Streaming Killed the Video Stars, Except These Ones
Santa Fe’s last video store, a nonprofit in Albuquerque, and an archive in Texas venerate and preserve analog media in the age of AI.
August 11, 2026
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Tamarind Institute Expands Lithography Training for 2027
Tamarind Institute's new series of immersive, one-week lithography workshops is tailored for artists, educators, curators, and printmakers. Applications are due August 15, 2026.
July 20, 2026
From Drag Racing to Drag Performance, New 516 Arts Exhibition Explores Route 66
As the iconic Route 66 reaches its centennial year, 516 Arts marks this momentous milestone with The Rest is Drag, the last exhibition before the art center moves to its new, expanded location.
June 30, 2026
Calling All Creatives: NM CreativeCon Convenes the Creative Industries in Albuquerque
Join creatives, entrepreneurs, artists, organizations, developers, and community leaders from across New Mexico for a full day of learning, networking, inspiration, and opportunity.
June 01, 2026
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30 Years In, Keshet Dance Company Has Perfected the Generational Handoff
At the Albuquerque nonprofit, students become performers, family members become colleagues, and a community built on access and belonging continues to grow.
May 22, 2026
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516 Arts at 20: An Albuquerque Anchor Prepares for its Next Chapter
After twenty years at 516 Central Avenue SW in Albuquerque, 516 Arts marks a flagship anniversary with a move to a new, renovated space.
May 22, 2026
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At 50, the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Expands its Sovereign Footprint
Collectively governed by New Mexico’s nineteen Pueblos, the Albuquerque center marks its semicentennial as a “little pivot” between worlds.
May 22, 2026
At Keshet Dance Company, Dancers Take the Lead
For three decades, Keshet Dance Company has dissolved the lines between stage and community, artist and audience—making contemporary dance a vehicle for access, collaboration, and social change.
May 22, 2026
New Mexico Artist Residencies: So Enchanting, You Might Get Entrapped
Is New Mexico the Land of Enchantment or the "Land of Entrapment"? Apply for one of these eighteen artist and writer residencies, and you're bound to find out.
May 12, 2026
Gallery Talk: Grounded in Clay Curators, Pottery & The Growing Season
Join us for the Pueblo Pottery Collective Curators’ reflections on Pottery and the Growing Season, inside the “Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery” exhibit. The event will focus […]
April 23, 2026
Opening Reception: NM Watercolor Spring Exhibition
The NM Watercolor Society hosts its Annual Spring Exhibition at the iconic Fine Arts Building at EXPO-New Mexico. The show features over 200 standard and small-to-medium sized original works. All […]
April 17, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
The Road: Adelaide Theriault
Transdisciplinary artist Adelaide Theriault maps medians, transition zones, and in-betweens through their highway art and roadside ditch field recordings.
March 20, 2026
Slow Down on the Mother Road: Heritage Inspirations’s New Route 66 Tour Rewrites the Nostalgia Narrative
Celebrating 100 years of Route 66, Heritage Inspirations launches a new Albuquerque Architecture & History Tour.
March 20, 2026
Laurie Nye is Awarded the 2026 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist Fellowship
Painter Laurie Nye brings her vibrant nature-inspired work to UNM as the 2026 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist Fellow. Free public events include an artist talk February 19 and an open studio on April 2.
February 10, 2026
Tamarind’s Collectors Club: Four Decades of Supporting Collaborative Printmaking
Tamarind's printmaking programs are supported by annual memberships. Collectors Club members receive an exclusive lithograph, 20% discount on editions, and early access to new editions.
December 03, 2025
Master the Art of Lithography: New Workshops at Tamarind Institute
Tamarind Institute introduces nine specialized lithography workshops in 2026-27, from one-week intensives to four-week immersions covering stone and aluminum plate techniques, collaboration, teaching strategies, and more.
November 19, 2025
Manic ExxonMobil Impersonators Pitch a Rising Protest Aesthetic: Razor-Sharp Silliness
The Yes Men used slick branding to spoof ExxonMobil in New Mexico. Inside the cloak and dagger intervention by a wave of "laugh-tivists" with a serious cause.
October 30, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: Karl Orozco
By dismantling and depicting dead machines, artist Karl Orozco imagines new life cycles for our throwaway technologies.
September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: Justine Kablack
Albuquerque-based artist Justine Kablack devoutly repeats images of the road, embracing its contradiction as both limitless and constrained.
September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: jesse lovell
Albuquerque-based artist jesse lovell’s practice has expanded over the years to include P.I. work, living somewhere between caricature and sousveillance.
September 05, 2025
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
In Abstracting Nature, New Mexico Artists Collaborate with Wild Entropic Powers
Natural entropy is a tool—and a sustainable ethos—for ten artists in Abstracting Nature at the Albuquerque Museum.
September 05, 2025
Anthropology Museums Are Returning Some Objects, But What About the Ones They Keep?
To address misleading historical photos of the Navajo Nation, Albuquerque's Maxwell Museum of Anthropology tapped Diné collaborators to fill in the gaps.
April 22, 2025
Caroline Liu’s Chinese Garden is Not as Sweet as It Looks. And That’s Good.
Caroline Liu’s exhibition lures you in then hits you with a one-two punch about erased histories and Asian marginalization.
April 02, 2025
Group Exhibition Brings Light and Space Greats to Albuquerque
Explore the transformative Light and Space art movement at Albuquerque Museum April 5–July 20, 2025, featuring groundbreaking works that redefine perception through light, color, and spatial experience.
April 01, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Max Sorenson
Albuquerque-based artist Max Sorenson follows real and imaginary lines that enmesh the world, from bark beetle tracks to a human-made survey system, "feeling for tension."
March 07, 2025
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Adapted from a Podcast, Broken Boxes Materializes Artists’ Voices
Ten years of podcast guests contribute to this multimedia exhibition at Albuquerque Museum, foregrounding the playful possibilities of socially engaged art.
March 07, 2025
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Center of the Universe: Agency and Ecology in a 77-Degree October
Bruce Nauman’s Center of the Universe on the campus of the University of New Mexico inspires a personal ritual and creative essay that asks us to reconnect to the environment and ourselves.
March 07, 2025
EssayNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Rolling into the Here-and-Now with Jesse Littlebird’s Petrolglyph
Jesse Littlebird’s Petrolglyph moves in place, expanding horizons on the future of New Mexican lowriding and American car culture through Indigenous art.
March 07, 2025
Reexamine the West with an Interactive Reading by Poet Paisley Rekdal
Paisley Rekdal will read selections from West: A Translation with live guidance from the audience in a powerful, informative, and cathartic experience at 516 Words on Thursday, December 5, in Albuquerque.
November 20, 2024
Through Movement, Keshet Dance Company Explores How to Ask A More Beautiful Question
Keshet Dance Company's latest work features eight choreographers delving into the nature and of questioning, free will and destiny, and our potential to create change.
November 06, 2024
