Join us for a concert with Euforia, a Mariachi Norteño Fusion musical group with members from Santa Fe and Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Their specialties include norteñas, mariachi classics, cumbias and a bit of country. In conjunction with the exhibit, Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico, in the Hispanic Heritage Wing at MOIFA, […]
Rapheal Begay is a visual storyteller who aims to culturally express and creatively advocate for understanding and teaching found within the Diné way of life. Named one of 12 New Mexico Artists to Know in 2020 by Southwest Contemporary, he is also the recipient of the 2021-2022 Goodman Aspiring Artist Fellowship and current Research Associate […]
Join us in the museum to see our latest exhibit, Ansel Adams: Pure Photography, opening Saturday, January 29. Ansel Adams: Pure Photography includes close-up nature studies, portraits, and views of architecture Adams made during this formative time. A small selection of later photographs, including two of his most iconic prints, Aspens, New Mexico and Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico. The […]
Join us Saturday, January 29 for the opening of Selections from the 20th Century Collection, the inaugural exhibitiong dedicated to showcasing the permanent collection of the Museum of Art on the second floor of our historic plaza building. After more than a century of collecting, the New Mexico Museum of Art has become home to […]
After more than a century of collecting, the New Mexico Museum of Art has become home to some of the finest examples of Southwestern. Art by the regions most beloved artists. On the second floor of the Museum’s history building, find treasured classics and new surprises in our permanent installation form the Museum’s collection of […]
Ansel Adams is one of the first names that springs to mind when people think about photography. This exhibition of sixteen prints from the museum’s collection, augmented with two promised gifts, concentrates on the photographs that Adams made around 1932, before he became a household name. In the late 1920s, Adams shifted away from the […]
Breaking the boundaries of what is deemed traditional Indigenous art, Museum of Indian Arts & Culture’s new exhibition, Clearly Indigenous, examines how Native artists reinterpret cultural narratives and designs in new mediums. The two-pronged exhibition focuses on how Native artists have melded ancestral ways with new methods and materials in glass, while concurrently examining the […]
Please join Hannah Abelbeck, Photo Archivist, with the New Mexico History Museum, for an online talk featuring Sam Adams, an African American Civil War veteran who later settled in New Mexico, as part of our Friends of History lecture series. The presentation will put Adams in context with his contemporaries and explores the difficulty of […]
Thursday, February 3, 6PM MST Zoom Webinar FREE Artist Mildred Howard talks with Executive Director Dr. Mark White about her career, her contribution to the exhibition Poetic Justice, and her installation The Time and Space of Now. Click here to register in advance for this webinar. Image: Installation detail of […]
“Riding Herd with Billy the Kid: The Rise of the Cattle Industry in New Mexico” begins with the 1866 cattle drive along what would become the Goodnight-Loving Trail in eastern New Mexico and ends with the Lincoln County War in the late 1870s and its aftermath. While there are many facets to this story, it […]
Painted Reflections emphasizes the sophisticated aesthetic qualities of Pueblo art through the study of reversible optical illusions and ambiguous figure-ground relationships. Beginning around 900 AD, Ancestral Pueblo artists began producing new designs on their ceramics—they painted pairs of motifs called isomers, or equal forms. From a conventional perspective, these works appear as painted motifs on unpainted backgrounds. But […]
Los Luceros Historic Site will extend its hours from sunrise to sunset on the first Sunday of each month. During this time, entrance into Los Luceros will be FREE for New Mexico residents and includes access to the site’s visitor center, historic buildings, trails, and picnic areas. The early morning and late evening are ideal for bird watching at Los Luceros, which boasts a […]
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