Harwood at 100
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.
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. By Steve Jansen
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. By Steve Jansen
Southwest artist residencies in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and some beyond with Summer 2023 deadlines. By Steve Jansen
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. By Steve Jansen
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
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. By Steve Jansen
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
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. By Steve Jansen
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. By Steve Jansen
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. By Steve Jansen
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Southwest artist residencies in Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and some beyond with deadlines between Winter and Spring 2023. By Steve Jansen
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Springville Museum of Art, newly helmed by Emily Larsen, is one of Utah’s oldest visual arts institutions—and a crucial component of the state’s arts education networks. By Steve Jansen
The combined Santa Fe offices of AOS Architects and MASS Design Group will help expand the humanitarian architecture footprint for Native and non-Native communities in New Mexico and beyond. By Steve Jansen
Marcus Chormicle’s uncle and cousin passed away on the same day a year apart. On the anniversary of their deaths, the photographer opened the community-centered CAV Gallery in Las Cruces. […] By Steve Jansen
Gregg Deal's exhibition Esoo Tubewade Nummetu (This Land Is Ours) in Colorado Springs doesn’t sugarcoat the historic and contemporary injustices Native people encounter in mainstream American culture and society. By Steve Jansen
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
New Mexico artist Billy Schenck has made a successful career of cowboy-and-Indian pop-art imagery, but a recent exhibition of his work brings present-day debates over representation and authorship into the harshest of spotlights. By Steve Jansen
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Pete Petrisko, one of the few remaining old heads in the local art scene who has lived in downtown Phoenix since the 1980s, exhibits selections from the past thirty-five years. By Steve Jansen
i know you are, but what am i? at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art focuses on the figure to launch discussions about identity, fluidity, and body positivity. By Steve Jansen
Gilberto Guzmán, a lead artist of Santa Fe’s sharply contested and now-defunct Multicultural mural, painted a new Multicultural to be displayed in 2023. By Steve Jansen
Ho Baron: Gods for Future Religions at the El Paso Museum of Art is an uncanny blend of maximalism, surrealism, the ascetic, and the interstellar. By Steve Jansen
Memorial services for Tigre Mashaal-Lively, who made art about individual and collective trauma and healing, are scheduled for Friday, October 7 and Saturday, October 8 in Santa Fe. By Steve Jansen
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Jorge Rojas’s retrospective Material Witness at Granary Arts in Ephraim, Utah, showcases a quiet yet still tenacious side of the Salt Lake City-based artist. By Steve Jansen
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab in Santa Fe, an arm of the international human justice architectural firm MASS Design Group, recasts architecture and design in the Southwest. By Steve Jansen
Fall back into these Southwest area art exhibitions in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. By Steve Jansen
Merry Scully, former New Mexico Museum of Art head of curatorial affairs, is leaving the state with a heavy heart but with an eager eye towards Southern California. By Steve Jansen
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Southwest artist residencies (and a cool one in Nebraska!) in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming with deadlines between August 2022 and January 2023. By Steve Jansen
Ya La’ford, Ogden Contemporary Arts’s first artist-in-residence, visualizes a past, present, and future Southwest in Survey: The West. By Steve Jansen
Gallery Incomplet in Santa Fe is likely the world’s first art space to exclusively display incomplete works of art, ranging from barely completed paintings to undeveloped rolls of film. By Steve Jansen
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Hit the road this summer for Southwest art exhibitions in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. By Steve Jansen
Shelly C. Lowe (Diné), the first Native American to chair the National Endowment for the Humanities, is approaching her high-profile job at the granting institution through an Indigenous lens. By Steve Jansen
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Albuquerque artist Reyes Padilla, born with synesthesia, paints visual representations of music in works that have appeared throughout New Mexico and on Better Call Saul. By Steve Jansen
Contemporary Native American jewelry is showcased at the Wheelwright Museum’s Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry and Case Trading Post gift shop in Santa Fe. By Steve Jansen
Feature2022 New Mexico Field Guide
The New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary is set to become the Santa Fe Railyard’s newest and highest profile occupant. By Steve Jansen
The Albuquerque Museum tells the compelling story of African American homesteading in New Mexico in the exhibition Facing the Rising Sun. By Steve Jansen
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