Articles

EssaySouthwest

Exquisitely detailed and experimental depictions of the Southwest abound in today's video games—so why aren't they considered landscape art?

Alejandra Lara • July 10, 2025

ReviewNevada

Lynn Hershman Leeson has long prepared for the AI revolution. In Nevada, she channels warnings and hope through digital personas.

Max Stone • July 08, 2025

Inside Southwest Contemporary

Santa Fe's arts community rallied for independent arts journalism at Southwest Contemporary's first fundraiser, raising nearly $40,000 to support emerging writers and cultural coverage.

Southwest Contemporary • July 04, 2025

TravelSouthwest

Southwest botanical gardens have reshaped their grounds as living museums for stunning—and challenging—contemporary art. Discover seven culture-filled desert oases.

Lynn Trimble • July 03, 2025

SponsoredNew Mexico

The 12th SITE SANTA FE International Once Within a Time features seventy-one artists across more than twelve city venues, from June 27, 2025, to January 12, 2026.

SITE Santa Fe • July 01, 2025

NewsSouthwest

Trump tries to zero out IAIA's federal funding, Pussy Riot founder arrives in Santa Fe after Los Angeles turmoil, and more top Southwest art news headlines for July 2025.

Jordan Eddy • July 01, 2025

ReviewUtah

In two successive solo exhibitions, Taiwanese artist Lu Wei traces a wild pilgrimage through the shadows of motherhood into the searing heat of the Utah desert landscape.

Ana Estrada • June 26, 2025

NewsNew Mexico

SITE’s citywide exhibition Once Within a Time is about surreal flow—not completionism. Here’s your primer, with tips from insiders Cecilia Alemani and Brandee Caoba.

Jordan Eddy • June 24, 2025

Studio VisitNew Mexico

Returning to Santa Fe after nearly thirty years in New York, Nicola López disorients viewers with layered visual systems that defy resolution.

Isabella Beroutsos • June 19, 2025

ExhibitionsSouthwest

Don’t sit it out. These sixteen explosive exhibitions across the Southwest will keep the fire lit for your summer of resistance.

Natalie Hegert • June 18, 2025

ReviewTexas

Aisha Imdad’s exhibition of paintings, The Allegorical Gardens, is a stunning display of virtuosity and literary allusion.

Thao Votang • June 17, 2025

SponsoredNew Mexico

Abstracting Nature at the Albuquerque Museum, June 21-October 12, 2025, showcases works by artists who capture New Mexico's natural beauty through abstract forms in glass, clay, steel, and natural materials.

Albuquerque Museum • June 17, 2025

SponsoredTexas

Discover Alphonse Mucha's Art Nouveau masterpieces in the exhibition Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line, June 20-September 21, 2025, in Santa Fe.

New Mexico Museum of Art • June 10, 2025

NewsColorado

Andrew Michler redefines sustainable design through hyperlocal, compassionate architecture shaped by climate, culture, and the evolving lives of its occupants.

Phoenix Savage • June 05, 2025

SponsoredUtah

Utah's top artists push boundaries and challenge norms—meet the twenty visionary creators awarded $5,000 fellowships for their groundbreaking work in 2025.

Utah Division of Arts & Museums • June 03, 2025

NewsNew Mexico

FBI returns stolen paintings to Taos museum, Tulsa institution repatriates Native remains and artifacts, and more top Southwest art news headlines for June 2025.

Jordan Eddy • June 03, 2025

Studio VisitColorado

Colorado artist Grace Kennison paints her way into the reality of the West, a place layered thick with fictional narratives, mythical characters, suppressed histories, and surreal storylines.

Parker Yamasaki • June 02, 2025

Inside Southwest Contemporary

Can't attend the Art Party? You can still participate in the fundraiser fun! Check out Southwest Contemporary's raffle lineup, and enter for a chance to win art, swag, or experiences.

Southwest Contemporary • May 29, 2025

EssayTexas

Late artist Michael Tracy hit the Texas border village of San Ygnacio like a "cyclone." His creative aggression melded with an empathic awareness of his adopted home.

Nicholas Frank • May 29, 2025

Studio VisitArizona

Informed by his family history, Dean Terasaki uses activist imagery and charged ephemera—including postcards from Japanese American internment camps—to send a present-day "warning."

Lynn Trimble • May 27, 2025

Inside Southwest Contemporary

Southwest Contemporary's Benefit Art Auction is stacked with beloved regional artists, from Judy Chicago to Virgil Ortiz. Support arts journalism and collect powerful artwork through June 7.

Southwest Contemporary • May 25, 2025

Feature2025 New Mexico Field Guide

Charged with reviving SITE Santa Fe’s storied biennial, world-renowned curator Cecilia Alemani unveils Once Within a Time, a citywide chorus of regional and global voices.

Jordan Eddy • May 23, 2025

Field Report2025 New Mexico Field GuideTravel

Your complete art guide to discover Las Cruces, New Mexico's hidden art scene, with local galleries, craft markets, outdoor adventures, and authentic dining.

Lauren Tresp • May 23, 2025

Feature2025 New Mexico Field Guide

Artist Kat Kinnick draws from her New Mexico surroundings to visualize a world more aligned with nature.

Erin Averill • May 23, 2025

Travel2025 New Mexico Field Guide

Cognition Enhancer in Santa Fe is a colorful public sculpture, molecular puzzle, and wild local legend all in one. 

Warren Langford • May 23, 2025

Travel2025 New Mexico Field Guide

Sol LeWitt's sculpture A Square, A Circle on the New Mexico State University campus is the famed Minimal and Conceptual artist's only outdoor, site-specific work in New Mexico.

Jess Ziegenfuss • May 23, 2025

Travel2025 New Mexico Field Guide

The Spencer Theater, with its soaring form echoing the surrounding mountains, exemplifies Antoine Predock’s design philosophy. 

Natalie Hegert • May 23, 2025

Travel2025 New Mexico Field Guide

The Couse-Sharp Historic Site invites visitors to step into the living legacy of Taos’s early art colony—and consider Taos Pueblo's influence on every brushstroke.

Rebekah Powers • May 23, 2025

Travel2025 New Mexico Field Guide

The Scottish Rite Masonic Temple may be home to a private fraternity, but its ornate theater welcomes all.

Isabella Beroutsos • May 23, 2025

Travel2025 New Mexico Field Guide

The Coronado Historic Site contains more than 2,000 years of history, pre-contact Puebloan murals, and impressive views of the Rio Grande and surrounding mountains.

Patrick Kikut • May 23, 2025