Hannah Eddy Paints Life and Death in Technicolor
Reno-based artist Hannah Eddy, in her bold paintings and murals, strikes a balance between fun visuals and fervent reminders of what we have to lose with climate change.
September 27, 2023
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Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum Honors Overlooked Desert Mystic
The Rita Deanin Abbey Art Museum in Las Vegas, dedicated to the late artist, traces Abbey’s prolific but underappreciated career that remained cemented in Southern Nevada.
September 15, 2023
Reno-Tahoe International Art Show Returns for its Second Year with Double the Footprint—and Big Ambitions
The Reno-Tahoe International Art Show returns for its second year and at double the scope, with big ambitions to position the region as a major cultural destination.
September 11, 2023
Meet the University of Nevada, Reno’s MFA Interdisciplinary Arts Program—And Apply for 2024!
The University of Nevada, Reno’s low-residency MFA Interdisciplinary Arts program celebrates its most recent summer residency—and announces that applications are open to join the program in January 2024.
August 29, 2023
Artists React to the Legacy of Nevada Land Art in Modern Desert Markings
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.
June 30, 2023
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Matthew Couper
Matthew Couper’s practice appropriates aspects of Western art history, including the Trecento, Quattrocento, and the Baroque, to create work that is familiar with a nod towards history repeating.
March 03, 2023
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United Catalysts
Searchlight, Nevada-based duo Kim Garrison Means and Steve Radosevich seek to answer the question, "what is there even to protect out there?"
March 03, 2023
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Nanda Sharif-pour: Verdant Refuge / Desert Refugee
Nanda Sharif-pour discusses her use of living plants, soil, and video in her work from her Las Vegas, Nevada greenhouse.
March 03, 2023
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Viewing the Colorado River: Between Art and Actuality
The decline of the Colorado River through drought and other factors has prompted artists to call attention to this event. Does art have the power, though, to mitigate the crisis?
March 03, 2023
Anthony Bondi’s Archive Establishes a Provenance for Las Vegas Arts
Anthony Bondi’s standalone archive of Las Vegas arts from 1990 to 2015 recalls the Underground and the Committee for Public Safety, and sheds a light on the city’s cultural amnesia. […]
January 26, 2023
Core Contemporary in Las Vegas Moves Locations, Expands Scope
Core Contemporary in Las Vegas, under the direction of Nancy Good, focuses on local artist standbys and self-taught outsider artists in exhibition themes ranging from gun violence to queer aliens.
January 25, 2023
Local Nevada Gift Guide 2022
Southwest Contemporary's final 2022 gift guide travels to Las Vegas, Nevada, where shoppers can score amazing coffee, miniature neon deserts, and a photo sesh inside a life-sized cabinet of curiosities.
December 19, 2022
Wendy Kveck Stages the Feminine at ASAP in Las Vegas
Wendy Kveck’s Prompt: at ASAP in Las Vegas explored the ways we stage ourselves and our art while employing a feminist practice that confronts and amplifies women as cultural markers.
November 08, 2022
Review: Two Cultures, One Family at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Two Cultures, One Family, a group exhibition curated by Dr. Erika Abad at the Marjorie Barrick Museum in Las Vegas, constitutes a cross-cultural call and response.
September 23, 2022
Review: Forgotten Artifacts Imagines Post-Humanity Via Ancient Metals
In Forgotten Artifacts at Core Contemporary, Las Vegas artists, Las Vegas artists show cast-metal sculptures evoking a landscape without humans.
July 21, 2022
Kim Stringfellow Reckons with Human Impact on the Desert in The Mojave Project
Kim Stringfellow presents the current iteration of her exhibition The Mojave Project, which expands ideas of the Mojave Desert and its inhabitants through transmedia representations.
June 14, 2022
Harry Reid, Searchlight, and the Erasure of Life in the Desert
During former Senator Harry Reid’s eulogies, Hikmet Loe heard that Searchlight, Nevada, is a ghost town—which clashed with her experience of a land teeming with life.
March 02, 2022
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Spirit of the Land: Art, Activism, and Collaboration in Southern Nevada
Spirit of the Land is a love letter to the Southern Nevada desert: a series of exhibitions opening in late March across three venues celebrates the East Mojave landscape.
February 25, 2022
Review: AH’-WAH-NEE at UNLV’s Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery
AH’-WAH-NEE brings together Indigenous women artists throughout the Southwest for an exhibition about feminine Indigeneity at Donna Beam Gallery at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
November 23, 2021
Art in the Arid Landscape: The Bullfrog Biennial in Beatty, Nevada
The Bullfrog Biennial contrasts contemporary art with the landscape of the desert in rural Beatty, Nevada, about 120 miles from Las Vegas.
October 27, 2021
A Conversation with the Neon Museum’s Executive Director Aaron Berger
Aaron Berger, the newly appointed executive director of the Neon Museum in Las Vegas, discusses his career, the city’s diversity embedded in the museum’s collection, and his passion for glassblowing.
October 08, 2021
Art + Environment Conference Virtually Expands at Nevada Museum of Art
Nevada Museum of Art’s Art + Environment Conference transitions to a virtual format with the potential to expand audiences and present more diverse perspectives on Land Art.
September 20, 2021
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Jung Min: Bodyscapes and Hairscapes
Nevada artist Jung Min rejects the societal ideals of beauty, identity, and neatness—instead, she finds beauty in the grotesque.
July 30, 2021
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Rossitza Todorova
Rossitza Todorova's latest series explores how landscape embodies the idea of time: past, present, and future.
July 30, 2021
