• Drip Tease: John Tinker’s Narrative Sculptures

    New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    In Drip Tease John Tinker challenges the public with sixteen sculptures that offer droll comments about politics, survival, and popular culture. These works focus on the contradictions of the present moment through allusions to liquids that leak, ooze, or pool. Materials that melt provide the perfect medium for demonstrating the transitory nature of contemporary life. […]

  • Imagining Mexico: From the Aztec Empire to Colonial New Spain Exploring various views of the Mexican Conquest

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    In 1519, Hernán Cortés and a small group of Spanish soldiers made first contact with the Aztecs. The stories they sent back to Europe detailing the wealth and sophistication of the Aztec empire astonished their countrymen – and fed 300 years of efforts to write and re-write the story of the Mexican Conquest. From Oct. […]

  • El Hilo de la Memoria: España y los Estados Unidos The Threads of Memory: Spain and the United States

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

      The New Mexico History Museum and Department of Cultural Affairs proudly announce that El Archivo General de Indias (the General Archive of the Indies) in Seville, Spain, has chosen Santa Fe for the American debut of El Hilo de la Memoria  (“The Threads of Memory”) an exhibit of rare documents, illustrations and maps detailing Spain’s […]

  • Case Studies From The Bureau Of Contemporary Art

    New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    The New Mexico Museum of Art will present an exhibition of works from its Bureau of Contemporary Art, a fictitious entity created for this exhibition in order to emphasize contemporary art’s prominent place within the museum’s permanent collection. Case Studies from the Bureau of Contemporary Art will be on view November 19, 2010 through March […]

  • A Noble Legacy: The USS New Mexico A soldier of World War II comes home

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    The proud history of the USS New Mexico stands front and center in La Ventana Gallery through May 9, with A Noble Legacy: The USS “New Mexico.” The special exhibition includes a hand-crafted model of the New Mexico (BB-40), a battleship that saw significant action in World War II; items related to the new USS […]

  • A Passionate Light: The Polaroids of H. Joe Waldrum

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    A rush to catch a plane and the convenience of a Safeway grocery store led to noted New Mexico artist H. Joe Waldrum’s long-term love affair with SX-70 Polaroid monoprints, images that Waldrum referred to as “little jewels.” The late artist’s collection of nearly 8,000 images was recently donated to the Palace of the Governors […]

  • Cloudscapes: Photographs from the Collection

    New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    A new exhibition of photographic luminaries invites visitors to lose themselves in a variety of cloud formations, from fluffy to enticing to intriguing to menacing. Cloudscapes: Photographs from the Collection, opening Feb. 4, features work by some of the masters of the medium, including Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Laura Gilpin, Eliot Porter, and Edward Weston. […]

  • Creative Spark! : The Life and Art of Tony Da February 13, 2011 through December 31, 2011

    Museum of Indian Arts and Culture 708-710 Camino Lejo, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Creative Spark: The Life and Art of Tony Da is the artist’s first comprehensive museum retrospective. On view will be the largest group of Da’s paintings and pottery ever gathered in one place. The exhibition opens at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture on February 13, 2011 running through December 31, 2011. Come join […]

  • Broadsides from the Al-Mutanabbi Street Project Honoring the soul of Baghdad’s literary community

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    On March 5, 2007, a car bomb exploded on Al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad, Iraq, killing 30 people and wounding over 100 others. Al-Mutanabbi Street was for centuries the center of Baghdad bookselling, the heart and soul of Baghdad’s literary and intellectual community. The Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition, formed in April 2007, sent out a call to […]

  • Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment

    New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Earth Now: American Landscape Photographers and the Environment offers both a survey and a contemporary view of how artists working in photography have addressed our relationship to the environment. - April 8, 2011 through October 9, 2011. Free public opening 5:30-7:30 pm, Friday April 8. Hosted by the Women’s Board of the Museum of New […]

  • Ranch Women of New Mexico

    New Mexico History Museum 113 Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    From Evelyn Fite Tune’s famously monogrammed cowboy boots to Fern Sawyer’s irrepressible spirit, Ranch Women of New Mexico celebrates an icon of the American West, from a female point of view.Featuring 11 women who have “cowgirled” or owned ranches in New Mexico, the exhibit represents selections from work by photographer Ann Bromberg and writer Sharon […]