Priscilla Fowler Fine Art, which has closed after eight years, left its owner in debt—and doubting the viability of the Las Vegas Arts District. The post Here’s What it Costs to Run a Gallery in the Las Vegas Arts District appeared first on Southwest Contemporary ..read more

Zoë Zimmerman's painterly photographs of hair clippings, cigarettes, and other ephemera from a Taos house museum only hint at larger mysteries. The post Zoë Zimmerman Captures the Elusive Intimacy of Recently Unearthed Fechin House Memorabilia appeared first on Southwest Contemporary ..read more

Explore the dream-like and visionary artworks of Luchita Hurtado at the Harwood Museum in Taos, running from July 27, 2024, to February 23, 2025. Luchita Hurtado, Mascara, 1975, oil on canvas 27 x 36 in. Copyright the Estate of Luchita Hurtado. Courtesy the Estate of Luchita Hurtado and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Jeff McLane. Luchita Hurtado: Earth & Sky Interjected July 27, 2024–February 23, 2025 Harwood Museum of Art, Taos Harwood Museum of Art announces Luchita Hurtado: Earth & Sky Interjected, a solo exhibition featuring the artist’s most important bodies of work alongsid ..read more

I Regret to Inform You: Rejected Public Art explores the process of applying to and proposing a public art project, while grappling with the ubiquity of rejection. Rendering of a public art project Roger Reutimann designed for the Kai Tak Sports Park in Hong Kong. Courtesy the artist and Arvada Center. I Regret to Inform You: Rejected Public Art June 6 – August 25, 2024 Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, Colorado In many regards, applying to public art projects can be a bit of a crapshoot. While previous professional experience, artworld notoriety, or particular identity m ..read more

Despite concerns over artwork attributions, the Harwood Museum in Taos unveiled its show Unknown Santeros. Now a panel of experts is meticulously reshaping it. After a public controversy about artwork attributions in its Hispanic Traditions collection, the Harwood Museum of Art convened a panel of experts for a comprehensive review. Courtesy: Harwood Museum of Art. “They were not artists, these early Spaniards, at least not in the accepted sense of the word,” wrote Mabel Dodge Luhan for The Arts magazine in 1925, in an essay about New Mexican devotional artists known as santeros. “From them we ..read more

Artists and poets from Tohono O’odham Nation, a tribe divided by the U.S.-Mexico border, join with myriad voices to counter borderland crisis narratives at University of Arizona. Gareth Smit, Climbing the cross, Quitovac, Mexico, 2018, digital image. Courtesy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. TUCSON, AZ—Countering crisis narratives centered on the U.S.-Mexico border, a multidisciplinary arts collective is exploring the realities of the Southwest borderlands through photography, poetry, and community participation—including collaborations with Tohono O’odham leaders, artis ..read more

In the first exhibition to explore Harry Fonseca’s expressions of “queerness” through his beloved character Coyote, queer-Indigenous performativity takes center stage. Harry Fonseca, Coyote in the Mission, 1983, lithograph, 31 x 22 in. Heard Museum Collection, Gift of Limestone Press, IAC1705. Courtesy Heard Museum. Harry Fonseca: TransformationsMay 3, 2024 – March 20, 2025 Heard Museum, Phoenix In 1972, Harry Fonseca (Nisenan Maidu/Native Hawaiian/Portuguese, 1946-2006) witnessed the Maidu Oleil (Coyote) dance. That ritual awakening, along with learning his uncle’s Maidu practices and Coyote ..read more

Four years into Meow Wolf’s unionized era, and months after 151 staff cuts, union members say things are looking up. Meow Wolf’s Convergence Station, Denver. Photo: Parrish Ruiz De Velasco. Courtesy Meow Wolf. Santa Fe, NM—When Lance McGoldrick recalls his first encounters with Meow Wolf in 2014, he talks about meetings between fabricators, founders, and volunteers during the construction of Santa Fe’s House of Eternal Return attraction. “We’d all sit on the floor and Benji [Geary, a Meow Wolf co-founder] would do performance art to start us off. One meeting in 2016, we were all just crying ab ..read more

Santa Fe’s only contemporary art fair features more than seventy local and global galleries and artists showcasing hundreds of artworks, July 12–14, 2024. Art Santa Fe. Courtesy Redwood Art Group. Art Santa Fe 2024 July 12–14, 2024 Santa Fe Community Convention Center Art Santa Fe returns for its 24th edition from Friday, July 12 through Sunday, July 14, to the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, featuring extraordinary art, specially curated programming, special events, and entertainment. As one of the opening events for Santa Fe’s week-long Art Week, Art Santa Fe provides the perfect ..read more

A color-drenched “contact high” and other tales from the Santa Fe-based mural project that brought Jeffrey Gibson’s Indigenous, queer dreamland to the Venice Biennale. Kirby Crone, Jeffrey Gibson’s (Choctaw/Cherokee) longest-tenured painting assistant, works on murals for Gibson’s Venice Biennale exhibition at SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico in January 2024. Photo: Shayla Blatchford (Diné). Courtesy SITE Santa Fe. Early in her role as Jeffrey Gibson’s longest-tenured painting assistant, Kirby Crone recalls hitting a chromatic saturation point. “It would take us two weeks to finish a large piece, a ..read more