Mark Kemper, a Taos artist and musician, talked to Tempo about his new PopTiks project. more

With the lockdown having shut down the town, from music venues to art galleries, theaters to parks, we are witnessing a virtual boom on the web. The folks at Seco Live have also been hard at work online this spring, creating digital opportunities to support the artistic community in Taos. more

"The thing is I don't really feel like an artist," said Marianne Farhney as we walked together sharing the wide width of a dirt road in El Prado. Marianne Farhney is a local artist who arrived in Taos shortly after graduating from the San Franscico Art School with a BA in Fine Art in 2004. The bio on her website simply states "(She) was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in the D.C. area. She has been creating, making and crafting for as long as she can remember." more

Heritage Fine Arts just handed a $1,950 check last week (April 28) to Marci Lameman, sister of well-known Diné/Navajo artist Andersen Kee. The check is the first of more hoped-for assistance to aid folks in dire circumstances in Navajo Nation - many of whom are elderly or without electricity or running water - who are especially at risk during this current coronavirus pandemic. more

Americana singer-songwriter Max Gomez spoke to Tempo recently from his home in Los Angeles about how the coronavirus pandemic has affected his life and plans. Originally from Taos, Gomez splits his time between the City of Angels and his hometown when he isn't out on the road. Gomez has been billed opposite musicians such as Shawn Mullins, James McMurtry, Buddy Miller, Jim Lauderdale, Patty Griffin and John Hiatt. more

Tom Dixon may well be the most "underappreciated artist around," as his friend and fellow painter Peter Parks notes, but he is also one of the most respected and collected contemporary artists in Taos. more

To some it may seem inexplicable why Taos--a tiny town nestled in New Mexico’s high mountain desert--became the vortex for an American art movement of such national and international significance over the course of a century.  But to Davison Koenig, the Couse-Sharp Historic Site executive director and curator, it’s perfectly understandable. more

Artist Relief, a new coalition of national arts grantmakers came together three weeks ago to protect the country’s artists in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. They have raised $10,000,000—enough to provide 100 artists with $5,000 relief grants each week between now and September. more

Izumi Yokoyama and Theresa Gray belong to the continuum of artists who have followed the call to come to the High Desert since Bert Phillips and Ernest Blumenschein’s wagon wheel broke, stranding the two young East Coast artists in Taos. That was a century ago, and the stream of artists that arrive in Taos and stay, remains steady. more

Paul O'Connor's photography book "Taos Portraits" (2012), chronicles 25 years in Taos through his camera lens. As he photographed the artists who lived and worked here through that quarter century, he captured the very spirit of Taos itself, in all its maverick, outlaw glory. The bohemian, freewheeling lifestyles of these artists was even more apparent in the stories that accompanied the portraits. Many of them told by family and friends. more

The Taos Woman 2020 Edition Honors 8 Taos Women of Impact. Meet Taoseña Catherine Strisik,, In Recognition of Literary artistry more

In celebration of Valentine's Day, V-Day and the power of love, Tempo invited a few women artists in Taos to share some love. more

Sarah Bush has an outrageous, art-full sensibility. She tackles such scary, yet invigorating themes as "timelessness and impermanence, fragility and resilience, the physical body and spiritual self" - no mean feat considering such themes have captivated the world's geniuses since time immemorial. more

Ten days away from her solo art exhibition and Jesse is beside herself with excitement, her mother Stevie says, referring to her Taos Arts Council (TAC) sponsored show. Readers should note, only first names of Jesse's family will be used in this preview, to ensure the 37-year-old autistic artist's safety. more

When artist Larry Bell turned 80 years of age on Dec. 6, 2019, his friends, fans and collectors took the occasion to show their love and appreciation for him. Now a second birthday-inspired tribute promises to honor Bell's lifetime of work and carry his legacy forward in service to future generations of artists and art lovers. more

The exhibition of Beatrice Mandelman's work "Overflowing with Color," on view now at the Harwood Museum of Art, is timed to coincide with the release of a film about her life and creative output. The New Mexico PBS documentary "Creation Is Pure Freedom" will premiere April 11 in the Harwood's Arthur Bell Auditorium. more

The dance between detail, fine detail, the minutia that comprises the anatomy of this world and the expansiveness that opens through abstract and symbolic art is the dance at which Shera Maher is adept. more

Donabe, the pan-Asian eatery that both stands out in Taos and fits right in, just celebrated its one-year anniversary of serving food, sake and art in the former Arthur Rochford Manby house. more

There's a new kid on the art block and he's a dream of enthusiasm for the uniqueness of all that is Taos. more

Gold, purple and green is the color palette Allegra Sleep explores for her solo exhibition titled "Time, Travel." She said her color choices represent her childhood in Latin America, and the theme "transportation and time" is "to tie together two of my favorite bodies of work … paintings of the past and modern transportation, taxis, trucks, trains - and a few of my friend's ancestors." more

It's called "Winter." And, it is what artist-teacher Katie Woodall explains is a retrospective spanning the past 10 years or so and it will hang through the winter. more

The Dixon studio tour is the last in what has been an amazing year of arts tours in Northern New Mexico. This year's exploration of the bucolic community south of Taos includes the art of wine and beer making, garlic farming, sculpture, pottery, photography and much more. The tour kicks off this weekend (Nov. 2-3). more

For Kathy Morsell, a lifelong love of pottery has gone hand in hand with her natural blending of Eastern and Western approaches to art, beginning with her experience in Japan while she was in the Air Force there. more

How do you visually express a collective identity crafted by a collision of cultures over centuries - on a two-dimensional surface? The answer, as for most challenges endemic to the Taos region, is: You get creative. more

Taos artist Inger Jirby is stepping out in an exciting new direction with acrylics in her show titled "Landscapes, Churches and Some Portraits." The artist's solo exhibition opens … more