Aug 26
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Artists Patrick Nagatani, Richard Tuttle, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, and Lucy Raven attest to the nature of the poetics of place through artworks centered on the New Mexican landscape.
Aug 26
FeatureTexasVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Trey Burns of Sweet Pass Sculpture Park explores the manufactured landscape of North Texas and its echo natures.
Aug 26
FeatureSouthwestVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Artists across the Southwest reflect on the region's nuclear history and its fallout in their anti-nuclear artworks.
Aug 26
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab in Santa Fe, an arm of the international human justice architectural firm MASS Design Group, recasts architecture and design in the Southwest.
Aug 26
FeatureUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
A survey of Utah’s public monuments and architecture reveals devotion to the LDS faith, but various prominent examples of resistance to this narrative abound.
May 27
2022 New Mexico Field GuideFeature
This year is a landmark year for many of New Mexico’s arts institutions, some of which are celebrating their centennials and other significant anniversaries.
May 27
Feature2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery debuts at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe in summer 2022.
May 27
Feature2022 New Mexico Field Guide
The New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary is set to become the Santa Fe Railyard’s newest and highest profile occupant.
Feb 25
FeatureColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
M12 Studio’s multi-year collective projects show the complexities of rural places and open conversations about what connects us.
Feb 25
FeatureArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
CONDER/dance collaborates with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation at Taliesin West in Arizona to present new works by innovative choreographers in the Southwest.
Feb 25
FeatureNevadaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Spirit of the Land is a love letter to the Southern Nevada desert: a series of exhibitions opening in late March across three venues celebrates the East Mojave landscape.
Feb 25
FeatureUtahVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
In the heart of one of the nation’s most conservative states, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, led by Laura Hurtado and Jared Steffensen, brings groundbreaking contemporary art to the state.
Feb 25
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, renowned New Mexico-based poet, opens up about her personal poetry process and collaboration across artistic disciplines.
Oct 29
FeatureTexasVol. 4 Winter 2021
Houston creatives and artists discuss the influence of climate change on their individual practices and possibilities for creative responses to climate crisis.
Oct 29
Patricia Norby, the first Indigenous curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, talks about the representation of Indigenous art in institutional gallery spaces.
Oct 29
FeatureColoradoVol. 4 Winter 2021
Devon Dikeou’s Mid-Career Smear in downtown Denver is a retrospective that examines "in-between" spaces with keen observation and irreverent humor.
Oct 29
FeatureTexasVol. 4 Winter 2021
Emerging choreographer Alexandra Honchell’s journey from company dancer to independent artist is reuniting her mind with her body.
Oct 29
FeatureSouthwestVol. 4 Winter 2021
A guide to arthouse film, festival one-offs, and screening series across the Southwest in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Dallas, Oklahoma City, and Denver.
Oct 29
FeatureSouthwestVol. 4 Winter 2021
A handful of DIY, artist-led endeavors in the Southwest demonstrate how artists don’t just DIY—they do it for and with each other.
Jul 30
SouthwestFeatureVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Kellie Bornhoft’s work collaborates with the landscape, presenting both the long view of geologic time and intimate perspectives in poetry and gesture.
Jul 30
ArizonaFeatureVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Kristin Bauer creates text-based artworks that explore the ways words and images influence our perspectives and interpretations of interior and exterior spaces.
Jul 30
NevadaFeatureVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Nevada artist Jung Min rejects the societal ideals of beauty, identity, and neatness—instead, she finds beauty in the grotesque.
Apr 30
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
New Mexico artist Santiago Perez's work is steeped in myth, folk tales, art history, anthropology, TV cartoons, and satire, aimed at the human condition.
Apr 30
FeatureTexasVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Dallas artist Christian Cruz depicts the value of human interaction in a society taking inventory after so much loss and social reckoning.
Apr 30
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Joanna Keane Lopez and Helen Levine discuss working with adobe, its history in this region, and how an adobe house is a living thing.
Apr 30
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Artist Michelle Rawlings examines beauty through blurred visions, imitation, and purposeful psyche-outs. Steve Jansen explores how Rawling's work speaks to the ways we identify with and move through the world.
Apr 30
FeatureColoradoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Boulder artist Laura Hyunjhee Kim studies the realness of digital spaces and caring for our physical bodies in an increasingly virtual world.
Apr 30
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
For the past ten years, Friends of the Orphan Signs has been placing small moments of wonder on empty, abandoned, and suspended-in-time signs that anchor Albuquerque to its past as a stop along Route 66.
Mar 03
As her retrospective exhibition at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts demonstrates, Linda Lomahaftewa’s artworks vibrantly convey her personal reflections on the changing social landscapes around her.
Feb 08
A conversation with Arizona artist Nazafarin Lotfi, whose multidisciplinary work explores the experience of bodies out of place.
Feb 08
Catherine Czacki, who is based in Portales, NM, finds radical healing in making her art—objects, sculptures, paintings, talismans, and wall hangings from a variety of different materials— and enjoys the subversive side of indulging in material.
Feb 08
Artist Hong Hong works in papermaking, an art she defines as improvisatory choreography. Her latest work seems to connect earth and sky.
Feb 08
Musician Patrick McGuires writes that while the internet is a proven tool for putting distance between human beings, it's also been a lifeline for humanity.
Feb 08
Colorado artist Margaret Neumann's paintings are rooted in the human experience as it is translated through time, through the body, and through our many coping mechanisms.
Jul 31
New Mexico arts organizations bring us together in the era of social distancing.
Jul 31
A number of arts institutions across New Mexico celebrate significant anniversaries this year, including photo-eye, the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Santa Fe Workshops, Turner Carroll Gallery, and the Santa Fe Art Institute.
Jul 13
From thermal surveillance imaging to maps of the dead to stories and visions of survival, the work at two imminent Santa Fe exhibitions invites you to come closer to some of the millions of humans who have lost, fled, or been chased from their homes and countries in the past three decades.
Mar 26
Nora Wendl applies diverse talents to equally diverse examinations of place, of being a woman moving through the world, and the “poetics of inhabiting things.” Her recent cycles of work examine the Farnsworth House in Illinois—an iconic glass and steel International-Style house.
Mar 26
The armillary sphere is a modern, artistic, and accurate interpretation of a historic scientific tool, located on the St. John’s College campus in Santa Fe.
Mar 26
At Georgia O’Keeffe’s home in Abiquiu, New Mexico, new research about the enigmatic sitting-room window provides unexpected insights into the artist’s life and creative practice during the 1960s.
Mar 26
Two Indigenous architects take a look at issues in architecture and consider the future of Indigenous design in New Mexico and beyond.
Mar 26
Preservationist Rachel Preston Prinz explores shifting ideas about architecture, design, and historic preservation in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Mar 26
An examination of what authenticity means for historic preservation in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
