Las Cruces Blog

Las Cruces Museum of Art February 07 – May 03, 2025   The focus of this show at the Las Cruces Museum of Art is on the ways contemporary artists borrow from history to create something new. These artists weave art history with today’s popular culture, creating pictures within pictures. You will see equal measures of playfulness and nostalgia, much of it tapping into our collective imagination, inc...

At Casa de Arte, the only real limit we have around tenancy is that the property is for adults. How guests choose to spend their visit is up to them, but the unique quality of the premises calls out to certain groups of visitors. What comes to mind in this regard are the ways Casa de Arte is highly suited for hosting writers’ retreats. As Rowena Murphy wrote in Writing in Social Spaces, “Conversat...

How gay/lesbian-friendly is Las Cruces, New Mexico?   Often, to find out how gay friendly a place is, someone will type into a search engine something along the lines of Does Las Cruces have any gay bars? Certainly, the presence of a formal gay establishment marks a community as place gays and lesbians want to visit or move to. Does Las Cruces have a gay bar? No, we don’t. When we moved here over ...