Pandemic precautions, new arts leadership, and the growing footprint of developers leads to uncertainty for Tempe, Arizona artists, who wonder what’s next for the local arts scene.
August 02, 2021
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
July 30, 2021
The Abiquiú-based Some Serious Business residency makes space for freedom and connection. This summer’s diverse roster includes Elijah McKinnon, a BIPOC artist who showcases films on Friday at Beastly Books.
July 28, 2021
Santa Fe Classic Theater and New Mexico Actors Lab plan for in-person theater while the Oasis Theatre Company, Santa Fe Playhouse, Theater Grottesco, and Teatro Paraguas take a hybrid approach.
July 27, 2021
Albuquerque theater companies are persevering through financial considerations and pandemic concerns to present D.I.Y. offerings and mainstream performing arts, including Hamilton, during the 2021-2022 season.
July 26, 2021
Danyelle Means, Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe’s first Indigenous executive director, and Louis Grachos, who returns to SITE Santa Fe as executive director, emphasize community collaboration and equity.
July 23, 2021
Jetsonorama’s Unsilenced installation at the Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center dismantles the settler-colonial narrative in the San Luis Valley and amplifies the history of Native enslavement in Southern Colorado.
July 19, 2021
Featuring divergent works in various mediums, The Stubborn Influence of Painting at BMoCA lets guest curator Kate Petley make the case for artists breaking free of preconceived notions.
July 12, 2021
The City of Albuquerque is taking heat for displaying artwork by a member of the New Mexico Proud Boys, an extremist group with white nationalist ideologies, in an open call exhibition.
July 08, 2021
Arizona Latinx artists M. Jenea Sanchez and Gabriela Muñoz collaborate to shift conversations about labor, identity, and gaze in Division of Labor at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
July 07, 2021
The National Endowment for the Arts is accepting applications for $135 million in American Rescue Plan grants designed to help arts and cultural organizations recover from the pandemic.
July 05, 2021
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
July 02, 2021
Suzanne Bocanegra’s video installation Valley at the Blanton Museum in Austin casts eight famous women artists in a reenactment of Judy Garland’s wardrobe test for Valley of the Dolls.
June 29, 2021
Allison Glenn, curator of a Breonna Taylor exhibition, starts at the CAMH in Texas on August 1, stepping into a post previously held by the beloved curator Valerie Cassel Oliver.
June 25, 2021
The Santa Fe Art Auction honors the descendants of one of Edward S. Curtis's most famous photographs this weekend.
June 24, 2021
Arizona-based Indigenous, Latino, and queer poet Natalie Diaz earns 2021 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Postcolonial Love Poem.
June 21, 2021
Santa Fe-based 2021 Currents New Media Festival embraces COVID-19 protocols to produce a new hybrid program for remote and local audiences.
June 17, 2021
Arizona photographers Sama Alshaibi and Stephen Marc, 2021 Guggenheim fellows, discuss how the program will advance their work.
June 14, 2021
Levi Romero, the inaugural New Mexico poet laureate, and the newly created New Mexico State Library Poetry Center are accepting submissions for a poetry anthology through July 1, 2021.
June 11, 2021
Lauren Tresp takes over the 5x5 this week with her five picks of things she's been reading, listening to, watching, or otherwise inspired by.
June 10, 2021
The City of Scottsdale near Phoenix, Arizona is about to launch $27.3 million in Civic Center Mall renovations, with significant implications for local arts and culture.
June 09, 2021
Trapdoor Projects, an art gallery near downtown Albuquerque, caught fire twice in under two weeks. Gallery owner Katie Doyle suspects arson. Albuquerque Fire Rescue is investigating.
June 07, 2021
The Denver Botanic Gardens’s $40-million Freyer-Newman Center, with its three art galleries, establishes itself as fertile ground for exhibitions.
June 04, 2021
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
June 03, 2021
KiMo Theatre in Albuquerque repaired exterior damage sustained during the George Floyd protests and changed the operation of its art gallery.
June 02, 2021
The Tulsa race massacre is memorialized at Oxley Nature Center in Sarah Ahmad’s The American Dream, a Greenwood Art Project-sponsored installation featuring a replica of a refugee tent.
May 31, 2021
A. Hurd Gallery is a new Albuquerque art space that’s home to Anthony Hurd’s studio and a place for showcasing bigger names in lowbrow art.
May 26, 2021
From virtual studio visits to commentary on the world of NFTs, our top five arts and culture events for the next five days.
May 13, 2021
Southwest Contemporary announces a call for entries for our upcoming issue, Vol. 3: Inhale. Exhale.
May 12, 2021
From mk at Trapdoor Projects to Black Mountain Radio out of Las Vegas—our top five arts and culture picks for the next five days.
May 07, 2021
