
Feature2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
Albuquerque Local Gem Exhibit/208 Celebrates 25 Years
Artist Kim Arthun reflects on decades spent holding space for contemporary art for the Albuquerque community.
May 24, 2024
Feature2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
Artist Kim Arthun reflects on decades spent holding space for contemporary art for the Albuquerque community.
Steve Jansen • May 24, 2024
ReviewTexasVol. 9 Living Histories
The 2024 Border Biennial at El Paso Museum of Art explores how regional artists experience and interact with the Borderlands, and also acts as a barometer for area contemporary art.
Steve Jansen • March 01, 2024
Raven Chacon (Diné) honors matriarchal Indigenous resistance at the Harwood Museum in a unique grouping of visual, video, and sound works that will be shown in New Mexico for the first time.
Steve Jansen • February 20, 2024
Perla Segovia, a Peruvian immigrant who has made Tucson her home for the past ten years, advocates for the value of immigrants through textile, embroidery, glass, and painting techniques.
Steve Jansen • February 13, 2024
Blue Lotus Artists’ Collective, or BLAC, is a new Tucson gallery—and perhaps the first of its kind—dedicated to elevating local, national, and international Black artists.
Steve Jansen • February 06, 2024
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Steve Jansen • February 01, 2024
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Steve Jansen • January 05, 2024
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Steve Jansen • December 01, 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Steve Jansen • November 02, 2023
Southwest artist residencies in California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming with deadlines between Fall 2023 and Winter 2024.
Steve Jansen • October 06, 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including new leadership appointments, grants, and more.
Steve Jansen • October 04, 2023
Jared Steffensen, a Salt Lake City-based artist and curator, repurposes broken skateboard decks into enigmatic, nearly inexplicable sculptural artworks in the Current Work exhibition Nosey Taily and the Leftover Review.
Steve Jansen • September 25, 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Steve Jansen • September 04, 2023
FeatureVol. 8 Medium + SupportWyoming
The Ucross Residency Program near Sheridan, Wyoming, supports artists in an obligation-free program on a working ranch that’s all about creativity, bonding, good eating, and resting.
Steve Jansen • September 01, 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Steve Jansen • August 02, 2023
Step into air-conditioned contemporary art bliss with our Southwest art guide for summer 2023 at these exhibitions in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.
Steve Jansen • July 27, 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Steve Jansen • July 03, 2023
Modern Desert Markings at the Barrick Museum of Art in Las Vegas showcases contemporary takes on classic Land Art works by Michael Heizer, Walter de Maria, and Jean Tinguely.
Steve Jansen • June 30, 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Steve Jansen • June 01, 2023
Feature2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Harwood Museum of Art has lived multiple lives as library, artist crash pad, and world-class art center. The Taos cultural gem now celebrates its centennial.
Steve Jansen • May 26, 2023
Travel2023 New Mexico Field Guide
The Henge by Herb Goldman, a peculiar outdoor structure akin to a reconstituted Stonehenge, announces Roswell as a robust arts scene facilitated by the late Donald B. Anderson.
Steve Jansen • May 26, 2023
Southwest artist residencies in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and some beyond with Summer 2023 deadlines.
Steve Jansen • May 23, 2023
Abstraction in Albuquerque: Six Artists at the Inpost Artspace—more than a half-decade in the making—materialized after a co-curator spotted a 1991 poster inside of a now closed warehouse.
Steve Jansen • May 05, 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Steve Jansen • May 01, 2023
Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe, which recently announced permanent closure after forty-four years, has reversed course and plans to partially reopen in the city's shaky arts nonprofit landscape.
Steve Jansen • April 28, 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Steve Jansen • April 06, 2023
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Bobbe Besold, a founder of the community engagement project Rivers Run Through Us, has made water a centerpiece of her art and activism.
Steve Jansen • March 03, 2023
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Outriders: Legacy of the Black Cowboy at Harwood Museum of Art in Taos normalizes the Black cowboy past and present.
Steve Jansen • March 03, 2023
ArtistsTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Jack Bowers of Waco, Texas considers water’s long-term, permanent relationship with humanity and how Earth’s natural elements are inseparable from consciousness.
Steve Jansen • March 03, 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Steve Jansen • March 01, 2023
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