Las Cruces Blog

LUSTER: Realism and Hyperrealism in Contemporary Automobile and Motorcycle Painting

LAS CRUCES MUSEUM OF ART May 23 - August 16, 2025 The traveling museum exhibition, LUSTER: Realism and Hyperrealism in Contemporary Automobile and Motorcycle Painting, is comprised of over 55 paintings by 15 active realists and hyperrealists who specialize in automobiles and motorcycles as their primary subject of choice, in a range of media and scale. Their collective work embodies the very best...[More]

ENGAGING MASTERS: The Art of Parody

Las Cruces Museum of Art February 07 – May 03, 2025   The focus of this show at the Las Cruces Museum of Art is on the ways contemporary artists borrow from history to create something new. These artists weave art history with today’s popular culture, creating pictures within pictures. You will see equal measures of playfulness and nostalgia, much of it tapping into our collective imagination, inc...[More]

GAY LIFE AND LAS CRUCES

How gay/lesbian-friendly is Las Cruces, New Mexico?   Often, to find out how gay friendly a place is, someone will type into a search engine something along the lines of Does Las Cruces have any gay bars? Certainly, the presence of a formal gay establishment marks a community as place gays and lesbians want to visit or move to. Does Las Cruces have a gay bar? No, we don’t. When we moved here over ...[More]