ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Wabwila Mugala: Radical Futures
Phoenix-based designer and interdisciplinary artist Wabwila Mugala uses chitenge fabric to build a unique visual glossary of diasporic symbols.
September 06, 2024
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Studio VisitColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Lydia Andrew Farrell: Reimagining the Suburbs
It's Halloween everyday and outsiders rule the streets in hypersaturated paintings by Denver suburbanite Lydia Andrew Farrell.
September 06, 2024
H. Joe Waldrum’s Jewel-Like Polaroids at RioBravoFineArt This August
Experience H. Joe Waldrum's Polaroids. Opening August 10 at RioBravoFineArt in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.
August 07, 2024
ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Jimmy Fike: Radical Futures
Arizona-based artist Jimmy Fike asks, what will the end of the world like like? His answer is weird—and weirdly hopeful.
September 06, 2024
Is Teresita Fernández’s SITE Santa Fe Show with Robert Smithson a Duel—or an Act of Generosity?
Iconoclasm is a mercy in Teresita Fernández/Robert Smithson, clearing the view of both conceptual artists and their groundbreaking legacies.
August 27, 2024
Every Artwork is a Cat-and-Mouse Thriller in this Phoenix Exhibition of Eastern Bloc Artists
Even the propaganda is sabotaged in Multiple Realities, a Soviet spy novel of an exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum.
August 06, 2024
FeatureUtahVol. 10 Radical Futures
Red Planet Role-Play at the Mars Desert Research Station
At the Mars Desert Research Station near Hanksville, Utah, scientists conduct experiments as if they are on the Red Planet, the only caveat being that they aren’t.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures
JK Russ: Radical Futures
JK Russ expresses a hopeful futurity by syncing natural, urban, and fantastical settings in densely layered, sci-fi-inflected collages.
September 06, 2024
Maria Hinojosa to Speak on Immigration and Inequality at SITE Santa Fe
Join in on the conversation with Hinojosa, the author of Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love & Hate in a Torn America, on Saturday, August 10, at 2 pm in Santa Fe.
August 06, 2024
ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Tra Bouscaren: Radical Futures
Tra Bouscaren blends critiques of waste culture with "dark beauty" in maximalist installations that speak to 21st-century paranoia.
September 06, 2024
Sifting Family Lore and Life Advice from the Files of Taos Moderns Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak
Newly discovered letters revive a writer's quest to discern why two Taos-based modernist artists had an outsized impact on her family—but not art history.
August 23, 2024
Taos Abstract Artist Collective’s Path from Pandemic-Era Instagram Project to Arts Nonprofit
When a socially distanced network of Taos-based abstract artists finally met in real life, they were ready to reform their art community.
August 02, 2024
FeatureSouthwestVol. 10 Radical Futures
Radical Architecture, Radical Imagination: How Will We Live in a Hotter, More Arid Future?
Science fiction authors have provided many visions of dystopian futures in the Southwest. Can architects help avert such disastrous outcomes?
September 06, 2024
ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures
Wills Brewer: Radical Futures
Wills Brewer’s practice is rooted in research and documentation, emphasizing history at its most expansive, geologic scale.
September 06, 2024
Southwest Art News: August 2024
City of Lubbock slashes art walk funding over drag performances, and more Southwest art news headlines for August 2024.
August 01, 2024
ArtistsColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Christine Nguyen: Radical Futures
Christine Nguyen harnesses an expansive array of artistic processes to bridge the worldly and the divine, the macrocosm and microcosm.
September 06, 2024
Southwest Artist Residencies with Fall 2024 Deadlines
Discover your next opportunity with our latest roundup of Southwest artist residencies in Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming, with deadlines in September, October, and November 2024.
August 22, 2024
At SMoCA, Carolina Aranibar-Fernández Uses Soil, Sequins, and Blood to Explore the Impacts of Global Trade
California-based artist Carolina Aranibar-Fernández explores colonization, extraction, and exploitation in the Southwest in her exhibition Oleaje at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona.
July 30, 2024
Here’s What it Costs to Run a Gallery in the Las Vegas Arts District
Priscilla Fowler Fine Art, which has closed after eight years, left its owner in debt—and doubting the viability of the Las Vegas Arts District.
July 26, 2024
Zoë Zimmerman Captures the Elusive Intimacy of Recently Unearthed Fechin House Memorabilia
Zoë Zimmerman's painterly photographs of hair clippings, cigarettes, and other ephemera from a Taos house museum only hint at larger mysteries.
July 25, 2024
Luchita Hurtado: Earth & Sky Interjected at the Harwood Museum of Art
Explore the dream-like and visionary artworks of Luchita Hurtado at the Harwood Museum in Taos, running from July 27, 2024, to February 23, 2025.
July 24, 2024
Succumb to Defeat or Persevere: Lessons from Rejected Public Art Proposals at the Arvada Center
I Regret to Inform You: Rejected Public Art explores the process of applying to and proposing a public art project, while grappling with the ubiquity of rejection.
July 23, 2024
Faced with Attributions Controversy, Harwood Museum of Art Publicly Edits Santeros Exhibition
Despite concerns over artwork attributions, the Harwood Museum unveiled its show Unknown Santeros. Now experts are meticulously reshaping it.
July 19, 2024
How International Arts Collective The Place Where Clouds Are Formed is Shifting Borderland Narratives
Artists and poets from Indigenous nation bisected by U.S.-Mexico border join with myriad voices to counter borderland crisis narratives in Tucson.
July 18, 2024
Feral with Possibility: Harry Fonseca’s Queer Coyote Takes Center Stage in Small but Resonant Exhibition at the Heard
In the first exhibition to explore Harry Fonseca’s expressions of “queerness” through his beloved character Coyote, queer-Indigenous performativity takes center stage.
July 16, 2024
Queer Horticulture: Getting Entangled in JD Pluecker’s Artistic Root System
In this chosen family history from Texas, Xan Murphy asks, “If you’re the only queer person in your family, who will teach you to survive?”
July 12, 2024
Laboratory Conditions: Despite Spring Layoffs, Meow Wolf’s Union Sees Encouraging Progress
Nearly four years into Meow Wolf's unionized era, employees say things are looking up despite a recent round of staff cuts.
July 11, 2024
SWC Readers, Snag Your Free VIP Pass to Art Santa Fe
Santa Fe's only contemporary art fair features more than seventy local and global galleries and artists showcasing hundreds of artworks, July 12–14, 2024.
July 10, 2024
Jeffrey Gibson’s Rainbow-Wrapped Venice Pavilion Has a Gritty Southwestern Origin Story
Meet the team behind the Santa Fe-based mural project that brought Jeffrey Gibson's Indigenous, queer dreamland to the Venice Biennale.
July 09, 2024
Vladem Contemporary Ignites Santa Fe Nights with Art After Dark
Step into a world of after-hours magic and experience art that transcends time and space at the New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary in Santa Fe.
July 09, 2024
