The annual candle-lit procession of Las Posadas travels around the Santa Fe Plaza and concludes in the Palace Courtyard. This version of an old Hispanic tradition recreates Mary and Joseph’s search for a place to give birth to the Baby Jesus – and throws in a few devils for good measure. Stay for carols in the Palace […]
Experts on the early history of baseball, Mable Dodge Luhan, Edith Warner, and hippies will participate in the second half of the 2013 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series. Organized by Tomas Jaehn of the museum’s Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, the lectures are free and open to the public (and, yes, you can bring a lunch). […]
The third Wednesday of each month from 12:00 to 2:00 pm.During this time, curators from The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and The Laboratory of Anthropology are in the lobby of MIAC to look at your treasures. These curators will attempt to identify and explain any artifact or historic object presented to them. They […]
Author and genealogist Andres Armijo kicks off the 2014 Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series with "Witness to the Light: A History of Vernacular Photography in New Mexico," at noon on Wednesday, Jan. 15, in the Meem Community Room. Enter for free through the History Museum’s Washington Avenue doors. Armijo is the author of Becoming a […]
Award-winning author Johnny D. Boggs hosts the final Cowboy Movie Night on Friday, Jan. 17, at 5:30 pm in the History Museum Auditorium. He’ll talk briefly about the Billy Crystal movie, City Slickers, before a free showing of the filmed-in-New-Mexico flick. “Could you imagine Charles Bronson in the Jack Palance role?” Boggs asked of the […]
Sylvanus Paul is a Dine’ (Navajo) graduate from Pine Hills Schools on the Ramah Navajo Reservation. His traditional way of introducing himself is by first introducing his Dine’ clans, which are Tse’ ’naabilnii (Sleeping Rock Clan), born for the To’diichi’nii (Bitter Water Clan). He works for the School of Advanced Research (SAR) in the Indian Arts […]
Escape frigid Santa Fe and join the Friends of Folk Art for a trip to sunny Phoenix. Highlights include the spectacular Musical Instrument Museum, the Heard Museum’s internationally-acclaimed Native American collections and an evening tour of Taliesin West, Frank Lloyd Wright’s westerm home and studio. Phoenix collectors of Navajo rugs, art glass, and folk art […]
The Museum of New Mexico Foundation invites its Trustees, Business Council members, El Palacio advertisers, writers, staff supporters, and select New Mexico legislators to celebrate El Palacio’s 100th anniversary. Enjoy drinks and hors d’oeuvres while listening to live entertainment. RSVP here or call (505) 992-7215 ext. 5 for more information.
Foundation Trustees, Business Council members, and El Palacio advertisers, staff, writers, supporters and select New Mexico legislators are invited to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of El Palacio magazine. Drinks and hors d’oeuvres will be served while guitarist Pat Malone performs at the New Mexico History Museum. By invitation only. RSVP here.
David Correia, PhD. Assistant Professor of American Studies, University of New Mexico, gives a talk in St. Francis Auditorium on "Indian Removal and the Violent Origins of Spanish and Mexican Settlement in New Mexico." The arrival of the Americans in the 1840s exacerbated land issues which have continued to be a major and contentious concern […]
Artists as diverse as E. Irving Couse, Joseph Henry Sharp, T.C. Cannon, Agnes Martin, Maria Martinez and Georgia O’Keeffe share the museum’s Clarke Gallery for New Mexico Art Tells New Mexico History. This exhibition, culled from the New Mexico Museum of Art’s collection, tells the many stories which make up New Mexico through the eyes […]
Gustave Baumann is one of New Mexico’s most treasured artists, known widely for his woodblock prints of Southwestern landscapes and traditions. The New Mexico Museum of Art has a comprehensive collection of Gustave Baumann’s work which includes prints, drawings, paintings, studies, furniture, and the eclectic menagerie of marionettes used to entertain generations of New Mexicans […]
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