Southwest Art News: December 2024
MCA Denver director to lead ICA Boston, Utah artist who formed 21st-century art salon dies, and more top Southwest art news headlines for December 2024.
December 03, 2024
Ditch Amazon and Support Local Artists with Our Southwest Holiday Gift Guide
E-commerce has nothing on these holiday shopping experiences at galleries, museums, and community art spaces in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.
November 26, 2024
Political Will Meets the Rio Grande’s Natural Power in Zoe Leonard’s Dual Project Al río / To the River
Capturing scenes of quotidian life and military infrastructure, Zoe Leonard's photo book and Chinati show underscore a borderlands reality: an unstoppable river runs through it.
November 21, 2024
MCA Denver’s Dance Exhibition Churns with Social and Political Energy, Matching a “Moment of Anxiety”
“All my dances are protests,” says one artist from Movements Toward Freedom, which explores how bodily expressions can influence society.
November 14, 2024
Earthbound Offers a Luminous, Humanist Message on the Importance of Dark-Sky Preservation
Hosted by the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and featuring multidisciplinary luminaries, including the first Black female space pilot, Earthbound blends art and science.
November 07, 2024
Guadalupe Maravilla’s Magic School Bus Outmaneuvers Political Rhetoric with Mystical Migration Stories
Guadalupe Maravilla migrated from El Salvador to the U.S. as an unaccompanied eight-year-old. Now he's on a more metaphysical journey in his winged bus, Mariposa Relámpago.
November 01, 2024
Southwest Art News: November 2024
The Roswell Museum floods, artist Danielle SeeWalker sues Vail, and more top Southwest art news headlines for November 2024.
October 31, 2024
Santa Fe Gallery Opens Revelatory Portal into Cuba’s Globally Connected Culture
Nearly 2,000 miles from its namesake, Artes de Cuba gallery crafts a complex image of the island nation's globalized art scene in the group show La Habana Hoy.
October 24, 2024
Work in Progress with Beedallo
Albuquerque-based artist Beedallo on staying elusive, spilling guts on canvas, and eavesdropping at art openings.
October 22, 2024
Scientists Are “Speaking to the Masses” with Help from Artists in Two Contrasting Phoenix Exhibitions
The traveling exhibition ARX3 pairs artists and scientists, while Brains and Beauty at SMoCA draws on neuroaesthetics, to visualize transformative research.
October 10, 2024
Work in Progress with Zac Travis
AI tools just hit the mainstream, but Albuquerque-based artist Zac Travis has been messing with them for years—in trippy, analog ways.
October 03, 2024
Southwest Art News: October 2024
New contemporary art centers in Dallas and Santa Fe, and other recent Southwest art news headlines.
October 01, 2024
Film and Aboriginal Paintings at Nevada Museum of Art Celebrate the Ngurrara People’s Successful Land Reclamation
The U.S. debut of a documentary by Tuan Andrew Nguyen potently combines with the museum's recent gift of Aboriginal paintings in We Were Lost in Our Country.
September 24, 2024
Mourn the Dead, Fight for the Living: How Should Salt Lake City’s Fleet Block Murals Be Commemorated?
The artists and families tied to soon-to-be-demolished Salt Lake City murals depicting people slain by police diverge on how best to preserve their legacy.
September 19, 2024
Longtime New Yorker Paulina Ho Suddenly Started Painting—and Pining for—the Southwest
Santa Fe-based designer and artist Paulina Ho’s work tilts reality to find pleasure in the everyday absurdities of her new Southwestern environs.
September 12, 2024
Studio VisitColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Lydia Andrew Farrell: Reimagining the Suburbs
It's Halloween everyday and outsiders rule the streets in hypersaturated paintings by Denver suburbanite Lydia Andrew Farrell.
September 06, 2024
FeatureArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
The Ants of Biosphere 2
Seeking fresh hope in the 20th-century futurisms of Arizona architectural marvels Biosphere 2, Taliesin West, and Arcosanti.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Jimmy Fike: Radical Futures
Arizona-based artist Jimmy Fike asks, what will the end of the world like like? His answer is weird—and weirdly hopeful.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Christine Nguyen: Radical Futures
Christine Nguyen harnesses an expansive array of artistic processes to bridge the worldly and the divine, the macrocosm and microcosm.
September 06, 2024
ReviewTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures
Einar and Jamex de la Torre Sneak a Call to Action into Their Apocalyptic Party in Upward Mobility
The de la Torre Brothers deliver a feast for the eyes—and warnings for the future—in their witty and maximalist exhibition at McNay Art Museum.
September 06, 2024
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Trying to See the Constellations for the Stars in Vladem Contemporary’s Dizzying Exhibition Off-Center
Off-Center at Vladem Contemporary is a three-decade survey of New Mexico art with myriad bright spots—but how are they connected?
September 06, 2024
InterviewNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
“Can I Sit With You?”: Interview with a Piñon
In an experimental sound artwork, an art and ecology research collective talks with an elder piñon pine about the future and other arboreal concerns.
September 06, 2024
Southwest Art News: September 2024
Diné artist joins fight to close uranium hauling loophole on the Navajo Nation, and more Southwest art news headlines for September 2024.
August 30, 2024
“These Words Have a Directness”: Anna Tsouhlarakis on the National Tour of The Native Guide Project
As Anna Tsouhlarakis presents an elaborate Northeastern rendition of The Native Guide Project, she looks back on the Southwestern roots of her artistic practice.
August 29, 2024
Is Teresita Fernández’s SITE Santa Fe Show with Robert Smithson a Duel—or an Act of Generosity?
Iconoclasm is a mercy in Teresita Fernández/Robert Smithson, clearing the view of both conceptual artists and their groundbreaking legacies.
August 27, 2024
Sifting Family Lore and Life Advice from the Files of Taos Moderns Beatrice Mandelman and Louis Ribak
Newly discovered letters revive a writer's quest to discern why two Taos-based modernist artists had an outsized impact on her family—but not art history.
August 23, 2024
In Woven from the Center, Native Baskets Bear Capitalist Marks—but Cradle Sovereign Values
Surface-level market forces are no match for ancestral traditions in veteran ethnologist Diane Dittemore’s new basketry book Woven from the Center.
August 16, 2024
A Market Cosmology: Five Indigenous Exhibitions and Events to Enrich Your SWAIA Indian Market Experience
While you're in Santa Fe for Indian Market, don't miss these Native arts experiences at Container, Hecho a Mano, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, and beyond.
August 13, 2024
Artist-Prisoners Offer “Expansive View of Incarceration” at Museum of International Folk Art
The large-scale prison art show Between the Lines grew from an interactive display focused on trust building with impacted communities.
August 09, 2024
Years in the Making, Exploding Native Inevitable is a Portrait of a Movement in Full Bloom
With a nod to Andy Warhol's most raucous series, this Scottsdale show of contemporary Native art explodes expectations of medium and message.
August 08, 2024
