Review: Poetic Justice at the New Mexico Museum of Art
In Poetic Justice at the New Mexico Museum of Art, the social impacts and artistic contributions of Judith F. Baca, Mildred Howard, and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith are on display.
November 30, 2021
Visual Art
Remembering the Future at the Heard Museum
In Remembering the Future: 100 Years of Inspiring Art, the Heard Museum’s new exhibition tells the story of an artistic movement that is often left out of the broader story of American art.
November 16, 2021
Review: 2021 Texas Biennial at SAMA and the McNay Art Museum
The 2021 Texas Biennial explores cross-sections of identity and project optimism in A New Landscape, A Possible Horizon across five venues in San Antonio and Houston.
November 15, 2021
U.S.-Mexico Binational Art Walk Brings Borderland Stories to Life
The Binational Art Walk in Douglas, Arizona and Agua Prieta, Sonora dispels the borderlands-as-monolith myth through creative expressions.
November 11, 2021
Review: Robert Burnier: Song Cycle at David B. Smith Gallery
Robert Burnier's exhibition Song Cycle at David B. Smith Gallery in Denver features small acrylic-on-aluminum wall sculptures folded into aesthetically and conceptually compelling shapes.
November 05, 2021
Review: 40 Years, 40 Stories at San Antonio Museum of Art
The San Antonio Museum of Art celebrates its fortieth anniversary with an exhibition showcasing the global and chronological breadth of its permanent collection.
November 04, 2021
Work in Progress with Trey Duvall
Denver-based artist Trey Duvall explores futility and absurdity as they relate to objects through installation, video, performance, and sculpture.
November 03, 2021
Joan Mitchell Fellowship Awarded to 3 Southwest Artists out of 15 Nationwide
Justin Favela, Luis Tapia, and Rose B. Simpson are recipients of the inaugural Joan Mitchell Fellowship, which gives awardees unparalleled recognition and $60,000 in unrestricted funds.
November 02, 2021
Activation/Transformation at the Wheelwright
Multidisciplinary artist Nathan Young newly activates the Wheelwright Museum’s collection of silverwork and jewelry with a site-specific installation Activation/Transformation.
November 02, 2021
FeatureColoradoVol. 4 Winter 2021
Life is a Cumulative Exercise: Devon Dikeou’s Mid-Career Smear
Devon Dikeou’s Mid-Career Smear in downtown Denver is a retrospective that examines "in-between" spaces with keen observation and irreverent humor.
October 29, 2021
ReviewArizonaVol. 4 Winter 2021
Review: Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration
The artists in Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration explore the relationship between visual culture and imprisonment at the Arizona State University Art Museum.
October 29, 2021
Review: Michael Menchaca: The 1836 Project at Artpace, San Antonio
San Antonio artist Michael Menchaca’s Artpace exhibition, The 1836 Project, is an immersive video installation employing poppy animation to take aim at “the colonial fantasies of the Texas creation myth.”
October 29, 2021
Studio VisitArizonaVol. 4 Winter 2021
Studio Visit: Diana Calderón
Raised in the borderlands, Phoenix-based artist Diana Calderón uses materials from Mexico and the U.S. to investigate her ancestral roots and immigrant experience while exploring both physical and spiritual borders.
October 29, 2021
Patricia Marroquin Norby: The First Indigenous Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Patricia Norby, the first Indigenous curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, talks about the representation of Indigenous art in institutional gallery spaces.
October 29, 2021
ReviewColoradoVol. 4 Winter 2021
Review: Armor at Center for Visual Art
Armor, a group exhibition at the Center for Visual Art in Denver, explored physical and metaphorical barriers in the art-making process.
October 29, 2021
Studio VisitColoradoVol. 4 Winter 2021
Studio Visit: Suchitra Mattai
Denver artist Suchitra Mattai challenges Western traditions of painting through her use of culturally specific materials that are informed by the South Asian diaspora.
October 29, 2021
FeatureSouthwestVol. 4 Winter 2021
DIY, Together: A Look at Artist-Led Efforts Across the Southwest
A handful of DIY, artist-led endeavors in the Southwest demonstrate how artists don’t just DIY—they do it for and with each other.
October 29, 2021
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 4 Winter 2021
Review: Hung Liu: Sanctuary at Turner Carroll Gallery
Hung Liu’s Sanctuary at Turner Carroll Gallery in Santa Fe illuminated and paid respect to the renowned artist and her moving works.
October 29, 2021
Vol. 4 Winter 2021New MexicoReview
Review: Maja Ruznic: In the Sliver of the Sun
Maja Ruznic’s exhibition In the Sliver of the Sun at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos was reminiscent of a dream state, a loose and subdued world of imagination, distant memories, and notions of home and family.
October 29, 2021
Work in Progress with Oswaldo Maciá
Oswaldo Maciá, a Santa Fe- and London-based artist, utilizes the unconventional media of smells and sound to provoke questions about coexistence, human borders, and migration.
October 26, 2021
From Bodies to Borderlands: Southwest Contemporary’s Fall 2021 Art Guide
Tucson galleries and museums are tackling an array of topics during the fall 2021 exhibition season, bringing together artists working in neon, sculpture, video, installation art, photography, and more.
October 19, 2021
Review: Four Exhibitions in Mesa Explore Visionary Arts
Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Arizona explores the Visionary Arts movement with exhibitions featuring Alex Grey and Allyson Grey plus several contemporary artists based in and beyond the Southwest.
October 15, 2021
Remote Possibilities at the Harwood Museum of Art
Remote Possibilities: Digital Landscapes from the Thoma Foundation Collection presents digital art at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos.
October 13, 2021
SITE Santa Fe Presents Three New Fall Installations
SITE Santa Fe presents three multi-sensory installations by Joanna Keane Lopez, Oswaldo Maciá, and Johnny Ortiz for fall 2021.
October 01, 2021
Review: Hunt Slonem: Curiouser and Curiouser at K Contemporary
Hunt Slonem: Curiouser and Curiouser at K Contemporary in Denver features 200 pieces from the New York artist's career—including his signature bunnies.
September 29, 2021
Review: Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology at MoCNA
At the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, worldwide Indigenous artists render the effects of uranium mining and nuclear bomb testing on their lands and people.
September 22, 2021
Review: Thais Mather: Western Blue at form & concept
Thais Mather: Western Blue at Santa Fe’s form & concept ponders the comprehensive characteristics of the color blue in a cunning display of sculptural installations, micro-pointillist drawings, watercolors, and holograms.
September 17, 2021
Daniel McCoy: Golden Light, Long Shadows, and Roadside Flowers
Golden Light, Long Shadows, and Roadside Flowers, a new exhibition by Daniel McCoy, opens at Hecho a Mano in Santa Fe on September 24.
September 15, 2021
Review: Gulf Coast Anthropocene at Project Row Houses
Gulf Coast Anthropocene, the latest exhibition at Project Row Houses in Houston, features works that stray from traditional narratives of the climate crisis to center the Black and brown communities most at risk.
September 13, 2021
Burning of Santa Fe Public Art Sculpture Remains Unsolved
Artist Tigre Mashaal-Lively talks with Southwest Contemporary about the burning of The Solacii sculpture, which was destroyed in a suspected arson outside of Santa Fe’s form & concept gallery.
August 31, 2021
