Relax and Stay Alert: The Playful Incoherence of Tristram Lansdowne and Ryan Crowley
Wicked Wells and Window Wipeouts traps the viewer between a hard place and a sunken one—but its ambiguity offers a different kind of freedom.
January 09, 2025
New Mexico
“The Doors Were Breaking, Things Were Moving”: Inside the Roswell Museum After Disastrous 500-Year Flood
Museum insiders offer firsthand accounts of the flash flood that breached Roswell Museum in October—and an update on the uphill battle for remediation.
December 19, 2024
New Mexico is in the Midst of an Under-the-Radar Indie Book Publishing Renaissance
Despite economic flux, new independent book publishers are blooming—and veteran presses are thriving—across New Mexico.
December 12, 2024
Death of Santa Fe Publishing Icon Guy Cross Stirs Tales of a Supercharged Southwest Art Moment
Guy Cross, who cofounded SWC precursor The Magazine, stoked Santa Fe’s turn-of-the-21st-century push to join a globalized contemporary art conversation.
December 06, 2024
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
Santa Fe Gallery Opens Revelatory Portal into Cuba’s Globally Connected Culture
Nearly 2,000 miles from its namesake, Artes de Cuba gallery crafts a complex image of the island nation's globalized art scene in the group show La Habana Hoy.
October 24, 2024
Work in Progress with Beedallo
Albuquerque-based artist Beedallo on staying elusive, spilling guts on canvas, and eavesdropping at art openings.
October 22, 2024
RioBravoFineArt’s October and November Fall Exhibitions
Experience the gallery's newest exhibitions in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, this fall.
October 09, 2024
Work in Progress with Zac Travis
AI tools just hit the mainstream, but Albuquerque-based artist Zac Travis has been messing with them for years—in trippy, analog ways.
October 03, 2024
16th Annual Santa Fe Studio Tour
More than 100 local artists will open their studios on September 21–22 and 28–29, 11 am-5 pm, at various locations across Santa Fe.
September 18, 2024
Longtime New Yorker Paulina Ho Suddenly Started Painting—and Pining for—the Southwest
Santa Fe-based designer and artist Paulina Ho’s work tilts reality to find pleasure in the everyday absurdities of her new Southwestern environs.
September 12, 2024
Land Forms, The Paintings of Robert R. Compton at James Compton Gallery
Experience the vibrant landscape paintings this September in Santa Fe. On view September 13–29, 2024.
September 11, 2024
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez-Delgado: Radical Futures
Roswell-based Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez-Delgado treads the line between artist and inventor, exploring themes of displacement, identity, and alternative futures.
September 06, 2024
InterviewNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
“Can I Sit With You?”: Interview with a Piñon
In an experimental sound artwork, an art and ecology research collective talks with an elder piñon pine about the future and other arboreal concerns.
September 06, 2024
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Trying to See the Constellations for the Stars in Vladem Contemporary’s Dizzying Exhibition Off-Center
Off-Center at Vladem Contemporary is a three-decade survey of New Mexico art with myriad bright spots—but how are they connected?
September 06, 2024
Is Teresita Fernández’s SITE Santa Fe Show with Robert Smithson a Duel—or an Act of Generosity?
Iconoclasm is a mercy in Teresita Fernández/Robert Smithson, clearing the view of both conceptual artists and their groundbreaking legacies.
August 27, 2024
Sifting Family Lore and Life Advice from the Files of Taos Moderns Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak
Newly discovered letters revive a writer's quest to discern why two Taos-based modernist artists had an outsized impact on her family—but not art history.
August 23, 2024
A Market Cosmology: Five Indigenous Exhibitions and Events to Enrich Your SWAIA Indian Market Experience
While you're in Santa Fe for Indian Market, don't miss these Native arts experiences at Container, Hecho a Mano, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, and beyond.
August 13, 2024
Tamarind Presents Tender Observer, Danielle Orchard’s Intimate Exploration of Form and Light
Experience Danielle Orchard's profound sense of storytelling at the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque. An opening reception and curator tour will take place on Friday, August 23.
August 13, 2024
Inside Southwest ContemporaryNew Mexico
Critical Commons 2024: Santa Fe
Southwest Contemporary announces Critical Commons 2024: Santa Fe, the fourth iteration of our annual initiative to cultivate creative and critical discourse with a range of events.
August 09, 2024
Artist-Prisoners Offer “Expansive View of Incarceration” at Museum of International Folk Art
The large-scale prison art show Between the Lines grew from an interactive display focused on trust building with impacted communities.
August 09, 2024
H. Joe Waldrum’s Jewel-Like Polaroids at RioBravoFineArt This August
Experience H. Joe Waldrum's Polaroids. Opening August 10 at RioBravoFineArt in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
August 07, 2024
Maria Hinojosa to Speak on Immigration and Inequality at SITE Santa Fe
Join in on the conversation with Hinojosa, the author of Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love & Hate in a Torn America, on Saturday, August 10, at 2 pm in Santa Fe.
August 06, 2024
Taos Abstract Artist Collective’s Path from Pandemic-Era Instagram Project to Arts Nonprofit
When a socially distanced network of Taos-based abstract artists finally met in real life, they were ready to reform their art community.
August 02, 2024
Zoë Zimmerman Captures the Elusive Intimacy of Recently Unearthed Fechin House Memorabilia
Zoë Zimmerman's painterly photographs of hair clippings, cigarettes, and other ephemera from a Taos house museum only hint at larger mysteries.
July 25, 2024
Luchita Hurtado: Earth & Sky Interjected at the Harwood Museum of Art
Explore the dream-like and visionary artworks of Luchita Hurtado at the Harwood Museum in Taos, running from July 27, 2024, to February 23, 2025.
July 24, 2024
Faced with Attributions Controversy, Harwood Museum of Art Publicly Edits Santeros Exhibition
Despite concerns over artwork attributions, the Harwood Museum unveiled its show Unknown Santeros. Now experts are meticulously reshaping it.
July 19, 2024
Laboratory Conditions: Despite Spring Layoffs, Meow Wolf’s Union Sees Encouraging Progress
Nearly four years into Meow Wolf's unionized era, employees say things are looking up despite a recent round of staff cuts.
July 11, 2024
Jeffrey Gibson’s Rainbow-Wrapped Venice Pavilion Has a Gritty Southwestern Origin Story
Meet the team behind the Santa Fe-based mural project that brought Jeffrey Gibson's Indigenous, queer dreamland to the Venice Biennale.
July 09, 2024
