Lecture Series: Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings

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

Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings lecture series. New Mexico Museum of Art – 6:00 p.m. on Free Friday Evenings How has the architectural world responded to the new and expanded visions of museums in the 21st century? Museums are redefining their roles as cultural centers that have many functions, including entertainment and […]

Lecture by Brad Cloepfil, Architect Lecture series for Museums in the 21st Century

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

Brad Cloepfil, founding principal of Allied Works Architecture, Inc., will kick off  a three-part lecture series on contemporary architecture in conjunction with the New Mexico Museum of Art exhibition Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings. These lectures will take place every two weeks from March 12 through April 9, at 6:00 p.m., in […]

Opening Reception for New Arrivals Works from the Collection

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

New Arrivals: Works from the Collection features more than twenty-five works of art, the state’s art museum will introduce a selection of recent additions to its collection, most on view for the first time.  Representing a variety of mediums – including painting, printmaking, photography, and sculpture – the show includes representational as well as abstract […]

Opening Reception for Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings

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

More than a dozen museum building projects from the original  Art Centre Basel exhibition showcase the current transformations in architecture.  The museum interiors and exteriors modeled in this exhibition reflect a range of responses to the new and expanded visions of museums in the 21st century, as museums redefine their roles as cultural centers that […]

Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings

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

Frank Gehry, Renzo Piano, Daniel Libeskind, Tadao Ando, Spacelab’s (Peter Cook/Colin Fournier), Rafael Viñoly, and Yoshio Taniguchi are members of a pantheon of architects regarded for their original, innovative, and groundbreaking designs. In common, they were all commissioned between 2000 and 2010 to design museums – some realized, others in progress, and a few indefinitely […]

Lecture by Victoria Sambunaris and Bill Gilbert

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

Artists Victoria Sambunaris and Bill Gilbert will hold a dialogue about "The Road Trip" as an artistic practice on Thursday, December 3, 2009, at 6 p.m. Bill Gilbert is the Lannan Chair and Director of the Land Arts program at the University of New Mexico. As part of his work as both an artist and […]

Lecture by David Krakauer The Scientific Nature and Artistic Culture of Landscape

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

The Scientific Nature and Artistic Culture of Landscape: Naturalists, Classifiers and Model Builders David Krakauer is a professor and faculty chair at the Santa Fe Institute, where his research includes, in part, the evolution of cultural forms, the electronic dissemination of images, and the crossover of mathematical, scientific and artistic reasoning. In addition to considering […]

Lecture by photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper

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

Introduction by Kate Ware, Curator of Photography, New Mexico Museum of Art Thomas Joshua Cooper will discuss his epic project “An Atlas of Emptiness and Extremity,” which he has been working on since 1990. With an 1898 field camera, Cooper has traversed the extreme edges of the entire Atlantic Basin, photographing the points where land […]

Opening Reception for Manmade Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection

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

Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection features the work of nine artists whose work is an exploration of man and the landscape—not landscape in its most literal sense, but landscape as a construction of meanings and relationships that are always morphing, growing, decaying, and exploding. These various facets of landscape include the natural, […]

Manmade: Notions of Landscape From the Lannan Foundation

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

The work of nine artists will be featured in Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection. Landscape is often thought of as a pristine wilderness, uninhabited and unmarred by human presence, despite the fact that for many decades now landscape has in practice been represented as incontrovertibly interconnected with mankind and the land itself […]

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