University of New Mexico Events Calendar

UNM Art Museum: Bound Together: Seeking Pleasure in Books (2/9/2013 - 5/25/2013)

Sat, 9 Feb 2013 17:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	2/9/2013	Start Time:	10:00 AM
End Date:	5/25/2013	End Time:	4:00 PM

Celebrates the book, from nineteenth-century photographic albums to limited edition and unique artist books, elaborately illustrated works of literature, unusual pop-up books, mediaeval manuscript facsimiles and architectural folios, to name just some of the objects in the exhibition.

Though the digital age is very much upon us, carrying with it many publishing casualties, books continue to be produced and cherished as they have for millennia. The dichotomy that books present is that they are simultaneously private objects meant to be held in one’s hands and read often in private, yet are also objects mass produced, available to large audiences and viewed and or read in very public arenas.

UNM Arts Museum presents: "In the Wake of Juárez: The Drawings of Alice Leora Briggs (3/21/2013 - 5/25/2013)

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	3/21/2013	All Day
End Date:	5/25/2013

The La Familia cartel exploded onto the scene in 2006 with the brutal murders of five men in Michoacán. The sign left at the scene said, “La Familia doesn’t kill for money, it doesn’t kill women, it doesn’t kill innocent people — only those who deserve to die. Everyone should know: this is divine justice.”
That a drug cartel thinks its brutal business is a form of divine justice is, to say the least, surreal. But such a contradiction gives us an idea of the kind of atmosphere that Alice Leora Briggs aims for in her portrayals of the violence in Juárez. With expressionist bravado and technical cool, Briggs’ remarkable sgraffito (literally “scratch”) drawings capture the Inferno that the city has become. Freely appropriating Renaissance prints and paintings of the Last Judgment, the Crucifixion and other martyrdoms, public executions, tortures, and wars by artists from Holbein to van der Weyden, and immersing herself in literature of Dante and Cormac McCarthy, Briggs merges old world fears with present-day realities to create a disturbing yet compelling picture of the human condition.

Open Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Closed on Sundays, Mondays and major holidays

Admission is FREE and open to the public, a $5 donation is suggested to support exhibitions.

Please visit www.unmartmuseum.org for further information or call 505.277.4001 during Museum hours.

UNM Arts Museum presents: Martin Stupich: "Remnants of the First World" (3/21/2013 - 7/13/2013)

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 06:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	3/21/2013	All Day
End Date:	7/13/2013

We build and shape our landscapes and terrains—gardens, bridges, truck stops, quarries, canals and dams—to suit both our physical and emotional desires. Yet this is not without consequences. This exhibition presents a selection of potent images from a larger body of work that Martin Stupich has explored and recorded since the 1970s. These images of some of our most ambitious, often permanent structures are breathtaking to behold yet also pose questions about what it is we are leaving behind as the “remnants” of our culture and time. Stupich clearly works within a historical sphere which harks back to the nineteenth-century and includes some of the great camera artists of that era such as Timothy O’Sullivan, Carleton Watkins and Darius Kinsey.

Open Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm

Closed on Sundays, Mondays and major holidays

Admission is FREE and open to the public, a $5 donation is suggested to support exhibitions.

Please visit www.unmartmuseum.org for further information or call 505.277.4001 during Museum hours.

Maxwell Museum: Curanderismo Exhibition (5/4/2013 - 9/28/2013)

Sat, 4 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	5/4/2013	All Day
End Date:	9/28/2013

Main Campus - Maxwell Museum

“Curanderismo: Healing and Ritual” is a new exhibition at the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology that explores the historical and contemporary practice of Mexican folk healing.
The exhibition will be up through October.
“Curanderismo: Healing and Ritual” is the first exhibition in the United States to focus on the traditional healing practice begun in rural Mexico and spread to the Southwest United States and beyond.
The UNM course, Traditional Medicine without Borders: Curanderismo in the Southwest and Mexico, will be offered July 15 – 26.

KUNM's Gift of Community Auction (5/17/2013 - 5/30/2013)

Fri, 17 May 2013 06:00:00 GMT

Start Date:	5/17/2013
End Date:	5/30/2013	End Time:	Midnight

KUNM Gift of Community Auction is an online auction which raises funds to help keep KUNM on the air. Our auction connects donors of goods, services and experiences including many that relate to UNM with the KUNM-FM audience and interested bidders worldwide. You can sign up to bid at www.biddingforgood.com/kunm and donations are always welcome!