VIVA THE CIT Y DIFFERENT

Part of the fun of admiring and acquiring art is visiting the wonderful places where it is made and sold. Among the most atmospheric places in America to see and collect art is Santa Fe, New Mexico, which offers a delightful mix of excellence, diversity, and laid-back charm. The art available ranges in date across the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries — sometimes even earlier — and there is always someone interesting to chat with wherever you go. Your coffee barista may well be an award-winning musician, and the receptionist at the gallery is probably an up-andcoming artist. You can be sure there’s someone famous within a quarter mile of you, but unlike in the Hamptons or Malibu, they are lying low and fitting right in.

Particularly intriguing in Santa Fe is the cheek-by-jowl flourishing of artforms drawn from different cultural legacies: Native American, Hispanic, and “Western” (by the latter, I mean both European-American and the American West). There’s also a more level playing field among the fine and decorative arts here: great jewelry, blankets, ceramics, metalwork, and ethnographic artifacts are prized just as much as paintings, sculpture, and works on paper. Practitioners in these artforms see and respect each other in Santa Fe, and much creativity has flowed from their encounters.

In Santa Fe, there’s a surprising familiarity among non-experts with the great artistic talents of previous generations: you’ll be struck by how many people know who the members of the Taos Society of Artists were (more than a century ago), or Gustave Baumann, Nicolai Fechin, Leon Gaspard, Fremont Ellis, or Eric Sloane. Locals are especially familiar with the more recent greats — such as Glenna Goodacre, Clark Hulings, and Wilson Hurley — and can probably tell you about the time they waited at a bus stop with one of them.

In the title of the article you’ll read here, we were careful to include the phrase “Indoors and Out,” because Santa Fe is one of the world’s few art market capitals where nature plays such a powerful role in your visitor experience. It is no accident that Canyon Road — that legendary stretch of art galleries — abuts the Acequia Madre (Mother Ditch) that still helps irrigate the city. Georgia O’Keeffe would surely have agreed that nature and culture are unusually intertwined in Santa Fe — a fact that somehow, magically, makes us appreciate both of them more intensely.

Happy travels.

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