Lecture with Dr. Deborah Dorotinsky: The International Exhibition of Popular Arts was one of the events that accompanied the XIX Olympic Games in Mexico 1968 as part of the Cultural Olympiad. Crafts, folk arts and arte popular were conceived by the Olympic Organizing Committee as one of the things that united all nations. However, the […]
Your Sneak Peek of New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary Join us at the September Art Walk New Mexico Museum of Art – Vladem Contemporary Railyard Art Walk Open House 404 Montezuma Ave. (at the corner of Guadalupe) New Mexico Museum of Art opens its doors to the arts community during the September Art […]
WHAT: 5th Annual Fall Harvest Festival WHERE: Los Luceros Historic Property, off Hwy 68, County Rd 48, Alcalde, NM 87511 WHEN: Saturday, Sept. 28, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. DESCRIPTION: This annual fall festival is a fun event for all ages! Bring your own bags (or get one from Los Amigos del Rancho Los Luceros […]
About the Museum of International Folk Art: http://www.internationalfolkart.org/ Founded in 1953 by Florence Dibell Bartlett, the Museum of International Folk Art’s mission is to foster understanding of the traditional arts to illuminate human creativity and shape a humane world. The museum holds the world’s largest international folk art collection of more than 150,000 objects from […]
Rick Hendricks and Dr. Claude Fouillade, a retired French professor at New Mexico State University, have been working on a project to translate and edit a selection of Jean-Baptiste Lamy’s letters. Lamy wrote in French, Spanish, English, and Latin over the course of his career. Reading the letters in their entirety gives a new understanding […]
Public Opening & Reception Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist Hosted by The Women’s Board of The Museum of New Mexico Free Agnes Pelton, Awakening (Memory of Father), 1943, oil on canvas. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Museum purchase, 2005 (2005.27.1) Photo by Blair Clark.
October 5th is International Observe the Moon Night. The museum will stay open late for folks to enjoy First Friday ($5 admission for First Friday evening of the month), fractals shows will be going on and we will have almost a first quarter moon… so it should be great for seeing craters in detail on […]
Organized by Phoenix Art Museum, Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist is the first survey of the obscure American modernist painter in more than 23 years. Although she painted conventional landscapes and portraits, Pelton (1881–1961) is most celebrated for her abstract compositions that reflect her interest in esoteric subjects, including numerology and Agni Yoga with its principal […]
Public Lecture by Gilbert Vicario, Selig Family Chief Curator at Phoenix Art Museum Agnes Pelton: A Contemporary Modern Free Agnes Pelton, Awakening (Memory of Father), 1943, oil on canvas. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Museum purchase, 2005 (2005.27.1) Photo by Blair Clark.
Diego Romero vs. the End of Art will be a dynamic exploration of a Cochiti Pueblo artist’s journey through life as depicted through his work. For decades, California born Cochiti potter Diego Romero has created renowned historical and autobiographical artworks. Acclaimed for his neo-Mimbres pottery illustrating Pueblo Indian history, his father’s Korean War stories, and […]
The exhibition will explore different forms of music such as special music played at different life stages (songs of birth, weddings, death), seasonal music (songs for Christmas, Lent, and Harvest seasons) ,as well as liturgical and secular plays and reenactments. For example, one such tradition is that of Moros y Cristianos, which is based on […]
About the Museum of International Folk Art: http://www.internationalfolkart.org/ Founded in 1953 by Florence Dibell Bartlett, the Museum of International Folk Art’s mission is to foster understanding of the traditional arts to illuminate human creativity and shape a humane world. The museum holds the world’s largest international folk art collection of more than 150,000 objects from […]
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