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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.
The Southwest is a global epicenter of land art—everything from large-scale, permanent installations to fleeting performative resonances and more esoteric constructions—and if Santa Fe and New Mexico are to grow into our supposed art chops, it will be in large part through embracing land arts as one area in which we rural hicks have an edge.
Rather than suggesting a city ripe with creativity, City of Santa Fe Arts Commission posters suggest a city with barely an original thought available, even among its supposedly rampant artist population. A photograph of an old adobe or a pastel of a group of mariachi musicians—even if it is captured through a canonized creative form like photography or drawing—is the predictable antithesis of creativity.
In a single weekend, only blocks apart, social justice is both skewered and held aloft.
