
Eye Contact
Why is it no one looks? Why is it no one knows how to look. —Robert Wilson...
August 28, 2018
Why is it no one looks? Why is it no one knows how to look. —Robert Wilson...
Diane Armitage • August 28, 2018
At a preview event for Amie LeGette and Courtney Leonard’s exhibition, guests were lost in a literal twilight zone...
Jordan Eddy • August 28, 2018
Redefine Terms by Thomas Christopher Haag.
Thomas Christopher Haag • August 28, 2018
Christian Mayeur was on a photo scavenger hunt when he took his first trip to Las Vegas, New Mexico...
Jordan Eddy • August 28, 2018
If you’ve read Chris Wilson’s The Myth of Santa Fe—or felt the difference between mud and stucco...
Jordan Eddy • August 28, 2018
Welcome to our September issue! I am excited to introduce our feature content...
Lauren Tresp • August 28, 2018
when we erase the medicine...we erase the people, 2018, oil on panel with string, 10 x 8 in.
Nani Chacon • August 21, 2018
A tragic awareness haunts every element of the opera Doctor Atomic. The libretto, the music—the tableaux of singers, dancers, scenes, and the one prop that never ceases to cast its shadow on the whole...
Diane Armitage • July 30, 2018
Sitting with Sage Paisner in his new gallery space, Foto Forum Santa Fe, I am met with the feeling that photography can create a sense of community, togetherness...
Hatty Nestor • July 30, 2018
One of Santa Fe’s (and New Mexico’s) striking features is the proliferation of women-owned businesses, today and throughout its history...
Jenn Shapland • July 30, 2018
For the past several years, the Birmingham Museum of Art has been quietly amassing a powerhouse collection of some of the most significant politically inflected art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Chelsea Weathers • July 30, 2018
On April 1, 2014, the editors at ArtSlant reported that MoMA would “give the museum over exclusively to women artists for the entire year of 2015.”...
Jenn Shapland • July 30, 2018
Nearly everyone who walks into the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has some version of the artist they’re looking for: their Georgia...
Alicia Inez Guzmán • July 30, 2018
It wasn’t close yet to 3:50, but I lay down anyway on the thick red rug pulled through with floral patterns in blue and white yarn...
Maggie Grimason • July 30, 2018
Two women who came of age in the wake of women’s liberation, whose determination landed them at the top of their respective fields: fashion designer Vivienne Westwood and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Chelsea Weathers • July 30, 2018
Can we materialize time? Does light have roots? Can we see something when there is nothing?...
Nancy Zastudil • July 30, 2018
“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” quoth J. Robert Oppenheimer from the Bhagavad Gita...
Jordan Eddy • July 30, 2018
Time, as many a physicist, mystic, and indigenous American can tell you, is not linear, despite our human perception of it as such...
Kathryn M Davis • July 30, 2018
"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.
Alicia Inez Guzmán • July 30, 2018
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.
Jordan Eddy • July 30, 2018
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...
Lauren Tresp • September 13, 2018
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...
Southwest Contemporary • August 14, 2018
I am so excited to bring to you our August 2018 issue! With this issue I am thrilled...
Lauren Tresp • July 30, 2018
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.” […]
Southwest Contemporary • July 17, 2018
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.
Clayton Porter and Lauren Tresp • October 01, 2016
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