State of the Arts
BY TRICIA WARE This year’s Governor’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts honors David Bradley, whose [...]
Art
Hide and Seek
BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER IN A PLEASANTLY CHAOTIC room near the Stewart L. Udall Center’s maintenance office, [...]
Blood Oaths
Fractured Faiths: Spanish Judaism, the Inquisition, and New World Identities, currently at the New Mexico History Museum, tells the history of the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula, many of whom were forced to convert to Christianity or expelled from the peninsula for rejecting conversion. [...]
Its Own Beautiful Self
In 1912, the year of New Mexico statehood, Santa Fe’s city fathers, including Edgar Lee Hewett, Sylvanus Morley, and Carlos Vierra, formed the city’s first Planning Board. With little money, but astounding drive, this prescient group launched itself into the unknowns of historic preservation, town planning, revival architecture, and commercial success. [...]
The Sound Of Drums
After four years serving his country in the navy during World War II, Lloyd Kiva New took a spur‑of‑the‑moment drive to Scottsdale, Arizona, to reconnect with leisure and the landscape. This day trip would both change his life—and make history [...]
Party of the People
By painting Fiesta de Santa Fe’s 1926 parade, Gustave Baumann captured the city’s social evolution—in motion—in a singular work recently donated to the New Mexico History Museum. [...]
The Tiny House Movement
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL Nowhere can the unique beauty of the Santa Fe style be better appreciated than in [...]
Some of the Great Potters
I Have Known: Maria Martinez BY FRANCES H. HARLOW The pueblo nearest Los Alamos is San Ildefonso. First [...]
Collectors’ Collections
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK There are people in the world we call collectors, and if not for them most of our museums [...]
Painted Power
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIBEL If you are as disoriented as I first was by the profusion of saints and crucifixes [...]
Into the Future
BY VALERIE K. VERZUH In contemporary art, Native American cultural power is located in the use of traditional [...]
Indelible Grace
BY LARS KRUTAK IN ASIA, TATTOOING TRADITIONS ABIDE AS BOTH PRAYER AND PROTECTION [...]
The Adobe Ambassador
The Curious Backstory of the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Genesis. . . and Edifice BY KHRISTAAN D. [...]
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 [...]
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