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Apr 14, 2013 - Mar 16, 2014
Cowboys Real and Imagined
New Mexico History Museum

When America needed hard workers, the cowboy was there. The job was dirty and difficult, low-paid and lowly regarded. But when an America torn by the Civil War needed a hero to unite its soul, the unassuming cowboy was an unlikely—and ultimately lasting—pick. Since riding out of Spanish horse culture, he’s been an itinerant hired hand, an outlaw, a movie star, a rodeo athlete, a radio yodeler, and a rhinestoned disco diva. He’s been Spanish, Mexican, African American, Anglo, male, female, straight, and gay. His image has been co-opted to sell trucks, beer, boots, beans, jeans, tires, cigarettes, leather couches, presidential candidates, and a lifestyle far beyond the means of real-life buckaroos. 

Using artifacts and photographs from its wide-ranging collections, along with loans from more than 100 people and museums, Cowboys Real and Imagined (April 14, 2013, through March 16, 2014) blends a chronological history of Southwestern cowboys with the rise of a manufactured mystique as at home on city streets as it is in a stockyard. Augmented by archival footage, oral histories, musical performances, and a programming series that includes showings of classic Western movies filmed in New Mexico, the exhibition anchors the cowboy story in New Mexico, a place that gave birth to the real thing and held onto it longer than most other states.


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Apr 14, 2013
What’s New Contemporary Native Artist Speak
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Pottery with Jody Naranjo, Russell Sanchez, and Yellowbird Samora

Pottery with Jody Naranjo, Santa Clara Pueblo; Russell Sanchez, San Ildefonso Pueblo;  Yellowbird Samora, Taos Pueblo.Lecture Series start at 2pm in the MIAC theater, seating is limited. This speaker series highlights artists in our newest exhibit "What's New in New: Recent Recent Acquisitions"

This exhibition highlights new additions to the MIAC/LAB collections from recent years. The focus is on modern and contemporary Native art including paintings, monotypes, pottery and sculpture ranging from 1968 to 2012.

FREE admission for New Mexico residents on Sundays with ID, and always free admission for 16 and younger, and MNMF members. 

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Apr 14, 2013
Grand Opening: Cowboys Real and Imagined
New Mexico History Museum
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Join us for a special day of music, refreshments, and family activities at the grand opening of Cowboys Real and Imagined on Sunday, April 14. At 2 pm, guest curator B. Byron Price, director of the Charles M. Russell Center for the Study of Art of the American West at the University of Oklahoma and director of the University of Oklahoma Press speaks on “The Making of a Cowboy Hero" in the History Museum Auditorium. Refreshments courtesy of the Women's Board of the Museum of New Mexico, live music by Bill Hearne from 3-5 pm, and hat-fitting demonstrations by J.D. Noble throughout the afternoon. Free with admission (Sundays free to NM residents).

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