Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Celebrate Santa Fe Playhouse’s centennial season. What is love? This question is an integral piece of the plot in The Effect, opening at Santa Fe Playhouse . Written by British playwright Lucy…
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Tag: New Mexico History Museum
Baumann & Beyond
Above: A re-creation of Gustave Baumann’s studio inside the Palace Print Shop at the New Mexico History Museum. Courtesy of the Palace Press (NMHM/DCA), Photo by Blair Clark. ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12…
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Archivists Uncover New Mexico's Visual Past
DIRTY WITH AGE AND SMALL ENOUGH to fit into the palm of a hand, the cased photograph held just three clues. Its technology—an ambrotype, essentially a glass negative placed on a dark background that…
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Home Decor Shopping Inspiration
The Museum of New Mexico Foundation Shops offer a unique range of Southwestern art and home decor. THE ANIMALS IN NEW MEXICO artist Carolyn Barford’s paintings reveal a fascination with the…
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Colonial Cartographer
Above: Miera y Pacheco's map. Photograph courtesy of the New Mexico History Museum. Don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco won 18th-century renown as a soldier, explorer, cartographer, and remarkable…
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Birth of the Travelogue
Above: A hand-colored image of a New Mexico dude ranch. Photograph by Minesh Bacrania. In 1925, the Fred Harvey Company announced something new and exotic: Indian Detours. Travelers who came west on…
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Hot on the Press
Above: Thomas Leech (left) and James Bourland prep the Vandercook. Photographs by Allison Pharmakis. Thomas Leech stands at the belly of a 65-year-old Vandercook letterpress, a hand-operated…
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