2023

The Poetry of Belonging

In a collaboration with the New Mexico State Library’s Poetry Center, inaugural New Mexico Poet Laureate [...]

The USS Bryant, on which Dominic was stationed, photographed in South Carolina on January 7, 1944. Images courtesy of Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum, Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.

Gallup to Guam

By Mark J. Crawford Although new to America and often struggling to find work, Italian immigrants Joe and [...]

Wilfred Stedman, a noted Santa Fe artist, created many maps that featured on covers and on inside pages. May 1936; image courtesy New Mexico Magazine.

The Accidental Archivist

By Kate Nelson MY INTRODUCTION to New Mexico Magazine’s archive in 2013 elicited my inner Bette Davis. Led [...]

A Flower is More Than a Flower

By C.L. Kieffer When you walk the Los Luceros Historic Site property, the apple orchard is impossible to [...]

Ground Zero Trinity site, epicenter of first explosion, San Antonio, New Mexico, 1945. J. Robert Oppenheimer (center left) and Lieutenant General Groves (center) investigate the wreckage. Courtesy the Santa Fe New Mexican Collection, Palace of the Governors Photo Archives (NMHM/DCA), neg. no. HP.2014.14.1712.

A Blinding Light

By Andrew Wice With a fireball brighter than the New Mexican sun, matter flashed into energy at 5:29 a.m. on [...]

A New Frame for New Mexican Art

BY RAY MARK RINALDI WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR A PIECE OF ART TO BE NEW MEXICAN? Does it have to be created in the [...]

An eastern view of the almacén, featuring one of the two Folk Territorial doors that were added to the structure by Mary Cabot Wheelwright and Caroline Pfaffle in the early twentieth century.

Adobe Vistas

By Carlyn Stewart and C. I. Kieffer Photographs by Carlyn Stewart On a beautiful fall day in Northern New [...]

Front Foot Leads the Back One

By Charlotte Jusinski A little over four years ago—on July 29, 2019, but who’s counting—I walked [...]

Artist’s conceptualization of life at Lake Otero. Missing from the image are trees. Researchers believe that the area was forested with pine, spruce and cottonwood, among other species. Research on pollens from the footprint layers is ongoing, with results expected next year. Image by Karen Carr; courtesy of the National Park Service.

History, Science, Mythology, and the First Americans

By Jim O’Donnell A young woman hurried across the flat, trailing footprints. At times she slipped. At times [...]

Rapheal Begay (Diné), Navel (Hunter’s Point, AZ), 2017. Photo mural, 102 × 132 inches. Courtesy the artist.

Sheep is Life

By Rapheal Begay As Diné, we embody a holistic relationship with dibé (sheep), kéyah (land), and hooghan [...]

Looking Back to Look Ahead

By Charlotte Jusinski Not-so-hot take: There is so much we can learn from the past and from those who came [...]

Over the course of its existence as a state monument and historic site, Fort Selden received not only attention to stabilize and preserve its adobe walls, but it also garnered attention for adobe experimentation

Everything Changes

Text and photographs by Dr. Rhonda Dass Time changes everything. A lot has changed at Fort Selden in the [...]

Bobby Lynn Brower (Iñupiaq), Seal Skin Jacket, 2021, Utqia vik, Alaska. Spotted seal skin. Modeled by Bradley Brower (Iñupiaq). Photograph © Brian Adams.

Sharing Our Identity and Keeping Warm

By Dr. Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi Every time I see a sea otter pelt, I instinctively want to run my hands across [...]

Fragments of the Story: Who was Mary Greene Blumenschein?

By Marcy Botwick There are many stories waiting to be discovered at the New Mexico History Museum, [...]

Rapheal Begay (Diné), Spider Rock (Tseyi—Canyon de Chelly, Chinle, AZ) (detail), 2021. Digital photograph. Courtesy the artist.

A Diné Horizon

By Dr. Michelle J. Lanteri A horizon connects multiple planes of existence by way of light, and experiencing [...]

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