• ALCOVES 16/17

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

    Alcoves 16/17 opens March 4, 2016 at the New Mexico Museum of Art. This will be the first in a series of seven alcove exhibitions that concludes on March 26, 2017. Each of the seven rotations will highlight five artists at various career stages and working in New Mexico today. In this first of seven […]

  • 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 […]