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
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
Eunika Rogers' Komorebi exhibition features original aspen paintings made with hand-harvested earth pigments and natural clay on canvas.
March 30, 2026
Tierras Reimaginadas: Migration at ASU Art Museum centers immigrant voices and reimagines migration across species, cultures, geographies, and time.
March 26, 2026
From Georgia O'Keeffe to Allan Houser, Santa Fe County has been home to artists whose work is inseparable from the land, culture, and communities that shaped it.
March 23, 2026
Through a tethered balloon camera, Anika Todd surveys Nevada's intertwined histories of speed, surveillance, and war.
March 20, 2026
An archeologist seeks the carvings of a 20th-century sheepherder, tracing stories of lust and loss across a threatened landscape.
March 20, 2026
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
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
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
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
Wagon tracks of the doomed Donner Party, detritus of present-day migration, football stadiums as future ruins—Sean J. Patrick Carney traces archeological strategies invoking the Southwest’s complicated past, present, and futures.
March 20, 2026
From the EditorVol. 13 The Road
Southwest Contemporary: The Road reconstitutes even the busiest Southwest arteries as byways that tether far-flung places and people.
March 20, 2026
The “largest art installation in the world” covers the land in Texas once shared by bison, Comanche, and their horses. As a memorial, it represents but does little to repair.
March 20, 2026
InterviewTexasVol. 13 The Road
Artist and activist Nansi Guevara on how art can help protect the Rio Grande Delta from colonial encroachment in Brownsville, Texas.
March 20, 2026
Phoenix Art Museum presents forty paintings by Eric Fischl, a New Yorker who seems magnetically drawn to the Valley of the Sun—in all its joy and strangeness.
March 20, 2026
Field ReportColoradoTravelVol. 13 The Road
Colorado’s “second city” has a rich and historic art scene, often overshadowed by the city’s contemporary connections to sports, tech, and the military.
March 20, 2026
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
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
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
In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 13: The Road, guest juror Aurora Tang reflects on the featured artists' works in terms of movement, progress, and possibility.
March 20, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
An older name for New Mexico anchors Moira Garcia’s mixed-media mapping of Nahua migration, cosmology, and return.
March 20, 2026
Denton-based new media artist Julie Libersat transforms everyday roadside objects into installations that challenge how we navigate public space, belonging, and access.
March 20, 2026
Nevada-based artist Luke Rizotto's multimedia, site-specific installations are vaporous portals into personal psychic pathways.
March 20, 2026
In her paintings of shimmering roadways, Utah-based artist Madeline Rupard reaches for the eternal.
March 20, 2026
Inspired by recurring trips to an almost-ghost town in Texas, Hannah Spector makes haunting multimedia installations.
March 20, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
For artist Carmen Selam, the road represents freedom, but also displacement. Her practice explores that tension using materials and imagery that speak to contemporary Indigenous experience.
March 20, 2026
Artist Jessica Sevilla renders poetics, satire, and political ecology into disorienting video collages that interrogate the commodification of ecosystems.
March 20, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
Transdisciplinary artist Adelaide Theriault maps medians, transition zones, and in-betweens through their highway art and roadside ditch field recordings.
March 20, 2026
Iran-born, Texas-based artist Vahid Valikhani photographs American roadsides, revealing friction in liminal zones.
March 20, 2026
Houston-based artist Verónica Gaona sculpts car parts, twisting and denting patriarchal notions of the American gestalt.
March 20, 2026
PhotographyArizonaVol. 13 The Road
Photographer and sculptor Liz Cohen visualizes "radically transformed bodies," revealing how labor reshapes machines and people.
March 20, 2026
