If you're the sort of music fan who is happier watching the Coachella livestream on your couch than navigating the crowds, then you may be wondering how to enjoy the magic of live music without quite so many people.
29.04.2024 - 11:17 / cntraveler.com / Art
The creations of Arizona-born Orlando Dugi, a member of the Diné Nation, are nothing if not dramatic: gowns glittering with delicate beadwork, silks embroidered with symbolic flora and fauna. Some have been exhibited at places like the Denver Art Museum and the Autry Museum of the American West in Los Angeles. While his imagination is fueled by his upbringing—days spent watching his grandmother sew and nights stargazing at his family's sheep ranch—Dugi also finds inspiration in Santa Fe, which he's called home since 2010. “All the tribal, colonial, and Spanish history—it's all here,” he says. “It's very small, but it's also pretty international.” New Mexico's capital city is set to draw a global audience as host of the inaugural Santa Fe Native Fashion Week, the first of its kind in the country, held from May 2 to 5, where Dugi will present highlights from his mens- and womenswear collections. When he's not designing, he enjoys connecting with Indigenous culture on the ancestral lands of the Tewa people—or kicking back with a margarita.
The Silver Coin margarita at the Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi is made with silver tequila and Cointreau.
At the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian Visitors can shop its Case Trading Post, which has a selection of art for sale.
The Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian is best known for the Jim and Lauris Phillips Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry, which showcases some 700 works made by Navajo and Pueblo artisans, past and present. Visitors can shop its Case Trading Post, which Dugi says “has a good selection of price ranges, from the more affordable to the higher end.” Examples include bold Zuni-made vintage squash blossom necklaces and an intricate Laguna/Chiricahua Apache inlay bracelet.
Although there's no shortage of galleries and artists in Santa Fe, Dugi is drawn to the contemporary collaborations between the Diné designer Yazzie Johnson and the Pueblo designer Gail Bird at The Owings Gallery. In addition to the turquoise jewelry commonly associated with Native American crafts, Johnson and Bird work with 18-karat gold, semiprecious stones, and pearls. Dugi says, “I'm drawn to work like theirs: based on traditional and Indigenous forms but not what most people expect.”
The designers Gail Bird and Yazzie Johnson work with 18-karat gold, semiprecious stones, and pearls.
The vaults of the School for Advanced Research house more than 12,000 pieces of pottery, basketry, and rare items.
In the summer, Dugi lingers at Rosewood Inn of the Anasazi— their patio is a shady outdoor spot steps from the 400-year-old Santa Fe Plaza. “You can have lunch and watch people from all over the world walk by,” he says. At the Anasazi Restaurant, there's lots to love
If you're the sort of music fan who is happier watching the Coachella livestream on your couch than navigating the crowds, then you may be wondering how to enjoy the magic of live music without quite so many people.
Christopher Columbus’s fortunes have changed over the past several decades. Monuments that once celebrated his memory have been toppled or spattered with paint. Disdain for his colonialist ways is unmistakable. But few interventions are as thoughtful as the art of Hew Locke.
The long-awaited third season of Netflix’s hit romance period drama Bridgerton is unveiled today (May 16), and fans of the series can now not only binge on the bodice-ripping romantic intrigues, opulent outfits, glamorous balls and lavish sets of the Regency era but also plan a trip to discover the locations around Britain where the smash-hit series was filmed.
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The sun-drenched sepia photograph shows a dapper European, handkerchief in pocket, cigarette in hand, sitting among a row of men dressed in bisht and keffiyeh. The moment was captured during Jacques Cartier's first visit to the Persian Gulf in 1911, on his way back to London from Delhi—part of a sales trip encouraged by his father, Alfred, then the head of Cartier. The decline of the Ottoman Empire and the 1905 Persian Constitutional Revolution had flooded Europe's artistic centers with new influences, forging an aesthetic then known as “the Muslim arts.” Eager to learn more, Jacques spent four months traveling throughout Asia and the Middle East, rifling through bazaars and emporiums and mixing with high society.
Washington’s headline act is its natural environment.
There is a sense of humor around every corner when you're driving in the USA. How else to explain those wacky, way-out-in-left-field roadside attractions you’ll stumble upon? Sculptures made of cars, energy vortexes and oversized household items are just the beginning. Here are our favorite offbeat stops.
This summer, as you step into the grand halls of Rome's Palazzo Barberini, you'll find yourself amidst "Day for Night: New American Realism," an engaging exhibition that showcases over 150 works by American artists from the Tony and Elham Salamé collection. Curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Flaminia Gennari Santori, this exhibit explores the textured realities of American life, presented in collaboration with the Aïshti Foundation.
Ever dreamed of spending a night in the Ferrari Museum in Maranello, Italy, tucked in a bed crafted with the same leather as Ferrari car seats? What’s more, you’ll be surrounded by 110 elite trophies and encircled by the Ferrari cars that won those accolades and feel the speed of the Ferrari 296GTB on a private ride on the Pista di Fiorano, Ferrari’s private racetrack.
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