All Press Releases
New Mexico Museum of Art | Oct 27, 2008
The New Mexico Museum of Art has been selected to receive a gift of fifty works of art from New York collectors Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, with the help of the National Gallery of Art, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The gifts are part of a national gifts program entitled The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States. It will distribute 2,500 works from the Vogels' collection of contemporary art throughout the nation, with fifty works going to a selected art institution in each of the fifty states. Artists whose work is being donated to the New Mexico Museum of Art include; Neil Jenny, Katherine Porter, Lucio Pozzi, and Richard Tuttle.
Museum of International Folk Art | Oct 22, 2008
Dancing Shadows, Epic Tales: Wayang Kulit of Indonesia will introduce the distinct form of wayang kulit found in Central Java. Various aspects of this performance art will be explored, including gamelan, artistic techniques involved in making shadow puppets, the cast of characters, and regional variations of wayang.
New Mexico History Museum | Sep 17, 2008
If you think history is boring, the New Mexico History Museum, opening in historic downtown Santa Fe on Memorial Day Weekend 2009, will have you shelving that notion right alongside the dust-covered history textbooks banished to the attic. On Sunday, May 24, 2009, the 96,000-square-foot, world-class cultural institution will open its doors to the public to unveil a state-of-the-art, immersive interactive exhibition set to cast new light on how history can be learned, and redefine the modern history museum. The multi-media environment will bring to life the complex, colorful and legendary stories of the 47th state in the Union, stories that began long before the Pilgrims set sail on the Mayflower for American shores.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture | Sep 15, 2008
Native American Picture Books of Change—is an exhibition of original works by Hopi, Navajo, Apache, and Pueblo artists who illustrated children's books in the 1920's through today. Based on the book of the same title by Rebecca Benes, the exhibition focuses on illustrations in Native American children’s books of the last century. Emerging Indian artists illustrated the stories for Indian students based on Native oral traditions and narratives about everyday Indian life.
New Mexico History Museum | Sep 12, 2008
The Palace of the Governors announces the ever-popular holiday events Christmas at the Palace, Friday, December 12, and Las Posadas, Sunday, December 14. Enjoy Santa Fe holiday magic in activities at the Palace of the Governors and on the historic Santa Fe Plaza. Christmas at the Palace and Las Posadas promise old-fashioned charm and treasures, and are wonderful holiday experiences for the entire family.
New Mexico Museum of Art | Aug 28, 2008
The reinstallation of the New Mexico Museum of Art collection in 2007 offered an opportunity to display the history of New Mexico art in a contemporary way. How the West Is One created a single chronology composed of Native American, Hispanic, and European American art. However, because this is a long term exhibition, the display could not include works on paper.
Paper Trail: How the West Is One, Too displays photographs, drawings, and prints to expand the original presentation. The exhibition opens on September 19, 2008 and runs through February 8, 2009.
Museum of International Folk Art | Aug 25, 2008
Writing with Thread: Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities, features a rare collection of entire ensembles of women's, men's and children's ceremonial dress, baby carriers, quilt covers, festive and religious vestments, silver jewelry, embroidered silk valences, and wax-resist dyed curtains, plus a loom, weaving tools, and embroidery cases. More than 500 objects in Writing with Thread: Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities, represent 15 ethnic groups and nearly 100 subgroups in China.
Museum of New Mexico | Aug 8, 2008
More than 1,200 new donors—giving at various levels—have brought the New Mexico History Museum closer to its $6.5 million goal to build exhibitions at the new downtown museum, according to a report at the Museum of New Mexico Foundation’s Aug. 7 Annual Meeting.
New Mexicans from throughout New Mexico joined the History Museum campaign this spring to raise another $425,000 to help meet the terms of a $750,000 challenge grant from The Kresge Foundation. Thanks to their donations, only $323,000 remains to be raised to reach the Kresge challenge and complete the History Museum campaign.
New Mexico Museum of Art | Jul 22, 2008
After a lengthy and extensive restoration process, the marionettes carved by Gustave Baumann in the 1930s will be on view beginning January 30, 2009 through May 10, 2009 at the New Mexico Museum of Art in the exhibition Pulling Strings: The Marionettes and Art of Gustave Baumann.
Museum of International Folk Art | May 12, 2008
A Chair for all Reasons will concentrate on materials and techniques in furniture craftsmanship, with the objects divided into five categories of daily life.
New Mexico History Museum | Apr 24, 2008
Since the 1850s many of the most recognized names in photography have focused their lenses in and on Santa Fe. Through their creative efforts they have documented a particular place and its visual history.
New Mexico Museum of Art | Apr 22, 2008
The Museum of Fine Arts will display O'Keeffe's rich blue skies and beautiful stark landscapes in the Beauregard Gallery.
New Mexico Museum of Art | Apr 22, 2008
Although best known in the printmaking world as a master of color wood-cut, Gustave Baumann was also a talented painter, carpenter, and craftsman.
Museum of New Mexico | Apr 22, 2008
In 2009 the Museum of New Mexico will mark its 100-year birthday with 100 special exhibitions and events planned through the state.
New Mexico History Museum | Apr 15, 2008
Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción contains bultos, retablos, and crucifijos, dating from the late 1700s to 1900. They demonstrate how European stylistic traditions and iconography were combined with new palettes, different styles, and distinctive regional decorative designs that transformed New Mexican santo making into a unique hybrid. Highlighting the exhibit will be esoteric pieces such as the Crucifixion in a Large Nicho by the Laguna Santero and La Santísima Trinidad, a wood retablo with an applied paper painting of the Holy Trinity. Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción exhibition opened at the Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum on July 20, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. and will be a long-term exhibition.
Museum of International Folk Art | Apr 10, 2008
Rare and never before seen textiles will be on display in Needles and Pins: Textiles and Tools selected from the Museum of International Folk Art's vast collection of more than 20,000 textiles.
Museum of International Folk Art | Apr 10, 2008
With the Girard Collection's enduring appeal, it is entirely possible to be both delighted and overwhelmed by Alexander Girard's one-of-a-kind exhibition - even after twenty-five years.
New Mexico Museum of Art | Apr 10, 2008
Evita . . . Out of Africa . . . Dangerous Liaisons . . . Emma . . . Titanic . . . Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Characters we cannot forget will step out of these memorable films in an exhibition of fashion in film that will open at the New Mexico Museum of Art on October 17, 2008 under the auspices of the Trust for Museum Exhibitions and the London costumier, Cosprop Ltd.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture | Apr 9, 2008
Spider Woman's (Na ashje'ii 'Asdzáá) Gift: Navajo Weaving Traditions, a long-term exhibition, features weavings from the 1850s through the 1890s - the Classic and Transitional periods.
New Mexico Museum of Art | Apr 9, 2008
How the West Is One:The Art of New Mexico organizes key objects from the museum's collections so that they outline an intercultural history of New Mexico art, from the arrival of railroads in 1879 to the present.
New Mexico Museum of Art | Apr 9, 2008
Like the material itself, the discourse surrounding glass is also always in a state of flux. Glass art has enjoyed a growing audience during the past several decades, among museums, scholars, and collectors alike.
New Mexico Museum of Art | Apr 8, 2008
In Tuff Stuff, four New Mexican artists, Dunham Aurelius, Mike Diaz, Harmony Hammond, and Jack Slentz present work that challenges notions of beauty associated with typical understandings of sensitivity, grace, and harmony.
El Palacio Magazine | Mar 27, 2008
Counter Culture Movement in New Mexico Documented in Recent Issue of El Palacio Santa Fe, NM (WebPR, March 27, 2008)—The Counter Culture of the 1960s in New Mexico is documented in the pages of the most recent edition of the quarterly publication ...
New Mexico History Museum | Mar 17, 2008
An exhibition celebrating the early trading route between Santa Fe and Los Angeles.
Museum of International Folk Art | Jan 1, 2008
Gee's Bend Quilts and Beyond takes an in-depth look at the creative vision of a master quilt-maker, Mary Lee Bendolph, and the intersecting artistic worlds in which she participates.
New Mexico Museum of Art | Nov 6, 2007
Flower Power: A Subversive Botanical will examine anti-war sentiments, anti-establishment demands, class realignments, gender divisions, and utopian desires associated with the single petal, daisy flower that was an icon of the 1960s.
