Plain Geometry
BY BOBBIE SUMBERG In 1971 the quiet power of dark colors and large, simple shapes seen in Amish quilts exploded into the art world in the Whitney Museum exhibition Abstract Design in American Quilts. (more…)
Categories: Visual art
Spring 2013
2013 / Vol. 118 / No. 1
Copper Pots Get Hammered
BY CYNTHIA BAUGHMAN Several years ago curator Nicolasa Chávez was in Trujillo, Spain, conducting research and shopping for her exhibition, New World Cuisine: The Histories of Chocolate, Mate y Más, which opened at the Museum of International Folk Art in December. (more…)
Categories: New Mexican cultures, New Mexican history, Southwestern history
At The Corner of Lincoln and Palace
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK Probably one of the most photographed buildings in Santa Fe is the New Mexico Museum of Art, on the northwest corner of the plaza at Palace and Lincoln Avenue. (more…)
Categories: Framework