Tea.o.graphy Brews a Gathering Place
A FAMILIAR GATHERING PLACE just off Taos Plaza is filled with a new kind of commotion. Steamers hiss, laughter rises, and shoes shuffle across the old wood floors within thick adobe walls, while the…
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Larry Bell’s Glass Magic
IN AN OTHERWISE EMPTY ROOM at SITE Santa Fe stands Fourth of July in Venice Fog. Against the crisp white walls of the gallery, the interior of the eight-by-six-foot glass box becomes legible: four…
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Stranger Things Around New Mexico
Center of the Universe, Albuquerque While the Center Of The Universe may be quotidian on the University of New Mexico’s Albuquerque campus, Bruce Nauman’s concrete walk-through sculpture has a…
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The Legend of the Three Brujas
WHILE SALEM IS FAMED for its witch trials, New Mexico had its own tensions between the local church and mystical practices in the late 1700s. The Three Brujas of Taos were women so feared that their…
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Rio Lucero Farms Sets the Table
EMMA PATTERSON, A 29-YEAR-OLD professional skier, never set out to build a restaurant. “It was never like, Oh, this is our ultimate goal,” she says of Rio Lucero Farms, which she and her father, Doug…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Get hooked on prickly pear. Discover new ways to eat and create with prickly pear during the 8th annual Prickly Pear Festival on Friday and Saturday at the Gutiérrez-Hubbell House, in Albuquerque…
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Walking with Willa Cather
THE SANGRE DE CRISTO MOUNTAINS SEEMED to dare her to write about them. The literary allure was in their potent name, meaning “the Blood of Christ.” It evoked the saturated hue that flushed over them…
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Five Things to Do This Weekend
1 Celebrate Zuni artistry. Buy new art rooted in timeless traditions this Friday through Sunday at the Zuni Art Market along NM 53 in Zuni Pueblo. The market features many Zuni artisans selling…
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Explore Río Grande del Norte National Monument
MY WIFE SEES IT BEFORE I DO. As we mount the cerro in silence, wind hisses across the sage and rocks and into the piñon and juniper. Above, ravens and vultures play on rising thermals. Below, pinyon…
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Harwood Museum Returns to the Earth
WHEN VISITORS ENTER the Harwood Museum of Art, in Taos, for Unearthing Futures/Desenterrando Futuros, it won’t be through the museum’s usual front door. Instead, the exhibition, which opens June 27…
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