Off-Market: 11 Must-See Satellite Shows and Events for Santa Fe Indian Market 2025
While you’re in Santa Fe for Indian Market, don’t miss these Native art experiences featuring Cara Romero, Fritz Scholder, Diego Medina, and more.
August 12, 2025
New Mexico
Saints in the Wings: Santa Fe’s Spanish Market Axes Its Contemporary Category
Stakeholders reflect on the removal of the "Innovations within Tradition" category at Traditional Spanish Market, and what it means for forward-thinking artists.
July 22, 2025
The Power of Arts Education at New Mexico School for the Arts
Discover New Mexico's premier tuition-free residential arts school, where students excel in dual academics and rigorous arts training for bright futures.
July 15, 2025
Delmas Howe’s Rare Lithographs + Never-Before-Seen Sketches
Delmas Howe: The Lithographs at RioBravoFineArt in Truth or Consequences features rare works from the artist's Rodeo Pantheon series. On view through August 31.
July 14, 2025
71 International Artists Transform Santa Fe in SITE’s Sprawling Exhibition Once Within a Time
The 12th SITE SANTA FE International Once Within a Time features seventy-one artists across more than twelve city venues, from June 27, 2025, to January 12, 2026.
July 01, 2025
Guide to the SITE Santa Fe International: Every Artist, Venue, and Special Project
SITE’s citywide exhibition Once Within a Time is about surreal flow—not completionism. Here’s your primer, with tips from insiders Cecilia Alemani and Brandee Caoba.
June 24, 2025
An Artist Who Makes Maps You Can’t Read
Returning to Santa Fe after nearly thirty years in New York, Nicola López disorients viewers with layered visual systems that defy resolution.
June 19, 2025
In Abstracting Nature, A Quiet Dialogue Takes Place Between Hand and Land
Abstracting Nature at the Albuquerque Museum, June 21-October 12, 2025, showcases works by artists who capture New Mexico's natural beauty through abstract forms in glass, clay, steel, and natural materials.
June 17, 2025
Southwest Art News: June 2025
FBI returns stolen paintings to Taos museum, Tulsa institution repatriates Native remains and artifacts, and more top Southwest art news headlines for June 2025.
June 03, 2025
The Ultimate Northern New Mexico Weekend: Santa Fe to Taos with Heritage Inspirations
Heritage Inspirations curates a three-day Santa Fe to Taos adventure with e-bike tours, High Road scenic drives, and wine tastings in Northern New Mexico.
May 23, 2025
Pussy Riot Founder’s Anti-Tyranny Art Comes to Santa Fe
Nadya Tolokonnikova brings her internationally touring exhibition to Turner Carroll Gallery, June 28-July 16, 2025.
May 23, 2025
Art in the Heart: Farmington Taps Regional Artists for Historic Downtown
Art in the Heart brings regional sculptors to downtown Farmington, New Mexico, creating a walkable gallery that supports local artists.
May 23, 2025
Currents 2025: Exploring Art, Technology, and the Culture of Speed
Currents, the U.S.'s premier art and technology festival, returns June 13-22, 2025, at El Museo Cultural with global artists exploring AI, innovation, and creativity.
May 23, 2025
New Mexico’s Abstract Art Scene Thrives with the Taos Abstract Artist Collective
Founded in 2022, the Taos Abstract Artist Collective has exhibited nearly 400 works while fostering creative dialogue among New Mexico artists.
May 23, 2025
Stephen Robeck’s Abstract Photography Captures Exquisite Natural Textures
Santa Fe-based photographer Stephen Robeck captures abstract forms, colors, and textures from wilderness landscapes and waterscapes across the U.S.
May 23, 2025
To Fill Jagged Gaps in the History of Native Slavery, These Artists Use Their Bodies
New Mexico's UNBOUND performance project builds on historical research about Indigenous slavery through intuitive "deep listening" between artists, ancestors, and community.
May 20, 2025
Anthropology Museums Are Returning Some Objects, But What About the Ones They Keep?
To address misleading historical photos of the Navajo Nation, Albuquerque's Maxwell Museum of Anthropology tapped Diné collaborators to fill in the gaps.
April 22, 2025
Amid Long-Term Closure, Flood-Stricken Roswell Museum Extends into the Community
While the Roswell Museum’s doors remain closed following the disastrous flood last year, support comes from the local community and statewide arts organizations.
April 08, 2025
Missing Waters Reimagines Santa Fe’s Forgotten Waterways
Environmental artist Stacy Levy brings Santa Fe’s lost acequias back to life with Missing Waters, a temporary chalk water map installation at the Santa Fe Railyard April 25-29, 2025.
April 08, 2025
Caroline Liu’s Chinese Garden is Not as Sweet as It Looks. And That’s Good.
Caroline Liu’s exhibition lures you in then hits you with a one-two punch about erased histories and Asian marginalization.
April 02, 2025
Group Exhibition Brings Light and Space Greats to Albuquerque
Explore the transformative Light and Space art movement at Albuquerque Museum April 5–July 20, 2025, featuring groundbreaking works that redefine perception through light, color, and spatial experience.
April 01, 2025
Goodman Fellowship Showcases Native Artists’ Excellence
Discover nineteen contemporary Native artists' works at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture's exhibition Engaging the Future, showcasing Goodman Fellowship recipients' creative excellence across multiple disciplines.
March 25, 2025
Ex-Employees Shed Light on CCA Santa Fe’s Bitter Unionization Battle
Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe kicked off the year with a labor organizing win for staff, but not without union-busting allegations and three staff departures.
March 20, 2025
Rubber-Clad 1970s Art Vigilante Offers Playbook for a Prohibitive Moment
Santa Fe's fifteen-year Rubber Lady project was a master class in fugitive—and funny—social subversion. At Vladem Contemporary, the artist unmasks herself.
March 18, 2025
Gerald Peters Contemporary Announces 2025 Exhibitions
Gerald Peters Contemporary kicks off a season of compelling shows including explorations of American narratives through diverse perspectives, trends in female pop art, a special guest-curated exhibition by Erin Joyce and Ninabah Winton, and more.
March 11, 2025
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
For Futuros Ancestral, Cultural Preservation is Synonymous with Innovation
New Mexico's fiber artists at Futuros Ancestral are weaving technology with tradition to preserve heritage textile practices for future generations.
March 07, 2025
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Collective Imagination: Rethinking Canyon Road with Kyle Maier
Selective histories have long defined Santa Fe's main gallery district. Kyle Maier's digital Canyon Road History project aims to round out the picture.
March 07, 2025
PhotographyNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Impact Storytelling: Shayla Blatchford’s Anti-Uranium Mapping Project
With a keen eye and a bold approach, Shayla Blatchford’s Anti-Uranium Mapping Project confronts the damaging impact of unethical mining on Southwest Indigenous lands.
March 07, 2025
New MexicoStudio VisitVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Eva Gabriella Flynn: Borderlands Drifter
Las Cruces–based artist Eva Gabriella Flynn's meticulous maps and flags hover in an uncertain space between two nations, to playful and political effect.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Jess Lanham
Since the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fires, Jess Lanham has been creating work about the stark changes in her hometown of Las Vegas, New Mexico, using fragments and wildfire ash.
March 07, 2025
