Windows into Wonder
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK What makes vintage photographs so fascinating? Unidentified folks, long-gone buildings, [...]
Culture
Man of Clay
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL He thrust his huge head forward, his mouth open. He held out his left hand, [...]
Stitches in Time
BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER DESPITE SOME SIMILARITIES—like long tables, extendable lights, and various tubes [...]
Provisions for the Soul
BY TRIAN NGUYEN The Yao objects in the Museum of International Folk Art’s Sacred Realm exhibition have [...]
Shields of Grace
BY ROGER LOUIS MARTÍNEZ-DÁVILA Faced with deadly religious discrimination that demanded more than faith and [...]
Elevated perspectives
The Ultimate Time – Lapse Photography Project BY MAXINE MCBRINN ONE LATE JANUARY MORNING, I WAS treated [...]
Finding Their Niche
BY KATE NELSON The New Mexico Museum of Art’s early alcove shows drew waves of artists to Santa Fe and [...]
Drawn to Truth
Ricardo Caté’s Humor Knows No Borders – or Bounds BY LES DALY “ALL I WANT IS TO BE FUNNY, ” [...]
Footsteps and Fragments
El Camino Real Historic Site is both a fixed point and a meditation on the journey. [...]
Its Own Beautiful Self
In 1912, the year of New Mexico statehood, Santa Fe’s city fathers, including Edgar Lee Hewett, Sylvanus Morley, and Carlos Vierra, formed the city’s first Planning Board. With little money, but astounding drive, this prescient group launched itself into the unknowns of historic preservation, town planning, revival architecture, and commercial success. [...]
Party of the People
By painting Fiesta de Santa Fe’s 1926 parade, Gustave Baumann captured the city’s social evolution—in motion—in a singular work recently donated to the New Mexico History Museum. [...]
New Settlers
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK Arriving on New Mexico’s counterculture scene in the mid- 1960s, Irwin Klein used his [...]
The Tiny House Movement
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL Nowhere can the unique beauty of the Santa Fe style be better appreciated than in [...]
A Parting Shot
At Lincoln Historic Site, theories have a way of coming out of the woodwork. BY GARY COZZENS On April 28, [...]
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