
Southwest Art News: December 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
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.
Jordan Eddy • December 03, 2024
“All my dances are protests,” says one artist from Movements Toward Freedom, which explores how bodily expressions can influence society.
Stephanie Wolf • November 14, 2024
Investors are finally redeveloping Evans School in Denver—and displacing nearly sixty artists from their low-cost studios in the process.
Madeleine Boyson • 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.
Gabriella Angeleti • November 07, 2024
Tiffany Fairall, former chief curator of Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Arizona, sues the City of Mesa in the aftermath of censorship allegations.
Lynn Trimble • November 05, 2024
Guadalupe Maravilla migrated from El Salvador to the U.S. as an unaccompanied eight-year-old. Now he's on a more metaphysical journey in his winged bus, Mariposa Relámpago.
Xan Murphy • November 01, 2024
The Roswell Museum floods, artist Danielle SeeWalker sues Vail, and more top Southwest art news headlines for November 2024.
Jordan Eddy • October 31, 2024
Black artists imagine radical futures through hope, healing, and history in Reclaiming Hope: Afrofuturist Visions.
Lynn Trimble • October 29, 2024
Nearly 2,000 miles from its namesake, Artes de Cuba gallery crafts a complex image of the island nation's globalized art scene in the group show La Habana Hoy.
Phoenix Savage • October 24, 2024
The traveling exhibition ARX3 pairs artists and scientists, while Brains and Beauty at SMoCA draws on neuroaesthetics, to visualize transformative research.
Lynn Trimble • October 10, 2024
New contemporary art centers in Dallas and Santa Fe, and other recent Southwest art news headlines.
Jordan Eddy • October 01, 2024
The U.S. debut of a documentary by Tuan Andrew Nguyen potently combines with the museum's recent gift of Aboriginal paintings in We Were Lost in Our Country.
Gabriella Angeleti • September 24, 2024
When the Lubbock City Council defunded a popular art event for promoting the “LGBT Agenda,” confirming fears of repressive drag bans in Texas, the art community got fired up.
Natalie Hegert • September 20, 2024
The artists and families tied to soon-to-be-demolished Salt Lake City murals depicting people slain by police diverge on how best to preserve their legacy.
Scotti Hill • September 19, 2024
Diné artist joins fight to close uranium hauling loophole on the Navajo Nation, and more Southwest art news headlines for September 2024.
Jordan Eddy • August 30, 2024
While you're in Santa Fe for Indian Market, don't miss these Native arts experiences at Container, Hecho a Mano, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture, and beyond.
Michael Abatemarco • August 13, 2024
The large-scale prison art show Between the Lines grew from an interactive display focused on trust building with impacted communities.
Kathryne Lim • August 09, 2024
With a nod to Andy Warhol's most raucous series, this Scottsdale show of contemporary Native art explodes expectations of medium and message.
Camille LeFevre • August 08, 2024
When a socially distanced network of Taos-based abstract artists finally met in real life, they were ready to reform their art community.
Ekin Balcioglu • August 02, 2024
City of Lubbock slashes art walk funding over drag performances, and more Southwest art news headlines for August 2024.
Jordan Eddy • August 01, 2024
Priscilla Fowler Fine Art, which has closed after eight years, left its owner in debt—and doubting the viability of the Las Vegas Arts District.
Delaney Uronen • July 26, 2024
Zoë Zimmerman's painterly photographs of hair clippings, cigarettes, and other ephemera from a Taos house museum only hint at larger mysteries.
Gina Pugliese • July 25, 2024
Despite concerns over artwork attributions, the Harwood Museum unveiled its show Unknown Santeros. Now experts are meticulously reshaping it.
Erin Averill and Jordan Eddy • July 19, 2024
Artists and poets from Indigenous nation bisected by U.S.-Mexico border join with myriad voices to counter borderland crisis narratives in Tucson.
Lynn Trimble • July 18, 2024
Nearly four years into Meow Wolf's unionized era, employees say things are looking up despite a recent round of staff cuts.
Delaney Hoffman • July 11, 2024
Meet the team behind the Santa Fe-based mural project that brought Jeffrey Gibson's Indigenous, queer dreamland to the Venice Biennale.
Jordan Eddy • July 09, 2024
Barbie mania ends and a new fashion era begins at Phoenix Art Museum, and other recent Southwest art news headlines.
Jordan Eddy • July 03, 2024
On a recent residency, New York-based artist Melissa Joseph fell in love with the "intertwined" community of San Antonio. The feeling is mutual.
Gabriella Angeleti • July 01, 2024
New exhibition Materializing Mormonism at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum has ties to the Center for Latter-day Saint Arts.
Lynn Trimble • June 24, 2024
Chiara Giovando, founder of the boldly named nonprofit ICA Santa Fe, aims to build a holistic support network for artists in her hometown.
Isabella Beroutsos • June 21, 2024
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