IN THE WINGS
Music
Madame Butterfly St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave. Opera West! presents Puccini's tragic love story; 6 p.m. Oct. 22; 2 and 6 p.m. Oct. 23, and 4 p.m. Oct. 24; $20-$200; 773-720-9354, operawest.org. Yefim Bronfman Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. Piano recital of Beethoven and Chopin sonatas; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22; $35-$115; performancesantafe .org/7432/7433. Fire Shut Up in My Bones Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. The Met Live in HD presents Terence Blanchard's adaptation of Charles M. Blow's memoir; 11 a.m. Oct. 23, 6 p.m. encore; $22-$28; lensic.org/events/ fire-shut-up/#book. La Traviata National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth St., Albuquerque Opera Southwest's 49th season opener; 2 p.m. Oct. 24 and 31, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27 and 29; $21-$103; 505-724-4771, operasouthwest.org. Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Duane Smith Auditorium, 1300 Diamond Dr., Los Alamos Schubert and Howard Ferguson octets and Britten's arrangement for Purcell's Chacony for Strings; 7 p.m. Oct. 26; $35; losalamosconcert.org/tickets.html.
American String Quartet
Taos Center For The Arts, 133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 575-758-2052 Beethoven quartets 5:30 p.m. Oct. 29; music of Brahms, Shostakovich, and Mozart; 5:30 p.m. Oct. 30; $25-$50; tcataos.org/tickets.
Heartless Bastards
Tumbleroot Brewery and Distillery, 2791 Agua Fria St. Erika Wennerstrom-fronted Cincinnati blues rock quartet; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 31; $25; 505-886-1251, tickets.holdmyticket.com/tickets/374762. Jerusalem Quartet Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. With Pinchas Zukerman and Amanda Forsyth; music of Bruckner, Dvořák, and Brahms; 7:30 p.m. Nov. 2; $35-$115; secure.performancesantafe.org/ 7439. Santa Fe Pro Musica Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. Fall Orchestra Concerts, music of Reena Esmail, Haydn, and Tchaikovsky; 7 p.m. Nov. 6; 3 p.m. Nov. 7; $25-$90; tickets.sfpromusica.org/7360/7420. Bob Fox Sextet SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 505-316-3596 Fox on piano, Bobby Shew on trumpet, Alex Murzyn of saxophone, Terry Burns on bass, and John Trentacosta on drums; 5 p.m. Nov. 12; $25-$30; holdmyticket.com/event/382524 and at the door; santafemusiccollective.org. Nacha Mendez Trio Bank of America Theatre, National Hispanic Cultural Center, 1701 Fourth St., Albuquerque Local singer-songwriter; 7:30 p.m. Nov. 18; reception and conversation with folklorist Nasario García 6:30 p.m.; $17; box office, 505-724-4771.
Raúl Di Blasio
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. Argentine pianist; 8 p.m. Nov. 17; $60-$120; tickets.lensic.org/7655/7656. Brett Dennen St. Francis Auditorium,New Mexico Museum of Art, 107 W. Palace Ave. Folk/pop singer-songwriter; 7:30 p.m. Nov. 20; $32-$144; 505-886-1251, holdmyticket.com/ tickets/379179. Lucinda Williams Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. On tour in support of her new album, Good Souls Better Angels; 7:30 p.m. Jan. 21; $54-$74; tickets.lensic.org/7590/7591.
Judy Collins
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. German Lopez opens; 7:30 p.m. March 7; $44-$59; tickets.lensic.org/7707/7708.
Theater/Dance
Potted Potter Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. British actors Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner's parody of Harry Potter books; 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26; $35-$59; lensic.org/events/potted_potter. Godspell Santa Fe Woman’s Club, 1616 Old Pecos Trail Millennial Music Makers presents Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak's 1971 musical; 7 p.m. Oct. 28-30, Nov. 5, and 6; 4 p.m. Nov. 7; $12 and $25; showtix4u.com/event-details/56796. Other Desert Cities The Lab Theater, 1213 Parkway Dr., 505-424-1601 New Mexico Actors Lab presents Jon Robin Baltz's 2011 family drama; 7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays Oct. 28-Nov. 14; $25; nmactorslab .com; masks required. The Thanksgiving Play Santa Fe Playhouse, 142 E. De Vargas St., 505-988-4262 Larissa Fast Horse's satire; Thursdays-Sundays Oct. 28-Nov. 20; $15 and $25; santafeplayhouse .org/events/the-thanksgiving-play. Seventh Annual Day of the Dead Community Celebration Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, 505-424-1601 Aztec Dancers, bilingual cuento, Prietita y la Llorona, Teatro Paraguas Orchestra, poetry, and storytelling; 7 p.m. Nov. 2; call for reservations; donations accepted.
Memories of Doña Tules
Teatro Paraguas, 3205 Calle Marie, 505-424-1601 A flamenco performance by Companía Chuscales y Mina Fajardo; 7 p.m. Nov. 5 and 6; $20 in advance, $25 at the door; teatroparaguasnm.org. American Ballet Theatre Studio Company Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. Classical and neoclassical choreography; 7:30 p.m. Nov. 11; $29-$59; tickets.lensic.org/7599/7605.
Kevin Spencer
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. Storytelling, stage magic, and audience participation that's designed as a sensory-friendly performance; 2 p.m. Nov. 14; no charge; tickets.lensic.org/7600/7606.
Rhythmic Circus Holiday Shuffle
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. Tap dance ensemble; 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30; $35-$115; secure.performancesantafe.org/7442/7442.
Seth Meyers
Lensic Performing Arts Center, 211 W. San Francisco St. Stand-up show; 7 p.m. Dec. 21; tickets start at $60; tickets.lensic.org/7601/7608.
Events, Etc.
9th Annual Cine Magnífico Albuquerque Latino Film Festival Guild Cinema and 3405 Central Ave., NE In person and virtual screenings, including Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante's 2019 political drama, La Llorona and American filmmaker Lisette Feliciano's 2021 coming-of-age drama, Women is losers; Oct. 22-24; $15-$45; cinemagnifico.com. Santa Fe Comic Con Buffalo Thunder Hotel and Casino, 20 Buffalo Thunder Tr., 877-848-6337 Actors, entertainers, comic book artists, vendors, karaoke, and dances; 4-8 p.m. Oct. 22, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Oct. 23, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 24; $5-$250; santafecomiccon.com/events. Midtown Moving Forward Block Party Santa Fe Art Institute Visual Arts Center, Midtown Campus, 1600 St. Michael’s Dr. Video workshops, site-wide scavenger hunt for adults and children, film screenings, bike giveaways, food, and music; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 23; no charge.
Fourth Annual Santa Fe Spirits of New Mexico
El Rancho de las Golondrinas, 334 Los Pinos Rd., 505-471-2261 Storytelling with a Halloween atmosphere lit by lantern light and campfires; 5-9 p.m. Oct. 23; $6 and $8, 12 and under no charge; tickets .holdmyticket.com/tickets/381760. 12th Annual Santa Fe Jewish Film Festival CCA Cinema, Center for Contemporary Arts, 1050 Old Pecos Trail The Conductor, Bernadette Wegenstein's film on Marin Alsop, the first woman to serve as music director of a major orchestra; in-theater screening 2-4 p.m. Oct. 24; brunch noon-2 p.m.; virtual viewing 2 p.m. Oct. 24 through 10 p.m. Oct. 29 (email marcia@santafejff.org for screener link); $10-$15; 505-216-0672, santafejff.org/tickets.
Country No More: Rediscovering the Landscapes of John James Audubon Collectedworksbookstore.com/events Virtual book launch with author Krista Elrick, plus contributors Mary Anne Redding and Gregory Nobles; 6 p.m. Oct. 26.
The Move Lab
SITE Santa Fe, 1606 Paseo de Peralta, 505-316-3596 Immersive, improvisational personal movement workshop; 6 p.m. Nov. 7, performance 6:30 p.m.; performance only $18, workshop and performance $24; sitesantafe.org/event/the-move-lab. Virtual Vivace Santa Fe Opera Guild Book Club Guildsofsfo.org/SantaFe/Events.html A discussion of Joseph Volpe's memoir, The Toughest Show on Earth: My Rise and Reign at the Metropolitan Opera; online 6 p.m. Nov. 8; 5:50 p.m. check-in; no charge; register online; copies available at Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St., and online at collectedworksbookstore.com. Fred Harvey History Weekend & Foodie Dinner and Auction New Mexico History Museum and La Fonda Hotel Talks at the museum and traditional Fred Harvey-inspired dinner and auction; Nov. 12-15 (suggested donations of $40 and $80); eventbrite. com/e/fred-harvey-history-weekend-2021tickets-136867762161; attend in person or online; email fredharveyhistory@gmail.com for more information.
Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival
Santa Fe Community Convention Center, 201 W. Marcy St. Works created from discarded/repurposed materials; 5-9 p.m. Nov. 12; opening night screening of a documentary on the plastic waste crisis, with presentations, 6-7 p.m.; $5, festival: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Nov. 13 and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Nov. 14; free admission; recyclesantafe.org. 200th Anniversary of the Santa Fe Trail Multiple venues Including visit to historic Kozlowski's Trading Post and Stagecoach Stop (Pecos National Historical Park), screening of Prairie Hollow Productions' The Road to Santa Fe (New Mexico History Museum Auditorium, and gala dinner (La Fonda Hotel), email pamnajdowski@yahoo.com for meal reservations; Nov. 13 and 14; santafetrail200.org/ calendar-of-events.
AT THE GALLERIES
The Art Club 225 Canyon Rd., Suite 2, 505-795-2295 Jeanine Allen: Oil & Pastel Painting; through Oct. 30. Aurelia Gallery 414 Canyon Rd., 505-501-2915 Being and There, photographs by Joseph Lawton; through Oct. 24. Blue Rain Gallery 544 S. Guadalupe St., 505-954-9902 Take a Closer Look, paintings by Jim Vogel; through Saturday, Oct. 16. Convergence Gallery 634 Canyon Rd., 505-986-1245 The Stillness of Light, watercolors by Christy Henspetter; through Thursday, Oct. 21. Edition One Gallery 728 Canyon Rd., 505-570-5385 A Place Like No Other, photographs by Harvey Maisel; through October 30. Ellsworth Gallery 215 E. Palace Ave., 505-989-7900 Urban Native, paintings by Everton Tsosie; through Nov. 7. Giacobbe-Fritz Fine Art 702 Canyon Rd., 505-986-1156 Having Wings, sculpture by Geoffrey Gorman; through Oct. 22. Globe Fine Art 727 Canyon Rd., 505-989-3888 Instances of Time, paintings by Richard Potter; through Nov. 1. LewAllen Galleries 1613 Paseo de Peralta, 505-988-3250 Worlds Within, paintings by Sharon Booma and Sammy Peters; through Oct. 30. Paintings by Ben Aronson: New York Minutes and Jason Kowalski: Rural Grandeur; through Nov. 13.
Meyer Gallery
225 Canyon Rd., 800-779-7387 Man vs. Machine, paintings by Jacob A. Pheiffer; through Thursday, Oct. 21. New Concept Gallery 610 Canyon Rd., 505-795-7570 Shared Histories, paintings by Aaron Karp and Reg Loving; through Nov. 6.
Obscura Gallery
1405 Paseo de Peralta, 505-577-6708 Rania Matar: SHE, photographs; through October.
MUSEUMS & ART SPACES Santa Fe Art Vault
540 S. Guadalupe St., 505-428-0681 From the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation collection: Networked Nature, digital and media works; Saint Somebody: Technologies of the Divine, digital, contemporary Southwestern, and art of the Spanish Americas; through April 2022. Open Tuesdays-Saturdays.
Coe Center for the Arts
1590-B Pacheco St., 505-983-6372 The Virtual Coe: online collection of African, Asian, European, Native American, and Oceanic objects; coeartscenter.org. El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe 555 Camino de la Familia, 505-992-0591 Voices Along a North/South Corridor, U.S., El Caribe, and Latin American works from the permanent collection; 3-6 p.m. Fridays, Mondays, and Wednesdays through the year; $5. El Rancho de las Golondrinas 334 Los Pinos Rd., 505-471-2261 Living history museum located on 200 acres, dedicated to the history, heritage, and culture of 18th- and 19th-century New Mexico; golondrinas.org. Open for self-guided tours Mondays-Fridays through Oct. 29. Georgia O’Keeffe Museum 217 Johnson St., 505-946-1000 Contemporary Voices: Josephine Halvorson, paintings; through March 28, 2022. Core exhibits: Becoming Georgia O’Keeffe, Georgia O’Keeffe at Lake George, 1918-2928, O’Keeffe’s New Mexico, My New Yorks, Ritz Tower, Seeing Beyond/Ver más allá, The Natural World, and Travels; okeeffemuseum.org. Open Thursdays-Mondays. IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 108 Cathedral Place, 888-922-4242 2020/2021 IAIA Senior Exhibition: Manifesting Our Daniel McCoy Jr.: Experimental exPRESSion, mural; through Feb. 20, 2022 • Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology, international exhibit; through July 10, 2022; iaia.edu/mocna. Closed Tuesdays. Meow Wolf 1352 Rufina Circle, 505-395-6369 The House of Eternal Return, interactive installation; meowwolf.com/visit/santa-fe. Closed Tuesdays.
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
710 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1269 Collecting Jewelry: Curator H.P. Mera’s Trip to Navajo Country in 1932, items from the collection; through Dec. 1 • A Place in Clay, work by 2020 Living Treasures award winner, Jemez Pueblo potter Kathleen Wall; through May 16, 2022 • Clearly Indigenous: Native Visions Reimagined in Glass, including works by Dale Chihuly and Preston Singletary; through June 16, 2022 • Birds: Spiritual Messengers of the Skies, paintings and pottery depicting the roles birds play in Native culture and history; through July 2022; indianartsandculture.org. Open daily. Museum of International Folk Art 706 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-476-1200 Glass: Selections from the Collection; through Jan. 30, 2022 • Yōkai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan, Muromachi Period scroll paintings, Edo Period woodblock prints, and contemporary folk art; through August 2022. Long term exhibits: Música Buena: Hispano Folk Music of New Mexico, exploring the genre’s roots • Multiple Visions: A Common Bond, works in the Alexander Girard Wing • Lloyd’s Treasure Chest: Folk Art in Focus, thematic displays from the permanent collection • #mask: Creative Responses to the Global Pandemic, fashionable and political face masks; moifa.org. Open daily.
Museum of Spanish Colonial Art
750 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-982-2226 Trails, Rails, and Highways: How Trade Transformed the Art of Spanish New Mexico, works from the collection; through August 2022 • PuebloSpanish Revival Style: The Director’s Residence and the Architecture of John Gaw Meem, highlighting aspects of the museum’s architectural features; through Oct. 1, 2022 • Youth Gallery, Youth Market artists’ works; spanishcolonial.org. New Mexico History Museum/ Palace of the Governors 105 W. Palace Ave., 505-476-5100 Looking Back: Reflecting on Collections, works reflecting the museum’s collecting history; through Sunday, Oct. 17 • Working on the Railroad, archival images from the Palace of the Governors and the Library of Congress; through Monday, Oct. 18 • In Search of Domínguez and Escalante: Photographing the 1776 Expedition through the Southwest, works by Siegfried Halus and Greg MacGregor; through June 19, 2022. Core exhibits: Palace Seen and Unseen: A Convergence of History and Archaeology, documents, photographs, and artifacts • The Massacre of Don Pedro Villasur, graphic art by Turner Avery Mark-Jacobs • The First World War, ephemera relating to New Mexicans’ contributions • Setting the Standard: The Fred Harvey Company and Its Legacy, objects from the collection and photographs from Palace of the Governors archives • Telling New Mexico: Stories From Then and Now, artifacts, photographs, films, and oral histories; nmhistorymuseum.org. Open daily.
New Mexico Museum of Art
107 W. Palace Ave., 505-476-5072 Southwest Rising: Contemporary Art and the Legacy of Elaine Horwitch; through Jan. 2, 2022 • Storytellers: Narrative Art of the West, works from the museum collection; through Feb. 13, 2022 • Go West Said a Small Voice: Gustave Baumann and Dreams of New Mexico, examining works influenced by mission churches and Pueblos; through Feb. 13, 2022 • Poetic Justice: Judith F. Baca, Mildred Howard, and Jaune Quick-to-SeeSmith, works by the muralist, the installation artist, and the painter; through June 19, 2022 (see story, Page 16); nmartmuseum.org. Open daily. Santa Fe Botanical Garden 715 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-471-9103 A living museum on 14 acres; santafebotanical garden.org. Open Thursdays-Mondays.
SITE Santa Fe
1606 Paseo de Peralta, 505-316-3596 Multi-sensory installations, Creative Residencies (see story, Page 20): Johnny Ortiz, through Oct. 24 • Oswaldo Maciá: New Cartographies of Smell Migration/Santa Fe; through October • SITElab 15: Joanna Keane Lopez: Land Craft Theatre, through Jan. 9; sitesantafe.org. Open Thursdays-Sundays. Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian 704 Camino Lejo, Museum Hill, 505-982-4636 Long term: Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry, devoted to Diné and Pueblo traditions • Medicinal Healer, An Artist to Remember: Charlie Willeto; folk-art carvings; wheelwright.org. Open Tuesdays-Saturdays. Albuquerque Albuquerque Museum 2000 Mountain Rd., NW, 505-243-7255 We Lead, Others Follow, works of 19th- and 20thcentury female photographers; through Nov. 14 • Recent History Acquisitions, historical objects; through Nov. 28 • Layered Meanings, collage, assemblage, and montage from the permanent collection; through Feb. 20, 2022 • Cannupa Hanska Luger, multidisciplinary works; through July 1, 2022; cabq.gov/culturalservices/albuquerque-museum/ plan-your-visit/admission-ticketing. Closed Mondays. National Hispanic Cultural Center 1701 Fourth St., SW, Albuquerque, 505-246-2261 Southwest of Eden: The Art of Adam and Eve, works from the Joyce Kaser collection; through Sunday, Oct. 17 • ¡Mira! Nuestra Arquitectura: An Architectural Journey, the history of NHCC”s past, present, and future; through December • Mira, Mira on the Wall: Reflection on 20 Years of Exhibitions; through J an. 2, 2022 • Aquí Estamos: New Selections from the Permanent Collection; through Feb. 27, 2022; nhccnm.org. Open Tuesdays-Sundays. UNM Art Museum 203 Cornell Dr., NE, 505-277-4001 Visionary Modern: Raymond Jonson Trilogies, Cycles, and Portraits, retrospective exhibit; through Nov. 24; artmuseum.unm.edu/exhibition. Open Tuesdays-Saturdays.
Taos Harwood Museum of Art
238 Ledoux St., 575-758-9826 Remote Possibilities: Digital Landscapes from the Thoma Foundation Collection, International exhibit of works by John Gerrard, Kent Monkman, Bruce Nauman, Jennifer Steinkamp, Leo Villareal, and Marina Zurkow; through Feb. 27, 2022. Core exhibit: Northern New Mexico Hispanic works; harwoodmuseum.org. Open Thursdays-Sundays.
La Hacienda de los Martinez
708 Hacienda Way, 575-758-1000 Northern New Mexico-style Spanish colonial “great house”; taoshistoricmuseums.org. Open daily. Millicent Rogers Museum 1504 Millicent Rogers Rd., 575-758-2462 Historical collections of Native American jewelry and paintings; Hispanic textiles, metalwork, sculpture; and contemporary jewelry. Open daily; millicentrogers.org. Taos Art Museum at Fechin House 227 Paseo del Pueblo Norte, 575-758-2690 When I Was Six I Was a Horse, retrospective exhibit of Peggy McGivern paintings; through Sunday, Oct. 17 • Through the Eyes of Fechin, paintings by Nicolai Fechin, through Jan. 9, 2022 • From the Permanent Collection: Taos Society of Artists, including paintings by Joseph Henry Sharp, E. Irving Couse, Oscar E. Berninghaus, and Bert Phillips; through Jan 9, 2022; xtaosartmuseum.org. Closed Mondays.