Southwest

EssaySouthwest

Exquisitely detailed and experimental depictions of the Southwest abound in today's video games—so why aren't they considered landscape art?

Alejandra Lara • July 10, 2025

TravelSouthwest

Southwest botanical gardens have reshaped their grounds as living museums for stunning—and challenging—contemporary art. Discover seven culture-filled desert oases.

Lynn Trimble • July 03, 2025

NewsSouthwest

Trump tries to zero out IAIA's federal funding, Pussy Riot founder arrives in Santa Fe after Los Angeles turmoil, and more top Southwest art news headlines for July 2025.

Jordan Eddy • July 01, 2025

ExhibitionsSouthwest

Don’t sit it out. These sixteen explosive exhibitions across the Southwest will keep the fire lit for your summer of resistance.

Natalie Hegert • June 18, 2025

NewsSouthwest

The Trump administration's shadowy National Endowment for the Arts grant retractions have Southwest arts organizations banding together to track the cuts and gather supporters.

Lynn Trimble • May 15, 2025

CareerSouthwest

Apply for artist and writer residencies with summer 2025 deadlines in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.

Alejandra Lara • May 12, 2025

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