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The Harwood Museum of Art announced its upcoming exhibition Santo Lowride: Norteño Car Culture and the Santo Tradition.  Planned to correspond with lowrider cruise season, the exhibition opens May 29 and runs through Oct. 10. The entire ground floor of...

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...

A pair of lectures, with Dr. Marianna Torgovnick, celebrating the English writer and poet D.H. Lawrence are slated for early-April. The first lecture of the 3rd annual D.H. Lawrence celebration, titled Friends and Lovers: Owning D.H. Lawrence, is set...

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...

Art is less of a discipline and more of a passion for Arif Khan. This love and his deep connection to New Mexico has driven Khan’s recent appointment as the new director of the UNM Art Museum—the largest fine arts collection in the state.  

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...

Utilizing an artful combination that relates the interdependence of plants, animals and humans to the interrelationships of art forms through contemporary media, University of New Mexico College of Fine Arts Professor Mary Tsiongas, was selected to...