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WILLIAM CLIFT WTH KATHERINE WARE A longtime resident of New Mexico, photographer William Clift has returned again and again to two monolithic sites that dominate their expansive landscapes: (more…)
Categories: Featured, Visual art
BY JACK THORP What’s become of the punchers We rode with long ago? The hundreds and hundreds of cowboys We all of us used to know? (more…)
Categories: Poetry
BY B. BYRON PRICE Among the many outstanding photographs of cowboy and ranch life in Santa Fe’s Palace of the Governors Photo Archives are just over two dozen images taken in and around Deming, New Mexico, in the early 1890s by amateur photographer Ella K. Wormser. (more…)
Categories: Featured
BY DODY FUGATE In the 1990s, while cleaning up a collection of early pottery from a site near Zuni Pueblo, I came across a bag of artifacts collected by archaeologist Bertha Dutton and her “Dirty Diggers”—Girl Scout archaeologists-in-training. (more…)
Categories: Featured
Artist Peter Sarkisian has said that he is more interested in questions than answers. The questions he poses through his work constellate around the tensions of paradox. Is it real, or is it illusion? Is it image, or is it object? Is it surface, or is it interior? In posing these questions, he seeks to redefine spectatorship as an active and critical, rather than a passive, endeavor.
Categories: Featured, Visual art
BY MICHELLE GALLAGHER ROBERTS Two nearly identical paintings of a young cowboy named Gerald Marr: one is owned by the New Mexico Museum of Art, the other by the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center. (more…)
Categories: Featured, Visual art
BY CYNTHIA BAUGHMAN Cowboys Real and Imagined is on view at the New Mexico History Museum, and in this issue we round up cowboy and horse stories from across our museums. (more…)
Categories: Editor's Letter
Basashi is easy to chew, and mighty tasty when dipped in a garlic-soy sauce. Deep red in color, well-marbled, sliced thin—in Japan, raw horsemeat is a delicacy. As I tried some basashi along with other unfamiliar dishes in a hot springs resort on the southern island of Kyushu, I reflected on the many mountain men who dined on horse and mule meat in the American West.
Categories: Uncategorized
BY JOSEPH TRAUGOTT Horses have always served as potent symbols of the West for easterners as well as locals. Back in the Saddle builds on this reality by presenting twenty-five works from the New Mexico Museum of Art collection. (more…)
Categories: Visual art
BY SUZANNE SERIFF Since the inception of the Gallery of Conscience in 2010, the Museum of International Folk Art has mounted three successful exhibitions in this space: (more…)
Categories: Visual art
