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| - This museum is a great fixture in the Southwest arts scene. A little on the small side, but hey, can you believe this museum wasn't founded until 1999?! With that said, it's a wittle baby in museum-years. Considering most of the biggie modern art museums came into age in the 1930s and 1940s, this stark temple to modern art is quite a bold statement for our young state.
Exhibits are edgy and provocative. In the past year they had a Warhol retrospective, a Mayan-inspired art deconstruction, and a photo exhibit on illegal immigration.
Thumbs up to the gift shop. RAD chotchkie alert - kitschy and unique coffee table books, architecture and pop culture finds abound here. I even got a friend some weiner dog salt/pepper shakers here!!
PS - SMoCA Nights is a quarterly, kick-ass see and be seen event with pretty people galore, fashion, local artists, DJs, food, drink and art. Kind of like a compressed First Friday but with more of a clubby feel.
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