As its grand opening nears, the New Mexico History Museum sets a plan for telling you what you’ll find inside SANTA FE – After more than 20 years of preparing for the New Mexico History Museum, we hope you can understand our excitement. Recently, we jumped the gun on letting at least some of you […]
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New Mexico History Museum Takes Interactive Approach To Show The Many Sides Of Our Stories Welcome to the first installment of our media-release series, “Telling New Mexico: Stories from Then and Now.” See the links below for previous releases, along with information about obtaining photographs to accompany your coverage. Some people say that “history is
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A bane to Downtown drivers, shoppers and merchants but a boon to New Mexico History Museum construction workers, the fence that ate part of Lincoln Avenue west of the new building will come down this weekend, barring snow, ice or a highly unlikely hurricane. “This is an important benchmark for us,” said John McCarthy, Deputy
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Santa Fe—Paintings, drawings and photographs presenting multiple views of neighborhood life by New Mexico artists will be on display in Santa Fe at the Governor’s Gallery in the New Mexico State Capitol. Canvassing the Neighborhood—on view from April 3 to June 14, 2009— highlights works by Teal McKibben, Tim Prythero, Carlotta Boettcher, and Alex Harris
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Governor’s Gallery This exhibition at the Governor’s Gallery inaugurates a year- long celebration of the Museum of New Mexico’s 100 year anniversary on February 19, 2009. On February 19, 1909, the New Mexico Territorial Legislature passed House Bill 100 establishing the Museum of New Mexico. A century later, the Museum of New Mexico has
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Santa Fe, NM (January 16, 2009)—Works by Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, Augustus Vincent Tack, and John Henry Twachtman, are among other American Masters who compose some of this exhibition’s highlights. These artists’ works were among the earliest acquisitions of The Phillips Collection, established in 1921 as America's first museum of modern art. The exhibition opens
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Comic Art Indigène There were cartoons before the Sunday Comics and Super Heroes before Super Man Exhibition Travels to National Museum of the American Indian Washington, D. C. March 6, 2009 – May 31, 2009 Santa Fe, NM—The successful run of Comic Art Indigène has come to an end in Santa Fe.
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Santa Fe, NM—The Friends of Archaeology are sponsoring a series of five lectures on Fridays, January 9 through February 6, 2009 at 5: 30 p.m. as their contribution to the Museum of New Mexico’s 100th. They will take place at the New Mexico Film Museum Theater, 418 Montezuma Street, Santa Fe (the old Jean Cocteau
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Santa Fe, NM —Tradition , culture, soul, sprit, arte. These words have long come to symbolize the ambience of Nuevo México and the abundance of traditions that abound in our region. Nuevo México: El Corazón de la Cultura, or New Mexico: The Heart of Culture, at the Museum of International Folk Art, showcases the best
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Santa Fe, NM —The New Mexico Museum of Art presents Alternative Spaces, February 20, 2009 through May 3, 2009, a challenging exhibition that runs counter to the conventional display of artwork in a museum setting. The eight artists in Alternative Spaces will take over various locations in the museum and instill them with their own
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