Museum of International Folk Art Presents Folk Expression in the Face of Disaster

The Arts of Survival: Folk Expression in the Face of Disaster explores how folk artists helped their communities recover from four recent natural disasters: the Haitian Earthquake; Hurricane Katrina on the U.S. Gulf Coast; Pakistani floods; and the recent volcanic eruption of Mt. Merapi in Indonesia.

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List of Blue Star Museum Program Participants

The National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with Blue Star Families’ Operation Appreciation will honor millions of American service members with free admission to museum across the country. Starting Friday, May 27, 2011, over 125 museums in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas will open their doors to active military personnel and their families. The Blue Star Museums program ends Sunday, September 4, 2011.

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Hotel ZaZa Partners with Turner Carroll Gallery to Bring New Contemporary Art Space to Dallas

Hotel ZaZa Dallas has announced it will collaborate with Turner Carroll Gallery and Art Advisors to bring internationally acclaimed art exhibitions to the newly opened Stay ZaZa Art House & Social Gallery. Based in Santa Fe, Turner Carroll Gallery (www.turnercarrollgallery.com) will curate shows of nationally and internationally recognized artists in the hotel’s new art and event space.

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New Mexico History Museum Presents A Passionate Light: Polaroids by H. Joe Waldrum

A rush to catch a plane and the convenience of a Safeway grocery store led to noted New Mexico artist H. Joe Waldrum’s long-term love affair with SX-70 Polaroid monoprints, images that Waldrum referred to as “little jewels.” The late artist’s collection of nearly 8,000 images was recently donated to the Palace of the Governors Photo Archives. A selection of them will be displayed in a joint exhibition at the New Mexico History Museum and The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History, Jan. 30-April 10.

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New Mexico Museum of Art Presents Cloudscapes: Photographs from the Collection

A new exhibition of photographic luminaries at the New Mexico Museum of Art invites visitors to lose themselves in a variety of cloud formations, from fluffy to enticing to intriguing to menacing. Cloudscapes: Photographs from the Collection, opening Feb. 4, features work by some of the masters of the medium, including Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Laura Gilpin, Eliot Porter, and Edward Weston. Also featured are more recent images by Paul Caponigro, William Clift, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, and Jim Stone.

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New Mexico Museum of Art Presents an Online Exhibition of Contemporary American Photographers

Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment opens at the New Mexico Museum of Art April 8, 2011 and its online component can now be found on the web at earthnow.nmartmuseum.org.

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The New Mexico Museum of Art Presents Case Study from the Bureau of Comtemporary Art

The New Mexico Museum of Art will present an exhibition of works from its Bureau of
Contemporary Art, a fictitious entity created for this exhibition in order to emphasize
contemporary art’s prominent place within the museum’s permanent collection. Case Studies from the Bureau of Contemporary Art will be on view November 19, 2010 through March 20, 2011.

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Earth Now: American Landscape Photographers and the Environment at the New Mexico Museum of Art

Earth Now: American Landscape Photographers and the Environment offers both a survey and a contemporary view of how artists working in photography have addressed our relationship to the environment, one of the greatest challenges facing us since at least the mid-twentieth century. Using beauty, humor, and horror to engage attention, these photographers provoke questions about the legacy of industry, construction, consumption, and waste disposal while pointing toward new directions such as local farming, new energy source technologies, green roofs, and a renewed connection with the landscapes we inhabit.

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Karen LaMonte to Lecture at New Mexico Museum of Art

Friends of Contemporary Art presents a lecture by renowned sculptor Karen LaMonte in conjunction with SOFA WEST. The lecture will take place in the New Mexico Museum of Art’s St. Francis Auditorium, 107 W. Palace Avenue, at 10am on Thursday, July 8, 2010.

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Museum of International Folk Art Re-opens Girard Collection Two Months Early

Closed since January to install new conservation friendly lighting and HVAC system the Museum of International Folk Art’s beloved Girard Collection is now open (except for a small portion which allows the public a behind-the-scenes opportunity to see curators and conservators at work reinstalling the exhibit – the entire Wing will be open August 1, 2010).

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Dead Photographers Society — Photographers who still find pleasure in taking pictures the old fashioned way with film, chemicals and a dark room.
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Mr. Holga — Mr. Holga is a die-hard film photographer specializing in Holga cameras.
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