
Travel2025 New Mexico Field Guide
Unique New Mexico: Scottish Rite Masonic Temple
The Scottish Rite Masonic Temple may be home to a private fraternity, but its ornate theater welcomes all.
May 23, 2025
Travel2025 New Mexico Field Guide
The Scottish Rite Masonic Temple may be home to a private fraternity, but its ornate theater welcomes all.
Isabella Beroutsos • May 23, 2025
New Mexico's UNBOUND performance project builds on historical research about Indigenous slavery through intuitive "deep listening" between artists, ancestors, and community.
Rica Maestas • May 20, 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.
Parker Yamasaki • March 07, 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
“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
Guadalupe Maravilla migrated from El Salvador to the U.S. as an unaccompanied eight-year-old. Now he's on a more metaphysical journey in his winged bus, Mariposa Relámpago.
Xan Murphy • November 01, 2024
Experience the extraordinary Kronos Quartet on March 19, 2024, at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe.
Performance Santa Fe • February 21, 2024
Jerry Hunt was an oddball avant-gardist who conducted an international career from rural Texas. A collection of his work and ephemera are briefly on view in Lubbock.
Andrew Weathers • February 13, 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.
Maggie Sava • January 22, 2024
José Villalobos’s exhibition Fuertes y Firmas at Big Medium in Austin defiantly extracts beauty from brutality.
Barbara Purcell • November 27, 2023
Anemoia brings together more than forty cast members in the exploration of places never traveled through imaginative movement. Experience the production November 17-19, 2023.
Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts • October 24, 2023
Experience the thrilling, live-performance version of Frankenstein, the Gothic tale of love, loss, and creation by Manual Cinema on September 26, 2023, in Santa Fe.
Performance Santa Fe • August 23, 2023
In the Santa Fe Opera’s 2023 staging of Pelléas et Mélisande, director Netia Jones’s contemporary aesthetics renew Debussy’s mystifying Symbolist opera for present-day audiences.
Lauren Tresp • July 31, 2023
New Mexico Artists to Know Now2023 New Mexico Field Guide
Roswell-based artist Kate Turner makes art that reflects her unique history and experience and examines contemporary issues of race, gender, and identity.
Maggie Grimason • May 26, 2023
Finding Water in the WestNew Mexico
Stories of water in the Southwest are told through the lens of artists in Going with the Flow: Art, Actions, and Western Waters at SITE Santa Fe.
Lauren LaRocca • May 16, 2023
Cannupa Hanska Luger melds past and future in an Amarillo Museum of Art exhibition that pays tribute to millions of massacred Plains bison.
Natalie Hegert • November 28, 2022
Wendy Kveck’s Prompt: at ASAP in Las Vegas explored the ways we stage ourselves and our art while employing a feminist practice that confronts and amplifies women as cultural markers.
Hikmet Sidney Loe • November 08, 2022
ArtistsUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Salt Lake City-based artist Beth Krensky responds to the natural or built environment with a practice rooted in socio-historical memory of place.
Southwest Contemporary • August 26, 2022
ArtistsArizonaVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Artist Anh-Thuy Nguyen, based in Tucson, Arizona and Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, explores migration and personal experiences through multimedia works.
Thao Votang • August 26, 2022
The Exodus Ensemble, an immersive theater group in Santa Fe, combines tactics from television with live performance to create intense, dramatic theater.
Daisy Geoffrey • July 14, 2022
Live in America features under-recognized Southwest cities, such as Albuquerque, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, El Paso, Texas, and Las Vegas, Nevada, in a debut performance festival in Northwest Arkansas.
Laurence Myers Reese • May 20, 2022
Salt Lake City artist Mitsu Salmon explores issues of racism, environmentalism, and sexuality. Her performance-based approach to a multi-disciplinary practice crafts an immersive experience between artist and viewer.
Scotti Hill • April 07, 2022
A new book, Breadth of Bodies: Discussing Disability in Dance, spotlights the voices, experiences, and art of dancers with disabilities.
Tamara Johnson • March 28, 2022
FeatureArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
CONDER/dance collaborates with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation at Taliesin West in Arizona to present new works by innovative choreographers in the Southwest.
Lynn Trimble • February 25, 2022
FeatureTexasVol. 4 Winter 2021
Emerging choreographer Alexandra Honchell’s journey from company dancer to independent artist is reuniting her mind with her body.
Lyndsay Knecht • October 29, 2021
Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsTexas
Kayla Collymore and Donna Crump's dance and video collaboration Hypoxia is an acknowledgment and delayering of all the tension from the last year.
Tamara Johnson • July 30, 2021
Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsTexas
Artist Alexandra Lechin's practice explores her own anxiety and acts as a form of soothing during times of emotional unrest.
Southwest Contemporary • July 30, 2021
Vol. 2 Flights of FancyNew Mexico
Tigre (Bailando) Mashaal-Lively's latest work is a sanctuary for the times, offering a space that cultivates solace for grief and inspiration for survival.
Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021
Topologies, Senga Nengudi’s retrospective currently on view at the Denver Art Museum, acts as a call-to-action: for marginalized bodies and beings to be seen in the world.
Joshua Ware • March 15, 2021
Musician Patrick McGuires writes that while the internet is a proven tool for putting distance between human beings, it's also been a lifeline for humanity.
Patrick McGuire • February 08, 2021
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