The Grace of Water and the Focus of Rock
BY PATSY PHILLIPS On September 20, 2019, Suzan Shown Harjo (Cheyenne, Hodulgee Muscogee) will be honored with [...]
Issues
Illustrative Artists
BY CHRISTIAN WAGUESPACK America’s land is at the heart of our national visual character. In the attempt to [...]
When Georgia Met Sandro
BY KATE NELSON In the Museum of International Folk Art, curator Laura Addison opens a nondescript flat file [...]
New Mexico to the Bone
BY SPENCER G. LUCAS AND RICK HENDRICKS New Mexico has long been world-famous as a place where [...]
A Dazzling Denizen
BY JESS MULLALY Alexander Girard might be thought of as the man at the beginning of the rainbow. As [...]
Family Ties
BY KATE NELSON Back in 1917, John Pickard had a problem. A renowned art historian and archaeologist at the [...]
The Canyon Under the Lake
BY KATHERINE WARE Some places are so special that we can’t wait to visit them again and again. For many [...]
They Also Dug
BY CATHERINE S. FOWLER AND NANCY J. PAREZO If asked, could you name five or more archaeologists famous for [...]
Return of the Chongo Brothers
BY EMILY WITHNALL For Mateo and Diego Romero, being named the 2019 recipients of the Museum of Indian Arts [...]
On Display in Santa Fe (Part II)
BY DAVID ROHR (You can read Part 1 here). On a warm evening in August of 1917, a group of prominent painters [...]
Gone but Not Conquered
BY C.L. KIEFFER AND DEVORAH ROMANEK Most exhibits take years to plan, which is antithetical for museums that [...]
Art on Defeat
BY CANDACE WALSH It’s an ancient question: what do you do with defeat? The question flows from ancient [...]
Petal Pusher
BY KATHERINE WARE It’s spring, and our fancy turns to flowers. For those who are not the gardening sort, or [...]
The Captive
BY PAUL ANDREW HUTTON The Mexican soldiers came late in the Spring of 1855. The people saw them in the [...]
On display in Santa Fe (Part I)
BY DAVID ROHR Sylvanus Morley was starting to worry. It was November 1912—only days away from the public [...]
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