Santa Fe's New Museum on the Block
WHEN THE NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART opened its doors in 1917, archaeologist Edgar Lee Hewett (1885–1946) envisioned the downtown Santa Fe building—a swooping adobe example of then-new Pueblo…
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Coming Out West
A MAN IN A BLACK LEATHER-AND-SNAKESKIN jacket and a magenta cowboy hat fringed with dangling knives looks like one dude you don’t want to mess with. But in this image of Texas-born visual and…
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Art from Inside Prison Walls
WITHIN THE CONFINEMENT OF A PRISON CELL, creativity is a survival mechanism. Artists wrest images from the deepest centers of their hearts and souls during the stifling sameness of days—or years—spent…
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Don't Miss These Indian Market First-Timers
IF YOU’RE A FLEDGLING INDIGENOUS ARTIST, a golden opportunity to launch your rising star into the stratosphere comes around every August. Since 1922, the Santa Fe Indian Market has provided emerging…
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Dig into This Fossil Collection
IT’S NOT SO FEARSOME NOW, save for the teeth. But imagine adding reptilian flesh, then inserting a cold, inquisitive eye into the flat, three-foot-long fossilized skull of the Bisti Beast, New…
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Why We Love NM: Here, Native People Tell Their Own Stories
N EW MEXICO’S INDIGENOUS-LED INSTITUTIONS, such as the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, in Santa Fe, extend their expertise nationally, forging lasting partnerships with major museums from coast to…
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Painting the Beyond
WE KNOW THE SOUTHWEST’S MOST FAMOUS PAINTER for the objects she made more beautiful on canvas: flowers and bones, mesas and adobe. But the early years of New Mexico–based painter Georgia O’Keeffe were…
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Standing at the Crossroads
ONE WINTER DAY IN SANTA FE, I WALKED along Rodeo Road, camera in hand, seeking inspiration. I was also on the verge of tears. I was depressed—haunted by a future that seemed to be slipping from my…
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Buck Dunton’s Western Soul
THE DOWNCAST DEMEANOR of William Herbert “Buck” Dunton’s offspring in his painting My Children (circa 1922), created shortly after their parents divorced, lends it an elegiac tone. Despite the somber…
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