
Timeless Mucha: A Celebration of Line, Beauty, and Legacy in Santa Fe
Discover Alphonse Mucha's Art Nouveau masterpieces in the exhibition Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line, June 20-September 21, 2025, in Santa Fe.
June 10, 2025
Discover Alphonse Mucha's Art Nouveau masterpieces in the exhibition Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line, June 20-September 21, 2025, in Santa Fe.
New Mexico Museum of Art • June 10, 2025
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Charged with reviving SITE Santa Fe’s storied biennial, world-renowned curator Cecilia Alemani unveils Once Within a Time, a citywide chorus of regional and global voices.
Jordan Eddy • May 23, 2025
José Villalobos: Rough Rider at Arizona State University queers the traditional masculinity inherent in cowboy culture’s objects of desire.
Camille LeFevre • May 08, 2025
Hank Willis Thomas's LOVERULES offers a comprehensive survey of a decade's worth of artwork but flounders in our current political crisis.
Angella d'Avignon • May 02, 2025
Artist Jack Craft operates a cattle ranch in the Texas Panhandle while producing minimalist sculptures and experimental prints.
Natalie Hegert • April 17, 2025
Drift///Hold is the ambitious inaugural exhibition of Central Standard in Tulsa with major new works by five compelling early-career artists.
Kate Green • April 11, 2025
Caroline Liu’s exhibition lures you in then hits you with a one-two punch about erased histories and Asian marginalization.
Robyne Robinson • April 02, 2025
Explore the transformative Light and Space art movement at Albuquerque Museum April 5–July 20, 2025, featuring groundbreaking works that redefine perception through light, color, and spatial experience.
Albuquerque Museum • April 01, 2025
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
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.
Lynn Trimble • March 13, 2025
Gerald Peters Contemporary kicks off a season of compelling shows including explorations of American narratives through diverse perspectives, trends in female pop art, a special guest-curated exhibition by Erin Joyce and Ninabah Winton, and more.
Gerald Peters Contemporary • March 11, 2025
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Arleene Correa Valencia’s exhibition at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts reveals the indelible imprint of growing up as an undocumented migrant through personal writings, photographs, and textiles.
Ana Estrada • March 07, 2025
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In Fort Worth—known as “Cowtown”—the exhibition Cowboy at the Amon Carter made waves by reimagining the mythology surrounding the American cowboy.
Emma S. Ahmad • March 07, 2025
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Ugo Rondinone, creator of Las Vegas’s Seven Magic Mountains, returns to the American West with more rainbows and a light touch.
Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025
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Ten years of podcast guests contribute to this multimedia exhibition at Albuquerque Museum, foregrounding the playful possibilities of socially engaged art.
Maggie Grimason • March 07, 2025
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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.
Camille LeFevre • March 07, 2025
Mavasta Honyouti debuts sixteen remarkable panels bearing ancestral memories of the Native American boarding school system at Wheelwright Museum.
Olivia Amaya Ortiz • February 13, 2025
In what Time Travel feels like, sometimes, New Mexico–based artist Erika Wanenmacher's major solo exhibition at SITE Santa Fe, the artist collapses the distance between the mystical and the everyday.
Lauren Tresp • January 21, 2025
Wicked Wells and Window Wipeouts traps the viewer between a hard place and a sunken one—but its ambiguity offers a different kind of freedom.
Ryan Hawk • January 09, 2025
Bucking the solemn tone of much performance art, Right on Time collective's sweaty, cyclical extravaganzas herald a roaring late-2020s vibe.
Madeleine Boyson • January 07, 2025
The Arizona-born artist’s MOCA Tucson exhibition draws inspiration (and soil) from the Santa Cruz River, melding body and land.
Camille LeFevre • December 23, 2024
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
Las Vegas–raised painter eri king co-opts the persuasive powers of gambling hall interior design at Available Space Art Projects.
Alejandra Lara • December 10, 2024
The desert—in all of its arid, minimalist, color-block permutations—permeates this selection of Surrealist artworks.
Camille LeFevre • November 19, 2024
Salt Lines: Exploring Climate, Environment, and the Saline Influx examines the past, present, and future of salt in the global landscape through the work of duo Hylozoic/Desires, photographer David Maisel, and poet and photographer Alexandra Fuller.
Southern Utah Museum of Art • November 19, 2024
“All my dances are protests,” says one artist from Movements Toward Freedom, which explores how bodily expressions can influence society.
Stephanie Wolf • November 14, 2024
Hosted by the Tulsa Artist Fellowship and featuring multidisciplinary luminaries, including the first Black female space pilot, Earthbound blends art and science.
Gabriella Angeleti • November 07, 2024
Black artists imagine radical futures through hope, healing, and history in Reclaiming Hope: Afrofuturist Visions.
Lynn Trimble • October 29, 2024
Cybele Lyle attempts, in confounding and curious ways, to queer desert landscapes in her current installation Cybele Lyle: Floating Seeds Make Deep Forms.
Camille LeFevre • October 17, 2024
Experience the gallery's newest exhibitions in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, this fall.
RioBravoFineArt • October 09, 2024
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