The Accidental Angel
BY MARIE MARKESTEYN WITH CANDACE WALSH I truly believe that nobody ever really owns Los Luceros, but they [...]
2017
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 [...]
The History Whisperer
BY CAMILLE FLORES WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY MINESH BACRANIA Renowned historian Thomas E. Chávez is a grateful, if [...]
Getting the Points
BY CHRIS CREWS AND C.L. KIEFFER Saturday, October 21 is International Archaeology Day. For the past few years [...]
Positioning an Institution
BY CODY HARTLEY What is now Santa Fe is one of the old places in a region inhabited for at least 12,000 [...]
Rooted In History
As I enter the Palace of the Governors, I often stop at the doorway on the left. It opens onto an austere room—the Office of the Governors—where locally made wooden chairs sit around a table, representing long gone administrations: Spanish, Mexican, Territorial. [...]
Picturing the Future
Cultivating, weaving, and dyeing cotton were regular parts of Mo Aiqun’s childhood. Born in 1958 in the Zhuang village of Sanbao (Tian’e County, Guangxi), she began learning to sew and embroider when she was thirteen. Like many young women in her community, she arrived at her new husband’s home with quilts she made for her dowry. [...]
Remnants among the Ruins
The New Mexico History Museum and the Museum of International Folk Art Reflect on the Syrian Civil War [...]
In It Together
Becoming a conservator involves education, tradition...and channeling Macgyver. [...]
MAKING HISTORY
Cutting-edge, technology-driven operas may not seem like an immediate fit with the New Mexico History Museum, but if the goal is to explore emerging technology through the lens of history, this partnership is the solution. [...]
Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate
The exhibition Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate: Strategies Folk Artists Use in the Global Marketplace opens June 9 in the Museum of International Folk Art’s Gallery of Conscience. It explores the ways in which folk artists from around the world and in New Mexico work within the global market setting. [...]
Free to Be You and Me
BY CANDACE WALSH Once upon a time, I was a child in the seventies with hippie parents. Want proof? If I had [...]
The View from Out There
BY CHRISTIAN WAGUESPACK “I think New Mexico is the greatest experience I ever had from the outside [...]
Ages and Stages
The Museum of Art’s St. Francis Auditorium— a sanctuary for the soul of Santa Fe—turns 100. [...]
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