How to Carve a Turkey
This Thanksgiving, learn how to carve a turkey, illustrated by designer and illustrator Chris Philpot...
November 01, 2017
This Thanksgiving, learn how to carve a turkey, illustrated by designer and illustrator Chris Philpot...
Chris Philpot • November 01, 2017
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...
Chelsea Weathers • October 19, 2017
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...
Chelsea Weathers • October 12, 2017
If anyone thought the New Mexico arts scene was slowing down, guess again. We still have another month+ of world-class arts programming to get through before we can take a […]
Lauren Tresp • October 01, 2017
This issue's cover image is an homage to the College of Santa Fe and the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, as students are currently making themselves at home on campus for the last time in the school's storied history [...]
Lauren Tresp • September 01, 2017
516 Arts: About 35 percent of the world’s food crops and 75 percent of the flowering plants depend on [...]
Southwest Contemporary • August 01, 2017
Tansey Contemporary: Melinda Rosenberg creates sculpture using wood that ranges from new to found to recycled [...]
Southwest Contemporary • August 01, 2017
Daniel Bohnhorst lives in Santa Fe. He works at op.cit. books and the Violin Shop of Santa Fe. [...]
Daniel Bohnhorst • August 01, 2017
He was lost. He’d been lost for years but had refused to admit it. Now he had no choice [...]
Joshua Baer • August 01, 2017
The lifeblood of Tom Joyce’s work is iron, from the molecular to the colossal. Iron, by mass, is the most common element on Earth, and it plays a role in the cosmos, our blood, industry, weaponry, perhaps even our memory. Joyce is quick to point out the material’s associative dexterity, [...]
Clayton Porter and Lauren Tresp • August 01, 2017
Welcome to August! In our last issue, we celebrated THE Magazine's 25th anniversary and our new website launch. This month we hit another milestone with a new addition to [...]
Lauren Tresp • August 01, 2017
To most of us, indigo is just blue jeans, a commonplace commodity of global fashion. But to devotees of organic indigo like Aboubakar Fofana, a veteran of the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market, it is an evocative color whose handmade variations are evidence of ancient dyeing traditions worthy of a lifetime of study [...]
Keith Recker • July 01, 2017
While she was planning Views by Women Artists, a massive collaborative exhibition in 1982 during the annual College Art Association conference, Sabra Moore’s own show, Pieced [...]
Jenn Shapland • July 01, 2017
The exhibition Southern Accent: Seeking the South in Contemporary Art debuted last year at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University and is currently on view at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville [...]
Chelsea Weathers • July 01, 2017
Patina Gallery presents two exhibitions in celebration of the world premiere of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs at the Santa Fe Opera on July 22, 2017. [...]
Southwest Contemporary • July 01, 2017
Two painters, Los Angeles–based Monique van Genderen and Lamy, New Mexico–based Bart Exposito are presented in a two-person show at TAI Modern. [...]
Southwest Contemporary • July 01, 2017
In July of 1992, Guy and Judith Cross (Wolf) published the very first issue of THE Magazine. In their opening letter in Vol. I, No. I, they wrote, "Santa Fe is acknowledged as one of the art centers of the world" [...]
Lauren Tresp • July 01, 2017
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