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
This autofiction short revisits an outpatient surgery and the drive home through the lens of health, marriage, and fantasy.
Hannah Dean • February 25, 2022
EssayNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
D. Ward muses on the current and potential roles of the human gut microbiota in collaboration and art in general.
d. ward • February 25, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Sandra and Wence Martinez of Martinez Studio have been collaborating for over thirty years on textile design and weaving.
Southwest Contemporary • February 25, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Friends of the Orphan Signs is a collaborative art organization that works with community members to bring their voices to empty billboards and signs in Albuquerque.
Daisy Geoffrey • February 25, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Amanda Rowan's multimedia performance project Place Setting collaborates with the narrative and artifacts of three generations of women at the Acequia Madre House in Santa Fe.
Southwest Contemporary • February 25, 2022
Political organizer and artist Szu-Han Ho of Albuquerque builds coalitions and breaks down institutionalized barriers.
Kathryne Lim • February 23, 2022
Abeyta | To’Hajiilee K’é at the Wheelwright Museum in Santa Fe spotlights the invaluable contributions of a Navajo family of artists and deepens an understanding of Indigenous and American histories.
Steve Jansen • February 22, 2022
Jack Lemon opened Landfall Press in 1970 and continues to operate it in Santa Fe, having collaborated with Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Chuck Close, Robert Indiana, and Lesley Dill, among others.
Lauren LaRocca • February 24, 2022
Design Corps is Santa Fe's network for creative professionals and a comprehensive resource for creative services.
Design Corps of Santa Fe • February 16, 2022
Josephine Halvorson: Contemporary Voices at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe offers an intimate view of the Abiquiú desert.
Shane Tolbert • February 14, 2022
Roswell, New Mexico artist-in-residence Marie Alarcón explores the revolutionary potential of the end of the world in her solo exhibition Relocations.
Coco Picard • February 09, 2022
To some family-run businesses, two murals by local Albuquerque artists are indicative of new creative energy in Old Town. To city officials, they’re out of character for the historic district and must go.
Steve Jansen • February 04, 2022
Tamarind Institute announces fifteen new monotypes created by Maja Ruznic during her Tamarind residency.
Tamarind Institute • February 02, 2022
Albuquerque-based artist Jennifer Nehrbass paints the nature of landscapes to challenge ideas of what is real.
Nancy Zastudil • January 31, 2022
UNM Art Museum in Albuquerque presents an exhibition by Anila Quayyum Agha, a Pakistani American artist whose work is influenced by women’s social issues.
Nancy Zastudil • January 25, 2022
In an off-limits, decommissioned tunnel at the Albuquerque International Sunport, nobody knows the origins of stunning mosaic artworks.
Steve Jansen • December 20, 2021
Our final installment of the 2021 local gift guide spotlights Albuquerque holiday shopping opps—think tickets to Hamilton or a staycation in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque.
Steve Jansen • December 16, 2021
In Debra Baxter’s exhibition Love Tears, the artist uses a vocabulary of minerals and metal to examine how grief and longing have manifested within material culture throughout history.
form & concept • December 15, 2021
Gustavo Victor Goler and a team of master santeros conserve the devotional works of José Rafael Aragón at the San Antonio de Padua church in the New Mexico village of Cordova.
Steve Jansen • December 08, 2021
Joshua Concha, multimedia artist and poet from Taos Pueblo, plans to promote ideals of peace, unity, love, and community as Taos, New Mexico’s third poet laureate.
Kathryne Lim • December 07, 2021
The Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe announces the reopening of its gallery space with the new solo exhibition by Marietta Patricia Leis.
Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe • December 01, 2021
In Poetic Justice at the New Mexico Museum of Art, the social impacts and artistic contributions of Judith F. Baca, Mildred Howard, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith are on display.
Coco Picard • November 30, 2021
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge's A Treatise on Stars, the latest book by the New Mexico-based poet, makes a case for communication with star beings.
Kathryne Lim • November 16, 2021
Nature prevails through a young man’s dreams in Pink Narcissus and its way-making precursor, Fireworks, to be screened together at No Name Cinema’s November program officially announced today.
Lyndsay Knecht • November 08, 2021
Multidisciplinary artist Nathan Young newly activates the Wheelwright Museum’s collection of silverwork and jewelry with a site-specific installation Activation/Transformation.
Nancy Zastudil • November 02, 2021
Food + DrinkNew MexicoVol. 4 Winter 2021
Bow & Arrow Brewing Co. has created a genuinely Southwest-centric beer brand based on connections to the landscape, people, and magic of the region.
Daisy Geoffrey • October 29, 2021
Vol. 4 Winter 2021New MexicoReview
Maja Ruznic’s exhibition In the Sliver of the Sun at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos was reminiscent of a dream state, a loose and subdued world of imagination, distant memories, and notions of home and family.
Lauren LaRocca • October 29, 2021
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 4 Winter 2021
Hung Liu’s Sanctuary at Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe illuminated and paid respect to the renowned artist and her moving works.
Kathryne Lim • October 29, 2021
Oswaldo Maciá, a Santa Fe- and London-based artist, utilizes the unconventional media of smells and sound to provoke questions about coexistence, human borders, and migration.
Coco Picard • October 26, 2021
Peggy McGivern’s retrospective at Taos Art Museum at Fechin Studio enters dreamscapes and everyday scenes, tracing forty years and more than seventy-five works by the Taos artist.
Dawn Penso • October 13, 2021
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