Curator Edgar Picazo Merino introduces Sutura, a fall art experience in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez that aims to stitch up a bloody borderlands metaphor.
July 28, 2026
From flipping houses to crashing cars, How To Talk Dirty and Influence People presents a forty-year survey of playful and provocative artworks by Mary Ellen Carroll.
July 23, 2026
Is Nic Nicosia's work utterly surreal? Deeply autobiographical? His Dallas retrospective plumbs an oeuvre brimming with play and pain.
July 21, 2026
Tamarind Institute's new series of immersive, one-week lithography workshops is tailored for artists, educators, curators, and printmakers. Applications are due August 15, 2026.
July 20, 2026
On her path to the international art circuit, Emmi Whitehorse had to defend her aesthetic at every turn. The Diné artist reflects on Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, the Venice Biennale, and more.
July 16, 2026
Retraction: This review of The Rest Is Drag at 516 Arts has been removed.
July 14, 2026
At the Amarillo Museum of Art, Stations Words | Bars Cars brings together the works of Ed Ruscha and Ron Cooper, who met and became friends during an intensely creative time in California.
July 14, 2026
Mehrdad Mirzaie staged his first shows in Iran, challenging its regime. In Arizona he furthers the fight with art and an archive.
July 10, 2026
Street artists went vertical to enliven a levee in Pueblo, Colorado. As the project grew toward record-breaking scale, city officials swooped in.
July 07, 2026
The 2026 Whitehawk Show will showcase more than 130 vendors and two special exhibits featuring Aboriginal works and Navajo Germantown weavings, August 6-9 in Santa Fe.
July 07, 2026
Denver museum workers ratify historic union contract, Dallas mural fight escalates to $25 million lawsuit, and more top Southwest art news for July 2026.
July 02, 2026
As the iconic Route 66 reaches its centennial year, 516 Arts marks this momentous milestone with The Rest is Drag, the last exhibition before the art center moves to its new, expanded location.
June 30, 2026
New Mexico–based besties Erin Jane Nelson and Sarah M. Rodriguez are both in New York's Whitney Biennial. They have notes on its critical reception.
June 30, 2026
As the nation marks 250 years this July, SWC arts editor Natalie Hegert picks thirty-two exhibitions that offer an antidote to the flag-waving displays of patriotism.
June 29, 2026
Nani Chacon's steel gods at the Whitney Museum match Manhattan's skyline. Now she's bringing the project home to the Navajo Nation.
June 25, 2026
In her latest series at Blue Rain Santa Fe, artist Erin Currier's subjects have touched the divine—and inspired the lives of others.
June 23, 2026
Arizona's underground art scene hides burlesque fashion shows, a world-class street art collection, a museum of miniatures, and more.
June 23, 2026
A shadowy outlet is scavenging content from reputable art publications. It's a striking example of an AI-driven scam targeting artists.
June 22, 2026
Run the Code explores technological obsolescence, interactivity, and the limits of software as an artmaking tool, revealing a data-driven approach to conceptual art.
June 18, 2026
Young borderlands artists often face a choice: leave or turn art into a hobby. A nascent El Paso group is shooting for a "second chance."
June 16, 2026
The Utah Artist Fellowship Program recognizes exceptional creativity in Utah artists with $5,000 awards.
June 15, 2026
In the wake of Argentina’s last dictatorship, Ana María Hernando's artwork only grew softer. Her practice is undergirded by "unstoppable" community.
June 11, 2026
At the El Paso Museum of Art, a slate of binational projects blurs everyday logistics with ever-intensifying border politics.
June 09, 2026
The Aspen Art Fair returns for its third edition at the Hotel Jerome with more than thirty-five exhibitors from around the world, July 29-August 1, 2026.
June 08, 2026
Native artist James Luna bequeathed his most famous performance to protégé Erica Lord. On the eve of a rare reprise in Santa Fe, she recounts its fraught evolution.
June 05, 2026
Chase a Crooked Shadow, a blockbuster group show in Dallas, yanks a cinematic trope from the nostalgic fog into an equally murky present.
June 02, 2026
Lucid Perturbations: The Sewn Drawings and Books of China Marks is an exhibition of 239 sewn works by China Marks at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art.
June 02, 2026
Join creatives, entrepreneurs, artists, organizations, developers, and community leaders from across New Mexico for a full day of learning, networking, inspiration, and opportunity.
June 01, 2026
Border wall damages ancient Indigenous site in Arizona, Meow Wolf union votes on Santa Fe strike, and more top Southwest art news for June 2026.
June 01, 2026
Quest to an “authentically dangerous” castle, a James Turrell Skyspace, a water tank-turned-recording studio, and other Colorado art experiences worth a long detour.
May 28, 2026
