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Art, With an Asterisk
Artists Jami Porter Lara, Erin Mickelson, and Kate Ruck put terms and conditions front and center.
Southwest
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A Celebration of New Media in New Mexico
CURRENTS New Media Festival has been bringing interactive art to Santa Fe for 20 years.
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The Real Space Invaders
New Mexico artist Eric J. García creates satirical sci-fi images of White colonization, painted with prickly pear ink.
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The Cross-Border Work of the Rubin Center’s New Curator
“Artists are the key people who are helping us to think differently and better about not just the future, but the past and the present,” said Laura August, who’s been chosen to lead the Visual Arts center at the University of Texas at El Paso.
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Six Decades of Contemporary Native Art at Santa Fe’s Institute of American Indian Arts
The IAIA remains the only educational institution in the world dedicated to the study of contemporary Native American and Alaska Native arts.
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An Artist’s Opiate Addiction Recovery Through Photography
For New Mexico-based artist Frank Blazquez, portraiture was the way out of a crippling opiate addiction.
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Georgia O’Keeffe at 90 in Color
Photographer Malcolm Varon's 1977 portraits, on view at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, are some of the only images of the artist late in her life.
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Memories Remade With Charcoal and Ash
Artist Dan Jian makes the point that landscapes and memory are one and the same.
Performance
Opera Lafayette Reimagines André Grétry’s Silvain in New Mexico
The rendition could be a platform for essential conversations on sociohistorical and economic land rights issues.
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Debbie Long Turns RVs Into Vessels of Light
Over the past decade, the Taos-based artist has outfitted two vintage RVs with hundreds of cast glass pieces that collect light from the desert sky.
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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.”
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The Activist Spirit of a Denver Artist Residency Program
Colorado’s Platteforum shows that residency programs can be bold when it comes to serving artists and communities