FeatureNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
Return of the Buffalo
On a road trip across the former rangelands of the American bison, Cannupa Hanska Luger envisions a new monument.
March 20, 2026
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
On a road trip across the former rangelands of the American bison, Cannupa Hanska Luger envisions a new monument.
Kimberly Suina Melwani • March 20, 2026
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
Poet Laura Neal discovers new roads in the collected works of Albuquerque-based artist Johannes Barfield exploring alternative states of being and imagining in Black culture.
Laura Neal • March 20, 2026
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
Route 66 survives in fragments. In a handmade atlas, Willie Lambert pieces New Mexico's 500-mile stretch back together.
Peter Warzel • March 20, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
An older name for New Mexico anchors Moira Garcia’s mixed-media mapping of Nahua migration, cosmology, and return.
Erin Averill • March 20, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
For artist Carmen Selam, the road represents freedom, but also displacement. Her practice explores that tension using materials and imagery that speak to contemporary Indigenous experience.
Maggie Grimason • March 20, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
Transdisciplinary artist Adelaide Theriault maps medians, transition zones, and in-betweens through their highway art and roadside ditch field recordings.
Royal Young • March 20, 2026
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
Lucy R. Lippard: Notes from the Radical Whirlwind traces the sixty-year career of one of the most humane and lucid arts writers of a generation.
Robin Babb • March 20, 2026
SponsoredNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
CENTER Santa Fe presents two photography exhibitions this spring—Elements of Wonder and A New Mexican Burial—alongside a statewide printing workshop series designed to help artists grow their practice.
CENTER Santa Fe • March 20, 2026
New Paintings by Jesse Littlebird and Chris Pappan are on view at Blue Rain Gallery in Santa Fe, February 27–March 12, 2026, bringing together two distinct voices in contemporary Native painting.
Blue Rain Gallery • March 02, 2026
Painter Laurie Nye brings her vibrant nature-inspired work to UNM as the 2026 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist Fellow. Free public events include an artist talk February 19 and an open studio on April 2.
UNM Art Department and Frederick Hammersley Foundation • February 10, 2026
The just-announced curator of SITE Santa Fe's next biennial reveals his multi-venue ambitions for a show punctuated by immersive "moments of encounter."
Jordan Eddy • February 03, 2026
Tewa artists and scholars offer a challenge—along with tea, letters, and a remarkable map—to an institution whose namesake claimed their ancestral lands.
Jordan Eddy • January 27, 2026
The Santa Fe gallery’s 2026 lineup celebrates art at the intersection of imagination, innovation and tradition.
Annabella Farmer and Hecho a Mano • December 23, 2025
Fifteen contemporary artists reimagine traditional art forms to address social justice, colonialism, and climate change at Museum of International Folk Art.
Museum of International Folk Art • December 09, 2025
Tamarind's printmaking programs are supported by annual memberships. Collectors Club members receive an exclusive lithograph, 20% discount on editions, and early access to new editions.
Tamarind Institute • December 03, 2025
Cecilia Alemani rolled out an exhibition like no other in Santa Fe—its visionary weirdness will hit everyone a bit different.
Natalie Hegert • November 20, 2025
Tamarind Institute introduces nine specialized lithography workshops in 2026-27, from one-week intensives to four-week immersions covering stone and aluminum plate techniques, collaboration, teaching strategies, and more.
Tamarind Institute • November 19, 2025
Meet the curators behind the most innovative contemporary art exhibitions within the last five years. SITE Santa Fe hosts Ekow Eshun, Miranda Lash, Sara Raza, and Diana Campbell, November 2025-January 2026.
SITE Santa Fe • November 10, 2025
Yadi Flannery's quilts combine the classic geometric shapes of traditional quilts with fabric patterns and colors that flow freely underneath and within the overlaying geometric pattern. See her exquisite work in Truth or Consequences.
RioBravoFineArt • November 06, 2025
The Yes Men used slick branding to spoof ExxonMobil in New Mexico. Inside the cloak and dagger intervention by a wave of "laugh-tivists" with a serious cause.
Rica Maestas • October 30, 2025
With works by twelve artists, scholars, and culture bearers from the six Tewa Pueblos in New Mexico, Tewa Nangeh/Tewa Country opens a critical dialogue around sacred landscapes, Indigenous belonging, and cultural ownership at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum • October 28, 2025
From a courtroom to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Native artists Mateo Romero and Jason Garcia are correcting the records.
Kimberly Suina Melwani • September 30, 2025
In a single 1978 acquisition, the Museum of International Folk Art grew by 100,000 objects—and effectively adopted their fervent and eccentric collector.
Adele Oliveira • September 16, 2025
Discover multidisciplinary artist Tlacaelel's one-man performance "Yo Soy Joaquín" at Taos Center for the Arts, September 20-21, 2025.
Michael Gorman and Patricio Tlacaelel Trujillo y Fuentes • September 16, 2025
Catch Truth or Consequences's Second Saturday Art Hop, and the opening of RioBravoFineArt's Border Artists group exhibition, on September 13, 6-9 pm.
RioBravoFineArt • September 10, 2025
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Abstract painter Agnes Martin sought isolation in New Mexico to stoke her obsessive practice. She found vibrant community.
Jordan Eddy • September 05, 2025
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Three New Mexico–based artists—c marquez, Susan York, and Judy Tuwaletstiwa—reflect on their relationship with the material that has defined their practice.
Caitlin Lorraine Johnson • September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Multimedia artist Luca Berkley (AKA Jack Lope, Jenn Deere, and Piper Pelligrini) critiques narratives surrounding white American ranching through cheeky yet reverent performance, online as well as on stage.
Rica Maestas • September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Artist Taylor Engel’s varied and chaotic artworks envelop viewers in a shared experience of all-consuming obsession, codependency, and repetition.
Rica Maestas • September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Albuquerque-based artist Justine Kablack devoutly repeats images of the road, embracing its contradiction as both limitless and constrained.
Maggie Grimason • September 05, 2025
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