Blazing New Trails
BY PATRICK MOORE New Mexico enjoys one of the most complex and culturally rich histories of any state in the [...]
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Lasting Impressions
BY MAXINE MCBRINN Years ago, I fell in love with ancient sandals. These simple sandals were worn 2,000 to [...]
Survival of the Artist
MODERATED BY PETER BG SHOEMAKER & CONDENSED BY CANDACE WALSH Peter: The Be Here Now collaborations are [...]
The History Whisperer
BY CAMILLE FLORES WITH PHOTOGRAPHS BY MINESH BACRANIA Renowned historian Thomas E. Chávez is a grateful, if [...]
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 [...]
Getting the Points
BY CHRIS CREWS AND C.L. KIEFFER Saturday, October 21 is International Archaeology Day. For the past few years [...]
Happy Birthday, MIAC!
BY LYNN CLINE It’s been thirty years since the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture opened its doors on Museum [...]
A Tribute to a Titan
BY LAURA ADDISON Lloyd Cotsen, the charismatic, longtime executive of Neutrogena Corporation from 1967 to [...]
The Secret Sanctuary
BY MICHAEL MILLER The New Mexico historic property known today as Los Luceros has supported consistent human [...]
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. [...]
Headed into the Wind
BY JACK LOEFFLER I was a seventeen-year-old senior in high school when I received news that I had failed my [...]
The Art Of Listening
What is a need? Lama founder Barbara Durkee (now Asha Greer), speaking about the 1967 founding of Lama Commune just north of Taos, explains that she knew there was a need for water, and hot water at that; here in New Mexico there is always a need for water. Her needs did not extend much beyond that. Experiencing a back-tothe land lifestyle on the side of a mountain was the real need she was attempting to fulfill. The pursuit of this desire was one of the many products of the rise of the 1960s and 1960s counterculture in the American Southwest. [...]
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