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Step into the art of the Depression era at The New Mexico Museum of Art, where four New Deal paintings by Tom Lea await. Join Dylan McDonald, Political Collections Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at NMSU, and Adair Margo, author of Tom Lea: An Oral History, to discuss the works that capture the grit, hope, and...

Join us on February 24 for the El Rancho de las Golondrinas Winter Lecture Series. This long running collaboration explores exciting corners of New Mexico’s history and culture as presented by engaging authors and historians. Tickets are available through El Rancho de las Golondrinas at  https://golondrinas.org/   St. Francis Auditorium is equipped with an audio...

Join us on March 31 for the El Rancho de las Golondrinas Winter Lecture Series. This long running collaboration explores exciting corners of New Mexico’s history and culture as presented by engaging authors and historians. Tickets are available through El Rancho de las Golondrinas at  https://golondrinas.org/    St. Francis Auditorium is equipped with an audio...

Having opened its doors in 1917, the New Mexico Museum of Art has been collecting artwork by some of the region’s most beloved artists for over a century. Our collection has more than 20,000 works of art by groups such as the Taos Society of Artists, the Santa Fe art colony, prominent modernists and more...

Join us on January 27 for the El Rancho de las Golondrinas Winter Lecture Series. This long running collaboration explores exciting corners of New Mexico’s history and culture as presented by engaging authors and historians. Tickets are available through El Rancho de las Golondrinas at  https://golondrinas.org/ 

Alexandra Terry, curator of Lucy R. Lippard: Notes from the Radical Whirlwind, discusses Lippard’s prolific career, and the significant relationships she cultivated with artists that impacted the art world as we now know it. Kathy Vargas, Oracion: Valentine’s Day/ Day of the Dead (Chest), ca. 1990, Gelatin silver print with applied color, 22 3/8 x 17...

In Printing the Spirit, co-authors Thomas Leech and Carmella Padilla draw from Baumann’s original materials, now part of the Gustave Baumann Archive at the New Mexico History Museum, to honor Baumann’s work. For the first time, Printing the Spirit brings together a selection of Baumann’s faithful pencil renderings of thirty-four bultos and retablos and the proofs he made...

Authors Carmella Padilla and Thomas Leech will discuss their new book, Printing the Spirit: Gustave Baumann’s Santos. Moderated by the New Mexico Museum of Art’s Head of Education, Chris Nail. About Printing the Spirit: Gustave Baumann’s Santos: In 1927, Gustave Baumann, already celebrated for his colorful and innovative woodcuts, turned his attention to documenting the...

New Mexico-based artist Ruznic and art historian Erika Doss discuss spiritual modernism and consider how and why religion “matters” for contemporary art, with a particular focus on Ruznic’s paintings in the St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art that are presented as part of the 12th SITE SANTA FE International: Once Within a Time. This conversation between...

Join us for a conversation between two internationally celebrated activists and feminists whose careers and actions enacted vital change within the art and cultural realm, and beyond. Lucy R. Lippard, writer/activist/curator, is joined by Suzanne Lacy, Los Angeles-based artist and pioneer of socially engaged public performance art, to speak about their friendship and shared history...