Willa on My Mind
BY CANDACE WALSH I’ll begin my editorship with a shameful confession: after fourteen years in Santa Fe, I [...]
2016
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 [...]
Machine Dreams
A LOW, SLOW JOURNEY FROM PACHUCO TO PRICELESS BY DON J. USNER It all began for Johnny Martinez when he went [...]
Chasing the Lowrider Muse
BY KATHERINE WARE It takes a special vision and a lot of hard work to transform an abandoned car into a [...]
Painted Power
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIBEL If you are as disoriented as I first was by the profusion of saints and crucifixes [...]
O Catalog! My Catalog!
BY KATE NELSON Chances are you didn’t notice the seismic shift on September 30, 2015. I did, but only [...]
Lloyd Kiva New: Art, Design, and Influence
BY TATIANA LOMAHAFTEWA-SINGER Lloyd Kiva New: Art, Design, and Influence, at the Institute of American Indian [...]
A New Century
BY TONY R. CHAVARRIA A New Century: The Life of Cherokee Artist and Educator Lloyd “Kiva” New, at the [...]
Love and War
BY TOM IRELAND When the American Academy of Poets made April National Poetry Month, they must have had T. S. [...]
Back to the Future: Preserving Historic Lincoln
BY ALISON SWING When you walk through the streets of Lincoln, New Mexico, you see the culmination of [...]
Stage, Setting, Mood
BY CARMEN VENDELIN Theatricality draws out emotions in the observer. In the performing arts, “stage, [...]
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