
October 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 […]
October 01, 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
Aspen is something of a wonderland. Tucked away and remote in the Roaring Fork Valley, vestiges of the town’s founding as a mining town turned ski resort are still visible in the now multi-million dollar Victorian homes [...]
Lauren Tresp • September 01, 2017
Franco Andreshas a thing for textures, surfaces, and sensory information. Throughout his sculptural assemblages, wax, fur, feathers, soil, or charred wood create finishes both sumptuous and visceral. The artist’s [...]
Clayton Porter and Lauren Tresp • December 01, 2016
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
Paula Castillo is a priestess of postmodern metallurgy, recombining the scrap and detritus of Industry into abstract sculptures that quietly reckon with earth and man. A metallurgist only in a poetic, alchemical [...]
Clayton Porter and Lauren Tresp • February 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
Studio Visit: Nicola López uses printmaking, drawing, collage, and large-scale installation to create work that explores the physical and psychological experience of the contemporary city [...]
Clayton Porter and Lauren Tresp • July 01, 2017
Raven Chacon runs a record label, is a member of multiple bands and collaborative projects, teaches teenagers experimental composition, and is currently included in SITE Santa Fe’s recently opened biennial, [...]
Clayton Porter and Lauren Tresp • August 01, 2016
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
This issue's theme, Monuments, produced several feature articles investigating the intersection of mark making, place, and memory, and revealed an enduring deep relationship with the precious, often contested, lands of the Southwest [...]
Lauren Tresp • June 01, 2017
Richard Kurtz paints prolifically on almost any substrate he can find. Appropriating everything from children’s books to football helmets, vintage flash cards to large pieces of leftover plywood, Kurtz combines pictorial characters with hand-written aphorisms [...]
Clayton Porter and Lauren Tresp • April 01, 2017
The Santa Fe art season is upon us, and this issue embraces the spring awakening with kaleidoscopic original cover art by local designer/illustrator Luke Dorman [...]
Lauren Tresp • April 01, 2017
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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