Into the Future
BY VALERIE K. VERZUH In contemporary art, Native American cultural power is located in the use of traditional [...]
2016
Willa on My Mind
BY CANDACE WALSH I’ll begin my editorship with a shameful confession: after fourteen years in Santa Fe, I [...]
Forever Young
A groundbreaking juvenile dinosaur discovery in northwestern New Mexico enlivens the record. BY DR. SPENCER [...]
Indelible Grace
BY LARS KRUTAK IN ASIA, TATTOOING TRADITIONS ABIDE AS BOTH PRAYER AND PROTECTION [...]
Sounding the Soul
BY CARMELLA PADILLA In the beginning was el cante—the song. The song was its own instrument. Its notes, [...]
The Adobe Ambassador
The Curious Backstory of the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Genesis. . . and Edifice BY KHRISTAAN D. [...]
The Exile Factor
Spanish Judaism, the Inquisition, and New World identities At an unprecedented exhibition, a hidden diaspora [...]
Machine Dreams
A LOW, SLOW JOURNEY FROM PACHUCO TO PRICELESS BY DON J. USNER It all began for Johnny Martinez when he went [...]
Chasing the Lowrider Muse
BY KATHERINE WARE It takes a special vision and a lot of hard work to transform an abandoned car into a [...]
Along the Pecos
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK One of the staples of desert life is the presence—or scarcity—of water. Its importance [...]
Finding a Contemporary Voice
BY CARMEN VENDELIN In the collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art, a group portrait by Fritz Scholder, [...]
More Than Doors
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL How many times had I passed through the doorway into the Neutrogena galleries at [...]
Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition
BY FRANCES LEVINE Summer, especially those without the cooling monsoon rains, can be long and hot in New [...]
Love Letter to the World
Love Letter to the World, a social-art project, was performed at The PASEO art festival in Taos in September [...]
O Catalog! My Catalog!
BY KATE NELSON Chances are you didn’t notice the seismic shift on September 30, 2015. I did, but only [...]
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