Hotel Willa Brings an Artful Escape
“CAN YOU PUSH ME, MOMMY?” called Esther, my six-year-old daughter, lying on a giant hammock near our room. Hotel Willa has a few of these inviting hammocks strung around the property, but she went…
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Tag: Art & Design
Outsiders Are In at Kukani Gallery
ARTIST JESSE LITTLEBIRD’S 1973 Dodge Dart is not a lowrider, although people often mistake it for one. It might be a boat compared to most modern compacts, but the Dart is typically smaller than the…
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Lyndon Tsosie’s Design Mind
L YNDON TSOSIE PARTIED THROUGH his early adulthood and then found his calling in the pages of Dexter Cirillo’s Southwestern Indian Jewelry. The book cost $65, and Tsosie had $75 in his pocket for…
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Sculpting the Spirit of WNMU
A 5,000-POUND GRANITE boulder suspends 10 feet off the ground, supported by stainless steel spires. Representing Western New Mexico University students, the influences that shape them, and the…
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Self-Portrait in a Complex Mirror
VICENTE TELLES CAREFULLY rolls open a storage cabinet, revealing a retablo of Our Lady of Guadalupe that’s more than 200 years old. “Pedro Antonio Fresquís, he’s the one known as the first native New…
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Editor's Letter: Gone Country
I’VE ALWAYS HAD a touch of cowboy envy. I’m not talking about the horse-riding, calf-roping, fence-mending kind, whose talents are best suited to a ranch or a farm. I know that’s not the life for me…
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Putting Culture on the Catwalk
A PUFFY, WHITE BOMBER JACKET evokes desert skies. Pieced together using elegant patchwork, it incorporates vintage textiles to create a billowy shape that seems borrowed from monsoon clouds. Blue…
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The Art of Lowrider Culture
WORKING IN A STYLE HE CALLS “TASTEFUL OVERKILL,” Albuquerque native Rob Vanderslice has been painting lowrider cars in New Mexico for nearly 40 years. Vanderslice, who opened his first shop at 18…
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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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Discover Lun + Ojo's Eye for Art
TOBY PUTNAM WAS SEARCHING for something different. The path he’d been on was long and bumpy. Putnam left his Montana home at 18 for the Utah desert and stayed there. When his older brother passed away…
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