The Art of Aging Gracefully
AT THE MUSEUM OF New Mexico system’s Conservation Lab, on Santa Fe’s Museum Hill, the old canvases kept coming. Over the decades, the Paul Burlin paintings had been cut and resized, yellowed by bright…
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Category: Museum
Editor’s Letter: Display Case
“THAT’S ENORMOUS,” a young girl in a flowered dress exclaims while checking out the shell of Hesperotestudo, a giant land tortoise, on display at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science…
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Three Museums with Big Upgrades
Taos Art Museum at Fechin House. The former home and studio of Russia-born-artist Nicolai Fechin has expanded its exhibition capacity with the new Janis and Roy Coffee Gallery, a climate-controlled…
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Albuquerque’s Dinosaurs Return
BETWEEN EXHIBITS AT THE New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, in Albuquerque’s Sawmill District, a group of kids crowds around a small display of unassuming brown fragments. Reading the…
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Five Museum Exhibitions to See
1 Wonders on Wheels. The mobile museum program of the Department of Cultural Affairs tours the state to bring The Arts of Democracy in New Mexico, an exhibition celebrating 250 years of freedom and…
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Inside New Mexico’s Small-Town Museums
“YOU GO TO A MUSEUM to learn the heart of a town,” says Britney Swart, executive director of the Herzstein Memorial Museum in Clayton. I’m only a few steps inside, though, when she intuits a darker…
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New Mexico Museums Mark 250
AS THE UNITED STATES celebrates its 250th birthday, New Mexico’s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) has curated special exhibitions at its museums and historic sites in honor of the…
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Harwood Museum Returns to the Earth
WHEN VISITORS ENTER the Harwood Museum of Art, in Taos, for Unearthing Futures/Desenterrando Futuros, it won’t be through the museum’s usual front door. Instead, the exhibition, which opens June 27…
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Cultural Gems Across New Mexico
FOR NEW MEXICO STATE historian Rob Martínez, the Land of Enchantment is a place where the past animates the present and culture thrives. The Albuquerque native and former high school teacher’s family…
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Fresh Takes at IAIA
“WHAT’S DIFFERENT HERE is that you can really see what Indigenous artists are doing today,” says Patsy Phillips (Cherokee Nation), director of the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA)…
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