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...
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... By Annika Berry
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... By Jordan Eddy
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... By Chelsea Weathers
Five NM event picks for the next 5 days... By Southwest Contemporary
5 x 5: five picks for the next five days... By Southwest Contemporary
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... By Lauren Tresp
5 x 5: five picks for the next five days... By Southwest Contemporary
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... By Southwest Contemporary
It’s not hard to understand why Brandon Maldonado’s paintings are in high demand... By Chelsea Weathers
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 […] By Lauren Tresp
Peter Sellars’s new staging of Doctor Atomic refuses to allow the audience to look past the Pueblos... By Thomas Grant Richardson
Tasting notes with: Jennifer Schlesinger. occupation: gallerist and fine art photographer... By Lauren Tresp
Cheryl Donegan’s GRLZ + VEILS, curated by Heidi Zuckerman and Bill Arning... By Shane Tolbert
On April 8, 1956, E. Boyd decided that a santo in the collection of Taylor Museum was a fraud... By Alicia Inez Guzmán
The phrase "Santa Fe women" calls to mind a range of women throughout history... By Jenn Shapland
It is thought that prehistoric humans adorned their bodies with simple jewelry pieces... By Maggie Grimason
Everyone has a biennial these days—a sprawling exhibition that brings in outside curators... By Jenn Shapland
Why is it no one looks? Why is it no one knows how to look. —Robert Wilson... By Diane Armitage
At a preview event for Amie LeGette and Courtney Leonard’s exhibition, guests were lost in a literal twilight zone... By Jordan Eddy
Redefine Terms by Thomas Christopher Haag. By Thomas Christopher Haag
Christian Mayeur was on a photo scavenger hunt when he took his first trip to Las Vegas, New Mexico... By Jordan Eddy
If you’ve read Chris Wilson’s The Myth of Santa Fe—or felt the difference between mud and stucco... By Jordan Eddy
Welcome to our September issue! I am excited to introduce our feature content... By Lauren Tresp
when we erase the medicine...we erase the people, 2018, oil on panel with string, 10 x 8 in. By Nani Chacon
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... By Diane Armitage
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... By Hatty Nestor
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... By Lauren Tresp
One of Santa Fe’s (and New Mexico’s) striking features is the proliferation of women-owned businesses, today and throughout its history... By Jenn Shapland
For the past several years, the Birmingham Museum of Art has been quietly amassing a powerhouse collection of some of the most significant politically inflected art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By Chelsea Weathers
On April 1, 2014, the editors at ArtSlant reported that MoMA would “give the museum over exclusively to women artists for the entire year of 2015.”... By Jenn Shapland
Nearly everyone who walks into the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has some version of the artist they’re looking for: their Georgia... By Alicia Inez Guzmán
It wasn’t close yet to 3:50, but I lay down anyway on the thick red rug pulled through with floral patterns in blue and white yarn... By Maggie Grimason
Two women who came of age in the wake of women’s liberation, whose determination landed them at the top of their respective fields: fashion designer Vivienne Westwood and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. By Chelsea Weathers
Can we materialize time? Does light have roots? Can we see something when there is nothing?... By Nancy Zastudil
“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” quoth J. Robert Oppenheimer from the Bhagavad Gita... By Jordan Eddy
Time, as many a physicist, mystic, and indigenous American can tell you, is not linear, despite our human perception of it as such... By Kathryn M Davis
"I am the son of J.E.T., or Jetson," Chip Thomas said, referring to his own initials and those of his father. Thomas’s full name is Dr. James Edward Thomas, Jr., and his father, James Edward Thomas, Sr., was the original J.E.T. It’s how Chip Thomas came to his own moniker, Jetsonorama. By Alicia Inez Guzmán
Early in her artistic career, Daisy Quezada came across a real-life scene with all the power of an omen. She and her mother had ventured to their old house in Jalisco, Mexico, which was long abandoned. By Jordan Eddy
I want to bring you sexy behind-the-scenes footage of the making of The Magazine. But in truth, aside from the interviews and studio visits our writers do in the field and some editorial meetings... By Lauren Tresp
A committee including the Caballeros, the All Pueblo Council of Governors, the Santa Fe Fiesta Council, the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and the mayor’s office has voted to cancel this year's Entrada... By Southwest Contemporary
I am so excited to bring to you our August 2018 issue! With this issue I am thrilled... By Lauren Tresp
As Raychael Stine guided us to her studio on the fringes of the University of New Mexico campus, where she has been an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing for the past five years, I realized that all my questions were actually the same question: Why dogs? By Chelsea Weathers
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