Building on Sacred Traditions
FATHER ALBERT BRAUN SO LOVED the Mescalero Apache people that he dedicated decades of his life to creating a Romanesque church with rock walls that soar as high as 90 feet. The cornerstone was laid in…
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Celebrating Traditions at Acoma Pueblo
THE 2,000 LUMINARIAS, set and lit by hand, line the road up the mesa to Acoma Pueblo’s 370-foot-high Sky City. Inside the 1629 San Esteban del Rey Mission Church, tribal dancers pound their feet onto…
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Couse-Sharp Site Connects the Past with Present
THE SMALL TOWN OF TAOS owes much of its prestige as an art-lovers’ destination to a group of painters who hailed from Indiana, Ohio, New York, and other parts far east of the Rocky Mountains. In 1915…
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2022 True Heroes
Join us on November 17 at 7 p.m. for New Mexico Magazine's True Heroes recognition ceremony on Facebook: @NewMexicoMagazine Presented by KOB4, New Mexico State Department of Health and New Mexico…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 See legendary prints. Explore the works of renowned Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) in a new exhibition at the Las Cruces Museum of Art opening Friday. José Guadalupe Posada:…
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Discover a Santo Wonderland
SEPARATED FROM THEIR NEAREST SUPPLY points in Mexico, Spanish colonial–era artists in New Mexico made do with the materials they found here. Cottonwood branches and roots became bultos, or statues…
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The Life and Art of Gary Niblett
GLOSSY NEW MEXICO LIGHT SHINES through sprawling bay windows at artist Gary Niblett’s home, in the northern foothills of Santa Fe. His American West oil paintings in gilded frames fill the space. His…
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Nancy's Silver Café is a Treasure
WHAT PEOPLE LOVE ABOUT NANCY’S SILVER CAFÉ is what they—and their relatives—have always loved about it. Generations return to the downtown Silver City spot for made-to-order tacos, from-scratch…
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Master Santeros Save the Sacred
MASTER SANTERO FÉLIX LÓPEZ calls the artworks at San Antonio de Padua Church, in Córdova, where his great-grandparents are buried, “a door to the sacred.” St. Anthony’s, as it’s casually known in the…
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Explore New Mexico's Karst Country
HEADING EAST ON I-40, ROLLING HILLS covered in piñon-juniper scrub give way to the grasslands of the southern Great Plains. Other than the big blue sky and an occasional dramatic thunderstorm, the…
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