Articles

I Heard it Was the War

All this madness has made me terribly sad. I didn't buy the diet pills because they were too expensive. Or perhaps, that's life. The world tells you for so long...

Shayla Lawz • October 01, 2018

Review

Wilderness Acts: Art in the Land

It’s a pleasure to be taken by surprise in a place I had never heard of before—the Leonora Curtin Wetland Preserve in La Cienega. Managed by the Santa Fe Botanical Garden, this thirty-five-acre gem is a kiss away from I-25, yet it’s a haven for flora and fauna...

Diane Armitage • October 01, 2018

Review

Holly Wilson: On Turtle’s Back

“Anything or anyone you care for creates a responsibility for you,” reads a museum plaque beside Holly Wilson’s Guardian and Guide, one of six of the artist’s works currently on display at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. In the piece, a small bronze-cast woman perches...

Annika Berry • October 01, 2018

Magazine

Chaotic Structures: Action at a Distance

Action at a Distance at Theater Grottesco, Santa Fe September 24th-October 10, 2018 the famously depressive actor and theatrical scholar Antonin Artaud writes, “The theater, which is in no thing, […]

Jonah Winn-Lenetsky • October 01, 2018

The Printed Page

The Printed Page / Thomas Christopher Haag

Forgotten (symbol) by Thomas Christopher Haag

Thomas Christopher Haag • October 01, 2018

Review

GenNext: Future So Bright

n GenNext, the Museum of Spanish Colonial Art assembles a group of contemporary artists working between traditional genres and contemporary subject matter. Each artist combines the materials and iconography of New Mexico’s traditional Spanish arts...

Kathryn M Davis • October 01, 2018

Review

Yumiko and Kenro Izu: In Harmony

I am not a photographer. When I tell a friend I’m writing a review of Yumiko and Kenro Izu’s exhibition In Harmony at Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd., she asks me to forgive her before saying...

Annika Berry • October 01, 2018

Meet Your Makers

Santa Fe Independent Film Festival

Much like the movies in its lineup, the inaugural Santa Fe Independent Film Festival had a dogged crew and a bare-bones budget. Jacques Paisner and two like-minded friends...

Jordan Eddy • October 01, 2018

Feature

Archive Futures

One of the most difficult things for an artist to do is to reckon with her own legacy. This is not just a theoretical concern for where one fits into a particular historical narrative—it’s also of material importance...

Chelsea Weathers • October 01, 2018

News

Five by Five: Sept 20, 2018

Five NM event picks for the next 5 days...

Southwest Contemporary • September 20, 2018

News

Five by Five: Sept 13, 2018

5 x 5: five picks for the next five days...

Southwest Contemporary • September 13, 2018

From the Editor

25 Issues In: From the desk of Lauren Tresp

The September issue is my 25th as publisher and editor of this publication, and it feels like a fitting moment to reflect on the transformations that have taken place over the last two and a half years. Since early 2016 we have...

Lauren Tresp • September 13, 2018

News

Five by Five: Sept 6, 2018

5 x 5: five picks for the next five days...

Southwest Contemporary • September 13, 2018

News

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...

Southwest Contemporary • September 06, 2018

Studio Visit

Brandon Maldonado

It’s not hard to understand why Brandon Maldonado’s paintings are in high demand...

Chelsea Weathers • August 28, 2018

Photography

Mona Bozorgi: Objet Fatale

objet d’art, a high quality decorative object, or a curiosity for your cabinet, usually collectible; and femme fatale, a female stock character whose dangerous, seductive beauty and feminine wiles draw […]

Lauren Tresp • August 28, 2018