Hard Times For Main Street

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

I'm not much into art, but I wanna go there for the scenery. It looks awesome in pictures.

The last time I was in New Mexico was passing through in 1962.

I did see a "This Old House" piece on PBS on Santa Fe and their architectural code is pretty cool.

Going to New Mexico and spending some time there is on my bucket list.

My brother and his family live outside Sante Fe. It's a very cool place, chock full of restaurants, bars, galleries, etc. It's so pretty, well-preserved and culturally interesting that it can come off as a bit Disneyfied at times.

[MrPots]

The issue with art colonies, and this happens over and over again, is the artists start these colonies and make them hip and cool, then the money moves in because it's hip and cool to live there, and the money builds big houses and does restorations and they put in fancy restaurants and galleries and such, then the artists can no longer afford to live there so they have to move out.

[MrPots]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Sante Fe has more art galleries for a town its size than probably any city in the world. Here's a list with 176 of them.

I bet I've been in every one of these galleries. I bought a wonderful Michael Parke's giclee "Eternity" at the Chalk farm Gallery. It's surrealists.

My sister in law from Missouri took one look at it and went WTF is that


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=YQt1NNd0nQg

http://theworldofmichaelparkes.com/L...e_Fullsize.jpg

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by MrPots

I bet I've been in every one of these galleries. I bought a wonderful Michael Parke's giclee "Eternity" at the Chalk farm Gallery. It's surrealists.

My sister in law from Missouri took one look at it and went WTF is that


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=YQt1NNd0nQg

Classy, did she vote for Gov. Brownstreak?

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[MrPots]

She's in Missouri......

I have very eclectic tastes. I have a pair of matching golds stained glass lamps from the early 1900s. They have bead trim. She thinks they are hideous even though they are perfect in the room.

Her house is fill of mauve knit Kleenex holders covered in plastic flowers.... wall to wall Chinese crap it that tells you anything.