A Look into Lucy R. Lippard's Life
WRITER, ART CRITIC, CURATOR, AND ACTIVIST Lucy R. Lippard is no stranger to the publishing world. She has authored hundreds of articles and more than 20 books, including Pueblo Chico: Land and Lives…
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Tag: Art NM
For the People
A MURAL NEAR MY OLD APARTMENT in Albuquerque, at the power substation on Silver Avenue and Cornell Drive, constantly gets tagged. Painted in colors of marigold and honey brown, it features images of…
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The Photo Boom
Above: Betty Hahn's "Dark Peony on Gold." Photograph by Betty Hahn. WILL WILSON HAS ALREADY BEGUN experimenting with photography when he first saw Joel-Peter Witkin’s simply titled show Forty…
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The Book Hunter
Above: A few of Maida Tilchen's finds over the years. Photographs by Bob O'Connor. IN 1879, WHEN SUSAN WALLACE, wife of New Mexico Territorial Governor Lew Wallace (better known as the author of…
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Page Turners
Above: This year's top books. Photograph by Inga Hendrickson. ART & ARTISTS In a Modern Rendering The Color Woodcuts of Gustave Baumann Gala Chamberlain, Nancy E. Green, and Thomas Leech (Rizzoli…
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Yippee-Ki-Yi-Yay
Above: One of the few known portraits of Jack Thorp. Photograph courtesy of the New Mexico History Museum and the Guy Logsdon Collection. A LONE COWBOY RIDES ACROSS a desert landscape in darkness so…
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Hip-hop Goes to the Opera
Above: Summer-camp kids take a bow with their mentors. Photographs by Tira Howard. SWEET POTATO, A CHARMING BUT exasperating trickster who lives in a rooftop garden with a hummingbird as a best…
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Eighties Kid
Above: Jon Sanchez in his Albuquerque studio. Photographs by Inga Hendrickson. IT’S HOT AND I’VE SPENT MOST of the day at the Hispanic Contemporary Market, on the Santa Fe Plaza, waiting for a cloud…
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Vicente Telles: A Modern Santero
Above: Vicente Telles. Photograph by Minesh Bacrania. ON THE SECOND FLOOR of a 110-year-old building in downtown Albuquerque, Vicente Telles sits in a group of contemporary art studios, his…
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Antique Imagery
Above: A Platinum-Palladium print from a Bostick & Sullivan printing workshop. Photograph by Inga Hendrickson. Chiara Brandi carries the piece of paper flat, barely clasping its hand-torn edges, as if…
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