Cheryl Donegan: GRLZ + VEILS
Cheryl Donegan’s GRLZ + VEILS, curated by Heidi Zuckerman and Bill Arning...
August 28, 2018
Visual Art
SITElines 2018: Casa tomada
Everyone has a biennial these days—a sprawling exhibition that brings in outside curators...
August 28, 2018
The Printed Page / Thomas Christopher Haag
Redefine Terms by Thomas Christopher Haag.
August 28, 2018
Imprint
On the streets of Santa Fe this fall, you might stumble upon a newspaper box...
August 28, 2018
American Jewelry
It is thought that prehistoric humans adorned their bodies with simple jewelry pieces...
August 28, 2018
Eye Contact
Why is it no one looks? Why is it no one knows how to look. —Robert Wilson...
August 28, 2018
Nascent Atmospheres
At a preview event for Amie LeGette and Courtney Leonard’s exhibition, guests were lost in a literal twilight zone...
August 28, 2018
Unpacking the Archives: Colorado Springs’ Fine Arts Center at Colorado College
On April 8, 1956, E. Boyd decided that a santo in the collection of Taylor Museum was a fraud...
August 28, 2018
Brandon Maldonado
It’s not hard to understand why Brandon Maldonado’s paintings are in high demand...
August 28, 2018
The Printed Page / Nani Chacon
when we erase the medicine...we erase the people, 2018, oil on panel with string, 10 x 8 in.
August 21, 2018
XYZT: Abstract Landscapes
Can we materialize time? Does light have roots? Can we see something when there is nothing?...
July 30, 2018
Beautiful Test Sites/Now I Am Become Death
“Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds,” quoth J. Robert Oppenheimer from the Bhagavad Gita...
July 30, 2018
Everywhen: Indigenous Photoscapes
Time, as many a physicist, mystic, and indigenous American can tell you, is not linear, despite our human perception of it as such...
July 30, 2018
Third Space: Shifting Conversations about Contemporary Art
For the past several years, the Birmingham Museum of Art has been quietly amassing a powerhouse collection of some of the most significant politically inflected art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
July 30, 2018
Daisy Quezada
Early in her artistic career, Daisy Quezada came across a real-life scene with all the power of an omen. She and her mother had ventured to their old house in Jalisco, Mexico, which was long abandoned.
July 30, 2018
Jetsonorama: Messages for the Future
"I am the son of J.E.T., or Jetson," Chip Thomas said, referring to his own initials and those of his father. Thomas’s full name is Dr. James Edward Thomas, Jr., and his father, James Edward Thomas, Sr., was the original J.E.T. It’s how Chip Thomas came to his own moniker, Jetsonorama.
July 30, 2018
Allyson Packer: Liquid State
It wasn’t close yet to 3:50, but I lay down anyway on the thick red rug pulled through with floral patterns in blue and white yarn...
July 30, 2018
The Black Place: Georgia O’Keeffe and Michael Namingha
Nearly everyone who walks into the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has some version of the artist they’re looking for: their Georgia...
July 30, 2018
Larry Bell: Hocus, Focus and 12
Larry Bell: Hocus, Focus and 12, currently on view at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, is a large-scale exhibition focusing on the artist’s minimalist, architectonic works that reference the clean modernism of Southern California as well as the sleek geometric forms of...
June 29, 2018
Unpacking the Archives: Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
If an object you hold dear could speak, what would it say? Would it talk about the circumstances of its making, who it came into contact with, or where it’s traveled? You see, objects are born into the world, moving about from place to place. Sometimes they are passed...
June 29, 2018
Raychael Stine
As Raychael Stine guided us to her studio on the fringes of the University of New Mexico campus, where she has been an Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing for the past five years, I realized that all my questions were actually the same question: Why dogs?
June 29, 2018
Jeffrey Gibson: Like a Hammer
Words, whether in the form of slogans, mantras, or hip-hop lyrics, matter, and they are treated reverentially and humorously by multimedia artist Jeffrey Gibson (Mississippi Band Choctaw, Cherokee), whose work is the subject of Like a Hammer, a show on view at the Denver...
June 29, 2018
Recall, Recapture, Remember
Tansey Contemporary: The title of this fiber-art exhibition smacks of redundancy—if you couldn’t guess, it’s about memory—but it’s surprisingly economical in other respects. Recall, Recapture, Remember features twenty-two artists from across the Southwest, selected...
June 29, 2018
Two-Fold: A Pairing of Frederick Hammersley + Matthew Shlian
Paper has a memory. Each crease is recorded in the impression left where it was once folded. It can expand like origami, and it can collapse into flatness again, but its history remains pressed into the stuff it’s made of. It is this material and all the marks worn...
June 29, 2018
Inner Orbit
form & concept: For most people who aren’t astronomers or astrophysicists, outer space is a nebulous concept (no pun intended). How we relate to ideas like space-time, the Big Bang, and black holes often has more to do with our immediate material surroundings than with...
June 28, 2018
The Folk Art Universe
This year the International Folk Art Market celebrates its fifteenth birthday. IFAM first began in 2004 with sixty-one artists from thirty-six countries. Now, that number has more than doubled to 162 artists from fifty-three countries. Officially, the vending is two days...
June 28, 2018
Field Report: Naoshima
For us the journey to Naoshima, the art island of Japan in the Seto Inland Sea, will necessarily be long. You’ll have taken a plane or two or three, a Shinkansen, a train, a bus, a ferry, a shuttle. You’ll have overcome the inevitable travel dramas of buying the right...
June 02, 2018
Shane Tolbert
“This rock formation is forty million years old.” Shane Tolbert is guiding me through a narrow passage whose walls contain countless miniscule pebbles and stones—remnants of a mudslide caused by a rush of prehistoric water that cut through the area around the Colorado...
June 01, 2018
Futurition Santa Fe
Futurition Santa Fe is a collaborative effort to bring awareness to a number of events taking place across several Santa Fe institutions and businesses that involve the intersections of art, science, and technology. The primary participants include Santa Fe Institute, Currents New Media, the Thoma Foundation (Art House), form & concept...
June 01, 2018
Larry Bell: Hocus, Focus and 12
The Harwood Museum of Art in Taos is gearing up for a large-scale exhibition of local luminary Larry Bell’s work. The show, titled Hocus, Focus and 12, is curated by Gus Foster, Taos photographer and Bell’s friend and collaborator. Highlights of the exhibition...
June 01, 2018
