The proud history of the USS New Mexico stands front and center at the New Mexico History Museum Jan. 23-May 9, with a special installation and opening event featuring the ship’s commanding officer. A Noble Legacy: The USS “New Mexico” will be displayed in La Ventana Gallery at the museum’s main entrance with items that […]
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A rush to catch a plane and the convenience of a Safeway grocery store led to noted New Mexico artist H. Joe Waldrum’s long-term love affair with SX-70 Polaroid monoprints, images that Waldrum referred to as “little jewels.” The late artist’s collection of nearly 8,000 images was recently donated to the Palace of the Governors
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Speakers in the 2011 Brainpower and Brownbags Lecture Series will delve into topics as diverse as the Old Spanish Trail, Hispanic land grants, Texas invasions, Billy the Kid, frontier journalism, and climate change. The annual series, organized by Tomas Jaehn of the museum’s Fray Angélico Chávez History Library, is free and open to the public (and, yes, you
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Folk Art of the Andes (Santa Fe, NM, January 3, 2011) – The Museum of International Folk Art opens a major exhibition, Folk Art of the Andes, April 17, 2011. This will be the first exhibit in the United States to feature a broad range of folk art from the Andean region of South America,
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Beloved Baumann Marionettes Take Center Stage at Museum’s Annual Holiday Open House Santa Fe, NM (November 29, 2010)—A tradition that started in the Baumann’s living room to entertain their daughter has been taking place at the Museum for decades when their home was too small for the growing audience. The New Mexico Museum of Art
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Johannes Gutenberg would be so proud. So is Tom Leech, curator of the Palace Press. His newest addition to the Press’s collection of 10 major presses – still awaiting formal acceptance – is a Bobcat Press built in the 1970s by Cedar Crest's Richard Hicks, a machinist turned sculptor who’s spent much of his adult
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From folding traditional printers’ hats out of newsprint to chatting with Santa in the Palace Courtyard to circling the Plaza with Joseph and Mary, the Palace of the Governors has kept holiday traditions alive for 26 years. At the heart of the annual Holidays at the Palace events is Las Posadas, a community re-enactment of
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The New Mexico Museum of Art will present an exhibition of works from its Bureau of Contemporary Art, a fictitious entity created for this exhibition in order to emphasize contemporary art’s prominent place within the museum’s permanent collection. Case Studies from the Bureau of Contemporary Art will be on view November 19, 2010 through March
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Santa Feans know how to do traditions right—from annual markets in the plaza to religious processionals to the Native artisans who gather each day at the Palace Portal. Come holiday time, few cities can hold a farolito* to the City Different. This year, delight your family by adding these traditions to your celebrations. The New
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(Santa Fe, NM – September 30, 2010)—Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment offers both a survey and a contemporary view of how artists working in photography have addressed our relationship to the environment, one of the greatest challenges facing us since at least the mid-twentieth century. Using beauty, humor, and horror to engage attention,
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