The New Mexico Museum of Art and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival are partnering on a series of free youth concerts. This summer’s four concerts provide a variety of experiences, with Festival artists engaging children (and their accompanying adults!) through fascinating storytelling about music, musical instruments and styles, composers—even a bit of history—and, of course, […]

Curator of 20th Century Art, Christian Waguespack in conversation with Tey Marianna Nunn, Director of the Art Museum at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, will talk about artist Verne Lucero and the legacy of Hispanic tin work in New Mexico in the Goodwin Gallery of the NM Museum of Art. Free with cost of admission. […]

The New Mexico Museum of Art and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival are partnering on a series of free youth concerts. This summer’s four concerts provide a variety of experiences, with Festival artists engaging children (and their accompanying adults!) through fascinating storytelling about music, musical instruments and styles, composers—even a bit of history—and, of course, […]

Curator and art historian Michele Penhall talks with Curator of Photography Katherine Ware about the photographs of Patrick Nagatani in Patrick Nagatani: Invented Realities. Free with cost of museum admission. New Mexico residents 60 and older are admitted free on Wednesdays with ID. Image : Patrick Nagatani, Marcus – Instant Cultural Vision – Chromatic Optometry, Los […]

Enjoy Les Malzman on acoustic guitar when the entire museum is open from 5-7 PM. Included with the cost of admission.

Local author and architecture specialist Christine Mather will discuss the evolution of Pueblo Revival style in Santa Fe. The style is rooted in concepts of Hispanic and Pueblo architecture, specifically as seen in the Mission churches. The presentation will take place at St. Francis Auditorium of the NM Museum of Art, a Revival-style building constructed […]

Find out how the artists in the galleries use Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math to create their work through a fun and through provoking scavenger hunt that will change the way you see the Art. Appropriate for visitors of all ages and free with admission every Sunday June through August. 16 and under always […]

Join Preparator, Sam Rykels for a tutorial on matting and framing of works on paper and photographs. Learn professional techniques and the materials used by museum professionals for applying to your own special collection.  

Living In The Story documents thirty-five years of art making by the distinguished photographic artist Patrick Ryoichi Nagatani, pioneer of the Contemporary Constructed Photographic Movement, whose innovative, prolific art deals with anxiety in the nuclear age and methods of healing and transcendence. Scott Nagatani’s hauntingly beautiful music score provides the film’s soundtrack. View the trailer.

Art and photography historian Eugenia Parry will discuss Patrick Nagatani’s photography and her delight in writing the text for his book Nuclear Enchantment. In the exhibition Patrick Nagatani: Invented Realities. Free with cost of admission Image: Patrick Nagatani, "Fin de Siècle" Bat Flight Amphitheater, Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico (from the series Nuclear Enchantment), 1989, Silver-dye bleach […]

Curator of Photography Katherine Ware talks with artist Megan Jacobs about the complex topic of family and personal identity in the exhibition Shifting Light: Photographic Perspectives. Meet in the Women’s Board Room Gallery on the second floor. Free with cost of admission. New Mexico residents 60 and older are admitted free on Wednesdays with ID. Image: Daniel […]

Marjorie Devon, former Director of the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, and the Museum’s Head of Curatorial Affairs, Merry Scully, discuss Frederick Hammersley’s lithography. Free with cost of admission, NM residents 60+ free with ID Frederick Hammersley: To Paint without Thinking programing provided with support from the Frederick Hammersley Foundation and the Museum of New Mexico […]