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Studio Visit2026 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
Jake Trujillo: Neon Tonalist
With an electric palette and layered technique, Santa Fe–based painter Jake Trujillo gives familiar Southwest landscapes a surreal spin.
May 22, 2026
Field Report2026 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
Field Report: Gallup, New Mexico
New Mexico’s “Carbon City” celebrates Native arts and traditions, vibrant galleries, and public art, carving its own path beneath the tourist economy’s glare.
May 22, 2026
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Adobe Eternal
This summer, Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros brings together six artists working in adobe, tracing the material from ancestral building tradition to radical contemporary art practice.
May 22, 2026
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Uncontainable!: Here’s Your Primer on New Mexico’s Ever-Expanding Performing Arts Scene
From flamenco in Albuquerque to jazz in Taos, a guide to the visionary venues and companies shaping New Mexico's performing arts scene now.
May 22, 2026
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30 Years In, Keshet Dance Company Has Perfected the Generational Handoff
At the Albuquerque nonprofit, students become performers, family members become colleagues, and a community built on access and belonging continues to grow.
May 22, 2026
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516 Arts at 20: An Albuquerque Anchor Prepares for its Next Chapter
After twenty years at 516 Central Avenue SW in Albuquerque, 516 Arts marks a flagship anniversary with a move to a new, renovated space.
May 22, 2026
From the Editor2026 New Mexico Field Guide
From the Editors: New Mexico Field Guide 2026-27
This edition of the New Mexico Field Guide is an invitation to take in a dynamic year of New Mexico arts programming—and then experience it in motion.
May 22, 2026
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Forthcoming Nevada Museum is a Refuge for Endangered Species: Vegas and Reno’s Neon Signs
When Will Durham realized Nevada's iconic neon signs were going dark, he started collecting them. Decades later he's opening The Light Circus Nevada Neon Museum in Reno.
May 13, 2026
Beloved and Imperiled Christian Folk-Art Relic Salvation Mountain Gets a California Retrospective
A biographical show fortifies the legacy of visionary artist Leonard Knight in Ocotillo, California. If only his rainbow-hued magnum opus were as sturdy.
May 07, 2026
Southwest Art News: May 2026
IAIA fights another proposed federal funding elimination, Acoma Pueblo challenges AI data center developer, and more top Southwest art news for May 2026.
May 01, 2026
César Chávez Allegations Trigger Artwork Removals—and Concerns of Cultural Erasure
Before a recent fall from grace, Chávez was a rare Latino hero in Southwest public art. Now, arts leaders are asking how to de-center an icon without obscuring entire histories.
April 30, 2026
How Clowning Around is Cultivating a Small-Town Avant-Garde Scene in Moab, Utah
Ephemeral Collective's roving performance festival in Moab holds lessons in pooling resources to shape a tiny counterculture.
April 23, 2026
Can International Art Star Olafur Eliasson Provoke Urgency to Restore Great Salt Lake?
After decades of decline and political inaction at Great Salt Lake, Olafur Eliasson flies in with a temporary public art project. Can this art-world Hail Mary provoke positive change?
April 16, 2026
New Mural Guidelines in Phoenix May Support Local Artists—or Restrict Them
As Phoenix overhauls its mural directives, local artists are weighing how more structure could professionalize—or narrow—the field.
April 14, 2026
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Imprint: Zane Bennett Contemporary Art Sharpens the Lens on Printmaking
Marking its 20th year, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art launches Print Focus—a series spotlighting the publishers, workshops, and master printers behind the medium.
May 22, 2026
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Studio Visit2026 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
Jake Trujillo: Neon Tonalist
With an electric palette and layered technique, Santa Fe–based painter Jake Trujillo gives familiar Southwest landscapes a surreal spin.
May 22, 2026
Artist Lily Reeves Believes Neon is Magic—Can She Convert the Rest of Us?
Neon nearly died at the altar of the LED revolution. Phoenix-based artist Lily Reeves is working to resurrect it, with literal witchcraft.
May 14, 2026
Mother-Daughter Show in Arizona Surveys the Melding—and Mitosis—of Artistic Inheritance
In their first-ever joint show in Scottsdale, Beth Ames Swartz and her daughter Julianne Swartz draw from shared esoteric knowledge to astonishingly varied ends.
April 28, 2026
“I Was Told I Couldn’t Do That”: Jody Folwell’s Endless Pueblo Pottery Revolution
In the 1980s, Pueblo artist Jody Folwell jolted Santa Fe Indian Market with political ceramics. Amid her retrospective, she's already pushing toward the next sharp statement.
April 07, 2026
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
Evidence, Epistle, and the Evolutionary: A Response to the Works of Johannes Barfield
Poet Laura Neal discovers new roads in the collected works of Albuquerque-based artist Johannes Barfield exploring alternative states of being and imagining in Black culture.
March 20, 2026
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
Willie Lambert: Road Dog
Route 66 survives in fragments. In a handmade atlas, Willie Lambert pieces New Mexico's 500-mile stretch back together.
March 20, 2026
Studio VisitArizonaVol. 13 The Road
Alanna Airitam: Black Diamonds
Working in her Tucson, Arizona studio, artist Alanna Airitam counters cultural erasure with a photographic series highlighting the Chosen Few, the nation’s first racially integrated outlaw motorcycle club.
March 20, 2026
Exhibitions
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Looking Into the Time Horizon, There’s Doom and Gloom… But Also Hope
Into the Time Horizon, the largest exhibition ever mounted at the Nevada Museum of Art, addresses the accelerating climate crisis and ways we might combat it.
May 19, 2026
The Arizona Biennial 2026 Opens at TMA, Mapping the State’s Creative Range
Arizona Biennial 2026, juried by BAMPFA's Julie Rodrigues Widholm, opens May 22 with thirty-one artists working across the state. On view through September 27.
May 13, 2026
Sable Elyse Smith Unwinds the Clock on Race, Power, and the Carceral Machine
With disarming, familiar objects like coloring books and furniture, Sable Elyse Smith’s Clockwork at The Contemporary Austin exposes how race and the carceral system shape identity.
May 05, 2026
What Do You Get When Two Cows and a Conceptual Art Icon Walk Into a Tucson Gallery?
Clever conceit or curatorial cop-out? In Cassidy Araiza / Robert Barry / Jocko Weyland, experiment and open-endedness might be the objective.
April 21, 2026
The Context of Humanness: Yes &… at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Wants Proof of Life
Yes &..., curated by Tobias Fike and Donald Fodness, advocates for human ingenuity in the face of AI ascendance. But is that a sufficient curatorial framework?
April 02, 2026
Editor’s Picks: Southwest Contemporary’s Spring 2026 Exhibition Guide
Looking for a spiritual awakening this spring? Arts editor Natalie Hegert traces a visionary and esoteric throughline among thirty-seven of this season’s top exhibitions.
March 27, 2026
What Does Migration Look Like Outside Anti-Immigrant Crisis Narratives?
Tierras Reimaginadas: Migration at ASU Art Museum centers immigrant voices and reimagines migration across species, cultures, geographies, and time.
March 26, 2026
In Print
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Studio Visit2026 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
Jake Trujillo: Neon Tonalist
With an electric palette and layered technique, Santa Fe–based painter Jake Trujillo gives familiar Southwest landscapes a surreal spin.
May 22, 2026
Field Report2026 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
Field Report: Gallup, New Mexico
New Mexico’s “Carbon City” celebrates Native arts and traditions, vibrant galleries, and public art, carving its own path beneath the tourist economy’s glare.
May 22, 2026
Feature2026 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
Adobe Eternal
This summer, Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros brings together six artists working in adobe, tracing the material from ancestral building tradition to radical contemporary art practice.
May 22, 2026
Feature2026 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
Uncontainable!: Here’s Your Primer on New Mexico’s Ever-Expanding Performing Arts Scene
From flamenco in Albuquerque to jazz in Taos, a guide to the visionary venues and companies shaping New Mexico's performing arts scene now.
May 22, 2026
Feature2026 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
30 Years In, Keshet Dance Company Has Perfected the Generational Handoff
At the Albuquerque nonprofit, students become performers, family members become colleagues, and a community built on access and belonging continues to grow.
May 22, 2026
Feature2026 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
516 Arts at 20: An Albuquerque Anchor Prepares for its Next Chapter
After twenty years at 516 Central Avenue SW in Albuquerque, 516 Arts marks a flagship anniversary with a move to a new, renovated space.
May 22, 2026
From the Editor2026 New Mexico Field Guide
From the Editors: New Mexico Field Guide 2026-27
This edition of the New Mexico Field Guide is an invitation to take in a dynamic year of New Mexico arts programming—and then experience it in motion.
May 22, 2026
The Road
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Big Art, Hidden Vault, and More Tales from a Storied Strip of New Mexico Highway
From movie scenes to Scientology symbols, Jon Revett reflects on thirty-five years of traveling on the Conchas Highway, in a landscape of shifting cultural narratives.
May 08, 2026
The Office of Collecting and Design Leaves Las Vegas to Become a Roving Museum
Founder of the Office of Collecting and Design Jessica Oreck talks about the museum’s move into a trailer, her collecting origins, and how she meets her community on the road.
March 31, 2026
Tether
Through a tethered balloon camera, Anika Todd surveys Nevada's intertwined histories of speed, surveillance, and war.
March 20, 2026
Loneliness and Longing on Paco’s Trails
An archeologist seeks the carvings of a 20th-century sheepherder, tracing stories of lust and loss across a threatened landscape.
March 20, 2026
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Return of the Buffalo
On a road trip across the former rangelands of the American bison, Cannupa Hanska Luger envisions a new monument.
March 20, 2026
FeatureSouthwestVol. 13 The Road
Marfas Everywhere
A million-dollar gambit in New Mexico is one of many small-town projects chasing the fabled success of Marfa, Texas. Can it actually be replicated?
March 20, 2026
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
Evidence, Epistle, and the Evolutionary: A Response to the Works of Johannes Barfield
Poet Laura Neal discovers new roads in the collected works of Albuquerque-based artist Johannes Barfield exploring alternative states of being and imagining in Black culture.
March 20, 2026
