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
Southwest Contemporary
Art News Briefs: February 2019
Professor Rebecca Schreiber of the UNM American Studies Department was awarded the Frank Jewett Mather award for art criticism by the College Art Association for her book The Undocumented Everyday: Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility.
February 12, 2019
Meet the Team: Lauren Tresp
Name: Lauren Tresp Location: Santa Fe, NM Writing for The since: 2013 1. Where are you from? Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 2. What is your favorite thing about New Mexico? It feels real. […]
February 12, 2019
How to Apply for All the Things, early 2019 edition
It's January, and for many artists that means it's application season. Was your New Years resolution to apply for more things in 2019? We can help! The Classifieds page on The Magazine's website features a running list of opportunities for artists throughout the southwest.
January 21, 2019
Art News Briefs: January 15, 2019
It's a big month for news from Santa Fe. Four Grammy nominations, two Living Treasures, a residency, an art CSA, and a new secretary of cultural affairs.
January 15, 2019
Meet the Team: Maggie Grimason
Meet Maggie Grimason, The Mag writer since 2017, who lives in Albuquerque and hails from "northwest Indiana, land of lakes and soy beans." Her favorite things about New Mexico? "Mountains on the horizon, lizards, and clothes drying instantly on the line."
January 08, 2019
Meet the Team: Jimmy Montoya
Jimmy Montoya, The Magazine's distributor extraordinaire, reflects on his twelve years at the magazine. In that time, he's found a cat, a dead snake, and a wallet in our streetside boxes, among other treasures.
December 27, 2018
2018: The Year in Review
What a year for The Magazine! The top ten most read articles on our website in 2018 were:
1. Field Report: Las Vegas
2. Wendy Young: A Long and Slow Surrender
3. Santa Fe Women: Paula Angel
4. Floating Worlds: The Santa Fe Opera Scene Shop...
December 19, 2018
December 2018: News Briefs
Judy Chicago will not partner with her home city of Belen, NM, on opening a museum after residents called the artwork "inappropriate" and "pornagraphic." Her nonprofit has started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for the art space and Belen Mayor Jerah Cordova will donate his 2019 salary to help support the museum...
December 11, 2018
Andrea Hanley Juries Inaugural Artists’ Issue
Andrea R. Hanley (Navajo) has been an arts advocate for more than 25 years. Her career has been guided and dedicated to the work of contemporary American Indian artists and the American Indian fine art field. Hanley has had an impressive career working as a curator, gallerist, writer, fundraiser, lecturer, and volunteer...
November 30, 2018
November 2018: People Are Talking about…
The Magazine contributor and former director of Central Features Contemporary Art Nancy Zastudil joined the Tamarind Institute as Gallery Director.
November 12, 2018
Art in Public Places
Public art finds itself at the center of a number of our era’s flashpoints: the controversy over Confederate monuments; a questionably placed statue of...
October 29, 2018
Five by Five: October 18, 2018
LOOKING FOR THE LIGHT BETWEEN: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALIVIA MAGANA Ellsworth Gallery / Santa Fe Fri, Oct 19, 5–7 pm learn more BORDERLAND: PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALIA ALI East of West / […]
October 18, 2018
October 2018: People Are Talking about…
George RR Martin's Literary Fund has created three new scholarships for students pursuing BFAs in Cinematic Arts and Technology at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
October 16, 2018
Arts Community Priorities Poll Results
We've tallied the results from our first community poll. Thanks to everyone who participated on Instagram, Facebook, and via this newsletter! While there's a fairly even split...
October 10, 2018
Five by Five: October 4, 2018
Five events for the next five days...
October 04, 2018
Five by Five: Sept 20, 2018
Five NM event picks for the next 5 days...
September 20, 2018
Five by Five: Sept 13, 2018
5 x 5: five picks for the next five days...
September 13, 2018
Five by Five: Sept 6, 2018
5 x 5: five picks for the next five days...
September 13, 2018
September 2018: People Are Talking About…
A new, three-piece site-specific installation by Paula Castillo at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, expected completion by the end of 2018...
September 06, 2018
August 2018: People Are Talking About…
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...
August 14, 2018
July 2018: People Are Talking About…
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.” […]
July 17, 2018
Futurition Santa Fe
Futurition Santa Fe is a collaborative effort to bring awareness to a number of events taking place across several Santa Fe institutions and businesses that involve the intersections of art, science, and technology. The primary participants include Santa Fe Institute, Currents New Media, the Thoma Foundation (Art House), form & concept...
June 01, 2018
Universe of… Patrick Nagatani
25 years ago in the May 1993 issue of The Magazine:
May 01, 2018
Zahra Marwan
Zahra grew up in two deserts that vary drastically and have many similarities in culture. One close to the sea, the other close to the mountains. She studied the visual arts in France, and continues various pursuits to further educate herself. She currently lives...
January 30, 2018
Metal x Stone: Contemporary Jewelry in New Mexico
Jewelry in New Mexico is a vast and unwieldy category that spans histories, styles, trends, techniques, and materials. As such, there are multiple avenues by which to approach the topic, and no article could do justice to them all. For our first foray into jewelry and fashion...
February 01, 2018
The Magazine’s Best Books 2016: Staff Picks Edition
Each year, THE Magazine curates a list of the year's best art books. This year we've asked our contributors for their recent favorite arts reading materials. The results ranged from exhibition catalogues to memoirs, artist books to artists' writings.
December 01, 2016
small
A new off-the-beaten-path exhibition space founded by Max Baseman, 5. Gallery has had a number of small exhibitions, primarily featuring local emerging artists. The raw, warehouse-style space is one of the latest to pop up in the budding—perhaps now burgeoning—Rufina arts district. For its next exhibition, small, a selection of small-scale...
December 01, 2016
Janet Lippincott: A 70-Year Retrospective
Matthews Gallery presents a major retrospective of Janet Lippincott, a pioneer of Southwest Modernism. Born in New York in 1918, Lippincott had attended the Art Students League of New York at age fifteen before departing for Paris where she was introduced to the work of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and other early modernists...
December 01, 2016
Nathan Carter: Meet the Dramastics, Kim Dickey: Words are Leaves, and Bodacioussss, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
If you’re Denver-bound this ski season, the MCA Denver has a trifecta of concurrent exhibitions on view through January 29. Kim Dickey: Words Are Leaves is a major survey of work by the Boulder, CO–based artist. Primarily working in ceramics, but also other media including textile and photography...
December 01, 2016
