place Jewelry store that honors the cultural heritage of regional makers.
person A current Harwood exhibit places Eva Mirabal among the postwar artists who reshaped Taos — without mentioning she'd spent the war as an Army cartoonist first.
place A new Fechin House exhibit traces how modernist ideas reached Taos — not as one movement, but through Mabel Dodge Luhan's patronage and, later, a wave of postwar teaching.
tradition A Taos Public Library series is showing contemporary santero work next to historical pieces — the same juxtaposition Patrocinio Barela forced on a skeptical MoMA in 1936.
place A new exhibit at the Millicent Rogers Museum puts living Indigenous artists in direct conversation with the collection Rogers assembled seven decades ago.
person A patron's invitation brought a novelist to a ranch north of Taos — and a manuscript changed hands to keep him there.
person A broken wagon wheel stranded two painters outside Taos in 1898 — and neither of them really left.
tradition A Pueblo dye house is testing a chamisa-and-pinon-pitch yellow that hasn't been mixed in living memory — pulled from a notebook in the Millicent Rogers archive.