Water Planet is an ambitious, multi-faceted exhibition/happening that aims to consider water through the broad spectrum of many artists and performers. The efforts range from charming to profound to clumsy.

Every year, SFR declares fall the season for locals but, every year, it comes as a bit of a surprise. At the end of each international über-art summer, the local scene wakes up and takes the town back. The burst of local energy, especially in the orbit of big events such the High Mayhem Emerging Arts Festival, is always gratifying, even if the work falls flat as often as it succeeds.

Patrick Kikut asks: What do the signifiers in landscape paintings mean when removed from their original context and allowed to float free and interact with the work of other artists, using the gallery space as a conceptual horizon?

If the annual Burning Man festival is to remain relevant in terms of art, artists need to make work that is more than just "trippy" or really, really big.

Atmospheric Diver's images and sounds are unfamiliar and somewhat illogical. The mind, finding that it cannot deconstruct the ideas intellectually, refocuses and an organic and pure experience is left.

Two artists with concurrent solo exhibitions at Eight Modern could hardly be more different in materials and approach, but that diversity makes for a much improved conversation.

Two current Santa Fe exhibitions imply similar sentiments and demonstrate the artists’ capacities to observe the natural (and in these instances, the unnatural) world, and also the projection of the human psyche out into that world.

The sumptuous, Rubenesque quality imparted on the sculpture through Thomas’ process—in tandem with the volatile, hard-candyish color finishes—have the effect of feminizing and sexualizing these iterations of male, agrarian devices. It subverts, provokes and delights.

Neil Bernstein plans to move a political sculpture that was vandalized in Santa Fe to Washington, DC. Let's hope he does it soon.

In his capturing of the driver/artists behind the creation of decotora trucks, Tatsuki becomes an anthropological chronicler, capturing a tribe that is bleakly staring at its own impending disappearance.