Southwest Art News: December 2024
MCA Denver director to lead ICA Boston, Utah artist who formed 21st-century art salon dies, and more top Southwest art news headlines for December 2024.
December 03, 2024
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December 01, 2024
Ditch Amazon and Support Local Artists with Our Southwest Holiday Gift Guide
E-commerce has nothing on these holiday shopping experiences at galleries, museums, and community art spaces in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.
November 26, 2024
Arizona State University’s Top-Ranked MFA Includes a Three-Year Teaching Assistantship
The School of Art at ASU advances generative art practices driven by research, ideas, and effective public engagement. Attend an info session on December 6, 2024, and apply by January 15, 2025.
November 22, 2024
Political Will Meets the Rio Grande’s Natural Power in Zoe Leonard’s Dual Project Al río / To the River
Capturing scenes of quotidian life and military infrastructure, Zoe Leonard's photo book and Chinati show underscore a borderlands reality: an unstoppable river runs through it.
November 21, 2024
Reexamine the West with an Interactive Reading by Poet Paisley Rekdal
Paisley Rekdal will read selections from West: A Translation with live guidance from the audience in a powerful, informative, and cathartic experience at 516 Words on Thursday, December 5, in Albuquerque.
November 20, 2024
A Hundred Years On, Surrealism’s Desert Dreamworlds Continue to Inspire
The desert—in all of its arid, minimalist, color-block permutations—permeates this selection of Surrealist artworks.
November 19, 2024
Salt Lines Converge at Southern Utah Museum of Art
Salt Lines: Exploring Climate, Environment, and the Saline Influx examines the past, present, and future of salt in the global landscape through the work of duo Hylozoic/Desires, photographer David Maisel, and poet and photographer Alexandra Fuller.
November 19, 2024
Southwest Artist and Writer Residencies with Winter 2024-25 Deadlines
Southwest artist residencies with deadlines falling in winter 2024-25 in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
November 18, 2024
MCA Denver’s Dance Exhibition Churns with Social and Political Energy, Matching a “Moment of Anxiety”
“All my dances are protests,” says one artist from Movements Toward Freedom, which explores how bodily expressions can influence society.
November 14, 2024
Evans School Exodus: Denver Artists Prepare to Leave the Historic Former Elementary School
Investors are finally redeveloping Evans School in Denver—and displacing nearly sixty artists from their low-cost studios in the process.
November 12, 2024
Earthbound Offers a Luminous, Humanist Message on the Importance of Dark-Sky Preservation
Hosted by the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and featuring multidisciplinary luminaries, including the first Black female space pilot, Earthbound blends art and science.
November 07, 2024
Through Movement, Keshet Dance Company Explores How to Ask A More Beautiful Question
Keshet Dance Company's latest work features eight choreographers delving into the nature and of questioning, free will and destiny, and our potential to create change.
November 06, 2024
Former Curator of Mesa Art Museum Files Federal Lawsuit Alleging Censorship and Discrimination
Tiffany Fairall, former chief curator of Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Arizona, sues the City of Mesa in the aftermath of censorship allegations.
November 05, 2024
Guadalupe Maravilla’s Magic School Bus Outmaneuvers Political Rhetoric with Mystical Migration Stories
Guadalupe Maravilla migrated from El Salvador to the U.S. as an unaccompanied eight-year-old. Now he's on a more metaphysical journey in his winged bus, Mariposa Relámpago.
November 01, 2024
Southwest Art News: November 2024
The Roswell Museum floods, artist Danielle SeeWalker sues Vail, and more top Southwest art news headlines for November 2024.
October 31, 2024
“This is our power”: Afrofuturists Imagine Radical Futures in Reclaiming Hope: Afrofuturist Visions
Black artists imagine radical futures through hope, healing, and history in Reclaiming Hope: Afrofuturist Visions.
October 29, 2024
Akin Blends Passion for Design with Love of Genealogy
Akin helps families commemorate their ancestry in the form of custom-designed books using memorabilia, genealogical discoveries, and all-inclusive design know-how.
October 24, 2024
Santa Fe Gallery Opens Revelatory Portal into Cuba’s Globally Connected Culture
Nearly 2,000 miles from its namesake, Artes de Cuba gallery crafts a complex image of the island nation's globalized art scene in the group show La Habana Hoy.
October 24, 2024
Work in Progress with Beedallo
Albuquerque-based artist Beedallo on staying elusive, spilling guts on canvas, and eavesdropping at art openings.
October 22, 2024
Cybele Lyle Queers Desert Landscapes Through Portals, Lean-tos, and Constructed Architectures
Cybele Lyle attempts, in confounding and curious ways, to queer desert landscapes in her current installation Cybele Lyle: Floating Seeds Make Deep Forms.
October 17, 2024
Reclaiming Space through Technology: Santa Fe Uncovers Hidden Histories Through Augmented Reality
The City of Santa Fe’s ArcGIS Storymaps, and its AR component, Ojos Diferentes, peel back the layers of Santa Fe history to tell underrepresented stories with new technologies.
October 15, 2024
Scientists Are “Speaking to the Masses” with Help from Artists in Two Contrasting Phoenix Exhibitions
The traveling exhibition ARX3 pairs artists and scientists, while Brains and Beauty at SMoCA draws on neuroaesthetics, to visualize transformative research.
October 10, 2024
RioBravoFineArt’s October and November Fall Exhibitions
Experience the gallery's newest exhibitions in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, this fall.
October 09, 2024
An Aesthetic of Repugnance: A Review of Sam Grabowska’s Haptic Terrain
Sam Grabowska’s Haptic Terrain at Leon Gallery explores how our bodies, oftentimes in grotesque fashion, mutate in contemporary capitalist culture.
October 08, 2024
In ALHAMDU, Muslim Artists Envision a Bright Future
The collection of work featured in ALHAMDU | MUSLIM FUTURISM asks what a bright future might look like for Muslim communities and engages visitors in new ways.
October 04, 2024
Work in Progress with Zac Travis
AI tools just hit the mainstream, but Albuquerque-based artist Zac Travis has been messing with them for years—in trippy, analog ways.
October 03, 2024
Study Up: Here is Southwest Contemporary’s Fall 2024 Art Guide
Don’t miss these essential art exhibitions across the Southwest for fall 2024, featuring major surveys, immersive installations, and artistic dialogues.
October 02, 2024
Southwest Art News: October 2024
New contemporary art centers in Dallas and Santa Fe, and other recent Southwest art news headlines.
October 01, 2024
In Dario Robleto’s The Signal, Love is Imperative
Dario Robleto’s wide-ranging reach—in which the deepest interiors and most distant exteriors mix with popular culture and early analog media—is getting more articulate with each pass.
September 27, 2024
