El Palacio – Art, History, & Culture of New Mexico

A hillside forest of scorched, leafless trees stands beneath a layer of mist, showing signs of recent wildfire damage.

Reckoning with 1776

By Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez

When Atomic Testimony Becomes Art

By Myrriah Gómez

Cruising the Mother Road

By Lazarus Letcher

A Question of Power

By Sandra Hale Schulman

Remembering as Resistance

By Shayla Blatchford

Chisme at the Museum: Rebuilding Community and Nurturing Tradition with Elena Baca and Jana Gottshalk

With Arthur López and Emily Withnall

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Editor's Letter

Troubling the Archive

When Fray Francisco Atanasio Domínguez traveled from Mexico City to the far frontier of New Mexico…

Cruising the Mother Road

Navigating Freedom and Precarity on Route 66

Indigenous arts and cultures

A Question of Power

Protecting Sheep, Medicine, and Air in the Navajo Nation

New Mexican history

When Atomic Testimony Becomes Art

The Generational Impacts of the Trinity Test

The Loss of the Commons

A Historic Context for the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon Fire