Monday, August 20,2012
Art Features

Indian Market 2012 Photo Dispatch

91st annual festival in images

According to SWAIA Executive Director Bruce Bernstein who took to the Plaza's Buffalo Thunder stage on Sunday afternoon, the event cost $1.5M to stage, and generates a collected income of $18M—or 12% of the City Different's annual revenue.

Wednesday, June 6,2012
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Animal Instincts

Ferus forces Santa Fe out of its box and into the wild

Rani Molla

Full disclosure: 1. My Latin name is Ferox, a variant of the Latin Ferus, the title of the new exhibition at Eggman and Walrus Art Emporium, which I prefer to translate as “courageous, high-spirited and warlike,” rather than the more negative “wild, uncultivated and uncivilized.” 2. I used to date one of the show’s nearly 30 artists, whose work I abstain from reviewing for ethical reasons, not because he broke up with me. 3. Ferus is really, really good.

Wednesday, May 30,2012
Art Features

Outta Here!

Leavings and then some

Scott Shuker

Revolving doors, motorbikes and more in Santa Fe's arts scene.

Wednesday, May 23,2012
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Post-Industrial Discourse

Ghosts in Armour brings focus to collaborative artistic practice

Matthew Irwin

This column is a plea for the art communities of Santa Fe to begin a dialogue that furthers artistic practice—which naturally includes conversations about the notion of artistic practice and our understanding of community—inspired by a one-week exhibition at Santa Fe Complex.

Wednesday, May 16,2012
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Relapse

Time travel is really the act of standing still

Jackson Larson

You are not the person you were a decade ago. You regenerate your cells every 7-10 years, becoming fundamentally different. The Time-Lapse exhibition at SITE Santa Fe, which closes May 20 after a three-month run, changes just subtly and frequently enough to remind us of this metamorphosis.

Wednesday, May 9,2012
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Meta Observations

The difference between intended and unintended interventions

Matthew Irwin

I’m stuck on the words “human interventions in landscape” accompanying Nancy Holt’s early photographic series, “Western Graveyards.” The collection of dilapidated and overgrown burial sites, photographed in 1968, occupies a corner of the exhibition Nancy Holt: Sightlines at the Santa Fe Art Institute.

Tuesday, May 1,2012
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Step Aside, Miss O’Keeffe

SFUAD seniors take Santa Fe art to new places

Meaghen Brown

A brief trip to the Santa Fe University Art and Design for the graphic design senior thesis exhibit proved a refreshing reminder of the potential (and potential capital gain) of art.

Tuesday, May 1,2012
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Visit with a Bear

An out-of-town journalist on his encounter with a Santa Fe legend

Mike Masterson

Looking to have a silver turquoise ring cut down to size, I found a rough-hewn silversmith nicknamed Bear tucked away in his den at the downtown Santa Fe Village, where he’s been for 27 years.

Wednesday, April 25,2012
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Unintentionally Undercover

Live Previews of Tamale-wood’s Future

Scott Shuker

I recently worked on the set of Longmire, a new television series for the A&E network starring Robert Taylor. Filming in the Santa Fe area, the show is based on the hero of the Craig Allen Johnson novel series, Sheriff Walt Longmire.

Tuesday, April 10,2012
Art Features

Interpenetration of Opposites

Cannupa Hanska and the chimera effect

Matthew Irwin

Sculptor Cannupa Hanska shares a multi-acre compound in Nambé with at least three other people, including his partner (the vivacious Santa Fe DJ and performance artist Ginger Dunnill) and their newborn, Io (pronounced E-O). The main house tells of its prior life as a mill, the remnants of a wheel fixed to the outside and the gears plastered into surfaces in the kitchen.