WHEN: September 26 through February 1, 2009
Georgia O'Keeffe captivated the art world with her iconic paintings, and she had an equally powerful pull on leading photographers of her day, including her husband, Alfred Stieglitz as well as Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, Laura Gilpin, Irving Penn and Andy Warhol. The photographs they took of O'Keeffe contributed to the public's perception of her as one of the world's most famous women artists. Through paintings, architectural studies and photographs, this exhibit explores how the camera helped shape O'Keefe's artistic reputation and celebrity.

WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Friday, October 10 and Saturday, October 11
One of the country's premier ballet companies, Pacific Northwest Ballet travels from Seattle to Santa Fe to perform works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, including three excerpts from Balanchine's Jewels and Robbins' In the Night.

WHEN: Now through January 4, 2009
The city's cutting-edge contemporary art space hosts its seventh international biennial, Lucky Number Seven, curated by Lance Fung. More than 20 artists from across the globe created work for this biennial that is exhibited at SITE as well at off-site venues around the city.

WHEN: October 18, 2008 through January 18, 2009
With New Mexico's emergence as an international film production center, it makes perfect sense to bring an exhibit to Santa Fe highlighting 36 original costumes made for acclaimed period film productions including Sense and Sensibility, Out of Africa, Gosford Park and Titanic. The evening wear, wedding dresses and other magnificent couture in this exhibit, representing fashion from the 16th through the 20th centuries, are on loan from Cosprop, London's renowned costume house.

WHEN: October 19 through June 6, 2010
Cochiti and Santo Domingo pueblos may be separated by the Rio Grande, but for centuries they shared ceramic traditions. Influences from the outside world, however, brought major changes that resulted in the pueblos pursuing markedly different paths in their pottery styles. With 250 pieces from the museum's collection, this exhibit illustrates those differences, and provides a fascinating look at the history and communities of these pueblos.

WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, November 15
For more than 30 years, this acclaimed string quartet has wowed audiences with adventurous innovations in world music, contemporary music and multimedia presentations.

WHEN: November 21, 2008 through October 25, 2009
This exhibit, honoring Santa Fe's 400th anniversary, celebrates the many photographers who have focused their lenses on Santa Fe, contributing to a visual record of Santa Fe history and adding to Santa Fe's world-famous mystique.
Through the Lens showcases dozens of photographs taken since 1850. And while the works reveal that acclaimed photographers across the decades have captured Santa Fe on film from many fascinating viewpoints, they also illustrate just how powerful a pull Santa Fe has exerted on the imaginations of photographers.
A series of public lectures related to Through the Lens are planned throughout the exhibit's duration.

WHEN: May 25 through October 26
When Hispanic traders forged the Old Spanish Trail between Santa Fe and Los Angeles in 1829, they created the first successful Hispano trading effort to connect the Mexican frontier provinces of New Mexico and California. The trail evolved from a series of routes used earlier by indigenous people that crossed what are now the states of New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California. Through artifacts and illustrated wall panels, this exhibit traces the fascinating history of one of the country's least known trails, which once served as one of the region's most important pack mule trading trails.

WHEN: May 11, 2008 through January 4, 2009
This exhibit explores how storytelling through comics and comic-inspired art expresses the contemporary Native American experience. Examples of rock art, ledger art and ceramics link early Native American narrative art forms to 20th-century comic strips and comic books. This early work is paired with contemporary Native American work to reveal new ways in which native artists are working with comic art to express life in the 21st century.

WHEN: May 18, 2008 through April 19, 2009
When the railroad began serving New Mexico in 1880, it brought a steady stream of tourists eager to purchase an array of items invented purely for them by Pueblo and Navajo artisans collaborating with non-Indian dealers. Thus did the curio trade begin, expanding to include a network of cottage industries, retail venues and a booming mail order business that all had far-reaching consequences into the 20th century. This exhibit examines the artists and their artifacts, as well as the innovations and traditions that contributed to New Mexico's complex and controversial curio trade.

WHEN: June 29 through January 4, 2009
100 chairs, benches and stools made around the world are displayed in this exhibit, celebrating the genius of Alexander Girard's designs and the Girard 25th Anniversary Year. This homage to the many ways we sit includes an African throne, a pair of German wedding chairs and a Mirra office chair designed by Herman Miller. This show should enthrall even the most avid couch potatoes.

WHEN: December 16, 2007 through June 7, 2009
Native Couture explores the history of Santa Fe style, showcasing jewelry and clothing made during the 1880s through today. Built around the collection of Santa Fe style-setter Dicky Pfaelzer, whose children donated her collection to the museum in 2005, Native Couture explores how Native American, Hispano and Western Frontier aesthetic traditions influenced the evolution of Santa Fe style in fashion and jewelry design.

WHEN: 7 a.m. to noon Saturdays and Tuesdays
Visit the famous Santa Fe Farmers Market, now in its brand new building, for a celebration of northern New Mexico's unique culture, history and food. You'll find delicious locally grown fruits and vegetables, organic chicken, lamb and beef, handmade jams, herbal products, and other items. Enjoy live music, kids activities and special events throughout the year. Savor a hot cup of coffee, breakfast burrito and pastries at our concession stand as you experience this 40-year-old local institution.