Tuff Stuff

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

Tuff Stuff

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

A dominant approach to the making of art calls for the sensitive use of art materials. Paint should be applied with a fluid stroke, the surface of paper should be respected and not gouged, and wood should be worked with the grain, these are words of advice offered by artists and teachers. Derived from various […]

Public Lecture by Larry Bell

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

Taos artist Larry Bell has been examining the interplay between light and space - between perception and technological innovation - for over forty years. FREE. St. Francis Auditorium.

Flux: Reflections on Contemporary Glass

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

Glass art has enjoyed a growing audience during the past several decades, among museums, scholars, and collectors alike. Glass is now a widely accepted and used medium in sculpture. Flux: Reflections on Contemporary Glass considers the sculptural possibilities of glass, from vessel to minimalist sculpture, blown glass to cast glass, ancient artifact to popular culture […]

Album Amicorum

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

THE GOVERNOR’S GALLERY Album Amicorum - Gems of Friendship June 6 – August 31, 2008 The Governor’s Gallery is pleased to be presenting Album Amicorum: Gems of Friendship an exhibition of marbled and decorated paper inspired by the album amicorum. Latin for “friendship book,” the album amicorum dates to the sixteenth century and is the […]

Album Amicorum

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

THE GOVERNOR’S GALLERYAlbum Amicorum - Gems of FriendshipJune 6 – August 31, 2008The Governor’s Gallery is pleased to be presenting Album Amicorum: Gems of Friendship an exhibition of marbled and decorated paper inspired by the album amicorum. Latin for “friendship book,” the album amicorum dates to the sixteenth century and is the predecessor of the […]

The Art of the Maya Glyph

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

The recent decipherment of Maya Hieroglyphs has opened a window into the intellectual and spiritual history of Ancient America. It is surprisingly easy to begin to understand the rudiments of Maya inscriptions. Like Japanese, Egyptian, and even English, Maya writing combines word-signs and sound-signs. Combining instruction in decipherment, drawing tips, and strategies for recognizing signs […]

It’s Not the End of the World: What the Ancient Maya REALLY Said About 2012

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

Presented by Mark van Stone, Ph.D., Professor of Art and Art History, Southwestern College in Chula Vista, CA. This lecture explores the true meaning of Mayan prophesies, discussed in light of recent evidence and decipherment of the glyphic record. In the St. Francis Auditorium.

How The West is One: The Art of New Mexico

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

How the West Is One views New Mexico art as a holistic tradition that has been produced by important interactions between aesthetic perspectives. Over the last few decades, historians have emphasized the fracturing of New Mexico art into competing ethnic, aesthetic, and conceptual groupings. This fractured history promoted the idea of three separate cultures in […]

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