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 [...]
History
Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition
BY FRANCES LEVINE Summer, especially those without the cooling monsoon rains, can be long and hot in New [...]
O Catalog! My Catalog!
BY KATE NELSON Chances are you didn’t notice the seismic shift on September 30, 2015. I did, but only [...]
Lloyd Kiva New: Art, Design, and Influence
BY TATIANA LOMAHAFTEWA-SINGER Lloyd Kiva New: Art, Design, and Influence, at the Institute of American Indian [...]
A New Century
BY TONY R. CHAVARRIA A New Century: The Life of Cherokee Artist and Educator Lloyd “Kiva” New, at the [...]
Finding a Contemporary Voice
BY CARMEN VENDELIN In the collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art, a group portrait by Fritz Scholder, [...]
Back to the Future: Preserving Historic Lincoln
BY ALISON SWING When you walk through the streets of Lincoln, New Mexico, you see the culmination of [...]
The Morris Miniature Circus
BY LAURA ADDISON The golden age of the American circus (1870s–1930s) coincided with an era of modernization [...]
Everything New is New Again
BY CINDRA KLINE LLOYD HENRI KIVA NEW’s life as designer, artist, scholar, and visionary educator remains a [...]
Blessings and Good Fortune
BY FELICIA KATZ-HARRIS Almost universally, yet through varied means and belief systems, people have found [...]
Miguel Romero
In New Mexico the flamenco tradition is now several generations strong. Even though there have been many contributors to the development and growth of flamenco in our state, dancer Vicente Romero (1937–95) is widely credited with creating the vibrant flamenco scene in northern New Mexico that still thrives today. [...]
Through the Looking Glass
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK Glass negatives were a boon to photography when they were first introduced in the 1860s. [...]
The Enchanted Staircase
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL At first I thought it was a private stairway connecting two of Santa Fe’s hubs [...]
The Spirit of Flamenco
BY NICOLASA CHÁVEZ Why has this way of life, so natural in Spain, become such a fixture in New Mexico? Why [...]
New Life for an Old Pot
BY GARY COZZENS It must have been a good year for the Jornada Mogollon farmer tending his field along Rio [...]
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