Before Photocopiers
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL I went to visit Tom Leech, curator and director of the Palace Press, in hopes of [...]
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New Mexico Through Its Maps
BY DENNIS REINHARTZ, PH.D. What is a map? The answer to this apparently simple question is wide-ranging and [...]
Learning New Mexico, Finding Home
Jack Parsons with Carmella Padilla Jack Parsons’ latest book, Dark Beauty: Photographs of New Mexico, [...]
And La Bruja Brought The Sunflowers
BY LOIS P. RUDNICK La Bruja The sunflowers of northern New Mexico are one of the sumptuous visual delights [...]
Portraits From The Pen
BY SIBEL MELIK Convicted murderer José D. Gallegos, Inmate No. 637, stares out of the frame with a haunted, [...]
Under The Moon I Saw In Exile
BY BRIAN MINAMI “My father was here during the war.” On a family vacation in Santa Fe in the late 1990s, [...]
The Art of Gaman
BY DELPHINE HIRASUNA For decades after World War II ended, when older Japanese Americans met for the first [...]
Hidden Secrets of the Hides
BY KATE NELSON In the close confines of a Palace of the Governors gallery, a group of scientists wearing [...]
Down to Earth
BY TOM IRELAND I fell in love with with the Whole Earth before I fell in love with New Mexico— a hopeless [...]
From the Director of the New Mexico History Museum
BY FRANCES LEVINE You might think that, as the director of the New Mexico History Museum, I am interested in [...]
It’s About Time
BY JOSEPH TRAUGOTT New Mexicans have always made art; we have always made aestheticized objects that reflect [...]
Zia’s Symbol, New Mexico’s Flag
BY PETER PINO WITH DODY FUGATE This is the story of a pot and a flag and how the two became intertwined in [...]
Seeing Stars
BY LOUISE STIVER While New Mexicans tried harder and waited longer than any other state to become part of the [...]
The Great Seal of the State of New Mexico
BY CARMELLA PADILLA It has, during its convoluted and colorful history, been called “not easy to read,” [...]
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