Book Review: American Geography by Santa Fe’s Radius Books
American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present (Radius Books) connects the exploitation of landscape and people to the formation of so-called American identity.
American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present (Radius Books) connects the exploitation of landscape and people to the formation of so-called American identity. By Coco Picard
The National Endowment for the Arts is accepting applications for $135 million in American Rescue Plan grants designed to help arts and cultural organizations recover from the pandemic. By Lynn Trimble
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
From photography by Kwame Brathwaite at the Blanton Museum of Art to Denver's seventh annual SeriesFest, our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days. By Southwest Contemporary
Shonto Begay: Eyes of the World and Indigenous Women: Border Matters at the Wheelwright in Santa Fe foreground connections to place. By Lillia McEnaney
Suzanne Bocanegra’s video installation Valley at the Blanton Museum in Austin casts eight famous women artists in a reenactment of Judy Garland’s wardrobe test for Valley of the Dolls. By Lyndsay Knecht
Eileen Roscina's installation at BreckCreate challenges sentiments about memorials in our pandemic-informed world. By Joshua Ware
Allison Glenn, curator of a Breonna Taylor exhibition, starts at the CAMH in Texas on August 1, stepping into a post previously held by the beloved curator Valerie Cassel Oliver. By Steve Jansen
Join Richard Levy Gallery for Summertime at Pie Projects, a two-person show featuring scratched portraits in plexiglass by Joanne Lefrak and mixed-media paintings by Martha Tuttle. By Southwest Contemporary
The Santa Fe Art Auction honors the descendants of one of Edward S. Curtis's most famous photographs this weekend. By Steve Jansen
At Asia Society Texas Center in Houston, Hong Hong’s massive, experimental paper works fuse nature, craft, painting, and the sublime. By Lauren Moya Ford
Arizona-based Indigenous, Latino, and queer poet Natalie Diaz earns 2021 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Postcolonial Love Poem. By Lynn Trimble
Sallie Scheufler curates compelling works by contemporary Albuquerque artists in celebration of Richard Levy Gallery’s thirtieth anniversary. By Nancy Zastudil
Santa Fe-based 2021 Currents New Media Festival embraces COVID-19 protocols to produce a new hybrid program for remote and local audiences. By Coco Picard
From the Stubborn Influence of Painting at BMoCA to Rose B. Simpson at Nevada Museum of Art, our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days. By Southwest Contemporary
Egypt at Santa Fe’s 5. Gallery captures the intersection of modern photography, middle-class tourism, and the allure of pharaonic monuments through the legacy of Jean Pascal Sébah. By Coco Picard
Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti at 516 Arts features sculptural works by twenty-seven artists from Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Haiti. By Southwest Contemporary
Arizona photographers Sama Alshaibi and Stephen Marc, 2021 Guggenheim fellows, discuss how the program will advance their work. By Lynn Trimble
Levi Romero, the inaugural New Mexico poet laureate, and the newly created New Mexico State Library Poetry Center are accepting submissions for a poetry anthology through July 1, 2021. By Steve Jansen
Lauren Tresp takes over the 5x5 this week with her five picks of things she's been reading, listening to, watching, or otherwise inspired by. By Lauren Tresp
Laura Shill’s Future Self Storage at Denver’s Leon Gallery features 9,000 feet of pink and red tubes that combine humor with heartache and the sensual. By Joshua Ware
The City of Scottsdale near Phoenix, Arizona is about to launch $27.3 million in Civic Center Mall renovations, with significant implications for local arts and culture. By Lynn Trimble
Nancy Flemings’s exhibition Good Will Prevail at Axle Contemporary uses domestic textile kitsch to evoke the home-feels of pandemic life. By Coco Picard
Trapdoor Projects, an art gallery near downtown Albuquerque, caught fire twice in under two weeks. Gallery owner Katie Doyle suspects arson. Albuquerque Fire Rescue is investigating. By Asuri Ramanujan Krittika
The Denver Botanic Gardens’s $40-million Freyer-Newman Center, with its three art galleries, establishes itself as fertile ground for exhibitions. By Deborah Ross
From Nathaniel Mary Quinn at Almine Rech to Sundance Film Festival's Indigenous Short Film Tour, our top five arts and culture picks in the southwest for the next five days. By Southwest Contemporary
SITE Santa Fe Announces virtual voting for SPREAD 7.0, a community micro-grant for New Mexico artists. By Southwest Contemporary
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
KiMo Theatre in Albuquerque repaired exterior damage sustained during the George Floyd protests and changed the operation of its art gallery. By Asuri Ramanujan Krittika
The Tulsa race massacre is memorialized at Oxley Nature Center in Sarah Ahmad’s The American Dream, a Greenwood Art Project-sponsored installation featuring a replica of a refugee tent. By Steve Jansen
Jason DeMarte's Trappings of Arcadia at Denver’s Rule Gallery addresses the clash between nature and artificiality. By Deborah Ross
From Ernesto Neto at Museum of Fine Arts Houston to the intersection of art and science at the Bonneville Salt Flats, our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days. By Southwest Contemporary
A. Hurd Gallery is a new Albuquerque art space that’s home to Anthony Hurd’s studio and a place for showcasing bigger names in lowbrow art. By Steve Jansen
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Artist, activist, and curator Nikesha Breeze creates ritualistic art to explore intergenerational trauma and healing. By Tamara Johnson
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Artist Emily Margarit Mason creates staged, surreal photographs that translate the physical world from something seen to something felt. By Maggie Grimason
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Artist Sarah Siltala uses masterful techniques to create flashes of awareness that visit most of us infrequently—instances of total presence. By Maggie Grimason
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Artist Shannon Christine Rankin works with maps to depict new, reimagined, and ever-changing geographies. By Maggie Grimason
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Designer and textile artist Josh Tafoya blends traditional patterns and techniques with contemporary fashion in stunning and masterfully crafted designs. By Natalie Hegert
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Artist Izumi Yokoyama's drawings depict the natural world, exploring the relationship and fragile balance between living and dying. By Tamara Johnson
Artist Ivan Barnett explores the textures and hidden corners of Santa Fe's historic neighborhoods in his latest photographic series at Patina Gallery. By Patrick McGuire
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Artist Andrés de Varona’s photographs show his perspective on human life, addressing loss, conflict, and grief. By Tamara Johnson
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Shoshannah White finds inspiration in environmental science and the climate, sparked by the interaction of raw materials and the photographic process. By Natalie Hegert
A guide to public gardens across northern New Mexico. By Rachel Preston
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