The New York Times Magazine recently published an article by a creative writing professor named Steve Almond, who for the past 10 years

If bonnets, straw hats and electric fireplaces are all that comes to mind when you picture the Amish, clearly you haven’t seen a gut-punch episode of Discovery Channel’s Amish Mafia.

Considered a central figure in contemporary performance art, Linda Mary Montano has been at the forefront of avant-garde performance for the last 40 years.

According to the One Billion Rising campaign’s website, one in three women the world over will be beaten or raped in her lifetime.

Leading into the 20th century, human sexuality was a thing of taboo—for the word “sex” to be uttered aloud was uncouth, and a woman showing more than a bare ankle was instantly dubbed a harlot.

Popular culture can thank the late Sid Avery for some of the most candid and intimate shots of Golden Age Hollywood celebrities.

We get it. Even though we put together the be-all/end-all guide to, well, the end, it never really came. But don’t let loose your trusty pet falcon just yet.

Santa Fe-based installation artist Cheri Ibes is out to challenge your concept of ice sculpture. Just don’t expect any swans or woven baskets à la ritzy hotel

Everything’s better in pairs: Siegfried and Roy, shoes, art, etc. Vivo Contemporary is well aware of this. In its upcoming exhibition Give Voice to Image, 14 local poets partner up with 14 visual artists.

Throughout the coming weeks, most everyone will be running around in a frenzy buying gifts for family and friends. On the surface, we buy them to express care and devotion—but perhaps, if we dig a little further, we might find that our relationships to objects and to each other are far more complex than we think.