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museum exhibitions schedule Sep 26, 2025 visibility 3 link 2 artists, 1 gallery

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Artist Lita Albuquerque staged a 25-minute performance titled "The Sea Is Within Me" in the Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, a 1926 underground reservoir in Houston, during the inaugural edition of Untitled Art, Houston. The piece featured Albuquerque's daughter and dancer Jasmine Albuquerque, vocalist Carmina Escobar, and double bassist Laura Dykes, guiding small groups through a meditation and a dramatic call-and-response between the vocalist and dancer, exploring themes of joy, despair, and symbiosis.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jun 24, 2025 visibility 2 link 16 artists, 2 galleries

Albuquerque Museum Presents German Modernism Amid Empire, Democracy, and Dictatorship

The Albuquerque Museum will present "Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945: Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin" from August 23, 2025, to January 4, 2026. The exhibition features over 70 paintings and sculptures tracing German modern art from the early 20th-century avant-garde through the Weimar Republic to the Nazi dictatorship, including works by Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz, Hannah Höch, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Salvador Dalí, many rarely shown in the U.S.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jan 17, 2026 visibility 4 link 8 artists, 2 galleries

New Community Gallery art show highlights Black artists of New Mexico

A new exhibition titled 'Truth. Memory. Joy. Resistance: Black Expressions in New Mexico' has opened at the Community Gallery at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, featuring 28 Black artists from across the state. Co-curated by local gallery owner Aaron Payne and multidisciplinary artist Jakia Fuller, the show includes works in a wide range of mediums from artists aged 16 to 80, with participants from Santa Fe, Albuquerque, and Taos. The exhibition runs through the end of February and includes special events such as a poetry reading and panel discussions.

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museum exhibitions schedule Feb 28, 2026 visibility 10 link 9 artists, 2 galleries

In Pictures: sculpture gets a leg up at Frieze Los Angeles

Frieze Los Angeles 2025 is showcasing a diverse array of sculptural works that emphasize tactile materials and bodily forms. Highlights from the fair include Vincent Pocsik’s architectural mirrors at Nazarian Curcio, Shana Hoehn’s public installation featuring human limbs emerging from a fallen tree, and Alejandro García Contreras’s intricate ceramic spiderwebs. The presentation underscores a trend toward figurative sculpture that blends personal symbolism with physical presence, with several works already finding buyers among notable collectors.

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museum exhibitions schedule Nov 19, 2025 visibility 2 link 13 artists

Albuquerque exhibition depicts German art made during the tragic ascent of authoritarianism

The Albuquerque Museum has opened a landmark exhibition titled "Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910–1945: Masterworks from the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin," featuring German and European art from the early 20th century. The show traces the trajectory from the German Empire through World War I, the Weimar Republic, Nazi rule, and World War II, including works by Max Beckmann, George Grosz, Hannah Höch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Paul Klee, and others. Many pieces were originally condemned as "degenerate art" by the Nazis. The exhibition, which has three U.S. stops, is currently in Albuquerque after appearing at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth and will travel to the Minneapolis Institute of Art.

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museum exhibitions schedule Oct 13, 2025 visibility 5 link 5 artists

Cara and Diego Romero: Tales of Futures Past Comes to Albuquerque Museum

The Albuquerque Museum will present "Cara and Diego Romero: Tales of Futures Past" from November 1, 2025, through February 8, 2026. This is the first national traveling exhibition to bring together the work of acclaimed contemporary artists Cara Romero (Chemehuevi) and Diego Romero (Cochiti), featuring 40 works including Diego’s pottery and lithographs and Cara’s photographs from her Indigenous Futurism series. The exhibition, organized by the Figge Art Museum in Davenport, Iowa, includes the debut of Cara Romero’s large-scale photographs "Four Horsewomen I and II" and a documentary by Kaela Waldstein. Public events include an opening panel moderated by artist and scholar Deborah Jojola.

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rate_review review schedule Apr 12, 2026 visibility 6 link 3 artists

How Delilah Montoya’s art confronts ICE detention abuses

The Albuquerque Museum is hosting a retrospective of Chicana artist Delilah Montoya, titled "Delilah Montoya: Activating Chicana Resistance." The exhibition's centerpiece is "Detention Nation," an immersive installation created in collaboration with the Sin Huellas Artist Collective that simulates the conditions of ICE detention centers. The work features cyanotype images of detainees on prison cots, chain-link fencing, and displays of meager government-issued personal items alongside the official National Detainee Handbook.

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museum exhibitions schedule Jul 1, 2025 visibility 1 link 1 artist

Signal & Trace Opening at Gallery One

A new exhibition titled "Signal & Trace" opens at Gallery One in Albuquerque's City Hall on July 10, featuring artworks by faculty from the University of New Mexico's Electronic Art & Technology program. The show includes interactive video, electronic textiles, thermal imaging, and speculative documentary works by artists such as Marie Alarcón, Chanee Choi, Stewart Skylar Copeland, Ramona Emerson, and others, exploring themes of surveillance, autonomy, memory, and identity through technological mediation.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 3, 2026 visibility 7

A New Show at the National Hispanic Cultural Center Highlights the Art of Nuclear Activism

The National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque has opened a new exhibition titled "Nuclear Futures: Art, Activism, and the Legacy of the Manhattan Project." The show features works by contemporary artists who use their practice to address the history, present dangers, and future implications of nuclear weapons and energy, with a particular focus on the impact on Hispanic and Indigenous communities in the American Southwest.

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