AMID THE STARK MESAS and hidden valleys of Chimayó, a few shops serve as beacons of traditional Río Grande–style weaving. Generations of New Mexicans have handed down the art, just as award-winning…
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FEW PEOPLE LIVE IN RODEO, a small town between Arizona’s Chiricahua and New Mexico’s Peloncillo mountains. But it’s rattlesnake paradise. “There are probably more rattlesnakes, more species, per…
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Corrales Art Studio Tour August 27 & 28 The 24th annual Corrales Art Studio Tour showcases 80 artists, four galleries, and more than 50 elementary-school artists at 35 artist studios, Corrales…
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IT'S POSSIBLE—likely, even—that when the workday ends and the lights flick off, whispers rise. Here in the collections vault at the Indian Arts Research Center, in Santa Fe, a centuries-old water jar…
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AN INNOCENT CHILD, she wears a First Communion dress while performing with the Matachines dancers. Around the corner, she transforms into Eve, the progenitor of a new race of people. No, wait, she is…
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SOME OF THE ARTWORKS SIT BEHIND museum glass or gallery doors, but murals demand to be noticed. Whether designed for a local business, to commemorate an event, or to tell a story, murals often explore…
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IN 1926, IN A CITY christened with the Spanish word for Bethlehem, Ramon Baca y Chavez and his wife, Eulalia Castillo Baca, replaced a pane in a dormer window. It turned their Belén home into a…
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ON DECEMBER 22, 2021, a fire ripped through the warehouse where artist Jesse Littlebird kept his painting studio in Albuquerque’s Barelas neighborhood. Some $500,000 worth of works succumbed to the…
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FIRED BY TEMPERATURES of more than 2,000 degrees, a warrior emerges from a monolithic portal adorned with Indigenous symbols. A blood-red bust faces the courtyard of the Inn and Spa at Loretto…
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IN THE DARKEST DAYS of the Great Depression, new roads, bridges, dams, hiking trails, and rock-solid schoolhouses appeared throughout New Mexico. The national goal was simple: Put people to work…
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