Feed your brain this April at the New Mexico History Museum. Besides terrific exhibits, enjoy these special events: Wednesday, April 1, noon, “Owning the Sacred: The 1929 Sale of the Santuario de Chimayo” In 1816, the Santuario de Chimayo was built by a Chimayo family on land reported to deliver miracles to the faithful. By […]
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New Exhibit Featuring Early Native American Easel Art at Coronado Historic Site from the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture’s Dorothy Dunn Collection. March 2015 – February 2016 The exhibition Early Native American Easel Art in New Mexico just opened at the Coronado Historic Site and runs through February 2016. Featured are seventeen prints
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The Palace of the Governors Photo Archives has acquired a rare carte de visite depicting Ceran St. Vrain, Dick Wootton and José Maria Valdez. Photo Curator Daniel Kosharek obtained the ca. 1865 image from Cliff Mills, a photographer, collector and dealer who has sold his own and historical images on the Santa Fe Plaza for
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Folger Shakespeare Library Announces 52 Host Sites Across the Country for Traveling Exhibit to Mark the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death (SANTA FE, NM—Feb. 26, 2015)—The New Mexico Museum of Art has been selected as the host site for First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, a national traveling exhibition of the Shakespeare First
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New Mexico’s iconic adobe buildings reveal the colors of the earth—pearly white, sandy tan, cinnamon red, chocolate brown and shades in-between. We all love our turquoise skies, but when we build a home, the color of adobe surrounds us. One of the earliest and greenest building materials, adobe stretches back through millennia and around the
In war and in peacetime, in theaters of conflict and on the home front, U.S. women have participated in our nation’s defense. Until recent years, those contributions have failed to attract much notice. Even less understood: the contributions of African-American women, who had to fight just for the right to serve. On Sunday, March 29,
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Check out what’s new in March at the New Mexico History Museum/Palace of the Governors: Friday, March 6, 6 pm, Free First Friday Evening Talk, “New Mexico Women’s Clubs: Civic Pioneers” As a women’s club movement swept the nation at the turn of the last century, New Mexico was changed—for the better. Throughout the state,
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As Museum Hill’s Summer of Color prepares to launch, galleries throughout Santa Fe have joined the excitement. See who’s doing what and get ready to immerse yourself in the colors of the rainbow throughout the summer of 2015. Learn more about the Summer of Color by clicking here. Summer of Color activities, courtesy of the
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Six of Santa Fe’s leading cultural institutions located on the beautiful Museum Hill kick off summer 2015 with joint exhibitions and programming in what Mayor Javier Gonzales proclaimed today as the Summer of Color. Download a copy of the proclamation by clicking here. All six, located on Museum Hill, are the two state museums, the
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The nationally acclaimed Alzheimer’s Poetry Project (APP) and a growing consortium of Santa Fe-based arts and cultural institutions are joining forces to help people living with memory loss, along with their care partners, friends and the public. Each month, the Community-in-Residence program will open the doors at a different institution for an hour-long session of
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