New Mexico Mercury

Friday Voyage: Georgia O’Keeffe Country

Amazing vistas, isolated beauty and a woman who made them her own. 

Provincial Matters, 9-15-2014

V.B. Price's weekly collection of appreciations and observations.

Five Questions with New Mexico Authors – Malcolm Ebright, Rick Hendricks, and Richard W. Hughes

This week we ask historians and attorneys Malcolm Ebright, Rick Hendricks, and Richard W. Hughes some questions about their remarkably detailed and pioneering book Four Square Leagues: Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico, which explores the intriguing and tangled history of the relationships between pueblos and Spanish, Mexican, and American governments over property rights to ancient tribal lands.

Max Linder & the Roots of Film Comedy

I love books about film. Motion pictures. In The Silent Clowns, Walter Kerr—a playwright and theater critic—explores the roots of comedy in Hollywood films. Of course the French were a little ahead of Hollywood, as Georges Méliès, an illusionist and filmmaker, who could be called a special effects master, sometimes called a “cinemagician,” seemed to already understand the medium thoroughly. One of his best-known films, A Trip to the Moon, was made in 1902...

El Machete: Regrets

Regrets

Being an Alien: Jonathan Glazer’s “Under the Skin”

A cold examination of the human animal highlights an isolation and loneliness inherent in much of modern society. 

¡COLORES! September 5, 2014

Santa Fe’s Nic Nicosia shares how photography is about making a picture, not taking a picture...

El Machete: Not Very Christian

Not very Christan

Five Questions with New Mexico Authors – Debra Bloomfield

This week we ask photographer and author Debra Bloomfield some questions about her transcendent, exquisitely beautiful book of photographs, essays, and soundscapes entitled Wilderness published by UNM Press this year.

New Mexico Mercury: What’s so exciting about this book is the total experience it allows a reader to have with its remarkable conversion of visual, audial, and intellectual experience of wilderness. How did you conceive the possibility of achieving such a total experience?...

¡COLORES! August 29, 2014

Santa Fe's Dyanna Taylor reflects on being the granddaughter of photographer Dorothea Lange and shares her vision for making the film "Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning"...