Maudie
A painter, Lewis grew up in Nova Scotia and had no formal training apart from painting postcards with her mother when she was young. Her hands, shoulders, and neck were crumpled by juvenile rheumatoid arthritis [...]
September 01, 2017
Articles
Louise Lawler: Receptions
Louise Lawler has spent her career effacing any presence of her own identity in her artworks. Her works themselves are often either mechanically produced or feature the work of other artists. [...]
September 01, 2017
Quilts of Southwest China
Complex patterns unfold for the viewer and richly reward time spent looking in Quilts of Southwest China. The curation of this show, which includes textiles dated from 1900 to contemporary times, expands our [...]
September 01, 2017
Research Center Conversation: What Can We Learn from Objects?
Many people collect items or have something precious they have kept with them throughout their lives. Other lives previous to ours have touched these things: those who made, owned, preserved, and passed them along...
September 01, 2017
2015 Commanderie de la Bargemone Rosé, Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence
"Buy the mystery, sell the history” is one of the oldest of Wall Street’s old sayings. The traditional interpretation is that you should buy stocks when they’re widely misunderstood and sell them after they become [...]
September 01, 2017
Melinda Rosenberg: Found and Made
Tansey Contemporary: In her solo exhibition of geometric wall sculptures, Melinda Rosenberg’s lines are not always her own. The Columbus, Ohio, artist’s work is a collaboration with designers [...]
September 01, 2017
Bach & Brews with Matt Haimovitz
Performance Santa Fe presents cellist Matt Haimovitz, who made his debut as a soloist at age 13 in 1984 with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and made his first recording at age 17 with the Chicago Symphony [...]
September 01, 2017
Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts: A single visit to the Institute of American Indian Arts' Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is enough to prompt wonder at why those visits are not more frequent [...]
September 01, 2017
Mary Dezember: Still Howling
Mary Dezember: Still Howling: When I walked in to Mary Dezember’s reading for Still Howling, upstairs from the plaza in a snug gallery space run by Strangers Collective, the poet came up to me and immediately connected me with something I’d written, something about women, she said...
February 01, 2017
Kukuli Velarde: Plunder Me Baby
Peters Projects: Is it possible for an artist to exhaust the format of the self-portrait? Or are we better off asking the opposite question: are artists’ reflections on their own likeness ever enough to fully describe depth of character, change over time, or one’s psyche?...
September 01, 2017
Déjà Vu
It was like déjà vu, or rather a bad dream that repeated exactly twice. First, it was the closure of the College of Santa Fe in 2009 and now this, the scheduled closure of Santa Fe University of Art and Design in May 2018. While CSF had made it past middle age, if you started counting from the moment of its accreditation in 1965, SFUAD, run by Laureate International Universities in the last eight years, hadn’t even made it into adolescence [...]
September 01, 2017
Borderland Readymades: Postcommodity’s Repellent Fence
The night before the indigenous art collective Postcommodity planned on suspending twenty-six balloons along the US-Mexico Border, winds kicked up, threatening the next day’s work and the culmination of...
December 01, 2016
Susan York
Susan York’s career has evolved over several decades and, in many ways, constitutes an ongoing investigation into materials, process, and site specificity. For the past several years, York has worked with graphite in two and three dimensions...
September 01, 2017
September 2017
This issue's cover image is an homage to the College of Santa Fe and the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, as students are currently making themselves at home on campus for the last time in the school's storied history [...]
September 01, 2017
Layli Long Soldier: WHEREAS
At the heart of Layli Long Soldier’s WHEREAS lie two apologies. One comes from the poet’s father for his drinking and his absence during her childhood. This apology, [...]
August 01, 2017
Something I Need You to Know
Something I Need You To Know debuted on Wednesday, November 9, 2016, the day after the United States presidential election. During the opening reception, visitors staggered through the hallways of Santa Fe [...]
February 01, 2017
Native Realities: Superheroes of Past, Present, and Future
A recent exhibition at one of Santa Fe's truly contemporary galleries conveyed a tenet of what makes an art space in Santa Fe “contemporary” in the first place. The word is largely misused—by myself and [...]
February 01, 2017
Garo Antreasian: Innovation in Print
The Tamarind Institute has been operating since 1960; in 1970, Albuquerque became its home base. It is hard to imagine American printmaking, certainly lithography, before its existence when artists who [...]
February 01, 2017
Liberty City: Coming of Age in Cinematic Space
I don’t know if I will ever hear the world ‘moonlight’ again without thinking of the wondrous movie that came out to great acclaim in 2016. Moonlight is a masterpiece of understated filmic construction, [...]
February 01, 2017
Paula Castillo
Paula Castillo is a priestess of postmodern metallurgy, recombining the scrap and detritus of Industry into abstract sculptures that quietly reckon with earth and man. A metallurgist only in a poetic, alchemical [...]
February 01, 2017
A Neverending Story: Finnegans Wake in the Information Age
The music plays. Suddenly the words feel right. It makes perfect sense. The Norse god Odin is crossing a rainbow bridge into the castle in heaven. That's one way of reading it at least. The recording switches off. Discussion resumes. A college professor hovers over a giant textbook...
February 01, 2017
Lively Objects: Indigenous Cultural Production Then and Now
After we finished talking, Nina mentioned that she had to work on a pair of moccasins: she’d started them, then halfway through changed her mind about the [...]
August 01, 2017
Long Environmentalism in the Near North
UNM Art Museum: The Arctic has for so long been defined by distance, both geographically and conceptually. Called the Far North because it is far from some perceived [...]
August 01, 2017
Kent Monkman: The Rendezvous
Peters Projects: Upon entering Kent Monkman’s solo exhibition, resist the temptation to revel in the raucous party raging across monumental canvases in the [...]
August 01, 2017
Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World
Artist Jimmie Durham is not Cherokee, and that’s a fact. Indigenous tribes in the United States act as sovereign nations that determine their own citizenship, and Durham’s [...]
August 01, 2017
THE Intern: Mariah Romero
Originally from Northern California, Mariah moved to Santa Fe to attend the Santa Fe University of Art and Design and graduated in May 2017 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in [...]
August 01, 2017
Cross Pollination
516 Arts: About 35 percent of the world’s food crops and 75 percent of the flowering plants depend on [...]
August 01, 2017
Melinda Rosenberg: Found and Made
Tansey Contemporary: Melinda Rosenberg creates sculpture using wood that ranges from new to found to recycled [...]
August 01, 2017
American Traditional War Songs: The Ethnopoetic Videos of Sky Hopinka
IAIA MoCNA: It's like seeing an afterimage. Though you blink, a vision continues to persist even after the original ceases. Over time, these images and afterimages layer upon one another, like sediment refusing to settle[...]
August 01, 2017
Collecting Digital Art: Highlights + New Acquisitions from the Thoma Foundation
The newly acquired work at the Thoma Foundation, by such artists as computer pioneer Vera Molnar, Alan Rath, Steina Vasulka, and Guillermo Galindo, unfolds in so many technological and conceptual directions [...]
August 01, 2017
