Noon Time Music in galleries Pat Malone

New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Pat Malone, Jazz and Classical Guitar Thursdays March 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 Thursdays April 7, 14, 21, 28 In Gallery of traveling exhibition Medieval to Metal: Art and Evolution of the Guitar Warm and virtuosic acoustic guitar playing with a blues heart with modern harmonies and a traditional jazz soul. Free with Museum Admission     

Shakespeare in New Mexico and the West

New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Heather James, Ph.D.,   Associate Professor of English, University of Southern California, “The graveyard and the frontier: Hamlet among the buffaloes.” Marissa Greenberg, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, University of New Mexico, “The Very Large Shakespeare Array.” Bruce Smith, Ph.D., Dean’s Professor of English, University of Southern California, will chair a panel of local theater and film […]

Collecting Shakespeare The Story of Henry and Emily Folger

New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

We hope you’ll join us as Stephen Grant introduces Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger. He’ll talk with fellow author John F. Andrews about what makes the 1623 First Folio an extraordinary volume, and he’ll explain why there are more copies of it in one American library than there in all of the […]

The Mysteries of the Shakespeare First Folio Lecture by Eric Rasmussen

New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

The first edition of Shakespeare’s collected works, the First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the most valuable books in the world and has historically proven to be an attractive target for thieves. Of the 160 First Folios listed in a census of 1902, 14 were subsequently stolen-and only two of these were ever […]

How Women Took Shakespeare Across America

New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Shakespeare and women have a long history together—from the first published critical response to Shakespeare by Margaret Cavendish in 1664; to the first known reading group, the Shakespeare Ladies Club in the early 1700s; to the Women’s Clubs that took Shakespeare across the entire country with the pioneers; to the preponderance of women at lectures about Shakespeare […]

Public Opening First Folio; Stage, Setting, Mood; Medieval to Metal

New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Free, public opening reception for the Folio and two complementary exhibitions, Stage, Setting, Mood: Theatricality in the Visual Arts and Medieval to Metal: The Art & Evolution of the Guitar. Refreshments will be provided and there will be live music by Música Antigua de Albuquerque. Música Antigua de Albuquerque was founded in 1978 in Albuquerque, New […]

Medieval to Metal: The Art and Evolution of the Guitar

New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Medieval to Metal: The Art and Evolution of the Guitar opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art on February 5, 2016 with a free public reception from 5.30 to 7.30pm. The exhibition examines the craftsmanship, design, and history of this popular musical instrument. Medieval to Metal is a companion exhibition to two others opening […]

First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare

New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

National tour from Folger Shakespeare Library in commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s Death.  New Mexico Museum of Art, recently named New Mexico’s host for the First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare national tour, is pleased to announce that the First Folio will be on view to the public February 5-28, 2016.  

New Mexico Museum of Art to Host Shakespeare’s First Folio Exhibition in 2016

New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

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 Folio, one of the world’s most treasured books. The Folger Shakespeare Library, in partnership with Cincinnati Museum Center and the American Library Association, is touring […]

Winter Lecture Series

New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Come learn about the history of New Mexico in St. Francis Auditorium co-presented with El Rancho de las Golondrinas. This is Part One of a three-part lecture series. Paul Andrew Hutton is an American cultural historian, author, documentary writer, and television personality. He is also the professor of history at the University of New Mexico and the executive director of Western History […]

What is the First Folio and Why Should we Care?

New Mexico Museum of Art- Plaza Building 107 West Palace Avenue, Santa Fe, NM, United States

Shakespeare’s First Folio is hosted at the Museum of Art. But what is the First Folio? And why should we or do we care about it? Why is it the most expensive book in the world? What sort of impact has it had over the centuries? Come learn its fascinating history and its reverberations on […]

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