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Seven Alternative Immersive Art Experiences
Want to break out of the mold? Seven alternative immersive art experiences in Santa Fe are worth exploring this summer.
July 29, 2019
Want to break out of the mold? Seven alternative immersive art experiences in Santa Fe are worth exploring this summer.
Jenn Shapland • July 29, 2019
“What exactly is a record label’s future in a music industry climate seemingly hellbent on conditioning audiences to pay next to nothing for music?” Eliza Lutz, founder of the pioneering Santa Fe–based Matron Records label, thinks the only path forward is to embrace the inevitable and adapt accordingly...
Patrick McGuire • June 26, 2019
"If there is a goal to sustain yourself as an artist, then innovation is a big part of that. Traditions have to change with the times, because artists are the chroniclers of our times."
Lauren Tresp • June 26, 2019
Summer in northern New Mexico can be overwhelming. Any day of the week there is some activity calling for our attention: artist talks, studio tours, performances, openings, fairs, festivals, markets, music, and, of course, beautiful weather beckoning us outdoors. To help us make sense of it all, I asked two of our regular contributors, Maggie Grimason and Rachel Preston Prinz, to give us a selection of their “must-sees” for the summer season...
Maggie Grimason and Rachel Preston • June 26, 2019
For a monthly magazine, it can be difficult to capture a theme throughout an entire issue. So much of our content is deliberately eclectic, covers a span of disciplines, and is a mix between in-depth and topical coverage. I’m delighted, therefore, that our “Landscapes” issue came together rather organically...
Lauren Tresp • May 24, 2019
Tasting notes with: Kenneth Francis. Occupation: Landscape architect. Venue: Geronimo bar, Santa Fe. (Next stop: Paloma patio.) Drinking: Hendrix Martini.
Lauren Tresp • May 24, 2019
For the first panel-discussion Collectors Collect New Mexico I at The Magazine on May 9, 2019, we hosted collectors and gallerists Christian Mayeur and Anne Poux along with artists Anne-Marie […]
Lauren Tresp • May 11, 2019
Have a drink with Elaine Ritchel of Santa Fe Art Tours.
Lauren Tresp • April 26, 2019
In her essay, “Time to Get Ready,” Maria Varela recalls, “I once volunteered in the fourth grade that I was Mexican, and the angry response of the teacher frightened and shamed me. ‘No, you are not! We’re all Americans here,’ snapped Sister Rosita.” For a woman who has spent her life fighting white supremacy across the U.S., this scene presents a formative moment.
Jenn Shapland • April 26, 2019
I can already tell from our overflowing calendar of events that the New Mexico arts season is soon upon us.
Lauren Tresp • April 26, 2019
Client Account Representative and Distribution Manager Rebecca Lynch is the newest addition to The Magazine's staff.
Editor • April 16, 2019
A tour of destination residency programs in the Southwest for artists and writers.
Shane Tolbert • March 27, 2019
Taos artist Nikesha Breeze met her father for the first time when she was ten years old. He was homeless on the streets of Portland, while she was growing up beyond the city’s southern outskirts in the small town of Sherwood...
Jordan Eddy • March 27, 2019
Name: Kenji Barrett Location: Albuquerque, NM Proofreading for The Magazine since: 2002 Proofreader Kenji Barrett and his trusty dog, Kai, stop by each month right before the issue is sent to the […]
Southwest Contemporary • March 18, 2019
The City of Santa Fe is looking for a new Arts Commission Director to plan, organize and coordinate arts and cultural programs and services, and represent the City in the arts and cultural arena...
Southwest Contemporary • March 11, 2019
“12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now” opened on Friday, March 1, with a wonderfully packed house. Big thanks to everyone who came out to see the work of emerging […]
Southwest Contemporary • March 06, 2019
Professor Rebecca Schreiber of the UNM American Studies Department was awarded the Frank Jewett Mather award for art criticism by the College Art Association for her book The Undocumented Everyday: Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility.
Southwest Contemporary • February 12, 2019
Name: Lauren Tresp Location: Santa Fe, NM Writing for The since: 2013 1. Where are you from? Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 2. What is your favorite thing about New Mexico? It feels real. […]
Lauren Tresp and Southwest Contemporary • February 12, 2019
tasting notes with Andrea R. Hanley. occupation Membership and Program Manager at IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. venue Geronimo, Santa Fe.
Lauren Tresp • January 30, 2019
In November of 2018, we put out an open call for New Mexico artists to submit their work to be featured in this issue and were astounded receive over 450 submissions from artists across the entire state.
Lauren Tresp • January 30, 2019
This week, an image from the February 2019 issue of Vanity Fair has been circling my social-media feeds. It features six newly elected Democrat representatives, and at the center of the photo sits Representative Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo). Rep Haaland’s demeanor in the photo is fierce yet kind, the exact, impossible combination of feelings a woman politician has to strike to be elected in this country.
Jenn Shapland • January 30, 2019
It's January, and for many artists that means it's application season. Was your New Years resolution to apply for more things in 2019? We can help! The Classifieds page on The Magazine's website features a running list of opportunities for artists throughout the southwest.
Southwest Contemporary • January 21, 2019
It's a big month for news from Santa Fe. Four Grammy nominations, two Living Treasures, a residency, an art CSA, and a new secretary of cultural affairs.
Southwest Contemporary • January 15, 2019
Meet Maggie Grimason, The Mag writer since 2017, who lives in Albuquerque and hails from "northwest Indiana, land of lakes and soy beans." Her favorite things about New Mexico? "Mountains on the horizon, lizards, and clothes drying instantly on the line."
Maggie Grimason and Southwest Contemporary • January 08, 2019
Jimmy Montoya, The Magazine's distributor extraordinaire, reflects on his twelve years at the magazine. In that time, he's found a cat, a dead snake, and a wallet in our streetside boxes, among other treasures.
Southwest Contemporary • December 27, 2018
What a year for The Magazine! The top ten most read articles on our website in 2018 were:
1. Field Report: Las Vegas
2. Wendy Young: A Long and Slow Surrender
3. Santa Fe Women: Paula Angel
4. Floating Worlds: The Santa Fe Opera Scene Shop...
Southwest Contemporary • December 19, 2018
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...
Southwest Contemporary • December 11, 2018
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...
Southwest Contemporary • November 30, 2018
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...
Jenn Shapland • November 28, 2018
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...
Rachel Preston • November 28, 2018
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