The Woods Before Sunrise gathers nine contemporary Black artists who are making their own new mythology about American landscape and their place within it.
September 24, 2026
Swelling crowds and violent incidents during the city's monthly art walk has spurred Phoenix to reconfigure First Fridays in the Roosevelt Row arts district and return the event’s focus to the arts.
September 22, 2026
Celebrating vibrance and life expressed through Black hair, Johnny Draco’s new print Heavy is the Garden gives flowers to this powerful symbol.
September 22, 2026
Storey Gallery is exploring the essence of what a gallery can hold, uplifting queer histories and imagining the ways art will shape our future.
September 22, 2026
Internet burnout, vulnerability, kinetic egg sculptures. Royal Young visits the studio of interdisciplinary artistic entity Lady Egg.
September 17, 2026
Joe Pachak of Utah vanished and was found deceased. The beloved artist and archeologist's small community cradles his fiery legacy.
September 15, 2026
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver marks thirty years with the exhibition Colorado Currents and expanding reach through pop-ups, public art, and the October 15 Luminocity Gala.
September 14, 2026
The fevered tone of the national political discourse aligns with the Southwest art world, where thirty-six top exhibitions forecast frenetic, empowered conversations this fall.
September 10, 2026
For nearly four decades, Guillermo Gómez-Peña has revisited alien iconography. Graciela Blandon grapples with his new AI project, and what his little green men teach us about facing the unfamiliar.
September 04, 2026
FeatureCaliforniaVol. 14 Alien
In the California desert, Angella d’Avignon traces a spiritual and extraterrestrial lineage in the works of Agnes Pelton, El Disco, and Esther Pearl Watson.
September 04, 2026
Invoking the shifting lineage of void aesthetics, Jerónimo Reyes-Retana’s installations confront colonial practices of erasure by examining what he terms the “Playa Bagdad/SpaceX Conundrum.”
September 04, 2026
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
The Southwest was a central stage for Japanese American incarceration during World War II. In a new exhibition in Santa Fe, descendants cross generational divides to surface submerged histories.
September 04, 2026
Aliens invaded the culture again this year. Southwest writers and contemporary artists had already made compassionate contact.
September 04, 2026
Studio VisitColoradoVol. 14 Alien
Shaping a wild array of materials, Denver-based sculptor Kate Casanova explores the "post-human" through gut feelings.
September 04, 2026
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
In a moment of increasing disconnection despite amplified communication, Santino Gonzales tunes back into a sense of wonder.
September 04, 2026
Inspired by her quirky family and the '80s UFO craze, Jo Cunningham's Freak Family Roadshow is a traveling art installation evoking alienation and wonder.
September 04, 2026
Field ReportTexasVol. 14 Alien
Located on the high plains of West Texas, Lubbock is a creative hotbed in the middle of the cotton fields, with a vibrant art scene that draws big crowds to downtown and devotees to the fringes.
September 04, 2026
In New Mexico, a scholar hunts for mysteries and monsters. An apparition in a 19th-century painting stirs another liminal experience: grief.
September 04, 2026
Crop circles on the High Plains? Julian Francolino meditates on questions of alienness and human intervention in agriculture and art in Eastern New Mexico and West Texas.
September 04, 2026
In the Las Vegas exurb of Pahrump, Nevada, UFO culture and human alienation converge in Mars-like terrain.
September 04, 2026
InterviewNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
Madison Van Der Lingen, an Albuquerque-based fashion designer balancing sustainability and maximalism, comments on the importance of being earnest, even while transcending worlds.
September 04, 2026
In Historia Sintética at Dallas Contemporary, Francisco Moreno blends history and fantasy to shape a surreal new reality.
September 04, 2026
Daniel and Maruca Salazar’s retrospective Accidentally on Purpose - Pasó lo que tenía que pasar at Museo de las Americas celebrates fifty years of Chicano art and activism in Denver.
September 04, 2026
As the U.S. hits a major anniversary, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture gathers American imagery with Indigenous origins.
September 04, 2026
Kimball Art Center makes space for this group exhibition to zero in on our ears—and it's all-consuming.
September 04, 2026
"We turn backward to move forward," explains the collective Hilma’s Ghost. Their work challenges erasure in the art historical canon and foregrounds female, queer, and trans artists.
September 04, 2026
Leslie Moody Castro reflects on the slippery definition of "alien" through the artists featured in Southwest Contemporary Vol. 14: ALIEN.
September 04, 2026
Photographer Marcus Xavier Chormicle reclaims his medium for his family and ancestral lands through an intimate photo collection.
September 04, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
Jess Johnson's immersive exhibitions transcend every timeline, resolving visceral alternate realities through drawings and installations.
September 04, 2026
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 14 Alien
Hayley Krichels cuts up the hair, skin, and fingers of her human suit to imagine a new humanity of fragments.
September 04, 2026
