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• RIP Howard Zinn, Wake Up Progressives
  "Think for yourself. Don't believe what the people up there tell you," Howard Zinn said. "Don't depend on saviors or the founding fathers or our leaders to do what must be done." Leanne Goebel contemplates Zinn's death and what his message means for American progressives today.Read More...
• Best of the Docs at Berlin
  A look at Sir Norman Foster, a 40-year-old orangutan, and two shelved films from the Nazi era -- one German, one American.Read More...
• Imagining and Witnessing the Whitney Biennial
  There's no theme to the recently opened Whitney Biennial, in a year when the themes of collapse and disillusion that haunt the real world and the film world couldn't be more apt.Read More...
• David D'Arcy on Art of the Steal
  Don Argott's documentary, Art of the Steal, opened in theaters in New York and Philadelphia last weekend. David D'Arcy reports on the documentary film in which he has a feature role.Read More...
• Eclectic Method Comes to SxSW
  Eclectic Method is a multimedia mash-up that just has to be experienced live. Check it out at South x Southwest March 15-18.Read More...
• Santa Fe (and Tucson) Art in Review
  Edgy landscapes (by Andrew Lenaghan, right), modernist paintings, brightness out of Nicaragua, the glorious Jay De Feo.Read More...
• Kent Haruf's Bestseller Becomes Play
  The Colorado New Play Summit included a premiere of the adaptation of writer Kent Haruf's novel, Eventide. Leanne Goebel met the writer at the summit.Read More...
• Talking Radical Performance
  Performance artists Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes spent a week in residency at Santa Fe Art Institute in January, finalizing work on their new book (forthcoming from London's Routledge Press).Read More...
• Polanski Wins Silver Bear at Berlin
  A jury of Roman Polanski's peers, led by director Werner Herzog, honored him for the film. But can accolades keep him out of prison?Read More...
• Polanski's "Ghost Writer" Premieres
  Anticipated at the Berlin International Film Festival was the premiere of the Ghost Writer, Roman Polanski's adaptation of a novel in which, guess what?, there is no such thing as paranoia.Read More...
• Scorcese's Shutter Island Opens
  Shutter Island, set in the 1950s Age of Anxiety, demonstrates Martin Scorcese working as an architect of film, directing film as infrastructure.Read More...