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Universe of santera Virginia Maria Romero
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Art Forum: Julie Blackmon
25 Studio Visits: Nicolas Herrera and Tara Evonne Trudell 27
Food for Thought: The Hot Dog
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One Bottle: The 2009 Comte Abbatucci Ajaccio Rougem“Cuvée Faustine” by Joshua Baer
31 Dining Guide: Il Piatto, Chopstix, and Estella’s Cafe
49 Interview: James Kelly 53 Critical Reflections: Charles Ross at Gerald Peters Gallery; Dialogues in Steel at Charlotte Jackson Fine Art; Joe Ramiro Garcia at LewAllen Galleries; John Chervinsky and Jenna Kuiper at Richard Levy Gallery (Alb.); Miguel Gandert at Andrew Smith Gallery; Odyssey + Art: The 1960s at Yares Art Projects; Tom Waldron at William Siegal Gallery; and Transparent at the Lannan Foundation 67 Green Planet: Jeremy Allen, photograph by Jennifer Esperanza 69 Architectural Details: Vacancy, photograph by Guy Cross 70
Writings: “The Gathering of Ravens,” by Cynthia West
35 Art Openings 36 Out & About 44 Previews: ART Santa Fe, Center for Contemporary Arts, and SITE Santa Fe 47 National Spotlight: The Collaborative at the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA
Photographer Norman Mauskopf is decidedly old school. Eschewing digital photography, he shoots with a Leica using black-and-white film. Much more than just a documentary photographer, Mauskopf is also an anthropologist, making photographs of Northern New Mexico’s vanishing Hispanic culture. Descendents (Twin Palms Publishers, $60) is beautifully printed and designed—see the glorious two-page spreads shot with a panoramic lens, particularly the photograph of a white horse with a derelict barn in the background and the image of an abandoned truck set against a background of homes and outbuildings under a leaden sky. Mauskopf’s photographs of low-riders, of the interiors of homes, and of sacred and secular ceremonies and events are right on the mark. A big plus is that there are no captions or text to distract from the photographs. At the back of the book is a poem by Jimmy Santiago Baca entitled “Singing at the Gates”—a wonderful complement to Mauskopf’s photographs. Mauskopf is the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Fellowship for his work on this project.