Guillermo De Fazio and Giovanna Dan bring their touring production, Tango Argentina, to the Lensic Performing Arts Center.
As a boy growing up off of Highway 14, Steven Herrera thought his dream of being in the movies was just that. But with perseverance and an unflaggingly positive outlook, he's made that dream a reality.
The Santa Fe Symphony’s concert on Sunday, Jan. 16 features a true rara avis as part of the program — a trumpet concerto by a female composer written for and played by a female soloist.
Six artists broaden the definition of landscape as an artistic genre, challenging our notions of what it is and suggesting possibilities for future representation.
Dominic Cooke’s 2017 revival of Follies, staged by the National Theatre and streaming at the Lensic on Saturday, Jan. 15, is a superb opportunity to celebrate the memory of Stephen Sondheim.
Random Acts
Gathering strings
With roots in Scottish folk traditions, the Maxwell Quartet bring fresh enthusiasm to a performance in Los Alamos, playing with conviction and panache.
Exhibitionism
Elisa Lendvay at Form & Concept
Artists Debra Baxter and Dawn Cerny bring together artists from several generations of Bard College's MFA program for a sculptural show that challenges the legacies of minimalism and postminimalism.
Random Acts
Come blow your horn
Trumpeter Shamarr Allen exudes a style flavored by his Native New Orleans, and creates an exhilarating sound influenced by a variety of genres.
The exhibit commemorating the first 17th-century printed edition of William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies can still seen online, offering viewers a glimpse into the history of one of the world's most influential works of literature.
Random Acts
'American Pickers' wants you! (Maybe)
If you and your stuff are up to snuff, you might just find yourself featured on American Pickers.
Exhibitionism
Julia Lambright at Gallery Hózhó
Julia Lambright explores the inadequacies and impermamance of nature in her ephemeral and dreamlike paintings.
It’s going to be a wonky week so when things get strange, push the pause button and hold still for a minute.
Book Review
Wedding the elegant and the barbaric
The Latinist is the perfect suspense novel to kick off your reading year.
Book Review
A Syrian couple's American marriage
Yara Zgheib's second novel revisits the bad old days of 2017, delving beneath the headlines to tell a wrenching personal story, which traces the paths of two Syrian immigrants torn apart by the U.S. travel ban.
Poet Laureate Joy Harjo discusses her signature project with poet Layli Long Soldier.
In Santa Fe Modern, author Helen Thompson highlights the radical architecture of modern Santa Fe structures and why it belongs.
Here are 10 not-to-be-missed picks in classical music, dance, opera, musical theater, and cabaret through early May.
In this New Year’s Day performance, Laurent Pelly’s storybook staging of Jules Massenet’s Cendrillon is presented by the Met with an all-new family-focused, 95-minute version that’s sung in English.
Through his fictional creation, martial arts master Yang Mingbin, author Michael DeMarco passes on wisdom and knowledge from a rich cultural tradition.
Virtual Vivace, the Santa Fe Opera Guild’s online book club, explores The Merry Wives of Windsor, the Shakespeare comedy at the center of Falstaff.
A look back on the past 12 months and the 33 movies that earned the highest praise from Washington Post critics.
Check out Only Murders in the Building and other great shows you may have missed last year.
Vivo artists explore the clarity and inspiration that comes with the meeting of the conscious and subconscious during the creative process in Awakenings.
Bruce Dunlap joins Brahim Fribgane for an evening of eclectic, internationally-flavored original music.
Kuzana Ogg's abstract canvases reflect the flow of life in its tranquility and bustling activity and forge an equilibrium between them.
Against the Grain presents the work of 21 artists from nine states who explore themes of identity, time, human connection, and the environment in their works.
With the sun, Venus, and Pluto in industrious, goal-oriented Capricorn we can accomplish a lot in the weeks ahead if we get organized now.
The futuristic Swan Song is a maudlin tear-jerker with the barest patina of a sci-fi flick that wants you to think deeply about its central, morbid question.
In Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution, H. W. Brands offers a fast-paced, often riveting account of the military and political events leading up to the Declaration of Independence and those that followed during the war.
The exceptional stories in On Girlhood explore the realities of growing up Black and female.
Two artists, an established contemporary santero and an aspiring one, talk about their influences and the trajectories of their careers in a Pasatiempo-hosted conversation.
With his recent move to Santa Fe, the birth of a daughter, and the release of a new album, the last year brought many changes to Carter Beckworth's life. And some of that's reflected in, in a roundabout sort of way, in his music.
Rufino Tamayo rejected the political concerns of his contemporaries, choosing instead to express universal and archetypal themes in his work.
Add a touch of class to your holidays by joining Joe Illick and a specially assembled New Year’s Eve Orchestra for a concert at the Lensic Performing Arts Center.
A roundup of awards, acknowledgements and accomplishments.
Drink a champagne toast and ring in the New Year with dance and song when La Emi performs with special guests (singers and musicians) at The Lodge at Santa Fe.
Three Sisters honor Indigenous heritage, as well as its present and future, in a mural that includes a tribute to Indigenous artist DeAnna Autumn Leaf Suazo.
The Robert Fox Trio christens Santa Fe's newest jazz club in time for the New Year.
Artists Francis DiFronzo, Jay Bailey, and Jeremy Mann offer three distinctive views of the landscape in the group exhibition Crossroads.
Judy Tuwaletstiwa brings personal and collective themes to her work, which are expressed through the nature of the materials used.
Feelings are fleeting but finding words for them brings solidity — or even solidarity — to moments both ebullient and dreary.
2022 has the potential to be different, but it’s up to us to shepherd that potential into being.
Author Ann Patchett weighs what matters in a collection of essays that invites the reader in to stay for a while.
Writers from all over Northern New Mexico offered up their efforts in more than 150 entries in the 2021 Pasatiempo Writing Contest.
Patrick Mehaffey, Daniel Donoghue, and Gregory Coplans captured the top spots in the fiction category.
Memoirs by Eleanor Channell, George Bereschik and Rachel Sue Stofocik notched top honors in this category.
In the Adult Poetry category, works by Elmo Mondragon, Kay Yanda, and Ann Turpin were the judge's favorites.
Teen poets Sasha Smucker, Helena Merlino, and Christopher Tenorio impressed the judges in the Youth Poetry category of the 2021 Writing Contest.
José Mondragón's Nativity, Tree of Life follows the tradition of mid-century innovators from Northern New Mexico, who developed a style of unpainted bulto carving, which remains a popular folk art form today among the region's artisans.
The familiar strains of music by Puccini, Bizet, Donizetti, and Mozart will return to Santa Fe on Friday, Dec. 24, at A Night at the Opera, a new collaboration between the Santa Fe Symphony and the Santa Fe Opera.
Drawing inspiration from nature, culture, and place, artist Karine Swenson creates harmonious patterned works in encaustics.
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Culinary Arts
- ‘That cozy thing’: Holiday desserts from three local bakeries
- Gifts for the discerning host that are (mostly) not fruitcake
- Giving thanks for beer
- Beer-brined bird from The Beeroness
- 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