CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
ALBUQUERQUE CELEBRATES 2012
Part of The Museum's "Celebrating the New Mexico Centennial" programming, this exhibition relates some of the major events taking place in Albuquerque around the time New Mexico became a state, including the 1908 National Irrigation Conference, the first aeroplane flights at the Territorial Fairgrounds, presidential visits to Albuquerque, and the ratification of the New Mexico State Constitution at the Alvarado Hotel. The exhibition will also feature examples of New Mexico's official emblems including the state cookie (biscochito), state neckwear (bolo tie) and state symbol (Zia sun symbol).
FACES FROM OUR PAST, FACING THE FUTURE: ALBUQUERQUE AND THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY
This exhibition features prints made from a collection of glass plate negatives by the Cobb family of photographers that was recently acquired by The Museum. The collection, found in its original custom crates and individual glass plate boxes dating from the late 1800s, was originally discovered in the 1960s in an Albuquerque Bekins storage unit.
ALBUQUERQUE: ALONG THE RIO GRANDE
Albuquerque: Along the Rio Grande features many of Albuquerque's beloved and iconic artifacts representing more than 700 years of history in the Central Rio Grande Valley.
SOCIAL SATIRE AND COMMENTARY FROM THE MUSEUM COLLECTION
Drawn from the Museum's extensive holdings of works on paper, this exhibition will examine artists who comment on society by drawing attention to injustice or poking fun at the human condition. Most of these objects have not previously been exhibited at the Museum and include powerful works by Barton Benes, T.C. Cannon, Mexican master Jose Luis Cuevas, Harry Fonseca, Luis Jimenez, John Sloan, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith.
GOYA'S LOS CAPRICHOS AND SOCIAL SATIRE
This exhibition features an early first edition of Los Caprichos, a set of eighty etchings by Spanish artist Francisco de Goya y Lucientes published in 1799. Included in the exhibition for comparison are other works by Goya.
MAJOR TREVANION TEEL AND THE CIVIL WAR IN ALBUQUERQUE
This exhibit relates the story of Confederate artillery commander Major Trevanion Teel and his role in the burial and subsequent unearthing of eight Mountain Howitzers in Albuquerque's Old Town Plaza. From the collection of The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History and loans courtesy Dick and Betty Teel.
