UNM Art Museum Reopens with Two New Exhibitions, Land Back? City Offers Unused Tracts to Public, Bike Boulevard Open House and More

After a year of behind-the-scenes work, two expansive new exhibitions open on campus

by Maggie Grimason

On a west-facing wall in the upstairs gallery of the University of New Mexico Art Museum (UNMAM), 18 prints hang in vertical triads. In one, mismatched feet are arranged contrapposto: the left is three-toed and clawed, the right in a dainty heeled boot; directly above it is a torso with devilish crimson wings sprouting from its back; a hair higher, there’s a print that’s almost entirely negative space with the tiny head of a rabbit staring goofily out at us. Each depicts one-third of a body—any body—and was made by an international artist visiting Albuquerque’s storied lithography studio, the Tamarind Institute, between 2000 and 2015. Put three together and voilà, you have an Exquisite Corpse.