Go. See. Do. | April 2017

By Andrew Roush on Apr. 01, 2017

Above: Dusk settles over Isotopes Park. THIS PLACE IS THE BOMB On July 16, 1945, a shock wave boomed across the desert near the Carrizozo Plain, mountains blazed with white light, and a mushroom cloud…

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Moving Pictures

By Andrew Roush on Mar. 01, 2017

THE OLD MAN was ambling through the throng of the Navajo Nation Fair in Window Rock, Arizona, last fall when he caught a glimpse of a 1970 step van—an erstwhile Wonder Bread delivery truck—parked…

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Co-Starring New Mexico

By Andrew Roush on Mar. 01, 2017

It all starts, as many things do, with Thomas Edison. In autumn 1897, his train steamed into New Mexico Territory, and shortly thereafter, the Wizard of Menlo Park captured the first moving images of…

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Pop Stars

By Andrew Roush on Jan. 01, 2017

ERIN CURRIER STANDS astride a world of garbage—wrappers, posters, magazines, bits of paper people have forgotten or discarded—and in it sees truth and beauty. A Currier painting is born from a few…

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