Community Calendar

Black and White: One of our most popular exhibitions features works by New Mexico artists. Black and white photographs and drawings will be in the gallery and online beginning March 1, 2023, with the artists reception planned for March 11 from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM.

Founded in 1929, the New Mexico Art League is an art school and gallery, and a non-profit 501(C)3 association. We are open to the public from 10 AM to 4 PM Tuesday through Saturday, at 3409 Juan Tabo NE, behind the Juan Tabo Library in Albuquerque. The exhibit is also on;in 24/7. For information, call 505-293-5034 or visit our website at www.newmexicoartleague.org.

On February 17, 2023, the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History will open a temporary exhibit—So Ready for Laughter: The Legacy of Bob Hope. Supported by national tour exhibit sponsor Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation, So Ready for Laughter tells the story of the entertainer’s unique place in WWII history and beyond. Using multimedia elements and captivating storytelling—including artifacts, films, rare photographs, and an interactive display—the exhibit highlights how Hope helped lift the human spirit during one of the darkest times in American history.

“From the first time my father, Bob Hope, entertained the troops at March Field in 1941, he knew he had discovered a most meaningful audience,” said Linda Hope. “He truly appreciated the men and women who were sacrificing to defend America on the Homefront and abroad. It was his honor, along with the entertainers with whom he collaborated, to connect these individuals with a touch of home and let them laugh -- even if only for a brief moment."

Bob Hope came to the United States as an immigrant with his family in the early 1920s, initially working as a newsboy, butcher’s assistant, shoe salesman and amateur boxer. Hope went on to eventually shape his art on the vaudeville stage, and by the start of World War II, he was just emerging as one of America’s most popular radio and film stars. When the nation went to war in 1941, Hollywood recognized the need for contributions and responded by entertaining troops, raising funds, and boosting morale. Hope’s work quickly took on new meaning when he took his wartime programs on the road to military camps and bases across the country, inspiring other entertainers to join him.

Exploring Hope’s major tours and travels during World War II, So Ready for Laughter features nearly 50 artifacts and also includes an original 11-minute documentary produced by award-winning filmmaker John Scheinfeld. Highlights include rare and unpublished photographs of Hope; wartime correspondence between Hope and servicemembers; WWII-era relics engraved to Hope; videos of his traveling, wartime troupe, and Hollywood Victory Caravan programs and scrapbooks.

So Ready for Laughter: The Legacy of Bob Hope is a temporary exhibit that is included with the price of admission to the museum. This exhibition is brought to the Nuclear Museum through the sponsorship of the FHL Foundation. So Ready for Laughter: The Legacy of Bob Hope will be on display at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History from February 17 through April 30, 2023.

SITE Santa Fe is pleased to announce the New Mexico premiere of Land of Dreams, a solo exhibition by Iranian-American artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat.

Created in New Mexico in 2019, Land of Dreams is a multidisciplinary series featuring over one hundred photographs of New Mexico residents embellished with Farsi calligraphy and small-scale illustrations; a two-channel video following a fictional Iranian photographer as she travels door-to-door soliciting portraits of strangers while collecting their dreams; and a feature length film starring actors such as Sheila Vand, Matt Dillon and Isabella Rosallini. Alongside Land of Dreams is Neshat’s Dreamer’s Trilogy (2013-2016), three short films that draw inspiration from the artist’s own recurring dreams. Together, these works reflect one another, mirroring layers of ambiguity between dreams and reality, fiction and memory.

Complementing the exhibition is The Making of Shirin Neshat’s Land of Dreams, a documentary by Sophie Chahinian, and a screening of Neshat’s feature length film, Land of Dreams (2021).

About the Artist
Shirin Neshat (b. 1957 Qazvin, Iran) is an Iranian-born artist and filmmaker living in New York. Her photographs and video installations are highly poetic and politically charged images and narratives which question issues of power, religion, race, gender, and relationships between past and present, occident and orient, individual and collective through the lens of her personal experiences as an Iranian living in exile. Neshat’s early photographic works include the Women of Allah series (1993–1997), which explored the question of gender in relation to Islamic fundamentalism and militancy. Her subsequent video works departed from overtly political content or critique in favor of more poetic imagery and complex human narratives. Neshat continues to explore and experiment with the mediums of photography, video, and film. Her most recent bodies of work include the photographic series Land of Dreams (2019), The Home of My Eyes (2015) and the trilogy Dreamers comprised of three video installations: Illusions and Mirrors (2013), Roja and Sarah (2016).

Neshat has directed three feature-length films, Women Without Men (2009), which received the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, Looking For Oum Kulthum (2017,) and most recently Land of Dreams which premiered at the Venice Film Festival (2021.)

Neshat has held numerous solo exhibitions at museums internationally including the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2022); Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2021); The Broad, Los Angeles (2020); Museo Correr, Venice, Italy (2017); Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (2015); Detroit Institute of Arts (2013); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2006); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2005); the Serpentine Gallery, London (2000); and Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal(2001).

Neshat was awarded the Golden Lion Award, the First International Prize at the 48th Biennale di Venezia (1999), the Hiroshima Freedom Prize (2005), and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2006). In 2017, she received the prestigious Praemium Imperiale Award in Tokyo

Neshat directed her first opera Verdi’s Aida at the Salzburg Festival In 2017, which will be restaged in 2022.

She is represented by Gladstone Gallery in New York and Goodman Gallery in London.

Accompanying Programs
During the course of the exhibition, SITE Santa Fe will offer a wide range of Public Programs including a film series curated by Shirin Neshat. Stay tuned for details.

SITE Santa Fe is pleased to announce DIRECT ACTION, a solo exhibition by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes. Celebrated for his large-scale, immersive, sculptural projects addressing current social and political issues, Reyes’ work follows a double path: art as aesthetic research, and art as social practice. Over the course of his career, he has developed and designed creative projects that propose playful solutions to social problems through a variety of media. Reyes’ formal sculpture and conceptual and participatory strategies seek to engage community through play, humor and optimism.

Black and White: One of our most popular exhibitions features works by New Mexico artists. Black and white photographs and drawings will be in the gallery and online beginning March 1, 2023, with the artists reception planned for March 11 from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM.

Founded in 1929, the New Mexico Art League is an art school and gallery, and a non-profit 501(C)3 association. We are open to the public from 10 AM to 4 PM Tuesday through Saturday, at 3409 Juan Tabo NE, behind the Juan Tabo Library in Albuquerque. The exhibit is also on;in 24/7. For information, call 505-293-5034 or visit our website at www.newmexicoartleague.org.

Ceramics Showcase!
April 1 – 30
Presented by the New Mexico Potters and Clay Artists, this exhibition, expresses the many possibilities of clay. Thirty five member artists from throughout New Mexico present 56 sculptural, abstract and functional works.
The exhibit is located in three large showcases in the corridor connecting the terminal to the parking garage. It is available to travelers to Albuquerque and those who come just to Sunport solely to see the exhibit. Those visitors can access the exhibit through the short-term parking garage.

When: April 1-30 Where: ABQ Sunport (Albuquerque airport) Cost: Free

Think You Know Ceramics?
Then Get Thee to the Sunport to see
The Sunport Ceramics Showcase!
Presented by the New Mexico Potters and Clay Artists, this exhibition, up for the month of April, expands awareness of the possibilities of clay. Artists from around New Mexico show various approaches in this medium, including sculptural, abstract and functional.
The many passing through the tunnel between the parking garage and the terminal, can casually enjoy the display. For those with a special interest in clay, or, who do ceramics, a trip simply to see this exhibition is recommended.
When: all of April Where: ABQ Sunport tunnel display cases Cost: short term parking fee.

On February 17, 2023, the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History will open a temporary exhibit—So Ready for Laughter: The Legacy of Bob Hope. Supported by national tour exhibit sponsor Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation, So Ready for Laughter tells the story of the entertainer’s unique place in WWII history and beyond. Using multimedia elements and captivating storytelling—including artifacts, films, rare photographs, and an interactive display—the exhibit highlights how Hope helped lift the human spirit during one of the darkest times in American history.

“From the first time my father, Bob Hope, entertained the troops at March Field in 1941, he knew he had discovered a most meaningful audience,” said Linda Hope. “He truly appreciated the men and women who were sacrificing to defend America on the Homefront and abroad. It was his honor, along with the entertainers with whom he collaborated, to connect these individuals with a touch of home and let them laugh -- even if only for a brief moment."

Bob Hope came to the United States as an immigrant with his family in the early 1920s, initially working as a newsboy, butcher’s assistant, shoe salesman and amateur boxer. Hope went on to eventually shape his art on the vaudeville stage, and by the start of World War II, he was just emerging as one of America’s most popular radio and film stars. When the nation went to war in 1941, Hollywood recognized the need for contributions and responded by entertaining troops, raising funds, and boosting morale. Hope’s work quickly took on new meaning when he took his wartime programs on the road to military camps and bases across the country, inspiring other entertainers to join him.

Exploring Hope’s major tours and travels during World War II, So Ready for Laughter features nearly 50 artifacts and also includes an original 11-minute documentary produced by award-winning filmmaker John Scheinfeld. Highlights include rare and unpublished photographs of Hope; wartime correspondence between Hope and servicemembers; WWII-era relics engraved to Hope; videos of his traveling, wartime troupe, and Hollywood Victory Caravan programs and scrapbooks.

So Ready for Laughter: The Legacy of Bob Hope is a temporary exhibit that is included with the price of admission to the museum. This exhibition is brought to the Nuclear Museum through the sponsorship of the FHL Foundation. So Ready for Laughter: The Legacy of Bob Hope will be on display at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History from February 17 through April 30, 2023.

SITE Santa Fe is pleased to announce the New Mexico premiere of Land of Dreams, a solo exhibition by Iranian-American artist and filmmaker Shirin Neshat.

Created in New Mexico in 2019, Land of Dreams is a multidisciplinary series featuring over one hundred photographs of New Mexico residents embellished with Farsi calligraphy and small-scale illustrations; a two-channel video following a fictional Iranian photographer as she travels door-to-door soliciting portraits of strangers while collecting their dreams; and a feature length film starring actors such as Sheila Vand, Matt Dillon and Isabella Rosallini. Alongside Land of Dreams is Neshat’s Dreamer’s Trilogy (2013-2016), three short films that draw inspiration from the artist’s own recurring dreams. Together, these works reflect one another, mirroring layers of ambiguity between dreams and reality, fiction and memory.

Complementing the exhibition is The Making of Shirin Neshat’s Land of Dreams, a documentary by Sophie Chahinian, and a screening of Neshat’s feature length film, Land of Dreams (2021).

About the Artist
Shirin Neshat (b. 1957 Qazvin, Iran) is an Iranian-born artist and filmmaker living in New York. Her photographs and video installations are highly poetic and politically charged images and narratives which question issues of power, religion, race, gender, and relationships between past and present, occident and orient, individual and collective through the lens of her personal experiences as an Iranian living in exile. Neshat’s early photographic works include the Women of Allah series (1993–1997), which explored the question of gender in relation to Islamic fundamentalism and militancy. Her subsequent video works departed from overtly political content or critique in favor of more poetic imagery and complex human narratives. Neshat continues to explore and experiment with the mediums of photography, video, and film. Her most recent bodies of work include the photographic series Land of Dreams (2019), The Home of My Eyes (2015) and the trilogy Dreamers comprised of three video installations: Illusions and Mirrors (2013), Roja and Sarah (2016).

Neshat has directed three feature-length films, Women Without Men (2009), which received the Silver Lion Award for Best Director at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, Looking For Oum Kulthum (2017,) and most recently Land of Dreams which premiered at the Venice Film Festival (2021.)

Neshat has held numerous solo exhibitions at museums internationally including the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich (2022); Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2021); The Broad, Los Angeles (2020); Museo Correr, Venice, Italy (2017); Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C. (2015); Detroit Institute of Arts (2013); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2006); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2005); the Serpentine Gallery, London (2000); and Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal(2001).

Neshat was awarded the Golden Lion Award, the First International Prize at the 48th Biennale di Venezia (1999), the Hiroshima Freedom Prize (2005), and the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize (2006). In 2017, she received the prestigious Praemium Imperiale Award in Tokyo

Neshat directed her first opera Verdi’s Aida at the Salzburg Festival In 2017, which will be restaged in 2022.

She is represented by Gladstone Gallery in New York and Goodman Gallery in London.

Accompanying Programs
During the course of the exhibition, SITE Santa Fe will offer a wide range of Public Programs including a film series curated by Shirin Neshat. Stay tuned for details.

SITE Santa Fe is pleased to announce DIRECT ACTION, a solo exhibition by Mexican artist Pedro Reyes. Celebrated for his large-scale, immersive, sculptural projects addressing current social and political issues, Reyes’ work follows a double path: art as aesthetic research, and art as social practice. Over the course of his career, he has developed and designed creative projects that propose playful solutions to social problems through a variety of media. Reyes’ formal sculpture and conceptual and participatory strategies seek to engage community through play, humor and optimism.