For Her First Major Museum Solo Show, Cara Romero Does It in Her Own Time
Over six years, artist Cara Romero and curator Jami C. Powell resisted the art world’s rush to capitalize on Native art. Their show just arrived in Phoenix.
March 05, 2026
Arizona
Gebert Contemporary Returns to Scottsdale Art Week 2026 with a Roster of Strong Talent
Discover Gebert Contemporary at Scottsdale Art Week, March 20-22, 2026. Featuring works by John Randall Nelson, Barbara Rogers, Pascal Piermé, and more.
March 02, 2026
Opening Reception: Through The Lens, by Holly Wilson
(Scottsdale, AZ) Bonner David Galleries is pleased to announce Through the Lens, a new exhibition by contemporary Indigenous artist Holly Wilson, opening March 5 and on view through April 2 […]
February 25, 2026
Kay WalkingStick Takes on American Romanticism Using This Sharp Tactic
In a head-on collision with the Hudson River School at Heard Museum, the Cherokee painter sends Indigenous patterns bristling across the American landscape.
February 24, 2026
Why Scottsdale is the Perfect Art Lover’s Escape
Discover Scottsdale's thriving arts scene—from Old Town galleries and world-class museums to Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West, weekly ArtWalks, and inspired dining.
February 24, 2026
How Phoenix Art Museum’s First “Local Art” Curator Built a Regional Launchpad
Christian Ramírez's scope is technically local at Phoenix Art Museum, but the assistant curator channels years of Southwest connections from Tucson to El Paso.
February 12, 2026
An Artist Who Put His Stamp on the Southwest—and Vice Versa
After Ed Mell’s passing, his Phoenix studio tells the story of a low-key artist whose Southwest images reached the nation on a postage stamp and beyond.
January 29, 2026
Sprung from Suburbia, Summer Raine Young Seeks Inherent Queerness of a Desert City
In cyanotypes and soft sculptures, genderfluid artist maps queer elements of Phoenix—from dilapidated signs to their own body.
January 08, 2026
On the Edge Explores “California Cool” Through the Collection of Joan and Jack Quinn
Discover works by Basquiat, Warhol, Mapplethorpe, and Hockney that defined California's anti-conformist creative spirit, on view at the Tucson Museum of Art December 13, 2025–May 10, 2026.
December 02, 2025
Studio light | space: Where Contemporary Art Breathes in Tucson’s Historic Barrio Viejo
Founded by artist Beverly Fisher in an 1850s adobe home, Studio light | space is Tucson's intimate gallery for contemporary art that rewards sustained presence. Featuring nationally recognized artists in thoughtful, light-filled exhibitions.
November 18, 2025
Places Planted in the Mind: Jorge Ruiz Brings Together Cross-Border Towns, in Miniature
Jorge Ruiz intertwines Tucson and Nogales in his exhibition at Arizona's Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. His "imperfect" process is grueling.
October 28, 2025
ASU’s Top-Ranked MFA Includes a 3-Year Teaching Assistantship and Downtown Phoenix Studio
The School of Art at ASU advances generative art practices driven by research, ideas, and effective public engagement. Attend an info session on December 5, 2025, and apply by January 15, 2026.
October 20, 2025
Fall Road Trip: The Art Season is Just Starting in Arizona
Arizona's art scene heats up when the weather cools down. Chart a fall road trip through every must-see show, festival, and art experience.
September 23, 2025
ArtistsArizonaVol. 12 Obsession
Obsession: Philip Gabriel Steverson
In video performance and charged sculptures, Philip Gabriel Steverson channels rage and pain at the loss of his mother through a devotion to healing.
September 05, 2025
ReviewArizonaVol. 12 Obsession
Rasquachismo and Resilience: Ya Hecho Transforms Found Objects into Borderland Narratives
Artists working along the U.S.-Mexico border bring the rasquachismo aesthetic to Ya Hecho: Readymade in the Borderlands as the U.S. government escalates its anti-immigrant stance.
September 05, 2025
ASU Art Museum Opens Two Powerful Exhibitions Exploring Migration and Urban Resilience
Join ASU Art Museum's opening celebration on September 13 for Tierras Reimaginadas: Migration and Michelangelo Lovelace: Art Saved My Life.
September 02, 2025
MOCA Tucson’s New Executive Director Brings “Bicultural” Vision to the Borderlands
Venezuelan curator Gabriela Rangel and her international circle discuss her "double viewpoint" of the Global North and South, and what it means for MOCA Tucson.
August 28, 2025
Arizona Artist Residencies: The Grand Canyon State Beckons
Whether you're a local Arizonan looking for community support or a visitor looking for an idyllic new setting to inspire, let our roundup of Arizona Artist Residencies guide you to your next opportunity.
August 19, 2025
An Artist Who Braids Cultures, from the Porcelain Trade to Beyoncé
Jennifer Ling Datchuk's live-wire practice is rooted in ceramics but branches into performance, installation—and biting cultural critique.
July 24, 2025
Is There “Life on Mars?” This Exhibition Makes the Case for Focusing on Earth
In a David Bowie–inspired show in Scottsdale, Steven J. Yazzie and Erika Lynne Hanson confront earthly disillusionment through landscape-based abstraction.
July 17, 2025
Modern Nature: The Contemporary Art Guide to Southwest Botanical Gardens
Southwest botanical gardens have reshaped their grounds as living museums for stunning—and challenging—contemporary art. Discover seven culture-filled desert oases.
July 03, 2025
An Artist Who Unearths Layers of History, and Stacks Them Again
Informed by his family history, Dean Terasaki uses activist imagery and charged ephemera—including postcards from Japanese American internment camps—to send a present-day "warning."
May 27, 2025
Shepard Fairey Unveils His First Arizona Mural in a City That Tried to Censor His Work
Shepard Fairey was nearly censored at the Mesa Arts Center. He's back with a monumental artwork—and thoughts on police power, fascism, and art as a "counterwind."
April 24, 2025
A New Art Fair Debuts in the Southwest—Is It a Hit or a Miss?
Local artists and gallerists weigh in on Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week’s debut—and its efforts to bust regional stereotypes and elevate the Southwest on a global stage.
April 03, 2025
Decades After the Creative Class Arrived, Small Arizona Town Confronts Dual Realities
Local artists and art-world power players are next-door neighbors in Winslow, Arizona. Everyone and the mayor is weighing in on the town's creative direction.
March 27, 2025
Are an Arizona Museum’s Changes to Transfeminisms Exhibition “Violent” or Pragmatic?
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art made last-minute revisions to a traveling show of women, queer, and trans artists. Museum leadership and a co-curator differ on what happened.
March 13, 2025
ArtistsArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Urgent Care Art
Urgent Care Art’s pop-ups in quotidian Tucson spaces juxtapose the healing and fear inherent to queer visibility.
March 07, 2025
Field ReportArizonaTravelVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Field Report: Eclectic Metro Phoenix
Some of best art offerings in metro Phoenix happen off the beaten path. Here’s our eclectic Phoenix art guide.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Hyperlocal: Shaunté Glover
Shaunté Glover explores the muscular narrative power—and queer, femme force—of women’s basketball through the lens of South Phoenix.
March 07, 2025
ReviewArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Not Much Is Indigenous About Indian Space Painting, but This Show Looks for Links
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
