Five Poems: Marie Claire Bryant
1 We drove to a place to look up...
April 26, 2019
Letters: May 2019
I can already tell from our overflowing calendar of events that the New Mexico arts season is soon upon us.
April 26, 2019
Timothy Jason Reed: Vortexting the Muses
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
Meet the Team: Rebecca Lynch
Client Account Representative and Distribution Manager Rebecca Lynch is the newest addition to The Magazine's staff.
April 16, 2019
Art News Briefs April 2019 + Call for Editorial Interns
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
Studio Visit: Harmony Hammond
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
Book Review: Matthew Genitempo: Jasper
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
New Mexico Women: Deborah Madison
Chef and food writer Deborah Madison is shifting gears and writing a new memoir about her life.
March 27, 2019
Hindsight/Insight
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
Jeremy Thomas: Unintended Consequences
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
Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze
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
Southwest Creative Residencies
A tour of destination residency programs in the Southwest for artists and writers.
March 27, 2019
Portfolio: Kristen Hatgi Sink
Photo Portfolio: Kristin Hatgi-Sink
March 27, 2019
Art After Stonewall, 1969-1989
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
Return to Blackdom
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
Action/Abstraction Redefined
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
Future Perfect
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
Meet the Team: Kenji Barrett
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
Behind the Scenes: Printing the Magazine
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
Art News Briefs: March 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
12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now
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
Art News Briefs: February 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
Meet the Team: Lauren Tresp
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
New Mexico Artists to Know Now
Heidi Brandow: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2019
Adaptation, experimentation, and evolution are all crucial concepts within Heidi Brandow’s practice, which usually takes the form of layers of paint, drawing, and paper on canvas, but also includes a social practice in her photography projects.
January 30, 2019
¡Victoria! Selected Political Prints from México (1910-1960)
Hecho a Mano and The Magazine present ¡Victoria! Selected Political Prints from México (1910 – 1960) at The Magazine’s new art space. Mexico has a long history of politically charged printmaking, largely credited to the […]
December 22, 2018
New Mexico Artists to Know Now
Françoise Barnes: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2019
Francoise Barnes’s titles give the viewer a quick point of entry to her abstract, mixed-media paintings on canvas, panel, or paper.
January 30, 2019
New Mexico Artists to Know Now
Mira Burack: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2019
Mira Burack’s artwork is a space of rest, contemplation, and the contemplation of rest. Her wall-sized collages of photos of rumpled bedclothes enlarge the space where sleep takes place and, in doing so, enlarge a viewer’s attention to sleep and its landscape.
January 30, 2019
New Mexico Artists to Know Now
Nicole Cudzilo: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2019
Nicole Cuzilo's photos contemplate the role of fashion and appearance as mechanisms that historically and continually both celebrate and constrain women.
January 30, 2019
New Mexico Artists to Know Now
Vincent Campos: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2019
Vincent Campos injects a sense of whimsy and strangeness into a form that is often serious and pious. Campos’s retablos stick to this script, representing saints and other Catholic imagery, but his figures have odd or humorous details: a caricatured face, a bag of Wonder Bread.
January 30, 2019
New Mexico Artists to Know Now
Vanessa Gonzalez: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2019
Charming plushy animals walk the razor’s edge between life and lifelessness in Vanessa Gonzalez’s paintings. Each creature—a sloth, a jackalope, a flock of birds—has its limbs wrenched from its tiny body, with threads and fiberfill stuffing poking out of wounds.
January 30, 2019
