Arts Community Priorities Poll Results
We've tallied the results from our first community poll. Thanks to everyone who participated on Instagram, Facebook, and via this newsletter! While there's a fairly even split...
Oct 10
Articles
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Karsten Creightney
In Karsten Creightney’s painting studio at Sanitary Tortilla Factory in downtown Albuquerque, there is a massive pile of paper scraps: richly colored vintage advertisements, newspaper clippings, blown-out images torn to bits, an array of textures, colors, and weights. This is the stuff of dreams...
Oct 01
Drowned River: An Interview with Rebecca Solnit and Mark Klett
Rebecca Solnit’s writing on the intersection of environmental damage and the human body has long captured my attention as a reader and as an inhabitant of this planet...
Oct 01
Letters: October 2018: Criticism
Criticism is a vital part of a community that endeavors to engage and progress culturally and artistically. By criticism, I mean informed writing that expands upon and critiques, positively or negatively, the artwork, exhibitions...
Oct 01
Have a Drink with George Casey of Lost Padre Records
Lost Padre Records is a place you can easily get lost in for hours. The shop itself is small—just half an adobe house at 304 Catron Street near downtown Santa Fe—but within its walls is a high density of records you’ll want to discover and rediscover...
Oct 01
Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices 1950s to Now
The upcoming exhibition, Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices 1950s to Now, at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, highlights the work of modern Indigenous artists from the U.S. and Canada...
Oct 01
Paula Angel
Did you know that in New Mexico, women were not allowed to serve on a jury prior to March 14, 1951? For all the accomplishments of New Mexico’s women throughout history...
Oct 01
Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking
I’ve always maintained an irrational but polite envy of the orderly and meticulous artist whose studio is swept daily, whose works are steadily recorded, and whose supplies are inventoried as you might find...
Oct 01
I Heard it Was the War
All this madness has made me terribly sad. I didn't buy the diet pills because they were too expensive. Or perhaps, that's life. The world tells you for so long...
Oct 01
Wilderness Acts: Art in the Land
It’s a pleasure to be taken by surprise in a place I had never heard of before—the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve in La Cienega. Managed by the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, this thirty-five-acre gem is a kiss away from I-25, yet it’s a haven for flora and fauna...
Oct 01
Holly Wilson: On Turtle’s Back
“Anything or anyone you care for creates a responsibility for you,” reads a museum plaque beside Holly Wilson’s Guardian and Guide, one of six of the artist’s works currently on display at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. In the piece, a small bronze-cast woman perches...
Oct 01
Chaotic Structures: Action at a Distance
Action at a Distance at Theater Grottesco, Santa Fe September 24th-October 10, 2018 the famously depressive actor and theatrical scholar Antonin Artaud writes, “The theater, which is in no thing, […]
Oct 01
The Printed Page / Thomas Christopher Haag
Forgotten (symbol) by Thomas Christopher Haag
Oct 01
GenNext: Future So Bright
n GenNext, the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art assembles a group of contemporary artists working between traditional genres and contemporary subject matter. Each artist combines the materials and iconography of New Mexico’s traditional Spanish arts...
Oct 01
Yumiko and Kenro Izu: In Harmony
I am not a photographer. When I tell a friend I’m writing a review of Yumiko and Kenro Izu’s exhibition In Harmony at Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., she asks me to forgive her before saying...
Oct 01
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
Much like the movies in its lineup, the inaugural Santa Fe Independent Film Festival had a dogged crew and a bare-bones budget. Jacques Paisner and two like-minded friends...
Oct 01
Archive Futures
One of the most difficult things for an artist to do is to reckon with her own legacy. This is not just a theoretical concern for where one fits into a particular historical narrative—it’s also of material importance...
Sep 20
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25 Issues In: From the desk of Lauren Tresp
The September issue is my 25th as publisher and editor of this publication, and it feels like a fitting moment to reflect on the transformations that have taken place over the last two and a half years. Since early 2016 we have...
Sep 13
Sep 06
September 2018: People Are Talking About…
A new, three-piece site-specific installation by Paula Castillo at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, expected completion by the end of 2018...
Aug 28
Brandon Maldonado
It’s not hard to understand why Brandon Maldonado’s paintings are in high demand...
Aug 28
Mona Bozorgi: Objet Fatale
objet d’art, a high quality decorative object, or a curiosity for your cabinet, usually collectible; and femme fatale, a female stock character whose dangerous, seductive beauty and feminine wiles draw […]
Aug 28
The “Indigefection” of Doctor Atomic
Peter Sellars’s new staging of Doctor Atomic refuses to allow the audience to look past the Pueblos...
Aug 28
Have a Drink with Jennifer Schlesinger
Tasting notes with: Jennifer Schlesinger. occupation: gallerist and fine art photographer...
Aug 28
Cheryl Donegan: GRLZ + VEILS
Cheryl Donegan’s GRLZ + VEILS, curated by Heidi Zuckerman and Bill Arning...
Aug 28
Unpacking the Archives: Colorado Springs’ Fine Arts Center at Colorado College
On April 8, 1956, E. Boyd decided that a santo in the collection of Taylor Museum was a fraud...
Aug 28
Mary Hunter Austin
The phrase "Santa Fe women" calls to mind a range of women throughout history...
Aug 28
Aug 28
American Jewelry
It is thought that prehistoric humans adorned their bodies with simple jewelry pieces...
Aug 28
SITElines 2018: Casa tomada
Everyone has a biennial these days—a sprawling exhibition that brings in outside curators...
Aug 28
Aug 28
Nascent Atmospheres
At a preview event for Amie LeGette and Courtney Leonard’s exhibition, guests were lost in a literal twilight zone...
Aug 28
The Printed Page / Thomas Christopher Haag
Redefine Terms by Thomas Christopher Haag.
Aug 28
Mayeur Projects
Christian Mayeur was on a photo scavenger hunt when he took his first trip to Las Vegas, New Mexico...
Aug 28
Field Report: Las Vegas, NM
If you’ve read Chris Wilson’s The Myth of Santa Fe—or felt the difference between mud and stucco...
Aug 28
Letters: September 2018
Welcome to our September issue! I am excited to introduce our feature content...
Aug 21
The Printed Page / Nani Chacon
when we erase the medicine...we erase the people, 2018, oil on panel with string, 10 x 8 in.
Jul 30
The Knight, Death, and the Devil—Doctor Atomic Comes Home
A tragic awareness haunts every element of the opera Doctor Atomic. The libretto, the music—the tableaux of singers, dancers, scenes, and the one prop that never ceases to cast its shadow on the whole...
Jul 30
Foto Forum Santa Fe
Sitting with Sage Paisner in his new gallery space, Foto Forum Santa Fe, I am met with the feeling that photography can create a sense of community, togetherness...
Jul 30
Tasting Notes: Curators of Sitelines 2018: Casa tomada
Casa tomada, the third installment of SITE Santa Fe’s tripartite SITElines biennial series, opens this month on August 3. I met with curators Candice Hopkins and Ruba Katrib in early July over drinks at Santa Fe Spirits (unfortunately José Luis Blondet was unable to join us...
