Tuesday, October 2,2012
Art Features

Cue the Violins

Going once, playing twice...

When people want to combine the worlds of music and art, they’ll go see a Broadway musical or maybe enjoy those cheesy stock images that roll across the screen of their fave karaoke DVD as they belt out “Total Eclipse of the Heart” like nobody’s business.

Wednesday, September 12,2012
Art Features

Blade Runner

For one man, beauty walks a knife’s edge

Scott Yorko

“Hollywood fucked it up,” says Chama’s own renegade knife maker, Curtis Green. I'm standing at the entrance of his 10’x10’x30’ utility trailer parked in a dirt lot across from the Chevron station on Rte. 84

Monday, August 20,2012
Art Features

Indian Market 2012 Photo Dispatch

91st annual festival in images

Enrique Limón

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
Art Features

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
Art Features

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
Art Features

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
Art Features

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
Art Features

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
Art Features

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.