ReviewNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Ten years of podcast guests contribute to this multimedia exhibition at Albuquerque Museum, foregrounding the playful possibilities of socially engaged art.
March 07, 2025
ReviewTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
In Fort Worth—known as “Cowtown”—the exhibition Cowboy at the Amon Carter made waves by reimagining the mythology surrounding the American cowboy.
March 07, 2025
ReviewArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
A group of white New York painters blended modernist and Native-inspired aesthetics. Space Makers at the Heard Museum pairs them with historical and contemporary Native artists.
March 07, 2025
ReviewColoradoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Ugo Rondinone, creator of Las Vegas’s Seven Magic Mountains, returns to the American West with more rainbows and a light touch.
March 07, 2025
In what Time Travel feels like, sometimes, New Mexico–based artist Erika Wanenmacher's major solo exhibition at SITE Santa Fe, the artist collapses the distance between the mystical and the everyday.
January 21, 2025
Wicked Wells and Window Wipeouts traps the viewer between a hard place and a sunken one—but its ambiguity offers a different kind of freedom.
January 09, 2025
Las Vegas–raised painter eri king co-opts the persuasive powers of gambling hall interior design at Available Space Art Projects.
December 10, 2024
The desert—in all of its arid, minimalist, color-block permutations—permeates this selection of Surrealist artworks.
November 19, 2024
Cybele Lyle attempts, in confounding and curious ways, to queer desert landscapes in her current installation Cybele Lyle: Floating Seeds Make Deep Forms.
October 17, 2024
Sam Grabowska’s Haptic Terrain at Leon Gallery explores how our bodies, oftentimes in grotesque fashion, mutate in contemporary capitalist culture.
October 08, 2024
Dario Robleto’s wide-ranging reach—in which the deepest interiors and most distant exteriors mix with popular culture and early analog media—is getting more articulate with each pass.
September 27, 2024
In Memory presents the work of twenty-one artists who excavate the archives of remembrance to reveal how humans document, distort, and cling to the past.
September 17, 2024
At Smoke the Moon, two exhibitions of contemporary Indigenous artists consider histories of specific geographies and foster a dialogue countering today’s apocalyptic cynicism.
September 10, 2024
ReviewColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Anchored by imagery from Bears Ears National Monument, Fazal Sheikh's exhibition at the Denver Art Museum explores the dichotomy of beauty and destruction in the Southwest.
September 06, 2024
ReviewTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures
The de la Torre Brothers deliver a feast for the eyes—and warnings for the future—in their witty and maximalist exhibition at McNay Art Museum.
September 06, 2024
ReviewArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
PORTALS at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson in Arizona features new works by California-based artist Fay Ray, who imagines radical futures in the Sonoran Desert and Southwest borderlands.
September 06, 2024
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Off-Center at Vladem Contemporary is a three-decade survey of New Mexico art with myriad bright spots—but how are they connected?
September 06, 2024
ReviewUtahVol. 10 Radical Futures
In the Shadow of the Wall at the Kimball Art Center offers poignant and playful perspectives on the border wall, beyond political controversy.
September 06, 2024
Iconoclasm is a mercy in Teresita Fernández/Robert Smithson, clearing the view of both conceptual artists and their groundbreaking legacies.
August 27, 2024
Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler's colossal new video installation, Past Deposits from a Future Yet to Come, dramatically explores the archeological record of Austin's Waller Creek.
August 20, 2024
Tina Mion ventures into unexplored territory in her exhibition Departures, through death spoon sculptures and paintings about her brother’s death.
August 13, 2024
Even the propaganda is sabotaged in Multiple Realities, a Soviet spy novel of an exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum.
August 06, 2024
California-based artist Carolina Aranibar-Fernández explores colonization, extraction, and exploitation in the Southwest in her exhibition Oleaje at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona.
July 30, 2024
I Regret to Inform You: Rejected Public Art explores the process of applying to and proposing a public art project, while grappling with the ubiquity of rejection.
July 23, 2024
In the first exhibition to explore Harry Fonseca’s expressions of “queerness” through his beloved character Coyote, queer-Indigenous performativity takes center stage.
July 16, 2024
"Biophilic design," which emulates the natural environment, is undoubtedly having a moment. So how does the Denver Art Museum’s latest design exhibition expand on this discourse?
July 05, 2024
Inspired by a remarkable 1940s essay, Surrealism and Us in Fort Worth examines Afrosurrealist tools for battling fascism, colonialism, and cultural assimilation.
June 17, 2024
In canvases and sculpture created during the last years of her life, Carmen Herrera, an under-sung hero of minimalism and abstraction, receives further attention.
June 04, 2024
Cowboy cosplay, broken Spanish, and Indigenous erasure haunt Sagebrush and Solitude, Maynard Dixon's Western retrospective at the Nevada Museum of Art.
May 06, 2024
This Museum of Northern Arizona exhibition unpacks how the marketing efforts of the Santa Fe Railroad and Fred Harvey Company romanticized and exploited the artistry and culture of Indigenous people.
May 02, 2024
