Looking Into the Time Horizon, There’s Doom and Gloom… But Also Hope
Into the Time Horizon, the largest exhibition ever mounted at the Nevada Museum of Art, addresses the accelerating climate crisis and ways we might combat it.
May 19, 2026
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Abstract Picnic Spreads a Blanket at the Santa Fe Railyard Park
Abstract Picnic's new Santa Fe Railyard mural turns the picnic into a metaphor for gathering. Celebrate the unveiling on Saturday, June 6, 12–2 pm.
May 18, 2026
Artist Lily Reeves Believes Neon is Magic—Can She Convert the Rest of Us?
Neon nearly died at the altar of the LED revolution. Phoenix-based artist Lily Reeves is working to resurrect it, with literal witchcraft.
May 14, 2026
Forthcoming Nevada Museum is a Refuge for Endangered Species: Vegas and Reno’s Neon Signs
When Will Durham realized Nevada's iconic neon signs were going dark, he started collecting them. Decades later he's opening The Light Circus Nevada Neon Museum in Reno.
May 13, 2026
The Arizona Biennial 2026 Opens at TMA, Mapping the State’s Creative Range
Arizona Biennial 2026, juried by BAMPFA's Julie Rodrigues Widholm, opens May 22 with thirty-one artists working across the state. On view through September 27.
May 13, 2026
New Mexico Artist Residencies: So Enchanting, You Might Get Entrapped
Is New Mexico the Land of Enchantment or the "Land of Entrapment"? Apply for one of these eighteen artist and writer residencies, and you're bound to find out.
May 12, 2026
Big Art, Hidden Vault, and More Tales from a Storied Strip of New Mexico Highway
From movie scenes to Scientology symbols, Jon Revett reflects on thirty-five years of traveling on the Conchas Highway, in a landscape of shifting cultural narratives.
May 08, 2026
Beloved and Imperiled Christian Folk-Art Relic Salvation Mountain Gets a California Retrospective
A biographical show fortifies the legacy of visionary artist Leonard Knight in Ocotillo, California. If only his rainbow-hued magnum opus were as sturdy.
May 07, 2026
(Re)sounding: Two Reasons to Head to Park City This Summer
This summer Kimball Art Center gives art lovers two reasons to make the trip: the return of the Kimball Arts Festival in August, and their most immersive exhibition yet, (Re)sounding.
May 05, 2026
Sable Elyse Smith Unwinds the Clock on Race, Power, and the Carceral Machine
With disarming, familiar objects like coloring books and furniture, Sable Elyse Smith’s Clockwork at The Contemporary Austin exposes how race and the carceral system shape identity.
May 05, 2026
Southwest Art News: May 2026
IAIA fights another proposed federal funding elimination, Acoma Pueblo challenges AI data center developer, and more top Southwest art news for May 2026.
May 01, 2026
César Chávez Allegations Trigger Artwork Removals—and Concerns of Cultural Erasure
Before a recent fall from grace, Chávez was a rare Latino hero in Southwest public art. Now, arts leaders are asking how to de-center an icon without obscuring entire histories.
April 30, 2026
Mother-Daughter Show in Arizona Surveys the Melding—and Mitosis—of Artistic Inheritance
In their first-ever joint show in Scottsdale, Beth Ames Swartz and her daughter Julianne Swartz draw from shared esoteric knowledge to astonishingly varied ends.
April 28, 2026
Jessi Cross’s Flow of Wildlife Releases A River of Creatures in the Santa Fe Railyard Park
Santa Fe–based artist Jessi Cross brings woodcut prints of roadrunners, bobcats, and more to Flow of Wildlife, a public mural at Railyard Park.
April 27, 2026
How Clowning Around is Cultivating a Small-Town Avant-Garde Scene in Moab, Utah
Ephemeral Collective's roving performance festival in Moab holds lessons in pooling resources to shape a tiny counterculture.
April 23, 2026
What Do You Get When Two Cows and a Conceptual Art Icon Walk Into a Tucson Gallery?
Clever conceit or curatorial cop-out? In Cassidy Araiza / Robert Barry / Jocko Weyland, experiment and open-endedness might be the objective.
April 21, 2026
CURRENTS 2026 Brings Global Art and Technology to Santa Fe
Now in its 17th edition, CURRENTS Art & Technology Festival returns to Santa Fe, June 12–21, 2026, presenting works by seventy-one international artists working in installation, performance, or immersive media.
April 21, 2026
Can International Art Star Olafur Eliasson Provoke Urgency to Restore Great Salt Lake?
After decades of decline and political inaction at Great Salt Lake, Olafur Eliasson flies in with a temporary public art project. Can this art-world Hail Mary provoke positive change?
April 16, 2026
New Mural Guidelines in Phoenix May Support Local Artists—or Restrict Them
As Phoenix overhauls its mural directives, local artists are weighing how more structure could professionalize—or narrow—the field.
April 14, 2026
What Happens to an Artist’s Life’s Work? Legacy Lab New Mexico Has Answers
This June, a two-day event at the Albuquerque Museum connects artists with archivists, attorneys, curators, and fellow artists to build real strategies for long-term legacy planning.
April 13, 2026
Seven Days In, the New Mexico Museum of Art’s New Director Sets the Stakes
Marisa Sage’s art-is-for-everybody mandate might sound utopian, but at the helm of New Mexico’s most historically freighted museum, it's a massive administrative challenge.
April 09, 2026
“I Was Told I Couldn’t Do That”: Jody Folwell’s Endless Pueblo Pottery Revolution
In the 1980s, Pueblo artist Jody Folwell jolted Santa Fe Indian Market with political ceramics. Amid her retrospective, she's already pushing toward the next sharp statement.
April 07, 2026
Art and Atmosphere: Pie Projects Contemporary Art’s 2026 Exhibition Season
From Sam Scott's post-war paintings to Larry Bell and Susanna Fritscher's preoccupations with light and space, Pie Projects Contemporary Art's spring–summer season includes resonant exhibitions accompanied by a series of artist conversations.
April 07, 2026
The Context of Humanness: Yes &… at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Wants Proof of Life
Yes &..., curated by Tobias Fike and Donald Fodness, advocates for human ingenuity in the face of AI ascendance. But is that a sufficient curatorial framework?
April 02, 2026
Southwest Art News: April 2026
New Mexico Governor vetoes arts-related funding, Colorado lawmakers propose artist-first business bill, and more top Southwest art news for April 2026.
April 01, 2026
The Office of Collecting and Design Leaves Las Vegas to Become a Roving Museum
Founder of the Office of Collecting and Design Jessica Oreck talks about the museum’s move into a trailer, her collecting origins, and how she meets her community on the road.
March 31, 2026
Editor’s Picks: Southwest Contemporary’s Spring 2026 Exhibition Guide
Looking for a spiritual awakening this spring? Arts editor Natalie Hegert traces a visionary and esoteric throughline among thirty-seven of this season’s top exhibitions.
March 27, 2026
In Komorebi, Eunika Rogers Paints with Light and Land
Eunika Rogers' Komorebi exhibition features original aspen paintings made with hand-harvested earth pigments and natural clay on canvas.
March 30, 2026
What Does Migration Look Like Outside Anti-Immigrant Crisis Narratives?
Tierras Reimaginadas: Migration at ASU Art Museum centers immigrant voices and reimagines migration across species, cultures, geographies, and time.
March 26, 2026
A Living Tradition: Art, Legacy, and Landscape in Santa Fe County
From Georgia O'Keeffe to Allan Houser, Santa Fe County has been home to artists whose work is inseparable from the land, culture, and communities that shaped it.
March 23, 2026
