Kingston Ghost Town Museum Gets New Life
A BLUEGRASS TRIO JAMS in the shade of a refurbished adobe home, its textured walls painted white and roof trimmed with a dusty turquoise. Notes from the stand-up bass, guitar, and mandolin provide…
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Category: Museum
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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Close Encounters of the Space Kind
NO, WE’RE NOT CLOSE to having Scotty beam us up in the Enterprise transporter system like on Star Trek, but some of the otherworldly objects of science fiction aren’t so alien in the real world today…
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Check Out These Hot Wheels
Editor's note: Russell's Travel Center was purchased by TravelCenters of America in October after acquiring its Springer location earlier in the year. It plans to maintain the car museum and other…
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Exhibit Draws on the Immigrant Experience
THE TITLE OF JUANA ESTRADA HERNÁNDEZ’S first solo museum exhibition, Las semillas, el sol, y los que sacaron a delante (The seeds, the sun, and those that brought me forward), is both poetic and…
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Delmas Howe Now
AS A BOY, HE OFTEN LAY IN THE GRASS to watch the billowing cumulus clouds roll in from the Black Range. A sweet-eyed bassoon player who also liked to read about Greek and Roman mythology, he was…
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Art from Inside Prison Walls
WITHIN THE CONFINEMENT OF A PRISON CELL, creativity is a survival mechanism. Artists wrest images from the deepest centers of their hearts and souls during the stifling sameness of days—or years—spent…
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Why We Love NM: Our Art Tells Sacred Stories
THE ART OF THE SANTERO, or maker of saintly images, is believed to have begun around 1760 in colonial New Mexico. Franciscan priests, charged with the task of establishing Christianity on the…
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Dig into This Fossil Collection
IT’S NOT SO FEARSOME NOW, save for the teeth. But imagine adding reptilian flesh, then inserting a cold, inquisitive eye into the flat, three-foot-long fossilized skull of the Bisti Beast, New…
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Why We Love NM: We Are Full of Mysteries
D ENNIS BALTHASER MOVED TO ROSWELL in 1996 with one goal: to continue his research on UFOs. As a trained civil engineer, his curiosity about extraterrestrial life drew him to what may be the world…
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