Behind the Scenes: Printing the Magazine
Take a tour of the printing press where each issue of The Magazine comes to life! I know we make it look super slick and easy: content + design = printed […]
March 18, 2019
News
Art News Briefs: March 2019
The City of Santa Fe is looking for a new Arts Commission Director to plan, organize and coordinate arts and cultural programs and services, and represent the City in the arts and cultural arena...
March 11, 2019
Photos from the 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now Opening
“12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now” opened on Friday, March 1, with a wonderfully packed house. Big thanks to everyone who came out to see the work of emerging […]
March 06, 2019
Art News Briefs: February 2019
Professor Rebecca Schreiber of the UNM American Studies Department was awarded the Frank Jewett Mather award for art criticism by the College Art Association for her book The Undocumented Everyday: Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility.
February 12, 2019
Meet the Team: Lauren Tresp
Name: Lauren Tresp Location: Santa Fe, NM Writing for The since: 2013 1. Where are you from? Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 2. What is your favorite thing about New Mexico? It feels real. […]
February 12, 2019
How to Apply for All the Things, early 2019 edition
It's January, and for many artists that means it's application season. Was your New Years resolution to apply for more things in 2019? We can help! The Classifieds page on The Magazine's website features a running list of opportunities for artists throughout the southwest.
January 21, 2019
Art News Briefs: January 15, 2019
It's a big month for news from Santa Fe. Four Grammy nominations, two Living Treasures, a residency, an art CSA, and a new secretary of cultural affairs.
January 15, 2019
Meet the Team: Maggie Grimason
Meet Maggie Grimason, The Mag writer since 2017, who lives in Albuquerque and hails from "northwest Indiana, land of lakes and soy beans." Her favorite things about New Mexico? "Mountains on the horizon, lizards, and clothes drying instantly on the line."
January 08, 2019
Meet the Team: Jimmy Montoya
Jimmy Montoya, The Magazine's distributor extraordinaire, reflects on his twelve years at the magazine. In that time, he's found a cat, a dead snake, and a wallet in our streetside boxes, among other treasures.
December 27, 2018
2018: The Year in Review
What a year for The Magazine! The top ten most read articles on our website in 2018 were:
1. Field Report: Las Vegas
2. Wendy Young: A Long and Slow Surrender
3. Santa Fe Women: Paula Angel
4. Floating Worlds: The Santa Fe Opera Scene Shop...
December 19, 2018
December 2018: News Briefs
Judy Chicago will not partner with her home city of Belen, NM, on opening a museum after residents called the artwork "inappropriate" and "pornagraphic." Her nonprofit has started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for the art space and Belen Mayor Jerah Cordova will donate his 2019 salary to help support the museum...
December 11, 2018
Andrea Hanley Juries Inaugural Artists’ Issue
Andrea R. Hanley (Navajo) has been an arts advocate for more than 25 years. Her career has been guided and dedicated to the work of contemporary American Indian artists and the American Indian fine art field. Hanley has had an impressive career working as a curator, gallerist, writer, fundraiser, lecturer, and volunteer...
November 30, 2018
November 2018: People Are Talking about…
The Magazine contributor and former director of Central Features Contemporary Art Nancy Zastudil joined the Tamarind Institute as Gallery Director.
November 12, 2018
Five by Five: October 18, 2018
LOOKING FOR THE LIGHT BETWEEN: PHOTOGRAPHS BY ALIVIA MAGANA Ellsworth Gallery / Santa Fe Fri, Oct 19, 5–7 pm learn more BORDERLAND: PHOTOGRAPHY BY ALIA ALI East of West / […]
October 18, 2018
October 2018: People Are Talking about…
George RR Martin's Literary Fund has created three new scholarships for students pursuing BFAs in Cinematic Arts and Technology at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
October 16, 2018
Arts Community Priorities Poll Results
We've tallied the results from our first community poll. Thanks to everyone who participated on Instagram, Facebook, and via this newsletter! While there's a fairly even split...
October 10, 2018
Five by Five: October 4, 2018
Five events for the next five days...
October 04, 2018
Five by Five: Sept 20, 2018
Five NM event picks for the next 5 days...
September 20, 2018
Five by Five: Sept 13, 2018
5 x 5: five picks for the next five days...
September 13, 2018
Five by Five: Sept 6, 2018
5 x 5: five picks for the next five days...
September 13, 2018
September 2018: People Are Talking About…
A new, three-piece site-specific installation by Paula Castillo at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, expected completion by the end of 2018...
September 06, 2018
August 2018: People Are Talking About…
A committee including the Caballeros, the All Pueblo Council of Governors, the Santa Fe Fiesta Council, the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and the mayor’s office has voted to cancel this year's Entrada...
August 14, 2018
July 2018: People Are Talking About…
The Screen cinema on the former SFUAD campus, which closed in April, came “back to life” this month via a “new initiative between the City of Santa Fe and the CCA.” […]
July 17, 2018
April Reading
When Jenny George read from her collection The Dream of Reason at Collected Works in early April, her voice was soft, slow, and steady. Like her poems, her reading rendered heartbreaking compressions of language and feeling into something delicate to behold. Her images ...
April 11, 2018
Shelley Horton-Trippe: High Brow Low Ride
Phil Space: Shelley Horton-Trippe, in her recent exhibition High Brow Low Ride, references the great twentieth-century French writer Colette, and she does this by way of a large painting titled The Pure and the Impure (Colette). Horton-Trippe draws on Colette’s book...
April 06, 2018
Sabra Moore’s Wall Quilts
Last summer I met up with artist Sabra Moore at Angelina’s Restaurant, with the big chili pepper sign, on Fairview Street just by the Rio Grande in Española. We were about to tour the district elementary schools where she has been working to create large, permanent tile wall mosaics...
March 22, 2018
January 2018 Reading
Zadie Smith is the reason I left Facebook. As I was reading—actually, as my partner, who snatched it up the moment it arrived, was reading—her new collection of essays Feel Free, I revisited a piece of hers I remember from several years ago to see if it held up. "Generation Why?"...
January 18, 2018
IAIA Winter Readers Gathering
Each January, as Santa Fe et environs settle back into their quiet winter ways following the bustle of holidays, markets, and festivals, the Low Residency MFA program in Creative Writing gathers at IAIA for a week of workshops and unforgettable public readings. This is the only...
January 02, 2018
Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans
How do we understand different cultural groups through the objects they produce? Anthropological artefacts reveal information of the behaviours, practices and arts of a particular society. The Southern Athabaskans—a tribe situated across New Mexico and Arizona—have a long...
December 14, 2017
Visages Villages (Faces Places)
The movie Faces Places, considered a masterpiece by many contemporary film critics, won Best Documentary at Cannes in 2017. It was written by the esteemed French filmmaker Agnès Varda and was directed by her and the French artist-activist JR. Faces Places has been enthusiastically received...
December 05, 2017
