Jeremy Salazar: Self Exploration
Jeremy was born in Albuquerque, NM, in 1994. His artistic journey began once he could scribble on the walls with crayons. At age 11, he picked up a skateboard and started a new personal adventure. [...]
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Tom Joyce
The lifeblood of Tom Joyce’s work is iron, from the molecular to the colossal. Iron, by mass, is the most common element on Earth, and it plays a role in the cosmos, our blood, industry, weaponry, perhaps even our memory. Joyce is quick to point out the material’s associative dexterity, [...]
Aug 01
Story Hustler: Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz
What’s a story hustler, you ask? It’s a phrase that came up at the spring SFAI140. Mi’Jan, who spoke of love that night, also spoke of being a story hustler. The word hustler, however you want to cast it, typically conjures questionable intent, shady means for shady ends. It can refer to making money on and off the books, working in formal and informal economies. On the streets a hustler sells [...]
Aug 01
The 2005 Zenato Amarone Della Valpolicella Classico
He was lost. He’d been lost for years but had refused to admit it. Now he had no choice [...]
Aug 01
Rebecca Rutstein: Fault Lines
form & concept: I went to Rebecca Rutstein’s Fault Lines expecting to see in her paintings a comment, a reflection, or a transformation of the [...]
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Aug 01
Collecting Digital Art: Highlights + New Acquisitions from the Thoma Foundation
The newly acquired work at the Thoma Foundation, by such artists as computer pioneer Vera Molnar, Alan Rath, Steina Vasulka, and Guillermo Galindo, unfolds in so many technological and conceptual directions [...]
Aug 01
American Traditional War Songs: The Ethnopoetic Videos of Sky Hopinka
IAIA MoCNA: It's like seeing an afterimage. Though you blink, a vision continues to persist even after the original ceases. Over time, these images and afterimages layer upon one another, like sediment refusing to settle[...]
Aug 01
Lively Objects: Indigenous Cultural Production Then and Now
After we finished talking, Nina mentioned that she had to work on a pair of moccasins: she’d started them, then halfway through changed her mind about the [...]
Aug 01
Long Environmentalism in the Near North
UNM Art Museum: The Arctic has for so long been defined by distance, both geographically and conceptually. Called the Far North because it is far from some perceived [...]
Aug 01
August 2017
Welcome to August! In our last issue, we celebrated THE Magazine's 25th anniversary and our new website launch. This month we hit another milestone with a new addition to [...]
Aug 01
Kent Monkman: The Rendezvous
Peters Projects: Upon entering Kent Monkman’s solo exhibition, resist the temptation to revel in the raucous party raging across monumental canvases in the [...]
Aug 01
Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World
Artist Jimmie Durham is not Cherokee, and that’s a fact. Indigenous tribes in the United States act as sovereign nations that determine their own citizenship, and Durham’s [...]
Aug 01
THE Intern: Mariah Romero
Originally from Northern California, Mariah moved to Santa Fe to attend the Santa Fe University of Art and Design and graduated in May 2017 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in [...]
Aug 01
Cross Pollination
516 Arts: About 35 percent of the world’s food crops and 75 percent of the flowering plants depend on [...]
Aug 01
Melinda Rosenberg: Found and Made
Tansey Contemporary: Melinda Rosenberg creates sculpture using wood that ranges from new to found to recycled [...]
Aug 01
Layli Long Soldier: WHEREAS
At the heart of Layli Long Soldier’s WHEREAS lie two apologies. One comes from the poet’s father for his drinking and his absence during her childhood. This apology, [...]
