Albuquerque Sights

UNM Art Museum

north of Central Ave. entrance opposite Cornell Dr. SE Map It
University of New Mexico
Museum/Gallery
Fodor's Choice

Published 06/26/2017

Fodor's Review

University Art Museum features magnificent 20th- and 21st-century prints, as well as photos and paintings that rival the finest collections throughout the Southwest. Changing exhibits cull from more than 30,000 archived works, which include groundbreaking works by modernist giants such as Bridget Riley, Richard Diebenkorn, and Elaine DeKooning. Photography—Ansel Adams, Beaumont Newhall—is a particular strength, and provocative shows have featured immense prints, complemented with video projections and a range of mixed-media installations. Transcendentalist master Raymond Jonson's work, as well as other landmark acquisitions he made are displayed. Celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2013, a plan for a permanent collections gallery is afoot, which will allow more of their impressive holdings—a Picasso print, an O'Keeffe painting—to be seen regularly. Lectures and symposia, gallery talks, and guided tours are regularly scheduled.

Museum/Gallery