Art Review
Seeing New Mexico Through the Looking Glass
The 12th SITE Santa Fe International takes reflection as its cue, offering mirror images, doubles, reversals, and echoes in which multiple perspectives and timelines unfold.
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Dakota Mace’s Quiet Enactment of Diné Philosophy
The artist’s show at SITE Santa Fe shows how Indigenous thought and contemporary exhibition-making can co-exist without compromise.
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Two Artists’ Very Different Places in Nature
The show Teresita Fernández / Robert Smithson traces the ways that the two artists’ sociopolitical positions shaped their perspectives.
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Billie Zangewa’s Tableaus of Togetherness
In Zangewa’s colorful textile collages, on view at SITE Santa Fe, the tableaus of our lives are stitched together with intention and memory.
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Nicholas Galanin Looks Past Trauma to Recovery
Galanin takes the notion of creation in the service of care seriously, and the theme serves as a through line in his retrospective at SITE Santa Fe.
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Deborah Roberts’s Elegy for Lost Innocence
Roberts centers the beauty and vulnerability of Black children, which is often seized from them at a young age via systemic violence in the United States.
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Bruce Nauman Makes His Mark, Again and Again
With “His Mark,” the endless loop of Nauman inscribing an X becomes a body memory for the viewer.
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How Does the Santa Fe Indian Market Benefit Museums?
The annual Native arts festival has built bridges across communities and increased diversity among museum audiences.
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Can Artists Channel the Force of Water?
Going with the Flow explores the role of water in the Southwest amid the 23-year drought, but neglects the ongoing tug of war due to water mandates and drought.
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Pedro Reyes Disarms in Santa Fe
By transforming guns into art and everyday objects, the artist hopes to transform culture itself.
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Looking Between the Lines of Max Cole’s Abstract Paintings
In the artist’s exhibition Endless Journey, each tiny, delicate mark reads as a meditative act, imbued with rigorous attention, care, and focus.
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Nani Chacon’s Urban Interventions Enter the Museum
The artist says she wants to “confront people with beauty and pride and complexity.”