Arts Feature
Story and Photos by Ruth E. Thaler-Carter 💡Buchalter will be showing his work at “Jewish Life in NM through the Arts” in Santa Fe at the NM Jewish Historical Society Fall Conference, Oct. 25th. Many people with stellar professional careers also have a creative side that provides deep satisfaction.
Arts Feature
By Judith Fein Photos by Paul Ross I was sitting at a recent event sponsored by the Wagner Society of Santa Fe. It was about the Santa Fe Opera’s American premiere of Lili Elbe, the true story of one of the first trans women ever to undergo gender-affirming
Arts Review
By Judith Fein Photos by Paul Ross My husband Paul and I were dining in the Gastronomy Cooking School in Mexico City when I became captivated by a copy of a startling Diego Rivera mural that covered the entire back wall of the room. I could not take my eyes
Gloria Abella Ballen
... about Walter Benjamin and the perfect place, the Neue Galerie, where I found his book, The Story Teller: Tales out of Loneliness. Â
Ron Duncan Hart
...to think of its aftermath, the sharp contrast between this celebration of life painted by Klimt and the Nazi wave of hatred that would destroy the Jewish life
Arts Feature
by Dianne R. Layden, Ph.D. In her remarkable first book, Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land, Rachel Cockerell presents history and memoir in an experimental format in which original source material, with all its nuances, is presented as historical context – the search in the
Book Review
Review by Anna Redsand In the first weeks of the current US administration, photos of World War II Diné (Navajo) Code Talkers were removed from US military websites. Due to intense protest, the images were later returned. In the meantime, the Poetry Foundation published something extraordinary, which turns out to
Arts Feature
By Norma Libman It all started a year ago when, on a trip to England, Santa Fe artist Gloria Abella Ballen visited the Wren Library at the University of Cambridge. The library is named for the renowned eighteenth-century British architect and physicist Christopher Wren, and is one of the