Painted Power
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIBEL If you are as disoriented as I first was by the profusion of saints and crucifixes [...]
2016
Collectors’ Collections
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK There are people in the world we call collectors, and if not for them most of our museums [...]
Into the Future
BY VALERIE K. VERZUH In contemporary art, Native American cultural power is located in the use of traditional [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
The Morris Miniature Circus
BY LAURA ADDISON The golden age of the American circus (1870s–1930s) coincided with an era of modernization [...]
Everything New is New Again
BY CINDRA KLINE LLOYD HENRI KIVA NEW’s life as designer, artist, scholar, and visionary educator remains a [...]
Blessings and Good Fortune
BY FELICIA KATZ-HARRIS Almost universally, yet through varied means and belief systems, people have found [...]
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