Crash Report
BY CANDACE WALSH One of my least favorite jobs was working as a ghostwriter for a website’s figurehead. The [...]
Issues
A New Lease on Light
BY MICHELLE GALLAGER ROBERTS When the New Mexico Museum of Art opened its doors as a purpose-built art [...]
Family Affair
BY ROSS ALTSHULER How do skill, talent, and creativity run through New Mexico’s Native families of artists? [...]
Spheres of Influence
BY MARSHA C. BOL Extraordinary how a small glass bead from the Italian island of Murano or the mountains of [...]
Lives and Half-lives
BY MELANIE LABORWIT The Santa Fe Opera’s sense of place is extraordinary; operagoers watch world-class [...]
By the Book
BY JAMES GLISSON After nearly twenty years in Los Angeles, Frederick Hammersley (1919–2009) moved to [...]
A Sketch in Time
BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER They are words—jaw-dropping, amazing, wondrous—one doesn’t usually hear from [...]
The Science behind Frederick Hammersley’s Modern Art
BY JOSEPH TRAUGOTT I met Frederick Hammersley in the early 1980s. We bonded quickly around our shared [...]
Turning Toward the Taproot
BY EMILY WITHNAL Roxanne Swentzell’s kitchen does not have a refrigerator. Instead, books and large glass [...]
Radio Killed the Sheet Music Star
BY MEREDITH DAVIDSON AND JAMES M. KELLER Before radio and television, when making music at home was the [...]
Opening the Doors to Closure
BY AMY GROLEAU | TRANSLATED, FROM THE SPANISH, BY STEPHANIE RIGGS AND AMY GROLEAU At the height of the [...]
Outside the Frame
BY HANNAH ABELBECK Carl Newland Werntz was a painter, fine arts photographer, advertiser, illustrator, [...]
They Came to Heal and Stayed to Paint
BY NANCY OWEN LEWIS “The people in this part of the country have about as much use for an artist as their [...]
Roamings, Run-Ins, and Rendez-Vous
BY MERRY SCULLY Planning for our centennial exhibitions required reflection on the past, but also the kind of [...]
Living History
BY CANDACE WALSH History. When I was in high school in the eighties, it was called Social Studies. My teens [...]
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