The Secret Sanctuary
BY MICHAEL MILLER The New Mexico historic property known today as Los Luceros has supported consistent human [...]
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Notching It Up
BY LAURA ADDISON When Napa-based artist Freeland Tanner speaks about his work, he often uses the word [...]
A Tribute to a Titan
BY LAURA ADDISON Lloyd Cotsen, the charismatic, longtime executive of Neutrogena Corporation from 1967 to [...]
The View from Out There
BY CHRISTIAN WAGUESPACK “I think New Mexico is the greatest experience I ever had from the outside [...]
Headed into the Wind
BY JACK LOEFFLER I was a seventeen-year-old senior in high school when I received news that I had failed my [...]
Drawing Near To The Divine
"SUPPOSE ONE COULD CATCH THEM BEFORE they become ‘works of art?’ Catch them hot & sudden as they rise in the mind.” In her diary, Virginia Woolf examined the stuff of thought, its shape and contours as well as its inherent slipperiness. While she was largely concerned with literature, her questions apply just as well to the visual arts. What does an idea look like before it is labored over, crafted, and shaped into a finished piece? [...]
The Art Of Listening
What is a need? Lama founder Barbara Durkee (now Asha Greer), speaking about the 1967 founding of Lama Commune just north of Taos, explains that she knew there was a need for water, and hot water at that; here in New Mexico there is always a need for water. Her needs did not extend much beyond that. Experiencing a back-tothe land lifestyle on the side of a mountain was the real need she was attempting to fulfill. The pursuit of this desire was one of the many products of the rise of the 1960s and 1960s counterculture in the American Southwest. [...]
Defining Moments
In 1919, a Native art show at Santa Fe’s Museum of Art just happened to revolutionize American modernism. [...]
A Certain Point of View
I’ve noticed that we don’t witness anything firsthand any longer. Our first reaction to anything that happens in real life is to record it, post it, snap it, share it. [...]
Misunderstood, Maligned, and Divine
Some people consider tramp art one of the homeliest dust-gatherers that the human mind and hand have concocted,” Michael Cornish noted in a 1993 essay titled “Tramp Art: A Personal Appreciation.” [...]
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 [...]
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