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Things to do in New Mexico, United States: The Best Art Museums
With its rich cultural heritage from Native American and Spanish settlers, New Mexico has been both a Spanish colony and a Mexican colony, and still retains a strong individual identity within the United States. The landscape is breathtaking, the food incredible, and there is a thriving cultural scene, all of which makes New Mexico, and Santa Fe in particular, a great place all year long.
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1. Shona Sol
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
A sculpture garden full of giant stone creations from Zimbabwe.
2. Santa Fe Art Experience
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
The definitive and most comprehensive guide to galleries, museums and events in the art districts of Santa Fe.
3. Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art
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5.0 based on 118 reviews
Reviewed By bradk578
Intro - I have noticed how little problem there was shifting our culture frame of reference for dating historical time from the more narrow BC or Before Christ to the broader BCE, Before Current Era. Not so when it comes to Art. I have never understood how Edwardian Era art critics managed to get a perpetual copyright to the term "modern" for their particular hundred year old artistic epoch. Until such times as the term modern in modern art is used in quotes with a slight eye roll, the term Contemporary as in the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art will do. Why I think the Anderson Museum is showing 21st Century Master Pieces: In the medieval guild system, a masterpiece was an example of work of such quality that it would prove ones qualifications to be an acknowledged Master of your craft. The Anderson Museum exhibits the work of artists-in-residence who are given a house, a studio, a stipend and a year to do art. Once all the excuses have been removed, the artist is left with only their naked show us what you got craftsmanship and creativity. In my opinion, the Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art is filled with examples of the artist pouring everything they had to give into their work. The artists have prepared and presented their masterpieces and we are the judges. Entrance is by donation and I found myself digging a bit deeper than I typically do. The museum is deserving of your visit and the work deserving of your attention and respect.
4. Carole Laroche Gallery
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5.0 based on 9 reviews
Reviewed By 267MichaelL267 - Morganton, United States
Carole LaRoache has painted her warriors and wolves and shamans for years and they still continue to mesmerize one. They are beautiful, full of life and color and yet amazingly calming and empathetic.
5. Turquoise Trail Sculpture Garden
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5.0 based on 61 reviews
CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC 2021&2022, due to very exciting news! OrigamiintheGarden is traveling to Missouri Botanical Garden, Wellfield Botanic Gardens and Reiman Gardens in 2021. We are also building a new, even larger exhibit for Atlanta Botanical Garden for 2022. This sculpture garden will reopen in 2023.Thank you for your time and understanding!"
Reviewed By garyml2016 - Palm Springs, United States
This high desert sculpture garden sits near natural rocks that beautifully frame the artwork. Based on origami concept, the artist and his staff we’re welcoming and very friendly. I love the work and will return!
6. Thoma Foundation Art House
7. Entropy Gallery
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5.0 based on 1 reviews
Santa Fe, NM art gallery featuring photographs, paintings and sculpture by artist Patrick Lysaght - Fleeting and Enduring Structure in Nature from all seven continents capturing fractal patterns and concave convex optical illusions. Photo, painting and sculpture make up a unique fusion of art, science and nature.
8. Tinkertown Museum
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4.5 based on 355 reviews
A "museum" built out of concrete and 55,000 bottles that houses 20,000 handcarved miniatures.
Reviewed By TravelChickSA - Adelaide, Australia
What an amazing museum.... we happened to stop in and have a look on our way home from Sandia Crest Cafe... and it turned out to be the highlight of the day. What an amazing labour of love by Ross over 40 years. Fascinating reflection of entertainment in the turn of the century.. miniature models in such minute detail that there is so much to look at, you don't know what to look at first! The one man band is a beautiful reflection of exquisite craftsmanship that will be lost if not for places like this. Wonderfully preserved by Ross' widow, well worth a stop - we spent nearly an hour wandering through a time capsule of epic proportions.
9. Millicent Rogers Museum
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4.5 based on 750 reviews
This impressive museum has more than a dozen galleries with some 5000 pieces of Native American and Hispanic art, including furniture, weaving, paintings, pottery and a celebrated collection of Native American jewelry.
Reviewed By WC-Travelers-75
We knew nothing of this museum other than it was listed in the AAA TourBook before we visited. Because we allowed extra time in our travel to Taos, we took it in. What a surprise! An extensive collection of Southwestern art of many cultures and mediums. The jewelry collection was memorable, with some pieces you wonder if they were meant to be worn given their size. We lingered to take it all in as best we could. This museum is a gem! We would visit again if in Taos since exhibits change.
10. Blumenschein Home & Museum
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4.5 based on 100 reviews
Reviewed By conmom828 - Falls Church, United States
I was amazed at the size of all the building in Taos. Each road and street was one where my Grandparents walked and befriended the Artist who lived there in the early 1920's My Dad was born in what is now a restaurant etc. Most important we were able to give back to the community paintings which have been gifted to our family years before. We even toured the Pueblos which are pictured often and are still lived in now!
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