Everywhen: Indigenous Photoscapes
Time, as many a physicist, mystic, and indigenous American can tell you, is not linear, despite our human perception of it as such...
July 30, 2018
Articles
Jetsonorama: Messages for the Future
"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.
July 30, 2018
Daisy Quezada
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.
July 30, 2018
Making a magazine isn’t sexy: From the desk of Lauren Tresp
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...
September 13, 2018
August 2018: People Are Talking About…
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...
August 14, 2018
August 2018
I am so excited to bring to you our August 2018 issue! With this issue I am thrilled...
July 30, 2018
Raychael Stine
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?
June 29, 2018
Karen Miranda Rivadeneira: In The Mouth of the Mountain Jaguar Everybody is a Dancing Hummingbird
Karen Miranda Rivadeneira, a Santa Fe–based artist by way of Ecuador and New York began laying the groundwork for her project, In the Mouth of the Mountain Jaguar Everybody is a Dancing Hummingbird, nearly eleven years ago when she first visited a small region of the...
June 28, 2018
Isabel de Olvera
Where are the black women in colonial New Mexican history? Typically, the 1500s and 1600s are defined by a series of male Spanish conquistadors and governors whose names litter the city: Coronado, Peralta, De Vargas. Their expeditions brought soldiers and their families...
June 29, 2018
Reclaiming Red
During the 2000 presidential race, a behind-the-scenes graphic designer at CNN arbitrarily assigned red as the color of the Republican Party. Overnight, phrases like “red states” entered our language, and political associations have overtaken many of the rich symbolic...
June 29, 2018
Recall, Recapture, Remember
Tansey Contemporary: The title of this fiber-art exhibition smacks of redundancy—if you couldn’t guess, it’s about memory—but it’s surprisingly economical in other respects. Recall, Recapture, Remember features twenty-two artists from across the Southwest, selected...
June 29, 2018
Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer
Words, whether in the form of slogans, mantras, or hip-hop lyrics, matter, and they are treated reverentially and humorously by multimedia artist Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band Choctaw, Cherokee), whose work is the subject of Like a Hammer, a show on view at the Denver...
June 29, 2018
Eric Tillinghast: Þyngdarljóð–Gravity’s Poetry
Richard Levy Gallery: Confession: water freaks me out. Floods, hurricanes, waves of any size, hail, steam, swamps, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, snow—it doesn’t matter. And don’t get me started on modern plumbing or droughts, for that matter. Regardless of form...
June 28, 2018
Two-Fold: A Pairing of Frederick Hammersley + Matthew Shlian
Paper has a memory. Each crease is recorded in the impression left where it was once folded. It can expand like origami, and it can collapse into flatness again, but its history remains pressed into the stuff it’s made of. It is this material and all the marks worn...
June 29, 2018
The 2009 Antinori Tignanello
You can lie or you can tell the truth. You can’t do both but you can do one or the other. There are people who pretend to do both. Their pretense is nothing more or less than a lie. At first, lying is easy and honesty seems like the impossible dream. Over time, lying gets...
June 28, 2018
Larry Bell: Hocus, Focus and 12
Larry Bell: Hocus, Focus and 12, currently on view at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, is a large-scale exhibition focusing on the artist’s minimalist, architectonic works that reference the clean modernism of Southern California as well as the sleek geometric forms of...
June 29, 2018
Inner Orbit
form & concept: For most people who aren’t astronomers or astrophysicists, outer space is a nebulous concept (no pun intended). How we relate to ideas like space-time, the Big Bang, and black holes often has more to do with our immediate material surroundings than with...
June 28, 2018
The Folk Art Universe
This year the International Folk Art Market celebrates its fifteenth birthday. IFAM first began in 2004 with sixty-one artists from thirty-six countries. Now, that number has more than doubled to 162 artists from fifty-three countries. Officially, the vending is two days...
June 28, 2018
Floating Worlds: The Santa Fe Opera Scene Shop
“They’ll say, ‘Why won’t it just float there?’” Scott Schreck says with a little smirk. “Then I go, ‘I’ll tell you what, let me work on that antigravity device for you.’” He’s talking through the joys and difficulties of translating artistic visions to brick and mortar...
June 28, 2018
Unpacking the Archives: Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
If an object you hold dear could speak, what would it say? Would it talk about the circumstances of its making, who it came into contact with, or where it’s traveled? You see, objects are born into the world, moving about from place to place. Sometimes they are passed...
June 29, 2018
July 2018: People Are Talking About…
The Screen cinema on the former SFUAD campus, which closed in April, came “back to life” this month via a “new initiative between the City of Santa Fe and the CCA.” […]
July 17, 2018
July 2018
Welcome to Volume 27, Issue 1 of The Magazine! We are welcoming summer...
June 30, 2018
New Feet On An Old Stage
“I suppose in some ways I’m always trying to achieve the impossible.” Jonathan Winkle, the newly appointed director of Performance Santa Fe ignores his coffee while enthusiastically explaining how he books the perfect season roster. “I want a balance between artistically...
June 01, 2018
Anonymous: Icons, Hackers, and the Carnivalesque
Every now and then modern societies erupt in what Noam Chomsky calls “outbreaks of democracy.” These can take many forms, from political revolution to resistance, and various art movements can be viewed as versions of such outbreaks. Eventually, outbreaks are suppressed...
June 01, 2018
Futurition Santa Fe
Futurition Santa Fe is a collaborative effort to bring awareness to a number of events taking place across several Santa Fe institutions and businesses that involve the intersections of art, science, and technology. The primary participants include Santa Fe Institute, Currents New Media, the Thoma Foundation (Art House), form & concept...
June 01, 2018
Larry Bell: Hocus, Focus and 12
The Harwood Museum of Art in Taos is gearing up for a large-scale exhibition of local luminary Larry Bell’s work. The show, titled Hocus, Focus and 12, is curated by Gus Foster, Taos photographer and Bell’s friend and collaborator. Highlights of the exhibition...
June 01, 2018
Laura Gilpin
Laura Gilpin saw the landscape of the Southwest as a constitutive element of the human cultures that formed there. Among the few women artists who took active part in landscape photography in the early and mid-twentieth century, Gilpin’s photos stand out against the pristine...
June 01, 2018
Stuart Arends: Tin Man, Slabs, and My Father’s House
Mayeur Projects: Stuart Arends is fond of saying that he lives in the middle of nowhere. Ever hear of Willard, New Mexico? The landscape around the artist’s house is austere, almost barren, with a view of some mountains off in the distance. He is “off the grid and under the radar”...
June 01, 2018
Two Poems from Gondwana
Nathaniel Tarn (b. 1928, Paris) is an American poet, essayist, anthropologist, and translator. He emigrated to the United States in 1970 and taught at several American universities, primarily Rutgers, where he was a professor from 1972 until 1985. He has lived outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico since his retirement from Rutgers...
May 29, 2018
Taos: 1960s-Present
Soon after moving to northern New Mexico, almost seven years ago, and after doing a welter of studio visits, I noted the number of exceptional draftspersons in the area and pulled together a proposal for a show of drawings by artists who live in the general area of Taos...
June 01, 2018
