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Arts & Culture: Raven Chacon’s Tiguex Soars

However finely one may write about an event, it is the lived encounter that lends words their true gravity.


Arts & Culture: Lucrecia Dalt - A New Santa Fe Sound

It feels almost inevitable that Colombian composer and vocalist Lucrecia Dalt would unveil her latest work, A Danger to Ourselves, within the walls of Santa Fe’s Institute of Contemporary Art.


Arts & Culture: New Mexico Actor’s Lab Showcases Sam Shepard’s Cowboy Mouth

Sam Shepard’s life unfolds like a play in four acts: a California boyhood under wide skies; the restless, electric rise in New York as an Obie-winning playwright; a New Mexico chapter...


OPINION: Part-time Santa Fe resident, actor, and director, Robert Redford Dies

It’s a story I don’t often tell, but the one time I greeted Robert Redford—actor, director, and cultural icon—was in a Santa Fe bathroom at the St. Francis Auditorium.


Arts & Culture: Raven Chacon Discusses Forthcoming City-Wide Composition, Tiguex

To call composer and artist Raven Chacon a “creative” is an understatement.


Arts & Culture: Southwest Cigar Box Guitar Festival

Driving north on U.S. Route 550 from Albuquerque to San Ysidro, New Mexico one sees magnificent mesas, majestic mountains, ancient Pueblos, and beautiful geography.


Arts & Culture: Olivia Amaya Ortiz explains Soundings—An Exhibit in Five Parts

Walking into 516 ARTS on Central Ave in Albuquerque, New Mexico I immediately encounter a large musical score on the wall.


Arts & Culture: Karen Yank on Agnes Martin

After reading three biographies about famed artist Agnes Martin, I still feel as though I don’t really know Martin as a person, the warts and wonder of the woman.


Arts & Culture: La Materia gives us the life of a guitar

In the book The Spirit of Flamenco: From Spain to New Mexico author Nicolasa Chavez sheds light on the story of flamenco and its worldwide appeal.


Veritas International University: Unique backgrounds bring classical Christian higher education to New Mexico

It sounds like a bad joke gone wrong: What does a former professional baseball player, a post-punk musician, a jujitsu master, the protestant reformation, and Sodom and Gomorrah have in common?


Arts & Culture: 7 Women Artists Tell Unfolding Stories

Artist and teacher, Julia Lambright, knows a thing or two about stories. As a Russian-emigree to the US, Lambright’s story began in an orphanage in Moscow, then continued through schooling in the US.


Arts & Culture: Liturgia delivers a feast at the Festival Flamenco de Albuquerque

A solo cello. A candle-lined sanctuary. Light peering through stained glass windows. Four singers walk down an aisle, singing a meditative, harmonic song of praise.


Arts & Culture: Time machines of the printed page

Time machines exist. They’re called books. Books transmit the thoughts and cultures from the past and bring them to the present.


Arts & Culture: Georgia O’Keeffe in Canyon, Texas

When you think of the state most associated with Georgia O’Keeffe, you probably think of New Mexico. Fitting: She lived in New Mexico for forty years.


Arts & Culture: 516 ARTS and Poeh Cultural Center partner for Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts

When people from out of town ask me about the first arts-dedicated space they should visit in Albuquerque, I immediately recommend 516 ARTS.


Arts & Culture: Self Portrait—Thaïs Ferrandis Coy

On August 24, 1821, Spain and Mexico signed the Treaty of Córdoba, giving Mexico a large mass of land, including a significant part of what is now the western portion of United States of America.


Arts & Culture: Brooklyn Rider’s Brilliance

I first heard of the seminal string quartet Brooklyn Rider on NPR’s All Things Considered. If my memory serves me correctly, it was around 2010.


Arts & Culture: A beautiful fusion—Chacon/Nakatani/Santistevan Trio

Experimental, improvisatory music is not for the faint of heart.


Arts & Culture: Arthur Sze’s Poetry Reading Honors a Lifetime of Articulate Compassion

Pulitzer-nominated poet, translator, and educator, Arthur Sze, is a National Treasure.


Arts & Culture: Experiments in Cinema marks 20 years of visual alchemy

I don’t know what it is about experimental film that attracts me. Maybe it’s the poetic nature of the medium, a nonlinear methodology of expression.