For the last 15 years, a 1948 red GMC truck has permanently decorated Ray Herrera’s driveway. “It’s a one-owner,” Herrera boasts, explaining that he inherited the vehicle from his father after he passed. Next to it, there’s a hand-built shrine to St. Francis that Herrera built himself. A vintage, paper-stuffed Santa Claus is propped against the pickup’s driver’s seat. “Everyone thinks he’s gross because he’s falling apart."

Hal Kahn has an issue with the digitally retouched, wrinkle-free world in which we live, and his self-funded photography exhibit, Faces of the Elderly, reflects it. “I want to show the wrinkles,” the 60-year-old says of the forthcoming show, which consists exclusively of portraits of senior citizens.

Picture postcard from the 2012 USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship.

When it comes to mainstream appropriation of another culture’s imagery, few groups seem to be targeted as often as Native Americans are. One of the latest examples to make a splash is No Doubt’s video for “Looking Hot,” which featured singer Gwen Stefani—who has borrowed from cholo, seapunk and Indian (dot) cultures before—dressed up in stylized Native garb.

Chuck Cover gets a twinkle in his eyes when he leads visitors to the backroom of his Seton Village home. “This space was the main selling point,” he says, walking towards his impressive model railroad layout.

When Frederick Prescott first came to Santa Fe 30 years ago, he fell in love. “I’d heard about Santa Fe, but I didn’t know what it was,” the Bay Area native says. A day and a half in our town, and Prescott was “mesmerized.”

'Tis the ghoulish season when ladies get to dress up as a slutty version of Marvin the Martian (yes, really) or a whorish just about everything else, and men get to cover down to the ankles and gawk away.

The art in Arthur Lopez’ living room alone could rival that of any museum. A sea of crucifixes  hangs throughout, and wood carvings depicting every imaginable saint’s passion are propped atop all available surfaces.

Once a month, Steve White makes the trek from his Albuquerque studio to East Palace Avenue’s Todos Santos Chocolates & Confections, his highest-volume retailer,  to unload his latest batch of “outsider art.”

We met in a sitting area near the elevators on the second floor of the Eldorado Hotel. Writer/director Emmett Mckinley requested I not ask questions about his sons. Having no idea what he was referring to, I agreed.