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Founder: Spring McManus Art Advisory | Curator and Co-founder: DART Car Project - Championing women in art + speed | Art Manager: George Clinton

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‘New SANTA FE INVITATIONAL to launch in April 2027 with 45 International Galleries.’

The Santa Fe Invitational, a new international art fair conceived as a 'cultural summit', will hold its first edition April 8–11, 2027, at the Santa Fe Convention Center with around 45 galleries plus talks, installations and performances across the city.

Santa Fe is getting a new international art fair. The Santa Fe Invitational will hold its inaugural edition from April 8 to 11, 2027, at the Santa Fe Convention Center, bringing together approximately 45 international galleries alongside artists, collectors and cultural institutions.

The announcement, reported by CULTURED @cultured_mag (Exclusive), Artforum @artforum , and USA Art News on October 9, marks the first fair of its kind in the Southwestern United States.

Designed as a cultural summit: alongside gallery presentations, the event will stage a conversation series featuring figures such as critics Jerry Saltz @jerrysaltz and Roberta Smith @robertasmithnyc ; performance by designer Cynthia Rowley @cynthiarowley , plus satellite exhibitions, site-specific installations, and tours of private homes and art collections around the city. A COLLECTORS CIRCLE will bring together collectors and patrons, while a CULTURE COUNCIL of year-round ambassadors will promote the fair's mission.

Stein has said the model grew out of a belief that culture happens when people have a reason to gather and a place that makes them want to stay. For two decades his Tesuque Village Market has served that role locally, and the Invitational is designed to extend the same connective logic to the international art world, with an emphasis on fostering collaborations among the next generation of local arts leaders.

The launch follows the success of boutique, location-driven gatherings such as the Marfa Invitational and reflects a broader shift toward regional art hubs challenging the dominance of coastal fair circuits. Santa Fe, long known as an artists' mecca with institutions including SITE @sitesantafe and its famed Indian Market, adds a commercial tentpole to a city already central to the American art calendar.

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THANK YOU ARTFORUM 🙏 SANTA FE INVITATIONAL | APRIL 08-11, 2027 ✨ SI❤️YOU @artforum 💋

“Collectors are not born—they are cultivated through curiosity, knowledge, confidence, and meaningful relationships with artists, galleries, and institutions,” says Marfa Invitational founder Michael Phelan, who serves as the creative director and curator of the forthcoming Santa Fe Invitational @santafeinvitational . “If we are able to create the conditions for discovery and engagement, we are not simply building a market for today, but helping shape one for tomorrow—cultivating the collectors who will sustain art and culture for generations to come.”

The outreach to arts-focused and unexpected collaborators alike includes partnerships with SITE Santa Fe and the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA), as well as an appearance from DART, a women-led platform blending art and motorsport, and members of the local lowrider community. “At a moment when the traditional art-fair model is being reconsidered across the global art market, I believe the contemporary art world has an extraordinary opportunity to imagine a different future,” says Phelan, “not simply another fair, but a cultural summit built around cultivating the relationships, knowledge, confidence, and curiosity that allow collecting and contemporary art to flourish. For me, that begins with creating a more human and relationship-driven model for how art is experienced and collected—beginning in Santa Fe, connecting to the world, and evolving for generations to come.” —Isabella Bernstein | CULTURED ✨

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A WONDERFUL MORNING TO ARISE TO ✨

Enormous gratitude to Sarah Harrelson @sarahgharrelson 💕 and the entire CULTURED @cultured_mag family 🤗🤗🤗 for supporting and championing the vision and mission that is the SANTA FE INVITATIONAL @santafeinvitational —and for bringing this story to life with such love 🌱

A very special BRAVA!!! to Isabella Bernstein, who captured the vision, philosophy, and spirit of the Invitational with such remarkable clarity, understanding, and humanity 🫶🫶🫶

And to Sophie, Ella, and the wonderful CULTURED team—thank you for your generosity, enthusiasm, and extraordinary care 🙌🙌🙌

Indeed a tremendous privilege and honor to begin this journey together🙏

Next stop…🐎🐎🐎 the Land of Enchantment💫

APRIL 8–11, 2027 | SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO ✨

LINK IN BIO ❤️

Editorial footnote: a couple of small typos slipped through in the excitement of publication—these have since been corrected in the original CULTURED article.
* The images shared here are screenshots of the first published version.

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Thank you for the bump in the night @thecollective62 turnout. My heart is full. More pics to come- check highlights for more. Link in bio to check out the works in show and listen to the soundtrack @the_sunday_painter episode.

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STOP RUNNING AWAY FROM THE PENCIL THAT YOU CONTROL, 2026.

Acrylic, Holographic glitter paint on canvas

25.40cm × 76.20cm ( 10in × 30in)

#contemporaryart #fineart #artlovers #artweek #paintings

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CHICAGO I Now On View

George Clinton, Mothership
On view through September 5, 2026

Centering on the iconic spacecraft that in 1976 transformed Parliament-Funkadelic concerts into interstellar journeys, the exhibition coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Mothership: a visionary creation that, in Clinton’s words, took “the ’hood into outer space.”

Drawing from an eclectic constellation of references, Clinton’s paintings construct dreamlike worlds in which the logic of a non-narrative typology gives way to rhythm and vibration. Across the canvases, void-like forms recalling the silhouette of the Mothership hover at the center of the picture plane. Untethered from ground or horizon, these suspended forms occupy indeterminate fields where space is rendered not as empty expanse but as a living, psychic terrain in which possibility continuously circulates.

[Installation Views of George Clinton, Mothership, 2026. All Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim.]

#marianeibrahimgallery #marianeibrahim #georgeclinton #mothership #chicago

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NEWS | George Clinton I The Chicago Sun-Times

In an interview with @miss_ethompson for @chicagosuntimes , George Clinton discusses his exhibition “Mothership” and reflects on the Afrofuturist universe that has defined his groundbreaking career—from the cosmic mythology of Parliament-Funkadelic to the paintings that now expand that vision in a new medium.

The conversation traces his lifelong fascination with imagination, liberation, and the future, as well as his evolution as a visual artist, exploring how “Mothership” blurs the boundaries between music, storytelling, and painting while bringing his expansive creative universe into the gallery.

Read the full interview through the link in our stories.

“Mothership” is on view through September 5, 2026.

[Photos by Pat Nabong. Courtesy of The Chicago Sun-Times. Opening images of Mothership, 2026. Courtesy of the artist and Mariane Ibrahim.]

#marianeibrahimgallery #marianeibrahim #georgeclinton #chicagosuntimes #mothership

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Can you tell we had a great time??

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CHICAGO I Upcoming Exhibition

George Clinton, Mothership

July 25 – September 5, 2026

We are excited to present “Mothership”, George Clinton’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Centering on the iconic spacecraft that in 1976 transformed Parliament-Funkadelic concerts into interstellar journeys, the exhibition coincides with the 50th anniversary of the Mothership: a visionary creation that, in Clinton’s words, took “the ’hood into outer space.”

George Clinton remains one of the most unfailingly eccentric figures in the history of music, renowned for extravagant performances in which stage production and sonic production are used to psychedelically transport his viewers. As ambitious as it was improbable, the Mothership – a silver, pyramid-shaped vessel that landed on-stage with Clinton himself as Dr. Funkenstein on board – captured the imagination of Parliament’s audiences by bringing psychedelic culture into the mainstream at a moment when the space race remained an ongoing cultural obsession.

[George Clinton, Ethereal De-cloaking, 2023. Artist Portrait of George Clinton. Photo by Lynsey Weatherspoon, Redux. Both Courtesy of George Clinton.]

#marianeibrahimgallery #marianeibrahim #georgeclinton #mothership #chicago

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May Mayhem. A month of art fairs, auctions, openings, galas, dinner celebrations, soccer matches, and countless miles traveling back and forth to spend precious time with my father.
A month lived at full speed, ending with saying goodbye to him, and then a heart full of grief but gratitude for the time we had together.
Hoping June brings a little stillness, quiet moments, and space to reflect. ❤️

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Thank you @namosanctuary for welcoming our yoga tribe yesterday. So powerful to collaborate with you my @noeliamadiedo whose healing sound wove through our movement creating the coolest spiritual “viajecito” of expansion. 🪐

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One of our favorite ✨ @springmcmanusart 💕

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