New Mexico Mercury

Friday Voyage: Yucatán, Part 3: Ruta Puuc and Dzibilohaltún

Margaret Randall explores the lesser known and lesser traveled ruins of the Yucatán.

El Machete: Head Hunters

Head Hunters

A Mountain of the Mind

James Moore, former director of The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, reviews artist Dennis Liberty’s stunning meditations on the Sandia Mountains. 

¡COLORES! March 6, 2015

Tewa artist Jason Garcia, the Missing Peace Art Space, and “Dance – The Next Generation."

Friday Voyage: Yucatán II: Uxmal

Epitomizing the region's architectural style, Uxmal remains one of the most important archaeological sites for study of Maya culture.

To Sibundoy and Back

Ayahuasca, or yagé, is a substance used as a shamanistic vehicle in parts of the Amazon and is known for its divinatory and healing powers.  A New Mexican describes his journey through an Ayahuasca ceremony. 

¡COLORES! February 13, 2015

Santa Fe painter Erin Cone plays with human gesture and abstracting form...

Mercury Poetry: Two poems from Joan Logghe

Sweet name for a new place.

I cruise your supermarket with poetry

in my heart.  I finger the Pendleton,

spend a lot of time at the Pendleton blankets,

and if time is money I own a Chief Joseph.
 

If time is money I sleep in a Best Western

with metal stallions rearing out front...

Gone Fishing — New Works by Heidi Pollard

Local artist Heidi Pollard has seventeen new gouaches at The Outpost Performance Space, 210 Yale Blvd. SE. The show opened February 6th and will be up through the end of March. The small but alive and evocative images shouldn’t be missed; viewers are welcome from 2 to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday or during the Outpost’s regularly scheduled performances.

In contrast with most spaces that are not designed specifically as galleries, The Outpost is a good place to see art. It shows this work off to its best advantage, the pristine gray walls really popping the luminous colors....

Friday Voyage: Yucatán, Part 1: Chichén Itzá

Margaret Randall begins a series on the Yucatán with this ancient metropolis, home to over 200,000 people in the ancient world.