A US dollar might be small and worth little, but it is no simple thing.

Making art that’s both creatively powerful and morally instructive is no easy task. The key to fulfilling both instincts (should they clash) is subtlety. Last Supper, C Maxx Stevens’ site-specific installation at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, has trouble achieving that.

After graduating college in 1999, Native American jeweler David Gaussoin travelled the world from Europe to Africa. He found new people and new approaches to art and saw the works of Michelangelo, Picasso and the French Impressionists. Back home in Santa Fe, Gaussoin began to put these new influences into his jewelry—and it looked different.

Most glass metaphors are just too easy. As we’ve spent centuries utilizing the material in three primary capacities—for dinnerware, windows and mirrors—we made symbolic associations with two of these manifestations long ago.

The perpetual liveliness of Santa Fe’s art scene is self-evident—take SFR’s overstuffed visual arts listings as proof—but even so, the city gains a certain vigor during the weekend of Traditional Spanish Market, which celebrated its 60th anniversary last weekend. Hotel rates increase; parking advertisements pop up out of nowhere; vendors peddle turkey legs and snow cones; 200-plus artists take over the Plaza; and nearby traffic somehow crawls even slower. It is, by all means, an event.

In a matter of weeks, the mobile art gallery Kianga Ellis Productions descended on Santa Fe, organized a show and now aims to revolutionize the way this art town talks about art. On July 29, KEP opens its three-day, multi-platform Art Talks Weekend.

What does “decadence” mean? Putting aside the word’s basic definitions (a state of self-indulgence or a period of decline), consider how it appears in contemporary culture.

Art Santa Fe didn’t share International Folk Art Market’s hordes of attendees this past weekend, but the contemporary art fair did stage its own quiet riot.

Gourmands of every palate and proclivity have taken to the web with the upshots of their wonderful, strange and whimsical food sensibilities. Part of what makes these blogs so successful is the gorgeous food art that accompanies them. Even Colette Hosmer’s sculptures of scraps could find a happy home in the increasingly crowded world of niche food blogs.

Tethered at William Siegal Gallery places Castillo’s metal pieces alongside her works on paper. The drawings thankfully go beyond pictures of metal.