• CANCELLED: Exploring Santa Fe’s Historic Houses Brainpower & Brownbags lecture series

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

    DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER, THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED LATER. STAY TUNED.If you appreciate wandering through Santa Fe's older neighborhoods, this is your lecture. Margaret Booker of Santa Fe discuses "Exploring Santa Fe's Historic Houses." Booker has written several books, including The Santa Fe House, described as the first book to […]

  • Closed: Photo Archives and History Library Re-opening Feb. 9

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

    Renovations will temporarily close the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives and the Fray Angelico Chavez History Library on Friday through Feb. 9. We apologize for the inconvenience.

  • Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings

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

    Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Daniel Libeskind, Tadao Ando, Spacelab’s (Peter Cook/Colin Fournier), Rafael Viñoly, and Yoshio Taniguchi are members of a pantheon of architects regarded for their original, innovative, and groundbreaking designs. In common, they were all commissioned between 2000 and 2010 to design museums – some realized, others in progress, and a few indefinitely […]

  • Opening Reception for Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings

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

    More than a dozen museum building projects from the original  Art Centre Basel exhibition showcase the current transformations in architecture.  The museum interiors and exteriors modeled in this exhibition reflect a range of responses to the new and expanded visions of museums in the 21st century, as museums redefine their roles as cultural centers that […]

  • Wayang Kulit Panel Discussion Indonesian Shadow Puppets

    Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill, Santa Fe, NM, United States

    Wayang Kulit panel discussion presented in conjunction with the exhibition Dancing Shadows, Epic Tales: Wayang Kulit of Indonesia». By Museum admission, New Mexico residents with I.D Free on Sundays, youth 16 and under and foundation members» always free!  

  • Blackdom and the African-American Experience in New Mexico The Telling New Mexico Inaugural Lecture Series

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

    Join us for lectures on the pioneers of the Blackdom community and the African-American experience in New Mexico at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 31, in the New Mexico History Museum Auditorium. As a special treat, the Afro-Gospel Praise Experience will rock the house with a mixture of Afro-Latin rhythms and traditional gospel music throughout […]

  • Fighting poverty with photography The Fotokids project

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

    Join former Reuters photojournalist Nancy McGirr for a free talk on the Guatemalan-based nonprofit, Fotokids, in the museum's John Gaw Meem Room. Fotokids began in 1991 when McGirr taught a small group of children who lived in a Guatemala City dump to document their lives in black-and-white photography.Now in its 19th year, Fotokids has served […]

  • Opening Reception for New Arrivals Works from the Collection

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

    New Arrivals: Works from the Collection features more than twenty-five works of art, the state’s art museum will introduce a selection of recent additions to its collection, most on view for the first time.  Representing a variety of mediums – including painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture – the show includes representational as well as abstract […]

  • Harry Fonseca: In the Silence of Dusk

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

    The exhibition Harry Fonseca: In the Silence of Dusk  focuses on four series of paintings that explore the transformative and mythic forces that Fonseca perceived in himself and the world around him. The painting series include In the Silence of Dusk, Stone Poems, St. Francis of Assisi; and Seasons. While not a retrospective, the exhibition […]