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The Art Of Listening

What is a need? Lama founder Barbara Durkee (now Asha Greer), speaking about the 1967 founding of Lama Commune just north of Taos, explains that she knew there was a need for water, and hot water at that; here in New Mexico there is always a need for water. Her needs did not extend much beyond that. Experiencing a back-tothe land lifestyle on the side of a mountain was the real need she was attempting to fulfill. The pursuit of this desire was one of the many products of the rise of the 1960s and 1960s counterculture in the American Southwest. [...]

Trading Places

Seeing the Santa Fe Trail from the flip side. [...]

Palace Intrigue

Deciphering secrets... behind walls and below floors [...]

Defining Moments

In 1919, a Native art show at Santa Fe’s Museum of Art just happened to revolutionize American modernism. [...]

A Certain Point of View

I’ve noticed that we don’t witness anything firsthand any longer. Our first reaction to anything that happens in real life is to record it, post it, snap it, share it. [...]

Misunderstood, Maligned, and Divine

Some people consider tramp art one of the homeliest dust-gatherers that the human mind and hand have concocted,” Michael Cornish noted in a 1993 essay titled “Tramp Art: A Personal Appreciation.” [...]

Provisions for the Soul

BY TRIAN NGUYEN The Yao objects in the Museum of International Folk Art’s Sacred Realm exhibition have [...]

Shields of Grace

BY ROGER LOUIS MARTÍNEZ-DÁVILA Faced with deadly religious discrimination that demanded more than faith and [...]

Elevated perspectives

The Ultimate Time – Lapse Photography Project BY MAXINE MCBRINN ONE LATE JANUARY MORNING, I WAS treated [...]

Finding Their Niche

BY KATE NELSON The New Mexico Museum of Art’s early alcove shows drew waves of artists to Santa Fe and [...]

New Light on the Village of Kuaua

BY ETHAN [...]

Drawn to Truth

Ricardo Caté’s Humor Knows No Borders – or Bounds BY LES DALY “ALL I WANT IS TO BE FUNNY, ” [...]

Dates With History

Behind The Scenes At The Palace Of The Governors Photo Archives BY LES DALY Like a ghost, the photograph of [...]

Hide and Seek

BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER IN A PLEASANTLY CHAOTIC room near the Stewart L. Udall Center’s maintenance office, [...]

Blood Oaths

Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, the Inquisition, and New World Identities, currently at the New Mexico History Museum, tells the history of the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula, many of whom were forced to convert to Christianity or expelled from the peninsula for rejecting conversion. [...]

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