Francisco Moreno’s Time-Bending Solo Combines Epic Sweep and Squirrelly Mischief
In Historia Sintética at Dallas Contemporary, Francisco Moreno blends history and fantasy to shape a surreal new reality.
September 04, 2026
Review
Accidentally on Purpose: Daniel and Maruca Salazar Reflect on 50 Years as Chicano Artists
Daniel and Maruca Salazar’s retrospective Accidentally on Purpose - Pasó lo que tenía que pasar at Museo de las Americas celebrates fifty years of Chicano art and activism in Denver.
September 04, 2026
Native Artists Depict the American Flag Throughout History in This Small-But-Weighty Survey
As the U.S. hits a major anniversary, the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture gathers American imagery with Indigenous origins.
September 04, 2026
(Re)sounding Basks in the Rapture and Discomfort of Sound Art
Kimball Art Center makes space for this group exhibition to zero in on our ears—and it's all-consuming.
September 04, 2026
Hilma’s Ghost Calls Viewers Into Their Circle of Activist Resistance
"We turn backward to move forward," explains the collective Hilma’s Ghost. Their work challenges erasure in the art historical canon and foregrounds female, queer, and trans artists.
September 04, 2026
Witchcraft, Esoterica, and the Queer Resistance—A Queer Arcana Uncovers the Links
Esotericism and activism collide in A Queer Arcana, a wide-ranging exhibition of art and ephemera from the LGBTQ+ underground, part of the Palm Springs Art Museum's Q+ Art Initiative.
August 20, 2026
In Eleanor Mahin Thorp’s Paintings, the Land Looks Back
At UMOCA, Eleanor Mahin Thorp turns minerals, mining waste, and paint into wildernesses that are far from unspoiled—rather, they’re charged with agency.
August 13, 2026
Mary Ellen Carroll’s Power Plays and Trickster Antics Are All That (And a Bag of Chips)
From flipping houses to crashing cars, How To Talk Dirty and Influence People presents a forty-year survey of playful and provocative artworks by Mary Ellen Carroll.
July 23, 2026
Retracted: Drag Artists Take Center Stage—But Don’t Get the Mic—in This Survey of Route 66 Subcultures
Retraction: This review of The Rest Is Drag at 516 Arts has been removed.
July 14, 2026
What Can We Learn From Artists Using Data As Material, Before the AI Age?
Run the Code explores technological obsolescence, interactivity, and the limits of software as an artmaking tool, revealing a data-driven approach to conceptual art.
June 18, 2026
In This Film Noir–Themed Exhibition, That Shadowy Silhouette Is Your Own Reflection
Chase a Crooked Shadow, a blockbuster group show in Dallas, yanks a cinematic trope from the nostalgic fog into an equally murky present.
June 02, 2026
Looking Into the Time Horizon, There’s Doom and Gloom… But Also Hope
Into the Time Horizon, the largest exhibition ever mounted at the Nevada Museum of Art, addresses the accelerating climate crisis and ways we might combat it.
May 19, 2026
Sable Elyse Smith Unwinds the Clock on Race, Power, and the Carceral Machine
With disarming, familiar objects like coloring books and furniture, Sable Elyse Smith’s Clockwork at The Contemporary Austin exposes how race and the carceral system shape identity.
May 05, 2026
What Do You Get When Two Cows and a Conceptual Art Icon Walk Into a Tucson Gallery?
Clever conceit or curatorial cop-out? In Cassidy Araiza / Robert Barry / Jocko Weyland, experiment and open-endedness might be the objective.
April 21, 2026
The Context of Humanness: Yes &… at Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Wants Proof of Life
Yes &..., curated by Tobias Fike and Donald Fodness, advocates for human ingenuity in the face of AI ascendance. But is that a sufficient curatorial framework?
April 02, 2026
What Does Migration Look Like Outside Anti-Immigrant Crisis Narratives?
Tierras Reimaginadas: Migration at ASU Art Museum centers immigrant voices and reimagines migration across species, cultures, geographies, and time.
March 26, 2026
Suburban Phoenix is a Vortex and Mirror in Eric Fischl’s Sprawling Retrospective
Phoenix Art Museum presents forty paintings by Eric Fischl, a New Yorker who seems magnetically drawn to the Valley of the Sun—in all its joy and strangeness.
March 20, 2026
Los Encuentros Models a More Accountable Marfa—But Can it Last?
At Ballroom Marfa, five Latinx artists scramble Marfa's mythologies with humor and ferocity. They leave behind a mural, and a challenge.
March 20, 2026
A First Glimpse of Into the Time Horizon, the Future-Forward, Evolving Exhibition Unfolding Over Time
Artwork by Maya Lin and Ernesto Neto soft launch Into the Time Horizon at the Nevada Museum of Art, examining local and global environmental concerns.
March 20, 2026
In Altered States in the Acid West, Psychedelia and Surrealism Subvert Mythologies
Filled with beauty, tragedy, and oddities, UMOCA’s Altered States in the Acid West encompasses the storied contractions inherent to the American West.
March 20, 2026
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road
Lucy R. Lippard’s Notes from the Radical Whirlwind Archives a Six-Decade Evolution
Lucy R. Lippard: Notes from the Radical Whirlwind traces the sixty-year career of one of the most humane and lucid arts writers of a generation.
March 20, 2026
Peripheral Vision: Abby Flanagan Decenters the Visual in an Exhibition that Feels Truly Ecological
How can art plumb the depths of an aquifer? Abby Flanagan’s exhibition design in To Move Through Stone activates the peripheries to visualize the intangible flows of an ecological system.
March 12, 2026
Kay WalkingStick Takes on American Romanticism Using This Sharp Tactic
In a head-on collision with the Hudson River School at Heard Museum, the Cherokee painter sends Indigenous patterns bristling across the American landscape.
February 24, 2026
Adama Delphine Fawundu Brings the Congo (and Beyond) into Conversation with Salt Lake
Adama Delphine Fawundu submerses herself into the Great Salt Lake, activates the UMFA’s African collection, and brings the region into a global dialogue around decolonization.
February 19, 2026
Charlie Chaplin’s Cabin, and Western Mythologies, Teeter on the Edge at Cookie Factory
In the cyclonic installation Rush, Gary Simmons critically blurs history, cinema, and Western propaganda. He also makes space for wishful grief.
February 05, 2026
Guided by Pueblo Artists, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Unclenches from Foundational Myth
Tewa artists and scholars offer a challenge—along with tea, letters, and a remarkable map—to an institution whose namesake claimed their ancestral lands.
January 27, 2026
Abstraction, Accumulation, and Activism: Three Artists Confront the Dangers of Extraction
In Shifting Topographies, three artists’ varied approaches find common ground in exposing the deadly threat of extractive industries.
November 26, 2025
Bless Me, Cecilia: What Happens When a Star Curator Arrives in Santa Fe?
Cecilia Alemani rolled out an exhibition like no other in Santa Fe—its visionary weirdness will hit everyone a bit different.
November 20, 2025
Tongue Firmly in Cheek, Safwat Saleem’s Unrequited Love Institute Counters the “Otherness” at the Heart of Xenophobia
Safwat Saleem uses satire to share his experiences as an immigrant father living with cultural assimilation and loss in the 2024 Arizona Artist Awards exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum.
November 06, 2025
In Seven Days by Chuck Ramirez, Foodscapes Become Community Portraits
A series of still life photographs by late San Antonio artist Chuck Ramirez capture the essence of a Texas community and subculture.
October 23, 2025
