New Mexico Mercury

Insight New Mexico - Arturo Sandoval

V.B. Price talks with Arturo Sandoval, President and founder of the Center for Southwest Culture, about the sustainability of the organization and its many community projects.

El Machete: The Unjustices

The Unjustices

Emerging Voices: Amanda Custer

Curator's note by Stevie Olson: This week, the Mercury is excited to publish two poems by Amanda Custer. Both pieces explore Amanda’s experience of living with a grandmother who has Alzheimer’s. Her language is full of engaging imagery, and both poems use beautiful progressions to harness the reader’s emotions. We hope you enjoy...

Digital Art with a North/South Consciousness

The Digital Latin America Symposium, produced by 516 ARTS in Albuquerque, New Mexico June 7-8, 2014 at the Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, drew creative minds from local communities and diverse places in Latin America. The audience was composed of academics, artists, journalists, community organizers and enthusiasts. 516 ARTS brought together world-renowned artists like Pablo Helguera and Alex Rivera, as well as showcasing talented young artists who bring new concepts and processes to artmaking. This event showed an understanding of the transnational connection that exists between peoples of the Southwest region of the US to peoples, culture and art in Latin America...

¡COLORES! June 27, 2014

Albuquerque painter Maude Andrade shares the process behind her abstracted landscapes and narratives...

New Exhibit on Acequias at the Maxwell Museum

El Agua Es Vida, takes the visitor on an historical ride through Nuevomexicano rural communities from the arrival of the Spanish to the current crises caused by the pull of outside wage labor, demands for their water rights, and climate change.

El Machete: Preventative Medicine

Preventative Medicine

Humphrey’s World: Susana Can’t Say

Susana Can't Say

Five Questions with New Mexico Authors - Tanya Ward Goodman

This week we ask author Tanya Ward Goodman some questions about the creative genius of her father, Ross Ward,  about the cascading impact on her family of his early on-set Alzheimer’s disease, and about her superbly crafted and deeply moving memoir Leaving Tinkertown from UNM Press, 2014.

NNM: Your storytelling power has made Leaving Tinkertown one of those books readers return to, savor, and use to help understand their own lives. We wondered what access the book has given you to other families and healthcare communities  who’ve experienced both the torments of early onset Alzheimer’s disease and are working to find a treatment that works?

TWG: Since the book came out there have been so many opportunities to meet people in the Alzheimer’s community...

Weekly Poem: Hot Tub Time Machine

There’s a place
just beyond the present,
where the past goes to die
in the name of progress.

Where prayers
become quaint folks songs,
instead of blueprints,
instead of sheet music to the revolution,
instead of the past words
to our next donut round the sun...