Fall 2016

2016 / Vol. 121 / No. 3

Read Hide and Seek Faded, elongated mural with light blue and beige tones, depicting numerous figures and trees, bordered by a decorative floral pattern. [gen-ai]

Hide and Seek

BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER IN A PLEASANTLY CHAOTIC room near the Stewart L. Udall Center’s maintenance office, Mark MacKenzie, the Conservation Lab’s chief conservator, is figuring out how to photograph the Segesser Hides in near microscopic detail, in eighteen wavelengths and three spectra, only one of which we can see. While not an everyday task, it’s something that’s deep in MacKenzie’s bones and the culture of his tiny, albeit world-class, four-person lab.

By Peter BG Shoemaker

Categories: Featured, Staff favorites, Visual art

Read New Settlers A group of people in bohemian attire walk together outdoors, some holding hands and smiling, in a black-and-white photo. [gen-ai]

New Settlers

BY DANIEL KOSHAREK Arriving on New Mexico’s counterculture scene in the mid- 1960s, Irwin Klein used his camera to tell stories. To look at his photographs today is to feel your shirt sticking to your back from fieldwork, to smell the smoke from cooking fires, and to look into the eyes of someone who shared your philosophy of life and perhaps your communal bed.

By Daniel Kosharek

Categories: Framework

Read The Tiny House Movement Two people work closely on a textured, sculpted surface attached to a wall; one is focused on shaping the material while the other observes. [gen-ai]

The Tiny House Movement

BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL Nowhere can the unique beauty of the Santa Fe style be better appreciated than in the courtyard of the New Mexico Museum of Art, where you can take in its sculpted silhouette against the intensely blue sky. But few have discovered the hidden treasure tucked away in a blind window in the southwest corner of the portal.

By Penelope Hunter-Stiebel

Categories: Visual art

Read A Parting Shot A bullet hole with shattered glass is set in a weathered wall. A sign above reads: Legend has it that this hole was put here by a bullet from Billy the Kid’s six-shooter when he escaped. [gen-ai]

A Parting Shot

At Lincoln Historic Site, theories have a way of coming out of the woodwork. BY GARY COZZENS On April 28, 1881, William H. Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, arguably made the most famous jail escape in New Mexico history. Bonney was confined in the old Murphy-Dolan Store, which had been purchased by Lincoln County five months before and was being converted into the county courthouse.

By Gary Cozzens

Categories: Essays and memoir

Read In Need of a Good Home Book cover of The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros featuring an illustration of three women with muted colors and calm expressions. [gen-ai]

In Need of a Good Home

BY CANDACE WALSH The House on Mango Street, published in 1984, is a contemporary American classic. You’ll find the American Book Award winner on high school summer reading lists, college syllabi, and stages in the form of a play. It even inspired a traveling art exhibition of the same name, on view at the National Hispanic Cultural Center through September 25.

By Candace Walsh

Categories: Editor's Letter

Read Dates With History  Two young girls in dresses sit on donkeys in a dirt street, with two adults standing nearby and buildings visible in the background. [gen-ai]

Dates With History 

Behind The Scenes At The Palace Of The Governors Photo Archives BY LES DALY Like a ghost, the photograph of an elderly woman appears unexpectedly from time to time among the vast photo archives of the New Mexico History Museum. Curator Daniel Kosharek has come across her a couple of times. Digital archivist Hannah Abelbeck thinks she saw her, too, before she quickly disappeared again.

By Les Daly

Categories: Featured

Read Blood Oaths A black-and-white aerial view of a Gothic cathedral with pointed spires, surrounded by historic buildings and countryside in the background. [gen-ai]

Blood Oaths

Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, the Inquisition, and New World Identities, currently at the New Mexico History Museum, tells the history of the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula, many of whom were forced to convert to Christianity or expelled from the peninsula for rejecting conversion.

By José Antonio Esquibel

Categories: Featured, Visual art