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Join Ronald Kil, featured artist for the state's official Centennial calendar, and historian Marc Simmons, who wrote the calendar's introduction, for a special event at 2 pm on Saturday, Sept. 17, in the John Gaw Meem Room. Kil will sign copies of the calendar, present an overview of pre-1912 history and discuss his art. Simmons […]

In his upcoming book, Dark Beauty: Photographs of New Mexico (Hudson Hills Press), Jack Parsons opens his darkroom door to reveal many photographs not seen in the fifteen books that already showcase his work over the last twenty-five years More brooding and willing to explore the harsh realities of New Mexico’s poverty and racism, these […]

Archaeologist Cordelia "Dedie" Snow speaks on  “A Headdress of Pearls: Luxury Goods on the Camino Real,” at noon on Wednesday, Sept. 21, part of the Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series. Lectures are held in the John Gaw Meem Room. Enter through the museum's Washington Avenue entrance. Free.Snow is a historical sites archaeologist and historian for […]

From New Mexico’s earliest inhabitants forward, the desire to adorn ourselves with the jewels of the earth has abounded. See and purchase a worldwide variety of high-quality stones, fossils, gems and more at the annual Palace Gem & Mineral Show, Sept. 23-25, in the Palace Courtyard. Enter for free through the Blue Gate on Lincoln […]

As part of this year’s Palace Gem and Mineral Show, retired National Park Service archaeologist Frances Joan Mathien will deliver a special lecture, “The Role of Gems and Minerals in the Pueblo Worlds,” at 2 pm, Saturday, Sept. 24, in the History Museum Auditorium. Tickets cost $5 through the Lensic, www.ticketssantafe.org. Mathien, a research associate […]

From barbers to caterers, mechanics to artists, African American entrepreneurs have made their mark on New Mexico. Learn more at this symposium, "Entrepreneurship in the African American Community, from 2-4 pm, on Sunday, Sept. 25, in the History Museum Auditorium. Free with admission. Sundays free to NM residents and children 16 and under.This event is […]

Join Joel B. Stein, a docent for the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors for a discussion and signing f his book Santa Fe in a Week (More or Less). The event will be at 2 pm, Saturday, Oct. 15, in the John Gaw Meem Room. Enter for free through the Washington Avenue doors.This […]

The idea of a plaza still resonates in the human imagination as a place where residents gather to celebrate, or to sit quietly in the shade and contemplate the passing parade. New Mexico has the longest and most varied traditions of such public space in the United States – from The Plazas of New Mexico […]

EVENT CANCELLED: Diane DeBlois and Robert Dalton Harris speak on “The Sky is Falling: A Culture of Fear in the Atomic Age,” at noon on Tuesday, Oct. 18, part of the Brainpower & Brownbags Lecture Series. Lectures are held in the John Gaw Meem Room. Enter through the museum's Washington Avenue entrance. Free.Harris, a physicist, […]

Between 1578 and 1584, Spain commissioned its officials in Mexico to create sets of local maps that would include descriptions of local resoures, history and geography. At 6 pm on Tuesday, Oct. 18, Barbara Mundy will talk about that effort in “Mapping the New World for the Spanish Kings: The 16th-Century Project of the Relaciones […]

Carol Neel, a historian of medieval spirituality, will talk about the ways that the Book of Psalms helped frame the emotional and religious lives of ordinary people from the past. Her lecture, “Lay Folk and the Psalms: Learning by the Book,” part of the Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible and Contemplative Landscape lecture […]