ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Esther Elia: Living Histories
Assyrian Irish artist Esther Elia constructs contemporary diasporic visions of ancient legacies through an ever-evolving array of media.
March 01, 2024
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Assyrian Irish artist Esther Elia constructs contemporary diasporic visions of ancient legacies through an ever-evolving array of media.
Maggie Grimason • March 01, 2024
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Out West: Gay and Lesbian Artists in the Southwest 1900–1969 at the New Mexico Museum of Art collects work by and about queer artists working in New Mexico.
Robin Babb • March 01, 2024
Roswell artist-in-residence ann haeyoung confronts the geopolitics of emptiness in terra nullius at the Roswell Museum.
Jess Ziegenfuss • February 26, 2024
Experience the extraordinary Kronos Quartet on March 19, 2024, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe.
Performance Santa Fe • February 21, 2024
Raven Chacon (Diné) honors matriarchal Indigenous resistance at the Harwood Museum in a unique grouping of visual, video, and sound works that will be shown in New Mexico for the first time.
Steve Jansen • February 20, 2024
Experience Three Songs, Raven Chacon's immersive tribute to Indigenous, First Nations, and Mestiza woman at the Harwood Museum of Art opening on Friday, February 23, 6:30 pm, and on view through July 7, 2024, in Taos.
Harwood Museum of Art • February 13, 2024
Nikesha Breeze: Black Archive and Alex Ponca Stock: Color Relatives are on view through March 16, with an artists' reception on Saturday, February 17, 6-8 pm at Richard Levy Gallery in Albuquerque.
Richard Levy Gallery • February 08, 2024
Santa Fe-based artist David Benjamin Sherry discusses the emotional and physical landscapes within his work, and the parallels between disappearing landscapes and losses of life.
Caitlin Lorraine Johnson • January 19, 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
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