![A group of Indigenous dancers in traditional regalia perform ceremonial dances, with musicians seated to the left holding instruments and singing. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/defining_moment-400x225.jpg)
Defining Moments
In 1919, a Native art show at Santa Fe’s Museum of Art just happened to revolutionize American modernism.
Categories: Featured, New Mexican history, Southwestern history, Visual art
Spring 2017
2017 / Vol. 122 / No. 1
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Misunderstood, Maligned, and Divine
Some people consider tramp art one of the homeliest dust-gatherers that the human mind and hand have concocted,” Michael Cornish noted in a 1993 essay titled “Tramp Art: A Personal Appreciation.”
Categories: Featured, New Mexican history, Southwestern history, Visual art
![A woman with shoulder-length dark hair, wearing a black top and a large necklace, stands outdoors in front of a corrugated metal structure. [gen-ai]](https://elpalacio.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/naranjo-400x225.jpg)