EssayNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Elsewhere, NM, USA, Earth
Psychoanalytic wordplay about aliens, isolation, space, and place.
August 26, 2022
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EssaySouthwestVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Face Value: On Procession Panel
Briana Olson meditates on Procession Panel, migration, and the biological and aesthetic complexity of the desert Southwest.
August 26, 2022
Emily Margarit Mason Recontextualizes Photographs Past a Single Moment
Emily Margarit Mason challenges the limits of the still image by placing photos into alternative settings—whether baking one into a cake or rearranging another into an abstract collage.
July 25, 2022
The Fuzzy Knowledge of Mythic Space at Agnes Martin Gallery
The Agnes Martin Gallery at the Harwood Museum in Taos, New Mexico embodies Yi-Fu Tuan’s concept of mythic space.
April 27, 2022
Way to Gogh: The Immersive Experience, For Better or Worse, Visits ABQ
If you decide to Gogh, be prepared for decent visuals, a hefty debit charge, and a pun or two at the Beyond Van Gogh projection room at Albuquerque’s Sawmill District.
March 25, 2022
Good Grief: Theresa Chong, Rainer Maria Rilke, and Repositioning Grief
Writer and poet Laura Neal visits Theresa Chong's Dallas exhibition dedicated to the organization of grief, and finds the power in the familiar and heavy emotion.
March 07, 2022
Harry Reid, Searchlight, and the Erasure of Life in the Desert
During former Senator Harry Reid’s eulogies, Hikmet Loe heard that Searchlight, Nevada, is a ghost town—which clashed with her experience of a land teeming with life.
March 02, 2022
EssayNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
A Risk Taker
This autofiction short revisits an outpatient surgery and the drive home through the lens of health, marriage, and fantasy.
February 25, 2022
EssayNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Gut Feeling
D. Ward muses on the current and potential roles of the human gut microbiota in collaboration and art in general.
February 25, 2022
EssaySouthwestVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Rile and Error: The Artistic Imperative in Social Progress
Art critic Darren Jones on the ways artists lead the way in matters of social progress, in our Collectivity + Collaboration themed issue.
February 25, 2022
Live, Laugh, Cancel: How Art Disrupts Capitalism
d. ward writes about an art installation around Taos Plaza that disrupts traffic, and the flow of capitalist desires.
January 11, 2022
Reclaiming Red
During the 2000 presidential race, a behind-the-scenes graphic designer at CNN arbitrarily assigned red as the color of the Republican Party. Overnight, phrases like “red states” entered our language, and political associations have overtaken many of the rich symbolic...
June 29, 2018
Blue Depths
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 [...]
July 01, 2017
