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Studio Visit2026 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico

With an electric palette and layered technique, Santa Fe–based painter Jake Trujillo gives familiar Southwest landscapes a surreal spin.

Kathryne Lim • May 22, 2026

Field Report2026 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico

New Mexico’s “Carbon City” celebrates Native arts and traditions, vibrant galleries, and public art, carving its own path beneath the tourist economy’s glare.

Olivia Amaya Ortiz • May 22, 2026

Feature2026 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico

This summer, Unearthing Futures / Desenterrando Futuros brings together six artists working in adobe, tracing the material from ancestral building tradition to radical contemporary art practice.

Robin Babb • May 22, 2026

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From flamenco in Albuquerque to jazz in Taos, a guide to the visionary venues and companies shaping New Mexico's performing arts scene now.

Rica Maestas • May 22, 2026

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At the Albuquerque nonprofit, students become performers, family members become colleagues, and a community built on access and belonging continues to grow.

Maggie Grimason • May 22, 2026

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After twenty years at 516 Central Avenue SW in Albuquerque, 516 Arts marks a flagship anniversary with a move to a new, renovated space.

Maggie Grimason • May 22, 2026

From the Editor2026 New Mexico Field Guide

This edition of the New Mexico Field Guide is an invitation to take in a dynamic year of New Mexico arts programming—and then experience it in motion.

Jordan Eddy and Natalie Hegert • May 22, 2026

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From Elaine Horwitch's founding in downtown Santa Fe to Robert Gardner and Kenneth Marvel's expansion into the Railyard, LewAllen Galleries celebrates fifty years representing contemporary art.

Adele Oliveira • May 22, 2026

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Zane Bennett Contemporary Art has evolved from a small Canyon Road space into a major Santa Fe gallery known for globally diverse, boundary-pushing exhibitions.

Adele Oliveira • May 22, 2026

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Collectively governed by New Mexico’s nineteen Pueblos, the Albuquerque center marks its semicentennial as a “little pivot” between worlds.

Jordan Eddy • May 22, 2026

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Meow Wolf’s first interactive installation celebrates its tenth anniversary, marking an era of staggering growth and expansion, with even more to come.

Natalie Hegert • May 22, 2026

FeatureNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road

On a road trip across the former rangelands of the American bison, Cannupa Hanska Luger envisions a new monument.

Kimberly Suina Melwani • March 20, 2026

EssayUtahVol. 13 The Road

An archeologist seeks the carvings of a 20th-century sheepherder, tracing stories of lust and loss across a threatened landscape.

Chris Shaw • March 20, 2026

FeatureTexasVol. 13 The Road

Wagon tracks of the doomed Donner Party, detritus of present-day migration, football stadiums as future ruins—Sean J. Patrick Carney traces archeological strategies invoking the Southwest’s complicated past, present, and futures.

Sean J Patrick Carney • March 20, 2026

From the EditorVol. 13 The Road

Southwest Contemporary: The Road reconstitutes even the busiest Southwest arteries as byways that tether far-flung places and people.

Jordan Eddy and Natalie Hegert • March 20, 2026

FeatureSouthwestVol. 13 The Road

A million-dollar gambit in New Mexico is one of many small-town projects chasing the fabled success of Marfa, Texas. Can it actually be replicated?

Jordan Eddy • March 20, 2026

ReviewTexasVol. 13 The Road

At Ballroom Marfa, five Latinx artists scramble Marfa's mythologies with humor and ferocity. They leave behind a mural, and a challenge.

Madison Garay • March 20, 2026

ReviewNevadaVol. 13 The Road

Artwork by Maya Lin and Ernesto Neto soft launch Into the Time Horizon at the Nevada Museum of Art, examining local and global environmental concerns. 

Max Stone • March 20, 2026

ReviewArizonaVol. 13 The Road

Phoenix Art Museum presents forty paintings by Eric Fischl, a New Yorker who seems magnetically drawn to the Valley of the Sun—in all its joy and strangeness.

Royal Young • March 20, 2026

Studio VisitArizonaVol. 13 The Road

Working in her Tucson, Arizona studio, artist Alanna Airitam counters cultural erasure with a photographic series highlighting the Chosen Few, the nation’s first racially integrated outlaw motorcycle club.

Lynn Trimble • March 20, 2026

EssayVol. 13 The Road

In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 13: The Road, guest juror Aurora Tang reflects on the featured artists' works in terms of movement, progress, and possibility.

Aurora Tang • March 20, 2026

ArtistsNevadaVol. 13 The Road

Nevada-based artist Luke Rizotto's multimedia, site-specific installations are vaporous portals into personal psychic pathways.

Royal Young • March 20, 2026

ArtistsTexasVol. 13 The Road

Inspired by recurring trips to an almost-ghost town in Texas, Hannah Spector makes haunting multimedia installations.

Emma S. Ahmad • March 20, 2026

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road

For artist Carmen Selam, the road represents freedom, but also displacement. Her practice explores that tension using materials and imagery that speak to contemporary Indigenous experience.

Maggie Grimason • March 20, 2026

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 13 The Road

Transdisciplinary artist Adelaide Theriault maps medians, transition zones, and in-betweens through their highway art and roadside ditch field recordings.

Royal Young • March 20, 2026

EssayTexasVol. 13 The Road

The “largest art installation in the world” covers the land in Texas once shared by bison, Comanche, and their horses. As a memorial, it represents but does little to repair.

Natalie Hegert • March 20, 2026

InterviewTexasVol. 13 The Road

Artist and activist Nansi Guevara on how art can help protect the Rio Grande Delta from colonial encroachment in Brownsville, Texas.

Rica Maestas • March 20, 2026

ArtistsMexicoVol. 13 The Road

Artist Jessica Sevilla renders poetics, satire, and political ecology into disorienting video collages that interrogate the commodification of ecosystems.

Erin Averill • March 20, 2026

Field ReportColoradoTravelVol. 13 The Road

Colorado’s “second city” has a rich and historic art scene, often overshadowed by the city’s contemporary connections to sports, tech, and the military.

Parker Yamasaki • March 20, 2026

ArtistsTexasVol. 13 The Road

Iran-born, Texas-based artist Vahid Valikhani photographs American roadsides, revealing friction in liminal zones.

Joshua Ware • March 20, 2026