- Professor Rebecca Schreiber of the UNM American Studies Department was awarded the Frank Jewett Mather award for art criticism by the College Art Association for her book The Undocumented Everyday: Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility. This is the most significant award in art criticism. UC-Berkeley Professor Julia Bryan-Wilson also won the award this year for Fray: Art and Textile Politics.
- The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum has acquired Georgia O’Keeffe’s 1928 oil painting, Ritz Tower. Created during her rise to art world stardom, the work captures the iconic building at night. Ritz Tower will be on view in the Museum’s galleries beginning on March 1, 2019. A special Museum members-only preview event celebrating Ritz Tower will take place at the Museum on Thursday, February 28, 2019.
- The International Shakespeare Center Santa Fe (ISC) is taking over operations of the Adobe Rose Theatre (ART) in Santa Fe. ART will produce two plays a year at the newly name venue, The Swan.
- The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) has been awarded $434,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the planning of a new Native Arts Research Center at IAIA focusing on the advancement of contemporary Native arts and culture, including not only the care of collections and records, but support for training via internships, fellowships, research support, and guidance in indigenous-centered methodologies.
- Director of the New Mexico History Museum Andrew Wulf was fired.
- Meow Wolf reopened this month with an updated installation featuring new artwork from Haley Greenfeather English, Frank Buffalo Hyde, and illustrator of The Magazine‘s 2018 Santa Fe Women Series Janell Langford.
