Natalie Featherston's artwork looks exactly like what it is: a child’s drawing of dinosaurs at a tea party, a one-panel pop art comic of a distraught woman, a nest of turquoise-blue robins’ eggs. They’re two-dimensional paintings, with nothing to touch but the surface of the canvas. Featherston is a trompe l’oeil painter, which is French for “to deceive the eye.”
So you haven't read the Harry Potter books, and the world of Hogwarts is alien to you. Maybe you've been wondering what all the fuss is about. Well-trained wizards and Muggles alike can get the whole story in just 70 minutes in the laugh riot production Potted Potter.
Nothing ignites passionate debate between opera fans more than updated settings of beloved operas.
The popular Latin band is back on tour and ready to get you dancing.
More than 100 artists participate in the states largest and oldest self-guided studio tour.
An artist's memoir in beadwork conveys discrimination in Indian Country.
After decades of companies paying lip-service to the ideals of diversity and inclusivity without much genuine progress, the overwhelming success of Fire Shut Up in My Bones at the Metropolitan Opera may be the spark that fuels some real change in the world of American opera.
Adapted from the best-selling memoir of New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones is the first Met production by a Black composer in the company’s 138 years.
It's a night of spooky fun at El Rancho de las Golondrinas's last event of the season.
Decisive moments in the life and times of rock-and-roll's most famous photographer.
Artists Reg Loving and Aaron Karp's longtime association is highlighted in a two-person exhibit that honors their friendship.
Family secrets come to the surface in Other Desert Cities.
The glory of the redwoods is emphasized in the gilded composite photographs of artists Daniel Ballesteros.
Famously reclusive poet Melissa Green reads online.
Artist Jason Kowalski's meticulously crafted mixed media paintings trigger our nostalgia for America's recent past.
In Tunnel 29: The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall, author Helena Merriman chronicles the creative escape of 29 from East Germany.
The stars ask us to prioritize balance, equilibrium, and fairness this week, especially when it’s challenging to do so.
Oscar Wilde’s birthday is Oct. 16, 1854, and there’s a simple way to both celebrate it and give yourself a present: Pick up a copy of Oscar Wilde: A Life by Matthew Sturgis.
In Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, Nathaniel Philbrick brings his proven gift as a narrator to this on-the-road part of George Washington’s life.
Through a series of appalling examples in Peril, authors Bob Woodward and Robert Costa illustrate key aspects of Donald Trump's threat to democracy.
All fictional narrators are unreliable to an extent. But A Calling for Charlie Barnes positively wallows in unreliability, especially in the way families deploy alternative facts to undermine some relatives and elevate others.
Three artists, working independently, bring a multisensory experience to visitors at SITE Santa Fe with three never-before exhibited installations.
Three prominent artists — Judith F. Baca, Mildred Howard, and Jaune Quick-to See-Smith —create evocative works that highlight issues of housing, civil rights, the environment, and immigration policy, and other social and political topics relevant to minority and underrepresented communities and, by extension, to us all.
A road trip means redemption for an estranged mother and daughter.
In his latest book, the author, journalist, and historian tackles the complicated history of European colonialism through the story of a South Seas Islander, who was the first such man to visit England in the age of imperialism.
The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts presents a streaming conversation with Erin Vink, assistant curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.
Jazz and classical clarinetist Eddie Daniels celebrates his 80th birthday and the release of his new album Night Kisses with a performance and culinary feast at Dave's Jazz Bistro.
Fourteen local, national, and international artists and artist collectives are included in an exhibition and series of public programs that counter the narratives of dominant power structures to reclaim stories and memories of place.
Santa Fe photographer Ann Murdy discusses traditional Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico.
Jazz drummer Tootie Heath appears live with his trio and the world renowned drum ensemble The Whole Drum Truth.
Artist and photographer Brandy Trigueros presents a body of work around the complexities and constructs of female identity and motherhood.
Six artist's in the Thoma Foundation Collection use digital technologies to explore concepts of humankind's interactions with the landscape and the possibilities for representations of the natural world.
Four Shillings Short play two Celtic and world music concerts in town on Oct. 16 and Oct. 17.
Stay centered this busy week. Enjoy the effect when energy pivots and sidesteps its many crosscurrents and all the willful planets dance together as the sun and Mars conjunct and they both square Pluto.
Author Ruth Ozeki's emotional engagement with her characters and her themes makes The Book of Form and Emptiness as compelling as it is occasionally unwieldy.
With its punctuationless title, Jon McGregor’s latest is a book about the slipperiness of language, that flexible and fallible vehicle for consciousness and communication on which we are so dependent.
Harald Hardrada, the 11th-century Norse adventurer of Don Hollway's The Last Viking, led an iron-hammered life of struggle, travel, scheming, and violence. Especially that last part.
The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival returns as a full in-person event for 2021 with 47 feature films, more than 100 shorts, and a Lifetime Achievement Award to be presented to Oliver Stone.
Maura Dhu Studi directs a staged reading of Manahatta, a play by Mary Kathryn Nagle that explores cultural misunderstandings behind the Lenape Tribe’s “sale” of Manhattan Island to the Dutch in 1626.
The #MeToo movement was a huge cultural shift in the collective conversation about sexual misconduct. But what happens next?
Ashman leaves leadership post at International Folk Art Market; Comedy group gets new space; and Stage Santa Fe announces new leadership
It's the final weekend of the 49th annual Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
Joey Beth Gilbert and Geoffrey Pomeroy star in a play about love and the prospect of environmental catastrophe.
The Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD programming is back, and its new season begins with a rarity — the original (and shorter) version of Modest Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov.
Artist Josephine Halvorson creates a dialogue between the past and present in works inspired directly by her time as an artist in residence at the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
Chomsky: Capitalism isn't the answer.
The Museum of Encaustic Art opens in a new location with a show that celebrates the 10th anniversary of Encaustic Arts Magazine.
An exhibition by Harwood Art Center's first artist-in-residence, Martín Wannam, in collaboration with artist Marlene Tafoya, challenges the lingering biases of colonialism.
As a portrait of the wobbly unreality of existence that comes with a loved one’s death, Oates' latest novel can be effective and harrowing.
Where do we want the rainbow to end? It’s important that we develop a clear image of our goal for the next few weeks, then stay flexible about our means of accomplishi…
Santa Fe Independent Film Festival
Review: 'Street Heroines'
A documentary by a local filmmaker about women who make street art.
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Culinary Arts
- Treat the fruit well: Rombauer Vineyards
- The underdog of spirits
- Elements of a classic: the martini
- Dining outside the box: Restaurant patios worth checking out
- Soul nourishment: Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen
- ‘I never want to stay home again’: Restaurateurs on the pandemic era
- 'Eating is the major sport of having a body': Cafe Pasqual's Katharine Kagel
- Off the beaten track: Midtown Bistro
- Authentic Italian cuisine capita a Santa Fe: Chef Cristian Pontiggia
- You can't wreck this sauce: ‘Kitchen Meets Quarantine’
- This way to Flavor Town: Tune Up Café
- New wine in a new wineskin: The Kosher Food & Wine Experience
- Hibernation time: Root 66 goes on hiatus
- Where the chile is always hot
- Flatirons Food Film Festival highlights