Art News

Santa Fe Art Auction’s annual Native Market sale will be held this year from August 12th through 14th, prior to SWAIA’s Santa Fe Indian Market—a vibrant, renowned annual event and the largest market for Indigenous art in the world. Native Market will feature many fine works by Pueblo and Indigenous artists, spanning from traditional pieces from the mid-nineteenth century to contemporary art from Native artists practicing today, many of whom have exhibited and won awards at Indian Market.

Lines in Four Directions is a 90-by-72-foot sculpture by the late artist Sol LeWitt. It was mounted on the west-facing side of a building owned by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) at 10 W Jackson Blvd in Chicago’s Loop District. 

Utagawa Hiroshige, born in Edo (now Tokyo) in 1797, was the creator of over 5,000 designs for color woodblock prints, hundreds of paintings, and dozens of illustrated books.

When artist Ruth Asawa was a little girl, she and her siblings killed time on the family farm sitting on horse-drawn carts and tracing hourglass patterns in the dirt with their toes, a shape that turns in on itself, blurring the distinction between inner and outer borders. Other times, she unwound wire tags labeling crates and then reshaped them into bracelets, rings, and figures.

Nestled against the Sangre de Cristo mountains in downtown Santa Fe, Nedra Matteucci Galleries is a 15,000 square-foot adobe building housing one of the most stunning collections in the region. Its prominence as a respected art institution and one-of-a-kind character has led to its legacy as a legendary Santa Fe landmark for over 50 years. 

Even as the art world continues to make strides toward gender equity, its history still holds major gaps. One such gap is the work of artist Jeanne Coppel. The Romanian-born French painter was a trailblazer in the use of abstraction in the 20th century.

This month marked the World Heritage Committee’s 47th update of UNESCO’s World Heritage List. The assembly– which was held from July 6th through the 16th at UNESCO headquarters in Paris– resulted in the inscription of 26 cultural and natural properties added as Heritage Sites, an extension of two pre-existing sites, and the removal of three others from the List of World Heritage in Danger. 

Contemporary American artist and educator Squeak Carnwath (1947) creates imaginative, lush visual experiences combining texts, patterns, and images from daily life into vital, collage-like works full of color and nuance. Primarily focused on painting, Carnwath also prints, sculpts, and creates installations.

In the lobby of NXTHVN, the art hub co-founded by Titus Kaphar and Jason Price, curator Arvia D. Walker invites visitors to her exhibition, Reverence: An Archival Altar, to write a letter to the future. The prompt is to scribe a text to “those you imagine will come after you—those not yet born, those on their way, those becoming.

Museum-goers, this author included, are often guilty of walking past still life paintings of food, dismissing them as dull and anodyne. Yet, taking in the context of when they were created, these works of feasts and even ordinary fare are often as political as they are historical.