Still time to see Alcove 20/20 #1 through October 13, featuring works by Dan Namingha, Diane Marsh, Mokha Laget, Emi Ozawa, and Stuart Arends!
Alcoves 20/20 is supported in part by the Friends of Contemporary Art + Photography
Join us as we open the doors of the future site of Vladem Contemporary to the community in two public events.
∙ The Community Open House on September 21, 2019 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. will feature fun, interactive art activities led by local artists and highlight the future capacity of the New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary to educate and enrich the youth of Santa Fe.
∙ The Railyard Art Walk Open House on September 27, 2019 from 5 to 7 p.m. will offer an opportunity for the public to speak with the architects and curators involved in this project.
Both events are free and will allow the community access to explore this extraordinary addition to Santa Fe and the State of New Mexico’s museum system.
The traveling exhibition, Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist, on view from October 5, 2019, to January 5, 2020, surveys the works of an artist who made significant contributions within twentieth-century abstraction.
Pelton’s work has been associated with Georgia O’Keeffe and Marsden Hartley, and yet remained unrepresented in critical artistic spaces until recently. The exhibition contextualizes Pelton with her peers in the American modernist abstraction movement currently being studied as part of the canon of art history.
Find more at http://media.newmexicoculture.org/release/984/agnes-pelton-desert-.
Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist is organized by the Phoenix Art Museum. It is made possible through the generosity of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, and SRP.
Curator Christian Waguespack crafts the narrative of Social and Sublime: Land, Place, and Art to stoke conversations that artists have been having for more than one hundred years. The exhibition continues that dialog of expansion, conflict, and wonder, leaving their influence on America’s 21st-century art.
The exhibition runs in concert with The Great Unknown: Artists at Glen Canyon and Lake Powell on view from March 30 to September 15, 2019. Together, they present artistic expressions of human experience and change, be it political, technological, or cultural, as it relates to the natural world.
Museums & Historic Sites Guide for Summer/Fall 2019
The free New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs Museums & Historic Sites Guide for Summer/Fall 2019 is now available online!
The events calendar of the Museums & Historic Sites Guide for Summer/Fall 2019 has an extensive list of activities happening between May through October, including our exhibit, The Great Unknown: Artists at Glen Canyon and Lake Powell.
☀️www.nmculture.org/guide/2019-summer-guide-to-museums-historic-sites. ☀️
We're thrilled that the 20th-century sculpture exhibition, Carved & Cast: 20th Century New Mexican Sculpture, will extend its run through the summer until July 28, 2019! The exhibition takes a look at regional sculpture styles specific to the Southwest, centering the medium in its own conversation about innovation and craft.
Come see this exhibition that takes a look at regional sculpture styles specific to the Southwest, centering the medium in its own conversation about innovation and craft.
Join us on March 30th for our new exhibition "The Great Unknown: Artists at Glen Canyon and Lake Powell", which explores how Glen Canyon and its later incarnation as Lake Powell become a catalyst for art, social action, and an examination of human values. Central to the narrative is the history of land use and environmentalism in the West and how artists respond to the work of their predecessors.
Among the artists whose work is included are Byron Wolfe and Mark Klett, Peter Goin, Greg Mac Gregor, Tad Nichols, Georgia O’Keeffe, Eliot Porter, Martin Stupich, Kathleen Velo and Todd Webb. The exhibition articulates their individual responses to this special place while also touching on the shared experience of artists who traveled together and created collaborative projects, primarily books.
This exhibit opens March 30 and runs through September 15, 2019.
Images:
Martin Stupich, Martin Stupich, Glen Canyon Dam, Arizona, view from downstream toward the dam, with canoeist and sandbar beach
Mark Klett, Bryon Wolfe and Rebecca Solnit, First Camp
Greg Mac Gregor, Hikers at Lee’s Ferry, 6 miles south of Glen Canyon Dam
Peter Goin, Makeshift Danger Buoy, Moqui Canyon
Night Time at the New Mexico Museum of Art
Its the longest night of the year and the New Mexico Museum of Art has two exhibitions about night time!
Paul Lantz
American, 1908 - 1991
Firedancers, circa 1930
oil on canvas
Gift of Ruth C. Montgomery, 1991
Museum Number 1991.75.1
We wish you a Merry Christmas!
Three upcoming exhibitions at the New Mexico Museum of Art opening before the end of the year delve into the darkness through painting and photography and, explore 20th Century New Mexican sculpture in a range of styles.
The exhibitions are entitled: Wait Until Dark, Shots in the Dark, and Carved & Cast: 20th Century New Mexican Sculpture.
A public reception for all three exhibitions on January 4, 2019 from 5-7 p.m., hosted by the Women’s Board of the Museum of New Mexico. Free for New Mexico Residents on the first Sunday of the month, and from 5-7 p.m. on the first Friday of the month through the end of April.
2018 Platinum Music Awards Show
Get your tickets now for the New Mexico Music Commission's 2018 Platinum Music Awards Show!
This fabulous annual awards show celebrates the lifetime achievement of New Mexico’s music heroes and icons. This year's event takes place on Thursday, August 30, 2018 at 7:30pm at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Get your tickets by calling 505-988-1234 or by visiting www.platinummusicawards.org.
Honoring:
Antonia Apodaca
Hummingbird Music Camp
Malcom Yepa
Nacha Mendez
Tom Guralnick
Dr. William Clark
#NMPlatinumMusicAwards
#NewMexicoMusicCommission
Fun Fact No. 3 WPA Art Books
Our very own Michelle Gallagher Roberts, Head of Registration & Collections talks about the New Deal Programs and the Federal Art Project of New Mexico in this New Mexico State Library Foundation video produced for New Mexico State Library. Like their page to see more of this great series!
The Museum of Art will be closed on Easter Sunday, April 1, 2018. Because free admission is offered to New Mexico Residents the first Sunday of every month, free admission will be offered on Sunday, April 8, 2018 instead.
Helen Hyde, Feeding the Bunnies, 1912, color woodcut, 6 1/2 in. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Gift of Hallie Hyde Irwin and Edwin Fraser Gillette, 1943 (521AW.23G)
Helen Hyde, Unwilling Dancers, 1912, color woodcut, 4 1/4 x 6 in. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Gift of Hallie Hyde Irwin and Edwin Fraser Gillette, 1943 (521S.23G)
Gustave Baumann, Desert Interlude, 1936 color woodcut, 4 3/8 x 4 3/8 in. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Museum purchase with funds raised by the School of American Research Library, 1952 (1578A.23G) Photo by Blair Clark © New Mexico Museum of Art.
Nicholas Ortiz, Untitled, n.d., fired clay, ceramic and varnish, 10 × 6 1/2 × 8 in. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Gift of Barry G. and Maria S. King, 2000 (2000.36.42)
Barbara Latham, Rabbits, n.d., graphite on paper, 11 3/4 x 17 1/2 in. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Gift of Robert C. Ellis Trust, 2002 (2002.14.45)
Jean Charlot, Happy Bunnies, n.d., color lithograph, 8 x 8 3/4 in. Collection of the New Mexico Museum of Art. Bequest of Vivian Sloan Fiske, 1978 (4196.23G
Bring your family and friends to experience Contact: Local to Global this holiday season! The exhibition highlights the engagement of artists with New Mexico, the Museum of Art with artists and collectors, and New Mexico’s engagement with the national and international arts community. #nmartmuseum
Lots of folks out today enjoying fine weather and fine art.
Our second century begins on Saturday, November 25th with our Centennial Celebration party at the museum and on the Santa Fe Plaza. Admission is FREE and there are activities for all ages. Come on down from 10 am - 5 pm and join us as our second century begins! More information at www.facebook.com/events/292683957873237. #nmartmuseum
New Mexico Museum of Art Turns 100 Part 2
Our Community 100th Birthday Party for the New Mexico Museum of Art on Saturday, 11/25 from 10 am - 5pm will kick off a year of 100 special events, commemorating each year of the museum's existence. "There will be a range of activities from lectures and partnership with El Rancho de las Golondrinas, in partnership with the School for Advanced Research, to curatorial talks in the gallery, and also behind the scenes visits to libraries and collections and a whole lot more. The restoration and reopening marks a new chapter for the Museum, one that will belong to the next generation of New Mexico."
Watch more below to see our Director, Mary Kershaw, talk with KRQE News 13 about this historic event and then make plans to join us! #NMArtMuseum
Community 100th Birthday Party!
It's not a birthday party without cake! We'll be serving outside of the Museum on 11/25 beginning at 3:30 pm right after local dignitaries give a tribute to the Museum of Art and wish us a Happy 100th birthday with a birthday song lead by Jorge Espino at 3 pm.
From the presentation of the museum’s collection to once-in-a-lifetime events—there is something for everyone during the Museum of Art’s centennial year. And because birthdays are all about surprises, a few of those are planned too! Find the full schedule of events from 10 am - 5 pm at www.facebook.com/events/292683957873237/. #nmartmuseum
With an eye toward the future, the ongoing renovation at the New Mexico Museum of Art is addressing sustainability issues to protect and preserve future exhibitions. Closed since mid-September for an extensive upgrade, the Museum reopens at 10 am on November 25th, launching its Centennial year celebration. The renovation work will restore, as much as possible, the original elegant simplicity of the interior public spaces of this building; and improve the visitor experience by creating a more welcoming entrance and brighter galleries that are more conducive to the enjoyment of art, as they were in 1917.
Read more about the renovations at http://media.newmexicoculture.org/release/649/whats-happening-while-were-closed-lobby-renovation-signage-sustainability. #nmartmuseum
New Mexico Museum of Art Turns 100
"From floor to ceiling and everything in between, the New Mexico Museum of Art has been going through a painstaking revival, all designed to redeliver New Mexicans their crown jewel of fine art. The museum will reopen to the public on November 25 with a daylong celebration including birthday cake and the premier of "Painting Santa Fe" that kicks off a year of 100 special events at the museum". Watch our Director, Mary Kershaw talk more about it with KRQE News 13 and then RSVP at www.facebook.com/events/292683957873237 to help us celebrate! #nmartmuseum
We are so honored that Lowrider Summer is this year's recipient of the Collaboration category for the 2017 Mayor's Arts Awards Ceremony & Dinner Arts Awards Ceremony & Dinner. Lowrider Summer was a groundbreaking collaboration between cultural institutions, artists, lowriders, poets and community. Two museum exhibits, “Con Cariño: Artists Inspired by Lowriders” at the New Mexico Museum of Art and “Lowriders, Hoppers, and Hot Roads: Car Culture of Northern New Mexico” at the New Mexico History Museum, served as centerpieces for a summer of lowrider culture in Santa Fe. A highlight of Lowrider Summer was “Lowrider Day on the Plaza,” when more than 100 lowrider cars cruised from Fort Marcy to the Plaza. Lowrider Summer highlighted under-represented artists who form the foundation of lowrider culture. It honored their cultural and artistic contributions to New Mexico, while expanding the audience for lowrider culture.
We congratulate the six other exceptional recipients of the 2017 Mayor's Arts Awards annual dinner and ceremony. More information can be found here: www.santafenm.gov/mayors_award
Last week to see "Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now", an exhibit which examines the many ways artists have used drawing as a means of recording and provoking thought from the fifteenth century to today.On exhibit through Sunday, September 17, 2017.
The internationally recognized line-up of artists featured in the exhibition is a ‘who’s who’ of artists through the centuries. The exhibition includes work by artists as diverse as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Albrecht Dürer, Piet Mondrian, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Bridget Riley, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Franz Kline and Rachel Whiteread.
This exhibition is part of the "Art of the Draw", cultural collaboration. You can find more information at http://www.newmexicoculture.org/guide/2017-summer-guide-to-museums-and-historic-sites/art-of-the-draw-collaboration.
Part of the "Art of the Draw" cultural collaboration, "Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now: from the British Museum" will be on display through Sunday, September 17th. This exhibition examines the many ways artists have used drawing as a means of recording and provoking thought from the fifteenth century to today. The exhibition will help visitors to explore the range inherent in the medium of drawing and may even inspire them to draw as well. This is the first showing of this exhibition in the United States and Santa Fe is very lucky to have this made available to us. More information at http://media.newmexicoculture.org/exhibition/3220/lines-of-thought-drawing-from-michelangelo-to-now-from-the-british-museum.
"Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now: from the British Museum" makes its international debut at the New Mexico Museum of Art, the first, and one of only two United States venues to host the exhibition. With works from a list that reads like a “who’s who" of international artists through the centuries, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to better understand the thinking behind an artist’s drawing, comparing side by side drawings from master draftsmen across five centuries. The featured artists include Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Albrecht Dürer, Piet Mondrian, Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, Bridget Riley, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Franz Kline and Rachel Whiteread. Join us for the opening weekend of this exceptional exhibition that is on display through September 17, 2017!
Friday, May 26th from 5:30-7:30pm: Public opening and reception. More information at http://bit.ly/PublicOpening.
Saturday, May 27 from 1:00-2:00pm: Special presentation about our latest exhibition with Isabel Seligman, Curator, Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now: from the British Museum" and Hugo Chapman, Simon Sainsbury Keeper of Prints & Drawings at the British Museum. More information at http://bit.ly/ExhibitHighlights.
Have you visited "Light Tight: New Work by Meggan Gould and Andy Mattern" yet? Curators Kate Ware and Christian Waguespack discuss the boundary-pushing work of Andy Mattern in this video.
Curators Kate Ware and Christian Waguespack discuss "Light Tight: New Work by Meggan Gould and Andy Mattern"-- find out what's unique about this show, on view until September 17th!
Join us this weekend for three new and exciting exhibits. Free Friday night this evening, April 7, from 5:30 - 7:30 with refreshments and activities. For more information visit our website at http://www.nmartmuseum.org/.
Join us this weekend for three new and exciting exhibits. Free Friday night this evening, April 7, from 5:30 - 7:30 with refreshments and activities. For more information visit our website at http://www.nmartmuseum.org/.
In New Mexico, Wells found communities that provided fertile ground for his artistic and personal development.Georgia O’Keeffe was both friend and colleague. In a catalogue essay on Wells, O’Keeffe wrote “I believe we are the two best painters working in our part of the county.” Wells looked to a variety of religious and cultural sources—from historic Spanish Colonial traditions of New Mexico and cathedrals of Europe to the French avant-garde—to inform his own spiritual expressions. This exhibition examines the biographical events, political anxieties, and regional influences that shaped Wells’ multifaceted ruminations, in his chosen medium of watercolor. On view from March 25 - September 17, 2017.
Visit our website for more information at http://nmartmuseum.org/site/exhibitions/upcoming/cady-wells.html.
This exhibition examines Wells’ remarkable singularity from the perspective of the mid-century influences that shaped his increasingly surrealist style. "Cady Well - Ruminations" takes a close look at Wells’ unique approach to the New Mexican landscape, his interest in the state’s historic Spanish Colonial traditions, and the powerful effects of World War II and the development of the atomic bomb in Los Alamos had on his life and work. ON view March 25 through September 17, 2017. Visit our website for more information at http://nmartmuseum.org/site/exhibitions/upcoming/cady-wells.html.
Ever wonder what fascinating attraction is just around the corner from you in the Land of Enchantment? Download the free Cultural Atlas of New Mexico and start exploring: http://atlas.newmexicoculture.org.
Lowrider Summer in Santa Fe
Orale! Lowrider Summer in Santa Fe.
Lloyd Kiva New: Native Genius.
Have you seen all three of the exquisite exhibits celebrating his life and legacy? At three museums in Santa Fe, on the plaza and on Museum Hill.
Lowrider Day in New Mexico: over 200 cars cruised the Plaza. If you're in Santa Fe today, you still have a chance to check out these amazing "palaces on wheels." (Til 4 pm.)
The talented musician Eric Cureno playing the oud during Guitar Day last weekend! If you missed him, you can catch him playing the Cuban tres, the oud, and other world instruments the next 3 Saturdays in April at noon in the guitar exhibition.
Musician and cigar box-guitar designer Cipriano Vigil playing during last Sunday's Guitar Day. Thanks to the Lensic Performing Arts Center for sponsoring, and to Cipriano for sharing his music and incredible creations (including cigar box amps!)
Check out the talented students from the All-Star String Band of the Academy for Technology and the Classics, jamming with musicians Brandon Perrault and Westin McDowell during last Sunday's Guitar Day!
A rare organ performance in the St. Francis auditorium! Thanks to organist Fred Haas and his merry compatriots for sharing their enthusiasm for this incredible instrument.
The organ was built in 1917 (the same year as the Museum!) by the California Organ Co., and installed in the Museum of Art in 1937.
The New Mexico Museum of Art is the oldest art museum in the state. For information about the New Mexico Museum of Art, visit nmartmuseum.org.
