Faced with Attributions Controversy, Harwood Museum of Art Publicly Edits Santeros Exhibition
Despite concerns over artwork attributions, the Harwood Museum unveiled its show Unknown Santeros. Now experts are meticulously reshaping it.
July 19, 2024
Chicano Art
Xicanx Artists Shine Light on San Antonio’s Cultural Landscape in Landmark Exhibition
Xicanx: Dreamers + Changemakers explores themes of community, borderlands, activism, home, identity, and the importance of public murals. On view at Contemporary at Blue Star in San Antonio through October6, 2024.
June 27, 2024
Work in Progress with Annie Lopez
Phoenix-based artist Annie Lopez's brilliant blue dress forms—tailored from cyanotypes on tamale paper—embody personal, familial, and cultural histories.
May 08, 2024
ReviewArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Amalia Mesa-Bains’s Retrospective Mines an Archeology of Memory in Phoenix
Amalia Mesa-Bains, renowned for altar-style installations that helped bring Chicana art into the mainstream, recently had a retrospective exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum.
March 01, 2024
Mi Gente Considers Community at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Mi Gente: Manifestations of Community in the Southwest considers the complexities of a community shaped by colonization and migration. On view September 1, 2023–February 3, 2023, at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College.
October 10, 2023
ReviewCaliforniaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Xican-a.o.x. Body
Xican-a.o.x. Body at the Cheech presents a robust study in Chicano art, past and present, assembling 140 artworks and seventy artists whose work foregrounds the body as a site for revolution.
September 01, 2023
Multi-Site Albuquerque Exhibition Reinvigorates Southwest Cultural Exchange
Son de Allá y Son de Acá brings together sixty contemporary Chicano/a and Latino/a artists from Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas across four Albuquerque art galleries.
July 28, 2022
