William Peterson

Art critic and historian William Peterson continues his retrospective of Albuquerque art and explores how movements in the art world manifested and flourished in the high desert. 

Art historian and critic William Peterson discusses curatorial conundrums at the Albuquerque Museum's Visualizing Albuquerque.

A citywide art celebration provides an opportunity to explore Albuquerque's rich, and often overlooked, artistic history.

To the Frech poet and author Charles Baudelaire, the essence of laughter was the ultimate fool’s errand, yet the pen of the “licensed fool” often acts as a necessary strike at ideological tyranny. 

On display at Santa Fe’s Center for Contemporary Arts, manifestations of sufferers and protectors and the otherworldly healing energy released through experience.

A cold examination of the human animal highlights an isolation and loneliness inherent in much of modern society. 

Longtime New Mexico painter's new work fuses ancient Eastern philosophy and modern Western technique in an ongoing dance with nature and the elements. 

Santa Fe artist Dana Newmann’s work of collage and assemblage are on display at Phil Space in Santa Fe.

Art historian William Peterson explores the timescapes of light, shadow, intention and memory in the latest series by the renowned Gloria Graham.

In a discovery by art critic William Peterson, the Baroque master becomes a participant in the "renewal of the world."