Summer 2021

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 [...]

Memento Mori

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

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