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DESCRIPTION:May 14 - Dec 31\, 2026\nWho are real New Mexicans? Drawn from t
 he collection of the Albuquerque Museum\, the show “Common Ground” giv
 es a richly inclusive answer. Virtually without exception\, the works scor
 e high for sheer aesthetic appeal as well as for the stories they tell. Re
 ceived commentary frames the New Mexican experience in terms of three cult
 ures: the Native American\, the Spanish/Mexican\, and the Anglo-American. 
 But the polyphony—now dissonant\, now harmonious—is vastly more comple
 x. Exhibited by the entrance\, the 2020 triptych Guerra y Tierra (War and 
 Earth)\, by Brandon Maldonado and Vicente Telles\, fuses Aztec and Colonia
 l imagery in a blazing memorial of the clash between Moctezuma and Cortés
  but does not take sides. Elsewhere\, paired pieces hung without regard to
  timelines or “schools” strike sparks across centuries and cultures\, 
 never making the same point twice. There’s one Georgia O’Keeffe\, a ma
 sterpiece that may be new to you. There’s more than one lovingly carved 
 San Isidro Labrador\, the peasant’s friend. Over here\, a nobly sentimen
 tal portrait in oil of a coyote keeps company with a funky glassy-eyed coy
 ote of rough\, painted wood. Over yonder\, an austere\, even forbidding po
 rtrait by Andrew Wyeth (dating to the year of Christina’s World) contras
 ts with another\, more fanciful yet no less mysterious\, by his sister Hen
 rietta Wyeth. Elsewhere\, depictions of Southwestern landscapes\, towns\, 
 and personalities startle the eye with incidental or perhaps deliberate in
 timations of El Greco\, Cézanne\, Magritte\, Van Gogh\, Manet\, Dalí\, B
 enton\, and Grandma Moses. Wall texts exemplary for content\, clarity\, an
 d brevity alert the reader to expats like D. H. Lawrence and his colorful 
 female entourage of three. Be on the lookout\, too\, for three studly\, in
 tertwined “Graces” in denim. A boldly metallic “Atomic Thunderbird
 ” hurtles the timeless Indigenous symbol into the nuclear age. For the r
 ecord\, the Trinity Site\, where the first A-bomb went off\, lies just a s
 hort 120 miles from this place.
LOCATION:Albuquerque Museum\, 2000 Mountain Rd NW\, Albuquerque\, NM 87104\
 , United States
SUMMARY:Common Ground: Art in New Mexico
URL;VALUE=TEXT:https://airmail.news/arts-intel/events/common-ground-art-in-
 new-mexico
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