Dear O’Keeffe Museum: Please get over yourself. You are embarrassing the museum, the memory of the artist you claim to represent and you are embarrassing Santa Fe. Stop picking on schools, especially little ones, and focus on your actual mission.

There are two kinds of art in public places: sanctioned and unsanctioned. In the first case, an artist is probably “commissioned” to create or place a work of art in a public building, a park or some other agreed upon location. Performers that engage the public without having bothered to pay a fee, or artists who leave their mark in freehand spray paint or stencil work are, on a technical level, either disturbing the peace, assembling without a permit or practicing vandalism.

I suppose it’s unprofessional, possibly even unethical, to use a public medium like a published art review to speak directly to one’s mother, but I’ve got something to say.

Mom, you should go and check out the show at SITE Santa Fe.

Experimental Geography examines how the natural world has traditionally been perceived by both science and art and proposes the potential for a new field that encompasses both practices and then some. It is in Albuquerque during the midst of a national tour that goes through 2010 and promises to be an important exhibition for an audience much broader than artists and the art curiou

Victoria Sambunaris grids, maps and plumbs the thread of human response and interaction to environment with a scale and measure appropriate for people and mountians both.

SOFA West, with more than 10,000 visitors over a four-day span, was the most visibly successful event at the center to date. But it was underwhelming where it counts.

The New Mexico History Museum drags us—kicking and screaming in some cases—into the future of museums.

The theory goes that modern museums need to lead people through a sculpted adventure packed with high-tech highlights and just the right amount of educational material (which is not too much). The public is tired of the museum as attic or basement “full of long-forgotten objects,” according to NMHM’s mission statement.

ToCa is not an arty Santa Fe "micro-neighborhood." Especially if Sunset Magazine says it is.

Word is that Jerry West, no spring chicken, was getting his boots dusty in the Utah desert and searing fresh memories into his eyes and hands just a week before his opening at Phil Space.

Scheinbaum and son manage to span at least three generations and a huge scope of effort and geogrpahy with their recent projects.