More Than Words
BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER Ten years ago, Shirley Klinghoffer launched her seminal Santa Fe-based Love Armor [...]
Culture
Back to the Future
BY KATE NELSON For Mary Kershaw, all it took was one sight of brick walls soaring up to an industrial-style [...]
Spheres of Influence
BY MARSHA C. BOL Extraordinary how a small glass bead from the Italian island of Murano or the mountains of [...]
The Continuous Path
BY ROBERT PREUCEL AND SAMUEL DUWE When Juan de Oñate journeyed north up the Rio Grande valley in the summer [...]
The House of Mirth
BY LES DALY Meet James Holmes, “Compulsive Artistic Humorist.” That wouldn’t all be on his business [...]
Radio Killed the Sheet Music Star
BY MEREDITH DAVIDSON AND JAMES M. KELLER Before radio and television, when making music at home was the [...]
Opening the Doors to Closure
BY AMY GROLEAU | TRANSLATED, FROM THE SPANISH, BY STEPHANIE RIGGS AND AMY GROLEAU At the height of the [...]
Outside the Frame
BY HANNAH ABELBECK Carl Newland Werntz was a painter, fine arts photographer, advertiser, illustrator, [...]
Roamings, Run-Ins, and Rendez-Vous
BY MERRY SCULLY Planning for our centennial exhibitions required reflection on the past, but also the kind of [...]
History’s Footprints
BY LAURIE WEBSTER Visit the storage facility of any Southwestern anthropology museum, and you’ll see drawer [...]
Stitched to the Soul
BY KATE NELSON Once upon a time, in a trading post on Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation, a bored [...]
Blazing New Trails
BY PATRICK MOORE New Mexico enjoys one of the most complex and culturally rich histories of any state in the [...]
Verses to an Institution
WHAT’S NOT LOST Something happens when there is an absence of foundation there is a direction chosen [...]
The Art of Remembrance
BY LAURA ADDISON In 2003, Amy Groleau was doing archaeological field work as a graduate student in Ayacucho, [...]
A Fateful Commencement
BY JOSEPH TRAUGOTT One hundred years ago, New Mexico’s famed light streamed through the new museum’s [...]
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