The Audacity of Art: Art for the Midterm Elections
The Audacity of Art: Art for the Midterm Elections plays on a phrase that President Barack Obama used in his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention...
Nov 28
Kathryn M Davis
Oct 01
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...
Jul 30
Everywhen: Indigenous Photoscapes
Time, as many a physicist, mystic, and indigenous American can tell you, is not linear, despite our human perception of it as such...
May 10
Michael Hedges: In Bloom
David Richard Gallery: Michael Hedges is a painter based near Chicago. He is youngish, what we might call “mid-career,” and I would suggest that he’s an artist to watch as he continues making art over the years. In Bloom consists of fifteen oil paintings whose style and...
Apr 01
Quest for the New: Modernism in the Southwest
LewAllen Galleries: Tucked into a quiet nook in the northwest corner of LewAllen Galleries’ rather showy structure is a gem of an exhibition. Quest for the New: Modernism in the Southwest features artworks by a who’s-who litany of Santa Fe’s early twentieth-century art colony...
Apr 01
The New Mexico Museum of Art after 100 Years
In terms of New Mexico’s history, one hundred years is but a drop in the bucket of time. Still, it was noteworthy when, this past November, the New Mexico Museum of Art celebrated its centennial anniversary. This is an especially significant moment when considering the meaning...
Nov 11
The Santa Fe Art Project
Let us sing the praises of art galleries who dare set up shop in risky neighborhoods...
Dec 01
Martin Spei: Tramoya Royale
Blue Rain Gallery, Santa Fe: In his exhibition title, the artist martin spei introduces his viewers to the concept of tramoya, defining the Spanish term as “various leftover stage props and devices that may or may not be seen as detritus by the next play’s crew when they...
Nov 28
Thais Mather’s Reckless Abandon
Alert arts community members may remember Thais Mather as one-third of the Victory Grrrls, who performed at form & concept earlier this year as part of the gallery’s programming around an event featuring feminist pioneer artist Judy Chicago. I’ve been keeping my eye on for this artist...
Nov 01
The Portable Dorothy Parker
With its script by Santa Fean Annie Lux, The Portable Dorothy Parker is almost as good as being a fly on the wall while one of the most popular writers and oft-quoted wits of the early twentieth century holds forth. It also serves as an excellent example that good art gets ...
Sep 01
Connective Tissue: New Approaches to Fiber in Contemporary Native Art
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts: A single visit to the Institute of American Indian Arts' Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is enough to prompt wonder at why those visits are not more frequent [...]
Feb 01
Native Realities: Superheroes of Past, Present, and Future
A recent exhibition at one of Santa Fe's truly contemporary galleries conveyed a tenet of what makes an art space in Santa Fe “contemporary” in the first place. The word is largely misused—by myself and [...]
Jul 01
Multiple Universes
Freeform Art Space: Freeform Art Space is what you’d call “off the beaten path.” Way off the beaten path. Not only is it off of Cerrillos Road past Siler, but the only individuals likely to stumble into [...]
Jul 01
Catching Up with Guy Cross
When Lauren Tresp bought THE Magazine in early 2016 from its founding publisher, the former New York fashion photographer Guy Cross, he was happy to retire [...]
Jun 01
Apr 01
WISC Fellowship Presentation with Judy Chicago and Curator Chad Alligood
The Women’s International Study Center (WISC) and form + concept gallery collaborated to present a lecture by Chad Alligood, curator at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art [...]
