In her essay, “Time to Get Ready,” Maria Varela recalls, “I once volunteered in the fourth grade that I was Mexican, and the angry response of the teacher frightened and shamed me. ‘No, you are not! We’re all Americans here,’ snapped Sister Rosita.” For a woman who has spent her life fighting white supremacy across the U.S., this scene presents a formative moment.
April 26, 2019
Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment, which catalogues an exhibition that opened last fall at Princeton University Art Museum, proposes a reorientation for American art history around ecology and environmental history.
April 26, 2019
Have a drink with Elaine Ritchel of Santa Fe Art Tours.
April 26, 2019
Haida, Kwakwaka’wakw Chilkat weaver Meghann O’Brien is the 2019 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellow. An accomplished textile and basket weaver...
April 26, 2019
1 We drove to a place to look up...
April 26, 2019
I can already tell from our overflowing calendar of events that the New Mexico arts season is soon upon us.
April 26, 2019
Vortexting The Muses is the inaugural show of Niomi Fawn’s new brick-and-mortar curation project in Santa Fe, Show Pony Gallery. Drawings and paintings on paper, wood, glass, and brick by artist Timothy Jason Reed...
April 26, 2019
Client Account Representative and Distribution Manager Rebecca Lynch is the newest addition to The Magazine's staff.
April 16, 2019
The Harwood Art Museum has named Juniper Manley their new director. Robert Krep, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Director of ten years, has resigned. Curator Cody Hartley is serving interim director during a nationwide […]
April 09, 2019
Harmony Hammond is lying on the floor beneath one of her paintings, craning her neck within inches of the canvas. “I’m doing edges,” she tells me. I first heard of Hammond when I came across the catalogue for Out West, a 1999 show...
March 27, 2019
Jasper is the first book from photographer Matthew Genitempo. While the images were made in the Ozarks, they recall an atmosphere of rural America more than they reflect a specific place. The name Jasper, too, has a particular generality...
March 27, 2019
Chef and food writer Deborah Madison is shifting gears and writing a new memoir about her life.
March 27, 2019
After an afternoon insisting that I was impatient, though my date didn’t believe it was true, it was significant to walk into the UNM Museum of Art together. Galleries, of course, with their windowless, static light...
March 27, 2019
It is an exciting time to be Jeremy Thomas. With shows opening in Santa Fe, Munich, and Paris in the next six months, New Mexico is lucky to claim Thomas as a local and to have his work on view at the CCA Tank Garage Gallery...
March 27, 2019
In a video interview installed in Returning the Gaze, painter Jordan Casteel says her encounters with portraiture in museums and galleries have typically involved “dead white people” in staid poses. Her large-scale oils on canvas subvert that trope in a number of ways...
March 27, 2019
A tour of destination residency programs in the Southwest for artists and writers.
March 27, 2019
Photo Portfolio: Kristin Hatgi-Sink
March 27, 2019
It’s late June 1969, and the young people clustered on Christopher Street look giddy, some performing, others a bit shy before the camera. Neither they nor Fred McDarrah, the Village Voice photographer who shot Celebration After Riots Outside Stonewall Inn (1969)...
March 27, 2019
Taos artist Nikesha Breeze met her father for the first time when she was ten years old. He was homeless on the streets of Portland, while she was growing up beyond the city’s southern outskirts in the small town of Sherwood...
March 27, 2019
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Art, Santa Fe July 27, 2017 – July 7, 2019 There’s a valuable history lesson in pedagogy and modernism upstairs at the IAIA Museum of […]
March 27, 2019
All of the five installation artists in Harwood Art Center’s Future Perfect wrote their artist’s statements, appropriately, in the future perfect tense. This formation encourages thinking that is forward-reaching, idealistic, and reflective at the same time...
March 27, 2019
Welcome to April. We have a great issue to present this month, but first, I want to introduce and welcome our newest team member, Rebecca Lynch!
March 26, 2019
Name: Kenji Barrett Location: Albuquerque, NM Proofreading for The Magazine since: 2002 Proofreader Kenji Barrett and his trusty dog, Kai, stop by each month right before the issue is sent to the […]
March 18, 2019
Take a tour of the printing press where each issue of The Magazine comes to life! I know we make it look super slick and easy: content + design = printed […]
March 18, 2019
The City of Santa Fe is looking for a new Arts Commission Director to plan, organize and coordinate arts and cultural programs and services, and represent the City in the arts and cultural arena...
March 11, 2019
the micro- and the macrocosmic. Having recently opened the show Drawing, Reading, and Counting at Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans (May 7 – June 18, 2016), the Texas-born, Santa […]
June 01, 2016
“12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now” opened on Friday, March 1, with a wonderfully packed house. Big thanks to everyone who came out to see the work of emerging […]
March 06, 2019
View select works by all twelve artists chosen for The Magazine‘s inaugural Artists’ Issue in a group exhibition that opens Friday, March 1, 5-8 pm, at The Magazine’s new project space located at […]
March 01, 2019
Professor Rebecca Schreiber of the UNM American Studies Department was awarded the Frank Jewett Mather award for art criticism by the College Art Association for her book The Undocumented Everyday: Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility.
February 12, 2019
Name: Lauren Tresp Location: Santa Fe, NM Writing for The since: 2013 1. Where are you from? Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 2. What is your favorite thing about New Mexico? It feels real. […]
February 12, 2019
