Four Galleries Beyond Canyon Road
ARTISTS AND GALLERISTS have made themselves at home on Canyon Road since the early 1900s. By 1962, the city designated the road a residential arts-and-crafts zone, and the ’80s art boom set the tone…
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Four Tips for Buying Art
1 Look with your eyes. Ignore “inside information” on who is fashionable; trends fade fast. Build your artistic eye by going to museums, galleries, and openings; following artists on Instagram; and…
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New Mexico’s Contemporary Art Pulse
THE STORY OF MODERN ART in New Mexico often begins with the tale of Ernest Blumenschein, Bert Geer Phillips, and their broken wagon wheel on the outskirts of Taos. In 1898, the vehicle mishap resulted…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Seek truth in wine. Warm up with a glass of vino from one of the best wineries in the country during the annual Taos Winter Wine Festival, with events in town and at the Taos Ski Valley. On…
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Travel the High Road
ON THE HIGH ROAD to Taos, the landscape keeps changing. Back in Santa Fe, the earth felt hot and dry. But as I approach Nambé on NM 76, the scenic byway’s unofficial starting point, sandy ground…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Attend an opening reception. Artists from the Institute of American Indian Arts’ MFA studio arts program show work at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Santa Fe at the exhibition Not Here, But…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Hit the Native fashion catwalk. Native Fashion Week Santa Fe Taking over the Santa Fe Railyard Thursday through Sunday, the inaugural Native Fashion Week Santa Fe is led by Amber-Dawn Bear Robe…
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MoCNA Is Making History
DENISE WALLACE’S (Chugach Aleut) stunning Craftsperson Belt hangs in a glass case, welcoming visitors to the Institute of American Indian Arts Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA), in Santa Fe…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Lean into fall. Aspencade Music & Arts Festival As honey-hued leaves hit their peak, Aspencade Music & Arts Festival brings live music and an arts market to Red River this weekend, making a trip to…
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Uncover Farmington’s Arts Scene
A BAND FROM THE NAVAJO NATION takes the open-air stage in downtown Farmington, quickly assembling an altar with animal bones and incense before roiling the mostly Indigenous crowd with the blackest of…
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