Route 66 Motels Lost to History
THEIR NEON SIGNS BLAZED a trail for weary Route 66 travelers for decades, promising a clean room in an auto court with modern amenities like air-conditioning and hot and cold running water. While many…
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Category: Culture
One of Our 50 Is Missing: January/February 2024
Illustration by Chris Philpot. GIVE AND LET LIVE During the holiday season, Albuquerque’s V. ORGANICK ordered a gift for her husband from Amazon. The item’s two-day Prime shipping originated in…
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Santa Fe's New Museum on the Block
WHEN THE NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF ART opened its doors in 1917, archaeologist Edgar Lee Hewett (1885–1946) envisioned the downtown Santa Fe building—a swooping adobe example of then-new Pueblo…
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The Story Behind the Magic Mural
ELLIS TANNER WANTED TO INSPIRE the generations of Navajo youth who have been coming into his Gallup store since it opened in 1967. “I wanted to put positive role models around my entire trading…
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What We're Reading: Shoot the Moon
SET IN THE 1960S and filled with beautifully captured moments of nostalgia, Shoot the Moon (G.P. Putnam’s Sons) is a heartfelt novel from Isa Arsén, a love letter to the Southwest inspired by…
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The 23rd Annual New Mexico Magazine Photos of the Year: Animals
1 st PLACE Fire and Ice, Pam Dorner " A sandhill crane does his best dragon impersonation a cold January morning in central New Mexico. I spent the first months of the year hoping to photograph…
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Dates to Remember
1 Soak in the feelings. Let love wash over you with an overnight stay at Blackstone Hot Springs, in Truth or Consequences. “People come to Blackstone to be ,” says Rob Stuart, who purchased and…
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The 23rd Annual New Mexico Magazine Photos of the Year: Nightscapes
1 st PLACE Bluff Springs, Richard Larsson "It was a very cold, late-night drive into the forest to photograph the frozen waterfall under the midnight stars. On this February evening, temperatures were…
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IAIA Offers Double Vision in New Exhibits
IN 2023, THE READERS of USA Today voted the Santa Fe–based IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts the third-best art museum in the country. Run by the Institute of American Indian Arts, which has a…
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The 23rd Annual New Mexico Magazine Photos of the Year: Mobile
1 st PLACE Glowing Grace , Shirley Estes "The photo Glowing Grace is of my 20-foot tepee on our property in Ruidoso. This photo was taken when my husband and I went out to watch the blue moon rise on…
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