An Artist Who Recasts Care as Ceremony, from Kitchen to Nail Salon
Tucson-based artist Anh-Thuy Nguyen declares "rice is mother" in her current solo exhibition. At her studio, a visit begins with a meal.
January 20, 2026
Tucson-based artist Anh-Thuy Nguyen declares "rice is mother" in her current solo exhibition. At her studio, a visit begins with a meal.
Lynn Trimble • January 20, 2026
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.
Lynn Trimble • November 11, 2025
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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.
Jordan Eddy • August 21, 2025
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."
Lynn Trimble • May 27, 2025
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Denver-based artist Sammy Lee makes highly portable sculptures from paper, but a longing for home is embedded in her materials.
Joshua Ware • March 07, 2025
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How a lost-and-found neon dragon on Ogden's main drag shaped one family's mythology—and captured a community's heart.
Jennifer Primbs • March 07, 2025
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Santa Fe–based artist Edie Tsong explores lineage through repeated strokes of ballpoint pen, revealing the spaces where our inner lives overlap to create new shapes.
Maggie Grimason • March 07, 2025
Yasuaki Onishi's site-specific installation Stone on Boundary poetically links Japan and Utah's mountains, rivers—and entanglements in the mining industry.
Ana Estrada • February 18, 2025
New contemporary art centers in Dallas and Santa Fe, and other recent Southwest art news headlines.
Jordan Eddy • October 01, 2024
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