ART AND CULTURE 50 Years at The Pit The University of New Mexico’s Legendary Venue Gary Herron (University of New Mexico Press) At least Half of the sports fans in New Mexico will treasure this dive…
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A SONG FOR THE RIVER By Philip Connors (Cinco Puntos Press, 2018) In May 2014, a fire in the Gila National Forest indirectly claimed the lives of three promising young people, an admired psychiatrist…
Read MoreOf God and Mortal Men: T. C. Cannon Edited by Ann. E. Marshall Diana F. Pardue (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2017) Before his 1978 death in a car accident southeast of Santa Fe, T.C. Cannon charted an…
Read MoreCASA SAN YSIDRO The Gutiérrez/Minge House in Corrales, New Mexico by Ward Alan Minge (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2017) ALBUQUERQUE MUSEUM PHOTO ARCHIVES COLLECTION Images in Silver by Glen Fye…
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Above: Great books for holiday gift giving. ART AND CULTURE BORDERLESS The Art of Luis Tapia Edited by Carmella Padilla (Museum of Latin American Art) Few artists can lay claim to successfully…
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Above: William deBuys. “New Mexico, the words of which enchant me beyond reason, suggesting not only a particular home and geography, but an existence and a history shared with others, a notion of…
Read MorePAUL PLETKA Imagined Wests By Amy Scott (UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS, 2017) A few years ago, I chanced upon a rare treat. Artist Paul Pletka had loaned his multilayered 2014 painting Pietà to the New…
Read MoreI WAS ONLY A LITTLE BOY in 1953 when the great Western movie Shane was released, so I didn’t see it until after it aired on television 15 years later. What I remember vividly is the tension building…
Read MoreVOICES OF COUNTERCULTURE IN THE SOUTHWEST Edited by Jack Loeffler and Meredith Davidson (MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO PRESS, 2017) The seismic disruption that disaffected baby boomers wrought upon America in…
Read MoreRIVER OF SPIRITS A Natural History of New Mexico’s Las Animas Creek Edited by Harley G. Shaw (HISTORY PRESS, 2017) Las Animas Creek carved the most rugged portion of the Black Range. For 40 miles, its…
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