Arts

Central Avenue Art Kiosk Deadline Is Feb. 15

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A Central Avenue Kiosk near the post office. Courtesy photo

MAINSTREET News:

Los Alamos MainStreet announces a call for original photographs or artwork that represent “Living Los Alamos”. Winning art will be displayed in the four directional kiosks along Central Avenue. The only qualification is that the art should be representative of living in Los Alamos or the surrounding area.

To be considered, email artwork to ryn@losalamos.org. Deadline to submit artwork is Feb.15. The MainStreet Futures Committee will judge entries and selected artists will be notified by email. For details visit Read More

Bandelier: Call For Artists For Park Centennial Logo

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The ‘Bandelier Turkeys’ are the park’s logo and now the park is looking for a logo for its Centennial in 2016. Courtesy/NPS

BANDELIER News:

In 2016, Bandelier National Monument will mark its 100th anniversary, and artists are invited to submit entries for a logo for the celebration. The logo will be used on many centennial items, as well as on the Bandelier Annual Pass for 2016

“This is an opportunity for all who love Bandelier to be an integral part of the centennial celebration,” Superintendent Jason Lott said. “The image will appear on passes, posters, and Read More

Does Wilder’s Masterpiece Hold Up In 2015?

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Original movie poster for ‘The Apartment.’ Courtesy/prettycleverflims.com
 
Review by KELLY DOLEJSI
Los Alamos

 

Best Picture. Best Director. Best Writing. Best Art Direction. Best Film Editing – “The Apartment” (1960) swept the 33rd Annual Academy Awards.

 

Decide how it holds up to contemporary standards Thursday when the film re-ignites the big screen at Mesa Public LIbrary.

 

One of the last black-and-white films to win an Oscar for Best Picture, director Billy Wilder’s “The Apartment” is a quiet comedic drama about a man, C.C. Baxter (the young, Read More

Winter Scenes In The Jemez

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Ice rests on this Cholla following an inch or two of snow falling overnight at the lower elevations in the Jemez. Photo by R.W./jemezdailypost.com

Ice on cacti. Photo by R.W./jemezdailypost.com

Snow blankets a bench. Photo by R.W./jemezdailypost.com

Snowy steps. Photo by R.W./jemezdailypost.com

Snow on Cholla. Photo by R.W./jemezdailypost.com Read More

MIFA: The Red That Colored The World

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Sewing box and cover with cochineal dyed wool yarn. Courtesy/IFAF

MIFA News:

  • Red, with its brilliant hue and broad cultural history, has inspired artists’ imaginations and seduced viewers for millennia

SANTA FE—The exhibition, The Red That Colored the World, opening at the Museum of International Folk Art, combines new research and original scholarship to explore the history and widespread use in art of cochineal, an insect-based dye source for the color red whose origins and use date to the pre-Columbian Americas.

The Red That Colored the World opens May 17 and runs through Sept. Read More

FOS Launches Annual Dog Jog Logo Contest

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Courtesy/FOS

FOS News:

  • Deadline for logo entry is 5 p.m., Feb. 23

The 2015 Los Alamos Dog Jog is Saturday, April 25. The Dog Jog is an annual fundraiser for the Friends of the Shelter (FOS), an all-volunteer organization that uses this money to provide medical services and needed items for animals at the Los Alamos Animal Shelter.

The Dog Jog Committee is calling on all creative young artists to put their imaginations and love of dogs to work by submitting a drawing for the 2015 Dog Jog Logo Contest. The Logo Contest is open to children in 3rd through 6th grades whose family lives or works in Los Alamos

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Murdered To Death Will Be Performed Tonight

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LALT News:

Los Alamos Little Theatre says, “The show must go on!” The sidewalks are cleared and the actors are ready … so come watch the show tonight!

Directed by Patrick Webb and produced by Laurie Tomlinson, “Murdered to Death” is a hilarious spoof of the best Agatha Christie traditions, with an assembled cast of characters guaranteed to delight: Bunting the butler, an English Colonel with the prerequisite stiff upper lip. a shady French art dealer and his moll, bumbling local inspectors and a well meaning local sleuth who seems to attract murder – they’re Read More

Snow Scenes From Across Los Alamos

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This ruler shows 5 inches of snow has accumulated today on a picnic table at a residence near downtown Los Alamos. Photo by Leland Lehman/ladailypost.com

The Omega Bridge and Los Alamos Medical Center seem to have disappeared in the snow today as seen from a balcony at Mountain Village on Trinity Drive. Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com 

The Omega Bridge and Los Alamos Medical Center are behind a veil of snow today as seen from a balcony at Mountain Village on Trinity Drive. Kirsten Laskey/ladailypost.com 

Plenty of snow fills this yard today on Walnut Street. Photo by A.S. Clark

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