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Alien: Adrian Pijoan
Adrian Pijoan explores Bigfoot, UFOs, and paranormal belief, framing the supernatural as a social practice.
September 04, 2026
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Alien: JR Roykovich
JR Roykovich renders the veil thinner by embedding historically loaded artifacts in spectral installations.
September 04, 2026
Alien: Kevin Sloan
Kevin Sloan’s paintings of endangered species set against surreal, Edenic backdrops, remind the viewer how much beauty we have left to lose.
September 04, 2026
Faces of Time: Daniel D Stine on Coming Home to Painting
Ahead of his exhibition Faces of Time at New Concept Gallery in Santa Fe, Daniel D Stine spoke with Jamie McLaren about his influences and meticulous line work.
September 04, 2026
100 Photographers For One Night Only: Explore CENTER’s Portfolio Walk
CENTER's Portfolio Walk brings 100 juried photographers to Santa Fe's Farmers' Market Pavilion, October 24, as part of Review Santa Fe's 25th year.
September 04, 2026
Deborah Fritz Celebrates Complementary Artistic Visions in New Work by Melinda K. Hall and Gigi Mills
Deborah Fritz's two Santa Fe galleries open contrasting exhibitions this September—Melinda K. Hall's playful memory-work and Gigi Mills's contemplative landscapes.
September 04, 2026
A Gorgeous Excitement Returns to the Steinfeld Gallery Featuring 23 Artists
From Claire Campbell Park’s luminous weavings to Alex Macias’s bold borderlands portraiture, Steinfeld Gallery & Studios’ new exhibition includes work by some of the most inventive artists of Southern Arizona.
September 01, 2026
Etherton Gallery Announces Dramatic Downsizing After Losing Tucson Space
Tucson artists are reeling—and reminiscing—amid the displacement of a forty-six-year-old photography gallery with international clout.
August 27, 2026
NewsInside Southwest Contemporary
Announcing Southwest Contemporary Weekend 2026
Southwest Contemporary announces a weekend of programming this September, encompassing a convening to consider the state of the Southwest art ecosystem and the second annual Art Party and auction in support of Southwest's independent art journalism.
July 28, 2026
What Remains: Nathan Storey on Queer Archives, Print, and Memory
Across research, studio practice, publishing, and curatorial work, Storey approaches queer history as something living rather than fixed: continually gathered, questioned, preserved, and reimagined.
August 25, 2026
Fifty Years On and With Last Living Member Present, Flagstaff Exhibition Reunites Works by This Hopi Artist Collective
With Artist Hopid Unveiled, the Museum of Northern Arizona celebrates the shared cultural voice of the groundbreaking Indigenous artist collective founded in the 1970s.
August 25, 2026
Wrought by Fire: Metalwork of the Southwest Spotlights Four Women Artists
Celebrate the fall season at ASU Art Museum with an evening of art, music, and community on Thursday, September 10.
August 25, 2026
A Year After NEA Grant Rug Pull, Arts Orgs Share Tactics for a Lean Era
Since a seismic round of NEA grant retractions in 2025, arts organizations have overhauled funding strategies with stability in mind.
August 21, 2026
Witchcraft, Esoterica, and the Queer Resistance—A Queer Arcana Uncovers the Links
Esotericism and activism collide in A Queer Arcana, a wide-ranging exhibition of art and ephemera from the LGBTQ+ underground, part of the Palm Springs Art Museum's Q+ Art Initiative.
August 20, 2026
How a Texas Frame Shop Turned Itself Into a Career Springboard for Artists
They were fast friends who started a frame shop in El Paso. Five years later, their "extra risky" move has paid off for the local creative community.
August 18, 2026
In Eleanor Mahin Thorp’s Paintings, the Land Looks Back
At UMOCA, Eleanor Mahin Thorp turns minerals, mining waste, and paint into wildernesses that are far from unspoiled—rather, they’re charged with agency.
August 13, 2026
Streaming Killed the Video Stars, Except These Ones
Santa Fe’s last video store, a nonprofit in Albuquerque, and an archive in Texas venerate and preserve analog media in the age of AI.
August 11, 2026
Santa Fe County: Where Creativity Meets Sustainability
Santa Fe County blends stunning landscapes, creative culture, and economic support to help entrepreneurs like Broken Arrow Glass Recycling thrive.
August 11, 2026
These Amazing Art Cars of Arizona Are a True Form of Public Art
Massive mutant vehicles, novelty art cars, and custom lowriders—meet some of the makers devoted to this elaborate and often underappreciated art form.
August 06, 2026
Once an Intern at El Paso’s Rubin Center, Andres Payan Estrada Makes History as Its New Director
As the Rubin Center for the Visual Arts's first homegrown director, Andres Payan Estrada understands the opportunities and challenges of borderlands arts.
August 04, 2026
Southwest Art News: August 2026
Pueblo leaders lobby for Chaco protections, Shepard Fairey unveils New Mexico murals, and more top Southwest art news for August 2026.
August 04, 2026
A Record of a Record: Terran Last Gun and Mitchell Marti in the Lithography Studio
Terran Last Gun and printmaker Mitchell Marti debut five collaborative lithographs that translate ledger art into print, pairing hand-drawn detail with lithographed ledger sheets.
August 04, 2026
Marilyn Minter’s Remarkable Career Comeback Began Deep in the Colorado Rockies
Colorado's Anderson Ranch Arts Center honored Marilyn Minter for its 60th anniversary, affirming its faith in artistic risk and grit-infused glamour.
July 30, 2026
If the U.S.-Mexico Border is an “Open Wound,” This Binational Art Encounter Reveals its Sutures
Curator Edgar Picazo Merino introduces Sutura, a fall art experience in El Paso and Ciudad Juárez that aims to stitch up a bloody borderlands metaphor.
July 28, 2026
Mary Ellen Carroll’s Power Plays and Trickster Antics Are All That (And a Bag of Chips)
From flipping houses to crashing cars, How To Talk Dirty and Influence People presents a forty-year survey of playful and provocative artworks by Mary Ellen Carroll.
July 23, 2026
Nic Nicosia Isn’t Doing This on Purpose (or Maybe He Is)
Is Nic Nicosia's work utterly surreal? Deeply autobiographical? His Dallas retrospective plumbs an oeuvre brimming with play and pain.
July 21, 2026
Tamarind Institute Expands Lithography Training for 2027
Tamarind Institute's new series of immersive, one-week lithography workshops is tailored for artists, educators, curators, and printmakers. Applications are due August 15, 2026.
July 20, 2026
Emmi Whitehorse’s Work Once Provoked Hisses; These Days She’s Gone Global
On her path to the international art circuit, Emmi Whitehorse had to defend her aesthetic at every turn. The Diné artist reflects on Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, the Venice Biennale, and more.
July 16, 2026
Retracted: Drag Artists Take Center Stage—But Don’t Get the Mic—in This Survey of Route 66 Subcultures
Retraction: This review of The Rest Is Drag at 516 Arts has been removed.
July 14, 2026
Encounter the American West Through the Works of Ed Ruscha and Ron Cooper in Amarillo
At the Amarillo Museum of Art, Stations Words | Bars Cars brings together the works of Ed Ruscha and Ron Cooper, who met and became friends during an intensely creative time in California.
July 14, 2026
