Rael’s Serves Up Artistic Treats

APPROACHING THE COUNTER TO ORDER A DRINK at Rael’s Store & Coffee Shop, in Questa, you can’t help but notice the abundance of local art. An array of carved wooden religious figures, paintings of…

Summer Farmers Market Salad with Chicken and Raspberry Dressing

Five Things to Do This Weekend

1 Get to Gallup. Indigenous people from around the world gather in Gallup this Thursday through August 14 for the 100th anniversary of the Gallup Intertribal Ceremonial. A powwow, juried art show…

Where to Find Authentic Native Pottery

AT THE Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, in Albuquerque, permanent and temporary exhibits focus on New Mexico pueblos and their art, history, and culture. The archaeology collection at the Maxwell Museum…

If a Pot Survives, a People Survive

This essay is one of 70 by mostly Pueblo people—artists, writers, historians, scientists, and political leaders—collected for "Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery," an exhibition that runs…

A Pueblo Pottery Exhibit Breaks the Mold

IT'S POSSIBLE—likely, even—that when the workday ends and the lights flick off, whispers rise. Here in the collections vault at the Indian Arts Research Center, in Santa Fe, a centuries-old water jar…

M. Butterfly Takes Wing

EVEN THE MOST OPERA-APATHETIC have heard of Madama Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini’s tale of a thwarted romance between a young Japanese woman and an American naval officer. Bits from its beloved score are…

Editor's Letter: Fine Arts

I CAN'T SAY that before moving to New Mexico I had ever purchased a piece of art—unless you count what can be found at Ikea. But in just a short time here, my wife and I have bought enough pottery…

Datebook: August 2022

“IT'S THE ONLY PLACE I know of where you can pay five dollars and race a duck,” says Joanna Costilla, board president of the Great American Duck Race, in Deming. Between August 25 and 28, in fact, you…

How to Care for Your Pottery

AS CURATOR OF COLLECTIONS at the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, in Santa Fe, Patrick Cruz (Ohkay Owingeh) ensures that every piece of pottery is properly cared for. But you don’t have to live in a…