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Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsColorado

Inspired by his culture and the natural world, multimedia artist Dallin Maybee creates contemporary narratives using traditional media including beadwork, dance, and carving.

• July 30, 2021

ReviewTexasVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Bradley Kerl: Balm evokes a sense of calm and reminds us that life sometimes contains something of the sublime, as long as we keep looking for it.

Lauren Moya Ford • July 30, 2021

New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale

Rosalinda Pacheco's work involves a contemporary take on traditional symbolism, combining historical themes and significant personal experiences.

Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021

New MexicoNews

The Abiquiú-based Some Serious Business residency makes space for freedom and connection. This summer’s diverse roster includes Elijah McKinnon, a BIPOC artist who showcases films on Friday at Beastly Books.

Maggie Grimason • July 28, 2021

New MexicoNews

Santa Fe Classic Theater and New Mexico Actors Lab plan for in-person theater while the Oasis Theatre Company, Santa Fe Playhouse, Theater Grottesco, and Teatro Paraguas take a hybrid approach.

Talia Pura • July 27, 2021

New MexicoNews

Albuquerque theater companies are persevering through financial considerations and pandemic concerns to present D.I.Y. offerings and mainstream performing arts, including Hamilton, during the 2021-2022 season.

Asuri Ramanujan Krittika • July 26, 2021

NewsNew Mexico

Danyelle Means, Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe’s first Indigenous executive director, and Louis Grachos, who returns to SITE Santa Fe as executive director, emphasize community collaboration and equity.

Steve Jansen • July 23, 2021

5x5Southwest

From a Marion Palfi retrospective at Phoenix Art Museum to a new folk music project by Family Trade at Granary Arts in Utah, our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days. 

Southwest Contemporary • July 22, 2021

ReviewColorado

A large-scale collaboration between Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, both long invested in community-sourced artmaking, takes the spotlight in Each/Other at the Denver Art Museum.

Deborah Ross • July 21, 2021

New MexicoSponsored

Vital Spaces presents Intersections, a group exhibition that takes place online and in public places, highlighting numerous points of connection among the ninety-seven contemporary works of art and thirty artists exhibited.

Vital Spaces • July 21, 2021

New MexicoReview

Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group: 1938-1945 at the Albuquerque Museum surveys the New Mexico group that dove deep into abstract painting to create pathways to spiritual enlightenment.

Asuri Ramanujan Krittika • July 20, 2021

ColoradoNews

Jetsonorama’s Unsilenced installation at the Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center dismantles the settler-colonial narrative in the San Luis Valley and amplifies the history of Native enslavement in Southern Colorado.

Steve Jansen • July 19, 2021

ArizonaCurator Profile

Lisa Sette explores contemporary society by curating compelling exhibitions characterized by conceptual and aesthetic rigor at Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix, Arizona.

Lynn Trimble • July 16, 2021

5x5Southwest

From Cannupa Hanska Luger at Albuquerque Museum to Earth at Modern West in Utah, our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days. 

Southwest Contemporary • July 15, 2021

New MexicoReview

Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti at 516 Arts, a rare exhibition for the Southwest region, explores Caribbean identity in the face of colonization

Daisy Geoffrey • July 14, 2021

ColoradoReview

Cerith Wyn Evans: Aspen Drift at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado saturates the senses in the Welsh artist’s first exhibition in the States in more than seventeen years.

Joshua Ware • July 13, 2021

ColoradoNews

Featuring divergent works in various mediums, The Stubborn Influence of Painting at BMoCA lets guest curator Kate Petley make the case for artists breaking free of preconceived notions. 

Deborah Ross • July 12, 2021

New MexicoNews

The City of Albuquerque is taking heat for displaying artwork by a member of the New Mexico Proud Boys, an extremist group with white nationalist ideologies, in an open call exhibition.

Steve Jansen • July 08, 2021

5x5Southwest

In our staff takeover of the 5x5, Angie Rizzo shares her top five picks of things she's been reading, listening to, and watching. 

Angie Rizzo • July 08, 2021

ArizonaNews

Arizona Latinx artists M. Jenea Sanchez and Gabriela Muñoz collaborate to shift conversations about labor, identity, and gaze in Division of Labor at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.

Lynn Trimble • July 07, 2021

New MexicoBooks + Literary

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.

Coco Picard • July 06, 2021

SouthwestNews

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.

Lynn Trimble • July 05, 2021

NewsSouthwest

Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.

Steve Jansen • July 02, 2021

5x5Southwest

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. 

Southwest Contemporary • July 01, 2021

New MexicoReview

Shonto Begay: Eyes of the World and Indigenous Women: Border Matters at the Wheelwright in Santa Fe foreground connections to place.

Lillia McEnaney • June 30, 2021

NewsTexas

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.

Lyndsay Knecht • June 29, 2021

ReviewColorado

Eileen Roscina's installation at BreckCreate challenges sentiments about memorials in our pandemic-informed world. 

Joshua Ware • June 28, 2021

NewsTexas

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.

Steve Jansen • June 25, 2021

SponsoredNew Mexico

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.

Southwest Contemporary • June 24, 2021

NewsNew Mexico

The Santa Fe Art Auction honors the descendants of one of Edward S. Curtis's most famous photographs this weekend.

Steve Jansen • June 24, 2021