Acts of Love and Protection
BY CATALINA VICENTE WITH PW CHATTEY What’s the longest hike you’ve ever been on? A few hours, maybe a day [...]
Features
Spheres of Influence
BY MARSHA C. BOL Extraordinary how a small glass bead from the Italian island of Murano or the mountains of [...]
The Continuous Path
BY ROBERT PREUCEL AND SAMUEL DUWE When Juan de Oñate journeyed north up the Rio Grande valley in the summer [...]
The House of Mirth
BY LES DALY Meet James Holmes, “Compulsive Artistic Humorist.” That wouldn’t all be on his business [...]
History’s Footprints
BY LAURIE WEBSTER Visit the storage facility of any Southwestern anthropology museum, and you’ll see drawer [...]
An O’Keeffe Odyssey
BY KATE NELSON I don’t think the Museum of Art could have asked for or received a better birthday [...]
Stitched to the Soul
BY KATE NELSON Once upon a time, in a trading post on Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation, a bored [...]
Blazing New Trails
BY PATRICK MOORE New Mexico enjoys one of the most complex and culturally rich histories of any state in the [...]
The Secret Sanctuary
BY MICHAEL MILLER The New Mexico historic property known today as Los Luceros has supported consistent human [...]
Notching It Up
BY LAURA ADDISON When Napa-based artist Freeland Tanner speaks about his work, he often uses the word [...]
A Tribute to a Titan
BY LAURA ADDISON Lloyd Cotsen, the charismatic, longtime executive of Neutrogena Corporation from 1967 to [...]
Survival of the Artist
MODERATED BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER & CONDENSED BY CANDACE WALSH Peter: The Be Here Now collaborations are [...]
The View from Out There
BY CHRISTIAN WAGUESPACK “I think New Mexico is the greatest experience I ever had from the outside [...]
Headed into the Wind
BY JACK LOEFFLER I was a seventeen-year-old senior in high school when I received news that I had failed my [...]
Drawing Near To The Divine
"SUPPOSE ONE COULD CATCH THEM BEFORE they become ‘works of art?’ Catch them hot & sudden as they rise in the mind.” In her diary, Virginia Woolf examined the stuff of thought, its shape and contours as well as its inherent slipperiness. While she was largely concerned with literature, her questions apply just as well to the visual arts. What does an idea look like before it is labored over, crafted, and shaped into a finished piece? [...]
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