New Mexico Through Its Maps
BY DENNIS REINHARTZ, PH.D. What is a map? The answer to this apparently simple question is wide-ranging and laced with complexity. (more…)
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Summer 2012
2012 / Vol. 117 / No. 2
Learning New Mexico, Finding Home
Jack Parsons with Carmella Padilla Jack Parsons’ latest book, Dark Beauty: Photographs of New Mexico, includes a photo of a dirt road that cuts a slender path toward a scarcely snow-capped Taos Mountain. (more…)
Categories: Featured, Interviews, Visual art
And La Bruja Brought The Sunflowers
BY LOIS P. RUDNICK La Bruja The sunflowers of northern New Mexico are one of the sumptuous visual delights for residents and visitors in summertime. But they are also an invasive weed. (more…)
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Portraits From The Pen
BY SIBEL MELIK Convicted murderer José D. Gallegos, Inmate No. 637, stares out of the frame with a haunted, angry look in his pale eyes. He wears an ill-fitting prison uniform, and his large hands rest heavily on his lap. (more…)
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Under The Moon I Saw In Exile
BY BRIAN MINAMI “My father was here during the war.” On a family vacation in Santa Fe in the late 1990s, my grandmother broached a subject which had gone unmentioned for decades. (more…)
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The Art of Gaman
BY DELPHINE HIRASUNA For decades after World War II ended, when older Japanese Americans met for the first time, they would inevitably ask each other, “Which camp were you in?” (more…)
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Hidden Secrets of the Hides
BY KATE NELSON In the close confines of a Palace of the Governors gallery, a group of scientists wearing ultraviolet protective goggles aimed some of the most modern equipment in the world at some of the oldest artifacts in the state. (more…)
Categories: Featured, New Mexican cultures, New Mexican history, Southwestern history, Visual art