Crash Report
BY CANDACE WALSH One of my least favorite jobs was working as a ghostwriter for a website’s figurehead. The [...]
2018
Before Photocopiers
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL I went to visit Tom Leech, curator and director of the Palace Press, in hopes of [...]
Family Affair
BY ROSS ALTSHULER How do skill, talent, and creativity run through New Mexico’s Native families of artists? [...]
Building a Photograph
BY KATHERINE WARE Photographer Patrick Nagatani (1945–2017) didn’t just take pictures, he made pictures. [...]
Lives and Half-lives
BY MELANIE LABORWIT The Santa Fe Opera’s sense of place is extraordinary; operagoers watch world-class [...]
Acts of Love and Protection
BY CATALINA VICENTE WITH PW CHATTEY What’s the longest hike you’ve ever been on? A few hours, maybe a day [...]
By the Book
BY JAMES GLISSON After nearly twenty years in Los Angeles, Frederick Hammersley (1919–2009) moved to [...]
An Adapted Excerpt from Chapter Three: “History and Architecture of the Santa Fe Scottish Rite Temple”
BY KHRISTAAN VILLELA From its inception, the Santa Fe Scottish Rite Temple was a touchstone in the debate [...]
A Sketch in Time
BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER They are words—jaw-dropping, amazing, wondrous—one doesn’t usually hear from [...]
Neon Signs of Life
BY AMY GROLEAU Gráfica Popular Limeña (the folk graphic tradition of Lima) was born in the streets. It has [...]
Turning Toward the Taproot
BY EMILY WITHNAL Roxanne Swentzell’s kitchen does not have a refrigerator. Instead, books and large glass [...]
History’s Footprints
BY LAURIE WEBSTER Visit the storage facility of any Southwestern anthropology museum, and you’ll see drawer [...]
The Solution That Sticks
BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER Few things make a conservator swoon quite like a good adhesive. After all, in a [...]
The Continuous Path
BY ROBERT PREUCEL AND SAMUEL DUWE When Juan de Oñate journeyed north up the Rio Grande valley in the summer [...]
An O’Keeffe Odyssey
BY KATE NELSON I don’t think the Museum of Art could have asked for or received a better birthday [...]
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