Drowned River: An Interview with Rebecca Solnit and Mark Klett
Rebecca Solnit’s writing on the intersection of environmental damage and the human body has long captured my attention as a reader and as an inhabitant of this planet...
October 01, 2018
Letters: October 2018: Criticism
Criticism is a vital part of a community that endeavors to engage and progress culturally and artistically. By criticism, I mean informed writing that expands upon and critiques, positively or negatively, the artwork, exhibitions...
October 01, 2018
Have a Drink with George Casey of Lost Padre Records
Lost Padre Records is a place you can easily get lost in for hours. The shop itself is small—just half an adobe house at 304 Catron Street near downtown Santa Fe—but within its walls is a high density of records you’ll want to discover and rediscover...
October 01, 2018
Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices 1950s to Now
The upcoming exhibition, Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices 1950s to Now, at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, highlights the work of modern Indigenous artists from the U.S. and Canada...
October 01, 2018
Paula Angel
Did you know that in New Mexico, women were not allowed to serve on a jury prior to March 14, 1951? For all the accomplishments of New Mexico’s women throughout history...
October 01, 2018
Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking
I’ve always maintained an irrational but polite envy of the orderly and meticulous artist whose studio is swept daily, whose works are steadily recorded, and whose supplies are inventoried as you might find...
October 01, 2018
I Heard it Was the War
All this madness has made me terribly sad. I didn't buy the diet pills because they were too expensive. Or perhaps, that's life. The world tells you for so long...
October 01, 2018
Wilderness Acts: Art in the Land
It’s a pleasure to be taken by surprise in a place I had never heard of before—the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve in La Cienega. Managed by the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, this thirty-five-acre gem is a kiss away from I-25, yet it’s a haven for flora and fauna...
October 01, 2018
Holly Wilson: On Turtle’s Back
“Anything or anyone you care for creates a responsibility for you,” reads a museum plaque beside Holly Wilson’s Guardian and Guide, one of six of the artist’s works currently on display at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. In the piece, a small bronze-cast woman perches...
October 01, 2018
Chaotic Structures: Action at a Distance
Action at a Distance at Theater Grottesco, Santa Fe September 24th-October 10, 2018 the famously depressive actor and theatrical scholar Antonin Artaud writes, “The theater, which is in no thing, […]
October 01, 2018
The Printed Page / Thomas Christopher Haag
Forgotten (symbol) by Thomas Christopher Haag
October 01, 2018
GenNext: Future So Bright
n GenNext, the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art assembles a group of contemporary artists working between traditional genres and contemporary subject matter. Each artist combines the materials and iconography of New Mexico’s traditional Spanish arts...
October 01, 2018
Yumiko and Kenro Izu: In Harmony
I am not a photographer. When I tell a friend I’m writing a review of Yumiko and Kenro Izu’s exhibition In Harmony at Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., she asks me to forgive her before saying...
October 01, 2018
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
Much like the movies in its lineup, the inaugural Santa Fe Independent Film Festival had a dogged crew and a bare-bones budget. Jacques Paisner and two like-minded friends...
October 01, 2018
Archive Futures
One of the most difficult things for an artist to do is to reckon with her own legacy. This is not just a theoretical concern for where one fits into a particular historical narrative—it’s also of material importance...
October 01, 2018
Five by Five: Sept 20, 2018
Five NM event picks for the next 5 days...
September 20, 2018
Five by Five: Sept 13, 2018
5 x 5: five picks for the next five days...
September 13, 2018
25 Issues In: From the desk of Lauren Tresp
The September issue is my 25th as publisher and editor of this publication, and it feels like a fitting moment to reflect on the transformations that have taken place over the last two and a half years. Since early 2016 we have...
September 13, 2018
Five by Five: Sept 6, 2018
5 x 5: five picks for the next five days...
September 13, 2018
September 2018: People Are Talking About…
A new, three-piece site-specific installation by Paula Castillo at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, expected completion by the end of 2018...
September 06, 2018
Brandon Maldonado
It’s not hard to understand why Brandon Maldonado’s paintings are in high demand...
August 28, 2018
Mona Bozorgi: Objet Fatale
objet d’art, a high quality decorative object, or a curiosity for your cabinet, usually collectible; and femme fatale, a female stock character whose dangerous, seductive beauty and feminine wiles draw […]
August 28, 2018
The “Indigefection” of Doctor Atomic
Peter Sellars’s new staging of Doctor Atomic refuses to allow the audience to look past the Pueblos...
August 28, 2018
Have a Drink with Jennifer Schlesinger
Tasting notes with: Jennifer Schlesinger. occupation: gallerist and fine art photographer...
August 28, 2018
Cheryl Donegan: GRLZ + VEILS
Cheryl Donegan’s GRLZ + VEILS, curated by Heidi Zuckerman and Bill Arning...
August 28, 2018
Unpacking the Archives: Colorado Springs’ Fine Arts Center at Colorado College
On April 8, 1956, E. Boyd decided that a santo in the collection of Taylor Museum was a fraud...
August 28, 2018
Mary Hunter Austin
The phrase "Santa Fe women" calls to mind a range of women throughout history...
August 28, 2018
Imprint
On the streets of Santa Fe this fall, you might stumble upon a newspaper box...
August 28, 2018
American Jewelry
It is thought that prehistoric humans adorned their bodies with simple jewelry pieces...
August 28, 2018
SITElines 2018: Casa tomada
Everyone has a biennial these days—a sprawling exhibition that brings in outside curators...
August 28, 2018
