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...family and faith, they find themselves cast out, and although they relish their escape and freedom, a part of them will always ache for that absolutist belonging. Next time you write about Mormonism, look at all sides of this unusual, politically powerful and often cruel religion. SEAN GARDNER Santa Fe...
...able to receive data at only 1 bit per sec. by the time we got to the moon. The incoming data were so slow that we were decoding them on the fly by eye. :=) To be in on these latest space sojourns would be thrilling indeed. DON NICKELL Santa Fe...
That is evidently the case in Santa Fe. The launch of the museum and the assembly of the 87 works in its nascent permanent collection, worth about $15 million, have come about thanks largely to Texas cattle baroness Anne Marion and her husband John, the former chairman of Sotheby's North America. Approached in 1995 to contribute funds and some of her O'Keeffe paintings to the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, Anne Marion decided on a dramatic and wholly Texan response: establish a museum devoted to O'Keeffe herself...
Plans were formed at a gallop. Marion bought an empty Spanish Baptist church turned art gallery and hired New York architect Richard Gluckman, who was known for his design of the Warhol museum in Pittsburgh, Pa., and the site of SITE Santa Fe, an ambitious biennial exhibition of vanguard art that the Marions also helped fund. Not without a certain symmetry, if one's taste runs to icons of the Western spirit, Peter Hassrick, the former director of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyo., was hired to fill the same role at the O'Keeffe...
Swathed in the beige adobe seen throughout the Southwest, the museum sits on a quiet street off Santa Fe's main plaza, where galleries selling O'Keeffe wannabes vie with Indians hawking turquoise and silver in the long colonnade of the Palace of the Governors. You enter through glass doors trimmed with New Mexican pine. The installation is spare and elegant, as are the 10 galleries with glowing plaster walls, earth-colored concrete floors and skylights that subtly draw viewers from room to room...