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May 26

ReVisioning History to Imagine the Future: Architecture in Santa Fe

In an effort to bring multiple perspectives into conversation, Friends of Architecture Santa Fe has organized an in-depth series of public discussions termed “ReVisioning History” to take place May through December this year. Each installment of the ReVisioning History series will bring together a group of architects, planners, allied design professionals, and policymakers to make expert presentations, engage in panel discussions, hold Q&A sessions, and structured visioning exercises. By Lauren Tresp

Leah Mata Fragua

Mar 26

[sponsored] Leah Mata Fragua at the School for Advanced Research

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Artist Leah Mata Fragua on addressing climate change during her School for Advanced Research fellowship in Santa Fe. By Patrick McGuire

Mar 26

[sponsored] Sol Hill’s Metagraphs: Recording the Unknown

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Patina Gallery presents Urban Landscapes, a collection of metagraphs by artist Sol Hill. A native New Mexican and son of Santa Fe artist Megan Hill, this will be Hill’s second show in New Mexico. By Tamara Johnson

León De la Rosa-Carrillo, Earth Shatter, still from Nada/Whole/Ojalá

Jan 28

[sponsored] León De la Rosa-Carrillo’s The Remix Room

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This spring, UNM Art Museum hosts new-media artist León De la Rosa-Carrillo’s The Remix Room, which will offer visitors “six different stations in which remix can be explored as a viable strategy to conduct research and produce remixed content.” By Titus O'Brien

Timothy Edaakie in the studio

Oct 01

[sponsored] Timothy Edaakie at the School for Advanced Research

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Zuni potter Timothy Edaakie considers himself something of a revivalist in the world of natural pottery. While conventional ceramicists opt for the speed and convenience of modern throwing and firing methods, everything about Edaakie’s meticulous approach is slow, spiritual, and aimed at celebrating the seminal work his ancestors pioneered. As 2019’s Rollin and Mary Ella King Native artist fellow, Edaakie traveled from his home on the Zuni Reservation to Santa Fe this fall to live, work, and speak at the School for Advanced Research. Specifically, he plans on re-creating two Zuni pieces from SAR’s collection using clay and other materials collected from Zuni land during his fellowship: an A:shiwi olla jar and a traditional stew bowl. By Patrick McGuire

musician Valerie June

Jul 29

Valerie June: My Songs are Portals

“To me, the root of music is like the root of a plant. You can’t have a garden without a strong musical foundation. I want to start in the world of roots, but I don’t want to stay there forever” By Patrick McGuire

Ian Kuali'i studio shot.

Jul 27

[sponsored] Preview: Ian Kuali’i

The work that Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) and Apache artist Ian Kuali’i makes today is largely born out of a longstanding connection to the landscapes he has lived and worked in, as well as a sense that these different places each hold unique lessons for their inhabitants. As the Ronald and Susan Dubin Native Artist Fellow at the School for Advanced Research, Kuali’i is putting his talent to work to create intricate works of hand-cut paper, as well as an expansive earthwork on a slice of the center’s undeveloped acreage. By Maggie Grimason

Valentine Dubois

Jun 26

[sponsored] Material studies: Unearthing New European Makers for 2019

This summer, Patina Gallery presents works by more than ten European jewelry artists in a group exhibition opening on July 12, marking their debut in the American Southwest. Below, we highlight three of these artists whose works share modern sensibilities, minimalist shapes, and purity of materials... By Southwest Contemporary

May 24

[Sponsored] Contemporary Voices: Ken Price Preview

Starting this summer, the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum presents the innovative sculptures and works on paper of acclaimed artist Ken Price in conversation with the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe as a part of the museum’s ongoing Contemporary Voices series... By Shane Tolbert

Apr 26

[Sponsored] Preview: Meghann O’Brien

Haida, Kwakwaka’wakw Chilkat weaver Meghann O’Brien is the 2019 Eric and Barbara Dobkin Native Artist Fellow. An accomplished textile and basket weaver... By Jenn Shapland

Jun 01

Futurition Santa Fe

Futurition Santa Fe is a collaborative effort to bring awareness to a number of events taking place across several Santa Fe institutions and businesses that involve the intersections of art, science, and technology. The primary participants include Santa Fe Institute, Currents New Media, the Thoma Foundation (Art House), form & concept... By Southwest Contemporary

Jun 01

Larry Bell: Hocus, Focus and 12

The Harwood Museum of Art in Taos is gearing up for a large-scale exhibition of local luminary Larry Bell’s work. The show, titled Hocus, Focus and 12, is curated by Gus Foster, Taos photographer and Bell’s friend and collaborator. Highlights of the exhibition... By Anna Novakov

May 25

The Third Annual Oasis Festival

The third annual Oasis Festival, a youth-led, free event will take place on Saturday, May 26, from 5:30pm-10pm in the Railyard Plaza. New York based electronic-pop duo Overcoats will headline the event supported by local teen musicians and DJs, as well as performances from local... By Students of Santa Fe Prep/Convergence Project

May 01

H2O

“I got tired of auditioning for lame parts,” said Santa Fe actress Jessica Haring at an intimate living room preview for H2O this spring. Last year, she read Jane Martin’s one-act, two-character play from 2015 and knew its female protagonist, Deborah Elling... By Jordan Eddy

Dec 01

small

A new off-the-beaten-path exhibition space founded by Max Baseman, 5. Gallery has had a number of small exhibitions, primarily featuring local emerging artists. The raw, warehouse-style space is one of the latest to pop up in the budding—perhaps now burgeoning—Rufina arts district. For its next exhibition, small, a selection of small-scale... By Southwest Contemporary

Dec 01

Janet Lippincott: A 70-Year Retrospective

Matthews Gallery presents a major retrospective of Janet Lippincott, a pioneer of Southwest Modernism. Born in New York in 1918, Lippincott had attended the Art Students League of New York at age fifteen before departing for Paris where she was introduced to the work of Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and other early modernists... By Southwest Contemporary

Dec 01

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo

If classical ballet isn’t quite your thing (and even if it is), leave it to Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, presented this holiday season by Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, to reintroduce you to the art form. Somewhere between high art and lowbrow camp, this all-male ballet... By Southwest Contemporary

Dec 01

The US-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility

516 Arts and the Albuquerque Museum: The US-Mexico border has come to occupy an intellectually and emotionally charged space as well as a territorial one. Much of the creative production around the border unearths ways in which artists, architects, designers... By Southwest Contemporary

Nov 01

Guerrilla Tactics: Art, Performance, and the Politics of Resourcefulness, 1967-1987

Faye Gleisser, the Georgia O’Keeffe Research Center’s current postdoctoral fellow, finds inspiration in the work of scholars and artists who disrupt linear historical periods. Fred Wilson is particularly influential. Gaining renown in the early nineties, Wilson juxtaposed... By Alicia Inez Guzmán

Nov 01

New Mexico Museum of Art Centennial Celebrations

Join the New Mexico Museum of Art for a “once-in-a-century community birthday party,” as the institution turns one hundred on the day of the celebration. From 10 am to 5 pm, the museum will re-open after two months of building renovations with a plaza-wide party with events... By Southwest Contemporary

Cry Baby

Oct 19

Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, Preview #2

Independent films often have a freedom that larger studio films just don’t permit; without the money of a big studio also comes license to explore themes that might not make millions at the box office. This freedom is apparent in the many documentaries and feature films that... By Chelsea Weathers

For Ahkeem

Oct 12

Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, Preview #1

The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival begins on Wednesday, October 18, and will run through October 22 in theaters all over town. The festival opens with The Square (dir. Ruben Östlund), which won this year’s Palm d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Set against the backdrop of... By Chelsea Weathers

Oct 01

Redescribing the Desert: Vija Celmins in the Southwest

Vija Celmins has long been known as an “artist’s artist,” in part because she attends to her drawings, paintings, prints, and sculptures with meticulous detail. Centering on the expanses of the moon’s surface, the desert, ocean, and night sky, her works always ... By Alicia Inez Guzmán

Oct 01

Way OUT West Film Fest

Celebrating its fifteenth year, the Way OUT West Film Fest (formerly the Southwest Gay and Lesbian Film Festival) in Albuquerque will include thirty-four screenings over ten days, from October 13 through October 22. Chavela (2017), a music documentary directed by Catherine Gund and ... By Jenn Shapland

Oct 01

Review Santa Fe Photo Festival

Review Santa Fe is the multifaceted flagship program of CENTER and is one of the premier juried [...] By Southwest Contemporary

Sep 01

Research Center Conversation: What Can We Learn from Objects?

Many people collect items or have something precious they have kept with them throughout their lives. Other lives previous to ours have touched these things: those who made, owned, preserved, and passed them along... By Southwest Contemporary

Sep 01

Bach & Brews with Matt Haimovitz

Performance Santa Fe presents cellist Matt Haimovitz, who made his debut as a soloist at age 13 in 1984 with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, and made his first recording at age 17 with the Chicago Symphony [...] By Southwest Contemporary

Feb 01

Garo Antreasian: Innovation in Print

The Tamarind Institute has been operating since 1960; in 1970, Albuquerque became its home base. It is hard to imagine American printmaking, certainly lithography, before its existence when artists who [...] By Megan Schultz

Aug 01

Cross Pollination

516 Arts: About 35 percent of the world’s food crops and 75 percent of the flowering plants depend on [...] By Southwest Contemporary

Aug 01

Melinda Rosenberg: Found and Made

Tansey Contemporary: Melinda Rosenberg creates sculpture using wood that ranges from new to found to recycled [...] By Southwest Contemporary

Jul 01

Fearless Genius: The Digital Revolution 1985-2000

Patina Gallery presents two exhibitions in celebration of the world premiere of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs at the Santa Fe Opera on July 22, 2017. [...] By Southwest Contemporary

Jul 01

Monique van Genderen & Bart Exposito

Two painters, Los Angeles–based Monique van Genderen and Lamy, New Mexico–based Bart Exposito are presented in a two-person show at TAI Modern. [...] By Southwest Contemporary

THE Magazine Special Preview

Apr 01

Mimbres Multiplied: Ancient Pottery and Modern American Visual Culture

I first met Janet Catherine Berlo when she invited me to her home for dinner. It was 2009, and I had just arrived in Rochester, New York, where she is Professor of Native American Art History [...] By Alicia Inez Guzmán