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
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
This summer Kimball Art Center gives art lovers two reasons to make the trip: the return of the Kimball Arts Festival in August, and their most immersive exhibition yet, (Re)sounding.
May 05, 2026
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
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
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
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
Santa Fe–based artist Jessi Cross brings woodcut prints of roadrunners, bobcats, and more to Flow of Wildlife, a public mural at Railyard Park.
April 27, 2026
Ephemeral Collective's roving performance festival in Moab holds lessons in pooling resources to shape a tiny counterculture.
April 23, 2026
Clever conceit or curatorial cop-out? In Cassidy Araiza / Robert Barry / Jocko Weyland, experiment and open-endedness might be the objective.
April 21, 2026
Now in its 17th edition, CURRENTS Art & Technology Festival returns to Santa Fe, June 12–21, 2026, presenting works by seventy-one international artists working in installation, performance, or immersive media.
April 21, 2026
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
As Phoenix overhauls its mural directives, local artists are weighing how more structure could professionalize—or narrow—the field.
April 14, 2026
This June, a two-day event at the Albuquerque Museum connects artists with archivists, attorneys, curators, and fellow artists to build real strategies for long-term legacy planning.
April 13, 2026
Marisa Sage’s art-is-for-everybody mandate might sound utopian, but at the helm of New Mexico’s most historically freighted museum, it's a massive administrative challenge.
April 09, 2026
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
From Sam Scott's post-war paintings to Larry Bell and Susanna Fritscher's preoccupations with light and space, Pie Projects Contemporary Art's spring–summer season includes resonant exhibitions accompanied by a series of artist conversations.
April 07, 2026
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
New Mexico Governor vetoes arts-related funding, Colorado lawmakers propose artist-first business bill, and more top Southwest art news for April 2026.
April 01, 2026
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
