Five Barrels of Cochineal A Gift from King Philip III of Spain to Shah ‘Abbas I of Iran
BY MARIANNA SHREVE SIMPSON On April 8, 1614, Castilian nobleman Don García de Silva y Figueroa set sail from [...]
2015
Seeing Red
Finding Cochineal BY MARK MACKENZIE Enter the Museum of International Folk Art exhibition The Red That [...]
Turquoise, Water, Sky: Meaning and Beauty in Southwest Native Arts
BY MAXINE E. MCBRINN AND ROSS E. ALTSHULER Attend any gathering — whether ceremonial or civic — of [...]
On (Not) Leaving Home
BY TOM IRELAND It’s been over forty years since I and my wife at the time, newly married, bought four [...]
Fading Memories
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK The power of a photograph to provide meaning when one is struggling with loss is [...]
Surpassing Beauty
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL A sense of awe pervades the galleries of the remarkable exhibition Painting the [...]
Indian Country
BY VALERIE K. VERZUH Through his career, artist David Paul Bradley, an enrolled member of the Minnesota [...]
From Bombs to Baubles
BY CYNTHIA BAUGHMAN This spring we mark the seventieth anniversary of the first detonation of the atomic bomb [...]
“Quilts Is in Everything”
BY LAURA M. ADDISON “The most miraculous works of modern art America has produced” is how Michael [...]
Pouring What the Vessel Holds
Four Southern Potters Speak BY KAREN M. DUFFYC Currently on exhibit at the Museum of International [...]
Santo Domingo Pueblo’s Depression Jewelry
BY CINDRA KLINE Following the 1929 stock market crash and the subsequent Great Depression, spectacularly [...]
The Arts Of Nuclear (Dis)Enchantment
BY LOIS P. RUDNICK Perhaps in no other comparable area on earth are condensed so many [...]
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