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The University of New Mexico Art Museum will open the last day of August with its first live exhibit since the museum shut down with the rise of the COVID pandemic. “During the past year and half, as we coped with a global pandemic and the museum being...

With local healthcare workers facing a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, UNM Art Museum, and Museum of Southwest Biology recently donated their supply of gloves and N-95 masks to UNM Hospital. 

It was somewhere around the dawning of the Age of Aquarius and the San Francisco music scene was thriving when a new art form evolved. To promote concerts by not-yet-legendary musicians like the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, and Janis...

Rana Chan, Honors College major, forged a relationship with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and Girls Inc. of Santa Fe to create a series of multi-generational workshops as part of her honors thesis.  Upon meeting with the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Chan...

A new exhibit opening in Zimmerman Library focuses on UNM’s involvement in New Deal programming, as both a recipient of funds and as a location for New Deal-related offices and programs.

After a rigorous process that included numerous assessments and reviews, The Harwood Museum of Art was able to prove its excellence, thus becoming a nationally accredited museum—an honor bestowed on only three percent of museums nationwide. “Accredited...

Richard Tobin, former director of strategic planning and interim president of the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, has been appointed director of UNM’s Harwood Museum of Art in Taos, Harwood Governing Board Chair Marcia Winter announced...

The University of New Mexico is a proud sponsor of the “Digital Latin America: Symposium, Exhibit, Block Party” event Saturday-Sunday, June 7-8. This event is organized by 516 Arts, a nonprofit art space in downtown Albuquerque.

The University of New Mexico Art Museum hosts "Look Back Into Our Future: Pueblo Revolt 1680/2180," a lecture by artist Virgil Ortiz, Tuesday, April 29 at 5:30 p.m. in the Clinton Adams Gallery. The lecture is part of the INSIGHTS Distinguished ...

The UNM Art Museum celebrates its 50th anniversary by hosting an opening reception on Thursday, Sept. 12, from 6 - 8 p.m. Three concurrent exhibitions, representing the museum's permanet collection of more than 30,000 works of art spanning the 15th ...