Santa Fe Theaters Set to Reopen
Santa Fe Classic Theater and New Mexico Actors Lab plan for in-person theater while the Oasis Theatre Company, Santa Fe Playhouse, Theater Grottesco, and Teatro Paraguas take a hybrid approach.
Jul 27
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Jul 26
Albuquerque Theaters Return to Live Performances
Albuquerque theater companies are persevering through financial considerations and pandemic concerns to present D.I.Y. offerings and mainstream performing arts, including Hamilton, during the 2021-2022 season.
Jul 23
New Santa Fe Arts Leaders Commit to Diversity and Inclusion
Danyelle Means, Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe’s first Indigenous executive director, and Louis Grachos, who returns to SITE Santa Fe as executive director, emphasize community collaboration and equity.
Jul 22
Your Weekly 5×5: July 22, 2021
From a Marion Palfi retrospective at Phoenix Art Museum to a new folk music project by Family Trade at Granary Arts in Utah, our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days.
Jul 21
Review: Each/Other: Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger
A large-scale collaboration between Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, both long invested in community-sourced artmaking, takes the spotlight in Each/Other at the Denver Art Museum.
Jul 21
Intersections / Vital Spaces [sponsored]
Vital Spaces presents Intersections, a group exhibition that takes place online and in public places, highlighting numerous points of connection among the ninety-seven contemporary works of art and thirty artists exhibited.
Jul 20
Review: The Transcendental Painting Group at Albuquerque Museum
Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group: 1938-1945 at the Albuquerque Museum surveys the New Mexico group that dove deep into abstract painting to create pathways to spiritual enlightenment.
Jul 19
Installation Reveals Undertold History of Indigenous Captivity
Jetsonorama’s Unsilenced installation at the Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center dismantles the settler-colonial narrative in the San Luis Valley and amplifies the history of Native enslavement in Southern Colorado.
Jul 16
Curator Profile: Lisa Sette of Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix
Lisa Sette explores contemporary society by curating compelling exhibitions characterized by conceptual and aesthetic rigor at Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix, Arizona.
Jul 15
Your Weekly 5×5: July 15, 2021
From Cannupa Hanska Luger at Albuquerque Museum to Earth at Modern West in Utah, our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days.
Jul 14
Review: Dust Specks on the Sea at 516 Arts in Albuquerque
Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti at 516 Arts, a rare exhibition for the Southwest region, explores Caribbean identity in the face of colonization
Jul 13
Review: Cerith Wyn Evans: Aspen Drift
Cerith Wyn Evans: Aspen Drift at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado saturates the senses in the Welsh artist’s first exhibition in the States in more than seventeen years.
Jul 12
Artist Turns Curator to Unpack The Stubborn Influence of Painting
Featuring divergent works in various mediums, The Stubborn Influence of Painting at BMoCA lets guest curator Kate Petley make the case for artists breaking free of preconceived notions.
Jul 08
City of Albuquerque Gallery Under Fire for Exhibiting Painting by Proud Boy
The City of Albuquerque is taking heat for displaying artwork by a member of the New Mexico Proud Boys, an extremist group with white nationalist ideologies, in an open call exhibition.
Jul 08
Your Weekly 5×5: Angie’s Picks Edition
In our staff takeover of the 5x5, Angie Rizzo shares her top five picks of things she's been reading, listening to, and watching.
Jul 07
M. Jenea Sanchez and Gabriela Muñoz Shift the Transnational Gaze
Arizona Latinx artists M. Jenea Sanchez and Gabriela Muñoz collaborate to shift conversations about labor, identity, and gaze in Division of Labor at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
Jul 06
Book Review: American Geography by Santa Fe’s Radius Books
American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present (Radius Books) connects the exploitation of landscape and people to the formation of so-called American identity.
Jul 05
National Endowment for the Arts Announce ARP Grants
The National Endowment for the Arts is accepting applications for $135 million in American Rescue Plan grants designed to help arts and cultural organizations recover from the pandemic.
Jul 02
Southwest Art News: July 2021
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Jul 01
Your Weekly 5×5: July 1, 2021
From photography by Kwame Brathwaite at the Blanton Museum of Art to Denver's seventh annual SeriesFest, our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days.
Jun 30
Review: Eyes of the World and Border Matters at the Wheelwright
Shonto Begay: Eyes of the World and Indigenous Women: Border Matters at the Wheelwright in Santa Fe foreground connections to place.
Jun 29
Suzanne Bocanegra Casts Spotlight on Judy Garland’s Final Years
Suzanne Bocanegra’s video installation Valley at the Blanton Museum in Austin casts eight famous women artists in a reenactment of Judy Garland’s wardrobe test for Valley of the Dolls.
Jun 28
Review: Eileen Roscina: Like Tears Washed Away By Rain at BreckCreate
Eileen Roscina's installation at BreckCreate challenges sentiments about memorials in our pandemic-informed world.
Jun 25
Allison Glenn Becomes CAMH’s New Senior Curator, Public Art Director
Allison Glenn, curator of a Breonna Taylor exhibition, starts at the CAMH in Texas on August 1, stepping into a post previously held by the beloved curator Valerie Cassel Oliver.
Jun 24
Summertime at Pie Projects / Richard Levy Gallery [sponsored]
Join Richard Levy Gallery for Summertime at Pie Projects, a two-person show featuring scratched portraits in plexiglass by Joanne Lefrak and mixed-media paintings by Martha Tuttle.
Jun 24
Edward S. Curtis Photographs on Display at Santa Fe Art Auction
The Santa Fe Art Auction honors the descendants of one of Edward S. Curtis's most famous photographs this weekend.
Jun 22
Review: New Hong Hong Exhibition at Asia Society Texas Center
At Asia Society Texas Center in Houston, Hong Hong’s massive, experimental paper works fuse nature, craft, painting, and the sublime.
Jun 21
Arizona Poet Natalie Diaz Receives 2021 Pulitzer Prize
Arizona-based Indigenous, Latino, and queer poet Natalie Diaz earns 2021 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Postcolonial Love Poem.
Jun 18
Review: Thirtieth Anniversary Show at Richard Levy Gallery
Sallie Scheufler curates compelling works by contemporary Albuquerque artists in celebration of Richard Levy Gallery’s thirtieth anniversary.
Jun 17
Currents New Media Festival 2021 Adapts to Hybrid Format
Santa Fe-based 2021 Currents New Media Festival embraces COVID-19 protocols to produce a new hybrid program for remote and local audiences.
Jun 17
Your Weekly 5×5: June 17, 2021
From the Stubborn Influence of Painting at BMoCA to Rose B. Simpson at Nevada Museum of Art, our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days.
Jun 16
Egypt in the Eyes of Jean Pascal Sébah at 5. Gallery
Egypt at Santa Fe’s 5. Gallery captures the intersection of modern photography, middle-class tourism, and the allure of pharaonic monuments through the legacy of Jean Pascal Sébah.
Jun 15
Dust Specks on the Sea / 516 Arts [sponsored]
Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti at 516 Arts features sculptural works by twenty-seven artists from Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Haiti.
Jun 14
Arizona Photographers Talk About Their 2021 Guggenheim Fellowships
Arizona photographers Sama Alshaibi and Stephen Marc, 2021 Guggenheim fellows, discuss how the program will advance their work.
Jun 11
New Mexico’s Long-Delayed Poet Laureate Program Striding Along
Levi Romero, the inaugural New Mexico poet laureate, and the newly created New Mexico State Library Poetry Center are accepting submissions for a poetry anthology through July 1, 2021.
Jun 10
Your Weekly 5×5: Lauren’s Picks
Lauren Tresp takes over the 5x5 this week with her five picks of things she's been reading, listening to, watching, or otherwise inspired by.
Jun 10
Laura Shill: Future Self Storage at Denver’s Leon Gallery
Laura Shill’s Future Self Storage at Denver’s Leon Gallery features 9,000 feet of pink and red tubes that combine humor with heartache and the sensual.
Jun 09
Scottsdale Plans $27.3 Million Renovation to Civic Center Mall in Old Town
The City of Scottsdale near Phoenix, Arizona is about to launch $27.3 million in Civic Center Mall renovations, with significant implications for local arts and culture.
Jun 08
Nancy Fleming at Axle Contemporary: Socially Distant Home-Feels
Nancy Flemings’s exhibition Good Will Prevail at Axle Contemporary uses domestic textile kitsch to evoke the home-feels of pandemic life.
Jun 07
Trapdoor Projects Gallery Burns Twice in Ten Days
Trapdoor Projects, an art gallery near downtown Albuquerque, caught fire twice in under two weeks. Gallery owner Katie Doyle suspects arson. Albuquerque Fire Rescue is investigating.
Jun 04
Denver Botanic Gardens Completes Freyer-Newman Center
The Denver Botanic Gardens’s $40-million Freyer-Newman Center, with its three art galleries, establishes itself as fertile ground for exhibitions.
Jun 03
Your Weekly 5×5: June 3, 2021
From Nathaniel Mary Quinn at Almine Rech to Sundance Film Festival's Indigenous Short Film Tour, our top five arts and culture picks in the southwest for the next five days.
Jun 10
SPREAD 7.0 Virtual Voting / SITE Santa Fe [sponsored]
SITE Santa Fe Announces virtual voting for SPREAD 7.0, a community micro-grant for New Mexico artists.
