Most-read art stories in 2024 addressed "flawed cultural histories, the challenging conditions of the art industry, and artworks that truly inspire." southwestcontemporary.com/top-10-2024/ #southwest #journalism #art

Memories, mystery, and mural art in the Southwest...southwestcontemporary.com/keith-haring-p… #arizona #phoenix #murals #KeithHaring Phoenix Art Museum Keith Haring Foundation

"A lot of galleries and museums cater to the mainstream aesthetic, but artists need spaces where they can be experimental," says #Arizona artist Luster Kaboom. Can this #arts community near #Phoenix be saved? southwestcontemporary.com/danell-plaza-r… #gentrification #tempe

Exploring eclectic off-the-beaten-path art offerings in metro #Phoenix...southwestcontemporary.com/field-report-e… #Arizona

The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art made several changes to a traveling exhibition featuring women, queer, and trans artists. Now a curator is decrying "violent editing." southwestcontemporary.com/transfeminisms/ #contemporaryart #Arizona

How (and why) the "transfeminisms" #exhibition exploring "issues faced by women, queer, and trans artists across the globe" changed between its #London and #Arizona runs... kjzz.org/the-show/2025-… #scottsdale #contemporaryart #DEI

When your studio visit extends into an artist's lush garden and wildlife habitat...southwestcontemporary.com/farraday-newso… #ContemporaryArt #Arizona

Could a new art fair in the Southwest help to catalyze conversations and build community during a time when arts and culture faces challenges on multiple fronts, from ideology to funding? southwestcontemporary.com/scottsdale-fer… #ContemporaryArt #scottsdale #arizona

Shepard Fairey Shepard Fairey was nearly censored at the Mesa Arts Center in #Arizona. He’s back with a monumental artwork—and thoughts on police power, fascism, and art as a “counterwind.” southwestcontemporary.com/shepard-fairey… #murals #publicart

How #arts organizations in the #Southwest are rallying supporters amid #NEA grant cuts... #NationalEndowmentfortheArts southwestcontemporary.com/nea-funding-cu…

Artist Dean Terasaki explores "the relationships between photography, memory, and the ways race, culture, and society manifest themselves in the landscape.” southwestcontemporary.com/dean-terasaki/ #contemporaryart #phoenix #arizona #photographer #southwestcontemporary

"We’re used to thinking of museums and galleries as exhibition spaces, but botanical gardens are bringing art to communities outside of traditional white-box spaces,” reflects artist Laura Spalding Best. southwestcontemporary.com/art-guide-sout… #travel #art #nature

Never mind Elon Musk’s hopes of colonizing Mars. These artists, inspired by David Bowie, have something vastly more expansive and transformative in mind. southwestcontemporary.com/life-on-mars-s… #Mars #ElonMusk #Arizona

"Censorship is coming for us all, so the work we’re doing as artists feels even more important," says Jennifer Ling Datchuk, whose work is exhibited at the Smithsonian American Art Museum & The Met. southwestcontemporary.com/jennifer-ling-… #censorship

Disco. Watergate. Jaws. Three Mile Island. Spiral Jetty. Iʼve got the 70s on my mind after exploring five artworks started in that era. Perhaps youʼll see them one day... southwestcontemporary.com/southwest-land… #art #travel #70s

Working in her Arizona studio, artist Gloria Martinez-Granados create textiles and other works countering the federal government's anti-immigrant obsession.  southwestcontemporary.com/gloria-martine… #contemporaryart #phoenix #southwest #TextileArt

Artists working along the U.S.-Mexico border bring the rasquachismo aesthetic to the "Ya Hecho: Readymade in the Borderlands" #exhibition as the U.S. government escalates its anti-immigrant stance. southwestcontemporary.com/ya-hecho/ #contemporaryart #tucson #Arizona

Phoenix-area gallerists are experiencing many of the challenges that have led to wider speculation in contemporary art circles about whether galleries are still viable, relevant platforms for sharing, seeing, and selling art. southwestcontemporary.com/whats-up-with-… #contemporaryart

Amid Trump “reviews” at the #Smithsonian and shifting National Endowment for the Arts priorities, New Mexico arts groups are weighing whether to reject state grants tied to federal funding. southwestcontemporary.com/federal-censor… #censorship #DEI #contemporaryart

Bring on the studio tours, exhibitions, and art festivals! Fall art season is underway in #Arizona... southwestcontemporary.com/fall-art-guide…