History
Windows into Wonder
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK What makes vintage photographs so fascinating? Unidentified folks, long-gone buildings, [...]
Man of Clay
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL He thrust his huge head forward, his mouth open. He held out his left hand, [...]
Olive Rush
Finding Her Place in the Santa Fe Art Colony JANN HAYNES GILMORE By May 15 the party had arrived in Santa Fe, [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
The Sound Of Drums
After four years serving his country in the navy during World War II, Lloyd Kiva New took a spur‑of‑the‑moment drive to Scottsdale, Arizona, to reconnect with leisure and the landscape. This day trip would both change his life—and make history [...]
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