2016

What Difference Does Archaeology Make?

BY SCOTT ORTMAN This is a question I worry about constantly. We live in a world with many challenges, from [...]

Into the Future

BY VALERIE K. VERZUH In contemporary art, Native American cultural power is located in the use of traditional [...]

Some of the Great Potters

I Have Known: Maria Martinez BY FRANCES H. HARLOW The pueblo nearest Los Alamos is San Ildefonso. First [...]

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather.

Willa on My Mind

BY CANDACE WALSH I’ll begin my editorship with a shameful confession: after fourteen years in Santa Fe, I [...]

Forever Young

A groundbreaking juvenile dinosaur discovery in northwestern New Mexico enlivens the record. BY DR. SPENCER [...]

Indelible Grace

BY LARS KRUTAK IN ASIA, TATTOOING TRADITIONS ABIDE AS BOTH PRAYER AND PROTECTION [...]

Sounding the Soul

BY CARMELLA PADILLA In the beginning was el cante—the song. The song was its own instrument. Its notes, [...]

The Adobe Ambassador

The Curious Backstory of the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Genesis. . . and Edifice BY KHRISTAAN D. [...]

The Exile Factor

Spanish Judaism, the Inquisition, and New World identities At an unprecedented exhibition, a hidden diaspora [...]

More Than Doors

BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL How many times had I passed through the doorway into the Neutrogena galleries at [...]

Blessings and Good Fortune

BY FELICIA KATZ-HARRIS Almost universally, yet through varied means and belief systems, people have found [...]

Doña Teresa Confronts the Spanish Inquisition

BY FRANCES LEVINE Summer, especially those without the cooling monsoon rains, can be long and hot in New [...]

In New Mexico the flamenco tradition is now several generations strong. Even though there have been many contributors to the development and growth of flamenco in our state, dancer Vicente Romero (1937–95) is widely credited with creating the vibrant flamenco scene in northern New Mexico that still thrives today. [...]