The New Mexican’s Weekly Magazine of Arts, Entertainment & Culture January 5, 2024
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12 Score with a ‘Smile’ by Mark Tiarks Many are surprised to learn that silent film star Charlie Chaplin had a natural gift for songwriting and composition. That part of his career comes to life in Charlie Chaplin’s Smile, a multimedia tribute presented by the Santa Fe Symphony.
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Poets and painters by Brian Sandford ViVO Contemporary Gallery’s new exhibit pairs works of art with writings by a select group of New Mexico poets, giving voice to the relationship between words and works of art.
ART TOWN TRAVELER 8 Scoping out the next generation Very Large Array by Spencer Fordin
MOVING IMAGES 22 Chile Pages In theaters and special screenings
6 OUT THERE 6 Pottery Throwdown at Paseo Pottery studio 6 Santa Fe Community Yoga 7 Q&A with Santa Fe author Julia Cameron 7 A new home for New Mexico Drag Kings brunch
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4 Editor’s Note: New Year’s mission statement 24 Star Codes 27 Pasa Week 28 Pasa Planner 31 Final Frame
Cover: Across the Valley by Barrie Brown (kiln glass)
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New Year’s mission statement I moved here 373 days ago, and I’ve karate-chopped snow off my car too many times to count. I’ve interviewed an international fugitive, flown in a hot air balloon, visited the Trinity Site and the Very Large Array, and did a deep dive on the history of Zozobra (not all on the same day). I’ve spoken to many of the prominent touring comedians and musicians who have played in our immediate environs over the last year, and at some point in the conversation, it’s really just us remarking about how fortunate we feel to be in this city for any length of time. If I may paraphrase Randy Newman, this is how I feel about my new home: “Look at that mountain, Look at those trees … I love Santa Fe. (I love it!)” When I drove into this city for the first time on December 29, 2022, I didn’t know anybody who lived here. I signed a lease before I even laid eyes on my new apartment. I was moving to an arts-crazy city with just one year of experience as a working arts journalist. So many things could’ve gone wrong. And yet, they didn’t. It’s been an incredible year of personal growth, and I want to thank Pasatiempo readers for taking the journey with me. I never expected to have this little slice of real estate where I can speak frankly to you in first person. Now, as 2024 begins, I’m not going to tell you about the New Year’s Resolutions I have no intention of keeping. I’m not going to tell you I’m going to go to the gym more frequently, because I haven’t had a gym membership since the Clinton administration. I am going to tell you how I intend to be a better arts writer in 2024. First, I hope to continue our momentum. I now know so many more contacts in Santa Fe! When I call them now, they know who I am, as opposed to just a name in their email spam folder. I’m going to be doubling down on bringing you interviews with rock stars and headliners at Meow Wolf, the Lensic, the Popejoy, and beyond. And I hope to make further inroads with local art galleries and museums in Santa Fe. I want to tell you the stories behind the exhibitions and introduce you to the awesome curators and artists who make them run. I want to write about nature and the outdoors and the things that are unique to this part of the world. I want to shine a light on events that don’t always get their due respect and consideration. I want to taste some of the most delicious things Santa Fe has to offer, and I want to talk to the people who make that food — and learn how they do it. I’d like to do more travel pieces like the one I did this year to Truth or Consequences, and I hope to possibly get behind the potter’s wheel for the first time and write about it. These are just a few of my plans and ideas for the next 12 months. And I want you to know I’m available to you as a Santa Fe resource. If you see me at an event — either here or in Albuquerque or anywhere else — don’t hesitate to tell me how I can help tell your story. I’m friendly, even if I’m not as approachable as my scarf-wearing colleague, Brian Sandford. And I’m never off duty. Even on hiking trails, I find myself thinking and talking about art. Here’s to a happy and creative New Year! Spencer Fordin, Staff Writer sfordin@sfnewmexican.com
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Spin the wheel Now you can make good on your resolutions and get your hands dirty at the same time. The New Year will bring new artists to the Paseo Pottery studio for the first Pottery Throwdown of the year at 5 p.m. on Friday, January 5. The Throwdown sessions last three hours and are open to artists of all ages and skill levels. Live pottery demonstrations are part of the program, as are music and refreshments. Artists can also sign up for courses at the studio if they’d like to get better at spinning the wheel, and the community can help support the potters by purchasing ceramic art from Paseo Pottery’s online gallery. The organization, which has been run as a charity since 2018, donates 100 percent of net proceeds from its First Friday Pottery Throwdowns to local charities, and its website notes that it’s donated more than $75,000 in total. — Spencer Fordin 5 p.m. Friday, January 5 Paseo Pottery Studio & Gallery 1273 Calle de Comercio $25 505-988-7687; paseopottery.com
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The Paseo Pottery Throwdown occurs on the first Friday of every month and welcomes artists of all skill levels.
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Room to breathe “Moving more” might be on many resolution planners’ wish lists for 2024. One way to make that happen on the first weekend of January is the Yoga Beginner’s Series at Santa Fe Community Yoga, which bills itself as the city’s only nonprofit yoga studio. The four-week class covers common postures, a basic yoga breathing technique called pranayama, and simple meditation practices. It’s led by Amy Jane Banfield. — Brian Sandford
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AUTHOR Q&A
Guiding light Santa Fe writer Julia Cameron has reached millions of people with her books that help artists unlock their creativity, and now she’s back with a new tome that implores readers to seek and accept guidance in their creative lives. Cameron, a native of Libertyville, Illinois, has lived in Santa Fe for the last 10 years. She appears at Collected Works Bookstore on Wednesday, January 10. Your newest book, Living the Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity (St. Martin’s Essentials), comes out Tuesday, January 9. How long was it in process? It was about a year in the writing, but it was 30 years in the making.
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A moveable feast New Mexico Drag Kings’ KINGdom Brunch is starting the new year in a new location, having moved from Jean Cocteau Cinema to The Mystic Santa Fe. The monthly brunch features a rotating cast of five performers, as well as cocktails. It’s billed as New Mexico’s only all-drag-king brunch. For the uninitiated, drag kings are people of any gender interpreting a male-dominant figure in song, a film, or another art form. “Working within the LGBTQIA+ community to promote change and spread awareness and beauty has been paramount to us since the very beginning,” says Ellie Chairez-Keene, wedding and event coordinator at the hotel. — B.S.
The book is advice from your career and adventures in artistry? I think that’s fair to say. It’s a book about seeking guidance. In 1992, I wrote that I thought people should seek guidance in the written form. And then I didn’t write it again for 30 years. But I just felt like I had more to say on the topic. I had been afraid of sounding too woo-woo. Do you think artists in particular need feedback? They need guidance because they spend so much of their time in their own headspace? I think it’s difficult for artists to have faith in themselves. I think they have Imposter Syndrome. The book itself is tricks of the trade [to deal with that]. It’s a guided tour into all the corners that guidance might help with.
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Do you enjoy speaking? Will it be fun to speak at Collected Works? I always get nervous before I have to talk. I’m looking forward to Collected Works with the sense of both anticipation and apprehension.
Did you always know you wanted to be an artist? Or did you start your career as a journalist? I started as an artist and then I was interrupted by a journalism career. I began as a short story writer and the techniques of short story writing were techniques that were readily accessible to journalism. My journalism career was only about five or six years. How did publishing The Artist’s Way (Putnam, 2001) change your life? It sold 5 million copies. I think it gave me courage that people wanted to hear what I had to say. And now you’ve published how many books? I’ve published more than 40 books. About a book per year.
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Do your friends and fellow artists give you feedback? I find myself calling my friends and saying, “OK, I’m writing a book on guidance. Pray for me.”
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How do you find the time to be so prolific? I have several tricks. I don’t watch television. I don’t do email. I don’t do internet. And if you avoid these things, you find yourself with plenty of time. Do you read a lot of other writers? Who inspires you? I do read other writers. I have a friend here in Santa Fe you may be familiar with named Natalie Goldberg. I look forward to her books with great interest. Has creativity changed in the time since you published The Artist’s Way? I think the lessons are the same. The blocks are the same. And the solutions remain the same. What’s it been like for you living here in Santa Fe the last 10 years? Santa Fe is a very open-minded community. It feels like people here are open to spiritual ideas. My books, which are grounded in spirituality, find a ready audience here, and I find a sense of comfort. We aren’t a town full of skeptics. — S.F.
Rusty Nutz (center), the stage name used by Tia Reece, is pictured with New Mexico Drag Kings members and is among the featured performers at the KINGdom Brunch on Sunday, January 7.
6 p.m. Wednesday, January 10 Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse 202 Galisteo Street
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The verry large project The sprawling radio asstronomy dish network in west-central New Mexico preps for the next generation Story and photoss by Spencer Fordin l The New Mexican
There’s nothing west of Soccorro for dozens of miles but a valley framed by mountains and the San Aggustin plains that seem to stretch forever into the distance. And then, soon affter you pass tiny Magdalena, you can see it on the horizon, glinting in the sun and spreading over a massive tract of land.
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t’s not just one gigantic antenna dish,, but 28 of them, and depending on their aim, th hey can be spread over 22 miles or be pulled into a space less than a mile wide. It’s called the Natio onal Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array, and with very good reason. The massive edifice was built in the 1970s and tweaked to allow new technology in 2011; to o this day, it’s the most powerful and most flexible in n strument of its kind. More than 200 Ph.D.s have been n awarded based on research conducted at the site. And starting early this year, it’s gettingg a major facelift. The VLA, over time, will yield to th he ngVLA, which stands for Next Generation Very Larrge Array, and construction on a prototype antenna dish will begin in January. The construction of that dish — and su ubsequent troubleshooting — could take up all of 2 024, and
Right and opposite page: The current structure of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Very Large Array receivers can be expanded to as far apart as 22 miles or all pulled within one mile at the closest alignment.
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then, over the next dozen years, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory plans to build more than 200 next generation antenna dishes to bring the science into a new phase of evolution. “It’s going to be a big project. We’re going to need a lot of people of all sorts of different skillsets,” says Patricia Henning, the NRAO’s assistant director for New Mexico operations and a former researcher, educator, and administrator at the University of New Mexico. “This is such an important part of the array that any changes to the design that need to happen, you want to find that out with the prototype before you make 200 of them.” The old dishes, which weigh more than 200 tons each, will stay online for a while as the next generation is developed. The current construction estimate for the ngVLA is $2.3 billion, and it’s expected to cost $93 million per year in operational costs once it comes online.
Visitors to the site of the existing Very Large Array can see why it’s expensive to maintain. The massive dishes, each of which span 82 feet in diameter, stand on tracks that stretch for miles. Each one is serviced once every four months, so at least one is undergoing maintenance at all times. The VLA site has its own machine shop, fire department, and gas station, and it takes a staff of 200 people to keep it humming at full efficiency. Rob Selina, a project engineer with the NRAO, says the next generation of dishes will require a staff three times as big to conduct all operations. The original science mission will continue for a couple of decades, and then the NRAO will likely figure out how to renovate the site for an even longer life. “These are generational endeavors in many respects,” Selina says of the ngVLA. “The VLA is a good example. It’s been operating for 50 years now, but it went through the EVLA upgrade in the early 2000s, where they basically ripped everything out of the antennas and re-did it. It went from being waveguide systems installed in the 1970s where individual RF signals were all piped down these long waveguide pipes back to a central building and combined — and that became fiber optic systems in the early 2000s.” The interesting part of the science with the VLA, Selina says, is that it accomplished its original research goals from a very small percentage of its use. Over time, that allowed the scientists to re-evaluate what they were learning and to chart new ways of studying the universe.
More than 3,700 planets in 2,700 star systems have been confirmed since 1995, and the ngVLA may shed new light on how planets form. And with the existing VLA, Selina says, scientists were able to follow radio waves all the way back to the afterglow following the Big Bang. “In that way, you can treat the universe as a laboratory,” he says. “If you want to understand how rocky planets like the Earth form, you can do local science on the Earth itself. But you can also look at other rocky planets in the universe, which is what a lot of the NASA exoplanet satellite survey instruments do. You can use a radio telescope and look at proto-planets — planets still forming around their star — and try to gain clues that way. Being able to look back in time, not just at things as they currently exist but at something as it existed 100 million years ago, or even a billion years ago, is really quite a powerful way of examining the universe.” While the old dishes were great technology for their day, Selina says the new ones will take advantages from developments in composites and in computerized industrialization. They’re lighter, smaller, and less expensive to construct than the original Very Large Array antenna dishes. The new antenna dishes will also be easier to construct and maintain. “These are all individual tubes that go to steel nodes,” Selina says of the antenna design. “They assemble kind of like a Meccano kit [a
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VLA, continued from Page 9 brand of model-building kits] where each individual tube is bolted into the node. You can do it all on site and everything has been machined to tolerance. It’s all correctly labeled with QR codes. You grab a piece, and you can identify it clearly; you bolt it up and it should be aligned. “ Another key design change is that the new dishes will not need to move on tracks. The VLA currently shifts its alignments in order to see cosmic phenomena a bit differently: When pulled together, they’re sensitive to large-scale structures, and when pushed apart to their furthest distances, they’re better at seeing detail. But they can’t see both aspects at once, so the dishes are reconfigured every four months. That’s where the next generation will provide a marked improvement. “If you’re looking at something big and old, it’s probably not moving too fast, and you can do that,” Selina says of the VLA. “Say you wanted to look at a proto-planetary system. You’re looking now at the dust around a star where a Jupiter-equivalent planet is clearing its orbit. You might not see the Jupitersized planet itself, but you’ll see the dust clouds that follow its Lagrange points, and you’ll see the arc it’s clearing. And that’s changing on Earth-scale time. That planet is orbiting its star; if I look at it now and look at it four months from now, it will be in a different position. So there’s a lot of value in getting all scales at once.”
One of the most interesting sticking points — and a topic the NRAO will freely share is still being debated — is when exactly the Very Large Array will be taken offline. The ngVLA is not expected to be fully operational until 2037, and it will ramp up as the VLA moves out of commission. At first, the prototype will make observations on the same cosmic phenomena the VLA is recording, and the data will be compared and cross-sectioned. As more next-generation antennae are built, the NRAO will make a decision on when to close the VLA. It’s not an easy decision, and all interested stakeholders will be consulted. “There are hundreds of people who use the VLA every year. Students need it for their work,” Henning says. “We don’t want to switch it off too soon, but there will be a transition period where we need to be building a new observatory. That’s complicated if you’re trying to run an observatory at 100 percent of its capacity and build a brand-new thing that is 10 times bigger.” Henning, the former director of the Institute for Astrophysics at the University of New Mexico, says that science is rarely a straight line from question to answer but rather a series of discoveries that prompt questions you didn’t know to ask. Less than 100 years ago, Karl Jansky ignited the field of radio astronomy by announcing the discovery of radio waves emanating from the Milky Way. The Very Large Array was named for Jansky, and Henning says that the ngVLA will be a natural extension of his work.
“He started the field. But that wasn’t his goal,” she says. “Scientists aren’t sitting around and saying, ‘Eureka!’ Engineers and scientists will be looking at something and say, ‘Well, that’s weird.’ That’s how discovery starts. It’s something you weren’t necessarily expecting or starting off to find.” ◀
DISH ON THE DISHES The Very Large Array is open 362 days a year (closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Eve). The VLA, located about 50 miles west of Socorro, is open daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and visitors can take a self-guided tour that ends at the base of one of the giant antennas. Entrance to the site and visitor center costs $6. Visit public.nrao.edu/visit/very-large-array for information. The tiny town of Magdalena, 24 miles west of the VLA, offers one of the state’s best areas for night-sky viewing and hosts star parties throughout the year. It’s also home to more than a dozen galleries and small history museums and sites that beckon exploration. More information at magdalena-nm.com.
The prototype for the first dish in the ngVLA project will be situated in this wide open space on the base. The ngVLA is not expected to be fully operational until 2037. It takes some heavy machinery to haul the massive dishes in for maintenance (top inset). Each one is serviced once every four months. In addition to the control center for existing VLA receivers (bottom inset), the site has its own machine shop, fire department, and gas station.
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harlie Chaplin didn’t have much to smile about as a child. He was born in 1889 to a pair of British music-hall performers, and his father abandoned the family shortly thereafter. Part of his youth was spent in a series of bleak workhouses and boarding schools for destitute children, and the rest in poverty with his unstable mother, who was committed to a “mental asylum” when he was 14. The boy made an unplanned stage debut as a singer at age 5 when his mother was unable to continue a performance, then launched his own career at age 10 as a member of a clog-dancing troupe. After a long run as a pageboy in William Gillette’s famous stage version of Sherlock Holmes, he joined Fred Karno’s sketch comedy troupe in 1908. 12 PASATIEMPO I January 5-11, 2024
Chaplin’s comic skills soon came to the fore, and during his second American tour with the Karno troupe, he was hired by Mack Sennett’s Keystone Studios, where he developed his famous “Tramp” character in 1914. By 1916, thanks to his skyrocketing fame, Chaplin could command his own studio under the Mutual Film banner, directing as well as writing and starring in his own films. And while Chaplin had no professional training in music, he taught himself how to play the piano, violin, and cello, and had a natural gift for songwriting that enabled him to become a prolific film composer. This little-known facet of his career will be explored in the Santa Fe Symphony’s presentation of Charlie Chaplin’s Smile on January 14 at the Lensic Performing Arts Center.
It’s a multimedia presentation that includes extensive video excerpts spanning more than 35 years of Chaplin’s film career, which will be accompanied by the orchestra, as well as seldom-seen photographs from Chaplin’s life and very rare video footage of him conducting the orchestra at a recording session for one of his film scores. Charlie Chaplin’s Smile is the brainchild of violinist and narrator Philippe Quint, and it grew out of his 2019 CD, Chaplin’s Smile, which featured arrangements of 13 Chaplin songs for violin and piano. (The “Smile” in the titles refers to Chaplin’s best-known song, which was based on the main theme from his 1936 film Modern Times and became a 1954 hit for Nat King Cole when lyrics were retrofitted to it.)
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“I thought it was a mistake,” Quint says of the first time he saw Chaplin credited as a song composer. “There’s so much great film music that has been neglected and underrated, and I wanted to do a CD that would present it in a new light.” His research included discovering “Smile,” with what he thought was an erroneous composer credit. After “noodling around with it at home,” Quint began to hear how well it could work in a violin and piano arrangement. He laughingly credits YouTube’s algorithms with leading him to many more recorded versions of “Smile,” and then to the main theme Chaplin composed for his 1952 film Limelight, which became a pop hit under the title “Eternally” for Sarah Vaughn, Vic Damone, and Englebert Humperdinck, among others. “I saw more and more Chaplin credits and finally realized that he wrote all this music for his films,” Quint says. “It’s an incredible body of work.” The success of the CD led its label, Warner Classics, to ask Quint to tour playing its music. Quint decided to up the ante by creating a more complete experience, which proceeded slowly at first, as he plunged into new worlds involving film rights, music publishers, the Chaplin estate, and the many surviving Chaplin children and grandchildren. (Chaplin, who died in 1977 at age 88, had eight children with his fourth and final wife, Oona O’Neill. Most of them are still alive, as are the many grandchildren.) The inaugural performance took place at the Chaplain villa in Switzerland on February 4, 2020, and was warmly received by the family. “I became good friends with one of his granddaughters, Kiera, who is very supportive,” says Quint. “She’s opened a lot of doors for me, as well as a lot of shows for me, whenever she can.” Charlie Chaplin’s Smile has received about 40 performances since then, including one at Music in the Mountains, a summer festival in Durango, Colorado, where Guillermo Figueroa is the artistic director. “The audience loved it. It’s such a brilliant show,” Figueroa says. “Most people aren’t aware of Chaplin’s musical talents, so it’s a revelation for them.” Figueroa, who is also the Santa Fe Symphony’s music director, had a different kind of revelation, thanks to Quint’s show. “Discovering some of the films from later in his career was incredible, almost unbelievable,” he says. “He adopted so many personae throughout his career, like the serial killer he played in Monsieur Verdoux.” The 1947 film is actually a black comedy in which the suave Chaplin is a bigamist as well as a murderer; he marries a string of women for their money and then bumps them off in order to earn a decent living for his family after he’s fired from his bank teller job. Limelight will be another revelation for many. It’s Chaplin’s most autobiographical film, the story of a washed-up tramp comedian who saves a beautiful young dancer — Claire Bloom in her film debut — after her suicide attempt. They rebuild each other’s self-confidence, and Chaplin eventually makes a successful comeback with his long-ago partner, played by Buster Keaton, only to die from a heart attack while in the wings watching Bloom dance. More familiar films are also featured, including Modern Times and City Lights. The latter, which boasted Chaplin’s first film score and was released in 1931, was a relentlessly retrograde success. Chaplin believed talking pictures
Top to bottom: Charlie Chaplin’s manyy films include City Lights, Modern Times, The Vagabond, and Limelight with Buster Keaton (left). Chaplin and Music Director David Raskin confer during the filming of Limelight. Opposite page (left to right): Jackie Coogan and Charlie Chaplin appeared together in The Kid. Violinist Philippe Quint performs Charlie Chaplin’s Smile.
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Smile, continued from Page 13 would be a passing fad (“I give them three years, that’s all,” he told a reporter), and his main reason for composing the film score was the knowledge that theater orchestras had become virtually extinct. Apart from the music soundtrack, City Lights was a silent film in which the Little Tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower seller, earns enough money for a cure to restore her sight, and is eventually reunited with her after a long separation. It’s widely considered Chaplin’s greatest achievement, with the American Film Institute ranking it #11 on its list of greatest American movies. Figueroa describes Chaplin’s music as “very lyrical, melodic, and romantic.” “He’s always falling in love with someone as destitute as he is,” he says. “That yearning for a better life and finding love is so perfectly expressed in his melodies.” Even Modern Times, which was the Little Tramp’s farewell to the screen, was just a partial talkie, with a few snatches of dialogue along with sound effects and the score. Chaplin’s voice is heard only in a nonsense song full of gibberish and foreign-language words. His co-star in Modern Times and in 1940’s The Great Dictator was Paulette Goddard, with whom he lived for 10 years, almost certainly without benefit of clergy. (David O. Selznick agreed to cast Goddard as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind if she could produce a marriage license in order to scotch rumors about her and Chaplin, which she was unable to do.) Chaplin isn’t the only composer whose music is on the concert’s lineup. Quint’s program also includes works by Johannes Brahms (Hungarian Dance No. 5), Claude Debussy (“Claire de Lune”), George Gershwin (“Walking the Dog”), and Igor Stravinsky (“Tango”), each of whom influenced Chaplin’s musical style and two of whom — Gershwin and Stravinsky — he knew and socialized with in Hollywood. Quint was reluctant to name his favorite among the films but did acknowledge a personal connection to the earliest to be featured. “The one that resonates with me the most is The Kid, from 1921, a heart-breaking story that touches me in relationship to my own childhood.” The program ends with Modern Times and “Smile,” which Quint says also prompts strong emotional reactions. “Many people are crying at the end and come backstage, and they have a special story associated with one of his songs, even though they didn’t know who wrote it, like ‘My mother used to sing this song for me.’ As an artist, it’s the most rewarding thing.” ◀ 4 p.m. January 14 Lensic Performing Arts Center 211 W. San Francisco Street $25-$92 505-983-1414; santafesymphony.org
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he first couple of times Michou Landon attempted to interpret Tracy King’s abstract Corazónaut as a poem in preparation for ViVO Contemporary’s Giving Voice to Image 11, the right words just wouldn’t flow. When Landon headed to King’s gallery for some solo time with the 4-foot-by-4-foot oilon-canvas painting, she realized the ViVO co-owner had accidentally left the work sitting upside down. What followed was a powerful example of how a shift in perspective can elicit a very different emotional response — in art, if not in most areas of life. “I could just feel in my body the different effect that it was having on me,” the Santa Fe poet says of the inverted work. “And this poem just came right out, almost complete, in one sitting.” The composition, which opens with the line “In the hum of ultraviolet gloaming,” is one of 11 featured in ViVO’s annual collaborative exhibition, in which New Mexico poets craft works inspired by gallery
artists’ visual creations. Nine artists co-own ViVO; all have work featured in Giving Voice to Image 11. Landon’s poem shares its title with King’s painting, while some of the featured poets created distinct titles for their works. For the past decade, all poets involved have gathered to publicly read their work on one night at the gallery. This year, those readings are spread across two evenings — Friday, January 5, and February 23. The exhibition, showcasing the printed poems and the works that inspired them, will remain on the gallery’s walls through March 18. Its contents also are available in an 8½-by-8½-inch, 31-page book for sale ($10) at the gallery. In addition to nine poems inspired by the works of the gallery’s co-owners, the exhibition and book feature opening and closing poems, by John Macker and Daron Mueller, respectively.
Corazónaut BY MICHOU LANDON
In the hum of ultraviolet gloaming in a cavern in the Ocean of Being My Life Tiny, inky sperm of Soul Haunts the ventricles of Infinite Heart Pulsing like sunset Wholly Home
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Heaven holds the ochre cloud of all history Between Her tongue and cheek All colors shades of Her Ecstasy The mouth of the Goddess opens From her lip drips a portal of light … Noose or narrows? I know not. I can only pass through.
A GALLERY GIVES VOICE TO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORDS AND WORKS OF ART
No Time. No Space. No Direction. No Hurry. This Here has no there. Where has no meaning. Always traveling, Never leaving, Drawn by destiny I ascend… downward Among rubies and roman candles Amid the flaming furnaces of Creation Through the laugher of Mind, A premonition…
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Antler and Bone BY NANCY BEAUREGARD
Artemis by Nina Glaser (mixed media, right) and Corazónaut by Tracy King (oil on canvas, opposite page) are interpreted by poets Nancy Beauregard and Michou Landon, respectively.
She stands nude in a silent forest of blue-chipped ice, a fractured body, melting fir trees drip from chandeliers just beyond the artist’s frame. Eyes closed in prayer, nymphs dance bare foot around her in crowns of laurel, antler, and bone. There are memories here, like photos captured behind glass. I ride my Appaloosa deep into the wood, feel her hooves slip on frozen ground, hear children laugh, the frigid wind an arrow flying past my ear. I push her to a reckless pace to help them before they freeze. The taste of wet wool mixes with the blood of chapped lips. I lost a child in winter before he was born. Placed cypress leaves in tiny fists and moonlight upon his head. As my mare and I enter the clearing, I find that we are all alone, except for the tracks left by deer in the snow.
Then a silent explosion A spiraling torsion And I AM, Ensheathed in earth tones, Wakes into sleep, Human.
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Openingpoem Emissaries BY JOHN MACKER
These paintings and their invisible dialogues with poetry are emissaries of convivial light and darkness, of sensory consciousness and its landforms. The words touch fabric, luminous glass, handmade paper, canvas with their silences but there’s nothing remote or quieted on the walls, everything is intimate like mothwings of song the artist shares the creative community of self with the writer — shared histories: my ground becomes your ground, visions of the planet and its querencias where we finally hear the words that reflect these habitats of color every brushstroke an ambassador of peace. The poet and artist are in a lively exchange of echoes and earth with its topological hues and skies, we are scriveners we are expressionists, anything that grows, each season, the fervent wind, the carnivorous flower of the sun weaves its fabric of grace into our community of inspiration.
Female Cardinal by Laurinda Stockwell (mixed media, detail above) and Trust the Process by Ann Laser (mixed media, right) are paired with poems by Joyce Hayden and Jeanne Simonoff, respectively.
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The gallery expanded to two readings so the poems could be displayed longer, says co-owner Gary Oakley. His 36-by-72-inch oil-on-canvas painting Philosophers Stone is paired with Albuquerque writer Kristian Macaron’s poem Philosopher Stone Ofrenda. It takes about a halfyear to prepare for the exhibition, Oakley says, as poets need time to respond to the artists’ works, followed by a couple of months for the accompanying book to be printed. About 200 books were printed for this year’s show, he says. When contemplating the melding of artistic disciplines, Macker finds inspiration in an anecdote involving San Francisco poet David Meltzer, who also happened to be a jazz musician, and jazz giant Charles Mingus. “[Meltzer] did an in-depth interview with Mingus and asked him, ‘What’s the secret? What is it about you that attracts people to what you’re doing?’” Macker says. Mingus sat in silence for a spell, Macker says, then finally responded: “I put it down. You got to pick it up.” That’s a succinct way to describe the relationship between the poets involved in Giving Voice to Image 11 and their audience. The musical
comparison resonates with Oakley, who plays bass guitar in the Santa Fe collective Squirrel Head Music in addition to painting and sometimes writing poetry himself. He adds details to his art that are meant to shimmer in different ways as the years go by. “In my paintings, I want to try to make them interesting enough that you see different things as time goes on, which I’ve really seen in music and poetry,” he says. “You hear a song, and then 10 years later, it means something different. For instance, I put metallic pigments in some of my paintings so that in different light situations, you see something different. Ten years from now, somebody may have a life experience that [prompts them] to say, ‘Oh, wow. Now I see.’ That’s why old pop songs can suddenly hit us.” Oakley also names his works after songs. “Philosopher’s Stone” is the title of the second track on Van Morrison’s 1999 album Back on Top. Landon and Macker both have been part of previous years’ Giving Voice to Image collaborations — which means the clock is ticking on their future involvement. The gallery seeks new poets to provide fresh perspectives every few years, King says. “We wanted to diversify the group of poets as well,” Oakley says. “We wanted some age
ARTIST-POET PAIRINGS IN THE SHOW INCLUDE: Norma Alonzo, Mary Dezember
Tracy King, Michou Landon
Ilse Bolle, H. Marie Aragon
Ann Laser, Jeanne Simonoff
Barrie Brown, Genevieve Betts
Gary Oakley, Kristian Macaron
Nina Glaser, Nancy Beauregard
Laurinda Stockwell, Joyce Hayden
Warren Keating, Frank Falcone
difference, we wanted some diversity, and also for people to bring their own folks to come to our readings. That exposes more people to our gallery. So there’s some self-interest in trying to get a broader reach.” With the event in its 11th year, word of mouth helps attract poets to the collaboration, he says. “It’s amazing how many great poets there are in this state,” Oakley says. “I go out and find replacements, but people show up and sometimes leave their information here.” Giving Voice to Image is one of a number of artistic cross-pollination experiments the gallery has conducted, King and Oakley say. At other events, it has paired art with music, flowers, and even beverages from fellow Canyon Road business The Teahouse. Landon and Macker have published multiple books each and have learned about both themselves and audiences when participating in public readings. “It’s validating, because a poem is like speaking into the wilderness,” Landon says. “And when you actually hear it land, it completes something that you don’t necessarily have the experience of a lot of the time. We’re calling out into the wild, but as social creatures, we do get something from hearing it land.” Macker adds that it’s essential to read one’s work aloud, to make it fully alive. That said, the grace of its landing depends on the audience. “I’ve been giving public readings for 40 years, all over the United States, to all sorts of different people,” he says. “They’re all different. I don’t care how good I have become as a reader. They’re either going to get my work, or they won’t appreciate it.” Macker acknowledges that creating art, much like delivering it, isn’t a universally joyful experience. “Maybe part of the genius of the creative act is to harness these emotions, negative and positive — if it’s something that other people can relate to,” he says. “Otherwise, I just sit in my basement or my bedroom and I just write stuff, and so what? This kind of public exposure in a gallery is really important. That energy is what I really like.” Landon, Oakley, and Macker all say Santa Fe’s poetry scene has gained prominence in recent years, and they praise ongoing series at Teatro Paraguas and Collected Works Bookstore & Coffeehouse as helping to drive that growth. “There are poets everywhere; they’re on every street corner,” Macker says. “I haven’t seen so many poets per capita since Paris. There’s obviously a visual arts tradition going back to the Taos painters, the Santa Fe painters, the early organized groups at the beginning of the last century; they made themselves into a collective so they could show their work at [major museums]. I think literature is following the same trajectory.” ◀ Giving Voice to Image 11 Show runs through March 18; readings from 5-7 p.m. Friday, January 5, and February 23 ViVO Contemporary 725 Canyon Road 505-982-1320; vivocontemporary.com
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CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S SMILE Sunday, January 14 4:00 pm—THE LENSIC
Multiple GRAMMY® Award-nominated violinist Philippe Quint joins The Symphony for this critically acclaimed multimedia program featuring orchestral works from the iconic actor, composer, and musical legend Charlie Chaplin and his most celebrated films. Interspersed with rare video footage and still imagery, this program includes “Smile” from Modern Times, Debussy’s Clair de Lune, “The Terry Theme” from Limelight, and works by composers who inspired Charlie Chaplin’s musical style—such as by Brahms, Stravinsky, and Gershwin. Tickets start at $25. Call 505.983.1414.
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Society of the Snow tells the harrowing story of the members of a rugby team who survive a plane crash in the Andes Mountains in 1972.
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SFIFF, VIOLET CROWN KICK OFF ART HOUSE CINEMA SERIES Santa Fe International Film Festival and Violet Crown are teaming up to bring back the festival’s most popular recent films for eager Santa Fe audiences. A monthly series bringing dynamic and critically acclaimed films to Violet Crown, Art House Cinema will feature new theatrical releases, international films, and films with local interest, kicking off on Friday, January 5, with one of the hottest tickets from the 2023 SFiGFF: Wim Wenders’s documentary Anselm (not rated, 93 minutes). In Anselm, Wenders creates a portrait of Anselm Kiefer, one of the most innovative and important painters and sculptors of our time. Shot in 3D and 6K-resolution, the film presents a cinematic experience of the artist’s work that explores human existence and the cyclical nature of history, inspired by literature, poetry, philosophy, science, mythology, and religion. For more than two years, Wenders traced Kiefer’s path from his native Germany to his current home in France, connecting the stages of his life to the essential places of his career that spans more than five decades. The next film in the series, The Promised Land directed by Nikolaj Arcel, will screen February 1.
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MENUS-PLAISIRS: LES TROISGROS Frederick Wiseman’s latest documentary is a portrait of one of France’s most famous restaurants, Les Troisgros. Founded in 1930 in central France, the Troisgros family restaurant has been holding three Michelin stars for 55 years over four generations. Michel Troisgros, the third generation to head the restaurant, has turned over the responsibility for the cuisine to his son César. From the market to pick fresh vegetables, to a cheese processing plant, a vineyard, an organic cattle ranch to the backyard garden supplying the restaurant, Wiseman embarks on a mouthwatering and senses-pleasing journey into the family’s three restaurant kitchens. “At the center of it all is an affectionate portrait of the Troisgros family, who have been restaurateurs for generations. They pursue their life’s mission with a zeal that’s inspiring and, at times, amusing.” (Slate) Documentary, not rated, 240 minutes, CCA NIGHT SWIM Forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, former baseball player Ray Waller moves into a new house with his wife and two children. He hopes that the backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for himself. However, a dark secret from the home’s past soon unleashes a malevolent force that drags the family into the depths of inescapable terror. Horror, rated PG-13, 98 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Violet Crown SOCIETY OF THE SNOW In 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which had been chartered to fly a rugby team to Chile, crashed in the heart of the Andes. Only 29 of its 45 passengers survived the accident. Trapped in one of the most hostile and inaccessible environments on the planet, they have to resort to extreme measures to stay alive. Directed by J.A. Bayona who in 2012 made The Impossible, a film about the devastating
earthquake and tsunami in Thailand, Society of the Snow is Spain’s submission for Best International Feature in this year’s Oscars. “For all its horrors, Society of the Snow, based on Pablo Vierci’s nonfiction book of the same name, is also a story of friendship, sacrifice, and hope, and that is what lingers after the film’s nightmares have receded into memory.” (Houston Chronicle) Drama, rated R, 144 minutes, CCA
Special Screenings KNIGHTRIDERS (1981) Friday, January 5 Billy (Ed Harris) is the undisputed leader of a roving band of hardened bikers who support themselves by jousting at Renaissance fairsandsellingtheirintricatelydesignedwares.Astheirfearsome reputation and popularity grow, commercial pressures begin tearing the tightly knit group apart. Despite Billy’s attempts to maintain his noble and chivalrous vision, his star performer entertains outside offers, while his arch-rival, Morgan, prepares for a final battle. Directed by George Romero. Drama, rated R, 145 minutes, No Name Cinema GOOD MORNING (1959) Thursday, January 11 Yasujiro Ozu’s Good Morning is the latest screening in the Closer Looks series at the Center for Contemporary Arts. The film was selected by CCA’s Justin Clifford Rhody as one of his favorites, and he will give a pre-screening talk and then be joined after by co-curators Paul Barnes and David Meyer for a discussion about the film and a Q&A with the audience. Rhody calls the film “a lighthearted take on master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships. Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after
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Continuing ANYONE BUT YOU Despite an amazing first date, Bea and Ben’s initial attraction quickly turns sour. However, when they unexpectedly find themselves at a destination wedding in Australia, they pretend to be the perfect couple to keep up appearances. Romantic comedy, rated R, 104 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Violet Crown AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM After failing to defeat Aquaman (Jason Momoa) the first time, Black Manta wields the power of the mythic Black Trident to unleash an ancient and malevolent force. Hoping to end his reign of terror, Aquaman forges an unlikely alliance with his brother, Orm, the former king of Atlantis. Setting aside their differences, they join forces to protect their kingdom and save the world from irreversible destruction. Action/fantasy, rated PG-13, 124 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Violet Crown THE BOY AND THE HERON Twelve-year-old Mahito struggles to settle in a new town after his mother’s death. However, when a talking heron informs Mahito that his mother is still alive, he enters an abandoned tower in search of her, which takes him to another world. A semi-autobiographical fantasy about life, death, and creation, in tribute to friendship, from the mind of Hayao Miyazaki. “This is not a happy-go-lucky story, but an old-school fairy tale meant to frighten, confuse, and excite. It’s the good kind of scary: the kind that helps prepare children for the terrors of the real world.” (The Washington Post) Fantasy/adventure, rated PG-13, 124 minutes, Violet Crown THE BOYS IN THE BOAT During the height of the Great Depression, members of the rowing team at the University of Washington are thrust into the spotlight as they compete for gold at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin. George Clooney directs. Drama, rated PG-13, 124 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Violet Crown THE COLOR PURPLE Torn apart from her sister and children, Celie (Fantasia Barrino) faces many hardships in life, including an abusive husband. With support from a sultry singer named Shug Avery (Taraji P. Henson), as well as her stand-her-ground stepdaughter, Celie ultimately finds extraordinary strength in the unbreakable bonds of a new kind of sisterhood. Musical/ drama, rated PG-13, 140 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Violet Crown FERRARI During the summer of 1957, bankruptcy looms over the company that Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) and his wife (Penélope Cruz) built 10 years earlier. He decides to roll the dice and wager it all on the iconic Mille Miglia, a treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy. Drama, rated R, 131 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Violet Crown
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GODZILLA MINUS ONE Postwar Japan is at its lowest point when a new crisis emerges in the form of a giant monster, baptized in the horrific power of the atomic bomb. “Godzilla Minus One offers an alternative to shared universe syndrome. It’s an artfully made throwback to kaiju classics and likely the first Godzilla movie that dares to make you cry. See it on the biggest screen possible.” (Rolling Stone) Adventure, rated PG-13, 125 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10 THE HOLDOVERS A curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school’s head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War. “This is [director Alexander] Payne’s first movie set in any kind of past … But it doesn’t feel stuck there.” (New York Times) Comedy/drama, rated R, 133 minutes, Violet Crown THE IRON CLAW The true story of the Von Erich brothers, who make history in the intensely competitive world of professional wrestling in the early 1980s. Through tragedy and triumph under the shadow of their domineering father and coach, the brothers seek larger-than-life immortality on the biggest stage in sports. Drama, rated R, 130 minutes, Violet Crown MAESTRO The biographical drama Maestro centers on the relationship between American composer Leonard Bernstein and his wife, Felicia Montealegre. Directed by Bradley Cooper from a screenplay he wrote with Josh Singer, the film stars Carey Mulligan as Montealegre alongside Cooper as Bernstein. Maestro uses the love story between Bernstein and Felicia — complicated by Bernstein’s bisexuality — as the impressionistic framing device to cover the renowned conductor’s five decade career. “The most immediately striking aspect of the film is Cooper’s uncanny resemblance to Bernstein. It’s partly a triumph of Hollywood’s skill with prosthetics, makeup, and wigs, but more the way in which Cooper inhabits Bernstein’s personality, magnetism,
and physicality.” (Mark Tiarks/For The New Mexican) Musical/ romance, rated R, 129 minutes, streaming on Netflix MIGRATION A family of ducks decides to leave the safety of a New England pond for an adventurous trip to Jamaica. However, their well-laid plans quickly go awry when they get lost and wind up in New York City. The experience soon inspires them to expand their horizons, open themselves up to new friends, and accomplish more than they ever thought possible. Animated comedy/adventure, rated PG, 91 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Violet Crown OPPENHEIMER Christopher Nolan’s biographical feature film about American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. “Murphy embodies Oppenheimer so naturally that you may start thinking you’re watching documentary footage of the real thing. The film humanizes Oppenheimer. … Murphy’s perfect portrayal leaves us with an image of a brilliant mind put to work to kill a nation, a people, and maybe the entire world. There’s a price to pay for that kind of knowledge.” (Robert Nott/The New Mexican) Drama, rated R, 180 minutes, Violet Crown POOR THINGS From filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos and producer Emma Stone comes the incredible tale of the fantastical evolution of Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Under Baxter’s protection, Bella is eager to learn. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, Bella grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation. “Beautifully garish, wonderfully twisted, unabashedly raunchy, and at times grotesquely striking.” (Chicago Sun-Times) Sci-fi/fantasy, rated R, 141 minutes, Violet Crown TROLLS BAND TOGETHER Poppy (Anna Kendrick) discovers that Branch (Justin Timberlake) and his four brothers were once part of her favorite boy band. When one of his siblings, Floyd, gets kidnapped by a pair of nefarious villains, Branch and Poppy embark on a harrowing and emotional journey to reunite the other brothers and rescue Floyd from a fate even worse than pop culture obscurity. Comedy, rated PG, Dreamcatcher 10 WONKA Armed with nothing but a hatful of dreams, young chocolatier Willy Wonka (Timothée Chalamet) manages to change the world, one delectable bite at a time. “In addition to committing to its sense of fun, Wonka reminds us that life is made sweetest by the people we share it with. If that’s not particularly novel, it’s still as comforting and scrumptious a notion as a chocolate bar.” (Entertainment Weekly) Fantasy/ comedy, rated PG, 116 minutes, Dreamcatcher 10, Regal Santa Fe Place 6, Violet Crown SOURCES: Google, IMDb.com, RottenTomatoes.com, Vimeo. com, YouTube.com
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 9: The mental clouds begin to clear, and we can see what’s been going on behind the scenes as the sun trines Uranus. Our mood may grow more serious and our competence more focused later in the day as the moon enters Capricorn and Mars sextiles Saturn. Decisions clarify. Our natural management abilities surface, but let’s not become manipulative. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10: Do what’s needed to prepare for tomorrow’s new moon launch date. Make decisions as the moon conjuncts Mars this morning. When we choose one path, we may need to let go of another. Honor things lost, paths not followed, and people who have chosen their own way as Venus semi-squares Pluto. THURSDAY, JANUARY 11: A new moon in Capricorn at 4:47 a.m. marks a new beginning for our work, ambitions, and efforts to evolve. We can work steadily but have no patience with sitting still. Drop back into the heart and check in with one another tonight as the moon enters sociable Aquarius. ◀ Contact astrologer Heather Roan Robbins at roanrobbins.com.
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WEDNESDAY 1/10
Gallery and Museum Openings
Books/Talks
Hecho a Mano
IAIA Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Series
129 W. Palace Avenue, 505-916-1341 A Handful of Earth, A Handful of Sky, ceramics by b. brown; through Jan. 29; reception 5-7 p.m.
Center for Lifelong Education Commons, Institute of American Indian Arts, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd., 800-804-6422 Poetry, memoir, and fiction readings by Pam Houston, Raquel Gutierrez, and Bojan Louis; 6:30 p.m.; no charge; iaia.edu.
LewAllen Galleries
1613 Paseo de Peralta, 505-988-3250 Glassen Wonders, group show of contemporary glass art; through Feb. 17.
Julia Cameron
Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo Street, 505-988-4226 The author reads from her self-help book, Living the Artist’s Way, An Intuitive Path to Greater Creativity; 6 p.m.
Strata Gallery
125 Lincoln Avenue, Suite 105, 505-780-5403 Selfhood, group show of multidisciplinary works; through Jan. 19; reception 5-7 p.m.
Vivo Contemporary
Nightlife
725-A Canyon Rd., 505-982-1320 Giving Voice to Image 11, pairing poetry with artwork; through March; reception and poetry readings 5-7 p.m. (See story, Page 16)
Second Chances
La Fiesta Lounge at La Fonda, 100 E. San Francisco Street, 505-982-5511 Country band; 6:30 p.m.-close; no cover.
Classical Music
Wine & Jazz Night
Atalaya String Quartet
First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Avenue, 505-982-8544 Music of Shostakovich and Haydn; 5:30 p.m., doors 5:15 p.m.; donations accepted.
Classes
Pottery Throwdown
Paseo Pottery Studio & Gallery, 1273 Calle de Comercio All ages and skill levels welcome; 5 p.m.; $25; 505-988-7687, paseopottery.com.
The New Mexico History Museum’s exhibit Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People’s Campaign closes Jan. 15. photo by Robert Houston: minister and protester singing at a Poor People’s Campaign rally in Boston Common, Boston, Massachusetts, 1967
10:30 a.m., spoken word performance by Gigi Bella follows; $5-$17; chatterabq.org /boxoffice.
Nightlife
Nightlife
Agave Restaurant & Lounge, Eldorado Hotel & Spa, 309 W. San Francisco Street, 505-995-4530 Classical guitarist; 6 p.m.; no cover.
Tesuque Casino, 7 Tesuque Road, 800-462-2635 Santana-tribute band; 6-9 p.m.; no cover.
Annalisa Ewald
DJ Boost
Tesuque Casino, 7 Tesuque Road, 800-462-2635 Top 40; 7:30-11:30 p.m.; no cover.
Lori Ottino & Joe West, and One More Silver Dollar
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SUNDAY 1/7 Events
Sunday Funday
The Mine Shaft Tavern, 2846 N.M. 14, 505-473-0743 Americana duo, 5 p.m.; Allman Brothers cover band, 8 p.m.-close; no cover.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, 710 Camino Lejo, 505-476-1269 A first Sunday of the month series. This session: beading with a loom and other art activities; 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; free to New Mexico residents.
SATURDAY 1/6
Nightlife
Opera in HD
Rio Chama, 414 Old Santa Fe Trail, 505-955-0765 Pianist-vocalist; Great American Songbook; 6-9 p.m. Sundays and Mondays; no cover.
The Met: Live in HD
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Verdi’s Nabucco, with baritone George Gagnidze and soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska as his vengeful daughter Abigaille; 11 a.m.; $22-$28; lensic.org.
Classical Music Chatter North
Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail, 505-982-1338 Music of Prokofiev (Overture on Hebrew Themes Opus 34), Samuel Carl Adams (Études), and Magnus Lindberg (Trio for Clarinetand Piano);
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IAIA Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Series Center for Lifelong Education Commons, Institute of American Indian Arts, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd., 800-804-6422 Poetry, memoir, and fiction readings by Carribean Fragoza, Brian Evenson, and Janet Sarbanes; 6:30 p.m.; no charge; iaia.edu.
Tesuque Casino, 7 Tesuque Road, 800-462-2635 Chris Ishee Trio; 6-9 p.m.; no cover.
THURSDAY 1/11 Theater/Dance
Southwest Seminars
Hotel Santa Fe, 1501 Paseo de Peralta, 855-825-9876 Archaeologist Paul Reed on Working Collaboratively: Pueblos, Tribes and the New Mexico Preservation & Outreach Program of Archaeology Southwest; 6 p.m.; $20 at the door; 505-466-2775.
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TUESDAY 1/9
Books/Talks
In Concert
Center for Lifelong Education Commons, Institute of American Indian Arts, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd., 800-804-6422 Poetry, memoir, and fiction readings by Leslie Jamison, Layli Long Soldier, and Mona Susan Power; 6:30 p.m.; no charge; iaia.edu.
IAIA Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
Slaughter Beach, Dog
Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Circle, 505-395-6369 Rock band; 7 p.m.; $27.50; meowwolf.com.
Books/Talks
IAIA Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Series Center for Lifelong Education Commons, Institute of American Indian Arts, 83 Avan Nu Po Rd., 800-804-6422 Poetry, memoir, and fiction readings by dg okpik, Kelli Jo Ford, and Jennifer Foerster; 6:30 p.m.; no charge; iaia.edu.
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Christ Lutheran Church, 1701 Arroyo Chamiso A presentation by retired state botanist Robert Sivinski; 6:30 p.m. New Mexico Native Plant Society monthly meetings are free and open to the public; npsnm.org.
Nightlife
The Flashbacks
Tesuque Casino, 7 Tesuque Road, 800-462-2635 Oldies, country, and standards; 6-9 p.m.; no cover.
Email press releases to pambeach@sfnewmexican.com at least two weeks prior to the event date.
Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, 505-424-1601 Blue Raven Theatre presents aerial dancer Talia Pura’s one-woman show based on the life cycle of butterflies; 7:30 p.m.; encores Jan. 12-14; $25, students $15; blueraventheatre.com.
Nightlife
Annalisa Ewald
Agave Restaurant & Lounge, Eldorado Hotel & Spa, 309 W. San Francisco Street, 505-995-4530 Classical guitarist; 6-9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; no cover.
Pat Malone
TerraCotta Wine Bistro, 304 Johnson Street, 505-989-1166 Jazz guitarist; 6-8 p.m. Thursdays; no cover.
OUT OF TOWN Taos
Leo Kottke
Taos Center for the Arts, 133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 575-758-2052 Fingerpicking guitarist (blues, jazz, and folk); 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 10, tickets start at $50; lensic360.org. ◀
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A guide to performances & events for the weeks ahead Music
Kelly Hunt and Stas Heaney
GiG Performance Space, 1808 Second Street Folk singer/banjo player and fiddler; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 9; $25; gigsantafe.tickit.ca.
TGIF recitals
First Presbyterian Church, 208 Grant Avenue Jan. 12: Johanna Hogell-Darsee and Scott Darsee (Medieval, Scandinavian, and Celtic ballads); Jan. 19: Flutiss X 4 (original compositions); Jan. 26: Black Mesa Brass Ensemble (Phillip Buttall, Mozart, and Saint-Saëns); all 5:30 p.m.; donations accepted.
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Duane Smith Auditorium, Los Alamos High School campus, 1300 Diamond Drive Known for programs ranging from bluegrass to Bach; 3 p.m. Feb. 10; $35, ages 6-18 no charge; losalamosconcert.org.
Yungchen Lhamo
A Mardi Gras Celebration with Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra
Taos Center for the Arts and San Miguel Chapel Tibetan singer-songwriter on her Monkey Mind tour; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 17 and 18; $25 and $35; ampconcerts.org.
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Part of the 2024 Art + Sol Winter Arts Festival; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 10; $35-$115; performancesantafe.org.
Alash Ensemble
St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Avenue Republic of Tuva throat singers; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 19; $25-$75; performancesantafe.org.
Bentano Quartet
St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Avenue Music of Mozart, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn; 3 p.m. Feb. 11; $24-$94; performancesantafe.org.
Albert Castiglia
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría Street, 505-393-5135 Blues guitarist; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 24; $25; ampconcerts.org.
Matisyahu
Meow Wolf, 1352 Rufina Circle, 505-395-6369 Reggae singer/rapper on his Hold the Fire tour; 7 p.m. Feb. 14; $50.50-$145.50; meowwolf.com.
Santa Fe Pro Musica Discovery Series
New Mexico Governor’s Mansion and Lensic Performing Arts Center Mozart’s Birthday Party, the 268th anniversary, with conductor Marcello Cormio and flutist Anthony Trionfo, 6 p.m. Jan. 25, $100; Celebrate Mozart, music of Mozart, Carl Nielsen, and Jessie Montgomery, led by Cormio, with Trionfo; 3 p.m. Jan. 28; $28-$98; 505-988-4640, ext. 1000, tickets.sfpromusica.org.
Rosanne Cash
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 With John Leventhal; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 14; $59-$84; lensic.org/events.
BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet
The Zia Singers
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría Street, 505-393-5135 Cajun band; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 16; $30 in advance, $35 at the door; southwestrootsmusic.org.
St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Avenue The all-female group performs Kim André Arnesen’s Tuvayhun – Beatitudes for a Wounded World, 3 p.m. Jan. 27 and 28; $10-$35; theziasingers.com.
The Black Jacket Symphony
Amy Ray Band
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría Street, 505-393-5135 Touring in support of her album If It All Goes South; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 29; $25; lensic360.org.
An Evening of the Blues, with Jhett Black, Felix y Los Gatos & Dry Suede
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría Street, 505-393-5135 Doors 6 p.m., show 7:30 p.m. Feb. 3; $15 and $25; tumblerootbreweryanddistillery.com.
El Rey Theater, 622 Central Avenue SW, Albuquerque Funk-rock, rhythm guitarist; 8 p.m. Feb. 5; $35 and $160; lensic360.org. Sunshine Theater, 120 Central Avenue SW, Albuquerque, 505-764-0249 Portland, Oregon-based rock band; 8 p.m. Feb. 6; $43; lensic360.org.
Brad Mehldau: 14 Reveries
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 The jazz pianist performs cuts off his new composition; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 7; $35-$95; performancesantafe.org.
BLUE RAVEN THEATRE
Coro de Cámara & the Joe Cox Trio
Paradiso Santa Fe, 903 Early Street, 505-577-5248 Dance to hits from the 1960s-80s; 4 p.m. Feb. 18; $20; 505-473-5706, corodecamara-nm.org.
Santa Fe Symphony
Cory Wong
Portugal. The Man
KiMo Theatre, 423 Central Avenue NW, Albuquerque Performing Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon; plus, a full set of the band’s hits; 8 p.m. Feb. 17, doors 7 p.m.; $35 and $40; cabq.gov/ artsculture/kimo/events.
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 American Classics, with violinist Alexi Kenney performing Barber’s Violin Concerto No. 1; also, Bernstein’s Chishester Psalms, Copland’s Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo; 4 p.m. Feb. 18; $25-$92; boxoffice.santafesymphony.org/8735.
Mauro Durante & Justin Adams
San Miguel Chapel, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail The percussionist-violinist and guitarist fuse love songs of southern Italy and the blues of North Africa and North America; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 20; $30 and $50; ampconcerts.org.
Dylan LeBlanc
Paradiso Santa Fe, 903 Early Street, 505-577-5248 Singer-songwriter-guitarist; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22; $18; ampconcerts.org.
Terence Blanchard, E-Collective, and Turtle Island String Quartet
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Paying tribute to jazz composer Wayne Shorter; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22; $49-$72; lensic.org/events.
Grady Spencer & The Work
Tumbleroot Brewery & Distillery, 2791 Agua Fría Street, 505-393-5135 Groove-based rock ‘n’ roll band; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23; $15; tickets.lensic360.org/tickets/424217.
Judith Hill
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Singer-songwriter; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 23; $30-$55; lensic.org/events.
Champagne & Chocolates
Rio Chama Steakhouse, 414 Old Santa Fe Trail, 505-955-0765 A fundraiser for the Santa Fe Symphony, with pianist-singer Doug Montgomery; 6 p.m. Feb. 24; $125; 505-552-3916, santafesymphony.org.
Las Migas
National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth Street SW, Albuquerque, 505-246-2261 Spanish flamenco-crossover quartet; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 24; $22-$44; ampconcerts.org.
Elias Quartet
St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Avenue Music of Haydn (Quartet in G Major, Opus 54, No. 1), Stravinsky (Three Pieces for String Quartet), and Beethoven (Quartet in E Minor, Opus 59, No. 2); 3 p.m. Feb. 25; $24-$94; 505-988-4640, ext. 1000, tickets.sfpromusica.org
Severall Friends
New Mexico School for the Arts, 500 Montezuma Avenue Telemann in Paris, with flutist Sandra Miller, violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock, viola da gambist Mary Springfels, cellist Katie Rietman, and harpsichordist Kathleen McIntosh; 4 p.m. Feb. 25, $30 in advance; severallfriends.org.
Donavon Frankenreiter
Taos Center for the Arts, 145 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 505-758-2052 Surfer-cum-singer-songwriter; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28; $30; tickets.lensic360.org/tickets/424080.
Taj Mahal Quartet & Sona Jobarteh
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Double bill with the kora virtuoso; 7:30 p.m. March 1; $55-$94; lensic.org/events.
Tony Furtado & Stephanie Schneiderman
San Miguel Chapel, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail Banjo/slide guitarist and multi-instrumentalist; 7:30 p.m. March 8; $30; southwestrootsmusic.org.
Santa Fe’s strong and vibrant theatre scene welcomes you!
TEATRO PARAGUAS
presents
presents
Metamorphosis
Mariana Pineda
written and performed by Talia Pura Thursday, January 11 Sunday, January 14 @Teatro Paraguas 28 PASATIEMPO I January 5-11, 2024
by Frederico Garcia Lorca
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February 16 - March 3 @Teatro Paraguas
Lúnasa
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Traditional music of Ireland; 7:30 p.m. March 16; $25-$49; lensic.org/events.
Ways of Seeing: Four Photographic Collections
Raul Midón
New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Avenue Mid-20th century photographs, including works by Ruth Bernhard, Edward Burtynsky, Harry Callahan, Adam Fuss, David Michael Kennedy, and Minor White; opening Jan. 20; through July 7, 2024.
Jimmie Vaughan & The Tilt-A-Wheel Band
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Second annual black-tie and red-carpet gala; 5 p.m. Jan. 20; $15-$35; blkdmndnm.com/awards.
San Miguel Chapel, 401 Old Santa Fe Trail New Mexico-born singer-songwriter; 7:30 p.m. March 20; $37; lensic360.org. KiMo Theatre, 32 Central Avenue NW, Albuquerque Fifty-plus years of the blues; 7:30 p.m. March 28; $45-$65; lensic360.org.
Herb Alpert & Lani Hall
KiMo Theatre, 32 Central Avenue NW, Albuquerque Performing their classic recordings; 7:30 p.m. March 29; $39-$59; lensic360.org.
On Stage Macbeth
New Mexico Actors Lab Theater, 1213 Parkway Drive, 505-395-6576 Upstart Crows of Santa Fe presents a Blackfriars production, directed by Rylie Philpot; 6:30 p.m. Jan. 19-21 and 26-28; $10 and $20; upstartcrowssantafe.org.
The Peking Acrobats
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Accompanied by musicians; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1; $35-$59; lensic.org/events.
MOMIX
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 The modern-dance troupe in Alice, Moses Pendleton’s choreography inspired by Alice in Wonderland; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 6; $36-$114; lensic.org/events.
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Comic drag troupe celebrating its 50th anniversary; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 12; $36-$114; lensic.org/events.
Mariana Piñeda
Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, 505-424-1601 Teatro Paraguas presents the play by Federico García Lorca, based on the life of Spanish liberalist heroine Mariana de Pineda Muñoz; 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, Feb. 16-March 3; $15 and $25; teatroparaguasnm.org. Call for reservations.
Tradition and Invention: American Jazz Dance with Nan Giordano & the Giordano Dance Chicago
LewAllen Galleries, 1613 Paseo de Peralta, and Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street Presentation by the artistic director of Giordano Dance Chicago; 5:30 p.m. Feb. 20; $125 (at the gallery); secure.performancesantafe .org/9039/9064. Giordano Dance Chicago jazz troupe; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21; $35-$115; secure.performancesantafe.org/842/8865.
Spectrum Dance Theater
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Choreographer Donald Byrd’s production of Grief, depicting the experiences of Mamie Till-Mobley after the murder of her son Emmett Till; 7:30 p.m. Feb. 29; $49-$75; lensic.org/events.
Little Women
New Mexico Actors Lab Theater, 1213 Parkway Drive, 505-395-6576 Tri-M Productions presents the musical; 7 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays, March 21-31; $30-$40, half-price options available; trimsantafe.org.
Happenings
Looking at the Protection of History and Archaeology in Santa Fe
Pecos Trail Café, 2239 Old Pecos Trail A Santa Fe Archaeological Society lecture, with archeologist and Fulbright research scholar Tim Maxwell; 7-9 p.m. Jan. 16; open to the public; sfarchaeology.org.
Discovering the Music of Bach
Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail A musically illustrated presentation with conductor/educator Oliver Prezant and violinist Stephen Redfield; 6 p.m. Jan. 18; $25; 877-466-3404.
Remembering Marc Simmons (1937-2023)
Santa Fe Public Library Southside Branch, 6599 Jaguar Drive Joy Poole, historian and cofounder of the Santa Fe Trail Association, honors the author/historian’s legacy in a presentation; 1:30 p.m. Jan. 20; no charge.
The Psychology of Serial Killers
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 A touring master class led by clinical psychologist Rachel Toles; 7:30 p.m. March 2; $35-$55; ampconcerts.org.
New Mexico Hip-Hop Awards
Creative Connections — A Celebration of Aunties
Institute of American Indian Arts, 83 Avan Nu Po Road Art, food, music, and a presentation from Indigenous Performance Productions, with director Kendra Potter (Lummi), executive creative producer Andre Bouchard (Kootenai/Ojibwe/Pend d’Orielle/Salish); performers include Nora Naranjo Morse (Santa Clara Pueblo), Laura Tohe (Diné), and IAIA students; 5:30 p.m. Jan. 23; $40; performancesantafe.org.
Opera in the Films of Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese
Unitarian Universalist Santa Fe, 107 W. Barcelona Street, 505-982-9674 Pasatiempo contributor Mark Tiarks kicks off the first of Santa Fe Opera Guild’s public offerings; 6 p.m. Jan. 23; $10 and $20; santafeoperaguild.org.
The Writing Generation Series
Surveymonkey.com/r/WritingGenSpring24 Free readings by New Mexico writers, and creative-writing sessions; Santa Fe Poet Laureate Janna Lopez launches the series with a reading of her collection such is; 6 p.m. Jan. 24; session follows 6 p.m. Jan. 31. The series continues with online readings and workshops offered by Santa Fe Community College and Institute of American Indian Arts graduates and professors through spring.
Backcountry Film Festival
SALA Los Alamos Event Center, 2551 Central Avenue, Los Alamos, 505-412-6030 Winter Wildlife Alliance presents films on outdoor adventures, the environment, climate change, and ski culture; 7 p.m. Jan. 24; $15; winterwildlands.org.
The Aunties: Women of the White Shell Water Place
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco Street, 505-988-1234 Multimedia storytelling, with Nora Naranjo Morse (Kha’p’o Owenge/Santa Clara Pueblo), Deborah Taffa (Quechan/Laguna Pueblo), and Laura Tohe (Diné, Tsénahabiłnii, Sleepy Rock People clan); 7:30 p.m. Jan. 24; $25-$85; performancesantafe.org.
Winterbrew
Santa Fe Farmers’Market Pavilion, 1607 Paseo de Peralta Annual New Mexico Brewers Guild’s craft beer tasting event; 6-9 p.m. Jan. 26, $10-$45; eventbrite.com.
2024 Souper Bowl
Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy Street, 800-777-2489 The Food Depot’s fundraiser with local chefs competing in this best-soup challenge, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Jan. 27, adult VIP $100 in advance, $150 day of, child VIP (13 and up) $30, general admission $30 in advance (by 12/27), $50 in advance, $75 day of, children $15, ages 12 and under no charge; 505-471-1633, thefooddepot.org.
El Rancho de las Golondrinas Winter Lecture Series
St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Avenue Jan. 30: Jayne Aubele (New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science) on New Mexico’s Geological Landscape and Its Effect on Our Culture and Social History; Feb. 27: Archaeologist Stephen Lekson on Of Noble Kings Descended: Colonial Documents and the Ancient Southwest; March 26: Historian Thomas Chavez on The Diplomacy of Independence: Benjamin Franklin and Spain; all 6-7 p.m.; $10, 505-471-2261, golondrinas.org.
Taos Wine Festival
El Monte Sagrado Resort, 317 Kit Carson Road, 575-758-3502 Champagne and caviar reception, with chef Louis Moskow of 315 Restaurant & Wine Bar, 4 p.m. Feb. 1, $60; reserve wine tasting and silent auction follows, $135; taoswinterwinefest.com.
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
108 Cathedral Place, 505-983-8900 Opening Feb. 2: Inuk Silis Høegh: Arctic Vertigo, video installations and carvings by the Greenlandic artist/filmmaker; through July 14. Womb of the Earth: Cosmovision of the Rainforest, art works by Indigenous Brazilian women; through July 19.
Cancer Foundation for New Mexico Sweetheart Auction
Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy Street Annual fundraiser, with a raffle of international vacations (tickets sold online); 5 p.m. Feb. 10; $150; 505-955-7931, cffnm.org.
AMP Concerts presents Yungchen Lhamo Jan. 17 at Taos Center for the Arts and Jan. 18 at San Miguel Chapel.
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New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary
404 Montezuma Avenue, 505-476-5062 Shadow and Light, including works by Larry Bell, Judy Chicago, Agnes Martin, and Leo Villareal; through April 28 • Oswaldo Maciá: El Cruce, sound sculpture; through Sept. 22; nmartmuseum.org/ vladem-contemporary. Closed Mondays.
Poeh Cultural Center and Museum
78 Cities of Gold Road, 505-455-5041 Di Wae Powa: They Came Back, historical Tewa Pueblo pottery • Nah Poeh Meng, 1,600-squarefoot core installation highlighting works by Pueblo artists; poehcenter.org. Open Mondays-Fridays.
Santa Fe Botanical Garden
715 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-471-9103 18-acre living museum; santafebotanicalgarden .org. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.
SITE Santa Fe
1606 Paseo de Peralta, 505-989-1199 Interference Patterns, multidisciplinary work by Nicholas Galanin; and Water, paintings by N. Dash; through Feb. 5 • Field of Dreams, textile compositions by Billie Zangewa, through Feb. 12; sitesantafe.org. Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The New Mexico History Museum includes the exhibit 18 Miles and That’s As Far As It Got: The Lamy Branch of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, model trains crafted by Santa Fe Model Railroad Club members; through Jan. 16, 2025.
AT THE GALLERIES
MUSEUMS & ART SPACES
Santa Fe
Santa Fe
825-D Early Street, 505-231-0354 Illumination: the sacred aspect of light, group show; through Jan. 14.
1590-B Pacheco Street, 505-983-6372 African, Asian, European, Native American, and Oceanic objects; email info@coeartscenter.org for tours; coeartscenter.org. Open by appointment.
Electra Gallery
Evoke Contemporary
550 S. Guadalupe Street, 505-995-9902 Retablos, paintings by Patrick McGrath Muñiz; Past Lives, paintings by Aron Wiesenfeld; through Jan. 20.
Foto Forum Santa Fe
1714 Paseo de Peralta, 505-470-2582 Black Snafu, mixed-media work by André Ramos-Woodard; through Jan. 24.
Keep Contemporary
142 Lincoln Avenue, Suite 102, 505-557-9574 Painters Milka Lolo and Fran De Anda: Bestiary; through Jan. 15.
LewAllen Galleries
1613 Paseo de Peralta, 505-988-3250 Little Treasures, mixed media by Carol Mothner; through Saturday, Jan. 6.
Monroe Gallery of Photography
112 Don Gaspar Avenue, 505-992-0800 This Fragile Earth, work by Stephen Wilkes; through Jan. 21.
Nüart Gallery
670 Canyon Road, 505-988-3888 Equinations, paintings by Juan Kelly; through Sunday, Jan. 7.
Photo-eye Gallery
1300 Rufina Circle, Suite A-3, 505-988-5152 Reshaping the Earth: Energy and the Environment, photographs by David E. Adams, Bremner Benedict, and Jamey Stillings; through Saturday, Jan. 6.
Zane Bennett Contemporary Art
435 S. Guadalupe Street, 505-780-8312 Salt Pillars, group show of photographs and sculpture; through Jan. 20.
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Coe Center for the Arts
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
217 Johnson Street, 505-946-1000 Rooted in Place, O’Keeffe’s studies of trees; through April 15 • Georgia O’Keeffe: Making a Life, art and objects from the collection; through Nov. 15; okeeffemuseum.org. Closed Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
108 Cathedral Place, 505-983-8900 The Art of Jean Lamarr, paintings, prints, and sculpture from the 1970s to the present; through Sunday, Jan. 7 • The Stories We Carry, jewelry from the museum collection; through September 29, 2025; iaia.edu/mocna. Closed Tuesdays.
Meow Wolf
1352 Rufina Circle, 505-395-6369 The House of Eternal Return, immersive, evolving exhibits; meowwolf.com. Days and hours vary.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
710 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1269 Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles, historic and contemporary weavings, prints, photographs, and other related items; through June 2 • Here, Now and Always, artifacts from the collection; long term; indianartsandculture.org. Closed Mondays.
Museum of International Folk Art
706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1204 Protection: Adaptation and Resistance, works by Alaskan Indigenous artists ranging from regalia to images of traditional tattooing and graphic design; through April 7; Ghhúunayúkata/To Keep Them Warm: The Alaska Native Parka, examples from the mid-19th century to contemporary
reinterpretations; through April 7 • La Cartonería Mexicana: The Mexican Art of Paper and Paste, historic sculptures from the collection, exhibited with the work of three visiting cartoneros; through Nov. 3. Core exhibits: Multiple Visions: A Common Bond, works in the Alexander Girard Wing • Lloyd’s Treasure Chest: Folk Art in Focus, thematic displays from the permanent collection; moifa.org. Open daily.
Museum of Spanish Colonial Art
750 Camino Lejo, museum@spanishcolonial.org Generations and Imagination: What Lies Behind the Vision of Chimayó Weavers, highlighting the shifting traditions through four generations of the Trujillo family’s work; through April; spanishcolonial.org. Open Wednesdays-Fridays.
New Mexico History Museum
113 Lincoln Avenue, 505-476-5200 Solidarity Now! 1968 Poor People’s Campaign, a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit exploring the grassroots movements of the civil rights era; through Jan. 15 • 18 Miles and That’s As Far As It Got: The Lamy Branch of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, model train crafted by Santa Fe Model Railroad Club members; through Jan. 16, 2025. Core exhibitions: Palace Seen and Unseen: A Convergence of History and Archaeology, photographs and artifacts • The Massacre of Don Pedro Villasur, graphic art by Turner Avery Mark-Jacobs • The First World War, ephemera relating to New Mexicans’ contributions • Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy, objects from the collection and photographs from Palace of the Governors archives • Telling New Mexico: Stories From Then and Now, artifacts, photographs, films, and oral histories; nmhistorymuseum.org. Closed Mondays.
New Mexico Museum of Art
107 W. Palace Avenue, 505-476-5072 Manuel Carrillo: Mexican Modernist, photographic exhibition; through Feb. 4 • Rick Dillingham: To Make, Unmake and Make Again; through June 16 • Out West: Gay and Lesbian Artists in the Southwest 1900-1969; through Sept. 2; nmartmuseum.org. Closed Mondays.
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
704 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-982-4636 California Stars: Huivaniūs Pütsiv, the first Californian artists whose works reflected personal experiences, mythology, and social justice; through Jan. 14. Long term: Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry, devoted to Diné and Pueblo traditions • Rooted: Samples of Southwest Basketry; works from the collection; wheelwright.org. Closed Sunday, Jan. 7-Feb. 9.
Albuquerque
New Mexico Holocaust and Intolerance Museum
616 Central Avenue SW, 505-247-0606 Overturned: A Life Etched in Stone • Hate in America. Permanent exhibits, With Evil Intent • African American Experience, Phase 2: Slavery 1866-1945 • Czech Torah • Armenian Genocide • Hidden Treasures • Colonization: Racism and Resilience; nmholocaustmuseum.org. Open Wednesdays-Saturdays.
Taos
Couse-Sharp Historic Site
138 & 146 Kit Carson Road, 575-751-0369 Plein Air Painters of America: Out West, annual exhibition; through Jan. 20 • Joseph Henry Sharp: The Life and Work of an American Legend; through December; couse-sharp.org. Open by appointment Tuesdays-Saturdays.
Harwood Museum of Art
238 Ledoux Street, 575-758-9826 Harwood 100: Taos Municipal Schools Historic Collection, including works by Emil Bisttram, Andrew Dasburg, Gene Kloss, and Agnes Martin; through Jan. 28; harwoodmuseum.org. Open Wednesdays-Sundays.
Millicent Rogers Museum
1504 Millicent Rogers, 575-758-2462 Tuah-Tah/Taos Pueblo: Home, highlighting the Pueblo’s culture and artistic achievements • Pop Chalee! Yippee Ki Yay!, paintings; millicentrogers.org. Closed Wednesdays.
Taos Art Museum at Fechin House
227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 575-758-2690 Natural Forms, sculpture by Britt Brown; through Jan. 21; taosartmuseum.org. Closed Mondays.
FINAL FRAME
COURTESY STRATA GALLERY
Hero’s Journey: I am only pretending to know what I am doing, a 15-by-15inch hand-painted ink photograph by Renee Couture from 2022, is part of Selfhood, a juried exhibition by Rosemary Meza-DesPlas at Strata Gallery. Couture, of Oregon, is one of 30 artists featured. A reception is set for 5 p.m. Friday, January 5. Through January 19; 125 Lincoln Avenue, Suite 105; 505-780-5403, stratagallerysantafe.com — Brian Sandford
Cara Romero: The Gathering
Opening January 13, 2024 | 4-7pm Through December 2024 Abiquiu, New Mexico
ghostranch.org | 877.804.4678
Florence Hawley Ellis Museum of Anthropology