Sunsets at Everybody in Tucson is a group exhibition of 16mm video, silver-gelatin prints, and sculptural fabrications that share formally austere and technically complex approaches to composition.
January 16, 2023
Springville Museum of Art, newly helmed by Emily Larsen, is one of Utah’s oldest visual arts institutions—and a crucial component of the state’s arts education networks.
January 13, 2023
The combined Santa Fe offices of AOS Architects and MASS Design Group will help expand the humanitarian architecture footprint for Native and non-Native communities in New Mexico and beyond.
January 12, 2023
Angel Cabrales, a devotee of science, sci-fi, and his own cultural heritage based in El Paso, creates alternate worlds that are more playful than the serious and broken one we live in.
January 11, 2023
Arizona Commission on the Arts' new director says its governing board lacks geographic diversity, which goes against Arizona statute. It’s not the only violation of state law involving the agency.
January 09, 2023
Southwest Contemporary announces our inaugural Community Editorial Advisory Board, a group of arts leaders from across the region who will provide us with critical feedback about important stories we need to tell.
January 06, 2023
At the Millicent Rogers Museum, Southwest Reflections: Between Shadows of the Land takes an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to the place now known as New Mexico.
January 05, 2023
María del Mar González-González, a Utah-based curator, bolsters artist voices that are too often relegated to the fringes of discussions about Latinx art.
January 04, 2023
The Center Can Not Hold—curated by Hikmet Sidney Loe and featuring works by Anne Mooney, John Sparano, and Hannah Vaughn—explores the varied meanings of holding space through architecture.
January 03, 2023
Lauren Tresp, publisher and editor, looks back at 2022, a year of growth, engagement, and relationship-building for Southwest Contemporary.
December 31, 2022
Southwest Contemporary's staff, Natalie Hegert, Steve Jansen, Angie Rizzo, and Lauren Tresp, pick their favorite reads—and one podcast—of 2022.
December 28, 2022
Southwest Contemporary’s most-read list for 2022 includes our 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now announcement and our first longform feature.
December 27, 2022
Denver Digerati, under the direction of executive director and chief curator Sharifa Lafon, looks to change up its digital arts and educational programming in 2023.
December 21, 2022
Petra Cortright, a Net Art and Post-Internet Art painter, bends traditional art-world genres in a solo exhibition at the Palm Springs Art Museum.
December 20, 2022
Southwest Contemporary's final 2022 gift guide travels to Las Vegas, Nevada, where shoppers can score amazing coffee, miniature neon deserts, and a photo sesh inside a life-sized cabinet of curiosities.
December 19, 2022
Maja Ruznic of Placitas, New Mexico builds and embraces darkness in canvas works that are informed by trauma and inspired by Carl Jung’s philosophy of the shadow self.
December 16, 2022
Our next gift guide travels to Salt Lake City and Provo, where shoppers can score upcycled clothing, wood-burned prints, and gender-affirming underwear.
December 15, 2022
Marcus Chormicle’s uncle and cousin passed away on the same day a year apart. On the anniversary of their deaths, the photographer opened the community-centered CAV Gallery in Las Cruces. […]
December 14, 2022
Denver-based artist and entrepreneur MarSha Robinson creates elaborate, botanical worlds and runs a thriving business under the moniker Strange Dirt.
December 13, 2022
From handcrafted boots to an indispensable indigenous cookbook, here are giftable gems for that special Texan in your life.
December 12, 2022
Santa Fe-based textile artist Rhiannon Griego weaves wearable and displayable artworks that pay respect to the land and her Spanish and Native heritage.
December 09, 2022
From the Creek, an exhibition by artist Kiki Smith, brings the experience of the flora and fauna of the Hudson River Valley to the Albuquerque Museum.
December 08, 2022
With new work by Emi Ozawa and Jeff Kellar, two winter exhibitions play with perception and illusion at Richard Levy Gallery.
December 07, 2022
Several art museums in the Southwest region are highlighting local artists in creative ways, countering the tendency to associate major museums with monumental exhibitions of world-renowned artists.
December 07, 2022
The Southern Utah Museum of Art celebrates the legacy of Utah artist Jimmie F. Jones with a new semi-permanent exhibition space and permanent, interactive touchscreen kiosk.
December 06, 2022
Gregg Deal's exhibition Esoo Tubewade Nummetu (This Land Is Ours) in Colorado Springs doesn’t sugarcoat the historic and contemporary injustices Native people encounter in mainstream American culture and society.
December 06, 2022
This holiday season, consider shopping in Santa Fe for a variety of delights, ranging from gifts for cats (and cat mommies and daddies) to a music concert membership.
December 05, 2022
Anuar Maauad’s project brings up a question born of our contemporary political context: who controls one’s body and its off-shoots?
December 02, 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
December 01, 2022
Elpitha Tsoutsounakis’s Unknown Prospect explores the material possibilities of ochre to showcase the beauty and agency of the Utah landscape and its nonhuman inhabitants.
November 30, 2022
