Sep 06
In the tiny town of Fort Garland, Colorado, Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado by Chip Thomas (the artist known as jetsonorama) spotlights uncomfortable and paramount histories of Indigenous captivity.
Aug 23
Jami Porter Lara’s Terms and Conditions offers a space for uncomfortable conversations around identity, womanhood, and whiteness.
Aug 11
Talia Pura’s two-in-one review recounts Santa Fe Classic Theater’s As You Like It at Santa Fe Botanical Garden and New Mexico Actors Lab’s The Lifespan of a Fact at the new Lab Theater.
Aug 03
Patrick Marold: The Windmill Project at Ent Center for the Arts in Colorado Springs firmly lands on contingency, environment, and illumination.
Jul 30
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Voice-Over: Zineb Sedira centers the revolutionary power of culture while amplifying the complexities of history, identity, memory, and resistance.
Jul 30
ArizonaReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Si'alik Hiosik / Morning Blossom, a mural by Thomas "Breeze" Marcus and Miles MacGregor, depicts a young girl from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in downtown Phoenix.
Jul 30
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Breath Taking at the New Mexico Museum of Art examines breath from social, scientific, and metaphysical frameworks.
Jul 30
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In Imminent Archive, George Bolster and Dong Kyu Kim exhibit exquisite textile works that examine time, displacement, and the human search for home.
Jul 30
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Bradley Kerl: Balm evokes a sense of calm and reminds us that life sometimes contains something of the sublime, as long as we keep looking for it.
Jul 21
A large-scale collaboration between Marie Watt and Cannupa Hanska Luger, both long invested in community-sourced artmaking, takes the spotlight in Each/Other at the Denver Art Museum.
Jul 20
Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group: 1938-1945 at the Albuquerque Museum surveys the New Mexico group that dove deep into abstract painting to create pathways to spiritual enlightenment.
Jul 14
Dust Specks on the Sea: Contemporary Sculpture from the French Caribbean & Haiti at 516 Arts, a rare exhibition for the Southwest region, explores Caribbean identity in the face of colonization
Jul 13
Cerith Wyn Evans: Aspen Drift at the Aspen Art Museum in Colorado saturates the senses in the Welsh artist’s first exhibition in the States in more than seventeen years.
Jun 30
Shonto Begay: Eyes of the World and Indigenous Women: Border Matters at the Wheelwright in Santa Fe foreground connections to place.
Jun 28
Eileen Roscina's installation at BreckCreate challenges sentiments about memorials in our pandemic-informed world.
Jun 22
At Asia Society Texas Center in Houston, Hong Hong’s massive, experimental paper works fuse nature, craft, painting, and the sublime.
Jun 18
Sallie Scheufler curates compelling works by contemporary Albuquerque artists in celebration of Richard Levy Gallery’s thirtieth anniversary.
Jun 16
Egypt at Santa Fe’s 5. Gallery captures the intersection of modern photography, middle-class tourism, and the allure of pharaonic monuments through the legacy of Jean Pascal Sébah.
Jun 10
Laura Shill’s Future Self Storage at Denver’s Leon Gallery features 9,000 feet of pink and red tubes that combine humor with heartache and the sensual.
Jun 08
Nancy Flemings’s exhibition Good Will Prevail at Axle Contemporary uses domestic textile kitsch to evoke the home-feels of pandemic life.
May 28
Jason DeMarte's Trappings of Arcadia at Denver’s Rule Gallery addresses the clash between nature and artificiality.
May 12
California artist Mary Weatherford's traveling retrospective Canyon—Daisy—Eden spans three decades and multiple bodies of work.
Apr 30
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Colorado in the Present Tense at the MCA Denver presents the work of four Colorado-based artists responding to the events of 2020.
Apr 30
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Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen at Phoenix Art Museum showcases robust works by the late experimental filmmaker and assemblage artist.
Apr 30
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Body/Magic: Liz Cohen takes viewers inside the artist’s creative process while punctuating critical themes in her work, including transformation, labor, and personal agency.
Apr 30
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May Stevens’s retrospective at SITE Santa Fe showcases a selection of her politically charged yet personal paintings and prints that display her ability to embody her conviction in a variety of styles and themes.
Apr 30
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Texas artist Xxavier Edward Carter uses the anonymized debris of financial transactions and sales pitches as his canvases for the debut exhibition at Cluley Projects.
Apr 27
Desert X 2021 offers large-scale, photogenic works that, while politically charged, lack a distinct impact.
Apr 06
Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight at the Heard Museum focuses on focuses on Smith's early works, hard-edge paintings, shaped canvases, and his deep connection to Native culture.
Mar 18
Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism at the Albuquerque Museum includes a kaleidoscope of work from iconic Mexican artists.
Mar 15
Topologies, Senga Nengudi’s retrospective currently on view at the Denver Art Museum, acts as a call-to-action: for marginalized bodies and beings to be seen in the world.
Mar 10
The Family Room exhibition at form & concept in Santa Fe, NM offers a much-needed sanctuary from the new global reality.
Mar 04
Luis Jiménez: Motion and Emotion shows how the artist looked at the story of the American West through a Chicano perspective.
Feb 25
OKLA, Ed Ruscha’s first solo exhibition in his home state Oklahoma, is more than just a homecoming parade for the artist, who is still making work at eighty-three years old.
Feb 08
A look at iconic printmaker José Guadalupe Posada and Albuquerque Museum's current exhibition of his work.
Feb 08
Elemental, Teresita Fernández's mid-career survey at Phoenix Art Museum elevates the intersections of history, culture, and materiality.
Feb 08
Diego Rodriguez-Warner’s recent exhibition Horror Vacui offers a look beyond the immediate disarray and confusion in which we find ourselves.
Jan 18
The virtual-reality installation Carne y Arena, the brainchild of acclaimed director Alejandro G. Iñárritu, is an unforgettable twenty minutes of walking in migrants’ shoes at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Sep 17
Larger Than Memory includes works made by Indigenous artists from North America in the first two decades of this century.
Mar 26
The new Charlene Teters exhibition at Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe challenges border policies in a time of mass migration.
Mar 26
Esphyr Slobodkina: Six Decades of Groundbreaking Painting, Collage, and Sculpture at the LewAllen Galleries in Santa Fe is a window into twentieth-century abstract art by one of the movement’s early pioneers, Esphyr Slobodkina, a versatile and prolific New York artist. A cofounder of the American Abstract Artists group, she translated the concepts of European Modernism into American idiom.
Mar 26
Indelible Ink displays pieces by nine multigenerational Native American printmaking women whose artwork stuns with originality, beauty, and color, while also illustrating the historical trauma that impacts Native people today.
Mar 26
Yōkai: Ghosts & Demons of Japan at the Museum of International Folk Art spotlights the Japanese folk art tradition of yōkai, which depicts paranormal beings such as ghosts, demons, and monsters in a variety of settings, ranging from traditional kabuki theater to Pokémon anime.
