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Ages and Stages
The Museum of Art’s St. Francis Auditorium— a sanctuary for the soul of Santa Fe—turns 100.
Categories: New Mexican history, Southwestern history, Visual art
Summer 2017
2017 / Vol. 122 / No. 2
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A Different Angle
Sleeping During the Day: Vietnam, 1968, curated by Daniel Kosharek, includes thirty-three black-and-white images on view through October 1, 2017. Kosharek is photo curator at the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives, which has housed the Herbert Lotz Collection since 2008. A survey of Lotz’s personal letters from Vietnam accompanies the photographs.
Categories: New Mexican history, Southwestern history, Visual art
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The Art Of Listening
What is a need? Lama founder Barbara Durkee (now Asha Greer), speaking about the 1967 founding of Lama Commune just north of Taos, explains that she knew there was a need for water, and hot water at that; here in New Mexico there is always a need for water. Her needs did not extend much beyond that. Experiencing a back-tothe land lifestyle on the side of a mountain was the real need she was attempting to fulfill. The pursuit of this desire was one of the many products of the rise of the 1960s and 1960s counterculture in the American Southwest.
Categories: Featured, New Mexican history, Southwestern history
Drawing Near To The Divine
"SUPPOSE ONE COULD CATCH THEM BEFORE they become ‘works of art?’ Catch them hot & sudden as they rise in the mind.” In her diary, Virginia Woolf examined the stuff of thought, its shape and contours as well as its inherent slipperiness. While she was largely concerned with literature, her questions apply just as well to the visual arts. What does an idea look like before it is labored over, crafted, and shaped into a finished piece?
Categories: Featured, New Mexican history, Southwestern history, Visual art