Making Visible at ASU Art Museum Addresses Archival Silences
Making Visible at the ASU Art Museum upends white narratives of the colonized West with contemporary ruptures.
April 17, 2023
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Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies Preserves Monumental Works by Bauhaus-Affiliated Polymath
The Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies in Aspen, Colorado, preserves and celebrates the legacy of the Bauhaus-affiliated artist with the inaugural exhibition Herbert Bayer: An Introduction.
April 14, 2023
Cecilia Vicuña’s Community-Centric Tucson Sculpture Riffs On Ancient Andean Tech
Cecilia Vicuña created the site-specific installation Sonoran Quipu at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson with materials shared by community members and through a deeply collaborative process.
April 12, 2023
Way to Glow: A Classic Denver Neon Shop Helps Artists Revive a So-Called Dying Art
Joel Swanson and other neon artists, with the help of Denver institution Morry's Neon Signs, are fueling a new wave of neon conceptual art.
April 11, 2023
So You Want Your City to Spend More on the Arts—Now What?
Ever wish your city had more arts funding? Learn how artists and arts allies in Phoenix are working to make it happen through the city’s budget process.
April 10, 2023
Pueblo, Colorado is Home to a Burgeoning Contemporary Art Scene
In Pueblo, Colorado, a stacked and growing arts community supports high-quality arts programming that is accessible to everyone, including those who have fled unsustainable inflation in the big city.
April 07, 2023
Southwest Art News: April 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
April 06, 2023
Jiyoun Lee-Lodge Tackles the Bogeyman of Loneliness in Waterman
Jiyoun Lee-Lodge of Salt Lake City grapples with themes of isolation and belonging—in comic book-style works influenced by Korean folk art—in her ongoing Waterman series.
March 30, 2023
The Outsized Presence of Luis Jiménez in the Southwest
Luis Jiménez’s monumental sculptures are found all over the country. Why is the artist not more well known?
March 28, 2023
Star Power: Immersive Experience The Gift Blends Art with Astrophysics
The Gift, a creative and scientific immersive art installation at Colorado College, considers diverse social, cultural, and ethical perspectives in science.
March 27, 2023
USPS Set to Dedicate Postage Stamp by Arizona-based Native American Artist and Skater
A new Art of the Skateboard USPS stamp series that includes work by Di’Orr Greenwood (Diné) will be dedicated this weekend as part of the 2023 Cowtown Phoenix AM skateboarding competition.
March 21, 2023
Oak Street Alley Mural Festival Celebrates Art and Community in Phoenix
The Oak Street Alley Mural Festival in Phoenix’s Coronado neighborhood gives community members a chance to meet and talk with local artists whose live painting reflects diverse styles and themes.
March 14, 2023
In Speaking with Light, Contemporary Indigenous Photographers Showcase Their Lenses at the Denver Art Museum
Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, a first-of-its-kind retrospective now at the Denver Art Museum, celebrates Native culture while confronting settler colonialism.
March 13, 2023
Horacio Rodriguez’s Boombox Benefit Amplifies a Bygone Relic
The Horacio Rodriguez-curated exhibition and auction Boombox Benefit at UMOCA, a multi-artist showcase of ten ceramic pieces patterned from Rodriguez’s 1980s childhood boombox, aids ten different social justice-centric organizations.
March 07, 2023
Bingo Studios Opens in Barelas, Fills a Huge Need for Artist Spaces
Bingo Studios, a pandemic project of artists Lance McGoldrick and Josh Stuyvesant that includes studios, a gallery space, and a fabrication shop, recently opened to fanfare.
March 06, 2023
The Thief Collector Chronicles the Willem de Kooning True-Crime Heist—With a Twist
The making of The Thief Collector, a true-crime documentary about the theft of Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, parallels the Arizona Museum of Art’s journey of prepping the artwork for display after a thirty-seven-year absence.
March 02, 2023
Southwest Art News: March 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
March 01, 2023
Art Detour in Phoenix, Now a Month-Long, Takes a Left Turn
Art Detour, the thirty-four-year-old annual studio tour, has shifted course to match Phoenix’s shrinking arts enclave.
February 28, 2023
New Santa Fe Art Space Container Saves Artwork from Storage—and Destruction
Container in Santa Fe, an offshoot of Turner Carroll Gallery, offers a model that prizes artists, curators, and artwork—some saved from the ultimate demise—over profit.
February 21, 2023
Michael Anthony García: “Grounded in a Utopian Projection of Positivity”
Michael Anthony García, an Austin-based artist and curator, creates installation, video, and sculptural work that explores personal questions of identity and cultivates community.
February 20, 2023
Autumn T. Thomas’s Dancing in the Diaspora Explores Ancestral Connections Through Woodworking
Contemporary woodworker Autumn T. Thomas has developed a collection that speaks to her embrace of ancestry, community, and exploration of self.
February 17, 2023
Eco Build Lab in Taos Designs Menus for Off-Grid Living
Eco Build Lab co-founder, earthship builder, and educator Kirsten Jacobsen describes the delicacy and environmental factors integral to green building construction and action.
February 15, 2023
The Fight to Save Kimball’s Peak Three, Colorado Springs’s Only Independent Movie Theater
Kimball’s Peak Three Theater has closed after the death of owner Kimball Bayles. Community leaders are coming together to try to save Colorado Springs’s only independent movie theater.
February 14, 2023
Smoke the Moon in Santa Fe Elevates Emerging Artists on Canyon Road
Smoke the Moon, which moved from its original Marcy Street location to Canyon Road in March 2022, uplifts emerging artists and cultivates young collectors and artists in Santa Fe.
February 13, 2023
Southwest Art News: February 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
February 06, 2023
Utah’s New State Flag, To the Disappointment of Some, Won’t Depict the State Fish Wielding the State Firearm
During the Utah state and Salt Lake City flag competitions, residents fall in love with Grant Miller’s dark-horse design heavy on clowning state symbols and imagery.
February 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
Fate of Utah’s Outsider Art Site The Christian School Remains In Flux
Salt Lake City’s Christian School, the brainchild of late artist Ralphael Plescia, is in limbo as an arts organization’s preservation efforts are hampered by the recent sale of the property.
January 23, 2023
When, Where, and How Did Phoenix’s Downtown Art Scene Commence? Four Local Artists Remember.
Janet de Berge Lange, Jeff Falk, James B. Hunt, and Annie Lopez—in roundtable style—dish on downtown Phoenix’s art scene pre-America West Arena and prior to First Friday.
January 20, 2023
