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Arts & Culture
Posted inNovember 2024: The Once and Future Prairie
Where does the horse come from?
A poem by Blas Falconer.
Posted inNovember 2024: The Once and Future Prairie
Pam Houston has things to say about abortion
The author’s new book is an unflinching treatise on Roe v. Wade and life post-Dobbs.
Posted inArticles
Befriending wildfire
A new book from Obi Kaufmann illustrates the reciprocal connection between California ecosystems and fire.
Posted inOctober 2024: Latino Vote
Remembering Colleen McElroy, the ‘literary North Star’ of the Pacific Northwest
In the last quarter century, this Black poet was one of the most decorated in American literature.
Posted inDecember 2024: Land as Reparations
‘Rez Ball’ is no easy feat, but Indigenous communities win in the end
The latest Indigenous Netflix film shows the challenges of Native life through the culture of rez ball.
Posted inArticles
Reservation Dogs is finally up for the recognition it deserves
Producer and writer, Migizi Pensoneau, ‘brings the realness’ to Emmy voters.
Posted inIssues
What to make of land art in the era of LandBack
‘City,’ a massive outdoor sculpture in Nevada, took Michael Heizer 50 years to make. Today, it is met with a mixture of scrutiny and awe.
Posted inArticles
The hunt for a great third place
The significance of discovering a place with charm, wit and different flavors of personality.
Posted inIssues
‘There are no rules when it comes to art’
#iamthewest: Giving voice to the people that make up communities in the region.
Posted inArticles
When the end of the road brings a new beginning
Two accomplished new novels by Joe Wilkins and Willy Vlautin feature weathered protagonists called back from the brink.
Posted inJuly 2024
The father of Chicano art photography
Louis Carlos Bernal saw his role
as creating art of and for the people.
Posted inIssues
La retrospectiva de Louis Carlos Bernal
El primer gran estudio de la vida y el trabajo del “padre de la fotografía artística chicana”
Posted inJuly 2024
A new documentary confronts water scarcity in the West
In Mirasol: Looking at the Sun, Colorado farmers fight to save their communities.
Posted inJuly 2024
The California artists illuminating kelp
How art and science can build hope for a threatened underwater species.
Posted inJune 2024: The Idea of Wilderness
New York’s Whitney Biennial turns its attention to the West
Contemporary artists and Western aesthetics get their due with ‘Western art’ for the 21st century.