Article: Going mainstream. (art scene in Santa Fe, New Mexico)

Without some yet-to-be-written Baedeker, the casual visitor to Santa Fe in the '90s would scarcely detect the activities and events which signal a major change in the city's legendary but willfully old-line art world.

Behind the facade of picturesque crumbling adobe, despite the '80s proliferation of boutiques and B&Bs, and somewhere far from the summer's gridlock of Range Rovers and Airstreams, international contemporary art appears to be burgeoning in the Southwest, as the 1994-95 season makes abundantly clear.

The explanation for this phenomenon is fairly obscure. Perhaps it's the recent arrival of many affluent and art-knowledgeable Los Angelenos; it ...

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