Do muralists have a legal right to keep their work from being altered or whitewashed? Experts and artists in the Southwest discuss artist contracts and the Visual Artists Rights Act.
April 11, 2024
Francisco González Castro: Does Not Say «I», But Does «I»: Bodies, Limits and Transgressions at the Coconino Center compiles a decade of the artist’s endurance work challenging social structures.
April 08, 2024
Sofie Hecht discusses her project Downwind, a documentary photo album exploring the continued impact of radiation exposure on resident New Mexicans after the 1945 nuclear bomb Trinity Test.
April 03, 2024
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
April 02, 2024
Inside Southwest ContemporarySouthwest
Ta-da! Southwest Contemporary, a leader in arts and culture coverage in the Southwest, punches above its weight in a revamped print magazine!
April 01, 2024
NewsCollectivity + CollaborationTexas
The Fort Worth Circle, a progressive mid-century artist group, introduced modernism to the conservative North Texas town and laid the groundwork for the city’s vibrant art community of today.
March 26, 2024
The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts debuts exhibitions by Greenlandic and Amazonian Indigenous artists whose work narrates threatened worlds deeply rooted in nature.
March 25, 2024
Denver Art Museum workers have voted to unionize, citing pay and management transparency as leading reasons for organizing.
March 20, 2024
Jenna Maurice, currently a resident artist at RedLine Contemporary Art Center in Denver, discusses how relationships with humans and the natural environment shine through her artworks. She also ponders nonverbal communication and life’s various gray areas.
March 18, 2024
An experiment in non-traditional exhibition spaces, the High Desert Art Fair breaks down the boundary between the gallery and the home, creating a radically immersive context for experiencing art.
March 11, 2024
Two major donations to the Nevada Museum of Art of Aboriginal and Native American artworks tie into the Reno institution’s capital expansion project.
March 07, 2024
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
March 04, 2024
The remarkable Clarence Shivers—a multifaceted artist, Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilot, and Colorado Springs philanthropist—is remembered in a retrospective exhibition at Colorado College.
February 28, 2024
Karla Garcia, a Dallas-based multidisciplinary artist, creates clay landscapes that urge us to reflect on our connections to place and each other.
February 27, 2024
Raven Chacon (Diné) honors matriarchal Indigenous resistance at the Harwood Museum in a unique grouping of visual, video, and sound works that will be shown in New Mexico for the first time.
February 20, 2024
Tucson, Arizona is home to an incredible community of creative people. Southwest Contemporary visited in November 2023 to discover the local art scene.
February 16, 2024
Las Vegas artist Jeannie Hua conceptually illustrates the Tonopah tailings burial site and asks the viewer to ponder the historic neglect of Asian Americans who settled in the American West.
February 08, 2024
Blue Lotus Artists’ Collective, or BLAC, is a new Tucson gallery—and perhaps the first of its kind—dedicated to elevating local, national, and international Black artists.
February 06, 2024
Snakebite Creation Space’s Geneva Foster Gluck and Racheal Rios invite artists to install exhibitions that push their practices in new directions while challenging the constraints of a typical gallery show.
February 02, 2024
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
February 01, 2024
Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, known as MOCA Tucson, supports regional and local artists through grants, community events, peer connections, and more. Here’s why artists and curators say that matters.
January 30, 2024
Twin Flames: The George Floyd Uprising from Minneapolis to Phoenix at ASU Art Museum displays signs, artworks, and other community offerings from George Floyd Square.
January 26, 2024
Through the subversive and (sac)religious performance Black Mass Blood Ritual, Denver-based artists Mary Grace Bernard and Genevieve Waller create an occult celebration of pain, kink, queerness, and (dis)ability.
January 22, 2024
Artists and preservationists Beatrice Moore and Tony Zahn recall how they established Phoenix’s Grand Avenue arts district despite wanting to do the opposite.
January 12, 2024
Ceramicist Elaine Parks, in the under-appreciated northern Nevada landscape, carefully combs the environment to find and fashion objects that command awareness and attention.
January 10, 2024
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
January 05, 2024
Books + LiteraryInside Southwest Contemporary
Southwest Contemporary’s staff—Roman Aragón, Natalie Hegert, Steve Jansen, and Lauren Tresp—pick their favorite reading materials of 2023.
January 04, 2024
In 2023, Southwest Contemporary published 300 original articles by seventy-five contributors across eight states about contemporary art in the Southwest. These are readers' ten favorite stories of the year.
January 03, 2024
Southwest Contemporary gives the arts community the focused attention, critical engagement, and depth of storytelling that no other publication can provide to the Southwest region.
December 21, 2023
From contemporary Korean photography to a time-spanning collection of Andean fiber arts and a bubbling biennial on the U.S.-Mexico border, let these exhibitions across the Southwest be bright lights on these short, dark days.
December 19, 2023
