In this world, there are two kinds of relationships: the ones that get better and the ones that get worse. There are people out there—evil people—who will tell you there’s a third kind: the relationship that stays the same [...]
June 01, 2017
Center for Contemporary Arts: In the early 1970s I worked on a radio show at KPFA in Berkeley called Unlearning to Not Speak. It was a historical moment when educated, middle-class, Western women articulated how we had been silenced [...]
June 01, 2017
Donald Woodman’s photographic career spans over four decades including extensive work in the fields of commercial, scientific, and fine art photography [...]
June 01, 2017
Mill Contemporary: Mayor Javier Gonzales knows as well as any Santa Fesino that we can ill afford to part with funding of any sort, but he, along with several other mayors across the nation, has maintained a steadfast stance [...]
June 01, 2017
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June 01, 2017
Art.i.fact Gallery: Fukuda Chiyo-ni’s famous haiku bloomed from the mists of Edo Period Japan to inspire Ilona Pachler’s solo exhibition [...]
June 01, 2017
Sculptor Kate Carr died in April 2017 at home in Santa Fe, of complications related to ovarian cancer. She was 40 years old. Born Katey Elizabeth Carr in Anchorage, Alaska, Kate moved to Vermont in 1995 to attend Marlboro College. [...]
June 01, 2017
This issue's theme, Monuments, produced several feature articles investigating the intersection of mark making, place, and memory, and revealed an enduring deep relationship with the precious, often contested, lands of the Southwest [...]
June 01, 2017
David Richard Gallery: The Park Place Gallery is probably not as prominent as it should be in the art-historical canon. Founded in 1962 by nine artists working in New York City, many of whom were recent West Coast transplants, the gallery’s program was decidedly anti-dogmatic [...]
April 01, 2017
Richard Kurtz paints prolifically on almost any substrate he can find. Appropriating everything from children’s books to football helmets, vintage flash cards to large pieces of leftover plywood, Kurtz combines pictorial characters with hand-written aphorisms [...]
April 01, 2017
There is no order in this hellish landscape: two policemen raise billy clubs against a figure slouched at the foot of a parked police car [...]
April 01, 2017
Chair & Wall 2. Harvey Morgenbesser lives and works in Santa Fe, NM [...]
April 01, 2017
The Women’s International Study Center (WISC) and form + concept gallery collaborated to present a lecture by Chad Alligood, curator at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art [...]
April 01, 2017
Center for Contemporary Arts: How do you sum up a solo exhibition? You could measure it in studio hours, or leagues of thought. Jill O’Bryan counted Mapping Resonance in breaths [...]
April 01, 2017
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture: By altering technology humans alter their perceptions. By altering our perceptions we alter our minds, our thoughtways. Euro Medicine exploits aboriginal ethno-botanies [...]
April 01, 2017
Sanitary Tortilla Factory: In the foothills of the Sandia Mountains, among the tufts of brush, cacti, and tangles of hiking paths and winding mountain-bike trails, sits the Embudo Dam, just one of the many flood-control structures that exist throughout the neighborhoods of Albuquerque [...]
April 01, 2017
Richard Levy Gallery: In this two-person show, with paintings by Matthew McConville and photographs by Jason DeMarte, both the genres of still-life painting and nature photography are given a conceptual once-over [...]
April 01, 2017
“C C’s house!” they’d chime at any abandoned alpine shack or desert ruin, / Though 50 years passed before she drove the 3 mph road off Hwy 14 between Cerrillos and Madrid
April 01, 2017
I first met Janet Catherine Berlo when she invited me to her home for dinner. It was 2009, and I had just arrived in Rochester, New York, where she is Professor of Native American Art History [...]
April 01, 2017
Denver Art Museum: Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place is an exhibition of site-specific installations by emerging and mid-career Latino artists that express experiences of contemporary life in the American West [...]
April 01, 2017
There’s this thing that bothers me. It’s been bothering me my whole life. I don’t know what to make of it or what to call it. That’s part of the problem. It won’t show its face [...]
April 01, 2017
The Santa Fe art season is upon us, and this issue embraces the spring awakening with kaleidoscopic original cover art by local designer/illustrator Luke Dorman [...]
April 01, 2017
In art history classes, the slide pair is a powerful tool. Project two images side by side, and they are like two flint rocks, one setting a spark off the other. Compare and contrast: it’s always easier to understand something when you can say what it is not [...]
February 01, 2017
Kate Carr creates minimalist sculptural works working primarily in Baltic birch plywood and wool felt. The structural lines of plywood meet with colorful, stacked pieces of felt with even-handed transparency.
October 01, 2016
