How to Carve a Turkey
This Thanksgiving, learn how to carve a turkey, illustrated by designer and illustrator Chris Philpot...
November 01, 2017
November 2017
Laurie Tümer: Clouds
This series began lying in bed lazily photographing the clouds tripping along the horizon of the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico, home to Los Alamos National Laboratory...
November 01, 2017
The Alchemical Trace
Sanitary Tortilla Factory: In Lesbian Art in America, Harmony Hammond asks a number of questions about what, precisely, is “lesbian” about lesbian art. “Is the quality ‘lesbian’ embodied in the art object, the sexuality of the artist or viewer, or the viewing context?... Is lesbian art ...
November 01, 2017
Field Report: Marfa
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...
November 01, 2017
Future Shock
SITE Santa Fe: The future is now, at least in the context of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock. When the book debuted in 1970, the year 2017 was a figment of the journalist-turned-futurist’s locomotive imagination. He daydreamed personal spaceships and underwater cities for us, but also ...
November 01, 2017
Kinesthesia: Latin American Art, 1954-1969
The Palm Springs Art Museum, as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, is exhibiting two major installations. Kinesthesia: Latin American Art, 1954-1969 features...
November 01, 2017
Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art
Few artists have explored flatness as deeply as Kota Ezawa. Using digital tools, for the past several years Ezawa has transformed appropriated imagery into deceptively simple compositions. A Rembrandt loses its impasto and atmospheric perspective to become a series of...
November 01, 2017
2007 Riofavara Nero D’Avola “Sciavè”
Dionysus stood at the end of the stone pier in Chios. He was watching the sky, the horizon, and the light on the water. He watched the pirate ship as it made its way into the bay. It was an old, solid ship with a black hull and a frayed white sail. There were twelve pirates on...
November 01, 2017
New Mexico Museum of Art Centennial Celebrations
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...
November 01, 2017
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay In Forty Questions
Sometimes a writer’s subject finds her. Valeria Luiselli, a novelist and essayist from Mexico City, was waiting for her green card when she and her niece started working as interpreters at the New York immigration court. Luiselli had heard from her own immigration lawyer that after...
November 01, 2017
Jill O’Bryan
Jill O’Bryan spends her winters in New York and her summers perched high in the desert on a remote mesa outside of Las Vegas, New Mexico. She has been trekking back and forth, from coastal city grid to off-grid entirely, for twenty years, and for twenty years has sought a personal, physical relationship with the desert, its big skies...
November 01, 2017
Constance DeJong: Measure and Light, 30 Years
One of humanity’s most important accomplishments, after the invention of written language, is the application of systematic measurements to things like distances, weights, codified sizes of this or that object. Applying number to the concept of a standard measurement has at its...
November 01, 2017
Guerrilla Tactics: Art, Performance, and the Politics of Resourcefulness, 1967-1987
Faye Gleisser, the Georgia O’Keeffe Research Center’s current postdoctoral fellow, finds inspiration in the work of scholars and artists who disrupt linear historical periods. Fred Wilson is particularly influential. Gaining renown in the early nineties, Wilson juxtaposed...
November 01, 2017
The Portable Dorothy Parker
With its script by Santa Fean Annie Lux, The Portable Dorothy Parker is almost as good as being a fly on the wall while one of the most popular writers and oft-quoted wits of the early twentieth century holds forth. It also serves as an excellent example that good art gets ...
November 01, 2017
