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On a bitter, windy day, a long-overdue reckoning took place in the commandant's quarters at Fort Garland, a former military outpost turned museum and cultural center.

On a bitter, windy day, a long-overdue reckoning took place in the commandant’s quarters at Fort Garland, a former military outpost turned museum

Two exhibitions highlight stories of Indigenous bondage in southern Colorado, in an effort to grapple with the lasting trauma.

See how local artists are exploring everything from politics to desert life.

Artist Chip Thomas, who often creates work using the name Jetsonorama, is also an activist, physician, and photographer. He has lived and worked for more than three decades in the Navajo Nation, where he curates a mural project called the Painted Desert. His work, which often addresses social justice issues, has focused in recent months on minimizing COVID-19 impacts in Indigenous communities. Recently, he created work for the Heard Museum and Walter Productions, working with poet Esther Belin....

Courtesy of D. Nufer/Albuquerque Museum Art in the desert went viral last fall with the debut of a bewitching spear of reflective metal in southern Utah. The so-called monolith, placed in a cleavage of crimson rock miles from the nearest road by an unknown maker, made international headlines and became ubiquitous on Instagram. Hundreds of visitors descended on the site, posting pictures of themselves leaning jocularly against the monolith’s sheer sides or offering a vague tribute to St. Simeo...