Other art
Gabriel Gallery
6 banana lane off us 285 north of town, +1 505 455-9230. paintings, sculpture, jewelry; across the parking lot from the excellent gabriel's restaurant see below, and combines well with a meal there.
Manitou Galleries
123 w. palace ave., +1 505 986-0440 or +1 800 283-0440, (http://www.manitougalleri...). m-sa 9:30am-5:30pm, su 11am-5pm -- one of the relatively few santa fe galleries open 7 days a week. mid-range $100 to $20,000 work, mainly with a southwestern theme; nice bronzes.
Chuck Jones Gallery
135 w. palace ave., +1 505 983-5999, (http://www.chuckjones.com). amid the galleries featuring the scenic and cultural beauty of the southwest and native americana, you can find this one featuring the "beauty" of ... daffy duck, wile e. coyote and the roadrunner!? this gallery memorializes the great cartoon artist and his successors in animation art, with many originals. not what you might think of as typical of the santa fe art scene, but highly entertaining. hours apparently "flexible."
If you have any interest at all in "Anglo" art, make sure you walk down Canyon Road an easy stroll from downtown, which is full of unique, quirky and just plain fun art galleries. Other galleries are west and south of the Plaza in the downtown area itself. A small sampling to give you a sense of what's there note that opening hours at these can be somewhat erratic and are not always posted:
Only in Santa Fe...
Another chapter was added to the weird, wonderful lore of the "City Different" in August 2007, when one of the many jewelry and art shops in the downtown area suffered a midnight break-in by -- no kidding -- a mountain lion. You won't have to compete for goods with this aesthetically inclined beast, however, as it was tranquilized by Fish and Game officers, removed, and released in the wilds of northern New Mexico.
Gerald Peters Gallery
1011 paseo de peralta, +1 505 954-5700, (http://www.gpgallery.com). open m-sa 10am-5pm. one of santa fe's "high-end" galleries, with works by some famous artists hurd, remington, miro, etc., bearing six-digit price tags in some cases. if you're looking for inexpensive "souvenir" art, look elsewhere, but the serious art collector should definitely check this one out.
Glenn Green Galleries
136 tesuque village road in tesuque, 5 miles north of the plaza, +1 505 820-0008, (http://www.glenngreen.com). open m-sa 10am-5pm; sunday by appointment. established in 1966, 5 acre sculpture garden and gallery. contemporary sculpture, paintings, prints and wall art by artists such as allan houser whom the gallery represented from 1974-1994, khang pham-new, eduardo oropeza, melanie yazzie, etc.
Jane Sauer Gallery
652 canyon road, +1 505 995-8513, (http://www.jsauergallery.com). m-sa 10:00am-5:30pm; sun noon-5:30pm; closed on sun in winter. one of the top "material-based" galleries in the country showing the work of over 70 internationally-acclaimed artists using fiber, glass, clay, and sculptural materials to create their art.
Klebau Photography Gallery
220 e. santa fe ave., +1 505 954-4777, (http://www.klebauphotogra...). the proprietor of this photography-oriented franchise is also deeply involved with santa fe's classical-music scene, and may be able to give you tips on what's playing if he's there buying something doesn't hurt, of course.
Axle Contemporary
Variable locations and hours: check website for daily updates, +1 505 670-5854, (http://www.axleart.com). a mobile gallery of contemporary art, featuring works on paper and installation in a beautiful custom-retrofitted 1970 aluminum stepvan. art by both established and emerging new mexico-based artists.
Nedra Matteucci Fine Art
555 canyon road, +1 505 983-2731, (http://www.nedramatteucci...). traditional paintings and sculpture by contemporary european and american artists.
Nedra Matteucci Galleries
1075 paseo de peralta, +1 505 982-4631, (http://www.matteucci.com). m-sa 8:30amâ5pm. another gallery by the well-known santa fe entrepreneur, this one with an emphasis on 19th- and 20th-century work, including a number of works from the art colony at taos.
Shidoni Arts
Bishops lodge road at the outlying village of tesuque, +1 505 988-8001, (http://www.shidoni.com). m-sa 9am-5pm. 8 acres of sculpture garden display the diverse and eclectic -- some would say peculiar -- work of the locally-celebrated shidoni foundry, along with furniture, ceramics, photography, etc.
Waxlander Gallery and Sculpture Garden
622 canyon road, +1 505 984-2202, (http://www.waxlander.com). m-su 9:30-5:30pm. contemporary artists led by phyllis kapp.
William R. Talbot Fine Art
129 w. san francisco st. upstairs, +1 505 982-1559, (http://www.williamtalbot.com). historic maps, regionalist prints and paintings.
Winterowd Fine Art
701 canyon road, +1 505 992-8878, (http://www.wfineart.net). m-sa 10am-5pm, su 12pm-4pm. a reasonable if comparatively conservative example of the many canyon road galleries; friendly and helpful service.
This listing barely scratches the surface of the art scene in Santa Fe; the community phone book lists over six pages of galleries. There are some tourist traps among them, but far more good stuff than tourist junk.
Other goods
Santa Fe Place
On the south side of the city there is an outlet mall (http://www.fashionoutletssantafe.com/) at the intersection of I-25 and Cerrillos Road and a large gathering of newer, big-box stores like Border's, Best Buy, and Target on Zafarano Road near Cerrillos and Rodeo Roads, across the street from the enclosed Santa Fe Place (http://www.shopsantafepla...) mall. A second and slightly smaller enclosed mall, the De Vargas Center (http://www.devargascenter.com/), is located at Paseo de Peralta and Guadalupe, just north of the downtown area. Within the downtown area proper is the Sanbusco Center (http://sanbusco.com/), a partially-enclosed mall with mostly upscale shops, anchored by a Border's and a Cost Plus World Market.
Tesuque Pueblo Flea Market
A Santa Fe institution is the Tesuque Pueblo Flea Market just north of the Santa Fe Opera along highway 285. It's open on weekends except during the winter, and offers cut-rate shopping for just about anything you can get elsewhere in town. Visit to look for random memorabilia although you may wonder why you bought them when you get home! and also for some entertaining people-watching.
In downtown Santa Fe there are quite a few specialty stores for toys, book stores, clothes and a variety of other stores with handmade goods such as purses and jewelry.
folk art
Santa Fe is a designated UNESCO Creative City (http://www.santafecreativ...), and is one the best places in the world to shop specifically for Native American Indian arts and crafts. How to proceed depends on what your goals are and how much you want to spend. If your goal is to obtain mementos of no great intrinsic value, check out the Native American vendors on the "Portal" accent on second syllable in front of the Palace of the Governors; the jewelry and pottery is inexpensive of course, you get what you pay for and its authenticity is guaranteed. Pickings may be a bit thin on Sundays, and the vendors pick up and go home after 5:30. A word of warning: do not patronize the similar vendors on sidewalks out around town unless you know they're OK. If they're not on the Portal, there's a reason, and one common reason is that they're passing off non-Indian junk as authentic. Some authentic artisans may be off the Portal, but caveat emptor.
For higher-quality and -priced Indian art that you'll feel good about when you get it home, galleries cluster around the Plaza. Some reputable ones there are more are: