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Janis Joplin belting out a private concert for one. A serpentine Mick Jagger yowling into a microphone. A pensive Pete Townshend fiddling with the controls as the Who recorded “Tommy.”

Baron Wolman lived every Baby Boomer’s ultimate fantasy.

Forty years ago, Wolman was a freelance photographer who had settled in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district because it was cheap. Wolman was passionate about rock ‘n’ roll, just like a 21-year-old journalist named Jann Wenner. The two men met in April 1967 at a Mills College rock ‘n’ roll symposium. Wenner told Wolman about his idea for a new...

Friday, April 25, 2008
by Kathaleen Roberts • Journal Santa Fe

The Nedra Matteucci Galleries, a sprawling Santa Fe art compound, is for sale for $13.5 million, signaling the end of an era for what was once an art magnet.

Matteucci has operated the business at 1075 Paseo de Peralta for 20 years. She will consolidate its contents with Morningstar Gallery at 513 Canyon Road, which she bought five years ago.

"It's getting harder and harder to fill the walls," she said. "It's something I've been planning for a long time."

Matteucci said the shaky economy had nothing to do with the decision to sell. She said she wanted to scale down now that her husband,...

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
by Kathaleen Roberts • Journal Santa Fe

By the end of this year, Santa Fe's Judd Apatow wannabes will be making their own short films at Warehouse 21. Thanks to a gift of $5,000 in software provided by National Geographic's All Roads Film Project and the Santa Fe Film Festival, budding young filmmakers will find a creative incubator in the teen center's new space at 1614 Paseo de Peralta. The software will be used in the new 17,000-square-foot building's 16-computer media lab. The new $3.4 million structure is slated to open by the end of June.

"The Santa Fe Film Festival is definitely a future collaborator on future projects,"...

Friday, April 18, 2008 at 4:00 PM
by Kathaleen Roberts • Journal Santa Fe

Shelby Lynne strips Dusty Springfield of braying horns and pop filigree to dive deep into a core of loss.

Lynne’s 10th studio release, “Just a Little Lovin’,” has garnered the kind of press most singers only dream about. The collection of spare, haunting songs is a tribute to the late Springfield, regarded as the greatest of the 1960s British pop divas, her soulful voice buttressing a tragic life. Lynne will perform the songs at the Lensic Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Sunday.

Lynne knew she was treading on sacred pop territory. (Springfield died of breast cancer in 1999 — two weeks...

Friday, April 18, 2008 at 4:00 PM
by Kathaleen Roberts • Journal Santa Fe

New Mexico’s historic churches sprout from its villages and cities, as integral to the cultural landscape as green chile in the fall. From the Gothic grandeur of the state’s cathedrals to the charm of its roadside chapels, each marks a chapter in the history of New Mexico.

Two years ago, author Annie Lux spent a summer driving across the state, scouting everything from 400-year-old pueblo structures to Archbishop Jean Baptiste Lamy’s “Frenchified” bell towers, collecting legends and lore, patron saints and local heroes. The Santa Fe resident will speak about her book “Historic New Mexico...

Friday, April 11, 2008
by Kathaleen Roberts • Journal Santa Fe

Acursory glance at “Hungarian Masterworks” reveals shades of Cézanne, Vuillard and a bouquet of European masters in a dizzying array of color and form.

Every significant 20th century art movement is here, from the broad brush strokes of post-Impressionism to the strident color of the German Expressionists. But if the styles seem familiar, the artist’s names are obscure.

“Hungarian Masterworks: From Impressionism to Modernism” aims to illuminate these artists from the historical shadows. The show mirrors the cream of the European avant garde through more than 60 paintings, drawings and...

Friday, April 4, 2008
by Kathaleen Roberts • Journal Santa Fe

Mariana Cook made her name as a portrait photographer shooting luminous character studies under the tutelage of Ansel Adams.

But after producing a series of series on mothers and sons, fathers and daughters, couples, and scientists, Cook decided to focus her lens on a stack of pancakes.

“Close at Hand,” Cook’s third show at Linda Durham Contemporary Art, subjects the photographer’s revealing eye to a scavenger hunt’s worth of everyday objects: a bird’s nest, a starfish, a cabbage. The series is the result of a project Cook undertook in reaction to all those portraits; she took one...

Friday, March 28, 2008
by Kathaleen Roberts • Journal Santa Fe

The spindly skeletons of three rats stand in boxes stacked atop one another. News stories trumpeting the Iraq war wallpaper the frames.

Look closer, and you'll glimpse the title: "The Rat Pack: Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld."

"For me, the Rat Pack is Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld," Santa Fe artist Kawana Edwards explained. "There's the symbology and they're rats; they get away with things. They nest and they multiply."

Edwards is one of 25 artists displaying their work in "Voices Against the War," opening on Friday at New Concept Gallery. Co-curators Dee Ann McIntyre and Dan Anthony selected about...

Monday, March 24, 2008
by Kathaleen Roberts • Journal Santa Fe

In the shadow of the Roundhouse, a porcelain hippo once perched on a shelf, kids scribbled their letters on a slate blackboard and women placed flowers in San Ildefonso pottery jars.

Archaeologists and volunteers have been excavating what was once a lower-middle class neighborhood at the corner of Galisteo Street and Manhattan Avenue since March 3. Slated for the city's newest parking garage, it was once home to a barbershop, a supermarket and a flooring store from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries. Workers have dug and swept out privies, foundations and refuse pits to expose...

Sunday, March 23, 2008
by Kathaleen Roberts • Journal Santa Fe

This art born of fire was once the secret of a few craftsmen. Glass makers guarded their techniques behind a wall of mystery. In Renaissance Italy, foundries divided up the process so that each craftsman knew only a single step. Revealing the secrets to this incendiary art form was considered an act of treason, punishable by death. Glass manufacturers from Lalique to Waterford kept their methods equally circumspect. It wasn’t until the 1970s that these artists started talking to one another, giving birth to the studio art glass movement.

This weekend, you’ll find plenty of artists...

Friday, March 21, 2008 at 9:47 AM
by Kathaleen Roberts • Journal Santa Fe