Oblique Views
On a warm July afternoon in 1929, a small group of archaeologists gathered around a campfire deep in the [...]
Issues
Great Space of Land Unknown
A Sampler of the Chávez Library Map Collection BY PATRICIA HEWITT Maps can be educational, symbolic, [...]
This Is How It Began
BY VALERIE MARTÍNEZ The cyclone leaves blood on the land— hoof prints, imprints of heeled boots, sounds [...]
That Sink of Vice and Extravagance
Santa Fe’s Fort Marcy Military Reservation BY MATTHEW J. BARBOUR On August 15, 1846, General Stephen Watts [...]
The Summer of Color
BY CYNTHIA BAUGHMAN The spectacular exhibition at the Museum of International Folk Art, The Red That Colored [...]
The Wheelwright Museum Reinvents Itself with an Expanded Mission Navajo and Pueblo Jewelry
BY JONATHAN BATKIN This summer the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian celebrates the opening of the [...]
El Color Morado (The Color Purple)
BY AMANDA CROCKER Phoenicia — not New Mexico — is the land of purple. However, purple will get the [...]
Colors of the Southwest
BY CARMEN VENDELIN Contemporary artist Beverley Magennis, describing her first foray into New Mexico in 1975, [...]
Blue on Blue
Indigo and Cobalt in New Spain BY ROBIN FARWELL GAVIN In 1957, as renovations were being made to the [...]
Turquoise Tenacity
Saving Every Last Bit For Santo Domino’s Mosaic Jewelry BY CINDRA KLINE Turquoise is the Museum of [...]
Adobe Summer
BY KATE NELSON Mix desert soil with sun and water and you can produce one of the strongest building materials [...]
True Colors
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL It has stopped me in my tracks every time I have encountered Luis Jiménez’s [...]
Georgia O’Keeffe Line, Color, Composition
BY CODY HARTLEY Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I [...]
Cables from Hiroshima
BY THOMAS LEECH In a sheet of paper the immeasurable strength of a human being is concealed. – Kuo Hamada [...]
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