Category: Volume VI, 2011-2012
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Art education with online portals
Today’s buyers use the Internet to acquire fine art Disposing and purchasing of art through traditional methods such as auction houses and galleries has changed dramatically with the advent of the Internet. The model is very different today than it was fifteen years ago. There are comprehensive online databases of artists and art valuations just…
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Northern New Mexico guided tours and adventures
Enjoy these guided tours and outdoor adventures in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico Santa Fe has such a long and fascinating history, and there’s so much to see and do, that getting acquainted with our ancient town can be a little daunting. Guided tours are an excellent way to learn the basics and decide…
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Pueblo pottery
A conversation about collecting historic pueblo pottery With Michael Ettema, Ex-Director of the Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg, Arizona and Dr. Mark Sublette, President / CEO of Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery Ettema: How did you become a Pueblo pottery dealer and how long have you been in business? Sublette: Growing up in New…
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Contemporary art on Canyon Road
Modern art thrives in the city different Many of our visitors expect that fine art in the West will consist of traditional Indian portraits, cowboy action scenes, and majestic mountain landscapes. And that, certainly, is the legacy of the many illustrators turned fine artists who gave easterners their first glimpse of this strange, new land…
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Writers of Santa Fe
Why novelists David Morrell, Michael McGarrity, Jo-Ann Mapson, Mark Sublette and more live in Santa Fe by Wolf Schneider Santa Fe’s current novelists range from the guy who created Rambo to a best-selling history writer to a handful of mystery writers, including a former cop, an established women’s author, and an art-gallery owner launching a…
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Santa Fe’s farm-to-table movement
Santa Fe is a leader in the national trend of keeping our food local and sustainable Nobody would mistake New Mexico for Iowa. In our mountainous and arid environment, “amber waves of grain” do not readily spring to mind. Nevertheless, farming has been crucial to New Mexico’s inhabitants for 3000 years. Prehistoric hunter/gatherers in what…