The process-oriented work of Brie Ruais—a Santa Fe-based artist who makes conceptual and gestural performance art for a new generation—recenters artmaking in the body.
July 28, 2023
Step into air-conditioned contemporary art bliss with our Southwest art guide for summer 2023 at these exhibitions in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.
July 27, 2023
The sixth article in our Financial Literacy for Artists series by Tamara Bates gives artists a template for analyzing time, revenue, and values.
July 25, 2023
A Dream Deferred at Southern Utah Museum of Art explores the Black experience and inequality in education, wealth, and housing. The exhibition is on view through September 23, 2023.
July 25, 2023
A Greater Utah, a major survey at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, aims to be more representative of regional artmaking than the predecessor show, Utah Biennial: Mondo Utah.
July 24, 2023
Patrick Dean Hubbell (Diné), who works from his family homestead on the Navajo Nation, creates artworks that reference how Diné people think about natural elements.
July 20, 2023
Scorpio Palace, the creation of Lauren Zwicky and Michael Stone, invites visitors to experience community-focused hypnotic art and music while keeping alive the spirit of DIY creative incubator Rhinoceropolis.
July 19, 2023
In the next installment of our Financial Literacy for Artists career series, Tamara Bates dishes practical tips on managing uneven income sources and provides several real-life examples.
July 18, 2023
The Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries in the Denver Art Museum have a whole new energy, thanks to Rory Padeken, whose thoughtful curation led to reorganizing the spaces by theme.
July 17, 2023
The Lightning Field—a vestige of the conceptual, minimalist, and earthwork movements of the mid-20th century by Walter De Maria—provides visitors with multiple, discrete ways of encountering the art object.
July 14, 2023
Manjari Sharma and Eric Tillinghast, an exhibition exploring water and the figure, opens at Bishop’s Lodge Auberge Resort on July 20 with a special projection event.
July 12, 2023
The paintings and murals of Denver-based artist Ramón Bonilla explore the multifarious uses of the line and all of its subsequent meanings.
July 12, 2023
Our Financial Literacy for Artists series continues with advice on managing uneven income, especially for artists that might be moving from full-time W-2 income to part- or full-time self-employed earnings.
July 11, 2023
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, considered a regional hub for the art of photography since 1963, recently moved into new and improved quarters in Denver's Golden Triangle cultural district.
July 10, 2023
Bruce Nauman: His Mark at SITE Santa Fe—Nauman’s first solo exhibition in New Mexico—features never-before-shown work by the internationally celebrated artist.
July 07, 2023
In Designed to Move, the microscopic is magnified in Taylor James’s photographs of Colorado Plateau seedpods, revealing a design intelligence humans can only hope to approximate.
July 06, 2023
Art Santa Fe's 2023 program features a focused look at several cutting-edge artists and a series of outstanding projects by leading galleries and institutions.
July 05, 2023
Pencil on Paper Gallery extends the line of Black-owned galleries that trace the foundational practices of accessibility, inclusivity, and representation among art spaces in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
July 05, 2023
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La Trampa Gráfica Contemporánea in Mexico City and Familia Printshop in Dallas engage in a long tradition of Mexican printmaking. The two print shops also illustrate the power of collaboration.
July 04, 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
July 03, 2023
Celebrating its 23rd edition, Art Santa Fe features a curated selection of international exhibitors featuring one-of-a-kind works for sale in a gallery-style venue July 14–16, 2023.
July 01, 2023
Modern Desert Markings at the Barrick Museum of Art in Las Vegas showcases contemporary takes on classic Land Art works by Michael Heizer, Walter de Maria, and Jean Tinguely.
June 30, 2023
Denver Month of Video founders Jenna Maurice and Adán De La Garza present a diverse array of video arts throughout July 2023 at venues across the city.
June 29, 2023
The third article in our Financial Literacy for Artists series explores financial building blocks for mid-to-late-career artists: understanding social security, buying property, and managing career peaks and valleys.
June 27, 2023
Alex Branch, a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist ponders the life-death metaphors embedded in everyday objects, the mysterious lives of flora and fauna, and the aural experiences that inspire her art.
June 26, 2023
Ogden Contemporary Arts’s second artist in residence Eric J. García invites us to scrutinize the principles upon which American history and identity are based in a dazzling and multifaceted artistic project.
June 23, 2023
Shane R. Hendren, a New Mexico-based artist, storyteller, and so much more, has won a $100,000 Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation Award in Craft, one of the nation’s largest awards in the discipline.
June 21, 2023
The second article in our Financial Literacy for Artists series explores financial building blocks for mid-career artists: charging for your time, diversifying revenue streams, and planning for the future.
June 20, 2023
Leadership changes at the Arizona Commission on the Arts could impact how the state agency spends the $5 million allocated for arts and culture in Arizona’s 2024 budget.
June 19, 2023
Bobbi Walker, owner and curator of Walker Fine Art, blends aesthetics with business in her downtown Denver space that seeks to recast the “commercial gallery” stigma.
June 16, 2023
