Articles

ArizonaNews

Arizona photographers Sama Alshaibi and Stephen Marc, 2021 Guggenheim fellows, discuss how the program will advance their work.

Lynn Trimble • June 14, 2021

New MexicoNews

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.

Steve Jansen • June 11, 2021

5x5News

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.

Lauren Tresp • June 10, 2021

ColoradoReview

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.

Joshua Ware • June 10, 2021

ArizonaNews

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.

Lynn Trimble • June 09, 2021

New MexicoReview

Nancy Flemings’s exhibition Good Will Prevail at Axle Contemporary uses domestic textile kitsch to evoke the home-feels of pandemic life.

Coco Picard • June 08, 2021

NewsNew Mexico

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.

Asuri Ramanujan Krittika • June 07, 2021

NewsColorado

The Denver Botanic Gardens’s $40-million Freyer-Newman Center, with its three art galleries, establishes itself as fertile ground for exhibitions.

Deborah Ross • June 04, 2021

5x5Southwest

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.

Southwest Contemporary • June 03, 2021

SponsoredNew Mexico

SITE Santa Fe Announces virtual voting for SPREAD 7.0, a community micro-grant for New Mexico artists.

Southwest Contemporary • June 10, 2021

SouthwestNews

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

Steve Jansen • June 03, 2021

New MexicoNews

KiMo Theatre in Albuquerque repaired exterior damage sustained during the George Floyd protests and changed the operation of its art gallery.

Asuri Ramanujan Krittika • June 02, 2021

NewsOklahoma

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.

Steve Jansen • May 31, 2021

ColoradoReview

Jason DeMarte's Trappings of Arcadia at Denver’s Rule Gallery addresses the clash between nature and artificiality.

Deborah Ross • May 28, 2021

Southwest5x5

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. 

Southwest Contemporary • May 27, 2021

New MexicoNews

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.

Steve Jansen • May 26, 2021

New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

Artist, activist, and curator Nikesha Breeze creates ritualistic art to explore intergenerational trauma and healing.

Tamara Johnson • May 25, 2021

New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

Artist Emily Margarit Mason creates staged, surreal photographs that translate the physical world from something seen to something felt. 

Maggie Grimason • May 25, 2021

New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

Artist Sarah Siltala uses masterful techniques to create flashes of awareness that visit most of us infrequently—instances of total presence.

Maggie Grimason • May 25, 2021

New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

Artist Shannon Christine Rankin works with maps to depict new, reimagined, and ever-changing geographies.

Maggie Grimason • May 25, 2021

New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

Designer and textile artist Josh Tafoya blends traditional patterns and techniques with contemporary fashion in stunning and masterfully crafted designs.

Natalie Hegert • May 25, 2021

New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

Artist Izumi Yokoyama's drawings depict the natural world, exploring the relationship and fragile balance between living and dying.  

Tamara Johnson • May 25, 2021

SponsoredNew Mexico

Artist Ivan Barnett explores the textures and hidden corners of Santa Fe's historic neighborhoods in his latest photographic series at Patina Gallery.

Patrick McGuire • May 25, 2021

New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

Artist Andrés de Varona’s photographs show his perspective on human life, addressing loss, conflict, and grief. 

Tamara Johnson • May 25, 2021

New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

Shoshannah White finds inspiration in environmental science and the climate, sparked by the interaction of raw materials and the photographic process.

Natalie Hegert • May 25, 2021

Field GuideNew Mexico

A guide to public gardens across northern New Mexico.

Rachel Preston • May 25, 2021

New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

Artist Catie Soldan uses experimental darkroom techniques to represent the emotional qualities of nature in her fine-art photography. 

Steve Jansen • May 25, 2021

Field GuideNew Mexico

A number of arts institutions across New Mexico celebrate significant anniversaries this year, including Chiaroscuro Gallery and Gebert Contemporary, Nüart Gallery, SITE Santa Fe, and Richard Levy Gallery. Chiaroscuro Gallery […]

Maggie Grimason • May 25, 2021

New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

Artist nicholas b jacobsen works to untangle the genocidal practice of removing Indigenous people from their immemorial homelands. 

Steve Jansen • May 25, 2021

New MexicoNew Mexico Artists to Know Now

Artist Isadora Stowe's work explores the landscape of the mind as it relates to the physical environment. She creates an all-encompassing vision with a visual vocabulary that is both personal and builds on the universal.

Natalie Hegert • May 25, 2021