The Audacity of Art: Art for the Midterm Elections
The Audacity of Art: Art for the Midterm Elections plays on a phrase that President Barack Obama used in his keynote speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention...
November 28, 2018
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Letters: December 2018-January 2019
When I started in June, Lauren and I made all sorts of plans, and it’s a joy to watch them develop into realities: more coverage of performance art, dance...
November 28, 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
Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts
In Santa Fe, Bruce Nauman feels to me like an invisible figure. I know he lives near, I know he frequents the same diner I frequent, I question every tall, bald man in my vicinity, but...
October 30, 2018
Aaron Honyumptewa
Aaron Honyumptewa imbues his katsina carvings with the traditional ethos of the Hopi people combined with an undercurrent of...
October 30, 2018
Mourning and Militancy: David Wojnarowicz’s ITSOFOMO
A snake rides in the grass. A rat materializes in front of it. There’s not much doubt how this encounter is going to end...
October 30, 2018
Matthew Mullins: The Sun in Our Bones
What does it mean to make landscape paintings in 2018? Just this morning I was reading the recently issued UN Climate Change Report about coming food shortages, growing wildfires...
October 30, 2018
David Hammons: Bliz-aard Ball Sale by Elena Filipovic
February 1983: a man in coat and scarf stands on a sidewalk among various street vendors at Cooper Square in downtown New York City. At his feet, a collection of perfectly spherical white forms...
October 30, 2018
Unpacking the Archives: Multi-cultural
At the mural’s center, a brown-skinned woman reaches her arms outward, one hand holding a microscope, the other a volumetric flask. She is the corn goddess—nose broad, lips full, and hair parted in the middle. Her gaze is fixed...
October 30, 2018
Have a Drink with Christian Waguespack of the New Mexico Museum of Art
tasting notes with: Christian Waguespack. occupation: Curator of 20th Century Art at the New Mexico Museum of Art. venue: Hervé Wine Bar, Santa Fe.
October 30, 2018
The Printed Page / Thomas Christopher Haag
The Printed Page Series: Thomas Christopher Haag, Look What I Can Do
October 30, 2018
Pablita Velarde
On a survey taken outside a 1993 exhibit of Pablita Velarde’s work at the Wheelwright Museum, one visitor wrote, in awe: “that a woman of her time would be able to find her creative life...
October 30, 2018
2018 Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
In the summer of 2015, I called my mother to tell her she had to move out of her house in Portland, Oregon. My sister, on...
October 30, 2018
The Fish in the Trees
The leaves in the trees, one night—more leaves than there are stars in the sky, more leaves than there are eyes to look up at the night sky to see them with—
October 30, 2018
Zone: Visionary and Contemplative Art
On a recent Tuesday afternoon, I find myself embarrassed by my own lack of creativity. I’m making my way through...
October 30, 2018
Phil Binaco: The Affirming Flame
Phil Binaco’s recent body of work was inspired by a poem by W. H. Auden...
October 30, 2018
Letters: November 2018: Community
A month ago, I wrote about the importance of critical writing and critical thinking, one of the core tenets of the work of The Magazine. Now I’m happy to write about a second core tenet: Community.
October 30, 2018
Meaning and Music: Mark Morris Dance Group Comes to Santa Fe
Mark Morris dances are difficult to describe because they are so innovative. The man’s wit is a source of endless creativity, and his work gives the simultaneous impressions of serendipity and contemplation. His dances can...
October 30, 2018
Art in Public Places
Public art finds itself at the center of a number of our era’s flashpoints: the controversy over Confederate monuments; a questionably placed statue of...
October 29, 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
Karsten Creightney
In Karsten Creightney’s painting studio at Sanitary Tortilla Factory in downtown Albuquerque, there is a massive pile of paper scraps: richly colored vintage advertisements, newspaper clippings, blown-out images torn to bits, an array of textures, colors, and weights. This is the stuff of dreams...
October 01, 2018
Drowned River: An Interview with Rebecca Solnit and Mark Klett
Rebecca Solnit’s writing on the intersection of environmental damage and the human body has long captured my attention as a reader and as an inhabitant of this planet...
October 01, 2018
Letters: October 2018: Criticism
Criticism is a vital part of a community that endeavors to engage and progress culturally and artistically. By criticism, I mean informed writing that expands upon and critiques, positively or negatively, the artwork, exhibitions...
October 01, 2018
Have a Drink with George Casey of Lost Padre Records
Lost Padre Records is a place you can easily get lost in for hours. The shop itself is small—just half an adobe house at 304 Catron Street near downtown Santa Fe—but within its walls is a high density of records you’ll want to discover and rediscover...
October 01, 2018
Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices 1950s to Now
The upcoming exhibition, Art for a New Understanding: Native Voices 1950s to Now, at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, highlights the work of modern Indigenous artists from the U.S. and Canada...
October 01, 2018
Paula Angel
Did you know that in New Mexico, women were not allowed to serve on a jury prior to March 14, 1951? For all the accomplishments of New Mexico’s women throughout history...
October 01, 2018
Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking
I’ve always maintained an irrational but polite envy of the orderly and meticulous artist whose studio is swept daily, whose works are steadily recorded, and whose supplies are inventoried as you might find...
October 01, 2018
