Santa Fe Independent Film Festival Returns In-Person for 2021
The Santa Fe Independent Film Festival 2021 returns with a full line-up of screenings, panels, and events.
October 07, 2021
Articles
Forever Becoming Highlights Young Phoenix Artists at SMoCA
Eleven young Phoenix artists explore personal trauma, marginalized communities, environmental degradation, and other markers of contemporary society at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
October 05, 2021
Review: Rania Matar: SHE at Obscura Gallery
The photography exhibition Rania Matar: SHE at Obscura Gallery centers female complexity and empowerment.
October 04, 2021
SITE Santa Fe Presents Three New Fall Installations
SITE Santa Fe presents three multi-sensory installations by Joanna Keane Lopez, Oswaldo Maciá, and Johnny Ortiz for fall 2021.
October 01, 2021
Southwest Art News: October 2021
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
October 01, 2021
Review: Hunt Slonem: Curiouser and Curiouser at K Contemporary
Hunt Slonem: Curiouser and Curiouser at K Contemporary in Denver features 200 pieces from the New York artist's career—including his signature bunnies.
September 29, 2021
Preview the 2021 Santa Fe Studio Tour
Discover work by Santa Fe artists in their working studios at the 2021 Santa Fe Studio Tour October 9-10 and 16-17.
September 29, 2021
Autumnal Celebrations: Taos Fall Arts Festival and Taos Wool Festival
The 2021 Taos Fall Arts Festival and Taos Wool Festival support local artistic expression while upholding the town’s artistic legacy of gathered celebrations of the land and art.
September 28, 2021
Strange Worlds and Memories Collide at Denver’s New Meow Wolf
During a long and dizzying tour of the new Meow Wolf in Denver, a local writer homes in on how the immersive experience conjures a Colorado vibe.
September 27, 2021
Review: The Art of SA Eats/Sabor a San Antonio at the McNay Art Museum
The McNay Art Museum celebrates San Antonio food culture with The Art of SA Eats, an exhibition combining poppy depictions of sweets and recreations of old-school restaurants and signage.
September 23, 2021
Review: Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology at MoCNA
At the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, worldwide Indigenous artists render the effects of uranium mining and nuclear bomb testing on their lands and people.
September 22, 2021
Dallas’s Ash Studios: An Interview with Fred Villanueva and Darryl Ratcliff
Ash Studios is a Dallas community art space inspiring art entrepreneurship and collaborations with the end goal of raising awareness for social justice issues and underrepresented artists.
September 21, 2021
Art + Environment Conference Virtually Expands at Nevada Museum of Art
Nevada Museum of Art’s Art + Environment Conference transitions to a virtual format with the potential to expand audiences and present more diverse perspectives on Land Art.
September 20, 2021
Review: Thais Mather: Western Blue at form & concept
Thais Mather: Western Blue at Santa Fe’s form & concept ponders the comprehensive characteristics of the color blue in a cunning display of sculptural installations, micro-pointillist drawings, watercolors, and holograms.
September 17, 2021
Denver Selfie Museum Isn’t Intellectual, Challenging, or Deep—And That’s Exactly How It Likes It
The Denver Selfie Museum is a pleasant, photogenic distraction during trying times.
September 16, 2021
Daniel McCoy: Golden Light, Long Shadows, and Roadside Flowers
Golden Light, Long Shadows, and Roadside Flowers, a new exhibition by Daniel McCoy, opens at Hecho a Mano in Santa Fe on September 24.
September 15, 2021
Beauty Suppliers: How Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Fresquez Explore Identity and Culture Through Hair
Arizona artists Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Fresquez incorporate unconventional materials including synthetic hair to explore identity and culture at Phoenix’s Lisa Sette Gallery.
September 14, 2021
Review: Gulf Coast Anthropocene at Project Row Houses
Gulf Coast Anthropocene, the latest exhibition at Project Row Houses in Houston, features works that stray from traditional narratives of the climate crisis to center the Black and brown communities most at risk.
September 13, 2021
Work in Progress with Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens
“Let me be the conduit:” Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens, a Denver-based jack of most trades and label boss of Multidim Records, talks cassette releases and trading a Snickers for flyer design.
September 09, 2021
Review: Jerry Takigawa: Balancing Cultures
In Balancing Cultures at Foto Forum Santa Fe, Jerry Takigawa reckons with family history and trauma, and finds beauty in the process.
September 08, 2021
Santa Fe Restorative Storyteller Kicks off Kennedy Center’s Fiftieth Anniversary
Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz, a Santa Fe cultural worker and oral historian, holds a series of live talks this week that spotlight the distinct nature of BIPOC cultural work.
September 07, 2021
Review: Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado
In the tiny town of Fort Garland, Colorado, Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado by Chip Thomas (the artist known as jetsonorama) spotlights uncomfortable and paramount histories of Indigenous captivity.
September 06, 2021
“It’s a Form of Soft Protest”: Ann Morton’s The Violet Protest
Ann Morton tackles divisive politics with The Violet Protest, a Phoenix Art Museum exhibition that, once deinstalled, will be mailed piecemeal to every member of the United States Congress.
September 02, 2021
Introducing Smoke The Moon
Introducing Smoke The Moon, a new contemporary gallery and one of Santa Fe’s newest additions to the downtown art landscape.
September 01, 2021
Southwest Art News: September 2021
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
September 01, 2021
Burning of Santa Fe Public Art Sculpture Remains Unsolved
Artist Tigre Mashaal-Lively talks with Southwest Contemporary about the burning of The Solacii sculpture, which was destroyed in a suspected arson outside of Santa Fe’s form & concept gallery.
August 31, 2021
Artist Adriene Jenik Puts a Human Face on Tragedy in Afghanistan
Artist Adriene Jenik puts a human face on the tragedy in Afghanistan with her Data Humanization Project, which examines the impacts of America’s militarized culture.
August 27, 2021
Work in Progress with Derrick Velasquez
Artist Derrick Velasquez, who is represented by Robischon Gallery and runs Yes Ma’am and Friend of a Friend, is a key pillar in Denver's gallery and DIY scenes.
August 25, 2021
Social Change Drives Shifts in Graduate Arts Education Across the Southwest
Southwestern universities—including Arizona State University, the University of New Mexico, the University of Colorado Boulder, and more—are working to increase equity, interdisciplinary study, and tangible career skills in graduate arts.
August 24, 2021
Review: Jami Porter Lara: Terms and Conditions at Gerald Peters
Jami Porter Lara’s Terms and Conditions offers a space for uncomfortable conversations around identity, womanhood, and whiteness.
August 23, 2021
