Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel. Show all posts

Monday, August 4, 2025

Andrew Harper: "Art in Santa Fe - a few favorite discoveries from my last trip"

 Via Andrew Harper

"The idea I had for this newsletter back in 1979 – to share information about peaceful and unspoiled sanctuaries with a limited and compatible group of sophisticated travelers – remains at the core of its identity today. There is no concealing my disdain for crowds, noise, rudeness, fast food, packaged destinations, characterless hotels and copycat resorts.”

August, 2025


graphic title page for article about art in Santa Fe with a color photograph of a statues of a Native American woman in a field of yellow flowers


While Santa Fe may not be the site of the country’s first art colony (that’s in New York) or the third-largest art market (highly disputed), a fact-challenged tour guide we overheard was right about one thing: The city has a long and rich history as an artist community. Synonymous with Georgia O’Keeffe, Santa Fe became an art-world darling in the 1980s and ’90s, helped along by artist transplants like Judy Chicago, Bruce Nauman and Susan Rothenberg. Visitors today can browse exhibitions in nine museums and more than 250 galleries. These are a few favorite discoveries from my last trip.


Monroe Gallery of Photography


color photograph of four Native American women wrapped in colorful blankets standing in snow with Teton mountains in background, Wyoming
“Ancestral Strength, Teton National Park, Wyoming, Cayuse, Umatilla, Newe Sogobia and Tséstho’e, 2023,” by Eugene Tapahe

Specializing in 20th- and 21st-century photography, this downtown gallery showcases images “embedded in our collective consciousness,” and a visit is eye-opening and deeply moving. The owners, a husband-and-wife team with deep knowledge of the medium, have personal relationships with world-renowned photojournalists. Their gallery documents the highs and lows of our shared history through powerful snapshots in time. In a single visit, you might see how Tony Vaccaro captured the brutality of the battlefield and the beauty of fashion, how Charles Moore and Grey Villet snapped unsettling scenes from the Civil Rights Movement, and other notable photographers caught intimate moments with celebrities, athletes and heads of state. Taken together, the collection provides a chance to reflect on where we’ve been and where we may be going. Co-owner Sidney Monroe indicated that emotional reactions are commonplace here: “It is as it should be,” he deadpanned.

112 Don Gaspar Avenue. Tel. (505) 992-0800

Monday, March 28, 2011

International Pillow Fight Day

Beatles Pillow Fight, Hotel George V, Paris, 1964
Harry Benson: Beatles Pillow Fight, Hotel George V, Paris, 1964

Via the Los Angeles Times

Offbeat Traveler: International Pillow Fight Day

If you have the urge to hit someone, show up at Pershing Square on April 2 with a pillow for International Pillow Fight Day. When the air horn sounds at 2 p.m., watch the feathers fly, not just in Los Angeles but in almost 100 cities worldwide.


The basic rules for this free event include using only soft pillows, swinging them lightly and not swinging at someone who doesn't have a pillow. There is no set end time for the event, but participants are asked to help with cleanup once the pillow fight has concluded.

Los Angeles <br />2 p.m. <br />Pershing Square<br /> <a href="http://www.pillowfightlosangeles.com">pillowfightlosangeles.com</a>

International Pillow Fight Day

( Spencer Weiner / Los Angeles Times )
Los Angeles
2 p.m.
Pershing Square
pillowfightlosangeles.com

Full list of city websites and slide show here.

Friday, March 11, 2011

ON THE ROAD...TO AIPAD

Planes stacked up at JFK airport, New York, 1968
Bob Gomel: Planes stacked up at JFK airport, New York, 1968

We are heading out to the AIPAD Photography Show. We will post regular updates here and on our Twitter feed. We sincerely hope to see you next week at Booth #417.