
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
Caroline Liu’s exhibition lures you in then hits you with a one-two punch about erased histories and Asian marginalization.
Robyne Robinson • April 02, 2025
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.
Albuquerque Museum • April 01, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
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."
Maggie Grimason • March 07, 2025
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Ten years of podcast guests contribute to this multimedia exhibition at Albuquerque Museum, foregrounding the playful possibilities of socially engaged art.
Maggie Grimason • March 07, 2025
EssayNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
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.
Christina Cook • March 07, 2025
EssayNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Jesse Littlebird’s Petrolglyph moves in place, expanding horizons on the future of New Mexican lowriding and American car culture through Indigenous art.
Madison Garay • March 07, 2025
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.
516 Arts • November 20, 2024
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.
Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts • November 06, 2024
Albuquerque-based artist Beedallo on staying elusive, spilling guts on canvas, and eavesdropping at art openings.
Gina Pugliese • October 22, 2024
AI tools just hit the mainstream, but Albuquerque-based artist Zac Travis has been messing with them for years—in trippy, analog ways.
Delaney Hoffman • October 03, 2024
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Mallery Quetawki paints cross-cultural translations that help bridge futures between Indigenous communities and science and medical professionals.
Sean J Patrick Carney • September 06, 2024
InterviewNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
In an experimental sound artwork, an art and ecology research collective talks with an elder piñon pine about the future and other arboreal concerns.
The Submergence Collective • September 06, 2024
The immersive and unconventional-material experience, chromolux, is on view in Albuquerque from July 12 through August 3, 2024.
Exhibit/208 • June 26, 2024
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Artist Kim Arthun reflects on decades spent holding space for contemporary art for the Albuquerque community.
Steve Jansen • May 24, 2024
Sofie Hecht discusses her project Downwind, a documentary photo album exploring the continued impact of radiation exposure on resident New Mexicans after the 1945 nuclear bomb Trinity Test.
Gina Pugliese • April 03, 2024
Join a conversation between artist Harmony Hammond and educator, art historian, and critic Faye Hirsch on Saturday, April 6, at the Albuquerque Museum.
Tamarind Institute • March 20, 2024
Bill Gilbert’s ceramic works at the Anne Cooper Occasional Gallery share with us his relationship with the land and the “appendages” we employ in our experience of the world.
Kathleen Shields • March 14, 2024
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, the UNM Department of Art's 2024 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist, will host an artist talk to discuss her unique painting techniques and hold an open studio event in Albuquerque.
UNM Art Department and Frederick Hammersley Foundation • March 12, 2024
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Delilah Montoya, a Chicana artist based in Albuquerque, turns a mestizaje lens on documentary photography and the representation of women.
Nancy Zastudil • March 01, 2024
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Assyrian Irish artist Esther Elia constructs contemporary diasporic visions of ancient legacies through an ever-evolving array of media.
Maggie Grimason • March 01, 2024
Amanda Dannáe Romero and sheri crider discuss the Sanitary Tortilla Factory exhibition featuring the work of system-impacted youth and the role of art in creating social change in New Mexico.
Gabriella Angeleti • November 15, 2023
Nani Chacon, Hand and Machine, and Working Classroom student artists collaborated to create PAHTIA, an interactive, site-specific space for healing via art and technology at Albuquerque’s National Hispanic Cultural Center.
Samantha Anne Carrillo • November 08, 2023
Anemoia brings together more than forty cast members in the exploration of places never traveled through imaginative movement. Experience the production November 17-19, 2023.
Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts • October 24, 2023
Ellen Berkenblit’s exhibition In Motion at Tamarind Institute surveys the New York-based artist’s continuing collaboration with the renowned lithography workshop in Albuquerque.
Nancy Zastudil • October 09, 2023
Basement Films is a dedicated collective that keeps a massive collection of vintage film reels as a resource for alternative, DIY, experimental, and micro-cinema.
P. Antonio Márquez • September 22, 2023
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Margarita Paz-Pedro works with adobe, natural clay, and porcelain, interrogating the history of the materials and our understanding of them to create space for new connections and meanings.
Maggie Grimason • September 01, 2023
Justin Favela and Working Classroom serve up supersized sculptural food for thought on regional culinary and cultural heritages in Sandia Hot at Sanitary Tortilla Factory in Albuquerque.
Samantha Anne Carrillo • August 21, 2023
Shane R. Hendren, a New Mexico-based artist, storyteller, and so much more, has won a $100,000 Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation Award in Craft, one of the nation’s largest awards in the discipline.
Maggie Grimason • June 21, 2023
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Zuyva Sevilla, an artist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, makes new-media works that contemplate the cosmic and ineffable, such as heat signatures and dust patterns.
Joshua Ware • May 26, 2023
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Benjamin Winans's sculptural works contend with the impact of Christian nationalism within national memory and the artist’s own lived experience.
Scotti Hill • May 26, 2023
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