Painted Power
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIBEL If you are as disoriented as I first was by the profusion of saints and crucifixes [...]
Summer 2016
Collectors’ Collections
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK There are people in the world we call collectors, and if not for them most of our museums [...]
Into the Future
BY VALERIE K. VERZUH In contemporary art, Native American cultural power is located in the use of traditional [...]
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 [...]
A Moving Passion
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK In 1977 Lowrider magazine quietly launched in San Jose, California, with the intent of [...]
What Difference Does Archaeology Make?
BY SCOTT ORTMAN This is a question I worry about constantly. We live in a world with many challenges, from [...]
Some of the Great Potters
I Have Known: Maria Martinez BY FRANCES H. HARLOW The pueblo nearest Los Alamos is San Ildefonso. First [...]
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