New Mexico Artist Residencies: So Enchanting, You Might Get Entrapped
Is New Mexico the Land of Enchantment or the "Land of Entrapment"? Apply for one of these eighteen artist and writer residencies, and you're bound to find out.
May 12, 2026
Taos
Exhibition Opening: Artist at Work: Ronald Rael
Meet Artist Ronald Rael and see his original work, Liminal, in-progress on the Harwood Museum of Art front plaza. Blending tradition and technology, Rael will construct Liminal from 3D printed […]
April 20, 2026
Performance: Algorave at Taos Film Festival
STEMarts Lab is bringing the first Algorave performance to New Mexico as part of the Taos Film Festival. Alexandra Cardenas will perform virtually from Berlin at the Hotel Willa on […]
April 14, 2026
Slow Art: In-Gallery Conversation
Take a moment to slow down with art. Each month, a Harwood educator will lead you through a series of exercises to explore a single work of art. Most museum […]
April 07, 2026
Dance Lessons: First Friday at The Harwood
Join us from 4pm to 7pm the first Friday of [almost] every month for pay-what-you-wish extended hours at the museum! April First Friday will feature Swing Dance lessons with Rick […]
March 30, 2026
Auction: 2026 Harwood Auction Preview
Embrace your love of art and culture while making a difference. Each winning bid helps support Harwood Museum of Art, ensuring it remains a vital hub in Taos, New Mexico. […]
March 18, 2026
Virtual: 2026 Harwood Online Auction
Embrace your love of art and culture while making a difference. Each winning bid helps support Harwood Museum of Art, ensuring it remains a vital hub in Taos, New Mexico. […]
March 18, 2026
Workshop: Storytime at The Harwood
Harwood Museum is teaming up with the Taos Public Library to offer a FREE monthly story time for young artists. Suitable for all ages. All children must be accompanied by […]
March 18, 2026
Slow Art: An In-Gallery Conversation
Take a moment to slow down with art. Each month, a Harwood educator will lead you through a series of exercises to explore a single work of art. Most museum […]
March 09, 2026
Workshop, Artstreams: Meet Us at the Museum
Meet Us at the Museum, a collaboration between Harwood Museum of Art and Artstreams: From the Well of Memory harnesses the power of art and provides access to the museum […]
March 06, 2026
Performance: Storytime at The Harwood
Harwood Museum is teaming up with the Taos Public Library to offer a FREE monthly story time for young artists. Suitable for all ages. All children must be accompanied by […]
March 06, 2026
Opening Reception: Unearthing Futures/Desenterrando Futuros
Bring the whole family to celebrate the opening of Unearthing Futures/Desenterrando Futuros, an exhibition of contemporary earthen artworks that explore local roots and global perspectives. The evening will feature live […]
February 25, 2026
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Queen Agnes
Abstract painter Agnes Martin sought isolation in New Mexico to stoke her obsessive practice. She found vibrant community.
September 05, 2025
Travel2025 New Mexico Field Guide
Unique New Mexico: Couse-Sharp Historic Site
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.
May 23, 2025
To Fill Jagged Gaps in the History of Native Slavery, These Artists Use Their Bodies
New Mexico's UNBOUND performance project builds on historical research about Indigenous slavery through intuitive "deep listening" between artists, ancestors, and community.
May 20, 2025
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
For Futuros Ancestral, Cultural Preservation is Synonymous with Innovation
New Mexico's fiber artists at Futuros Ancestral are weaving technology with tradition to preserve heritage textile practices for future generations.
March 07, 2025
The Maternal Mystery Box That Changed a Taos Pueblo Artist’s Life
Painter Eva Mirabal bequeathed a sealed wooden box to her son Jonathan Warm Day Coming. Its contents shaped his artistic trajectory.
February 27, 2025
Beautiful Corners: A Road Trip to Witness Larry Bell’s First Cube, and His Last
Artist Jon Revett makes a pilgrimage to see his mentor Larry Bell's career retrospective in Phoenix, and view what the Light and Space master calls his last cube in Taos.
January 30, 2025
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
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
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
Taos Is Art: Mabel Dodge Luhan, Tony Lujan, and a Town Slogan that Echoes Its Modernist Tastemakers
A visit to the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos reveals the 20th-century arts patron as an enduring, and conflicting, local center of gravity.
June 28, 2024
Into the Light with Famed Southwest Artist Florence Miller Pierce
This generous collection of work focuses on transitional and mature pieces from the 1960s through the '80s by artist Florence Miller Pierce. On view at the Wright Contemporary through July 7, 2024.
June 25, 2024
Between Sky and Spirit: Aleya Hoerlein’s Artistic Voyage through Abstract Realms
Raised on art and transcendental meditation, Taos-based artist and collectivist Aleya Hoerlein paints beyond this world.
June 12, 2024
Feature2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
Maida Branch and Johnny Ortiz-Concha: Life and Art as Sacred Continuum
Maida Branch and Johnny Ortiz-Concha, the New Mexico-based founders of Maida Goods and / shed, reclaim daily life as an artistic practice.
May 24, 2024
Feature2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
Trash, Trinkets, and Thingamabobs: Exploring Roadside Attractions in New Mexico
An eclectic guide to New Mexico's so-called outsider art monuments made from all sorts of oddities.
May 24, 2024
Jennie Kiessling’s New Paintings Chronicle the War in Gaza, Day by Day
The Project Space of the Wright Contemporary features Jennie Kiessling’s compassionate offerings of diaristic abstract paintings, each referencing a night of war in Gaza.
March 12, 2024
