Featuring 71 artists and sprawling across more than a dozen venues, the New Mexico city鈥檚 latest art extravaganza, 鈥極nce Within a Time,鈥 is overwhelming and overstuffed, but it has a wealth of works worth seeing.
The 12th SITE Santa Fe International takes reflection as its cue, offering mirror images, doubles, reversals, and echoes in which multiple perspectives and timelines unfold.
At Site Santa Fe, 71 artists were inspired by Southwestern figures, from healers and novelists to Navajo code talkers. Here鈥檚 a guide to the highlights.
The 12th SITE Santa Fe International is a mightily ambitious and daring beast. It extends far beyond the customary selection of 鈥渞elevant鈥 contemporary artworks in major international exhibitions.
This year鈥檚 biennial features almost 100 artists and 鈥渇igures of interest鈥 in a city-wide exploration of the tales we all tell and how they form us and our cultures.
Stiff tariffs are impacting cross-border art transactions, prompting Canadian dealers to pull out of U.S. fairs. Meanwhile, Art Toronto is courting Mexican galleries and European artists this year.
The 12th edition of the International will be structured around roughly 25 figures, both real and fictional, from a 19th-century saloon owner to the Indigenous author N. Scott Momaday.