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The People’s Biennial
Charged with reviving SITE Santa Fe’s storied biennial, world-renowned curator Cecilia Alemani unveils Once Within a Time, a citywide chorus of regional and global voices.
May 23, 2025
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Charged with reviving SITE Santa Fe’s storied biennial, world-renowned curator Cecilia Alemani unveils Once Within a Time, a citywide chorus of regional and global voices.
Jordan Eddy • May 23, 2025
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Santa Fe Art Tours marks its tenth anniversary, transforming art appreciation through conversation-based tours that make culture accessible to all.
Maggie Grimason • May 23, 2025
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Your complete art guide to discover Las Cruces, New Mexico's hidden art scene, with local galleries, craft markets, outdoor adventures, and authentic dining.
Lauren Tresp • May 23, 2025
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Artist Kat Kinnick draws from her New Mexico surroundings to visualize a world more aligned with nature.
Erin Averill • May 23, 2025
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In its first four decades, Santa Fe Art Institute dramatically evolved its approach to engaging with artists. Now it aims to transform the surrounding district.
Kathryne Lim • May 23, 2025
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The Scottish Rite Masonic Temple may be home to a private fraternity, but its ornate theater welcomes all.
Isabella Beroutsos • May 23, 2025
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The Couse-Sharp Historic Site invites visitors to step into the living legacy of Taos’s early art colony—and consider Taos Pueblo's influence on every brushstroke.
Rebekah Powers • May 23, 2025
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Marking its centennial, the Spanish Colonial Arts Society honors its community with an ambitious survey exhibition, new museum branding, and free admission.
Adele Oliveira • May 23, 2025
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Cognition Enhancer in Santa Fe is a colorful public sculpture, molecular puzzle, and wild local legend all in one.
Warren Langford • May 23, 2025
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On its 30th anniversary, Center, a nonprofit focused on sharing lens-based art, is looking to the future while reflecting on all it has already achieved.
Maggie Grimason • May 23, 2025
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The Coronado Historic Site contains more than 2,000 years of history, pre-contact Puebloan murals, and impressive views of the Rio Grande and surrounding mountains.
Patrick Kikut • May 23, 2025
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Santa Fe's Scheinbaum & Russek Ltd. celebrates forty-five years showcasing 20th-century fine-art photography from masters like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston.
Caitlin Lorraine Johnson • May 23, 2025
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The folksy-but-formidable Deming Luna Mimbres Museum houses impressive collections, from Mimbres pottery to historical photographs.
Kathryne Lim • May 23, 2025
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The Spencer Theater, with its soaring form echoing the surrounding mountains, exemplifies Antoine Predock’s design philosophy.
Natalie Hegert • May 23, 2025
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Sol LeWitt's sculpture A Square, A Circle on the New Mexico State University campus is the famed Minimal and Conceptual artist's only outdoor, site-specific work in New Mexico.
Jess Ziegenfuss • May 23, 2025
In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 11: The Hyperlocal, curator and guest juror Jaime Herrell explores how the artworks in this issue transform personal experiences into universal connections.
Jaime Herrell • March 07, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Since the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon Fires, Jess Lanham has been creating work about the stark changes in her hometown of Las Vegas, New Mexico, using fragments and wildfire ash.
Natalie Hegert • March 07, 2025
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Denver-based artist Sammy Lee makes highly portable sculptures from paper, but a longing for home is embedded in her materials.
Joshua Ware • March 07, 2025
ArtistsUtahVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Salt Lake City–based artist Joshua Graham explores site-specificity through walking and collecting, gathering objects in the foothills above the city and reconfiguring them in the gallery.
Joshua Ware • March 07, 2025
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Urgent Care Art’s pop-ups in quotidian Tucson spaces juxtapose the healing and fear inherent to queer visibility.
Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025
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Selective histories have long defined Santa Fe's main gallery district. Kyle Maier's digital Canyon Road History project aims to round out the picture.
Adele Oliveira • March 07, 2025
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Houston-based artist Cindee Klement depicts otherwise invisible systems and their interconnections to encourage local ecological recovery in the Energy Capital of the World.
Natalie Hegert • March 07, 2025
ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Antonio Lechuga shrouds spaces in vibrant fleece blankets called cobijas, offering care, comfort, and commentary on gun violence.
Jessica Fuentes • March 07, 2025
ReviewUtahVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Arleene Correa Valencia’s exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts reveals the indelible imprint of growing up as an undocumented migrant through personal writings, photographs, and textiles.
Ana Estrada • March 07, 2025
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Three San Antonio arts organizations leverage a land trust and other strategies to literally hold space on the rapidly growing city's Westside.
Jessica Fuentes • March 07, 2025
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In Fort Worth—known as “Cowtown”—the exhibition Cowboy at the Amon Carter made waves by reimagining the mythology surrounding the American cowboy.
Emma S. Ahmad • March 07, 2025
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Nonagenarian artist Jerry West on New Mexico homesteading, dream work, and adobe architecture as sculpture.
Patrick Kikut • March 07, 2025
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New Mexico's fiber artists at Futuros Ancestral are weaving technology with tradition to preserve heritage textile practices for future generations.
Erin Averill • March 07, 2025
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Ceramic artist Israel Gómez Mares transforms his Ciudad Juárez studio into a community hub while creating art that connects desert clay to regional identity.
Camila Abbud • March 07, 2025
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Las Cruces–based artist Eva Gabriella Flynn's meticulous maps and flags hover in an uncertain space between two nations, to playful and political effect.
Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025
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