Find Gene Hackman’s Art in Santa Fe
WHEN GENE HACKMAN died in February, many Santa Feans were unaware that the longtime resident had dabbled in the local art scene, and they may have even dined below Hackman’s vibrant paintings at Jinja…
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Category: Arts & Entertainment
What We're Reading: Shadow of the Solstice
MISSING YOUR WEEKLY Dark Winds fix while you await season 4 of the AMC drama? Pick up Shadow of the Solstice (Harper), Anne Hillerman’s latest mystery set on the Navajo Nation. When the U.S. secretary…
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Take a Stroll Down Canyon Road
IT’S A FRIDAY NIGHT in June, and dozens of businesses along Santa Fe’s Canyon Road have flung open their doors to host early summer crowds. Galleries buzz with happy activity, their snug, homey…
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What We're Reading: American Oasis
KYLE PAOLETTA’S debut, American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest (Pantheon Books), offers a compelling exploration of five Southwestern metropolises, with Albuquerque—the…
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Sculpting the Spirit of WNMU
A 5,000-POUND GRANITE boulder suspends 10 feet off the ground, supported by stainless steel spires. Representing Western New Mexico University students, the influences that shape them, and the…
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Nuevo Mexicano Heritage Arts Museum Evolves
ST. GERTRUDE, THE BENEDICTINE MYSTIC, is known for her compassion for souls in purgatory. If one could nominate a patron saint to watch over and protect an unrivaled collection of Spanish Colonial and…
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Gustave Baumann’s Art Lives On
FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, artist Gustave Baumann tried to get his passion project, Little Saints of New Mexico, published. But a circuitous route full of obstacles prevented his artistic homage to the…
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Arthur Sze's Poetic Journey
“When a black butterfly flits past, when you glimpse the outlines of apple trees, when you smell the sprig of sunrise and walk up to the ditch …” ARTHUR SZE’S NEW BOOK OF POEMS leads off with a simple…
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What We're Reading: Corn Dance
SANTA FEANS LOST a culinary gem when the trendsetting Corn Dance Café closed its doors in 2003. More than 20 years later, its chef-owner Loretta Barrett Oden shares many of her beloved recipes in Corn…
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Women of the Santa Fe Trail
BY THE TIME SUSAN WALLACE’S WAGON TRAIN CRESTED RATÓN PASS IN 1878, the Santa Fe Trail had accomplished its goal of knitting the Wild West into the American story. The trail’s 1821–1880 heyday as a…
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