Join us for a day of Renaissance-style art! Create one-of-a-kind Valentine’s Day cards and collages. Eric Careno will get you in the mood with Renaissance music. Explore the museum on a love-themed treasure hunt, enjoy refreshments, and tour our galleries with someone you love! Free and fun for all ages! Come in Renaissance costume and […]

Join us for a Public Opening Reception for Word Play, on display from February 8, 2020 - September 13, 2020.  Words and pictures have a long history of playing well together, sometimes reinforcing and sometimes contradicting each other. This exhibition of more than forty works of art in a variety of mediums features images by […]

Utako Shindo, Ph.D. is a Tokyo artist whose studio and research pursuits are the untranslatability of art and nuanced shadow-light as poetic medium. Her year-long project based in New Mexico traces Martins’ artistic path — scholarly and experientially. She is seeking a deeper understanding of how Martin’s abstractions embody ineffable life and express universal emotions. […]

The first in the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Winter Lecture Series, cosponsored with El Rancho de las Golondrinas. Dr. Anna Nogar will be speaking on her book Quill and Cross in the Borderlands: Sor Maria de Agreda and the Lady in Blue. Tickets are $10 at the door. Free admission for members of El […]

A public lecture followed by book signing of the exhibition catalog for The birth, death, and resurrection of Christ: from Michelangelo to Tiepolo. Presented by British Museum Curator Hugo Chapman, Simon Sainsbury Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. Free admission Image Credit: Michelangelo, The Three Crosses, 1521-1524, red chalk. ©The Trustees of […]

Join us for a Public Opening Reception for The birth, death, and resurrection of Christ: from Michelangelo to Tiepelo, on display from January 25, 2020 - April 19, 2020. Hosted by the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico Free admission Image Credit: Castiglione, The Crucifixion, 1631-1670, oil paint on paper. ©The Trustees of […]

The Holiday Open House is a round-robin of puppet plays, art making projects, photos with Santa Claus, and other activities. Free admission! Marionette plays "A Really Big Party for Papa Gus" at 1:30-2pm and 3:00pm - 3:30pm St. Francis Auditorium Teatro Duende presents a little skit by the Marionettes! Juan, Rosina and Miguelito try very hard to […]

Matthew Rowe is an art historian, artist, and gallery director. He is one of the foremost scholars on the Transcendental Painting Group and Non-objective Art.

Free Holiday Concert! High Desert Harp Ensemble was formed by Linda Larkin 18 years ago and continues to perform, currently under the leadership of Katie Cosgrove. Members of the ensemble are Katie Cosgrove, Julie Hawley, Chita Gillis and Dian El Aine.   St. Francis Auditorium 

The artwork of these individuals produced was colored by their own perceptions and backgrounds. This exhibition explores artists’ responses to and interpretations of their own experiences and ideas about the Penitente Brotherhood. 5:30 to 6:00: Gallery Talk with Curator of 20th Century Art, Christian Waguespack