State of the Arts
BY TRICIA WARE This year’s Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts honors David Bradley, whose [...]
Culture
Dates With History
Behind The Scenes At The Palace Of The Governors Photo Archives BY LES DALY Like a ghost, the photograph of [...]
Hide and Seek
BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER IN A PLEASANTLY CHAOTIC room near the Stewart L. Udall Center’s maintenance office, [...]
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. [...]
Footsteps and Fragments
El Camino Real Historic Site is both a fixed point and a meditation on the journey. [...]
Sounding the Soul
BY CARMELLA PADILLA In the beginning was el cante—the song. The song was its own instrument. Its notes, [...]
The Adobe Ambassador
The Curious Backstory of the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Genesis. . . and Edifice BY KHRISTAAN D. [...]
The Exile Factor
Spanish Judaism, the Inquisition, and New World identities At an unprecedented exhibition, a hidden diaspora [...]
Some of the Great Potters
I Have Known: Maria Martinez BY FRANCES H. HARLOW The pueblo nearest Los Alamos is San Ildefonso. First [...]
Machine Dreams
A LOW, SLOW JOURNEY FROM PACHUCO TO PRICELESS BY DON J. USNER It all began for Johnny Martinez when he went [...]
What Difference Does Archaeology Make?
BY SCOTT ORTMAN This is a question I worry about constantly. We live in a world with many challenges, from [...]
Chasing the Lowrider Muse
BY KATHERINE WARE It takes a special vision and a lot of hard work to transform an abandoned car into a [...]
A Moving Passion
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK In 1977 Lowrider magazine quietly launched in San Jose, California, with the intent of [...]
Collectors’ Collections
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK There are people in the world we call collectors, and if not for them most of our museums [...]
Painted Power
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIBEL If you are as disoriented as I first was by the profusion of saints and crucifixes [...]
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