Art, music events, festivals in Santa Fe

Art and music-lovers will find much to do in Santa Fe this summer.

ART Santa Fe, a biennial contemporary art fair, will be held July 12-15, at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe in the city's Railyard district. The fair will feature artwork from Asia, Europe, Latin America and galleries in New York and elsewhere in the U.S.

Keynote presenter Thomas Krens, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, will be joined by architect Frank Gehry for a discussion of the Guggenheim Bilbao and the Guggenheim's new project in Abu Dhabi.

Santa Fe will also host a photography festival, PhotoArts Santa Fe, July 13-22, and the International Folk Art Market, July 14-15.

Indian Market, Santa Fe's biggest single event, bills itself as the largest show and sale of its kind, featuring the work of 1,200 artists from nearly 100 tribes, Aug. 18-19 on the Santa Fe Plaza.

Spanish Market showcases a sale of traditional Spanish Colonial art along with a juried show by contemporary Hispanic artists, July 28-29, also on the Santa Fe Plaza.

The city is also home to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, and the Museum of International Folk Art, as well as hundreds of galleries.

For music-lovers, Puccini's "La Boheme" opens the season for the Santa Fe Opera, June 29, with various productions running through Aug. 25. The city's annual Chamber Music Festival runs July 15-Aug. 20.

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