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An Artist’s Summer
From self-publishing to filmmaking, three local artists checked in with SFR to offer a glimpse into their lifestyles and creative ingenuity, plus the scoop on what they’re up to this summer. Filmmaker, actor and photographer Robert I. Mesa tells SFR he’s often called to coastal cities or overseas for his roles in film and onstage, but still considers Santa Fe to be his steady home base. This summer, he plans on creating his latest short film here. “It’s been my home since I was 18.
A Moral Legacy in Vintage Pinups: The Klaw Archives
Perhaps the names Paula and Irving Klaw don’t conjure up the same cultural gravitas of Bettie Page, the mid-century pinup legend who stood as a bold yet all-American antithesis to 1950s sex-phobia. But the Klaws are crucial to the story of Page and her contemporaries. In an era of censorship wars and sexual hypocrisy, illicit material had to be viewed surreptitiously. The Klaws helped lay the groundwork for an erotic industry while fighting critical legal battles for sexual freedoms.
Dancing By Yourself
Lady Gaga lands at a pivotal moment Shelby Criswell Welcome to planet Chromatica.
Altered Lands
To envision the West and its memorably epic accompanying imagery—particularly that of New Mexico—is often to envision pristinely depicted landscapes. The likes of Ansel Adams and Georgia O’Keeffe helped form a collective vision of unforgettable sights and sites, with New Mexico providing formations and natural landmarks familiar to locals and visitors alike.
The Fine Art of Early Gay Erotica
Traded discreetly and thinly veiled as physique images, photographer Bruce Bellas' scantily-clad and nude Adonises of the 1950s and '60s impacted a generation of queer art, erotica and pornography. Originally a chemist from Nebraska, Bellas adopted a new California lifestyle as Bruce of Los Angeles after he headed west in the late '40s. There, he'd work with the clothed and unclothed male figure in a distinctly homoerotic milieu years before publishing full-frontal male nudity was legalized.
A Date With the Queens
The mystique of Saint's Ball, New Mexico's premier drag provocateurs It would be misleading to simply call Saint's Ball a drag troupe. Exploding out of Albuquerque's nightlife scene, the emerging circle of unconventional drag artists has quickly made its mark on New Mexico in under a year with bookings now expanding to Colorado.
Queer Punk Mythology Becomes History
With no clear manifestos or rigid definitions, the subgenre known as homocore—later queercore—birthed a cultural revolution embodied by frustrated visions, vivid imagination, and wild, anarchic desire. Part longing need and part boredom spurred the early experiments of Toronto, Canada-based outcast artists Bruce LaBruce and GB Jones, who were simultaneously influenced by situationist philosophies and rejected by the increasingly conformist, bourgeois gay scene of the 1980s.
A Non-Binary Experience: Anastasio Wrobel remixes ourconcept of gender
Diverging from the traditional coloring book mold, The Non-Binary Coloring Book challenges the notion of coloring within the lines both figuratively and literally. As one begins to shade and accent, lines converge and overlap, becoming a form-meets-function examination of norms and breaking them. “Where do you start coloring, where do you stop coloring, where do you draw the line?” author and illustrator Anastasio Wrobel asks.
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JACQUES DERRIDA INTERVIEWS ORNETTE COLEMAN - The Other’s Language
Happily lost in the vast digital archive that is Ubu, I came across this Ornette Coleman interview conducted by French philosopher Jacques Derrida. Topics of discussion include language, racism, childhood, guilt, self-discovery, technology and improvisational practice. Coleman provides insight on specific works and their impetus, personal struggles, and offers a few inspirational quips. It was quite the enjoyable read, download the .pdf here. Take note of the translator’s introduction.
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