On (Not) Leaving Home
BY TOM IRELAND It’s been over forty years since I and my wife at the time, newly married, bought four [...]
Issues
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 [...]
Adobe Summer
BY KATE NELSON Mix desert soil with sun and water and you can produce one of the strongest building materials [...]
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 [...]
David Bradley: The Postmodern Trickster
BY VALERIE K. VERZUH In fine art, postmodernism embraces diversity and contradiction, destabilization, and [...]
Fading Memories
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK The power of a photograph to provide meaning when one is struggling with loss is [...]
Stories to Tell
BY MATTHEW J. BARBOUR Dreams come true. Certainly mine did. In early 2013, I took over as manager of Jemez [...]
The Arts Of Nuclear (Dis)Enchantment
BY LOIS P. RUDNICK Perhaps in no other comparable area on earth are condensed so many [...]
Santo Domingo Pueblo’s Depression Jewelry
BY CINDRA KLINE Following the 1929 stock market crash and the subsequent Great Depression, spectacularly [...]
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