Arts

Anne Hillerman with Tony Hillerman Prize winner CB McKenzie. Courtesy photo

Staff Report

At the Tony Hillerman Writers Conference in Santa Fe, Wordharvest Writers Workshops and Thomas Dunne Books/Minotaur Books announced that CB McKenzie’s Bad Country has won the Tony Hillerman Prize.

A native Texan, CB McKenzie has hiked the entire Appalachian Trail without stopping, modeled for Giorgio Armani, worked on an organic farm, earned a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona, and currently teaches rhetoric at the City University of New York.

The winning novel, Bad Country Read More

Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664), Head of a monk, 1625-64. Drawing, 277 x 196 mm. Courtesy phooto

NMMA News:

The New Mexico Museum of Art is the only American venue for the exhibition Renaissance to Goya: Prints and Drawings from Spain that is literally rewriting the book on Spanish art. After the British Museum in London, the Prado in Madrid and the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia the exhibition opens Dec.14, in Santa Fe and runs through March 9.

It was long assumed that, uniquely among their contemporaries in other countries, Spanish artists did not draw and produced little Read More

‘The Strange Disappearance of Uncle Dudley’ by Inez Ross. Courtesy photo

Staff Report

The year was 1943, and the major nations of the world were embroiled in global warfare. Many of the top scientists of the world were being spirited off to a secret place to work on a project that would help end the war and change the world forever.

“The Strange Disappearance of Uncle Dudley” is the story of the wartime absence of loved ones, told from a family perspective in a read-it-to-me book for children. It features archival and modern photos of Los Alamos.

In the early nineties, the Los Alamos Writers Read More