Come learn about the history of New Mexico in St. Francis Auditorium co-presented with El Rancho de las Golondrinas. This is Part One of a three-part lecture series. Paul Andrew Hutton is an American cultural historian, author, documentary writer, and television personality. He is also the professor of history at the University of New Mexico and the executive director of Western History […]
Join us and all of our Department of Cultural Affairs partners at the State Capitol for the annual Culture Day. Museums, historic sites and other entities will have display tables sharing the latest and greatest of their institutions. The History Museum will be celebrating the ongoing Palace of the Governors renovation. Stop by and see […]
Where would we be without the printing press? We certainly wouldn’t have Shakespeare, or the thousands of editions of his plays produced over the last four centuries. Not a bad run for one of the most mysterious playwrights in history. From February 5–28, 2016 the Palace Press at the New Mexico History Museum presents […]
The New Mexico Museum of Art has been selected as the host site for First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, a national traveling exhibition of the Shakespeare First Folio, one of the world’s most treasured books. The Folger Shakespeare Library, in partnership with Cincinnati Museum Center and the American Library Association, is touring […]
National tour from Folger Shakespeare Library in commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death. New Mexico Museum of Art, recently named New Mexico’s host for the First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare national tour, is pleased to announce that the First Folio will be on view to the public February 5-28, 2016.
Medieval to Metal: The Art and Evolution of the Guitar opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art on February 5, 2016 with a free public reception from 5.30 to 7.30pm. The exhibition examines the craftsmanship, design, and history of this popular musical instrument. Medieval to Metal is a companion exhibition to two others opening […]
Free, public opening reception for the Folio and two complementary exhibitions, Stage, Setting, Mood: Theatricality in the Visual Arts and Medieval to Metal: The Art & Evolution of the Guitar. Refreshments will be provided and there will be live music by Música Antigua de Albuquerque. Música Antigua de Albuquerque was founded in 1978 in Albuquerque, New […]
Spend an afternoon in the heart of southern Spain, the land of Flamenco. Nicolasa Chavez, Curator of Hispanic Collections will present a leture and demonstration on the origins of this beautiful music and dance. The presentation will be accompanied by live guitar, singing and dance. To RSVP, send e-mail to firendsoffolkart@gmail.com or call the Museum […]
Shakespeare and women have a long history together—from the first published critical response to Shakespeare by Margaret Cavendish in 1664; to the first known reading group, the Shakespeare Ladies Club in the early 1700s; to the Women’s Clubs that took Shakespeare across the entire country with the pioneers; to the preponderance of women at lectures about Shakespeare […]
The first edition of Shakespeare’s collected works, the First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the most valuable books in the world and has historically proven to be an attractive target for thieves. Of the 160 First Folios listed in a census of 1902, 14 were subsequently stolen-and only two of these were ever […]
To commemorate both Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary and its own 60th, the Santa Fe Opera commissioned a new work from composer Joseph Illick, with a libretto by Andrea Fellows Walters. Mixing Shakespeare and sci-fi, UnShakeable travels 25 years into the future after a pandemic called “Erasure” has corroded people’s memories. Will Shakespearean actors and former lovers […]
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