Plan your weekend in New Mexico, October 9–11, with fall festivals, Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebrations, plus the XTERRA World Championship in Ruidoso.

Over the years, Fort Stanton has been a military fort, a tuberculosis hospital, a prison, and a rehab center. While guests can normally only visit seven of the 85 buildings, on the last Friday of the ...

Start early at Balloon Fiesta, watch a steamroller make art in Silver City, and find more festivals and events on the October calendar.

A SLOW PLUME OF DUST HANGS behind my truck, then dissolves with the wind. For miles, the shortgrass prairie of eastern New Mexico offers little beyond itself. Side oats, blue grama, buffalo grass, and ...

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FAST BECOMING ONE OF the most anticipated film festivals in the Southwest, the Santa Fe International Film Festival turns the City Different into a cinephile’s paradise with hundreds of films ...

SANTA FE IS ONLY one of many geographic entry points to get to know and collect New Mexico art. Across the state, these galleries and venues are creating buzz while changing perceptions of a diverse ...

JUST FIVE MINUTES UP the road from the mountain village of Angel Fire’s only stoplight sits Whatville, a 10-acre art installation and events space. Created by Ray Renfroe, the whimsical landscape is a ...

ARTISTS AND GALLERISTS have made themselves at home on Canyon Road since the early 1900s. By 1962, the city designated the road a residential arts-and-crafts zone, and the ’80s art boom set the tone ...

Retired University of New Mexico radiology and nuclear medicine professor MICHAEL HARTSHORNE discovered a U.S. News profile claiming he earned his medical degree from a university in Mexico City ...

IF YOU VENTURE farther down a blue highway, around a secluded canyon pass, or onto a quiet rural road, you will discover that creativity is deeply woven into the fabric of every corner of New Mexico.

FOR THOSE WHO ARE deeply cynical—and anxious—about the state of the planet, Healing the Land Teaches Us Who We Are (North Atlantic Books) offers a rare thing: hope. Drawing from Indigenous knowledge, ...