On Wednesday, November 18 we were still in Las Cruces NM. We
wanted to visit the Art Museum, but it didn’t open until 10. We found a street
fair just down the street from the Branigan Cultural Center which houses
several museums including the Art Museum. So we spent some time looking at the
handmade items for sale at the fair. I bought a rock that was found in the
desert for $3!
The Art Museum was small. They had an exhibit of photographs
by Paul Outerbridge. He was a pioneer in the development of color photography.
He was ahead of his time and did not find much interest in his photographs as
objects of art until the mid 50’s. He died fairly young of lung cancer.
The Cultural Center had an exhibit on Dia de los Muertos –
the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead (November 1). I love all the
iconography associated with that holiday and really enjoyed looking at all the
interesting and funny depictions of death and family in the exhibit. We did not
look at the Nature Museum or the Railroad Museum which are also associated with
the Cultural Center. We will save that for next time. It was all free and the
parking is plentiful and free. What a lovely welcome to visitors.
We spent the night in Benson AZ.
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