A Collector’s Blueprint
AT AGE SEVEN, standing before Picasso’s Guernica at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, I felt a lightning bolt straight to my gut. Years later, it happened again in front of Mark Rothko’s vast…
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Tag: New Mexico Museum of Art
The Art of Aging Gracefully
AT THE MUSEUM OF New Mexico system’s Conservation Lab, on Santa Fe’s Museum Hill, the old canvases kept coming. Over the decades, the Paul Burlin paintings had been cut and resized, yellowed by bright…
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New Mexico Museums Mark 250
AS THE UNITED STATES celebrates its 250th birthday, New Mexico’s Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) has curated special exhibitions at its museums and historic sites in honor of the…
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Dream Wedding Venues Across New Mexico
GROWING UP, Karly Candelaria dreamed of getting married on the historic farm now known as Houser Raspberry Ranch. “It’s a sentimental place,” Candelaria says of the Mora County property, where her…
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The Story Behind The Black Shawl
THE RICH BLUES and heavenly golds of New Mexico’s landscape were beloved by 20th-century figurative painters. They paid less attention to the region’s mystical purples, found in uncanny valleys…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Attend a homecoming. After a four-year tour throughout the country, Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery returns home to the Southwest with an opening celebration on Saturday at the…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Better understand Baumann. Gustave Baumann: The Artist’s Environment opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Plaza Building on Friday, showcasing works from the museum’s collection that detail…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 See Indigenous reflections. On the campus of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, a new pop-up exhibition opens Thursday. Reflections of Venice gives viewers an eye into a trip that…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 See an artist blend memory and tradition. The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe opens Jordan Ann Craig: My Way Home , a new exhibition highlighting the work of the Northern…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Heat up Nob Hill. The biggest block party of the season happens when Nob Hill hosts the Route 66 Summerfest on Saturday from 5 to 10 p.m. Central Avenue shuts down between Girard Boulevard and…
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