¡Colores!; Common Ground I, Common Ground II, Common Ground III

KNME-TV (Television station : Albuquerque, N.M.)

Who is a Real New Mexican, and What is the Real New Mexico? - Bringing a provocative new vision to New Mexico’s art history, Albuquerque Museum curator Andrew Connors asks, “Who is a real New Mexican, and what is the real New Mexico?” “The more broad our vantage point can be, told through hundreds of different artistic voices, the more we are going to come close to understanding this place we call the ‘Common Ground of New Mexico.’” Appropriation and Allowing New Voices to Emerge - In our second of a three part series, Albuquerque Museum’s Curator of Art, Andrew Connors, shares more insights into his provocative Common Ground exhibition. In this segment he discusses the dangers of appropriation and the inevitability of cultural evolution. “It’s very important that in our contemporary society we allow for a variety of different voices and languages and cultures and heritages.” New ideas - In the last of a three part series, Albuquerque Museum curator Andrew Connors discusses new approaches to art in his Common Ground exhibition. “Modern art creates a real challenge for us because a lot of people will go up to an abstract work of art and expect it to tell them something as opposed to allow the work of art to draw something out of them.”