Goodnight Noises Everywhere: Rachel Rose at SITE Santa Fe
In Goodnight Moon, Rachel Rose’s ambitious and deeply researched work opens multiple tiny entry points into vast stories of past and future days and ages.
August 23, 2023
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An Ode to Trees: Southern Utah Museum of Art Presents Reaching for the Sky
Experience works exploring the juxtaposition between trees and the well-known red rocks of southern Utah landscapes in Reaching for the Sky, on view through September 23 in Cedar City.
August 22, 2023
Financial Lifespan of an Artist: 401(k) and 403(b) Employer Retirement Plans
You may be lucky enough to work for an organization that offers 401(k) or 403(b) retirement plans. This Financial Literacy for Artists article explores key points to understand.
August 22, 2023
Southwest Superfoods: Justin Favela and Working Classroom Celebrate New Mexico’s Culinary Heritage
Justin Favela and Working Classroom serve up supersized sculptural food for thought on regional culinary and cultural heritages in Sandia Hot at Sanitary Tortilla Factory in Albuquerque.
August 21, 2023
Say Their Names: Artists Reflect on Nuclear Injustice in New Mexico
Trinity: Legacies of Nuclear Testing—A People’s Perspective at the Branigan Cultural Center in Las Cruces, New Mexico, showcases the work of seventeen artists to shed light on nuclear injustice.
August 18, 2023
Two Las Cruces Exhibitions Explore the Fallout of Nuclear Weapons Testing
Cara Despain: Specter New Mexico at the NMSU Art Museum and Trinity: Legacies of Nuclear Testing at Branigan Cultural Center examine nuclear fallout impacting local Indigenous and settler communities.
August 17, 2023
Rafael Fajardo Turns Border Issues into Video Games
Rafael Fajardo’s 8-bit video game diptych YOU MADE OUR REALITY INTO A GAME?!?! engages border issues by humanizing migrant characters with Rasquachismo, kawaii, and comic sensibilities.
August 16, 2023
Financial Lifespan of an Artist: Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs) Explained
Understanding IRAs is an important step for your future. This Financial Literacy for Artists article breaks down three types and how to choose the right one for your situation.
August 15, 2023
Living National Treasure Fujinuma Noboru Comes to TAI Modern
Living National Treasure Fujinuma Noboru's exhibition at TAI Modern in Santa Fe showcases his commitment to preserving the beauty of Japan's bamboo and culture, August 18–September 30, 2023.
August 15, 2023
Artists Allege Censorship After Exhibitions Postponed at Mesa Contemporary Arts
The City of Mesa brusquely postponed every exhibition on the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum’s fall 2023 calendar. A major free speech organization, a civil rights group, and artists allege censorship.
August 14, 2023
Encounters Past and Future: Duhon James at Hecho a Mano
Capturing glimpses of ancestors and extraterrestrials, Duhon James’ (Diné) work illustrates a moment in time with something both there and not there at the same time.
August 14, 2023
How a Phoenix Mural Project Could Bring Local Latino History to Life
The La Flor Del Pueblo mural project in Phoenix will transform an Arizona Public Service utility substation into a canvas for telling diverse stories of the Grant Park neighborhood.
August 11, 2023
Land Suffering: The Unavailing Amelioration of Marguerite Humeau’s Orisons
The meek, reverent sculptures of Marguerite Humeau’s Orisons puncture 160 acres of unusable potato farmland in Hooper, Colorado, offering healing to a sandhill crane nesting ground undergoing megadrought.
August 10, 2023
Performance Santa Fe Presents Transient Landscapes, Sounds of an Alaskan Glacier
Experience the sound of an Alaskan glacier in an extraordinary, fully immersive live performance on September 16, 2023 in Santa Fe.
August 09, 2023
Work in Progress with lydia see
Lydia see, a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator, works with diverse materials in her Tucson studio to explore social justice, foster civic engagement, and broaden access to the arts.
August 09, 2023
Ogden Contemporary Arts Announces Two August Exhibitions
Ogden Contemporary Arts presents two exhibitions delving into the profound theme of artwork as a cathartic release of trauma. Holly Wong: Emergence and Stephanie Leitch: Spellbound are on view through October 16, 2023.
August 08, 2023
Financial Lifespan of an Artist: Student Loan Updates
Though widespread student loan forgiveness isn't happening, there are still important changes afoot. Here’s some breaking news, tips, and things to know before loan payments resume in fall 2023.
August 08, 2023
agriCULTURE Showcases Flourishing Collaboration Between Artists and Farmers
agriCULTURE: Art Inspired by the Land looks at the many intersections between art and agriculture, helping viewers create new connections to farms and farming in Boulder County, Colorado.
August 07, 2023
Handmade Readymades: Tamara Johnson’s Kitschy Kitchen Imposters in House Salad at Lora Reynolds Gallery
Tamara Johnson’s exhibition House Salad at Lora Reynolds Gallery in Austin examines the absurdity of daily domesticity with mass-produced kitchen items turned into one-of-a-kind sculptures.
August 04, 2023
Work in Progress with James Surls
At age eighty, James Surls, an internationally recognized artist who works out of a rural Colorado studio, continues telling stories through his sculptures, drawings, prints, and rubbings.
August 03, 2023
Southwest Art News: August 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
August 02, 2023
Hazel Larsen Archer: Out of the Shadows and Into the Light
Hazel Larsen Archer was a luminary yet underrecognized photographer and educator who inspired countless others, celebrated now at the Center for Creative Photography along with her student, Linda McCartney.
August 01, 2023
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Santa Fe’s Radius Books Announces Artist Weekend 2023
Join art book publisher Radius Books for Artist Weekend 2023, a free community celebration with artists, writers, and collaborators in New Mexico.
August 01, 2023
Alexis Rausch Unpacks America’s Desensitization to Violence
Alexis Rausch continues raising questions about mass responses to traumatic events and how her identity comes into play through the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition Nobody likes it here.
August 01, 2023
Contemporary Aesthetics Renew Debussy’s Mystifying Pelléas et Mélisande at the Santa Fe Opera
In the Santa Fe Opera’s 2023 staging of Pelléas et Mélisande, director Netia Jones’s contemporary aesthetics renew Debussy’s mystifying Symbolist opera for present-day audiences.
July 31, 2023
Brie Ruais Invigorates Body-Based Conceptual Art for a New Generation
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
(Extra) Hot Art Summer: Southwest Contemporary’s Summer 2023 Art Guide
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
Financial Lifespan of an Artist: Aligning Revenue, Time, and Values
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
In A Dream Deferred, Southern Utah Museum of Art Presents Works by Aïsha Lehmann and Vitus Shell
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 at UMOCA Hopes to Offer a More Authentic View of the State
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
