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For over a century, El Palacio has been a forum for voices exploring New Mexico’s art, archaeology, history, and landscape. Explore the writers, photographers, historians, and scientists whose perspectives have defined the magazine’s pages—past and present.
Arthur Sze is the current U.S. Poet Laureate. Sze is a poet, translator, and editor. He is the author of twelve books, including Into the Hush, Sight Lines, and others. Sze’s poems have been translated into fifteen languages, and he is the recipient of the National Book Award among many other honors. He lives in Santa Fe.
Deborah Jackson Taffa is a citizen of the Quechan Nation and Laguna Pueblo. Her memoir Whiskey Tender was a 2024 National Book Award Finalist and was longlisted for the 2025 Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. Taffa serves as the director of the MFA in creative writing program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
Cara Romero is an award-winning contemporary fine art photographer. An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero’s expansive oeuvre has been informed by formal training in film, digital, fine art, and commercial photography. She maintains a studio in Santa Fe, regularly participates in Native American art fairs, and was featured in PBS’ Craft in America (2019).
Adriel Heisey is an aerial photographer known for his sumptuous views of the Southwest and for beautiful and informative photographs of archaeological sites.
![Aerial view of a large red rock canyon with steep cliffs, green trees, and a sandy floor, showing clear layers of sediment and sparse vegetation. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Elevated-Perspectives_2-scaled-1-400x225.jpg)
The Ultimate Time - Lapse Photography Project BY MAXINE MCBRINN ONE LATE JANUARY MORNING, I WAS treated to an aerial overview of the greater Santa Fe region, flying with pilot-photographer Adriel Heisey. His work is featured in the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s exhibition Oblique Views: Archaeology, Photography, and Time alongside images of the northern Southwest and Rio Grande created by Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh in 1929.
![A stylized, blue-toned portrait of a man with a mustache, beard, and ruffled collar, painted with abstract and textured elements. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Shakespeares-First-Folio_6-400x225.jpg)
BY TOM IRELAND The title of the ongoing exhibition at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum—From New York to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism—reminds me of my coming-of-age in postwar New York City and raises the question of what brought so many homegrown immigrants, including artists, from a place of such material abundance to a place of such abundant emptiness. [wonderplugin_slider
![A small white airplane flies over a city, with buildings, roads, and greenery visible below. The pilot is seen through the cockpit window. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Adriel-Heisey_4-scaled-1-400x225.jpg)
with Maxine McBrinn Maxine McBrinn, curator of archaeology at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/Laboratory of Anthropology, traveled to Window Rock, Arizona, to talk with Adriel Heisey about MIAC’s exhibition Oblique Views: Archaeology, Photography and Time. [wonderplugin_slider id="84"] (more…)
![Aerial view of a winding road cutting through arid, rocky desert terrain; book title and author details on the left against a black background. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/Oblique-Views_1-400x225.jpg)
On a warm July afternoon in 1929, a small group of archaeologists gathered around a campfire deep in the heart of Arizona’s remote Canyon del Muerto. Light from the flames threw shadows across the nearby thousand-year-old ruins that they had spent the day excavating. (more…)
