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NewsSouthwest

Suki Seokyeong Kang dies amid landmark Southwest show, Nevada Humanities gets a lifeline after NEH cuts, and more top Southwest art news headlines for May 2025.

Jordan Eddy • May 01, 2025

NewsSouthwest

Meow Wolf announces New York project, Georgia O'Keeffe protégé Juan Hamilton dies, and more top Southwest art news headlines for April 2025.

Jordan Eddy • April 01, 2025

ExhibitionsSouthwest

Catch these must-see spring art shows across the Southwest, featuring artistic time travelers Kent Monkman, Jorge Rojas, Lynn Hershman Leeson, and more.

Jordan Eddy • March 25, 2025

EssaySouthwestThe Hyperlocal

Time Zero podcast producer Sean J Patrick Carney on art and the nuclearized world, from the hyperlocal of the Trinity site to the planetary effects of nuclearism.

Sean J Patrick Carney • March 11, 2025

NewsSouthwest

Santa Fe mourns Gene Hackman, Austin's Big Medium closes, another staff departure from CCA Santa Fe, and more top Southwest art news headlines for March 2025.

Jordan Eddy • March 04, 2025

CareerSouthwest

Apply for artist residencies with spring 2025 deadlines in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Oklahoma, California, and beyond.

Alejandra Lara and Naomi Eldridge • February 10, 2025

NewsSouthwest

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith dies, Texas officials seize Sally Mann photos, and more top Southwest art news headlines for January and February 2025.

Jordan Eddy • February 04, 2025

EssaySouthwest

Artist Jon Revett makes a pilgrimage to see his mentor Larry Bell's career retrospective in Phoenix, and view what the Light and Space master calls his last cube in Taos.

Jon Revett • January 30, 2025

Inside Southwest ContemporarySouthwest

Southwest Contemporary's most widely read stories of 2024 reflect some of the most urgent issues within the arts.

Lauren Tresp • January 02, 2025

ExhibitionsSouthwest

Catch these must-see art exhibitions across the Southwest for winter 2024–25, featuring Richard Avedon, Nancy Hemenway Barton, Charles Ross, and more.

Lauren Tresp • December 17, 2024

NewsSouthwest

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

Gift GuideSouthwest

E-commerce has nothing on these holiday shopping experiences at galleries, museums, and community art spaces in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.

Lynn Trimble • November 26, 2024

CareerSouthwest

Southwest artist residencies with deadlines falling in winter 2024-25 in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.

Alejandra Lara • November 18, 2024

NewsSouthwest

The Roswell Museum floods, artist Danielle SeeWalker sues Vail, and more top Southwest art news headlines for November 2024.

Jordan Eddy • October 31, 2024

SponsoredSouthwest

Akin helps families commemorate their ancestry in the form of custom-designed books using memorabilia, genealogical discoveries, and all-inclusive design know-how.

Akin • October 24, 2024

ExhibitionsSouthwest

Don’t miss these essential art exhibitions across the Southwest for fall 2024, featuring major surveys, immersive installations, and artistic dialogues.

Natalie Hegert • October 02, 2024

NewsSouthwest

New contemporary art centers in Dallas and Santa Fe, and other recent Southwest art news headlines.

Jordan Eddy • October 01, 2024

FeatureSouthwestVol. 10 Radical Futures

Science fiction authors have provided many visions of dystopian futures in the Southwest. Can architects help avert such disastrous outcomes? 

Natalie Hegert • September 06, 2024

NewsSouthwest

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

Living HistoriesSouthwest

Newly discovered letters revive a writer's quest to discern why two Taos-based modernist artists had an outsized impact on her family—but not art history.

Madeleine Boyson • August 23, 2024

CareerSouthwest

Discover your next opportunity with our latest roundup of Southwest artist residencies in Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming, with deadlines in September, October, and November 2024.

Southwest Contemporary • August 22, 2024

Books + LiterarySouthwest

Surface-level market forces are no match for ancestral traditions in veteran ethnologist Diane Dittemore’s new basketry book Woven from the Center.

Jordan Eddy • August 16, 2024

NewsSouthwest

City of Lubbock slashes art walk funding over drag performances, and more Southwest art news headlines for August 2024.

Jordan Eddy • August 01, 2024

NewsSouthwest

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

NewsSouthwest

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

ExhibitionsSouthwest

Don't miss these essential Southwest summer art exhibitions in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Texas, and Nevada.

Jordan Eddy • June 27, 2024

NewsSouthwest

The arts community goes head-to-head with a sports magnate in Salt Lake City, and other recent Southwest art news headlines.

Jordan Eddy • June 03, 2024

CareerSouthwest

Lavish and rugged residency opportunities abound in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

Jordan Eddy • May 21, 2024

From the EditorInside Southwest ContemporarySouthwest

Our new editorial director, who joined SWC on April 22, looks back on a challenging decade of arts journalism—and ahead with an ambitious editorial vision.

Jordan Eddy • May 17, 2024

From the EditorInside Southwest ContemporarySouthwest

This spring, Southwest Contemporary welcomes a new editorial director and four new board members, along with award wins, open calls for our next issue, and an opportunity to win $10,000 in funding for emerging media.

Lauren Tresp • May 10, 2024