The Trump administration's shadowy National Endowment for the Arts grant retractions have Southwest arts organizations banding together to track the cuts and gather supporters.
May 15, 2025
The artists of Helper, Utah, have spent the last three decades honing strategies to strengthen their rural community—and make the regional market work for them.
May 13, 2025
Three artists confront the Texas housing crisis with street-level projects using piñatas, murals, gentrification walking tours, and more.
May 06, 2025
Suki Seokyeong Kang dies amid landmark Southwest show, Nevada Humanities gets a lifeline after NEH cuts, and more top Southwest art news headlines for May 2025.
May 01, 2025
Shepard Fairey was nearly censored at the Mesa Arts Center. He's back with a monumental artwork—and thoughts on police power, fascism, and art as a "counterwind."
April 24, 2025
Thirty-four-year-old Rule Gallery temporarily steps outside its white walls, presenting site-specific, time-based art experiences in the Denver area.
April 15, 2025
While the Roswell Museum’s doors remain closed following the disastrous flood last year, support comes from the local community and statewide arts organizations.
April 08, 2025
Local artists and gallerists weigh in on Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week’s debut—and its efforts to bust regional stereotypes and elevate the Southwest on a global stage.
April 03, 2025
Caroline Liu’s exhibition lures you in then hits you with a one-two punch about erased histories and Asian marginalization.
April 02, 2025
Meow Wolf announces New York project, Georgia O'Keeffe protégé Juan Hamilton dies, and more top Southwest art news headlines for April 2025.
April 01, 2025
Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe kicked off the year with a labor organizing win for staff, but not without union-busting allegations and three staff departures.
March 20, 2025
Santa Fe's fifteen-year Rubber Lady project was a master class in fugitive—and funny—social subversion. At Vladem Contemporary, the artist unmasks herself.
March 18, 2025
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art made last-minute revisions to a traveling show of women, queer, and trans artists. Museum leadership and a co-curator differ on what happened.
March 13, 2025
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.
March 04, 2025
Painter Eva Mirabal bequeathed a sealed wooden box to her son Jonathan Warm Day Coming. Its contents shaped his artistic trajectory.
February 27, 2025
"You can’t show art if no one can afford to make it," says Brett Matarazzo of BRDG Project, an arts nonprofit that just left its second location—with nowhere else to land.
February 25, 2025
Over 200 arts leaders descend on Austin's Capitol to dispense Texas charm—and return-on-investment pitches—for state funding at Texas Arts Advocacy Day.
February 20, 2025
Yasuaki Onishi's site-specific installation Stone on Boundary poetically links Japan and Utah's mountains, rivers—and entanglements in the mining industry.
February 18, 2025
Mavasta Honyouti debuts sixteen remarkable panels bearing ancestral memories of the Native American boarding school system at Wheelwright Museum.
February 13, 2025
New Mexico–based artist Eric-Paul Riege chose Canal Street, a commercial thoroughfare and counterfeit market, to question notions of material value in his first New York solo exhibition.
February 11, 2025
The City of Tempe says there are no plans to demolish DIY arts hub Danelle Plaza, but the mayor is sending different signals. Local artists are demanding clarity.
February 04, 2025
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith dies, Texas officials seize Sally Mann photos, and more top Southwest art news headlines for January and February 2025.
February 04, 2025
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.
January 28, 2025
Keith Haring was a Phoenix teacher's second choice for a 1986 art workshop, but the invite made a major mark on the city.
January 14, 2025
Museum insiders offer firsthand accounts of the flash flood that breached Roswell Museum in October—and an update on the uphill battle for remediation.
December 19, 2024
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.
December 06, 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
“All my dances are protests,” says one artist from Movements Toward Freedom, which explores how bodily expressions can influence society.
November 14, 2024
Investors are finally redeveloping Evans School in Denver—and displacing nearly sixty artists from their low-cost studios in the process.
November 12, 2024
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
