By Brian C. Nixon | Jul 8, 2025
Time machines exist. They’re called books. Books transmit the thoughts and cultures from the past and bring them to the present.
By Brian C. Nixon | Jun 26, 2025
When you think of the state most associated with Georgia O’Keeffe, you probably think of New Mexico. Fitting: She lived in New Mexico for forty years.
By Brian C. Nixon | Jun 20, 2025
When people from out of town ask me about the first arts-dedicated space they should visit in Albuquerque, I immediately recommend 516 ARTS.
By Brian C. Nixon | Jun 8, 2025
On August 24, 1821, Spain and Mexico signed the Treaty of Córdoba, giving Mexico a large mass of land, including a significant part of what is now the western portion of United States of America.
By Brian C. Nixon | May 28, 2025
I first heard of the seminal string quartet Brooklyn Rider on NPR’s All Things Considered. If my memory serves me correctly, it was around 2010.
By Brian C. Nixon | May 13, 2025
Experimental, improvisatory music is not for the faint of heart.
By Brian C. Nixon | May 1, 2025
Pulitzer-nominated poet, translator, and educator, Arthur Sze, is a National Treasure.
By Brian C. Nixon | Apr 25, 2025
I don’t know what it is about experimental film that attracts me. Maybe it’s the poetic nature of the medium, a nonlinear methodology of expression.
By Brian C. Nixon | Apr 22, 2025
Watching Susan DeLeo’s short film Island is like bathing. Bathing not in the sense of taking a bath, but in the sense of Forest Bathing, Shinrin-yoku in Japanese culture.
By Brian C. Nixon | Apr 11, 2025
Recently I was asked by a young film student in Albuquerque about my favorite Western novels and movies. Though picking the ‘best’ is subjective, here’s my personal take on 11 timeless novels (why stick with 10?).
By Brian C. Nixon | Apr 8, 2025
It’s tough to determine when Irish immigrants first began to populate New Mexico. Irish soldiers fought for Mexico during the Mexican-American War between the years 1846-1848, with some staying in the region.
By Brian C. Nixon | Mar 31, 2025
The Latin word sublimis is taken from the prefix sub, ‘up to,’ and the suffix, limus, ‘oblique.’ The word means high up, great. In English the word is sublime.
By Brian C. Nixon | Mar 22, 2025
Since a kid in Jr. High, J.S. Bach has loomed large in my world. It may be hearing his music in church had something to do with it.
By Brian C. Nixon | Mar 15, 2025
Walking into Exhibit 208 a few months back, I was struck by marvelously rendered black and white portraits, paintings that conjured historical photographs but executed in a contemporary style.
By Brian C. Nixon | Mar 5, 2025
Walking into the Linda Ronstadt Music Hall in Tucson, Arizona, my mind goes back to when I was a child growing up in “Old Pueblo,” Tucson’s nickname.
By Brian C. Nixon | Feb 25, 2025
Contrary to what some websites declare, artist and printmaker Dan Socha is residing on planet earth. Or, as artist and curator Kim Arthun tells me, “Dan is very much still alive.” At 82, his work is as strong as ever.
By Brian C. Nixon | Feb 21, 2025
For any human to lose his or her hearing is overwhelming. For a composer, it’s catastrophic.
By Brian C. Nixon | Feb 13, 2025
I went to the Albuquerque Museum of Art to see the newly acquired Richard Diebenkorn painting, Untitled (Albuquerque), 1952. But my eye caught another newly obtained work, Yoshiko Shimano’s Wisdom of Water (2016).
By Brian C. Nixon | Feb 7, 2025
Looking at the artwork for Score on Rain Panchos by Raven Chacon and Guillermo Galindo, one sees three raincoats hanging on the wall. The left and right raincoats are white; the middle raincoat is yellow.
By Brian C. Nixon | Feb 1, 2025
In a day and age where A.I. computer manipulation and Photoshop rule the world of photography, it’s refreshing to find a naturalist, in the technological and thematic sense of the word.
