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A Knight to Remember: Peter Claffey’s happy place is playing “Dunk” in the new Game of Thrones prequel
INthe quiet moment before the camera rolls, Peter Claffey feels a familiar tremor. It is not the pre-match adrenaline of his old life on the rugby pitches of County Galway on the coast of Ireland, but the intimate, vulnerable anxiety of an artist about...
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Winter Warmup
Santa Fe’s cultural institutions emerge from the cold with a bounty of arts and entertainment offerings. Pasatiempo presents its semi-regular preview of late winter and spring offerings in classical music and opera as well as dance, museum and gallery...
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Voices of Season
Santa Fe’s Zia Singers put music created by women in the spotlight with the choral group’s winter performance.
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Buy None, Get Many Free!
Thousands of creative works have just entered the public domain, including major films, books, visual art, plays, and music.
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A Mother of a Mural
The New Mexico History Museum fuels Route 66 nostalgia with a wall honoring the highway’s souped-up centennial.
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The Play’s the Thing: A Conversation with Actorturned-director Kate Winslet by Joshua Encinias
Actor-turned-director Kate Winslet only said “action” once on the set of her new film, Goodbye June. The word was banned after the first day, when a 5-year-old actor with Down syndrome, Benjamin Shortland, kept repeating it in the middle of...
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Dick Van Dyke’s Dueling Documentaries
With all the television programming available to us today, and all the scripts and all the actors and all the directors, one thing is abundantly lacking: physical comedy. Not the Three Stooges kind that’s based on inflicting pain on others, but rather...
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The Dangers of Overpricing in a Soft Market
You May Wind Up With Less It seems a little counterintuitive, and many sellers are reluctant to believe it. Overpricing your home can mean you’ll wind up with less money in the end. It almost certainly will mean your transaction may be stretched from...
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A Whirlwind Tour
A rummage through an array of artistic relics opens a window on Lucy Lippard’s radical life.
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An Artistic Reckoning
Indigenous artists reframe the “ownership” of ancestral lands in an exhibition at the Georgia O’keeffe Museum.
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Better for Verse
A few lovable and unapologetically audacious writers in Truth or Consequences get support from a pair of fellow artisans — and publish a tome for the times.
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On the Right Track
An unlikely dream team of a Scottish-english immigrant and a female architect gained steam and transformed U.S. train travel and hospitality.
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Meeting a Maker
Sculptor and Rotary Club of Santa Fe Foundation Distinguished Artist Erika Wanenmacher’s expansive vision is forged in metal through work exposing her true mettle.
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Master of the Mallets
The Santa Fe Symphony strikes a New World note with a marimba concerto and more.
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Orchestra Director Don Higgins at Eldorado Community School. Photo Jim Weber/the New Mexican Design Taura Costidis
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‘Every Word Counts’
Newly named U.S. poet laureate (and Santa Fean) Arthur Sze shares his creative process and aspirations for his national literary role.
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Sweat and Soul
Rootsy Nathaniel Rateliff stayed true to his mission to find success as a musician — and now celebrates a decade since his band’s smash debut album.
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Composed by Cartography
Raven Chacon’s Tiguex makes a map of music across a sonic soundscape of Albuquerque.
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Fall Into Place
A fresh and surprisingly robust season of performances and cultural highlights shifts into the Santa Fe-area spotlight.
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Embracing the Edge
Shelly C. Lowe sees challenges in higher education as a means to forge ahead as she steps up to lead the Institute of American Indian Arts.
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Dishing With Johnny Vee: New Kid on the Asian Fusion Block
Leo’s bursts on the Santa Fe restaurant scene with fresh flavors and plenty of fire.
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Political Propaganda and the Palette
A new Albuquerque Museum exhibition, Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945, brings to light the art and artists who resisted authoritarian rule in Nazi Germany — and who continued to create.
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A Living Landscape
Santa Fe’s Indian Market serves as a sacred gathering place for generations of Pueblo peoples and a testament to the power and beauty of resistance.
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A Radical Revolt
A Native playwright confronts a Colonial past through a Puebloan perspective.
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Flash Dancers
Mesmerizing movements mark Museum Hill’s Youth Hoop Dance Championship, which is organized by the Lightning Boy Foundation and inspired by acts of nature.
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Hot (Stone) in the Summertime
The legacy and legend of Sly and the Family Stone live on through musicianship and memorable melodies.
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Guiding Light
Mccreery Jordan’s enchanted abstract landscapes are the jewels on the new Gaia Santa Fe walls.
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A World of Difference
The International Folk Art Market’s colorful bazaar goes beyond borders and creates cultural connections.
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Chamber of Plenty
A veritable geyser of performances this summer includes 39 Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival concerts — and much more.
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Conversation With the Curator
A former Venice Biennale curator brings an eye for cultural touchstones to SITE Santa Fe’s International.
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Opera 101: La Bohème
Presenting Pasatiempo’s handy user’s guide with all you need to know about the opening night production in the Santa Fe Opera’s 2025 season.
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Solid Footing
The National Institute of Flamenco stays in step with its annual festival and a little boost from its appreciative community.
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Key Changes
The New Mexico Performing Arts Society closing performance also offers a crescendo for the group’s founders, who are leaving the organization on a high note.
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Seasons in the Sun
New England-based artist Jeremy Miranda’s works cast a different — even exotic — light for the Southwest.
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Summer Soundtrack
As the weather heats up, the scene gets live, loud, and theatrical on our local stages. Pasatiempo offers its annual preview of the summer’s musical highlights.
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Damn that Faust!
Hector Berlioz’s devilishly dramatic composition based on Goethe’s key contribution to literature caps the Santa Fe Symphony season with a big finish.
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Runway Ready
Santa Fe’s double Native Fashion Week events showcase a stylish wave of Indigenous artistry.
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Culture Meets Couture
It’s about to get haute in Santa Fe, as Native Fashion Week [squared] events bring a bevy of Indigenous designers and models to town to celebrate and amplify Native representation in the fashion industry. Check out this preview in order to make your...
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Land of the Lost
A Diné photographer puts key sites of the Southwest’s nuclear history on the map.
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A Walk in the Parks
In honor of National Park Week and Earth Day, we present a trio of literary perspectives — including a late park ranger, a graphic novelist, and a photographer — on why we should preserve our nation’s best idea.
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Carving a Space for Storytelling
Dixon writer Sage Vogel chronicles good words with art and community inspiration in his book, Dichos en Nichos.
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Painting Outside the Lines
Adventurous modernist Marsden Hartley’s brief stay in New Mexico made a lasting impact on both the artist and the art.
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Riding the Wave
An exhibition at Artes de Cuba tells the stories of northward migration — and of a country stuck in time.
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To Boldly Go
A futuristic education program is putting the “art” in artificial intelligence by fusing creative energies with youthful enthusiasm for innovation and exploration.
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A Place in the Sun
Contemporary artist Charles Ross — renowned for Star Axis, an architectonic sculpture, and other prismatic installations — spans the spectrum in a new exhibit bringing light to Taos.
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Harmonic Convergence
Two Santa Fe symphonies combine forces — both as nonprofits as well as in concert — to form one melodious organization of multigenerational musicians and music lovers.
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Books to Top Off Black History Month
Black History Month wraps up on Friday, February 28, but let’s not wait until next year to learn about and commemorate Black history in the U.S. and celebrate Black cultures here in New Mexico, across the U.S., and abroad. To help you stay informed...
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The Keys of Diversity
The Santa Fe Symphony builds bridges rather than walls through its performance of works by Latin American composers.
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Signs of the Times
A public art nonprofit called Friends of the Orphan Signs turns Albuquerque blight into beauty with the help of a National Endowment for the Arts grant, which also helps other New Mexico organizations make their own marks in the arts.
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Here Comes the Thaw
A guide to the hip and heavyweight exhibitions coming soon to an art space near you.
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Familiar Footwork
A new generation springs forth through Ailey II, bringing a new face to the roots of the modern dance company while continuing the legacy of the venerable dance pioneer.
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Meandering Through Time
A non-linear exploration of aesthetics and materials at SITE Santa Fe offers a glimpse into the mind of experimental artist Erika Wanenmacher.
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Wrap It Up
Here are nine groundbreaking exhibitions in Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Taos that you might have missed or want to revisit before they close.
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A Fabulous Free-for-all
A rich crop of film, literature, and art entered the public domain on January 1, 2025.
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A Modern Voice
Global vocal music maker Tara Khozein returns to her home turf in Santa Fe for some collaborations on contemporary works and for a January residency with Chatter.
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Cartographic Connoisseur
Santa Fe gallery William R. Talbot Fine Art is all over the map when it comes to curating the history and artistry of geography.
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We Write
Anne Lamott wrote in her book Bird by Bird that writing “can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong.” Like...
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The Mind Behind the Marionettes
German-born artist and puppeteer Gustave Baumann strung together a legacy that lives on through his wooden yet lively characters.
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Best Foot Forward
The Nutcracker, a holiday classic featuring characters from around the globe, gets an authentic cultural upgrade from Aspen Santa Fe Ballet.
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A Movable Peace
For performers and other artists, a Sky Railway excursion is a gig like no other.
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Mucho Merriment
Santa Fe sleighs with this year’s massive slate of holiday entertainment, including classical music concerts, headliners, tree lightings, caroling, parades, Santa visits, dance performances, and other special events.
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Live Wires
Artists in southern Africa weave their way to success in this apartheid-era art form featured in an exhibition opening at the Museum of International Folk Art.
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Inspiring Minds by Ania Hull
The museum dedicated to modernist master Georgia O’keeffe offers an array of workshops that put a brush in the hands of those seeking their own artistic muse.
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Drawing the Line
With a high-stakes election looming next week, Santa Fe’s legendary political cartoonist Pat Oliphant weighs in on the power (or not) of the pen.
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Here in Spirit
Artist Brandon Maldonado’s Hecho a Mano exhibition, Requiem, breathes life into Día de los Muertos by putting images in modern contexts.
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Bryan Cranston, this year’s festival Lifetime Achi , finds good chemistry in New Mexico’s terrain and baseb l New Mexico filmmakers keep it lean f rts lineup.
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The Big Picture
Award-winning photographer and the Rotary Club’s 2024 distinguished artist Cara Romero is the image of a trailblazer.
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