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
activism
Plot Thickens in Colorado Censorship Row as Artist—and Her Subjects—Speak Out
A Denver museum’s alleged act of censorship is stirring national debate, as stakeholders clash over who gets to tell the story—and who gets heard.
November 11, 2025
Manic ExxonMobil Impersonators Pitch a Rising Protest Aesthetic: Razor-Sharp Silliness
The Yes Men used slick branding to spoof ExxonMobil in New Mexico. Inside the cloak and dagger intervention by a wave of "laugh-tivists" with a serious cause.
October 30, 2025
FeatureSouthwestThe Hyperlocal
Exiled Artist Named “War and Peace” Never Gave Up Faraway Fight for Democracy
Two fires marked Burmese artist Sitt Nyein Aye’s life. After his tragic death in Colorado, a tribute to his "Little Myanmar" of the Southwest.
August 21, 2025
The Ultimate Northern New Mexico Weekend: Santa Fe to Taos with Heritage Inspirations
Heritage Inspirations curates a three-day Santa Fe to Taos adventure with e-bike tours, High Road scenic drives, and wine tastings in Northern New Mexico.
May 23, 2025
Pussy Riot Founder’s Anti-Tyranny Art Comes to Santa Fe
Nadya Tolokonnikova brings her internationally touring exhibition to Turner Carroll Gallery, June 28-July 16, 2025.
May 23, 2025
Amid Breathtaking NEA Cuts, Southwest Arts Organizations are Reeling—and Rallying Support
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.
May 15, 2025
Meet the “Sad Little Houses” of Dallas, and the Artists on the Front Lines of the Housing Crisis
Three artists confront the Texas housing crisis with street-level projects using piñatas, murals, gentrification walking tours, and more.
May 06, 2025
Rubber-Clad 1970s Art Vigilante Offers Playbook for a Prohibitive Moment
Santa Fe's fifteen-year Rubber Lady project was a master class in fugitive—and funny—social subversion. At Vladem Contemporary, the artist unmasks herself.
March 18, 2025
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Adapted from a Podcast, Broken Boxes Materializes Artists’ Voices
Ten years of podcast guests contribute to this multimedia exhibition at Albuquerque Museum, foregrounding the playful possibilities of socially engaged art.
March 07, 2025
PhotographyNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Impact Storytelling: Shayla Blatchford’s Anti-Uranium Mapping Project
With a keen eye and a bold approach, Shayla Blatchford’s Anti-Uranium Mapping Project confronts the damaging impact of unethical mining on Southwest Indigenous lands.
March 07, 2025
Mourn the Dead, Fight for the Living: How Should Salt Lake City’s Fleet Block Murals Be Commemorated?
The artists and families tied to soon-to-be-demolished Salt Lake City murals depicting people slain by police diverge on how best to preserve their legacy.
September 19, 2024
Pedro Reyes: DIRECT ACTION at SITE Santa Fe: Swords into Ploughshares
At SITE Santa Fe, Mexican artist Pedro Reyes proves that sometimes sculptors can both make activist statements and focus on sculptural fundamentals, with stunning results.
April 25, 2023
FeatureSouthwestVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Of Mushroom Clouds and Yellow Dirt: Southwest Artists Reflect on Devastation and Hope Through Anti-Nuclear Art
Artists across the Southwest reflect on the region's nuclear history and its fallout in their anti-nuclear artworks.
August 26, 2022
Collectivity + CollaborationUtah
United Nation: For Freedoms Collective Engages Rather Than Alienates
The For Freedoms collective, dubbed the country’s largest network of artists, cultural workers, and organizations, engages in tough and important conversations about social change through artistic civic activism.
March 21, 2022
FeatureNevadaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Spirit of the Land: Art, Activism, and Collaboration in Southern Nevada
Spirit of the Land is a love letter to the Southern Nevada desert: a series of exhibitions opening in late March across three venues celebrates the East Mojave landscape.
February 25, 2022
Work in Progress with Szu-Han Ho
Political organizer and artist Szu-Han Ho of Albuquerque builds coalitions and breaks down institutionalized barriers.
February 23, 2022
FeatureTexasVol. 4 Winter 2021
With Climate Emergency a Certainty, Gulf Coast Creatives Reflect on Art’s Value in Crisis
Houston creatives and artists discuss the influence of climate change on their individual practices and possibilities for creative responses to climate crisis.
October 29, 2021
