Introducing Southwest Contemporary
The month of July introduces a season of sequels and new beginnings to The Magazine! On the cusp of The Magazine’s 28th year, I am excited to introduce you to […]
July 01, 2019
Matron’s Matron: Eliza Lutz
“What exactly is a record label’s future in a music industry climate seemingly hellbent on conditioning audiences to pay next to nothing for music?” Eliza Lutz, founder of the pioneering Santa Fe–based Matron Records label, thinks the only path forward is to embrace the inevitable and adapt accordingly...
June 26, 2019
Stage Worthy: The Santa Fe Opera Properties Department
Where was the dagger? It was the final act of The Letter, a Santa Fe Opera world premiere that opened in 2009, and forty-mile-per-hour winds were howling across the venue’s open-air stage. The murderous Leslie, played by Patricia Racette, was singing her way towards suicide-by-stabbing. Suddenly, the wind whipped a tablecloth and sent Leslie’s fateful knife skittering down the dining table. This was despite the fact that the properties department had reinforced the linen with a stitch called a swing tack and secured it with a wind skirt.
June 26, 2019
James Drake: Que Linda la Brisa
Thirty miles north of Ciudad Juárez, at an immigrant detention center in Chaparral, New Mexico, Johana Medina Leon, transgendered and from El Salvador, complains of chest pains. Days later, and a day after James Drake’s opening, Que Linda La Brisa, Leon dies on a hospital bed at Del Sol Medical Center in El Paso, Texas.
June 26, 2019
Studio Visit: Stuart Arends
Visiting Stuart Arends’s studio was no quick jaunt. We drove one and a half hours from Santa Fe to Willard, New Mexico, past the town, further down the highway, and just before a specified mile marker where we were to rendez-vous with the artist at an unmarked wire gate...
June 26, 2019
Summer According to The
Summer in northern New Mexico can be overwhelming. Any day of the week there is some activity calling for our attention: artist talks, studio tours, performances, openings, fairs, festivals, markets, music, and, of course, beautiful weather beckoning us outdoors. To help us make sense of it all, I asked two of our regular contributors, Maggie Grimason and Rachel Preston Prinz, to give us a selection of their “must-sees” for the summer season...
June 26, 2019
[sponsored] Material studies: Unearthing New European Makers for 2019
This summer, Patina Gallery presents works by more than ten European jewelry artists in a group exhibition opening on July 12, marking their debut in the American Southwest. Below, we highlight three of these artists whose works share modern sensibilities, minimalist shapes, and purity of materials...
June 26, 2019
Gendron Jensen: Bidden
I immediately want to speak of devotion, but I will start with the work. The pencil drawings and lithographs by Gendron Jensen at 5. Gallery are gently wondrous. Titled Bidden, the solo exhibition features nine of Jensen’s works made between 1989 and 2015...
June 26, 2019
Judy Tuwaletstiwa: The Dream Life of Objects
The Dream Life of Objects is a big show. A selection of work that spans decades and media fills the entirety of the CCA Tank Garage Gallery. This solo show is described by the artist, Judy Tuwaletstiwa, as a “visual poem,” where pieces are asked and allowed to interact with and inform one another. Tuwaletstiwa invites us to experience her work as an “introspective” instead of a retrospective...
June 26, 2019
A Season of Anachronisms at the Vortex Theatre
The question is not merely why Shakespeare, but why make any art at all? Who is art for, and at what cost? In Guards at the Taj, answers to the first question accumulate as if without effort: we make art to create objects of resplendent beauty and experiences of wonder; to revel in the joy of creation; to invent worlds beyond this one; to compete with God; to fail. It’s the second question that’s difficult—brutally so...
June 26, 2019
New Mexico Women: Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
When I asked Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Salish member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation, Montana) how she came to call herself a cultural arts worker, her reply began with a short history of her tribe’s trading practices. “I come from a long line of Indian traders, not merchants who house goods but traders who pass resources from one place to another.”
June 26, 2019
Whitney Biennial 2019
Often taken as a bellwether of U.S. artistic culture, the Whitney Biennial is renowned for its tendency to provoke political/aesthetic furor...
June 26, 2019
Judy Chicago: The Birth Project from New Mexico Collections
Looking at a torn vagina in Judy Chicago’s Creation of the World: Needlepoint 1 (1985), I remember watching my ex-partner give birth to both of our boys at home. She had a tear that had to be sewn. I watched, and that is the extent of my experience with childbirth. I know, however, that men—which I’ll define as cis-gendered, penis-possessing humans—have a lot of opinions about what goes in and out of vaginas...
June 26, 2019
Have a drink with Stuart Ashman of the International Folk Art Market
"If there is a goal to sustain yourself as an artist, then innovation is a big part of that. Traditions have to change with the times, because artists are the chroniclers of our times."
June 26, 2019
Writings: Medallions
After planting and harvesting crops for over forty years, you would think a being might finally comprehend the ephemeral nature of all things. Not, alas, this one. At least not within my deep inner recesses, in the private folds of knowing...
June 26, 2019
Letter: July 2019
I am thrilled to usher The Magazine into its 28th year with this issue: Volume 28, Issue 1. I have some very exciting announcements that will be made in just a couple of weeks about the future of The Magazine and new offerings to look forward to, so please make sure you are signed up on our email list if you are not already!
June 26, 2019
Collectors Collect New Mexico I: Jugnet+Clairet, Christian Mayeur, Anne Poux
For the first panel-discussion Collectors Collect New Mexico I at The Magazine on May 9, 2019, we hosted collectors and gallerists Christian Mayeur and Anne Poux along with artists Anne-Marie […]
May 11, 2019
Letters: April 2019
Welcome to April. We have a great issue to present this month, but first, I want to introduce and welcome our newest team member, Rebecca Lynch!
March 26, 2019
Studio Visit: James Drake
the micro- and the macrocosmic. Having recently opened the show Drawing, Reading, and Counting at Arthur Roger Gallery in New Orleans (May 7 – June 18, 2016), the Texas-born, Santa […]
June 01, 2016
Photos from the 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now Opening
“12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now” opened on Friday, March 1, with a wonderfully packed house. Big thanks to everyone who came out to see the work of emerging […]
March 06, 2019
Tasting Notes: Curators of Sitelines 2018: Casa tomada
Casa tomada, the third installment of SITE Santa Fe’s tripartite SITElines biennial series, opens this month on August 3. I met with curators Candice Hopkins and Ruba Katrib in early July over drinks at Santa Fe Spirits (unfortunately José Luis Blondet was unable to join us...
July 30, 2018
July 2018
Welcome to Volume 27, Issue 1 of The Magazine! We are welcoming summer...
June 30, 2018
June 2018
Welcome to another issue of The Magazine! This issue is anchored by a number of diverse features that span painting, art travel, performance, and more: Clayton Porter and Chelsea Weathers made the trek up to El Rito to visit the studio of Shane Tolbert for the “Studio Visit...
June 01, 2018
Universe of… Patrick Nagatani
25 years ago in the May 1993 issue of The Magazine:
May 01, 2018
May 2018
One of the most satisfying aspects of my position at The Magazine is that I am able to bring in content that I myself have wished to see as a reader. This issue represents a number of elements I have wanted to find in and bring into the fabric of this publication...
May 01, 2018
February/March 2018 + THE Redesign
Welcome to the new The Magazine! With this issue, we are launching into a new phase, and I am thrilled to present a new logo, a completely redesigned magazine, and new branding that will help propel our mission forward.
February 01, 2018
December 2017/January 2018
Happy Holidays from all of us at THE Magazine! This issue will span December and January, and as such, it contains several very special features and additional content. However, we are now publishing new content online, please sign up for our newsletter and...
December 01, 2017
How to Carve a Turkey
This Thanksgiving, learn how to carve a turkey, illustrated by designer and illustrator Chris Philpot...
November 01, 2017
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, Preview #2
Independent films often have a freedom that larger studio films just don’t permit; without the money of a big studio also comes license to explore themes that might not make millions at the box office. This freedom is apparent in the many documentaries and feature films that...
October 19, 2017
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, Preview #1
The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival begins on Wednesday, October 18, and will run through October 22 in theaters all over town. The festival opens with The Square (dir. Ruben Östlund), which won this year’s Palm d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Set against the backdrop of...
October 12, 2017
