Jordan Eddy

ArtistsArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Shaunté Glover explores the muscular narrative power—and queer, femme force—of women’s basketball through the lens of South Phoenix.

Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025

ArtistsArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Urgent Care Art’s pop-ups in quotidian Tucson spaces juxtapose the healing and fear inherent to queer visibility.

Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025

ReviewColoradoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal

Ugo Rondinone, creator of Las Vegas’s Seven Magic Mountains, returns to the American West with more rainbows and a light touch.

Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025

NewsSouthwest

Santa Fe mourns Gene Hackman, Austin's Big Medium closes, another staff departure from CCA Santa Fe, and more top Southwest art news headlines for March 2025.

Jordan Eddy • March 04, 2025

NewsSouthwest

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith dies, Texas officials seize Sally Mann photos, and more top Southwest art news headlines for January and February 2025.

Jordan Eddy • February 04, 2025

NewsNew Mexico

Robert Washington-Vaughns dumped the "capitalistic dream" to start Black Men Flower Project, a fanciful gifting initiative with the muscle of a mutual aid organization.

Jordan Eddy • January 28, 2025

NewsNew Mexico

Guy Cross, who cofounded SWC precursor The Magazine, stoked Santa Fe’s turn-of-the-21st-century push to join a globalized contemporary art conversation.

Jordan Eddy • December 06, 2024

NewsSouthwest

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.

Jordan Eddy • December 03, 2024

NewsSouthwest

The Roswell Museum floods, artist Danielle SeeWalker sues Vail, and more top Southwest art news headlines for November 2024.

Jordan Eddy • October 31, 2024

NewsSouthwest

New contemporary art centers in Dallas and Santa Fe, and other recent Southwest art news headlines.

Jordan Eddy • October 01, 2024

FeatureArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Seeking fresh hope in the 20th-century futurisms of Arizona architectural marvels Biosphere 2, Taliesin West, and Arcosanti.

Jordan Eddy • September 06, 2024

ReviewNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures

Off-Center at Vladem Contemporary is a three-decade survey of New Mexico art with myriad bright spots—but how are they connected?

Jordan Eddy • September 06, 2024

NewsSouthwest

Diné artist joins fight to close uranium hauling loophole on the Navajo Nation, and more Southwest art news headlines for September 2024.

Jordan Eddy • August 30, 2024

ReviewNew Mexico

Iconoclasm is a mercy in Teresita Fernández/Robert Smithson, clearing the view of both conceptual artists and their groundbreaking legacies.

Jordan Eddy • August 27, 2024

Books + LiterarySouthwest

Surface-level market forces are no match for ancestral traditions in veteran ethnologist Diane Dittemore’s new basketry book Woven from the Center.

Jordan Eddy • August 16, 2024

ReviewArizona

Even the propaganda is sabotaged in Multiple Realities, a Soviet spy novel of an exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum.

Jordan Eddy • August 06, 2024

NewsSouthwest

City of Lubbock slashes art walk funding over drag performances, and more Southwest art news headlines for August 2024.

Jordan Eddy • August 01, 2024

NewsNew Mexico

Despite concerns over artwork attributions, the Harwood Museum unveiled its show Unknown Santeros. Now experts are meticulously reshaping it.

Erin Averill and Jordan Eddy • July 19, 2024

NewsNew Mexico

Meet the team behind the Santa Fe-based mural project that brought Jeffrey Gibson's Indigenous, queer dreamland to the Venice Biennale.

Jordan Eddy • July 09, 2024

NewsSouthwest

Barbie mania ends and a new fashion era begins at Phoenix Art Museum, and other recent Southwest art news headlines.

Jordan Eddy • July 03, 2024

ExhibitionsSouthwest

Don't miss these essential Southwest summer art exhibitions in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Texas, and Nevada.

Jordan Eddy • June 27, 2024

NewsSouthwest

The arts community goes head-to-head with a sports magnate in Salt Lake City, and other recent Southwest art news headlines.

Jordan Eddy • June 03, 2024

CareerSouthwest

Lavish and rugged residency opportunities abound in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

Jordan Eddy • May 21, 2024

From the EditorInside Southwest ContemporarySouthwest

Our new editorial director, who joined SWC on April 22, looks back on a challenging decade of arts journalism—and ahead with an ambitious editorial vision.

Jordan Eddy • May 17, 2024

FeatureNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

An art world debate over the modernist credentials of iconic Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo surfaces tense questions about art, craft, Indigeneity, and the meaning of modernity.

Jordan Eddy • March 01, 2024

Travel2023 New Mexico Field Guide

Dwan Light Sanctuary is a prismatic art installation in Las Vegas, New Mexico conceived by influential arts patron Virginia Dwan.

Jordan Eddy • May 26, 2023

NewsNew Mexico

The recent destruction of Santa Fe’s Multicultural mural caused fierce controversy, but its little-told history reveals tough questions about authorship and cross-cultural collaboration.

Jordan Eddy • August 12, 2022

FeatureMeet Your Makers

Where was the dagger? It was the final act of The Letter, a Santa Fe Opera world premiere that opened in 2009, and forty-mile-per-hour winds were howling across the venue’s open-air stage. The murderous Leslie, played by Patricia Racette, was singing her way towards suicide-by-stabbing. Suddenly, the wind whipped a tablecloth and sent Leslie’s fateful knife skittering down the dining table. This was despite the fact that the properties department had reinforced the linen with a stitch called a swing tack and secured it with a wind skirt.

Jordan Eddy • June 26, 2019

Feature

Taos artist Nikesha Breeze met her father for the first time when she was ten years old. He was homeless on the streets of Portland, while she was growing up beyond the city’s southern outskirts in the small town of Sherwood...

Jordan Eddy • March 27, 2019

Meet Your Makers

Much like the movies in its lineup, the inaugural Santa Fe Independent Film Festival had a dogged crew and a bare-bones budget. Jacques Paisner and two like-minded friends...

Jordan Eddy • October 01, 2018