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Daniel Bohnhorst lives in Santa Fe. He works at op.cit. books and the Violin Shop of Santa Fe. [...]
August 01, 2017
Articles
The 2005 Zenato Amarone Della Valpolicella Classico
He was lost. He’d been lost for years but had refused to admit it. Now he had no choice [...]
August 01, 2017
Jeremy Salazar: Self Exploration
Jeremy was born in Albuquerque, NM, in 1994. His artistic journey began once he could scribble on the walls with crayons. At age 11, he picked up a skateboard and started a new personal adventure. [...]
August 01, 2017
Rebecca Rutstein: Fault Lines
form & concept: I went to Rebecca Rutstein’s Fault Lines expecting to see in her paintings a comment, a reflection, or a transformation of the [...]
August 01, 2017
Story Hustler: Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz
What’s a story hustler, you ask? It’s a phrase that came up at the spring SFAI140. Mi’Jan, who spoke of love that night, also spoke of being a story hustler. The word hustler, however you want to cast it, typically conjures questionable intent, shady means for shady ends. It can refer to making money on and off the books, working in formal and informal economies. On the streets a hustler sells [...]
August 01, 2017
Tom Joyce
The lifeblood of Tom Joyce’s work is iron, from the molecular to the colossal. Iron, by mass, is the most common element on Earth, and it plays a role in the cosmos, our blood, industry, weaponry, perhaps even our memory. Joyce is quick to point out the material’s associative dexterity, [...]
August 01, 2017
August 2017
Welcome to August! In our last issue, we celebrated THE Magazine's 25th anniversary and our new website launch. This month we hit another milestone with a new addition to [...]
August 01, 2017
Nicola López
Studio Visit: Nicola López uses printmaking, drawing, collage, and large-scale installation to create work that explores the physical and psychological experience of the contemporary city [...]
July 01, 2017
Desert ArtLAB: Ecologies of Resistance
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts: Claire Vaye Watkins set her 2015 novel Gold Fame Citrus in a not-so-distant future, in the aftermath of a disastrous event: the entire western United States has been engulfed by a massive sand dune [...]
July 01, 2017
Blue Depths
To most of us, indigo is just blue jeans, a commonplace commodity of global fashion. But to devotees of organic indigo like Aboubakar Fofana, a veteran of the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, it is an evocative color whose handmade variations are evidence of ancient dyeing traditions worthy of a lifetime of study [...]
July 01, 2017
The Radical Eyes of Virginia Dwan
Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971 is a bold and illuminating exhibition in honor of Virginia Dwan and is now at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) [...]
July 01, 2017
Figure/Ground: Beyond the White Field
Whitney Museum of American Art: At first I noticed the smell, earthy almost. Then there was shade and a flush of coolness. I had entered Rafa Esparza’s Figure/Ground: Beyond the White Field [...]
July 01, 2017
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry
Los Angeles County Museum of Art: Kerry James Marshall has said of his childhood, “You can’t be born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1955 and grow up in South Central near the Black Panthers headquarters, and not feel like you’ve got some kind of social responsibility. [...]
July 01, 2017
Openings: A Memoir from the Women’s Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992
While she was planning Views by Women Artists, a massive collaborative exhibition in 1982 during the annual College Art Association conference, Sabra Moore’s own show, Pieced [...]
July 01, 2017
David Chickey | Maker of Radius Books
"We do this bookstore every December," says David Chickey. He stands in the lofty, second floor office of Radius Books on Palace Avenue, a rare example of midcentury modern architecture in Santa Fe. [...]
February 01, 2017
Raven Chacon
Raven Chacon runs a record label, is a member of multiple bands and collaborative projects, teaches teenagers experimental composition, and is currently included in SITE Santa Fe’s recently opened biennial, [...]
August 01, 2016
Inside Nature and Time: Charles Ross + Jill O’Bryan
Mayeur Projects: I imagine them as children: O’Bryan on the sidewalk, rubbing the concrete with chalk, while Ross sits in the grass and fries ants with a magnifying glass. This comes to me only after [...]
July 01, 2017
Larry Bob Phillips
Larry Bob Phillips was born in Canyon, Texas, and studied with calligrapher Carl Kurtz at the Kansas City Art Institute. He helped run the Donkey Gallery in Albuquerque where [...]
July 01, 2017
Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art
The exhibition Southern Accent: Seeking the South in Contemporary Art debuted last year at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and is currently on view at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville [...]
July 01, 2017
Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution 1985-2000
Patina Gallery presents two exhibitions in celebration of the world premiere of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs at the Santa Fe Opera on July 22, 2017. [...]
July 01, 2017
Monique van Genderen & Bart Exposito
Two painters, Los Angeles–based Monique van Genderen and Lamy, New Mexico–based Bart Exposito are presented in a two-person show at TAI Modern. [...]
July 01, 2017
Multiple Universes
Freeform Art Space: Freeform Art Space is what you’d call “off the beaten path.” Way off the beaten path. Not only is it off of Cerrillos Road past Siler, but the only individuals likely to stumble into [...]
July 01, 2017
The Rolling Clock
When SITE Santa Fe’s multimillion-dollar renovation and expansion project concludes this October, the contemporary museum space will debut an exhibition called Future Shock [...]
July 01, 2017
Catching Up with Guy Cross
When Lauren Tresp bought THE Magazine in early 2016 from its founding publisher, the former New York fashion photographer Guy Cross, he was happy to retire [...]
July 01, 2017
From the Editor: July 2017
In July of 1992, Guy and Judith Cross (Wolf) published the very first issue of THE Magazine. In their opening letter in Vol. I, No. I, they wrote, "Santa Fe is acknowledged as one of the art centers of the world" [...]
July 01, 2017
A Walking Tour of the End of the World
"It's like the suburbs," she said. "In the '50s," I said. I was on a tour of the Manhattan Project National Historic Park in Los Alamos, NM, with my partner this April, in the shadow of the Starbucks that seems to serve as the town's hub [...]
June 01, 2017
Rise and Shine with CreativeMornings
Come Fridays, many people are thinking of a TGIF outing after work rather than a way to start the day. CreativeMornings helps get the energy going by gathering across-the-board creatives over coffee [...]
June 01, 2017
Michael Namingha
Studio Visit: Michael Namingha has the admirable ability to reveal the irony of language and words on the one hand and, on the other, to cut landscapes apart, fracturing them into sometimes-repetitive images that cascade beyond any typical frame [...]
June 01, 2017
David Taylor: Monuments
The series of obelisks punctuating the US-Mexico border west of the Rio Grande is ostensibly the subject of David Taylor’s 276 photographs in Monuments. These boundary markers resulted from multiple treaties [...]
June 01, 2017
Marcus Zúñiga: Ya Veo
No Land Gallery: There is one segment in the episodic Bayeux Tapestry—the famous 230-foot long textile (ca. 1070-1080) that depicts the Battle of Hastings in 1066 [...]
June 01, 2017
