Dec 11
Judy Chicago will not partner with her home city of Belen, NM, on opening a museum after residents called the artwork "inappropriate" and "pornagraphic." Her nonprofit has started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for the art space and Belen Mayor Jerah Cordova will donate his 2019 salary to help support the museum...
Nov 30
Andrea R. Hanley (Navajo) has been an arts advocate for more than 25 years. Her career has been guided and dedicated to the work of contemporary American Indian artists and the American Indian fine art field. Hanley has had an impressive career working as a curator, gallerist, writer, fundraiser, lecturer, and volunteer...
Nov 28
I tucked myself between the open front door and an elegant, old wood easel next to the Acequia Madre House’s immense living room’s antique grand piano, taking a moment in my hiding place to observe the extraordinary space, rarely open to the public. I took in the deeply stained beams in the grand sala, the large arched opening into the dining room with its traditional kiva fireplace, the collection of antiques from all over the Spanish empire, and the gorgeous, massive European-style fireplace. I looked out through the open door towards the mountains over the rare jewel of a lawn and enjoyed the view from the Spanish Pueblo Revival porch. Something prickled at me...
Nov 28
Have a drink with Winston Greene of Tonic, Santa Fe. He's having a penicillin (blended scotch, local raw oak honey, lemon juice, ginger, smokey scotch).
Nov 28
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...
Nov 12
The Magazine contributor and former director of Central Features Contemporary Art Nancy Zastudil joined the Tamarind Institute as Gallery Director.
Oct 30
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...
Oct 30
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.
Oct 18
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 / […]
Oct 16
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.
Oct 10
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...
Oct 04
Oct 01
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...
Oct 01
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...
Sep 20
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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...
Sep 13
Sep 06
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...
Aug 28
Christian Mayeur was on a photo scavenger hunt when he took his first trip to Las Vegas, New Mexico...
Aug 28
If you’ve read Chris Wilson’s The Myth of Santa Fe—or felt the difference between mud and stucco...
Aug 28
Welcome to our September issue! I am excited to introduce our feature content...
Jul 30
One of Santa Fe’s (and New Mexico’s) striking features is the proliferation of women-owned businesses, today and throughout its history...
Sep 13
I want to bring you sexy behind-the-scenes footage of the making of The Magazine. But in truth, aside from the interviews and studio visits our writers do in the field and some editorial meetings...
Aug 14
A committee including the Caballeros, the All Pueblo Council of Governors, the Santa Fe Fiesta Council, the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and the mayor’s office has voted to cancel this year's Entrada...
Jul 30
I am so excited to bring to you our August 2018 issue! With this issue I am thrilled...
Jul 17
The Screen cinema on the former SFUAD campus, which closed in April, came “back to life” this month via a “new initiative between the City of Santa Fe and the CCA.” […]
Jun 01
Welcome to another issue of The Magazine! This issue is anchored by a number of diverse features that span painting, art travel, performance, and more: Clayton Porter and Chelsea Weathers made the trek up to El Rito to visit the studio of Shane Tolbert for the “Studio Visit...
May 25
The third annual Oasis Festival, a youth-led, free event will take place on Saturday, May 26, from 5:30pm-10pm in the Railyard Plaza. New York based electronic-pop duo Overcoats will headline the event supported by local teen musicians and DJs, as well as performances from local...
Apr 30
A year after Tricia English graduated high school in Kansas City, Kansas, her friends offered her someone else’s plane ticket to Chicago. “Two friends of mine were going there to look at Columbia College, and their friend had bought a nonrefundable ticket but couldn’t make it,” English says. She took the free flight and successfully...
May 01
One of the most satisfying aspects of my position at The Magazine is that I am able to bring in content that I myself have wished to see as a reader. This issue represents a number of elements I have wanted to find in and bring into the fabric of this publication...
Apr 01
In terms of New Mexico’s history, one hundred years is but a drop in the bucket of time. Still, it was noteworthy when, this past November, the New Mexico Museum of Art celebrated its centennial anniversary. This is an especially significant moment when considering the meaning...
Apr 01
I keep waiting for New Mexico to embrace the taco. I love a burrito as much as the next guy, and the enchiladas at La Choza are life-changing, but with so much green chile and red chile flowing here in Santa Fe, the taco and its valiant hero, salsa, have been eclipsed. I visited...
Mar 22
Last summer I met up with artist Sabra Moore at Angelina’s Restaurant, with the big chili pepper sign, on Fairview Street just by the Rio Grande in Española. We were about to tour the district elementary schools where she has been working to create large, permanent tile wall mosaics...
Feb 12
East of West: Alicia Inez Guzmán reviews the opening of the recently founded East of West Gallery on Santa Fe’s south side, looking at how a diverse body of works from the Middle East and northern Africa pry open new dialogues about self-representation.
Feb 01
“I was born in 1912, the year the Titanic sank and the year New Mexico became a state,” P’oe Tsáwä, or Blue Water, begins her memoir. Known by Anglos as Esther Martinez, P’oe Tsáwä lived through periods of unimaginable change. As a child, she recalls riding in a covered wagon with...
Dec 01
By all accounts, Elaine de Kooning had a roaring good time in Albuquerque. The abstract expressionist painter was a guest professor at the University of New Mexico for two years in the late 1950s, and longtime faculty members still tell tales of her exuberant ways. She drove her...
Dec 01
THE Magazine's 2017 yearr in review, illustrated by Mariah Romero.
Dec 01
Vince Kadlubek is running late. When I arrive at the repurposed bowling alley, I inform the desk clerk I have an interview appointment, and he promptly tells a colleague. She approaches me, a walkie-talkie hanging from her belt, looking authoritative and efficient. “And you are?...
Nov 01
Join the New Mexico Museum of Art for a “once-in-a-century community birthday party,” as the institution turns one hundred on the day of the celebration. From 10 am to 5 pm, the museum will re-open after two months of building renovations with a plaza-wide party with events...
Nov 01
To borrow a word used by Peruvian artist William Cordova to describe a wall-sized projection of open ocean in a screening room within his show, I think of Marfa as a portal...
Aug 01
It’s March and Thais Mather sits in her Eldorado living room with a great firmament of inky constellations hanging above her head. She recently completed the artwork for a solo exhibition titled The Anonymous Author, and its centerpiece is a series of densely detailed pointillist...
