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

An older man walks through a field of leafless trees with a white dog on a grassy path during daylight. — Arthur Sze at his home in Santa Fe, 2025.

Arthur Sze

By Kathryne Lim and Arthur Sze

Photographs by Don J. Usner

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El Placio Plática: The women of the Chicano Movement

By Myrriah Gómez and Emily Withnall

A selection of Arthur Sze’s poetry

By Arthur Sze

What Happens to the Land, Happens to the People

By Dr. Christina M. Castro (Taos & Jemez Pueblos)

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