The Santa Fe Community Orchestra, an ensemble of accomplished amateurs, bucks the trend of the month by presenting a concert that has nothing to do with holiday music. On Sunday, Dec. 14, at 2:30 p.m., at St. Francis Auditorium (New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave.), Oliver Prezant conducts the ensemble in Tchaikovsky’s emotionally forward Symphony No. 4 along with two less-frequently encountered works. Franz Berwald, who might be described as a Swedish Mendelssohn, met with only moderate success in the opera house and left music for a while to manage a glassworks and a sawmill. At least his opera Estrella de Soria achieved a succès d’éstime when it was produced in 1862; its Overture, which will be played here, suggests it deserved at least that. Also on the program is Vaughan Williams’ bucolic The Lark Ascending, featuring violinist Kay Newnam. This is a free concert, although donations are appreciated. For information, call 505-466-4879. — James M. Keller
Director’s cut: Nine
Inspired by Federico Fellini’s 8½, Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit’s 1982 musical Nine may have been an attempt to one-up (or half-up) the great filmmaker. It tells a similar story about an Italian director — Guido Anselmi in the original, Guido Contini in the spinoff — facing both artistic and midlife crises, except Yeston and Kopit’s version includes a lot more song and dance. Students from Santa Fe University of Art and Design present selections from the musical to wrap up the performing arts department’s fall season. The show is directed by Alaina Warren Zachary, with Shannon Elliott as dance director, and takes place at 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, and at 2 and 7 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 13. The performances are free, although tickets are required; call 505-473-6439 to reserve a place. SFUAD’s Greer Garson Theatre is at 1600 St. Michael’s Drive. — Loren Bienvenu
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Flamenco guitarist Jose Valle “Chuscales” was raised in a Gypsy family with deep musical roots. He has furthered them in his own right. An expatriate of Spain, Chuscales was called on to perform for Prince Felipe of Spain (now King Felipe) when he visited Santa Fe in 2009. The guitarist’s fourth annual flamenco holiday concert, entitled Gypsy Passion, may not draw royalty, but it features a number of the best flamenco artists in the Southwest. Special guests include Valeria Montes (Thursday, Dec. 18), Juan Siddi (Dec. 18 and19), and Domino Martinez (Dec. 20). Nightly shows run from Dec. 18 through Dec. 20 at 7:30 p.m. The venue is El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe (555 Camino de la Familia). Tickets, $30, are available through www.brownpapertickets.com. — L.B.
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Jennifer Levin I The New Mexican
LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT I WORE TWELFTH NIGHT, A CROSS-DRESSING CAPER
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young man falls in love with a woman who doesn’t return his affections, so he doubles down and courts her harder in an effort to win her favor, all the while lamenting his breaking heart. Unrequited love is the plot of so many classic romantic comedies. Some people, these stories tell us, are so in love with the idea of love that they forget it matters if their beloved wants them around. In some cases the guy gets the girl, and other times the guy realizes that the right person for him all along has been his best friend, who he’s never before considered romantically. 28
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Shakespeare often wrote about unrequited love. It’s S present even in his dramas, but is most often found in the t comedies, including The Taming of the Shrew, Night’s Dream, All’s Well That Ends A Midsummer M Welll, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and (perhaps most specifically) Twelfth Night, in which Duke Orsino has all butt taken to his bed because of his deep feelings for untess Olivia, whom he doesn’t really know. Cou A new theater company, Threshold Art Collective, makes mak its premiere with Twelfth Night at the Scottish Rite Center on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 12 and 13. Threshold was founded by Brennan Foster and Sheridan Johnson, two Albuquerque-based actors who intend to break the barriers between theaters and artistic mediums across Northern New Mexico by not locating in a specific city. They will pull talent from everywhere, instead of always working with the same stable of actors and theater technicians. For this production, the company rehearsed at the Adobe Theater, in Albuquerque. Theaterwork, in Santa Fe, loaned the ensemble some of its costumes. The actors come from various groups in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, including the Santa Fe Shakespeare Society. Threshold’s mission includes outreach to schools and the use of theater as an educational tool. The Scottish Rite Center, which was completed in 1912, is especially suited for Shakespeare, with its 400-seat theater that features over 70 hand-painted movable backdrops that can be combined to create unique settings — a forest, a seaside, the homes of the duke and countess. The backdrops, created in 1905 by Sosman & Landis Co., a scene-painting studio in Chicago, are original to the theater. Because of them, no
set-building was needed for Twelfth Night and the actors need rely only on props and costumes to help them tell the story. Quinn Mander directs the comedy, which stars Johnson as Viola and Foster as Orsino. (Mander plays Viola’s twin brother, Sebastian). Off the coast of the kingdom of Illyria, Viola is shipwrecked and Sebastian is lost at sea and presumed dead. Knowing she must now find a way to house, clothe, and feed herself, Viola disguises herself as a man, dubs herself Cesario, and goes to work in Orsino’s house, where she soon becomes a favored page because she empathizes with her master’s soulful longing after the reclusive Countess Olivia (Sara Gmitter), who, mourning her own dead brother, is refusing visitors. Viola, as Cesario, falls in love with Orsino, even as Orsino dispatches her to Olivia to relay his romantic missives. Olivia falls in love with Cesario, who she doesn’t know is really a woman. The action is driven largely by the machinations of Olivia’s uncle, Sir Toby Belch (George Williams), his friend Andrew Aguecheek (Micah Linford), Olivia’s lady-in-waiting, Maria (Merritt Glover), and the fool Feste (Vanessa Rios), all of whom conspire to convince the strict steward of the house, Malvolio (Stephen Zamora), that Olivia is in love with him. Shakespeare, ever the plot-twister, then brings Sebastian back from the sea to truly confuse Olivia, who doesn’t know her beloved is actually a set of brotherand-sister twins. From a contemporary standpoint, all this gender play could be seen as having homoerotic implications, or as some kind of commentary on trans people. But in the 16th century, theatergoers were used
to men playing all the roles onstage. They were also willing to believe that the characters in a play would be fooled into thinking a man was a woman simply because he wore a dress, or that a woman was a man because she wore pants. At that time, the female character of Viola would have been portrayed by a man pretending to be a woman pretending to be a man. Gender roles were fixed within the story, and within that era’s society, which is why contemporary audiences don’t always understand Orsino’s sudden love for Viola when her true identity is revealed. They think either that Orsino isn’t really in love with Viola, and is just marrying her to have someone to marry, or that he must have been in love with Cesario, a man, the whole time. “If you just treat it as more evidence of Orsino’s passion and capriciousness, you miss the point, I think,” Mander said. “Orsino is a paragon of the concept of passionate love, but what Viola teaches him throughout the play is that passion isn’t love. As Cesario, she counsels him that he’s fallen in love with the idea of Olivia, that he’s become attached to an image he’s created in his own mind, while in reality Olivia has been very clear that she wants him to leave her alone.” Because Orsino gets to know Viola as Cesario, he doesn’t posture with her or try to court her, and she is able to see him as a person rather than as a potential suitor. The two are kindred romantic spirits, which is why they get along so well and develop a true bond of friendship. “They fall in love in that way,” Mander said. “Orsino doesn’t really realize what’s happening until the end of the play. First he backs down from killing Cesario out of jealousy when he finds out Olivia is in love with him, which shows the depth of their relationship. When Viola is revealed to be a woman, he marries her because his love is then socially In the 16th century, theatergoers acceptable. But they fell in love as people, not as men and women.” Johnson, who has played many were used to men playing all the roles unsavory and difficult characters onstage, including Hedda Gabler, is having fun playing Viola, who onstage. At that time, the female she calls “a genuinely good person.” Even as she’s stranded in character of Viola would have been an unfamiliar land, mourning her brother, she girds her courage and finds a job. “She meets portrayed by a man pretending to be challenges with grace and humor — which is especially refreshing, since the play is 400 years old,” a woman pretending to be a man. Johnson said. “She’s really a walking slew of juxtapositions. She’s a man, she’s a woman. She is strong, she is sensitive. And she falls head over heels for Orsino. But even in that affair, she is so proper. All she wants is what’s best for him.” In the traditional world of romantic comedies, women usually want what’s best for the men they love. Often, they are present mainly to support the men — and to support the notion that love conquers all, even good judgment. In Twelfth Night, Johnson said, unlike in most other Shakespeare plays, women are more than catalysts for action — they are part of the action. “They are truly aware of the world around them, and what love really is. Twelfth Night is a farce about finding out what love actually means. And, in this case, the people who know are all women.” ◀
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Adele Oliveira I For The New Mexican
Movin’ on up from the eastside Christmas at the Palace & the History Museum
oliday events that celebrate togetherness and tradition exist in particular abundance in Santa Fe. The Palace of the Governors and the New Mexico History Museum’s seasonal offerings — a weekend’s worth of free, fun activities — kick off on Friday evening, Dec. 12, with Christmas at the Palace, which features music, crafts, hot beverages, and bizcochitos. On Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 13 and 14, the children and grandchildren of the Palace portal artisans will sell their work inside the museum, and on Sunday evening, Las Posadas, a Christmas pageant that traces its New World origins to the 16th century, circles the Plaza before concluding in the Palace Courtyard with carols, a bonfire, and more cookies. Las Posadas is a re-enactment of Joseph and pregnant Mary’s search for shelter in Bethlehem, and the Santa Fe rendition is highlighted by candlelight, song, and devils on rooftops. As far as anyone can tell (the venue’s own notes are scattered and somewhat contradictory), the Palace’s Christmas events are 30 years old. While many of the traditions celebrated at the Palace are centuries old, it wasn’t until the early 1980s that Las Posadas took place on the Plaza. In the early 1970s, before the move, the procession was held in the eastside San Antonio neighborhood. When Las Posadas became too big for the area and moved to the Plaza, the Palace produced a holiday celebration in tandem, which became Christmas at the Palace. Ideal for families, Christmas at the Palace includes an appearance by Santa and Mrs. Claus. In an exclusive interview with Pasatiempo (Santa took precious time from his workshop duties to chat by email), Mr. Claus shared his favorite part of Christmas at the Palace: “I love looking into the kids’ eyes, seeing their excitement, happiness, and, at times, apprehension,” Santa wrote. “I also look forward to seeing special children that come every year.” Unusual gift requests include lions and tigers, real cars, and new boyfriends and girlfriends for divorced parents — a reminder that holidays can be melancholy and complicated, even for the youngest among us. Santa said that kids are always curious about the North Pole and his team of flying fll reindeer, and about how he arrived at the Palace so
quickly when they saw him just hours earlier holding court at the DeVargas shopping center. Santa also noted that snow (on the ground or, better yet, falling from the sky) helps create a festive atmosphere for his visit to the Palace, and said he was excited for “the music and the smell of fire from the luminarias.” A unique offering of Christmas at the Palace is the chance to make a paper souvenir on one of the Palace Print Shop & Bindery ry’ y s printing presses, a 1907 Chandler & Price platen press. These presses were manufactured in Ohio from the 1880s until the 1960s, and the Palace’s model came from the Estancia News-Herald in the early 1970s. The machine, elegant and sturdy, is easily taller than your average four-year-old. “Oh, it’s usually a
zoo,” Palace printer James Bourland said cheerfully of the hordes of children that descend on the print shop during the event. (Bourland is indispensable over the course of the weekend — he’s usually the one to help the Las Posadas devils navigate their way up to the Palace’s roof via icy ladders.) Bourland explained how the press works: An engraved design is inserted into a slot, a dollop of ink is smeared on a disk, and the large wheel that makes the press move is gently set in motion. Kids approach the machine (and are even allowed to operate the foot pedal, which keeps the wheel spinning) and slide a piece of paper onto the press. After a quick smush of paper against the inked design, they’ve done Gutenberg proud.
Right, Manderfield Parlor decorated for Christmas, Palace of the Governors, 1966
Opposite page, bottom, a Christmas tree in the Palace of the Govenors, circa 1930s-1940s All images courtesy Palace of the Governors
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Opposite page, top, a Christmas performance of Los Tres Reyes, Santa Fe, circa 1915-1918; photo Aaron Craycraft
An Old World-New World tradition: Los Pastores
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The children are sent home with a piece of ephemera, something they’ve made themselves to stick on the fridge or tuck between the pages of The Polar Express. Last year’s souvenir was a slip of light blue paper printed with the phrase “Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow!” Two of the o’s in snow were replaced by dingbats (images cast on a piece of type) — in this case, a Zia symbol and a delicate snowfl flake. l On Saturday and Sunday, visitors can accomplish some not-quite-last-minute holiday shopping when the portal artisans’ children and grandchildren sell their work inside the museum. And on Sunday evening, everyone’s favorite Christmas pageant, Las Posadas (which translates as “the inns”), winds its way clockwise around the Plaza as Mary and Joseph seek refuge. On the way, they’re taunted by pitchfork-wielding devils on the rooftops and guided by light from the flickering fll candles held by hundreds of spectators. The procession ends in the Palace courtyard, made cozy by the luminarias’ glow and voices singing familiar songs in chorus, heralding the coming of Christmas. ◀
details ▼ Christmas at the Palace 5:30-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12 (Enter through the Palace of the Governors entrance at 105. W. Palace Ave. The New Mexico History Museum and Palace will close at 3 p.m. The History Museum will remain closed during the event.)
▼ Las Posadas 5:30-7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 14 Begins on the Plaza in front of the Palace of the Governors ▼ All events are free; 505-476-5200, www.nmhistorymuseum.org
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Los Pastores (which translates as “the shepherds”) is a natural complement to Las Posadas. The story picks up after Mary and Joseph have safely arrived at the stable and the baby Jesus has been born. The archangel San Miguel appears to a band of shepherds and entreats them to visit the new king. As the shepherds make their way to Bethlehem, they overcome hazards, like a demon who tries to tempt the shepherds away from their holy pilgrimage and Bartolo, a lazy shepherd whose antics slow the group’s progress — but provide comic relief. The performance, presented entirely in Spanish (with a synopsis in English), includes songs accompanied by live music. La Sociedad Folklorica de Santa Fe — a group founded with the mission to preserve the cultural traditions of Northern New Mexico — presents Los Pastores at Santuario de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe (the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe), as it has for the past 11 years. This year, as before, Sangre de Cristo Liturgies, a cultural preservation group headed by Arsenio Córdova, will perform the play. “Every year, it’s a little bit different,” said La Sociedad president Gloria Kahn. “Los Pastores changes from generation to generation, and every group has their own version of the play, like different songs that they might sing.” Los Pastores was first performed in Spain in the 16th century and made a natural transition to the New World, where it was used by the Catholic Church as part of the autos sacramentales (sacramental acts) oral instruction in its teachings for often-illiterate clergy members. Productions of Los Pastores are distinct in different regions, but all impart the directive to have faith — whether one is tempted by sin or slouching toward Bethlehem. In keeping with another beloved regional tradition, the performance concludes with bizcochitos. Food isn’t allowed inside the santuario, but attendees are given little bags of homemade cookies on their way out the door. ◀
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Michael Abatemarco I The New Mexican
TO PARIS WITH LOVE I can tell you that a fine example of the genius of Alfred Morang now has a home in the Musée d’Orsay ... and it will take a jackhammer to find it. — curator Paul Parker
riends, this is not a funeral; we are simply gathered here for a creative expression of merit and appreciation of a spirit that has been active in an activity that we in Santa Fe like to call art.” This quote, from Reginald Fisher, director of the Museum of Fine Arts at the time, appeared in Lorraine Carr’s “It Happened in Old Santa Fe” column in The New Mexican on Feb. 10, 1958, less than two weeks after the Canyon Road fire that had ended artist Alfred Morang’s life as he slept 32
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in his studio. Carr was reporting on a memorial held for Morang at the museum. “Alfred was an inventive, searching and daring spirit; as French as Lautrec, yet he never saw Paris,” Fisher had said. Despite never having traveled to France, Morang was certainly influenced by its artists — Monet, Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard, and Georges Seurat, to name a few — and would have been quite at home in the cafés and cabarets of fin-de-siécle Paris. But back in relatively quiet Santa Fe, perhaps Morang and his friends sought their own version of a comparably sophisticated nightlife, something of France’s absinthe-fueled melancholy at century’s end, by spending their nights drinking together at Claude’s Bar, a bohemian hangout near his studio — and where Morang likely spent his final hours before the fire. Recently, in a fitting tribute, a group of friends gathered on Canyon Road to toast the prolific painter and writer at El Farol (Claude’s having long been consigned to history). Among them were Lawrence Matthews, the owner of Matthews Gallery, and Paul Parker, the founder of the Santa Fe Art Club and co-curator, along with Matthews, of Morang and Friends, a retrospective of the artist’s work during his two decades in Santa Fe. Matthews and Parker met with Pasatiempo to discuss Morang’s work. “Alfred hosted salon parties for his friends every week,” Parker said. “They had discussions, arguments, and there was music.” “It was a wild time,” Matthews added. Something of the vibrant spirit of the Santa Fe art scene at mid-century is reflected in Morang’s works from this period. His renderings of dancing girls and “ladies of the night,” a favored subject for the Maine-born artist, were probably sketched at Claude’s, where cancan dancers were, according to Parker, a popular attraction. Morang captured them in a shower of bright colors in his 1947 painting Dancers at Midnight, on view in the exhibit. Morang and Friends is a rare sort of show for a Canyon Road gallery. Intent on presenting a visual record of Alfred Morang: left, Dancing Girls, 1950, ink and pastel; above, right, Untitled (Adobe), 1947, oil on board; above, an undated photo of the artist
the time, its co-curators have included about 40 works by the artist as well as a few made by his students at the Morang School of Fine Art, Janet Lippincott most notable among them. Also on exhibit are several of Morang’s personal effects, such as his violin, scorched in the fatal 1958 fire, as well as sketches, photographs, and a few wine and whiskey jugs the artist probably painted to make a quick buck (Morang often sold his artwork cheaply) — all from private collections. These are the sorts of holdings museums are more likely to show, but for Parker, Morang and Friends is a labor of
love, not just an estate, or secondary-market, type of show. “It’s an attempt to reacquaint the public with a seminal artist not only because of his own work, but because of his influence,” Matthews said. Morang studied both music and art in Boston during the 1920s, also publishing a number of literary works in the 1930s. Among those is “Frozen Stillness,” which first appeared in New Stories in 1935 and was subsequently selected for inclusion in 2000’s The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison. The opening reception
for Morang and Friends will feature a reading of “The Last Wax She Grooved.” This is another Morang short story, culled from a collection (now owned by Parker) of such works of fiction, along with letters, that in 1965 appeared as The Works of Alfred Morang — a book edited by one of the artist’s students, William Vincent Kirkpatrick. Morang first came to Santa Fe in 1938 with his wife, Dorothy, as a patient at the Sunmount Sanitarium. The region’s clean air and high altitude were considered restorative for those suffering from tuberculosis, and
the sanitarium, originally a tent city located on Camino del Monte Sol in the early 20th century and later more of a health resort, attracted John Gaw Meem, the painters Sheldon Parsons and Gerald Cassidy, and many other notable figures who would go on to become permanent fixtures in the Santa Fe art and literary scenes. While in Santa Fe, Morang turned his energies to painting, becoming associated briefly with the Transcendental Painting Group but never joining it continued on Page 34
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officially as a member. Still, several of the paintings in Morang and Friends, his 1941 Untitled (Abstract), among them, reflect the Transcendental Painting Group’s commitment to making art that was free of political and social concerns. In addition, his undated Into Tomorrow, probably from the same time period, explores concepts of color, space, light, and design in a manner that mirrors the Transcendentalist interest in imaginative realms and in moving beyond the appearances of the physical world. In some ways, his works from the 1940s are more aligned with Abstract Expressionism, particularly his 1947 Untitled (Figure), also on exhibit, a stylistic precursor of Willem de Kooning’s 1950s compositions. As an artist, Morang was a natural experimenter who moved easily between nonobjective and representational paintings, using to great effect the techniques he presumably taught himself by studying the French artists he held in such high esteem. Though his Santa Fe Hillside (1949) was painted with a palette knife, its loose, energetic swirls of color echo the visible brushwork of Van Gogh. His Autumn in the Park (1954), a lush scene depicting a sunny afternoon on the Santa Fe Plaza, was rendered with short dabs in a multitude of hues in what seems a direct nod to Seurat. Photographs of Morang often show him with drink in hand and a cigarette dangling from his lips or poised between his fingers. But, according to Parker, “It was a popular misconception that he was an alcoholic.” That misconception may stem, in part, from such images — but it may also have its origins in how Morang died that fateful night, which was most likely from smoke inhalation while he slept (his bed was left nearly intact in the fire). Had he lived, he might have finally made his way to Paris. Decades later, in a spur-of-the-moment decision inspired by Fisher’s words at Morang’s memorial as well as by those of a friend, who told him, “You should do something for Alfred in Paris,” Parker decided to make the long-overdue journey in Morang’s stead. He recounted his adventures in a couple of essays, “Hunting for Alfred Morang” and “Paris Thoughts.” “Maybe I could read one of his poems over the Seine on the Pont des Arts or tape his name under a table at Les Deux Magots,” Parker wrote. Then, after spending several days in Paris wondering how he could best honor Morang, Parker hit upon an idea. From his laptop, he printed an image of a Morang oil painting he once owned, carried it to the Musée d’Orsay, and, slipping quietly past a guard, found a suitable place to leave it. “I wrote a bit on the back about Alfred,” he related. “I can tell you that a fine example of the genius of Alfred Morang now has a home in the Musée d’Orsay ... and it will take a jackhammer to find it.” What Parker had written on the back of the image was “Alfred Morang died in 1958 in a fire in his studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. He loved and emulated the Impressionists, especially Monet and Bonnard. He never got to visit Paris until now, and his work shall forever share space with those he admired in the Musée d’Orsay on the banks of the Seine.” ◀
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eorge R.R. Martin has said that “it behooves a writer to be good to his fans,” and he should know. The author and Santa Fe resident’s A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series has a devoted global readership, and HBO’s Game of Thrones, now approaching its fifth season, is must-see TV for millions. Martin, who is known for his close involvement in the visual and commercial translation of his work, tapped Brooklyn-based artist Donato Giancola to create a dozen original paintings for the official A Song of Ice and Fire 2015 calendar. Beginning Thursday, Dec. 18, a selection of drawings, transfers, and oil paintings related to the project is on view, through Jan. 12, at the Jean Cocteau Cinema. Even if you aren’t yet a fan of Martin’s work, it’s easy to admire Giancola’s lively, romantic interpretations of the fantastic stories — and his art just might be the bridge you need to appreciate its literary inspiration. Both Martin and Giancola are on hand at Thursday’s opening reception to sign copies of the calendar (a few will be available for purchase, along with some of Giancola’s original artwork). Donato Giancola may not be a household name, but in fantasy and science-fiction circles he has long been held in high esteem. The artist, who was born in Vermont, has painted Gandalf and Frodo, Lancelot and Guinevere, and St. George and the
Dragon. He’s painted cyborgs and mermaids and the elves of Eragon, but he’s also created fantastical portraits of Charles Darwin, Joan of Arc, and Robert Heinlein. The artist was commissioned by the U.S. Postal Service to paint a pair of commemorative NASA stamps. No matter their subjects, Giancola’s works are characterized by rigorous detail and precise, classically inspired draftsmanship. His paintings might be thought of as occupying the central sliver of a Venn diagram whose opposing orbs, representing technical prowess and wanton fantasy, come together to transform the impossible — the glistening scales of a coiled dragon, for example — into something that suddenly seems very possible indeed. Taking a cue from Italian Renaissance painters, Giancola makes light and shadow, and their respective attributes of virtue and danger, crucial components of his work. A majestic portrait of Daenerys Targaryen, a leading character in Martin’s books, contains the visual cues for a multitude of potential narratives. In the center is a white horse, whose ornate bridle complements the shining blond hair and golden garments of the fair Daenerys, who rides it. From here, the eye shifts to the painting’s upper portion, where a trio of dragons swirls above our heroine. White, green, and black, they spread out across a mottled sky, whose densest and most ominous clouds gather above the black dragon on the right, its head thrown back in anguish or anger. The eye travels back to the center of the painting, whose ground is covered with gleaming blades of trampled grass, before settling at last on Daenerys, who reaches out her hand in a gesture of beatitude or forgiveness toward a small cluster of kneeling figures.
George R.R. Martin and Donato Giancola make beautiful calendars together What Is Dead May Never Die depicts the stormy shoreline where Martin’s character Aeron Greyjoy, or “Damphair,” nearly drowned. The beach is shown slanting downward from left to right — a dizzying angle that adds cinematic drama. In the foreground, a male figure walks across a seaweed-streaked bit of beach toward a group of three men. One of them, Damphair, we can assume, is shirtless and pale, having presumably just washed ashore. His head is gripped by another man, who attempts to resuscitate him, while another tugs at his arm in desperation. The crushing waves beyond are characters, too, for their violence undoubtedly played a role in Damphair’s near demise. Giancola offers some relief from the painting’s somber atmosphere by way of his masterful use of color, light, and rich detail, all of which lend a quality of exuberance to a subject that might otherwise seem overly dark. In Night Watch, a group of men armed with shields, staffs, and swords traverses a section of deep, bluewhite snow. Giancola’s remarkable decision to position the viewer directly above the men — an angle more suited to a bird than a human — makes 36
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for an exhilarating, voyeuristic perspective. The group is led by a raven-haired man (fans will recognize him as Jon Snow), who is accompanied by his faithful white wolf, Ghost. Facing this hero is a white-bearded man, dressed in cream-colored furs, who holds up his hand in a posture of warning as his eyes look alertly to the left. The picture conveys the promise of an adventure both dangerous and thrilling — epically, deliriously romantic. With Forging the Iron Throne, Giancola imagines how the fantasy cycle’s famous seat of swords might have come to be. Like darting bodies of slithery black eels, hundreds of shiny metal blades almost entirely fill the picture, a monstrosity of potential violence that teases the beholder, daring them to choose one place to focus. The glow of the smelting fire at the painting’s center certainly demands attention, as does the shirtless trio of men toiling away amid the mass of blades and sparks. Surely, though, the looming head of a huge, golden-eyed dragon, whose scales are as black and gleaming as the surrounding blades, is the most arresting image. Is this a dragon like Beowulf’s Grendel, that evil “coiled beast, living down in the darkness ... [who] growled in pain, impatient” with a heart that “stirred to come out to fight”? Giancola reminds us of something children know but grown-ups often forget: There is no substitute for the pure joy of fantasy. If what Martin said is true, that a writer must be good to his fans, then his appointment of Giancola to illustrate his stories occurs as an act of especial benevolence. ◀
details ▼ Donato Giancola — drawings, transfers, and oil paintings for George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire 2015 calendar; exhibit through Jan. 12, 2015 ▼ Opening reception and calendar signing by Giancola & Martin 5 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18
Donato Giancola: Eragon — Ambush in Du Weldenvarden, 2013, oil on panel Above, left, The Mechanic — Thresholds, 2014, oil on panel Opposite page, The House of Black and White — Arya, 2013, watercolor, pencil, and chalk on paper Images courtesy the artist
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riter-director Preston Sturges, master of the Hollywood screwball comedy, articulated a simple formula to make the perfect Christmas movie. The ingredients, said Sturges, should include “quite a lot of schmaltz [sentiment], a good dose of schmerz [suffering], and just enough schmutz [dirt] to make it box office.” Sturges spelled out his recipe for success close to 75 years ago, describing how he went about writing his first Christmas-themed movie, Remember the Night. But think of how many recent Christmas blockbusters still religiously follow his dictum. Elf? Check. A Christmas Story? Double check. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation? Check many times over, with creator John Hughes emphasizing the schmutz over the schmaltz and schmerz. Although it’s impossible to imagine Hughes without Sturges paving the way, Sturges’ Christmas comedies, sadly, are mostly forgotten. TV networks will air Elf, A Christmas Story, and Christmas Vacation around the clock this holiday season. But Sturges’ Remember the Night or Christmas in July are mainstays today only on Turner Classic Movies. That’s a bloody shame, because these movies are too smart and too much fun to be banished to the Island of Misfit Toys. Yes, they’re shot in black and white, so they look foreign and oldfashioned to many viewers under thirty-five. And, yes, the special effects tend to be meager, primitive, and laughable. But in the absence of CGI flying sleighs or animated snowmen bounding to life, these early Hollywood romps had to pad the action with clever plot twists, warm characters, and some of the springiest, sharpest dialogue found on celluloid. So why bother watching Christmas Vacation for the umpteenth time if you already know every punch line by heart and what to do when attacked by Cousin Eddie’s Rottweiler Snots? Instead, join Clark Griswold in the Jelly of the Month Club and treat yourself to these older, rarer, less-exposed titles — experiencing the bounty of the gift that keeps on giving.
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CHRISTMAS IN JULY (1940). This is good place to start because it was the first holiday-themed movie that Sturges both wrote and directed, crafted as he was freshly defining the yuletide-comedy conventions that prevail today. The film’s grandest conceit? It unfolds on a sizzling-hot summer day in Brooklyn, far removed from the winter solstice. Dick Powell is Jimmy MacDonald, a starry-eyed dreamer who enters every imaginable hokey contest, hoping to strike it rich. His annoyed office co-workers pull a cruel practical joke, sending him a telegram that says he’s won $25,000 for his new Maxford House Coffee slogan: “If you can’t sleep at night, it’s not the coffee, it’s the bunk.” The prank snowballs out of control. MacDonald, convinced he’s a genius — and a rich, lucky one at that — buys presents for everyone, not just his fiancée, mother-in-law, and neighbors, but for all the poor orphan for blocks around. Soon, every cop on the beat, every shyster lawyer, every smug fat cat and stiffed salesman is gunning for him. But how can they possibly deprive the orphans of their newfound gifts? Sturges has concocted a hyperactive lark that takes only 67 minutes to boost the power of giving, while skewering enough sacred cows to keep the steak larder full at Sardi’s. REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940). Yes, I’m dishing out a double helping of Sturges. He didn’t direct RTN but wrote the tale of a New York prosecutor who falls head over heels for a jewel thief he’s supposed to bring to justice. Of course, it’s Christmastime, so the impulsive emotions of the season tug at their heartstrings — or, as Sturges described it, “love reformed her and corrupted him.” This was the first of four Hollywood vehicles pairing the vulnerable Fred MacMurray with femme fatale Barbara Stanwyck, the apotheosis of their work together being Double Indemnity. No Christmas comedy has ever played or looked quite so much like a shimmery noir thriller. CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945). Stanwyck also appears in this zany situational comedy that showcases her pluck, energy, and intelligence as well as her incandescent beauty. She’s cast as America’s most perfect housewife, so anointed by the thousands
of women who swear by her monthly column for Smart Housekeeping magazine about love, cooking, child-rearing, and marriage. There’s only one hitch: Stanwyck is making everything up. She doesn’t own a Connecticut farm, as she claims, but instead rents
a cramped Manhattan apartment. She isn’t married, doesn’t have any children, and can’t even boil an egg. All of her recipes are hand-me-downs from an avuncular restaurateur. The ruse comes crashing down when Stanwyck’s bullish publisher, Alexander Yardley (the rotund Sydney Greenstreet of Maltese Falcon fame), invites himself over to the farm for the holidays, accompanied by a dashing, decisively single soldier nursing war wounds. Yardley thinks he’s staging the ideal publicity stunt. Boy, is he in for a rude awakening. THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (1942). This screwball comedy comes with a high pedigree, adapted from a Moss Hart-George S. Kaufman Broadway play by the Epstein brothers, Julius and Philip, who also penned Casablanca. Its calling card is droll repartee delivered by witty characters who are thinly veiled embodiments of Noel Coward, Harpo Marx, Tallulah Bankhead, and other notables. Monty Woolley takes center stage as Sheridan Whiteside, a cranky, selfabsorbed bon vivant patterned after the acerbic Algonquin Round Table critic Alexander Woollcott. His insults drive his nurse to walk off in a huff, declaring, “After one month with you, Mr. Whiteside, I am going to work in a munitions factory. From now on, anything I can do to help exterminate the human race will fill me with the greatest of pleasure.” It’s not exactly standard Christmas fare, although it is set at Christmastime, and the incapacitated Whiteside is receiving scads of unusual gifts — crates full of penguins and a live octopus — plus visits from ax murderers and the like. Of special note: The creators pushed the outer limits in dealing with the Hays Office censors. Check out Ann Sheridan’s diaphanous gown. That’s living proof that bras must have been rationed during World War II, same as copper and sugar. They didn’t nickname Sheridan “the Oomph Girl” for nothing. BEYOND TOMORROW (1940). Three elderly gents (Harry Carey, Charles Winninger, and C. Aubrey Smith) play meddling matchmakers on Christmas Eve, hooking up a destitute rodeo star with a kindhearted children’s clinic worker. If you enjoy Trading Places, this amiable feature might resonate with you. It involves similar machinations and life-altering manipulations while combining elements of fantasy, comedy, and mawkish drama. Richard Carlson, as the Texan, has a lousy accent but a decent singing voice. Much later, he gained fame wrestling the murky monster in Creature From the Black Lagoon. This is one of the rare Hollywood features of that era written by a woman, Adele Comandini. Christmas in Connecticut also counts among her credits. THE GREAT RUPERT (1950). Vaudeville trouper Louie Amendola, played by Jimmy Durante, and his family receive a Christmas windfall. Every Thursday, providing his wife utters “Rosalinda needs new shoes,” a shower of $100 bills comes tumbling down from the ceiling of their apartment. It turns out that the
tightwad landlord upstairs is salting away his cash, and a trained squirrel, Rupert, keeps tossing the rubbish out of his nest. George Pal, who produced this heartwarming, low-budget indie, also supervised the stop-motion animation with the squirrel — a warm-up for his peerless body of special effects-driven work, ranging from The War of the Worlds to Tom Thumb. THE BISHOP’S WIFE (1947). Cary Grant as the angel Dudley must resist the temptation to woo lonely Julia (Loretta Young), whose husband, an Episcopal bishop (David Niven), is preoccupied with building a new cathedral. THE LEMON DROP KID (1951). Bob Hope as the title character runs a Santa charity-collections scam to pay off a mobster who wants him iced. The film is based on a Damon Runyon story, so it’s full of colorful mugs, rapscallions, and racetrack layabouts. Hope introduced the hit song “Silver Bells,” which he subsequently sang on his TV Chricstmas specials. An uncredited Frank Tashlin, a former cartoonist, orchestrated the slapstick scenes. SUSAN SLEPT HERE (1954). OK, this one might creep you out with its premise — a seventeen-year-old juvenile delinquent (Debbie Reynolds) shacks up with a thirty-five-year-old Hollywood scribe (Dick Powell again) suffering from writer’s block. But if you can overlook the politically incorrect relationship, the film holds appeal with its fast-paced, wisecracking antics, again courtesy of Tashlin. In a surreal touch, it’s narrated by an Oscar statuette. ◀
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Victory at Trafalgar Square National Gallery, documentary, Center for Contemporary Arts, 4 chiles Veteran documentarian Frederick Wiseman takes an elegant, multilayered look inside one of London’s seminal art institutions in National Gallery. There is no talking to the camera and little in the way of narrative. Instead, Wiseman lets events at the museum unfold at a leisurely pace, taking you on tour through public and private spaces for an informative glimpse of the vast holdings. At times, you feel like a visitor, listening to the docents discuss highlights from the collection in detail, and it is in these moments that the film feels like a crash course in art history from the 13th century to the beginning of the modern era. Despite a three-hour running time, this expertly crafted documentary is absorbing and offers up the next best thing to being there in person. Regardless of your familiarity with what is on view, you are bound to come out of the theater knowing much more than when you came in, and that includes aspects of the staging and lighting of exhibits, the gilding of handcrafted picture frames, and the painstaking work of painting conservation. Whether Wiseman turns his lens on masterworks by Leonardo da Vinci, Vermeer, Rubens, and a host of others or takes the camera behind the scenes, the effect is like being a fly on the wall. We meet several staff members over the long haul and, though we can guess at the various roles they play, their titles and positions are never stated. There are marketing, event planning, and budget meetings, often presided over by director Nicholas Penny, a dignified man of few words who possesses an air of shrewd intelligence. It is remarkable how candid and natural he and his staff seem. Not a single one behaves as though they
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are on camera. Glimpses of the crowds in the exhibit halls show visitors in rapt attention (and a few who look bored or indifferent). The faces in the paintings stare back just as many of them have since the museum’s founding in the early 19th century and, for older works in the collection, for centuries. One can imagine all of the institution’s silent portraits bearing witness to the passage of years. At times the camera lingers on details of the famous works: the startled expression in Caravaggio’s Boy Bitten by a Lizard, Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun’s alluring Self-Portrait in a Straw Hat, Giovanni Battista Gaulli’s lifelike Portrait of Cardinal Marco Gallo, the intelligent gaze of Leonardo’s Lady With an Ermine, and so many others. Some of the more in-depth expositions by staff and docents include erudite descriptions of Rubens’ Samson and Delilah, Holbein the Younger’s enigmatic The Ambassadors, and Titian’s Diana and Actaeon, based on the story as set down by the Roman poet Ovid in his Metamorphoses. Titian’s painting depicts
Restoration drama: a conservator examines a 17th-century painting by Ludolf Bakhuizen
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Actaeon, a hunter, accidently stumbling upon the goddess Diana while bathing, an act that incurred her wrath. It hangs beside another Titian work, The Death of Actaeon, in which the hunter, transformed by Diana into a stag, is seen being torn apart by his own hounds. A conservator’s intriguing presentation to a group of students on Rembrandt’s Portrait of Frederick Rihel on Horseback reveals that the artist had originally painted another composition beneath, a fact discovered through radiographic imaging. Early in the film, a docent explains to a tour group that a religiousthemed painting would have appeared very different in its original setting from how it does to a modern audience, which would be seeing it in artificial light as opposed to the candlelight that would have allowed the figures to appear almost alive in the flickering dance of light and shadow. There is also discussion of the compositional elements in J.M.W. Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire, including its contrasts between bright and dark areas. The painting commemorates a vessel in the fleet of the Royal Navy that played an important role in the Battle of Trafalgar during the Napoleonic wars. The battle itself is commemorated in London’s Trafalgar Square, the location of the National Gallery, making Turner’s painting significant to national identity as well as to the collection. No matter how unobtrusively the camera seems to take in what hangs on the gallery walls, Wiseman seems to have carefully selected what he chose to highlight. The film earns your respect for the hard work of staff and volunteers at the museum and its commitment to the history, preservation, and craft of art. As one docent puts it, “The brilliant thing about art: It encompasses everything. It’s not just about either drawing or painting; it’s about life.” National Gallery makes that clear, and not only deepens one’s appreciation for this particular institution but for museums everywhere. — Michael Abatemarco
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Nazi negotiations Diplomacy, historical drama, not rated, The Screen, 3 chiles Diplomacy is about an immoral man facing a moral dilemma. Based on real people and events, it imagines the closed-door conversation held between Nazi general Dietrich von Choltitz and Swedish consul Raoul Nordling during the final hours of Germany’s occupation of Paris in August, 1944, when the city was “a huge time bomb,” as one of von Choltitz’s lieutenants says in the film. The Nazi-appointed governor of Paris, von Choltitz has strict orders directly from Hitler to blow up the city’s key bridges, stations, and monuments — with particular emphasis on the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame, and the Opera. Given that we know the less-explosive end result, the tension that results from German director Volker Schlöndorff’s skillful yet incompletely realized drama runs surprisingly high. A filmmaker could be forgiven for dramatizing these historic moments through scenes of stealthy French Resistance sabotage or explosive aerial strikes (as René Clément did in the 1966 film Is Paris Burning?). Schlöndorff, best known for his adaptation of Günter Grass’ The Tin Drum, instead focuses on verbal confrontation, here adapting a play by Cyril Gely that is also called Diplomacy. The exchange begins when Nordling (André Dussollier) materializes by way of a hidden staircase in the private rooms of von Choltitz (Niels Arestrup). The diplomat’s sudden appearance after the general has dispatched his subordinates, his soft-spoken rationality, and kind nature (at one point he provides the aged general with medical assistance) all contribute to a sense of Nordling being the angel on von Choltitz’s shoulder. He uses all the persuasive tools of his profession to forestall the general, challenging the legality of the decision as an act of war, the validity of absolute loyalty, and the justness of the eye-for-an-eye philosophy applied to cities. Finally, he appeals to the historic legacy the general will leave behind, and only then begins to gain some traction. Whether von Choltitz was actually the savior of Paris, as he presents himself to be in his memoir (also titled Is Paris Burning?), remains hotly contested. Diplomacy accepts and furthers this portrayal without probing much deeper, though what was actually said between the two men is unknown, as are all of von Choltitz’s reasons for disobeying his directive at the last minute. Early in the film, the general says, “In Sevastopol, I had to carry out the hardest order of my career. The liquidation of the Jewish population. I obeyed that order and accepted the consequences.” The order to destroy Paris, unlike the one to commit genocide, crossed a line for von Choltitz, but rather than exploring the authenticity behind the general’s change of heart, the film more simplistically celebrates it. — Loren Bienvenu
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Forever Is Now The Immortalists, documentary, not rated, Jean Cocteau Cinema, 4 chiles The dream of immortality outlives everyone who desires it, suggests Aldous Huxley’s 1939 novel, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. Its title is taken from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s ode to mortality “Tithonus” (“Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath/And after many a summer dies the swan”). In the novel, a rich Hollywood mogul, surrounded by a lively group of acquaintances, pursues the secret of longevity. Set in perpetually youthful Los Angeles, Huxley plays up the narcissism in this desire and the ethical questions that would come with living forever. What are the consequences of living for centuries, and what toll would the required treatments exact? In Huxley’s case, the test subject from the 15th century has experienced a kind of reverse-evolution side effect, his behavior becoming more animal-like as the endless years go by. In David Alvarado and Jason Sussberg’s thoughtprovoking documentary about two researchers committed to achieving longevity, the price comes in the form of side effects, like those listed on a prescription box. One theory is particularly plausible. It’s so believable that it gives The Immortalist a shimmer of hope. But there’s a catch. If it doesn’t make you younger, it will give you cancer. The Immortalists explores the research and personalities of Bill Andrews and Aubrey de Grey, both of whom believe they are on the brink of not just slowing aging but reversing it. The film begins innocently enough, introducing the men, one a marathon-running researcher, the other an eccentric Ph.D. with a sweeping beard. The biology behind their beliefs, shown with the aid of animation, seems achievable. The men’s lifestyles and circumstances explain their motivation. Family members figure in.
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Will you still love me tomorrow? Bill Andrews and Aubrey de Grey
Andrews’ eighty-four-year-old father, who urged his son as a grade-school student to be a doctor and cure aging, shows how selective decline can be. He’s able to shuffle gracefully alongside his jogging son, yet shows signs of memory loss. “Life is so funny,” says the older Andrews. “You learn and learn and learn — and just about the time you learned what you wanted to learn, you die.” He tells the camera that he’s proud of his dad for becoming a scientist and proud of his dad for taking on aging. Of course, he means his son. De Grey, first seen punting down an English river, says that there’s nothing personal in his passion to stop aging, that it’s not about his wife or mother or himself. “I’ve always thought about it in purely humanitarian terms,” he claims. We meet his eighty-one-year-old mother, who tells us she’s seventy-one and a half before being corrected. Somewhere along the way, The Immortalists becomes less a documentary on cutting-edge science and more a character study. Andrews twice attempts a 138-mile race through the Himalayas, a feat seemingly as impossible as conquering death. Andrews’ fiancée explains that if his research succeeds, their marriage will be forever. De Grey, a self-described “poster child” for future lifestyles, can see a need for various sexual partners over the course of a thousand years. Seldom without a drink in his hand, he punctuates a particularly theoretical revelation into the camera with a long swig from a beer bottle. Drinking or not, de Grey is adept at explaining cellular damage and what it might take to repair it. A colleague marvels at how much alcohol the man can hold and still have “coherent scientific thoughts.” Still, we can’t help wondering if his liver is aging faster than the rest of him. We see him and his older wife walk to a weedy spot within sight of the roadway, strip off their clothes, and have an amorous picnic. De Grey doesn’t care about how he’s viewed or if his eccentricities give credence to the charges of black magic and pseudoscience other scientists throw at him. “It sometimes escapes the general
public that scientists are actually human beings who enjoy having a good time,” he says. As it explores immortality, The Immortalists stuffs us with reminders of entropy — in faces, in homes, and in nature. Some of these reminders are as innocent as de Grey’s wife, also a researcher, who leans into her computer screen and squints to make out what’s there. Randy, Andrews’ boyhood chum and now his business partner in the biotech firm Sierra Sciences, is in a race with death, giving meaning to his company’s slogan, “Cure aging or die trying.” Contrasting photos of Andrews and de Grey when young (and especially those of de Grey’s wife) suggest that the clock marches on even as they try to stop it. And what if they do? What happens when aging is reversed and the difference in chronological ages, even measured in centuries, no longer matters? Is it OK to date someone 300 years younger than you? The Immortalists is many-layered and full of visual imagery: a hopelessly cluttered home, two lovers on a bridge beneath where de Grey is punting. In addition to the science and the personalities, there’s a capitalistic side to the crusade. Keeping the research funded seems as difficult as conquering death. And, of course, there are doubters in the science community. Given their say, the doubters replace fond hopes with a reluctant skepticism. The doubters also bring up the practical and social questions that Andrews seems to ignore in the film and that de Grey mentions only in passing. Will the breakthroughs, if ever realized, be available to everyone? What will society do to accommodate the long-lived? And what about those who want their lives to end? The doubters also question the validity of the research. Is pursuing immortality reasonable? In Huxley’s book, one of its characters asks a friend if he will continue seeking a cure for death. “Only so long as I felt fairly certain that what I was doing wouldn’t cause more harm than good,” he answers. — Bill Kohlhaase
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RESTAURANT REVIEW Alex Heard I For The New Mexican
Here’s the beef Rio Chama 414 Old Santa Fe Trail, 505-955-0765, www.riochamasteakhouse.com Lunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m., bar menu 2-5 p.m., dinner 5-10 p.m. daily, brunch 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays & Sundays Takeout available Vegetarian options Handicapped accessible Noise level: moderate Full bar Credit cards, no checks
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The Short Order Winter is a good time to eat at Rio Chama. Though it has a wide-ranging menu, it’s primarily a steakhouse, and it follows the old tradition of serving salads and side dishes that are cheesy, creamy, and high in calories. The dry-aged beef on offer — Black Angus from southern Colorado — is consistently good, regardless of which cut you choose. The sides are a mixed bag, and can be overwhelmingly heavy. Desserts are sometimes an afterthought at steak places, but not here, so you’ll want to leave room. Recommended: raw oysters on the half shell, chicken flautas, New York strip steak, filet mignon, pumpkin cheesecake, and chocolate pot with crème anglaise.
Ratings range from 1 to 5 chiles, including half chiles. This reflects the reviewer’s experience with regard to food and drink, atmosphere, service, and value. 5 = flawless 4 1/2 = extraordinary 4 = excellent 3 1/2 = very good 3 = good 2 1/2 = average 2 = fair 1 1/2 = questionable 1 = poor
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A modern steakhouse like Rio Chama has an ancestral link to the old chophouse restaurants and “beefsteak” banquets that started showing up in New York City after the Civil War. Chophouses were dingy places frequented by people looking for a filling, meat-heavy meal. Beefsteaks, which The New Yorker’s Joseph Mitchell wrote about in a classic 1939 article called “All You Can Hold for Five Bucks,” were communal feasts devoted to steak-eating gluttony. For a long time, these events were mostly stag, but Mitchell reported that women started getting invited to political-party-sponsored beefsteaks after they won the right to vote in 1920, with consequences that some purists found unsettling. “[Women] forced the addition of such things as Manhattan cocktails, fruit cups, and fancy salads to the traditional menu of slices of ripened steaks, double lamb chops, kidneys, and beer by the pitcher,” he wrote. Obviously, Rio Chama’s more civilized menu would make those old boys squirm. Here, you can skip beef entirely and try vegetarian lasagna, salmon, sea bass, and chicken. But this is still primarily a steak joint, where beef is king and the salads and sides are supporting players. It’s long been traditional in steakhouses to make these offerings rich and cheesy calorie bombs, as embodied in that familiar staple, creamed spinach. Rio Chama follows this path, so be forewarned: This is no place for dieters. The wedge salad I ordered was typical. It consisted of a hunk of iceberg lettuce drowned in blue cheese dressing, with a floppy piece of bacon laid on top. Rio Chama occupies a rambling compound just north of the state capitol building with many comfortable spots to drink and eat. The restaurant’s big bar, which fills the main building’s northeast corner, is a favorite for sports fans because of its four large, high-mounted TV screens and sociable atmosphere. The main dining room, south of the bar, is warm, spacious, and woody, with kiva fireplaces flaming away this time of year. Expansions here and there have created private dining areas available for rent, like the President’s Room and Patio (a large banquet space) and the Abiquiú Room (a wine-cellar dining area that seats 32). For both of my recent meals, I tried to capture that old beefsteak spirit by opening with a strong mixed drink. Fittingly, Rio Chama’s cocktail menu features three different Manhattans, but I went with a sentimental favorite: an Old Fashioned, a combination of bourbon, bitters, a sweetener like simple syrup, ice, orange slices, a cherry, and (sometimes) a squirt of mineral water to lighten things up. The Rio Chama version is generous — the bartenders here pour big — and not too sweet. But it didn’t have quite enough bourbon kick. My companions noticed this with three other drinks we tried, including a margarita and a martini. They all seemed a bit watered down. The two appetizers we ordered — chicken flautas and raw oysters on the half shell, which were billed as being from coastal Virginia — were both very good. The flautas consisted of minced chicken breast rolled inside three corn tortillas that were then fried and served with guacamole and two sauces, one of which was an oniony marinara. The guac was
great; the marina is a so-so concoction that could use more herbs. As for the oysters, I may have to go back. Years ago, I consumed a lot of bivalves during visits to Chincoteague, Virginia, and the oysters that Rio Chama served were exactly like what I remember: smaller and thinner than a Gulf oyster, but also sweeter and tastier. Over the course of two nights, my companions and I tried four different cuts of beef: the prime rib, the New York strip, the rib-eye, and the filet mignon. Rio Chama’s menu and website don’t say anything about what kind of cattle they’re using, but if you call they’ll tell you: It’s feedlot-finished Black Angus from southern Colorado. The beef has been dry-aged, which means its flavor has been concentrated by hanging for a few weeks in cold temperatures. Every cut we tried was very good — fatty and flavorful — and the steaks were juicy and nicely seared. Rio Chama’s weakest link is its side dishes, which are sometimes much too heavy. (Every steak order comes with a side; each additional one is $5.) The creamed spinach and cheesy grits are so loaded with dairy that they’re overwhelming, and the sautéed kale was basically bathing in butter. The two desserts we tried — pumpkin cheesecake and chocolate pot with crème anglaise — were surprisingly subtle and light by comparison. I think even those flinty old beefsteak purists wouldn’t have minded giving them a try. ◀
Dinner for two at Rio Chama: Chama Old Fashioned..........................................$ 13.00 Partly Cloudy cocktail..........................................$ 9.00 Half-dozen raw oysters.........................................$ 18.00 Three flautas.........................................................$ 7.00 Wedge salad (half)................................................$ 7.00 New York strip steak with sautéed kale ...............$ 30.00 Eight-ounce prime rib with cheesy grits ..............$ 27.00 Loaded baked potato ............................................$ 5.00 TOTAL..................................................................$ 116.00 (before tax and tip) Dinner for two, another visit: Margarita ..............................................................$ 16.00 Martini..................................................................$ 14.50 Three raw oysters .................................................$ 9.00 Calamari ...............................................................$ 13.00 Caesar salad (half)................................................$ 6.00 Rib-eye with creamed spinach..............................$ 36.00 Filet mignon with garlic mashed potatoes ...........$ 35.00 Green beans..........................................................$ 5.00 Pumpkin cheesecake ............................................$ 9.00 Chocolate pot with crème anglaise ......................$ 9.00 TOTAL..................................................................$ 152.50 (before tax and tip)
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A Special Exhibit of Contemporary Boxes Made by Spanish Market Artists
For S AS Members-Only Opening: 5-7 pm Friday, December 12th
…and While You Are at the Museum… Don’t Forget to Shop! SPECIAL HOLIDAY TRUNK SHOW!
all The holiday sweeTs, frosTed shorTbread cookies, biscochiTos, gingerbread cookies, and loTs more in our bakery case. may your holidays be filled wiTh love and Peace
326 S. Guadalupe •
988-7008 • www.ziadiner.com
Meet Renowned Jewelers Ralph Sena and Felipe Rivera Saturday, December 13 from 1-4
Earrings by Ralph Sena
Special Items of Jewelry will be Available Silver Filigree by at the Trunk Show and in the Felipe Rivera Museum Shop through the Holidays The Curtin-Paloheimo Shop at the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art Museum Hill Open Tuesday-Sunday, 10-5 www.spanishcolonial.org
1pm - Pecos (Images of America) book signing and talk by author Paul Secord
Pecos National Historical Park is located 25 miles east of
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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT CALENDAR
December 12-18, 2014
CALENDAR COMPILED BY PAMELA BEACH
FRIDAY, DEC. 12
In Concert New Mexico Gay Men's Chorus
Gallery & Museum Openings
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, 208 Grant Ave. Holiday show, 7:30 p.m., $20, discounts available, nmgmc.org.
David Richard Gallery
544 S. Guadalupe St., 505-983-9555 Cracks in the Light, paintings by Suzan Woodruff; Vertical Striped Paintings, work by Tom Martinelli; reception 5-7 p.m., through Jan. 10. Gallery talk with the artists, 2 p.m. Saturday.
Santa Fe Music Collective jazz concert
Eye on the Mountain
Museum Hill Café, 710 Camino Lejo The series continues with saxophonist Doug Lawrence, with Bert Dalton on piano, Maren Hatch on bass, and John Trentacosta on drums, 7 p.m., $25, santafemusiccollective.org, 505-983-6820.
Fine Arts Gallery
Santa Fe University of Art & Design ensembles
614 Agua Fría St., 928-308-0319 Guadalupe, group show and holiday celebration, 5-8 p.m., through Feb. 12. Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael's Dr. After the History: 167 Years of Dysfunction, group show of work by BFA students, reception 5-7 p.m., through Dec. 19.
Theater/Dance
Giacobbe-Fritz Fine Art
26 Miles
O'Shaughnessy Performance Space, Benildus Hall, SFUA&D, 1600 St. Michael's Dr. Percussion and funk/R & B sets, 7 p.m., no charge.
Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie Camino Real Productions presents a coming-of-age tale by playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, 7:30 p.m., $15-$18, 505-424-1601, teatroparaguas.org, final weekend.
702 Canyon Rd., 505-986-1156 Small works holiday group show, including works by Camille Engel, Nocona Burgess, and Ben Steele, reception 3-5p.m.
Heidi Loewen Porcelain Gallery
Belisama Irish Dance & Moving People Dance
315 Johnson St., 505-988-2225 Works by ceramicists Matthew Rowe and Joe Hochman, reception 5-7:30 p.m., through December.
James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Rd. Irish Jigs and Winter Treats, 7 p.m., $15, discounts available, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org, Saturday and Sunday encores.
James Kelly Contemporary
1611 Paseo de Peralta, 505-989-1601 Pard Morrison: Some Ghost, sculpture and works on paper, reception 5-7 p.m., through Feb. 21.
Matthews Gallery
669 Canyon Rd., 505-992-2882 Morang and Friends, works by Alfred Morang and his contemporaries, reception 5-7 p.m., through Dec. 26. (See story, Page 32)
Museum of Spanish Colonial Arts
750 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-982-2226 Guadalupe, images of Our Lady of Guadalupe from the museum collection; Boxed In, contemporary artisan-made boxes from the collection, 5 p.m. opening, through May.
New Concept Gallery
610 Canyon Rd., 505-795-7570 Small Works!, paintings, photographs, prints, and sculpture by gallery artists, reception 5-7 p.m., through Jan. 18.
Paseo Pottery
1424 Paseo de Peralta, 505-988-7687 Group show of works by gallery artists, featuring work by Ginny Zipperer, open house 3-7 p.m., through Sunday.
Phil Space
1410 Second St., 505-983-7945 Leftovers: Cool Trash for Future Generations, an installation by Jennifer Joseph, reception 6-9 p.m., through Jan. 16.
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The Importance of Being Earnest Photo-eye Bookstore + Project Space shows photographs by Hiroshi Watanabe, 376-A Garcia St.
Photo-eye Bookstore + Project Space
Turner Carroll Gallery
Ryder Studio
William R. Talbot Fine Art, Antique Maps & Prints
376-A Garcia St., 505-988-5152 The Day the Dam Collapses, photographs by Hiroshi Watanabe, reception 5-7 p.m., through Feb. 14. 124 W. Palace Ave., 505-467-8424 Teacher and student group show of paintings and drawings, reception 5-8 p.m.
TAI Modern
1601 Paseo de Peralta, 505-984-1387 Embellished, Nancy Youdelman's sculptural assemblages, reception 5-7 p.m., through Jan. 17.
Than Povi Fine Art Gallery
6 Banana Lane, 505-455-9988 Paintings by Michelle Tsosie Sisneros (Laguna, Santa Clara, Diné), reception 4-6 p.m.
Thaw Visual Arts Center
Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael's Dr. Materialize!, end-of-semester group show, reception 4:30-6 p.m., through Feb. 15.
725 Canyon Rd., 505-986-9800 Red, group show, reception 5 p.m., through Jan. 16.
129 W. San Francisco St. , 505-982-1559 Holy Adobes: The Churches of New Mexico, including works by Gustave Baumann, Gene Kloss, and Lucille Leggett, through Jan. 16.
Classical Music Santa Fe Women's Ensemble
Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail Songs of Peace 2014 concert series, under the direction of Linda Raney, 7 p.m., $35, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234, Sunday and Thursday encores.
TGIF recital
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe, 208 Grant Ave. Esso Eternal Summer String Orchestra performs music of Handel, Vivaldi, and Sokolov, 5:30-6 p.m., donations accepted, 505-982-8544, Ext. 16.
St. John's College, Great Hall, Peterson Student Center, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca Student theater group Chrysostomos presents Oscar Wilde's comedy, 7:30 p.m., no charge, runs through Sunday.
Nine
Greer Garson Theatre, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael's Dr. Students perform selected songs, scenes, and dance numbers from Arthur Kopit's musical, 7 p.m., no charge, 505-473-6439, Saturday encores.
Twelfth Night
Scottish Rite Center, 463 Paseo de Peralta Threshold Art Collective presents Shakespeare's comedy, 7 p.m., $30 in advance and at the door (includes post-performance gala), 505-750-0124, Saturday encore. (See story, Page 28)
Books/Talks Tchaikovsky and the Trumpets of Fate
St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave. Conductor Oliver Prezant discusses the Santa Fe Community Orchestra's winter concert program in an illustrated presentation, 7 p.m., donations accepted.
Events Christmas at the Palace
Palace of the Governors, on the Plaza The museum celebrates its 30th anniversary by providing refreshments, live music by Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe, a chance to operate an antique printing press, and other activities, 5:30-8 p.m., no charge, donations of nonperishable food welcome. (See story, Page 30)
Glow
Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 715 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill Winter lights event running through Jan. 3 (closed Christmas day); featuring illuminated geodesic domes, 5-8 p.m.; visit Santa's Corner 5-6:30 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays through Dec. 19, $8 online and on-site, discounts available, 505-471-9103, santafebotanicalgarden.org
Nightlife
(See addresses at right)
Blue Rooster
Native singer/songwriter Shelly Morningsong, with Fabian Fontenelle, 7 p.m., call for cover.
Second Street Brewery
Pollo Frito, New Orleans-style funk and soul, 6-9 p.m., no cover.
Second Street Brewery at the Railyard
Watermelon Jug Band, 7 p.m., no cover.
Shadeh
Clear Channel Radio Rock ‘n’ Roll Night, 9 p.m.-4 a.m., no cover.
Skylight
Dance band Chango, in the Skylight Theater, 7-10 p.m.; Don Martin's Reggaematical Birthday Bash, in the Skylab, 9 p.m.-1:45 a.m.; The Alchemy Party, with DJs Dynamite Sol and JuiceBox, 9 p.m.-1:45 a.m.; call for cover. Singer/guitarist Michael Tait Tafoya, 7-9 p.m., no cover.
Swiss Bistro
Irish multi-instrumentalist Gerry Carthy, on the patio, 7-10 p.m.
Upper Crust Pizza
Songwriter Gary Paul, 6-9 p.m., no cover.
Vanessie
Pianists Doug Montgomery, 6-8 p.m., and Jess Godwin, 8-11 p.m.; call for cover.
SATURDAY 12/13 Gallery and Museum Openings
¡Chispa! at El Mesón
Paseo Pottery
Three Faces of Jazz, featuring guest saxophonist Dave Anderson and trumpeter Jan MacDonald, 7:30-10:30 p.m., no cover.
Cowgirl BBQ
Local country artist Bill Hearne, 5 p.m.; Jay Boy Adams & Zenobia, with Mister Sister, R & B, 8:30 p.m.; no cover.
The Den
Ladies' Night, with DJ Luna spinning dance beats, 9 p.m.-close, call for cover.
1424 Paseo de Peralta, 505-988-7687 Group show of pieces by gallery artists, featuring work by Ginny Zipperer, open house 10 a.m.-5 p.m., through Sunday.
Tina Dávila Pottery
933 Nicole Place, 505-986-9856 Pottery sale and open studio, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Opera in HD The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD
Rock 'n' roll band J.J. & The Hooligans, 9 p.m.-close, call for cover.
The Lensic Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 10 a.m. (estimated run time six hours), $22-$28, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
El Paseo Bar & Grill
Classical Music
El Farol
Weekly rotating DJs, 9:30 p.m.-close, no cover.
Evangelo's
Cantare
Guitarist/flutist Ronald Roybal, 7-9 p.m., no cover.
Christ Lutheran Church, 1701 Arroyo Chamiso The seven-member ensemble performs This Evenfall 'Tis Snowing, choral music and carols, 3 p.m., $10 recommended donation at the door benefits Cantu Spiritus Chamber Choir.
La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda
In Concert
La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa
Santa Fe Place Mall, 4250 Cerrillos Rd. The all-volunteer ensemble plays holiday favorites, led by Greg Heltman, 7 p.m., no charge, santafeconcertband.org.
Dance band Little Leroy & His Pack of Lies, 9 p.m.-close, call for cover.
Hotel Santa Fe
Classic-rock band C.S. Rockshow, with Don Curry, Pete Springer, and Ron Crowder, 8 p.m., no cover. Nacha Mendez Quartet, 6:30-9:30 p.m., no cover.
The Lodge at Santa Fe
Pachanga Club Fridays, Latin-dance night with DJ Aztech Sol, 9:30 p.m., call for cover.
Santa Fe Concert Band holiday concert
Santa Fe University of Art & Design senior concert
Mine Shaft Tavern
Bluegrass duo Paw & Erik, 5 p.m.; Timbo blues jam, 8 p.m.-close, no cover.
O'Shaughnessy Performance Space, Benildus Hall, SFUA&D, 1600 St. Michael's Dr. Violinist Gabe Tafoya plays mariachi selections and music of the Balkans, 4 p.m., no charge.
Omira Bar & Grill
Theater/Dance
Jazz saxophonist Brian Wingard, 6-9 p.m., no cover.
Palace Restaurant & Saloon
Half Broke Horses, 4:30-7:30 p.m., no cover.
Pranzo Italian Grill
Geist Cabaret, with pianist David Geist, 6-9 p.m., call for cover.
The Jewel Box Cabaret
James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Rd. Irish Jigs and Winter Treats, 7 p.m., $15, discounts available, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
María Benítez Theater, The Lodge at Santa Fe Gender-bending performances; hosted by Guava Chiffon, featuring Coco Caliente and Lin Z, 8:30 p.m., doors open at 7:30 p.m., $10, VIP tickets $15, 505-428-7781.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Los Pastores
St. John's College, Great Hall, Peterson Student Center, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca Student theater group Chrysostomos presents Oscar Wilde's comedy, 7:30 p.m., no charge, concludes Sunday.
Starlight Lounge at Montecito Santa Fe
Café Café
Trio Los Primos, 6 p.m., no cover.
Belisama Irish Dance & Moving People Dance
26 Miles
Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie Camino Real Productions presents a coming-of-age tale by playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, 7:30 p.m., $15-$18, 505-424-1601, teatroparaguas.org, final weekend.
Santuario de Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe, 100 S. Guadalupe St. Arsenio Cordova theater group presents the traditional Christmas play, 2 p.m., donations welcome, presented by La Sociedad Folklorica, de Santa Fe, 505-983-7839. (See story, Page 30)
Check with venues
for updates and sp ecial events
Agoyo Lounge at the Inn on the Alameda Mine Shaft Tavern 303 E. Alameda St. 28 46 NM 14, Madrid, , 505-984-2121 505-473-0743 Anasazi Restauran Mu seum Hill Café t & Bar 113 Washington Av 710 Camino Lejo, Mi e., 505-988-3030 lner Plaza, 505-984-8900 Bishop’s Lodge Ra nch Resort & Spa 1297 Bishops Lodg e Rd., 505-983-6377 Music Room at Garrett’s Desert Inn 311 Old Santa Fe Tra Blue Rooster il, 505-982-1851 101 W. Marcy St., 50 Odd Fellows Hall 5-206-2318 1125 Cerrillos Rd., Burro Alley Café 505-473-0955 207 W. San Francisc Omira Bar & Grill o St., 505-982-0601 1005 St. Francis Dr Café Café ., 505-780-5483 500 Sandoval St., 50 Palace Restaurant 5-466-1391 & Saloon 142 W. Palace Ave., ¡Chispa! at El Mesó 505-428-0690 n 213 Washington Av Pranzo Italian Grill e., 505-983-6756 540 Montezuma Av Cowgirl BBQ e., 505-984-2645 319 S. Guadalupe St. Santa Fe Bar & Grill , 505-982-2565 187 Paseo de Peral The Den ta, DeVargas Cente r, 505-982-3033 132 W. Water St., 50 5-983-1615 Santa Fe Commun Duel Brewing ity Convention Center 1228 Parkway Dr., 505-474-5301 201 W. Marcy St., 50 Eldorado Hotel & 5-955-6705 Spa Santa Fe Sol Stage 309 W. San Francisc & Grill o St., 505-988-4455 37 Fir e Place, solofsantaf El Farol e.com Second Street Brew 808 Canyon Rd., 50 ery 5-983-9912 1814 Second St., 50 El Paseo Bar & Grill 5-982-3030 Second Street Brew 208 Galisteo St., 50 er 5-992-2848 1607 Paseo de Peral y at the Railyard Evangelo’s ta, 505-989-3278 Shadeh at Buffalo 200 W. San Francisc Thunder o St., 505-982-9014 Reso rt & Casino Hilton Santa Fe Pojoaque Pueblo, U.S 100 Sandoval St., 50 . 84/285, 5-988-2811 505-455-5555 Hotel Santa Fe Skylight 1501 Paseo de Peral ta, 505-982-1200 139 W. San Francisc o St., 505-982-0775 Iconik Coffee Roas ters Starlight Lounge at 1600 Lena St., 505-4 Montecito 28-0996 Santa Fe Jean Cocteau Cinem 500 Rodeo Rd., 505-4 a 28-7777 418, Montezuma Av e., 505-466-5528 Sweetwater Harve st Kitchen Junction 1512-B Pacheco St. , 505-795-7383 530 S. Guadalupe St. , 505-988-7222 Swiss Bistro La Boca 401 S. Guadalupe St. , 505-988-5500 72 W. Marcy St., 50 5-982-3433 Taberna La Boca La Casa Sena Cant 125 Lincoln Ave., 50 ina 5-988-7102 125 E. Palace Ave., 505-988-9232 TerraCotta Wine Bis tro La Fiesta Lounge at 304 Johnson St., 50 La Fonda 5-989-1166 100 E. San Francisc o St., 505-982-5511 Tiny’s La Posada de Sant a Fe Resort and Sp 1005 St. Francis Drive , Suite 117, a 50 330 E. Palace Ave., 5-983-9817 505-986-0000 Lensic Performing The Underground Arts Center at Evan 211 W. San Francisc o St., 505-988-1234 200 W. San Francisco St. gelo’s The Lodge at Sant Upper Crust Pizza a Fe 750 N. St. Francis Dr 329 Old Santa Fe Tra ., 505-992-5800 il, 505-982-0000 Low ‘n’ Slow Lowride Vanessie r Bar at Hotel Chimayó 434 W. San Francisc de Santa Fe o St., 505-982-9966 125 Washington Av e., 505-988-4900 Warehouse 21 The Matador 1614 Paseo de Peral ta, 505-989-4423 116 W. San Francisc o St. Zia Dinner 326 S. Guadalupe St. , 505-988-7008
C L U B S, R O O M S, V E N UES
Radius Books annual holiday sale
227 E. Palace Ave., Suite W, 505-983-4068 Discounted titles and recently released books, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., ends Saturday.
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Nightlife
(See Page 57 for addresses)
Blue Rooster
Native singer/songwriter Shelly Morningsong, with Fabian Fontenelle, 7-8 p.m., call for cover. Trash Disco, with DJ Oona, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., no cover.
¡Chispa! at El Mesón
Jono Manson Trio, Peter Williams on bass, Mark Clark on drums, and Manson on guitar, 7:30 p.m.-close, no cover.
Cowgirl BBQ
Folk duo Jon Hogan & Maria Moss, 2-5 p.m.; rock cover band Chango, 8:30 p.m.; no cover.
El Paseo Bar & Grill
DJ Spaghetti, 9:30 p.m.-close, no cover. Tybie Davis Satin Gallery shows painter Raquel Underwood's New Mexico churches series, Santa Fe Public Library, Main Branch, 145 Washington Ave.
Nine
Greer Garson Theatre, Santa Fe University of Art & Design, 1600 St. Michael's Dr. Students perform selected songs, scenes, and dance numbers from Arthur Kopit's musical, 2 and 7 p.m., no charge, 505-473-6439.
Twelfth Night
Scottish Rite Center, 463 Paseo de Peralta Threshold Art Collective presents Shakespeare's comedy, 7 p.m., $20 in advance and at the door, 505-750-0124. (See story, Page 28)
Books/Talks Artist talk
TAI Modern, 1601 Paseo de Peralta, 505-984-1387 Nancy Youdelman discusses her mixed-media pieces in the exhibit Embellished, 2 p.m.
Contra dance
Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Rd. Folk dance with easy walking steps; live music by Connie Manhattan Trio and calls by Sherilyn Urben; beginners lesson 7 p.m., dance 7:30 p.m., $9, students $5, 505-820-3535.
Glow
Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 715 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill Winter lights event running through Jan. 3 (closed Christmas day); featuring illuminated geodesic domes, 5-8 p.m.; live music and cash bar 5-9 p.m. Saturdays, tonight's entertainment: honky-tonk duo Buffalo Nickel, $8 online and on-site, discounts available, 505-471-9103,
Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 505-988-4226 Tom Franks discusses Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, 8:30 a.m., in conjunction with the Metropolitan Opera's Live in HD season, $5 at the door.
12/13
Kindred Spirits Christmas Celebration & Santa Fe Animal Shelter Barkin' Ball
Radius Books annual holiday sale
227 E. Palace Ave., Suite W, 505-983-4068 Discounted titles and recently released books, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Op. Cit. Books, Sanbusco Center, 500 Montezuma Ave., 505-428-0321 The author reads from Voiceless, 6 p.m.
Outdoors Hibernation Hike
Cerrillos Hills State Park, about 16 miles south of Santa Fe off NM 14, 505-474-0196 Learn about wildlife survival instincts with park staff, 10 a.m.-noon, $5 per vehicle. Meet at the main parking lot a half mile north of the village on NM 59.
Events Annual Kindred Spirits Christmas Celebration
3749-A NM 14, 505-471-5366 Open house 4-7 p.m., tour of the animal rescue facility 4:30 p.m., live tree lighting 5:30 p.m.; refreshments served, kindredspiritsnm.org.
Barkin' Ball
Santa Fe Community Convention Center Santa Fe Animal Shelter & Humane Society's annual gala celebrating 75 years with dinner, silent and live auctions, and a Winterland store, 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, $125 in advance and at the door, 505-514-0854, barkinball.org.
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Bluesman John Carey, 9 p.m.-close, call for cover.
La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda
Classic-rock band C.S. Rockshow, 8-11 p.m., no cover.
La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa
Pat Malone Jazz Trio, featuring vocalist Whitney Carroll Malone and bassist Jon Gagan, 6-9 p.m., no cover.
Low ‘n’ Slow Lowrider Bar at Hotel Chimayó de Santa Fe Irish multi-instrumentalist Gerry Carthy, 7:30 p.m.-close, no cover.
Mine Shaft Tavern
Blues duo Jim & Tim, on the deck, 2 p.m.; alternative-country band Hot Honey, 8 p.m.-close, call for cover.
Omira Bar & Grill
Jazz saxophonist Brian Wingard, 6-9 p.m., no cover.
Opera Breakfast Lecture Series
Trent Zelazny
El Farol
santafebotanicalgarden.org.
IAIA Annual Holiday Market
Institute of American Indian Arts Academic Building, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd. More than 50 artists, including Courtney Leonard, Glenda Loretto, Paul Moore, and Kathleen Wall, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., no charge.
Pop-Up Santa Fe Gift Fair
Santa Fe Woman's Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail Including jewelry, textiles, gems, minerals, and books, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. today and Sunday, no admission charge, popupsantafe.com.
Santa Fe School of Cooking's 25th anniversary
125 N. Guadalupe St., 505-983-4511 Music, cookie decorating, tamales, and Santa, 2-5 p.m., no charge.
Young Native Artists Holiday Show
Meem Community Room and New Mexico History Museum classroom, Washington Ave. entrance, 505-476-5200 Annual opportunity for children and grandchildren of the Palace portal artists to sell their work, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. today and Sunday, no charge.
Palace Restaurant & Saloon
Railyard Reunion Band, 4:30-7:30 p.m., call for cover.
Pranzo Italian Grill
Pianist David Geist and vocalist Leslie Livingston, 6-9 p.m., call for cover.
Second Street Brewery
Acoustic string band Cloacas, 6-9 p.m., no cover.
Second Street Brewery at the Railyard
Greg Daigle Band, Americana, 7-10 p.m., no cover.
Shadeh
Hip-hop night, with rotating DJs, 9 p.m.-4 a.m., no cover.
Skylight
Alchemy 2.0, 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m.; soulful, groovy house music with DJs Justin Mayrant, and Jeremiah Ra Richards, 10 p.m.-close; call for cover.
Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen
Saturdays with John Serkin on Hawaiian slack-key guitar, 6 p.m., no cover.
Tiny’s
Showcase karaoke with Nanci and Cyndy, 8:30 p.m.-close, no cover.
The Underground at Evangelo's
DJ Dynamite Sol, 9 p.m.-close, call for cover.
Vanessie
Pianists Doug Montgomery, 6-8 p.m., and Jess Godwin, 8-11 p.m.; call for cover.
SUNDAY 12/14 Gallery and Museum Openings Paseo Pottery
1424 Paseo de Peralta, 505-988-7687 Group show of pieces by gallery artists, featuring work by Ginny Zipperer, open house 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Classical Music Música Antigua de Albuquerque
Christ Lutheran Church, 1701 Arroyo Chamiso So Merrily the Shepherds Sang, music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance performed on period instruments, 4:30 p.m., $16, discounts available, 505-842-9613.
Santa Fe Community Orchestra
St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave. Led by Oliver Prezant, featuring violinist Kay Newnam, 7 p.m., donations accepted.
Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra
The Lensic Guest conductor Jason Altieri leads the orchestra in its annual concert of Christmas favorites, 4 p.m., $22-$76, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.
Santa Fe Women's Ensemble
Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail Songs of Peace 2014 concert series, led by Linda Raney, 7 p.m., $35, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234, Thursday encore.
In Concert Santa Fe University of Art & Design University Chorus
Alumni Hall, 1600 St. Michael's Dr. Seasonal selections, 7 p.m., no charge.
Theater/Dance 26 Miles
Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie Camino Real Productions presents a coming-of-age tale by playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, 2 p.m., $15-$18, 505-424-1601, teatroparaguas.org, closing night.
Belisama Irish Dance & Moving People Dance James A. Little Theater, New Mexico School for the Deaf, 1060 Cerrillos Rd. Irish Jigs and Winter Treats, 2:30 p.m., $15, discounts available, ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.
Chitra
St. John's College, Great Hall, Peterson Student Center, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca Teatro Tierra Amarilla's one-act play; presented by the Graduate Institute, 4 p.m., $10, 505-984-6082.
The Importance of Being Earnest
St. John's College, Great Hall, Peterson Student Center, 1160 Camino de Cruz Blanca Student theater group Chrysostomos presents Oscar Wilde's comedy, 2 p.m.
Books/Talks Journey Santa Fe Presents: New Mexico senator Jerry Ortiz y Pino
Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 505-988-4226 A discussion on health care, marijuana laws, education, and job growth, 11 a.m., moderated by Alan Webber.
Keith Grosbeck: MoCNA artist-in-residence Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, second floor artist studio, 108 Cathedral Place Open studio and meet-and-greet with the artist (Chippewa, Munsee-Delaware, and Plains Cree), noon-4 p.m., no charge, for more information contact Andrea R. Handley, 505-428-5907.
Wearable Art
Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, 710 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1250 Jeweler Keri Ataumbi discusses her designs, 1-2 p.m., by museum admission.
Events 17th Annual Artists' Medical Fund Party
Yares Art Projects, 123 Grant Ave. Includes a silent auction of 6-inch-by-6-inch paintings and small sculpture by local artists, 4-7 p.m., donations accepted at the door, festive attire encouraged, for more information call Shari Morrison, 505-660-9340.
African Crafts Market
Santa Fe Center for Spiritual Living, 505 Camino de los Marquez, 505-983-5022 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., proceeds benefit the Pamoja Project's work with Tanzanian families affected by HIV/AIDS.
Hot Chocolate Trail
Southwest Seminars lecture
Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta New Mexico's Cultural History Lesson to the World, by Tom Chavez, former Palace of the Governors director, 6 p.m., $12 at the door, 505-466-2775, southwestseminars.org.
Events Swing dance
Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Rd. Weekly all-ages informal swing dance; lessons 7-8 p.m., dance 8-10 p.m., dance $3, lesson and dance $8, 505-473-0955.
Nightlife
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Cerrillos Hills State Park Visitors Center, 16 miles south of Santa Fe off NM 14, a half mile north of the village on NM 59 Open house; learn about upcoming educational programs and events while enjoying holiday treats, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., no charge., 505-474-0196.
Cowgirl BBQ
Israeli dance
La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda
Odd Fellows Hall, 1125 Cerrillos Rd. Traditional folk dances; 8-10 p.m. weekly, $5 suggested donation, santafe.israeli.dance.com.
Las Posadas
The Plaza and Palace of the Governors courtyard Annual candlelit procession and a re-creation of Mary and Joseph’s search for shelter, 5:30-7 p.m., no charge, 505-476-5200. (See story, Page 30)
Pop-Up Santa Fe Gift Fair
Santa Fe Woman's Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail Including jewelry, textiles, gems, minerals, and books, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., no admission charge, popupsantafe.com.
Young Native Artists Holiday Show
Meem Community Room and New Mexico History Museum classroom, Washington Ave. entrance, 505-476-5200 Annual opportunity for children and grandchildren of the Palace portal artists to sell their work, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., no charge.
Cowgirl karaoke, with Michele Leidig, 9 p.m., no cover.
El Farol
Rock 'n' roll band Hillary Smith & Company, 8 p.m.-close, no cover. Local country artist Bill Hearne, 7:30 p.m.-close, no cover.
Vanessie
Pianists Doug Montgomery, 6-8 p.m., and Jess Godwin, 8-10 p.m.; call for cover.
TUESDAY 12/16 Classical Music Santa Fe Desert Chorale: Winter Festival Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, 131 Cathedral Place Carols and Lullabies 2014, 8 p.m., $20-$70, tickets available online at desertchorale.org, runs Thursday-Tuesday, Dec. 18-23.
Schola Cantorum of Santa Fe
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Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail A-cappella performances of sacred music, Gregorian chants, and carols; program preview by William Turney 6:30 p.m., concert 7 p.m., $20, discounts available, tickets available in advance at schola-sf.org and at the door, visit the website for full schedule of concerts.
Cowgirl BBQ
Nightlife
Nightlife
Broomdust Gospel Quartet, noon-3 p.m.; Troy Browne Duo, folk music, 8 p.m.-close; no cover.
El Farol
Nacha Mendez, with trumpeter Chief Sanchez, 7 p.m., call for cover.
Evangelo’s
Tone and Company jam band, 8:30 p.m., call for cover.
La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa
Country singer Wiley Jim, 7 p.m., call for cover.
Mine Shaft Tavern
Acoustic-folk/punk band Floozy, 3-7 p.m., no cover.
Vanessie
Pianist Doug Montgomery, 6:30 p.m., call for cover.
MONDAY 12/15 In Concert Santa Fe Concert Band holiday concert
The Lensic The all-volunteer ensemble plays holiday favorites, led by Greg Heltman, 7 p.m., no charge, santafeconcertband.org.
Books/Talks Old Santa Fe
Museum of Spanish Colonial Arts, 750 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-982-2226 Native Nuevo Mexicanos tell their stories, 2 p.m., by museum admission.
John Gagan, Cal Haines, and John Rangel open, 7 p.m., $30, concordiasantafe.org, discounts available.
Books/Talks 2014 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series
Meem Community Room, Fray Angélico Chavez History Library, 120 Washington Ave. Why Money Is Better Than Barter: Trade in 18th Century Northern New Mexico, by Linda Tigges, noon, no charge, 505-476-5200.
Nightlife
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¡Chispa! at El Mesón
Flamenco guitarist Joaquin Gallegos, 7-10 p.m., no cover.
El Farol
Midweek rock with the Sean Healen Band, 8 p.m.-close, no cover.
La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda
The Gruve, R & B/pop, 7:30-11 p.m., no cover.
La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa
Country singer Wiley Jim, 7 p.m., call for cover.
Palace Restaurant and Saloon
Brothers of Busk, 9 p.m.-close, call for cover.
TerraCotta Wine Bistro
Guitarist Ramon Bermudez Jr., 6-9 p.m., no cover.
Tiny’s
Electric-jam night with Nick Wymett, 8-11 p.m., no cover.
Vanessie
Pianist Jess Godwin, 6:30 p.m., call for cover.
THURSDAY 12/18 Gallery and Museum Openings Jean Cocteau Cinema Gallery
418 Montezuma Ave., 505-466-5528 Drawings, transfers, and oil paintings by Donato Giancola for George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire 2015 calendar, reception and calendar signing 5-7 p.m., through Jan. 12. (See story, Page 36)
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Classical Music
¡Chispa! at El Mesón
Santa Fe Desert Chorale: Winter Festival
Argentine Tango Milonga, 7:30-11 p.m., no cover.
Cowgirl BBQ
Local bluesman Kenny Skywolf, 8 p.m.-close, no cover.
El Farol
Canyon Road Blues, 8 p.m., no cover.
Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, 131 Cathedral Place Carols and Lullabies 2014, 8 p.m., $20-$70, tickets available online at desertchorale.org, runs Friday-Tuesday, Dec. 19-23.
Santa Fe Women's Ensemble
Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail Songs of Peace 2014 concert series, under the direction of Linda Raney, 7 p.m., $35, discounts available ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.
Theater/Dance Fourth Annual Flamenco Holiday Concert
El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, 555 Camino de la Familia Featuring guitarist Chuscales, with guest performances by dancers Valeria Montes and Juan Siddi, 7:30 p.m., $30 in advance online at brownpapertickets.com.
A Musical Piñata for Christmas II
Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie Variety show including music by Melange, a short play based on Nasario Garcia's book Grandma Lale's Tamales: A Christmas Story, poetry readings, storytelling, and performances by young members of Santa Fe Danceworks and Teatro Paraguas Children's Theater; 7 p.m., $5-$20 suggested donation, ages 11 and under no charge, 505-424-1601, teatroparaguas.org, continues Friday-Sunday, Dec. 19-21.
Books/Talks Holiday readings
Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., 505-988-4226 Selected stories and poems read by Santa Feans Ali MacGraw, Bob Martin, Carol McGiffin, and Jonathan Richards, 6 p.m. (See Subtexts, Page 18)
Events Glow
Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 715 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill Winter lights event running through Jan. 3 (closed Christmas day); featuring illuminated geodesic domes, 5-8 p.m.; visit Santa's Corner 5-6:30 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays through Dec. 19, $8 online and on-site, discounts available, 505-471-9103, santafebotanicalgarden.org.
Nightlife
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Blue Rooster
Electronic Expressions, 9 p.m.-2 a.m., call for cover.
¡Chispa! at El Mesón
Jazz pianist John Rangel, 7-9 p.m., no cover.
Duel Brewing
Orange Umbrella, indie rock, 7-10 p.m., no cover.
El Farol
Guitarras con Sabor, Gypsy Kings-style rhythms, 8 p.m., no cover.
La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda
Local country artist Bill Hearne, 7:30 p.m.-close, no cover.
La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa
Country singer Wiley Jim, 7 p.m., call for cover.
Skylight
Tune-up Tuesdays, with Your Boy Re-Flex, 9 p.m.-1:30 a.m., call for cover.
TerraCotta Wine Bistro
Jazz guitarist Pat Malone, 6-9 p.m., no cover.
Vanessie
Pianist Jess Godwin, 6:30 p.m., call for cover.
WEDNESDAY 12/17 In Concert Concordia Santa Fe
St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave. The Nutcracker (Swing!), music of Tchaikovsky, Duke Ellington, and Billy Strayhorn, jazz musicians
Zane Bennett Contempory Art show mixed-media photographs Holly Roberts, 435 S. Guadlupe St.
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Jemez Springs Holidays in Jemez
12/13
Village-wide events include caroling, Jemez Pueblo dancers, free horse-drawn wagon rides, and festive lights, 1-5:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, visit jemezsprings.org for full schedule of events.
Holidays in Jemez
Madrid Madrid Christmas Open House
30 minutes south of town on NM 14 Town-wide businesses stay open late through Christmas Eve, visitmadridnm.com.
Nambé Nambé Trading Post
Outside In Productions is accepting submissions through midnight Wednesday, Dec. 31; apply online at santafebandstand.org; for information email info@santafebandstand.org.
Ranchos de Taos
The Hat by Dianna Lewis; cold readings from script for two female roles, one age range 40-50, the other 60-80; two male roles, both 40-50; held 3-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 3-4, SFP Workshops, 3205-B Richards Lane.
Old Martina's Hall Restaurant & Bar, 4140 NM 68, 575-758-3003 Leather work, crochet, knitted pieces, handwoven items, and hand-dyed yarn, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, artthroughtheloom.com.
Rowe Tarnoff Art Center's house party
Call 505-919-8888 for directions Serving potato pancakes and pastrami sandwiches; with live music by Americana/country/rock band White Buffalo; plus, small-works group show; 3-8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, $5 suggested donation includes all the food you can eat.
Taos Nutcracker Market
Evangelo’s
Thursdays with Little Leroy & His Pack of Lies, dance band, 9 p.m.-close, call for cover.
La Boca
Nacha Mendez, 7-9 p.m., no cover.
La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda
The Gruve, R & B/pop, 7:30-11 p.m., no cover.
La Posada de Santa Fe Resort and Spa
Pat Malone Jazz Trio, with Kanoa Kaluhiwa on saxophone, Jon Gagan on bass, and Malone on guitar, 6-9 p.m., call for cover.
The Lodge at Santa Fe
Irish multi-instrumentalist Gerry Carthy, 7-9:30 p.m., call for cover.
The Matador
DJ Inky Ink, soul/punk/ska, 8:30 p.m., no cover.
Palace Restaurant and Saloon
Limelight Karoake, 10 p.m.-close, no cover.
OUT OF TOWN Albuquerque National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 Fourth St. S.W., 505-604-6896 AfroBrazil: Art and Identities, three-tiered exhibit of lithographs from Tamarind Institute, photographs and dressed figures by Paulo Lima, and ephemera representing popular cultural goods sold by Brazilian street vendors, reception 6-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12.
Holiday Festival of Voices
Popejoy Hall Center for Performing Arts, UNM Albuquerque Youth Symphony Chorus and Chamber Orchestra perform with New Mexico Symphonic Chorus; music of Vivaldi and Wagner and popular selections, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, $20 and $35 in advance online at nmschorus.org, discounts available.
Irish Christmas concert
Guitar duo Wes & Mito, Gypsy Kings-style rhythms, 7:30 p.m.-close, no cover.
National Hispanic Cultural Center, Bank of America Theatre, 1701 Fourth St. S.W. Instrumental group Lúnasa, singer Karan Casey opens, 4 and 6:30 p.m. sets, Saturday, Dec. 13, $27 and $32 in advance, 505-724-4771, ages 13 and under admitted free to 4 p.m. performance.
Vanessie
Chatter Sunday
Skylight
Latin Night, with DJ Danny, 9 p.m., call for cover.
Swiss Bistro
Pianist Jess Godwin, 6:30 p.m., call for cover.
Zia Diner
Trio Bijou, jazz, with Gemma DeRagon on violin and vocals, Andy Gabrys on guitar, and Andy Zadrozny on bass, 6:30 p.m., no cover.
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PASATIEMPO I December 12-18, 2014
The Kosmos, 1715 Fifth St. N.W. Guillermo Figueroa and Pamela Viktoria Pyle: viola and piano recital, music of Bach, Bridge, and Kreisler, 10:30 a.m., Sunday, Dec. 14, poetry reading by Melisa Garcia follows, $15, discounts available, chatterabq.org.
Santa Fe Bandstand 2015
20 Summer Rd., 505-455-2819 Micaceous pottery by Denise Lynch; work by jeweler Jennifer Jesse Smith; receptions noon-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 13-14, through December.
Art Through the Loom Guild: 2014 Artists Holiday Bazaar
Baianas (Praça de Sé, Salvador, Bahia), by photographer Paulo Lima, in the National Hispanic Cultural Center exhibit AfroBrazil: Art and Identities, 1701 Fourth St. S.W., Albuquerque.
Performers
Taos Art Museum at Fechin House, 227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 575-758-2690 Locally made jewelry, pottery, photographs, and works in wood and tin, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday-Sunday, Dec. 12-14.
29th Annual Yuletide in Taos
Town-wide holiday events continue to Christmas Eve, visit taos.org for full schedule.
PEOPLE WHO NEED PEOPLE Artists/Designers American Institute of Architects' Canstruction design and build competition
Open call for design teams to create structures made entirely from canned goods (to benefit The Food Depot) for an April 11 exhibit held at Santa Fe Place Mall; winners announced in five categories; winning structures entered in an international competition; for guidelines visit santafe.canstruction.org/design-teams, entry form and fee ($100) due Feb. 16.
Community Communities in Schools New Mexico
Tutors sought for local students at all grade levels; math and literacy support needed in particular; training provided; contact Cynthia Torcasso, 505-954-1880, ctorcasso@cisnm.org.
Georgia O'Keeffe Landscape Tour guides
Volunteers sought by Ghost Ranch Education & Retreat Center in Abiquiú for two or three days per month; includes lunch and other amenities; contact karenb@ghostranch.org, 505-685-4333, Ext. 4120.
Santa Fe Playhouse auditions
UNDER 21
Warehouse 21 concerts
Choking on Air, Almost a Lie, and Sleeptaker, 7-10 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, $3 cover at the door. Deep Zero Blue, electronic music and multimedia performance by Santa Fe Community College students, 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 13, no charge, all ages.
PASA KIDS
Pink Elephant Theater
A free puppet show; hosted by Santa Fe Public Library, 4-5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, Oliver La Farge Branch, 1730 Llano St., 505-955-4860. 10:30-11:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, Main Branch, 145 Washington Ave., 505-955-6783; 2:30-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, Southside Branch, 6599 Jaguar Dr., 505-955-4863.
Christmas at the Palace
Palace of the Governors The museum celebrates its 30th anniversary by providing refreshments, live music, a chance to operate an antique printing press, and other activities, 5:30-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, no charge, donations of nonperishable food welcome. (See story, Page 30)
Santa's Village
Railyard Plaza, off S. Guadalupe St. Free rides on a mini train, interactive games, and photo shoots with Santa, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, no admission charge.
Glow
Santa Fe Botanical Garden, 715 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill Winter lights event running through Jan. 3 (closed Christmas day); featuring illuminated geodesic domes, 5-8 p.m.; visit Santa's Corner 5-6:30 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays through Dec. 19, $5-$8 online and on-site, 505-471-9103, santafebotanicalgarden.org.
A Musical Piñata for Christmas II
Teatro Paraguas Studio, 3205 Calle Marie Variety show including music by Melange, a short play based on Nasario Garcia's book Grandma Lale's Tamales: A Christmas Story, poetry readings, storytelling, and performances by young members of Santa Fe Danceworks and Teatro Paraguas Children's Theater; opening night 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, $5-$20 suggested donation, ages 11 and under no charge, 505-424-1601, teatroparaguas.org, continues Friday-Sunday, Dec. 19-21. ◀
Roaring Twenties Holiday Ball
UPCOMING EVENTS MUSIC
Hector Romero
THEATER/DANCE
The Madwoman of Chailott
Skylight Def Mix DJ, 10 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, $12, reserved upstairs seating $25, holdmyticket.com.
Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. DeVargas St. Santa Fe Playhouse presents Jean Giraudoux's 1943 satire, Thursday-Sunday, Jan. 8-Feb. 1, 505-988-4262.
Red Priest
The Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD
Duane Smith Auditorium, 1300 Diamond Dr., Los Alamos British baroque instrumental band, 7 p.m. Friday, Jan. 9, $30, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Serenata of Santa Fe
First Presbyterian Church of Santa Fe Zephyrs, music for woodwinds by Barber, Ligeti, and Janáček, 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11, $15-$30, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org, discounted tickets for students and children ages 5 and under available at the door only.
Tony Furtado Band
Gig Performance Space, 1808 Second St. Bluegrass/roots fusion, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14, $25 in advance at brownpapertickets.com, $28 at the door.
Santa Fe Symphony
The Lensic` Featuring cellists Dana Winograd and Joel Becktell, led by Guillermo Figueroa, music of Handel, Mahler, and Vivaldi, 4 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 18, tickets begin at $22, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Hot Sardines
The Lensic Theatrical jazz band, tunes of the '20s, '30s, and '40s, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21, tickets start at $13.50, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Big Head Todd and The Monsters
The Lensic Rock band, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 27, $42, discounts available, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Dan Bern
Gig Performance Space, 1808 Second St. Singer/songwriter, 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, $22 in advance, $25 at the door, gigsantafe.com.
HAPPENINGS
Flix & Chopstix
Screenings at Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail; dinner at Temple Beth Shalom, 205 E. Barcelona St. Films and Chinese dinner event presented by Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival; films: The Producers, Annie Hall, and Crossing Delancy, screenings start at 2 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 25, dinner at 6 p.m., $8-$36 in advance at CCA box office, or online at ccasantafe.org or santafejff.org.
WinterBrew
Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion, 1607 Paseo de Peralta New Mexico Brewers Guild hosts 16 local breweries and local food vendors to celebrate craft beers, 4 p.m. Friday, Jan 23, $25, holdmyticket.com.
The Lensic Lehár's The Merry Widow, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 17; Offenbach's Les Contes D'Hoffmann, 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 31; $22-$28, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
HOLIDAY FARE
Santa Fe Alternative Gift Market
DeVargas Center A charitable-shopping event; select tax-deductible gifts from local nonprofit organizations providing medical help, shelter, food, and other services, Friday-Sunday, Dec. 19-21.
Santa Fe Pro Musica Baroque Ensemble Loretto Chapel, 207 Old Santa Fe Trail With mezzo-sopranos Deborah Domanski and Drea Pressley, music of Telemann and Handel and traditional carols, Dec. 19-24, $20-$65 in advance at santafepromusica.com or ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.
Aspen Santa Fe Ballet: The Nutcracker The Lensic A holiday favorite, 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 1 and 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 20-21, $25-$72, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Clan Tynker: The Dream Train
Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail Local vaudevillian circus troupe, 2 and 7 p.m. Saturdays Dec. 20 and 27, 2 p.m. Sundays, Dec. 21 and 28, and 2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 24, $10-$12 in advance at brownpapertickets.com.
Santa Fe Women's Ensemble
Skylight Westin McDowell's Shiners Club Jazz Band, featuring Lori Ottino and special guest Joe West, 7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21, $35 per couple, $20 singles (dinner included), advance tickets available online at holdmyticket.com and skylightsantafe.com; silent art auction and ticket proceeds benefit Esperanza Shelter, call 505-474-5536 for more information.
Chanukah on Ice
Genoveva Chavez Community Center Ice Arena, 3221 W. Rodeo Rd. Skating games, refreshments, and a giant menorah lighting, 4-6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 22, no admission charge, $3 skate rental, chabadsantafe.com.
Performance Santa Fe Orchestra
The Lensic Led by Joseph Illick; featuring young pianist and composer Emily Bear; music of Tchaikovsky, family preview 2 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 24, $10 per person for families with children; adults without children $25; 5 p.m. concert $27-$100; 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Santa Fe Playhouse: Community Holiday Show
142 E. DeVargas St., 505-988-4262 Music, dance, poetry, and storytelling, 4 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 24, pay-what-you-wish.
violinist Vadim Gluzman and soprano Ava Pine, music of Beethoven and Bruch, preview tickets $25; families with children $10 per person; 5 p.m. concert $27-$100; 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org, or performancesantafe.org.
Light Up a Life
The Plaza Annual community event honoring the lives of loved ones; 5:30-6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31; sale of faralitos (lit in memorium) benefits Presbyterian Medical Services' Hospice Center, farolitos are $20 each, pmsnm.org, 505-988-2211.
American JEM
La Tienda Performance Space, 7 Caliente Rd., Eldorado Dance to the Americana trio, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 31, $60 includes a three-course dinner with champagne, 505-670-8604.
Institute of American Indian Arts Writers Festival
IAIA Auditorium, Library and Technology Center, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd. Readings held at no charge 6 p.m. Saturday-Friday, Jan. 3-9; authors include Sherman Alexie, Joy Harjo, Linda Hogan, and Jess Walter.
Souper Bowl
Canyon Road Farolito Walk
Santa Fe Community Convention Center Twenty-first annual benefit held in support of The Food Depot; featuring a soup competition among 29 local restaurants, noon Saturday, Jan. 17, tickets start at $30, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
Santa Fe Desert Chorale: Winter Festival
Lannan Foundation Literary Series
Canyon Road and neighboring streets Annual Christmas Eve community event; featuring carolers and luminarias, dusk Wednesday, Dec. 24. The Lodge at Santa Fe, 750 N. St. Francis Dr. Endings & Beginnings, concert series performed by SFDC a-cappella pop and jazz group Voasis, Saturday-Wednesday, Dec. 27-31; advance tickets begin at $35, desertchorale.org.
Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra
St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art Music of Teleman, Vivaldi, and Handel, featuring violinist Cármelo de los Santos, 3 p.m. Sunday, 6 p.m. Monday, Dec. 28-29, $20-$65, SFPM box office, 505-988-4640, or ticketssantafe.org, 505-988-1234.
Performance Santa Fe Orchestra
The Lensic New Year's Eve concert, 5 p.m., Wednesday, Dec. 31, family preview concert 2 p.m., featuring
The Lensic Novelist Karen Russell and Porochista Khakpour, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 28; The Fire This Time, a tribute to James Baldwin, with Nikky Finney, Randall Kenan, and Kevin Young, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11; $6, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
ARTsmart New Mexico: ARTfeast Art of Living fundraisers
It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere, featuring dancing, heavy appetizers, and silent and live auctions; also, showcasing work of fashion designer Patricia Michaels, 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 20, Peters Projects, 1011 Paseo de Peralta, $75 in advance; Step Up to the Plate, gourmet dinner and auction, doors open at 6 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21, Santa Fe Community Convention Center, $175 in advance; tickets available online at artfeast.org.
Songs of Peace 2014 concert series, under the direction of Linda Raney, 3 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 20, at Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel, $25, discounts available, 505-988-1234, ticketssantafe.org.
New Mexico Museum of Art Annual Holiday Open House
107 W. Palace Ave., 505-476-5072 Starring the Gustave Baumann Marionettes in two short plays for children of all ages, 1 and 2:30 p.m.; also, a photo op with Baumann's Santa Claus marionette, 1:30 and 3 p.m., art projects, and refreshments, Sunday, Dec. 21, no charge.
Chanukah on the Plaza
Annual menorah lighting; live music by Debra Unger and klezmer band Rumelia, performance by fire dancers; hot cocoa, latkes, and donuts served, 3-4:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21, chabadsantafe.com.
Santa Fe Children's Museum Winter Solstice Festival
1050 Old Pecos Trail Celebrate the longest night of the year with drums, bonfires, a farolito labyrinth, and storytelling, 5-7 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 21, $5 suggested donation.
British baroque band Red Priest perform Jan. 9 at Duane Smith Auditorium in Los Alamos.
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New Mexico History Museum/ Palace of the Governors
113 Lincoln Ave., 505-476-5200 Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy, ephemera from the museum collection and photos from POG photo archives • Gustave Baumann and Friends: Artist Cards From Holidays Past, holiday cards by Baumann and other artists spanning the years 1918-1970 • Painting the Divine: Images of Mary in the New World, rare Spanish colonial paintings • Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography; exhibits up through March 29 • Water Over Mountain, Channing Huser’s photographic installation • Telling New Mexico: Stories From Then and Now, core exhibit • Santa Fe Found: Fragments of Time, the archaeological and historical roots of Santa Fe; nmhistorymuseum.org; closed Mondays.
New Mexico Museum of Art
Ventana Fine Art shows paintings by Tom Noble, 400 Canyon Rd.
AT THE GALLERIES
Argos Studio/Gallery & Santa Fe Etching Club
1211 Luisa St., 505-988-1814 The Landscape in Printmaking Across Five Centuries, featuring work from the 19th- and 20th-century etching revival — including pieces by Durer, Rembrandt, and Whistler, through Jan. 2.
Tybie Davis Satin Gallery
Santa Fe Public Library, Main Branch, 145 Washington Ave., 505-955-6781 Painter Raquel Underwood's New Mexico churches series, through December.
Ventana Fine Art
400 Canyon Rd., 505-983-8815 New Views, Old Villages, work by watercolorist Tom Noble, through December.
MUSEUMS & ART SPACES Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Arts
1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338 Art Collision & Repair Shop, interactive installation curated by Susan Begy and Kathryn M Davis, Muñoz Waxman Main Gallery • Undress, multimedia installation by Paula Wilson, Spector Ripps Project Space; through Feb. 1. Open Thursdays-Sundays; ccasantafe.org.
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
217 Johnson St., 505-946-1000 Miguel Covarrubias: Drawing a Cosmopolitan Line, mixed media, through Jan. 18 • Georgia O'Keeffe: Ghost Ranch Views, paintings from the 1930s and 1940s, through March 22; okeeffemuseum.org; open daily.
Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
108 Cathedral Place, 505-983-1777 Rattlebone, paintings and prints by Ric Gendron; The Desert Never Left the City, work by painter Mario Martinez; Saligaaw (it is loud-voiced), mixed media by Da-ka-xeen Mehner; Breach: Log 14, video installation by Courtney M. Leonard; Spiral Lands/Chapter 2, 2008, audio/visual installation by Andrea Geyer, exhibits run through December. Closed Tuesdays; iaia.edu/museum.
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Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
710 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1250 Courage and Compassion: Native Women Sculpting Women, group show, through Oct. 19, 2015 • Footprints: The Inspiration and Influence of Allan Houser, five monumental works by the late Chiricahua Apache sculptor displayed outdoors; accompanied by works of other sculptors, including Houser’s sons Bob Haozous and Philip Mangas Haozous, plus works by Doug Hyde, Estella Loretto, and Robert Shorty; through May • Turquoise, Water, Sky: The Stone and Its Meaning, highlights from the museum’s collection of jewelry, long term • Native American Portraits: Points of Inquiry, vintage and contemporary photographs, through January • The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery, traditional and contemporary works • Here, Now, and Always, artifacts from the museum collection; indianartsandculture.org; closed Mondays.
Museum of International Folk Art
706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1200 Pottery of the U.S. South: A Living Tradition, stoneware from North Carolina and northern Georgia, through Jan. 3 • Between Two Worlds: Folk Artists Reflect on the Immigrant Experience • Wooden Menagerie: Made in New Mexico, early-20th-century carvings, through Feb. 15 • Brasil and Arte Popular, items from the museum’s collection, through Jan. 4 • Multiple Visions: A Common Bond, international collection of toys and folk art; internationalfolkart.org; closed Mondays.
Museum of Spanish Colonial Art
750 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-982-2226 Guadalupe, images of Our Lady of Guadalupe from the museum collection; Boxed In, contemporary artisan-made boxes from the collection, opening 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12, through May; trunk show of pieces by Ralph Sena and Felipe Rivera, 1-4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 13, Curtin-Paloheimo Museum Shop • Secrets of the Symbols: The Hidden Language of Spanish Colonial Art • San Ysidro/ St. Isidore the Farmer, bultos, retablos, straw appliqué, and paintings on tin • Recent Acquisitions, colonial and 19th-century Mexican art, sculpture, and furniture; also, work by young Spanish Market artists • The Delgado Room, latecolonial-period re-creation; spanishcolonial.org; closed Mondays.
107 W. Palace Ave., 505-476-5072 Hunting + Gathering: New Additions to the Museum Collection, recently acquired works by Ansel Adams, Gustave Baumann, and others, through March 29 • Syncretism, photographs by Delilah Montoya • Focus on Photography, rotating exhibits: Cameraless, photograms by Leigh Anne Langwell • Beneath Our Feet, photographs by Joan Myers • Grounded, landscapes from the museum collection • Photo Lab, interactive exhibit explaining the processes used to make color and platinum-palladium prints from the collection, through March • New Mexico Art Tells New Mexico History, including works by E. Irving Couse, T.C. Cannon, and Agnes Martin • Spotlight on Gustave Baumann, works from the museum’s collection; exhibits through 2015. Closed Mondays; nmartmuseum.org.
Pablita Velarde Museum of Indian Women in the Arts 213 Cathedral Place, 505-988-8900 Harvesting Traditions, work by ceramicist Kathleen Wall, through Jan. 4. Closed Mondays; pvmiwa.org.
Poeh Cultural Center and Museum
78 Cities of Gold Rd., 505-455-3334 The Why, group show of works by Native artists • Nah Poeh Meng, 1,600-square-foot installation highlighting the works of Pueblo artists and Pueblo history; poehcenter.org; also, ongoing sculpture exhibits in the Tower Gallery, 505-455-3037; closed weekends; roxanneswentzell.net.
Indian Pueblo Cultural Center
2401 12th St. N.W., 866-855-7902 Our Land, Our Culture, Our Story, historical overview of the Pueblo world, and contemporary artwork and craftsmanship of each of the 19 pueblos; indianpueblo.org; open daily; weekend Native dances.
National Hispanic Cultural Center
1701 Fourth St. S.W., 505-604-6896 AfroBrazil: Art and Identities, three-tiered exhibit of lithographs from Tamarind Institute, photographs and dressed figures by Paulo Lima, and ephemera representing popular cultural goods sold by Brazilian street vendors, reception 6-8 p.m. Friday, Dec. 12.
UNM Art Museum
1 University of New Mexico, 505-277-4001 David Maisel/Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime, photographs by Maisel; Beautiful Disintegrating Obstinate Horror Drawing and Other Recent Acquisitions and Selections From the UNM Art Museum’s Permanent Collection; The Gift, woodcut prints by John Tatschl (1906-1982). Open Tuesday-Saturday; unmartmuseum.org.
Los Alamos Los Alamos Historical Museum
1050 Bathtub Row, 505-662-4493 Tradition and Change in Córdova, New Mexico: The 1939 Photographs of Berlyn Brixner & the López Family of Wood Carvers. Core exhibits on area geology, homesteaders, and the Manhattan Project. Housed in the Guest Cottage of the Los Alamos Ranch School. Open daily; losalamoshistory.org.
Pajarito Environmental Education Center
3540 Orange St., 505-662-0460 Exhibits of flora and fauna of the Pajarito Plateau; herbarium, live amphibians; also, butterfly and xeric gardens; pajaritoeec.org; closed Sundays and Mondays.
Pecos Pecos National Historic Park
NM 63, 505-757-7241 Exhibits portraying the history of the Pecos Valley, including ruins, traces of the Santa Fe Trail, and artifacts from the Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pass. Open daily; nps.gov/pecos.
Taos
SITE Santa Fe
E.L. Blumenschein Home and Museum 222 Ledoux St., 575-758-0505 Hacienda art from the Blumenschein family collection, European and Spanish colonial antiques. Open daily; taoshistoricmuseums.org.
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
Harwood Museum of Art
1606 Paseo de Peralta, 505-989-1199 SITElines 2014: Unsettled Landscapes, biennial exhibit of contemporary works, through December. Open Thursdays-Sundays; sitesantafe.org.
704 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-982-4636 Adorn-aments, small works for the holiday, group show including pieces by Dennis Esquival, Liz Wallace, and Nathan Youngblood • works by Diné photographer Will Wilson, through April 19. Core exhibits include historic and contemporary Native American art. Open daily; wheelwright.org.
Albuquerque Albuquerque Museum of Art & History
2000 Mountain Rd. N.W., 505-243-7255 Gods and Heroes: Masterpieces From the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, through Jan. 4 • Everybody’s Neighbor: Vivian Vance, family memorabilia and the museum’s photo archives of the former Albuquerque resident, through January • Arte en la Charrería: The Artisanship of Mexican Equestrian Culture, examples of craftsmanship and design distinctive to the charro. Closed Mondays; cabq.gov/culturalservices/albuquerque-museum.
238 Ledoux St., 575-758-9826 ¡Orale! Kings and Queens of Cool, a four-part exhibit focusing on Post-Pop and lowbrow art movements, including works by Robert Williams, Gary Baseman, Ron English, and R. Crumb, through Jan. 25. Closed Mondays; harwoodmuseum.org.
Millicent Rogers Museum
1504 Millicent Rogers Rd., 575-758-2462 Looking at Taos Pueblo: Albert Martinez, Juan Mirabal, and Albert Lujan, paintings, through January • Fred Harvey and the Making of the American West, objects drawn from the Harvey family, through January. Historical collections of Native American jewelry and paintings; Hispanic textiles, metalwork, and sculpture; and contemporary jewelry. Closed Mondays; millicentrogers.org.
Taos Art Museum at Fechin House
227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 575-758-2690 Housed in the studio and home that artist Nicolai Fechin built for his family between 1927 and 1933; taosartmuseum.org; closed Mondays.
TDTDC 72 (Feet & Shoes) 2011, archival pigment ink Photo-eye Bookstore + Project Space 376-A Garcia St., 505-988-5152 In The Day the Dam Collapses, Hiroshi Watanabe presents a series of intimate small-scale photographs he made over a five-year period that address the fragility of life. The exhibit, which coincides with the release of Watanabe’s new monograph of the same title, opens with a 5 p.m. reception on Friday, Dec. 12. Watanabe will be on hand at the reception to sign copies of his book.
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Richard Swenson: Roadrunner 2014, scrap metal New Concept Gallery, 610 Canyon Road, 505-795-7570 Small Works is an exhibit of pieces by Reg Loving, Kathleen Doyle Cook, Bill Heckel, and other New Concept Gallery artists. The show includes botanical paintings by Ann Hosfeld and Jane Abrams, landscape paintings by Cecilia Kirby Binkley and
Bill Harrison: Untitled (Taos Morada) circa 1970s, watercolor on paper Willliam R. Talbot Fine Art, 129 W. San Francisco St., 2nd floor, 505-982-1559 Thee images of grand Southwestern missions, quaint village churches, and Penitente moradas in Holy Adobes: The Churches of New Mexico reflect the modernist painters’ interest in capturing g the regional architecture of New Mexico’s places of worship. The show includes historic and d contemporary prints, paintings, drawings, and photographs. Artists such as Gustave Bauumann, Morris Blackburn, Gene Kloss, Louie Ewing, and William Dickerson are represented. Thee exhibit opens on Friday, Dec. 12; there is no reception.
Nancy Youdelman: Green Boot With Pastry Cutter 2014, mixed media with encaustic Linda Petersen, whimsical scrap-metal sculptures by Richard Swenson, and figurative etchings by Julia Roberts. Small Works opens with a 5 p.m. reception on Friday, Dec. 12.
Tai Modern, 1601-B Paseo de Peralta, 505-984--1387 Nancy Youdelman: Embellished is a show of the artist’s mixed-media sculptures that incorporate vintage clothing, antique jewelry, found objects, and organic elements. Youd delman explores themes of memory, mortality, and femininity in her work. “It is my desire to suggest the fleeting, beautiful yet bitteersweet nature of our existence,” she writes. There is a 5 p.m. reception on Friday, Dec. 12. ann gives a talk at the gallery gallery. At 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 13, Youdelman
Jennifer Joseph: Version 9.6 2012-2014, acupuncture needles and mixed media Phil Space, 1410 Second St., 505-983-7945 Jennifer Joseph explores themes of consciousness through her cosmosinspired structures that feature grid, ripple, and cluster forms. Leftovers: Cool Trash for Future Generations shows the artist’s sculptural installations, which make use of media elements such as video projection and found objects and materials such as acupuncture needles, glass test tubes, crystals, wire, and plastic. The 6 p.m. reception on Friday, Dec. 12, includes music by DJ Yon.
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