A Fateful Commencement
BY JOSEPH TRAUGOTT One hundred years ago, New Mexico’s famed light streamed through the new museum’s [...]
Art
Positioning an Institution
BY CODY HARTLEY What is now Santa Fe is one of the old places in a region inhabited for at least 12,000 [...]
Lasting Impressions
BY MAXINE MCBRINN Years ago, I fell in love with ancient sandals. These simple sandals were worn 2,000 to [...]
Happy Birthday, MIAC!
BY LYNN CLINE It’s been thirty years since the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture opened its doors on Museum [...]
Notching It Up
BY LAURA ADDISON When Napa-based artist Freeland Tanner speaks about his work, he often uses the word [...]
A Tribute to a Titan
BY LAURA ADDISON Lloyd Cotsen, the charismatic, longtime executive of Neutrogena Corporation from 1967 to [...]
Survival of the Artist
MODERATED BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER & CONDENSED BY CANDACE WALSH Peter: The Be Here Now collaborations are [...]
Remnants among the Ruins
The New Mexico History Museum and the Museum of International Folk Art Reflect on the Syrian Civil War [...]
In It Together
Becoming a conservator involves education, tradition...and channeling Macgyver. [...]
MAKING HISTORY
Cutting-edge, technology-driven operas may not seem like an immediate fit with the New Mexico History Museum, but if the goal is to explore emerging technology through the lens of history, this partnership is the solution. [...]
Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate
The exhibition Negotiate, Navigate, Innovate: Strategies Folk Artists Use in the Global Marketplace opens June 9 in the Museum of International Folk Art’s Gallery of Conscience. It explores the ways in which folk artists from around the world and in New Mexico work within the global market setting. [...]
The View from Out There
BY CHRISTIAN WAGUESPACK “I think New Mexico is the greatest experience I ever had from the outside [...]
Ages and Stages
The Museum of Art’s St. Francis Auditorium— a sanctuary for the soul of Santa Fe—turns 100. [...]
A Different Angle
Sleeping During the Day: Vietnam, 1968, curated by Daniel Kosharek, includes thirty-three black-and-white images on view through October 1, 2017. Kosharek is photo curator at the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives, which has housed the Herbert Lotz Collection since 2008. A survey of Lotz’s personal letters from Vietnam accompanies the photographs. [...]
Drawing Near To The Divine
"SUPPOSE ONE COULD CATCH THEM BEFORE they become ‘works of art?’ Catch them hot & sudden as they rise in the mind.” In her diary, Virginia Woolf examined the stuff of thought, its shape and contours as well as its inherent slipperiness. While she was largely concerned with literature, her questions apply just as well to the visual arts. What does an idea look like before it is labored over, crafted, and shaped into a finished piece? [...]
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