Southwestern Allure: The Art of the Santa Fe Art Colony

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

Southwestern Allure:The Art of the Santa Fe Art Colony explores the development of Santa Fe as a haven for artists beginning in the early 20th century through the late 1930s. The exhibition opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art April 25, 2014 and is on view through July 27, 2014. Southwestern Allure celebrates the […]

Get To Know Your Art Museum Family Activity Day

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

Learn more about how an art museum works and why.  Visitors receive a "passport" for their exploration through the building.  Museum staff members -- ranging from curators to educators to art preparators to security officers -- will be on hand to talk about the work they do.  Receive a stamp at each station of your […]

Speaking of Traditions: New Perspectives on Old Traditions Lecture

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

Robert J. Tórrez, former New Mexican State Historian, will be discussing in St. Francis Auditorium Recognitions of Pueblo Independence by Spain, Mexico and the United States. This is Part Three of a free, three-part lecture series co-presented with El Rancho de las Golondrinas.

The Power of Objects: The British Museum/BBC partnership for A History of the World With Frances Carey of the British Museum

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

"People have realized that objects do not just provide a stage setting to human action: they are integral to it...The central idea is that as people and objects gather time, movement and change, they are constantly transformed, and these transformations of person and object are tied up with each other." A History of the World […]

Opening Reception Focus on Photography

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

Focus on Photography is a year-long cycle of photography exhibitions, celebrating the museum’s rich collection of photographs and the key role the medium has played in shaping New Mexico culture.  The project continues through March, 2015. We open with three concurrent shows - Beneath our Feet: Photographs by Joan Myers New Mexico photographer Joan Myers has […]

FOCUS ON PHOTOGRAPHY YEAR-LONG CYCLE OPENS IN MARCH WITH THREE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS AT NM MUSEUM OF ART

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

Focus on Photography is a year-long series of exhibitions opening March 7, 2014 at the New Mexico Museum of Art. Three simultaneous exhibitions kick off the series: the solo show Beneath our Feet: Photographs by Joan Myers; the group show of landscape photographs titled Grounded; and the Photo Lab, an evolving interactive space exploring photographic […]

Speaking of Traditions: New Perspectives on Old Traditions Lecture

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

John Kessell, Ph.D., will be speaking in St. Francis Auditorium about Bernardo Miera y Pacheco.  This highly talented 18th century soldier, artist, cartographer and explorer blazed across the New Mexico landscape with a brilliant flash of intellect and inquiry. This is Part Two of a free, three-part lecture series co-presented with El Rancho de las Golondrinas.

What’s Spanish about New Mexico Art Some things to Look For in Renaissance To Goya

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

The works in the exhibition were created in Spain during the time that New Mexico was a part of New Spain.  New Mexico Museum of Art Curator of Education Ellen Zieselman will present an illustrated talk highlighting some works that convey the influence of Spanish art on New Spain’s artists.  The museum is open free […]

Renaissance to Romance

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

Join us for a very special Valentine’s celebration of art, music, and Spanish-inspired delectables including tapas, pomegranate punch and chocolates.  Free.

Renaissance to Goya Spanish Painting in the Golden Age

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

Independent curator and scholar Barbara Anderson will introduce some of Spain’s greatest painters, their influences, styles and subjects.  Artists who drew and made prints were also artists who painted.  Sometimes their drawings and prints coincided with the styles of their paintings, but sometimes they were very different.  Artists discussed in this illustrated talk will include […]

Spotlight on Gustave Baumann

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

Gustave Baumann is one of New Mexico’s most treasured artists, known widely for his woodblock prints of Southwestern landscapes and traditions. The New Mexico Museum of Art has a comprehensive collection of Gustave Baumann’s work which includes prints, drawings, paintings, studies, furniture, and the eclectic menagerie of marionettes used to entertain generations of New Mexicans […]

New Mexico Art Tells New Mexico History

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

Artists as diverse as E. Irving Couse, Joseph Henry Sharp, T.C. Cannon, Agnes Martin, Maria Martinez and Georgia O’Keeffe share the museum’s Clarke Gallery for New Mexico Art Tells New Mexico History. This exhibition, culled from the New Mexico Museum of Art’s collection, tells the many stories which make up New Mexico through the eyes […]

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