Where Worlds Collide
BY DAVE HERNDON In the fifties and sixties, Alexander Girard’s status as both a Modernist designer and a [...]
Art
Rescued from the Ashes
BY HANNAH ABELBECK Photographs taken in the Southwest before 1866 are exceptionally rare, which is why [...]
Heavy Meta
How do you design an exhibit about exhibits? In late 2017, Museum Resources Director David Rohr came to us at [...]
Vessels of a Truth Obscured
BY BRUCE BERNSTEIN, ERIK FENDER, AND RUSSELL SANCHEZ This past summer, at the Museum of Indian Arts and [...]
The 2019 Governor’s Arts Awards
On June 14, Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and the New Mexico Arts Commission announced this year’s [...]
For the Love of the Little
BY LAURA ADDISON / PHOTOGRAPHS BY KITTY LEAKEN For thirty-seven years, Multiple Visions: A Common Bond has [...]
Two Poems by Suzan Shown Harjo
after-dinner remarks (after dinner with guillermo gomez-pena and the sisters) we are uncommon peoples with [...]
Illustrative Artists
BY CHRISTIAN WAGUESPACK America’s land is at the heart of our national visual character. In the attempt to [...]
When Georgia Met Sandro
BY KATE NELSON In the Museum of International Folk Art, curator Laura Addison opens a nondescript flat file [...]
A Dazzling Denizen
BY JESS MULLALY Alexander Girard might be thought of as the man at the beginning of the rainbow. As [...]
Family Ties
BY KATE NELSON Back in 1917, John Pickard had a problem. A renowned art historian and archaeologist at the [...]
The Canyon Under the Lake
BY KATHERINE WARE Some places are so special that we can’t wait to visit them again and again. For many [...]
Return of the Chongo Brothers
BY EMILY WITHNALL For Mateo and Diego Romero, being named the 2019 recipients of the Museum of Indian Arts [...]
On Display in Santa Fe (Part II)
BY DAVID ROHR (You can read Part 1 here). On a warm evening in August of 1917, a group of prominent painters [...]
Petal Pusher
BY KATHERINE WARE It’s spring, and our fancy turns to flowers. For those who are not the gardening sort, or [...]
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