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 […]

The fall season of Music at the Museum takes place on Friday nights from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. On free Fridays evenings, the museum invites local favorites to play, with styles ranging from jazz, to classical, to country, to marimba and eclectic. From November through April the museum is only open late on the First Friday […]

This is part two of a three part, multi-location symposium. 9:00 a.m. Welcome: Mary Kershaw, Director, New Mexico Museum of Art 9:05 – 10:20 a.m. Performing the Body: This panel seeks to unpack the influence, politics, and impact of using the physical body as a medium for actions, including the associations and perceptions that audiences may have […]

Celebrate the American Modern art movement and hear the stories of how artists discovered New Mexico as related to the works on view in O’Keeffe in Process and An American Modernism in a conversation with Museum curators Kate Ware and Carmen Vendelin.

Two museums, two parties, one night of fun. Grab the kids, don a costume, and head to the Santa Fe Plaza for a progressive Halloween party on Friday, October 30, at the Museum of Art and New Mexico History Museum. We’ll have music, treasure hunts, ghost stories, tarot cards and more. And it’s all free, […]

See what you hear, and hear what you see! Take in the American Modernism exhibit at the Museum, and then join The Santa Fe Community Orchestra for a companion concert of music from the early 20th Century, featuring works by Copland and William Grant Still, and Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, with Ron Grinage at the piano.  […]

Incredible but true: Gershwin’s beloved, iconic Rhapsody in Blue was cutting edge music when it was first presented in 1924. Explore the jazzy, syncopated music of American modernism in a fun, informative talk by Oliver Prezant with musical illustrations by the SFCO, featuring excerpts from music including Copland’s El Salón México, William Grant Still’s Poem for Orchestra, […]

Art Historian, author, and independent curator Sharyn R. Udall presents “A ‘simpler clearer vision of life–’ Georgia O’Keeffe’s Lifelong Search in Painting”.  Join us for a free public lecture in which Sharyn R. Udall explores the ways O’Keeffe’s eye, hand and temperament shaped her highly original compositions. 

Swing Jazz by the Alpha Cats. Refreshments courtesy of the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico. Dress as a Modernist and get a prize! An American Modernism is a selection of more than fifty works from the museum’s collection exploreing how Modernists in the United States struggled to define modern art in terms […]

The NM Museum of Art in collaboration with the O’Keeffe Museum invites you to attend Here and There: Modernism Everywhere! Celebrate the Fall of Modernism with two art museums. Go on a treasure hunt that paves the path to two museums. Make art, look at art, have fun. There will be hands-on art activities, artist demonstrations, […]