
Pillar: No More Mud in Our Eyes
Andrés Mario de Varona remembers and honors the life of Aaron Martin Garcia, also known as Pillar, and reveals the powerful human condition of strangers becoming friends, brothers, and teachers.
January 17, 2024
Andrés Mario de Varona remembers and honors the life of Aaron Martin Garcia, also known as Pillar, and reveals the powerful human condition of strangers becoming friends, brothers, and teachers.
Andrés Mario de Varona • January 17, 2024
RioBravoFineArt kicks off 2024 with January and February Second Saturday Art Hop openings featuring three unique New Mexican artists in Truth or Consequences.
RioBravoFineArt • January 10, 2024
At Exhibit/208 and its sister business, Thirsty Eye Brewing Co, a celebratory exhibition features work by fifty talented artists. The show is on view through January 27, 2024, with a walk-through tour on January 13, 2024.
Exhibit/208 • January 09, 2024
In Interference Patterns at SITE Santa Fe, Nicholas Galanin (Lingít/Unangax̂) stokes rage and reckoning with the dark history and continuing legacies of settler-colonialism.
Natalie Hegert • December 21, 2023
Though focused on a 20th-century photographer, Manuel Carrillo: Mexican Modernist illuminates a sense of community identity through beauty that connects to the work of artists practicing in the Southwest today.
Isabella Beroutsos • December 11, 2023
Form & concept's holiday gift guide considers thoughtful gifting, with a focus on fiber works by Bhakti Ziek.
form & concept • December 07, 2023
Bringing It All Back Home reveals that Patrick Kikut is an unsentimental explorer of the West, manifesting an intrepid curiosity and respect for the land through which he moves.
Hills Snyder • November 29, 2023
Paper Trails challenges the preconceived notions of contemporary art and engages in aesthetic and conceptual conversations. On view through December 23 at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art in Santa Fe. Paper Trails […]
Zane Bennett Contemporary Art • November 16, 2023
Amanda Dannáe Romero and sheri crider discuss the Sanitary Tortilla Factory exhibition featuring the work of system-impacted youth and the role of art in creating social change in New Mexico.
Gabriella Angeleti • November 15, 2023
Experience the creative prowess of fabric artist Rebecca Speakes at RioBravoFineArt in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
RioBravoFineArt • November 08, 2023
Nani Chacon, Hand and Machine, and Working Classroom student artists collaborated to create PAHTIA, an interactive, site-specific space for healing via art and technology at Albuquerque’s National Hispanic Cultural Center.
Samantha Anne Carrillo • November 08, 2023
Santa Fe-based George Alexander (Muscogee-Creek) explores contemporary Indigenous culture with imagery that challenges the boundaries of what is considered “Native art.”
Will Riding In • October 27, 2023
Santa Fe-based Jenn Shapland, author of multi-award-winning My Autobiography of Carson McCullers, chats about the writing life and her new collection of essays, Thin Skin.
Robin Babb • October 25, 2023
Anemoia brings together more than forty cast members in the exploration of places never traveled through imaginative movement. Experience the production November 17-19, 2023.
Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts • October 24, 2023
Galisteo-based potter Robert King (Choctaw) discusses his collaboration and experimentation with clay in New Mexico’s high desert landscape.
Lillia McEnaney • October 20, 2023
Roswell artist-in-residence Alex Boeschenstein takes inspiration from things seen in the skies in Visionary Rumor at the Roswell Museum.
Jess Ziegenfuss • October 19, 2023
Thousands gathered for Zozobra 2023 in Santa Fe to stuff their sorrows into a fifty-foot puppet and watch the effigy burn to the ground.
Emily Arntsen • October 10, 2023
Ellen Berkenblit’s exhibition In Motion at Tamarind Institute surveys the New York-based artist’s continuing collaboration with the renowned lithography workshop in Albuquerque.
Nancy Zastudil • October 09, 2023
The New Mexico Museum of Art presents To Make, Unmake, and Make Again, an exhibition showcasing the life's work of the multi-faceted artist Rick Dillingham. The exhibition is on view October 7, 2023–June 16, 2024 in Santa Fe.
New Mexico Museum of Art • October 05, 2023
Santa Fe Studio Arts Collective presents its 15th Annual Santa Fe Studio Tour featuring more than 100 local artists. The city-wide tour happens October 21–22 and 28–29.
Santa Fe Studio Arts Collective • October 04, 2023
Tierra Mar Gallery brings a new alchemy to Canyon Road in Santa Fe, NM. Meet artist Judith Kohin at the 16th Annual Paint & Sculpt Out on October 21, 10-3 pm.
Tierra Mar Gallery • September 26, 2023
Basement Films is a dedicated collective that keeps a massive collection of vintage film reels as a resource for alternative, DIY, experimental, and micro-cinema.
P. Antonio Márquez • September 22, 2023
Richard Levy Gallery is present the two-person exhibition Painting Scenarios by Mick Burson and Terri Roland with a gallery reception on Saturday, September 9, 6-8 pm.
Richard Levy Gallery • September 07, 2023
Horizons at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture pairs historical and contemporary weaving with photography and other media to create connections across materials, time, and lands.
Maggie Grimason • September 06, 2023
The University of New Mexico Art Museum announces the next installment of its permanent collection exhibition series, Hindsight Insight 3.0: Portraits, Landscapes, and Abstraction from the UNM Art Museum. The exhibitions opens on September 8, 2023.
University of New Mexico Art Museum • September 05, 2023
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Josh Tafoya ushers New Mexico’s rich textile history into the contemporary world of fashion and design, keeping old traditions alive and telling new stories within his work.
Justin Duyao • September 01, 2023
WritingsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
In the early 20th century, bricks were brought over Raton Pass to Raton, New Mexico from the Trinidad Brick Company. We stole this brick for our backyard.
Spenser Willden • September 01, 2023
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas's varied and multi-faceted work, deeply rooted in the power of the human figure, addresses feminism, cultural identity, and contemporary politics.
Scotti Hill • September 01, 2023
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Bruce Nauman: His Mark at SITE Santa Fe is the internationally recognized artist's first solo show in New Mexico and includes never-before-shown work.
Maggie Grimason • September 01, 2023
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Margarita Paz-Pedro works with adobe, natural clay, and porcelain, interrogating the history of the materials and our understanding of them to create space for new connections and meanings.
Maggie Grimason • September 01, 2023
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