41.   Most of the works point beyond themselves to other images, whether earlier photographs, abstract paintings or pictures from popular culture.

42.   On Canyon Road, one of the oldest streets in Santa Fe, galleries and pricey shops offer an array of goods from Indian ceramics to abstract paintings.

43.   On the photos, much of Mars resembles an abstract painting, threaded with flowing lines, smeared with lava and pockmarked with craters.

44.   One rug in the show looks like an abstract painting of a pale blue mountain range set against a brown sky.

45.   On one recent afternoon here, hundreds of shoppers mulled over abstract paintings, installation art and African masks as they strolled from gallery to gallery.

46.   One is the German painter Sigmar Polke, who has a show of two dozen strange, beautiful, sort of abstract new paintings at Michael Werner Gallery.

47.   Painting looks especially good, with abstract painting in noticeable abundance.

48.   Painting, especially abstract painting by young women, which was so plentiful in galleries last month, is relatively scarce at the moment.

49.   Schlosberg was a former art instructor at Yale University who loved abstract painting and vintage motorcycle racing.

50.   She also has a red telephone and a red wooden chair, and the abstract painting by Margo Humphreys that hangs over her bed is rendered mostly in reds.