Santa Fe Reporter

The Center for Contemporary Arts is once again entering a new era. After a long period of uncertainty following the pandemic and the recent departure of Executive Director Dale Albright, the institution has restructured itself into a co-directorship. Matthew Cannella, Cinema Director since February, now shares the helm with newly minted Artistic Director Jamie Herrell. The changes amount to much more than a splitting of Albright's duties. "It's a total rewrite," Herrell says.

Video performance artist Sarah Turner debuts new psychedelic work alongside Steven Radley at Relay This year, at a Fourth of July party, I found myself in an earnest conversation about a TikTok creator whose spiritual revelations come through telepathic conversations with cats. Through these psychic messages, cats have relayed that all life is connected, that we're all just branches on one vast, ever-expanding family tree.

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By Marjorie Childress, New Mexico In Depth The Legislature wants students in school for more days. But it has repeatedly stopped short of requiring them. That tension surfaced during a Legislative Finance Committee hearing in Ruidoso last month, when Vice Chair George Muñoz, a Democrat from Gallup, pressed Public Education Secretary Mariana Padilla about districts moving to four-day school weeks. Could she stop them if she had the authority? “I don’t have the ability to stop it,” Padilla replied.

Artist Shepard Fairey brings a large survey of original works to Turner Carroll for its American debut Few street artists have been as influential as Shepard Fairey. Given his enormous cultural impact over the last two decades, he has earned his status as one of the most notable street artists of our time.

Three-Zies Three events in Santa Fe worth your time As summer continues summering along, it would be easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of things popping off about town, and a lot of it’s free!. Luckily for you, people tell us about all sorts of events, and we think the following options could be good for anyone looking to get out and get weird.

Let’s play the mirroring game again, that exercise in empathy when you try to put yourself in someone else’s shoes and work out how you would respond. A foreign leader comes to your continent and proceeds to attack many of his purported colleagues in deeply personal terms. He mocks and ridicules. He singles out individuals in an attempt to humiliate them. He announces measures designed to cripple the economies of at least one country. He threatens the territorial integrity of another.

The long-time Santa Fean was 90 by SFR Staff News July 14, 2026 10:55 AM Renowned political cartoonist and longtime Santa Fean died on Monday due to age-related health issues at the age of 90, according to numerous media reports Oliphant’s career spanned from the 1960s through the 2010s, appearing in newspapers across the US and skewering presidents from Nixon to Trump to shine a light on political corruption. He will be remembered for his highly recognizable, caricature style.

By Jesse Jones Southern New Mexico’s news desert is growing. The 123-year-old Roswell Daily Record, owned by Publisher Barbara Beck and General Manager SaraLei Fajardo, announced Monday that it is ceasing operations and beginning “an orderly liquidation” of its assets to pay its bills and other obligations, according to a statement from the newspaper. Ownership said it is pursuing a sale or another sustainable arrangement that could keep the Record operating, but offered no guarantees.

New Mexico Democrats have a hard deadline to finish picking a Lieutenant Governor nominee: State Central Committee members vote July 25-29, and the winner’s name goes to the Secretary of State by July 30 to lock in the November ballot. State law hands the pick to party insiders, not primary voters, whenever a nominee withdraws more than 90 days before a general election, DPNM co-executive director Isaiah Baca said in a party video explaining the process.