2021

Public Works of Art Collection, Work Projects Administration. Courtesy of the New Mexico State Records Center & Archives. Collection 0200-0201 (#wpa5383).

Found in Collection

By Michelle Gallagher Roberts In early 2007, staff at the New Mexico Museum of Art were implementing the [...]

Hermosa, 2021. Archival pigment photograph. 47 ½ × 40 inches. © Cara Romero, courtesy of Gerald Peters Contemporary.

In Conversation with the Sea

By Emily Withnall Photographs by Cara Romero In Cara Romero’s black and white photograph Sand & Stone, [...]

Independent Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery. Courtesy of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Santa Fe Chapter. Photograph by Carrie McCarthy.

A Hidden History of the Dead

By Dr. Alysia L. Abbott In an ancient city brimming with monuments to her last 400 years, most of the people [...]

Joe Feddersen, 2019. Photograph by Charles Froelick and courtesy Froelick Gallery, Portland, Oregon.

Glass is the Memory of Light

By Almah LaVon Rice Where does glass come from? From the Phoenicians, ancestors of the alphabet in modern-day [...]

The stepped roofline of the Roy E. Disney Center for the Performing Arts cuts a dramatic impression into the Albuquerque sky. Photograph by Addison Doty.

Archi-story

By Carmella Padilla Stepping onto the sprawling campus of the National Hispanic Cultural Center in late [...]

Exposition Hall, Tertio-Millennial Exposition, Santa Fe, New Mexico, ca. 1880-1890. Photograph by Ben Wittick. Courtesy the Ben Wittick Collection, Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), neg. no. 015860.

Picturesque, Romantic, Practical

By James E. Snead Susan Elston Wallace was not impressed with Santa Fe. “It is the small boast of the [...]

Ghost Shirt, 2014. Glass and rebar. 34 ½ × 51 ½ × 18 in. Accession/catalog no. CHP-187, collection of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts. Photograph by Eric Wimmer. Courtesy the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.

Story Tellers in Glass

By Dr. Letitia Chambers Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass is a groundbreaking exhibition [...]

Thieves cut out Navajo images from this cliff face south of Bloomfield, New Mexico. Photograph courtesy Kenneth Russell.

Eyes on the Land

By Paul Weideman Messing with the matrix. That’s one of the problems with the modern-day fad of stacking [...]

Eva Mirabal, Buy War Bonds, 1942. Offset poster, 19 ¾ × 16 1⁄8 in., unframed. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman. The James T. Bialac Native American Art Collection, 2010.

We’ve Got a War to Win!

By Lois Rudnick and Jonathan Warm Day Coming The following is an excerpt from the third chapter of Eva [...]

Territory Senator, Holm Bursum, Socorro, New Mexico, ca. 1900-1910. Courtesy Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), neg. no. 077073.

The Cause of Every American Artist

By Oliver Horn, PhD In May 1921, New Mexico Senator Holm O. Bursum introduced a bill to Congress that would [...]

Memento Mori

By Charlotte Jusinski My dog died during the production of this magazine. Maybe it’s not standard for these [...]

Summer Poetry: Lauren Camp

—Lauren Camp is the author of five poetry collections, including Took House, published by Tupelo Press in [...]

Display of coke from Cerillos mining district, Tertio-Millennial Exposition, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1893. Photograph by Bennett and Brown. Courtesy Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), neg. no. 011002.

Buy the World a Coke

By Andrew Wice This photograph celebrates the abundance of the Cerrillos coal beds, located about twenty-five [...]

Will Shuster, Self Portrait, 1931. Oil on canvas. 30 × 24 in. Courtesy the family of Will Shuster, Santa Fe, and Zaplin Lampert Gallery, Santa Fe.

Bohemian Rhapsody

By Christian Waguespack A century ago, in 1920, serious health issues brought Pennsylvania-born artist [...]

Elaine Horwitch, circa 1986. Photograph courtesy Julie Sasse.

We Like Your Digs, Your Style, and Your Art

By Julie Sasse Elaine Horwitch was a major force in contemporary art in the Southwest from the late 1960s [...]

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