
Late Artist’s Creative Ferocity Fills Her Utah Enclave, and Those Who Still Gather There
Painter Pilar Pobil's largest artwork was her maximalist Salt Lake City home, a communal hub that still hums nearly a year after her death.
October 16, 2025
Painter Pilar Pobil's largest artwork was her maximalist Salt Lake City home, a communal hub that still hums nearly a year after her death.
Scotti Hill • October 16, 2025
Through LiDAR scans, UK-based studio ScanLAB Projects captured the Sonoran Desert in haunting detail, revealing a landscape on the brink.
Gabriella Angeleti • October 09, 2025
From a courtroom to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Native artists Mateo Romero and Jason Garcia are correcting the records.
Kimberly Suina Melwani • September 30, 2025
Arizona's art scene heats up when the weather cools down. Chart a fall road trip through every must-see show, festival, and art experience.
Lynn Trimble • September 23, 2025
As Trump “reviews” the Smithsonian and NEA rules shift, New Mexico arts groups are weighing whether to reject state grants tied to federal funding.
Lynn Trimble • September 18, 2025
In a single 1978 acquisition, the Museum of International Folk Art grew by 100,000 objects—and effectively adopted their fervent and eccentric collector.
Adele Oliveira • September 16, 2025
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Abstract painter Agnes Martin sought isolation in New Mexico to stoke her obsessive practice. She found vibrant community.
Jordan Eddy • September 05, 2025
Studio VisitTexasVol. 12 Obsession
After years of building maze-like monuments to queer love, Texas-based painter Eli Ruhala is at a crossroads his practice.
Harrison Blake • September 05, 2025
From the EditorVol. 12 Obsession
Southwest Contemporary: OBSESSION foregrounds artistic fixations, revealing the loops, patterns, and intensities that define the Southwest’s cultural landscape.
Natalie Hegert • September 08, 2025
InterviewTexasVol. 12 Obsession
Texas-based artist Erika Jaeggli on her first descent into a cave—and the all-consuming passion it unearthed.
Emma S. Ahmad • September 05, 2025
Field ReportUtahVol. 12 Obsession
Beneath the glitz of Park City's skiing and film scenes, underground culture abounds—including a cowboy speakeasy, hidden Banksy murals, and subterranean scuba diving.
Ana Estrada • September 05, 2025
For Cande Aguilar, the hand-painted signs of the Rio Grande Valley define contemporary painting more than museums do.
Nicholas Frank • September 05, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
By dismantling and depicting dead machines, artist Karl Orozco imagines new life cycles for our throwaway technologies.
Joshua Ware • September 05, 2025
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 12 Obsession
Natural entropy is a tool—and a sustainable ethos—for ten artists in Abstracting Nature at the Albuquerque Museum.
Robin Babb • September 05, 2025
In Step After Step at Kimball Art Center, artists leave their studios behind to claim the moving body as a revolutionary artistic method.
Ana Estrada • September 05, 2025
Venezuelan curator Gabriela Rangel and her international circle discuss her "double viewpoint" of the Global North and South, and what it means for MOCA Tucson.
Mari Carmen Barrios Giordano • August 28, 2025
Institute of American Indian Arts leaders on turning the tides in their federal funding fight—and why it’s not over yet.
Erin Averill • August 26, 2025
FeatureSouthwestThe Hyperlocal
Two fires marked Burmese artist Sitt Nyein Aye’s life. After his tragic death in Colorado, a tribute to his "Little Myanmar" of the Southwest.
Jordan Eddy • August 21, 2025
From James Turrell’s Roden Crater in Arizona to Charles Ross’s Star Axis in New Mexico, some Southwest land art is stubbornly elusive.
Lynn Trimble • August 14, 2025
While you’re in Santa Fe for Indian Market, don’t miss these Native art experiences featuring Cara Romero, Fritz Scholder, Diego Medina, and more.
Dan Ninham • August 12, 2025
Sculptor-photographer Virginia L. Montgomery is based in Austin but her work lives on a different plane, somewhere between science and dreams.
Ariana Akbari • August 07, 2025
Colorado poet laureate Andrea Gibson dies, Texas artists galvanize support for flood survivors, and more top Southwest art news headlines for August 2025.
Erin Averill • August 05, 2025
Denver-based artist Kaitlyn Tucek has a seemingly boundless practice, but working without a dedicated space will be a new challenge.
Madeleine Boyson • July 31, 2025
Jennifer Ling Datchuk's live-wire practice is rooted in ceramics but branches into performance, installation—and biting cultural critique.
Lynn Trimble • July 24, 2025
Stakeholders reflect on the removal of the "Innovations within Tradition" category at Traditional Spanish Market, and what it means for forward-thinking artists.
Sage Vogel • July 22, 2025
In a David Bowie–inspired show in Scottsdale, Steven J. Yazzie and Erika Lynne Hanson confront earthly disillusionment through landscape-based abstraction.
Lynn Trimble • July 17, 2025
Exquisitely detailed and experimental depictions of the Southwest abound in today's video games—so why aren't they considered landscape art?
Alejandra Lara • July 10, 2025
Lynn Hershman Leeson has long prepared for the AI revolution. In Nevada, she channels warnings and hope through digital personas.
Max Stone • July 08, 2025
Southwest botanical gardens have reshaped their grounds as living museums for stunning—and challenging—contemporary art. Discover seven culture-filled desert oases.
Lynn Trimble • July 03, 2025
Trump tries to zero out IAIA's federal funding, Pussy Riot founder arrives in Santa Fe after Los Angeles turmoil, and more top Southwest art news headlines for July 2025.
Jordan Eddy • July 01, 2025
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