Andrew Michler redefines sustainable design through hyperlocal, compassionate architecture shaped by climate, culture, and the evolving lives of its occupants.
June 05, 2025
Three artists confront the Texas housing crisis with street-level projects using piñatas, murals, gentrification walking tours, and more.
May 06, 2025
Hallie Ayres follows the barbed wire strand to contrast the hypervisibility of Cadillac Ranch, the secrecy of Pantex, and the site-specificity of Combine City.
April 29, 2025
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
Time Zero podcast producer Sean J Patrick Carney on art and the nuclearized world, from the hyperlocal of the Trinity site to the planetary effects of nuclearism.
March 11, 2025
In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 11: The Hyperlocal, curator and guest juror Jaime Herrell explores how the artworks in this issue transform personal experiences into universal connections.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsColoradoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Denver-based artist Sammy Lee makes highly portable sculptures from paper, but a longing for home is embedded in her materials.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Urgent Care Art’s pop-ups in quotidian Tucson spaces juxtapose the healing and fear inherent to queer visibility.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsUtahVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Salt Lake City–based artist Joshua Graham explores site-specificity through walking and collecting, gathering objects in the foothills above the city and reconfiguring them in the gallery.
March 07, 2025
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Selective histories have long defined Santa Fe's main gallery district. Kyle Maier's digital Canyon Road History project aims to round out the picture.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Houston-based artist Cindee Klement depicts otherwise invisible systems and their interconnections to encourage local ecological recovery in the Energy Capital of the World.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Antonio Lechuga shrouds spaces in vibrant fleece blankets called cobijas, offering care, comfort, and commentary on gun violence.
March 07, 2025
FeatureTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Three San Antonio arts organizations leverage a land trust and other strategies to literally hold space on the rapidly growing city's Westside.
March 07, 2025
ReviewTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
In Fort Worth—known as “Cowtown”—the exhibition Cowboy at the Amon Carter made waves by reimagining the mythology surrounding the American cowboy.
March 07, 2025
InterviewNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Nonagenarian artist Jerry West on New Mexico homesteading, dream work, and adobe architecture as sculpture.
March 07, 2025
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
New Mexico's fiber artists at Futuros Ancestral are weaving technology with tradition to preserve heritage textile practices for future generations.
March 07, 2025
Studio VisitMexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Ceramic artist Israel Gómez Mares transforms his Ciudad Juárez studio into a community hub while creating art that connects desert clay to regional identity.
March 07, 2025
New MexicoStudio VisitVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Las Cruces–based artist Eva Gabriella Flynn's meticulous maps and flags hover in an uncertain space between two nations, to playful and political effect.
March 07, 2025
ReviewColoradoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Ugo Rondinone, creator of Las Vegas’s Seven Magic Mountains, returns to the American West with more rainbows and a light touch.
March 07, 2025
FeatureColoradoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
The Future Town Tour, an ongoing series hosted by Warm Cookies of the Revolution, brings residents together throughout small-town Colorado to reflect on shared cultures and create new rituals.
March 07, 2025
Field ReportArizonaTravelVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Some of best art offerings in metro Phoenix happen off the beaten path. Here’s our eclectic Phoenix art guide.
March 07, 2025
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Albuquerque-based artist Max Sorenson follows real and imaginary lines that enmesh the world, from bark beetle tracks to a human-made survey system, "feeling for tension."
March 07, 2025
EssayNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Bruce Nauman’s Center of the Universe on the campus of the University of New Mexico inspires a personal ritual and creative essay that asks us to reconnect to the environment and ourselves.
March 07, 2025
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
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
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
ArtistsArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Shaunté Glover explores the muscular narrative power—and queer, femme force—of women’s basketball through the lens of South Phoenix.
March 07, 2025
EssayUtahVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
How a lost-and-found neon dragon on Ogden's main drag shaped one family's mythology—and captured a community's heart.
March 07, 2025
EssayNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Jesse Littlebird’s Petrolglyph moves in place, expanding horizons on the future of New Mexican lowriding and American car culture through Indigenous art.
March 07, 2025
ReviewArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
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
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
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.
March 07, 2025
