Review: New Hong Hong Exhibition at Asia Society Texas Center
At Asia Society Texas Center in Houston, Hong Hong’s massive, experimental paper works fuse nature, craft, painting, and the sublime.
Arizona Poet Natalie Diaz Receives 2021 Pulitzer Prize
Arizona-based Indigenous, Latino, and queer poet Natalie Diaz earns 2021 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Postcolonial Love Poem.
Jun 18
Review: Thirtieth Anniversary Show at Richard Levy Gallery
Sallie Scheufler curates compelling works by contemporary Albuquerque artists in celebration of Richard Levy Gallery’s thirtieth anniversary.
Jun 17
Currents New Media Festival 2021 Adapts to Hybrid Format
Santa Fe-based 2021 Currents New Media Festival embraces COVID-19 protocols to produce a new hybrid program for remote and local audiences.
Jun 17
Your Weekly 5×5: June 17, 2021
From the Stubborn Influence of Painting at BMoCA to Rose B. Simpson at Nevada Museum of Art, our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days.
Jun 16
Egypt in the Eyes of Jean Pascal Sébah at 5. Gallery
Egypt at Santa Fe’s 5. Gallery captures the intersection of modern photography, middle-class tourism, and the allure of pharaonic monuments through the legacy of Jean Pascal Sébah.
Jun 15
Dust Specks on the Sea / 516 Arts [sponsored]
Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti at 516 Arts features sculptural works by twenty-seven artists from Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Haiti.
Jun 14
Arizona Photographers Talk About Their 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships
Arizona photographers Sama Alshaibi and Stephen Marc, 2021 Guggenheim fellows, discuss how the program will advance their work.
Jun 11
New Mexico’s Long-Delayed Poet Laureate Program Striding Along
Levi Romero, the inaugural New Mexico poet laureate, and the newly created New Mexico State Library Poetry Center are accepting submissions for a poetry anthology through July 1, 2021.
Jun 10
Your Weekly 5×5: Lauren’s Picks
Lauren Tresp takes over the 5x5 this week with her five picks of things she's been reading, listening to, watching, or otherwise inspired by.
Jun 10
Laura Shill: Future Self Storage at Denver’s Leon Gallery
Laura Shill’s Future Self Storage at Denver’s Leon Gallery features 9,000 feet of pink and red tubes that combine humor with heartache and the sensual.
Jun 09
Scottsdale Plans $27.3 Million Renovation to Civic Center Mall in Old Town
The City of Scottsdale near Phoenix, Arizona is about to launch $27.3 million in Civic Center Mall renovations, with significant implications for local arts and culture.
Jun 08
Nancy Fleming at Axle Contemporary: Socially Distant Home-Feels
Nancy Flemings’s exhibition Good Will Prevail at Axle Contemporary uses domestic textile kitsch to evoke the home-feels of pandemic life.
Jun 07
Trapdoor Projects Gallery Burns Twice in Ten Days
Trapdoor Projects, an art gallery near downtown Albuquerque, caught fire twice in under two weeks. Gallery owner Katie Doyle suspects arson. Albuquerque Fire Rescue is investigating.
Jun 04
Denver Botanic Gardens Completes Freyer-Newman Center
The Denver Botanic Gardens’s $40-million Freyer-Newman Center, with its three art galleries, establishes itself as fertile ground for exhibitions.
Jun 03
Your Weekly 5×5: June 3, 2021
From Nathaniel Mary Quinn at Almine Rech to Sundance Film Festival's Indigenous Short Film Tour, our top five arts and culture picks in the southwest for the next five days.
Jun 10
SPREAD 7.0 Virtual Voting / SITE Santa Fe [sponsored]
SITE Santa Fe Announces virtual voting for SPREAD 7.0, a community micro-grant for New Mexico artists.
Jun 03
Southwest Art News: June 2021
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Jun 02
Albuquerque’s KiMo Theatre to Reopen October 2021
KiMo Theatre in Albuquerque repaired exterior damage sustained during the George Floyd protests and changed the operation of its art gallery.
May 31
Tulsa Race Massacre Remembered in Sarah Ahmad’s Installation
The Tulsa race massacre is memorialized at Oxley Nature Center in Sarah Ahmad’s The American Dream, a Greenwood Art Project-sponsored installation featuring a replica of a refugee tent.
May 28
Jason DeMarte Reimagines Paradise at Denver’s Rule Gallery
Jason DeMarte's Trappings of Arcadia at Denver’s Rule Gallery addresses the clash between nature and artificiality.
May 27
Your Weekly 5×5: May 27, 2021
From Ernesto Neto at Museum of Fine Arts Houston to the intersection of art and science at the Bonneville Salt Flats, our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days.
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