It’s not hard to get Jonathan Brandstein going. All you need to do is bring up music and travel — two things many people are head over heels about — and he’s like a freshly discharged jack-out-of-the-box telling all sorts of amazing tales of the places he’s been and the…
Monsterologist Daniel m Davis (of Steam Crow) has been abducted by monsters 218 times. And in an effort to provide a public service, he’d like to show you how he’s survived. You can catch him and Monsterpocalypse tool kit this Saturday at Red Hot Robot from 7 to 8:30 p.m….
Arist (for all photos): Antigirl Location: Third and Garfield streets Check out more photos after the jump …..
Herberger Theater Center will indeed reopen on October 1 — the complex at 222 East Monroe Street has been closed since May 17 while undergoing its final phase of renovations. And that means it’ll need some rad art for its new and improved space. Now through October 4, the contemporary…
Supporting the arts isn’t easy. It can be quite a costly pursuit. Even if our hearts and souls are tugged by some magnificent piece of art hanging on a gallery wall, often times prices can be so exorbinant that the only thing that art doesn’t tug out of us is…
The all-female cast in the new exhibit titled “A Closer Look” isn’t looking to throw feminism in the face of gallery wanderers. Instead, the seven artists are aiming to open up a dialogue about personal identity and social issues through their paintings, photographs and drawings. The show, curated by Annie Waters,…
It’s about time Phoenix sees some serious mural love. In the interest of giving credit to their artists and because we’re losing track of the times we’ve said, “Woah, when did that go up?”, we bring you Mural City, a series on the murals springing up around town — their…
Leonard Wood was here. He lived a nice long life, and he was well loved, and he chased away grief and fear by building things that occupied his hands and kept his mind off his troubles. He was an unremarkable man, one about whom none of us would ever have…
Last year, the Arizona arts community was shocked by the tragic news of Rose Johnson’s death (click here for the New Times feature story). Johnson, who was a pioneer in the Phoenix Arts scene of the 1980s and 1990s died in Bali after she drank a contaminated batch of arak,…
Jacki Orr likes stuff. And junk. And trash. And you can usually find these elements in her mixed-media sculptures, one of which recently posted up beautifully in a corner of Mesa Contemporary Arts.For her latest project “The Goal is Interactive Acculturation” installation, Orr will feature found-object shrines and alters as…
Silvana Salcido Esparza’s on a wall hunt. You may have heard her name; she’s the badass chef behind the Barrio Cafe. She says she told herself growing up that when she turned 50, she’d start speaking up — positively and negatively — about what she really believed in. Just a…
Location: Behind Verde Artists: DOSE, SERP, SINEK, ASIK AND CRE More photos after the jump …..
If you’re a local artist, you’ve got plenty to keep your hands busy these days.Just check out our recent post that describes some application opportunities. Now it’s time to add five more to that list. We’re talking Petersen House Art Festival, Streetscape Public Art Project, Scottsdale Arts Festival, Phoenix Sister…
On the corner of Second and Hadley streets in Phoenix, just south of the Warehouse District’s Bentley Projects, Vine Saccento is silently building something — without any tools. Saccento’s may be familiar; he opened (and recently closed) Phoenix breakfast/coffee spots Drip and Toast. Now, he’s back without the brew, and…
Add trashy fashion and “guerrilla gardens” to the existing call for artsy rubbish.Along with the second annual “Trashy Sculpture Show” at Bragg’s Pie Factory, the Grand Avenue Festival has expanded its call for entries.One is the “Recycled Rubbish Fashion Show,” also scheduled to hang at Bragg’s Pie, 1301 Grand Avenue,…
If you’re quick, you can catch, “SB1070: An Artist’s Point of View” up at Gallery 2345 in Phoenix. The show just arrived, and 2345 is hosting the exhibitions opening tonight, but the flags, stop signs, postcards, canvases and posters will be back on the road on Monday. The pieces are…
When author Sherman Alexie read from his latest novel, War Dances, to a sold-out crowd at the Heard Museum last fall, he ranted about technology, specifically Amazon’s Kindle and some trouble his outspokenness about the gadget had caused him recently. Alexie, who presents more as a stand-up comic than as…
Matthew Mosher gave out white-chocolate Hershey’s candy, powdered doughnuts, and Natural American Spirit cigarettes for yesterday’s opening reception of his new exhibition at the Arizona State University Step Gallery — The Gallery is No Place for Artists. “White foods are really hard to find,” Mosher explained to those who gathered…
Ted Decker curated a show. It’s called “Converging Trajectories” and it’s all about you…and him…and 41 artists. You’re going to see a little bit of everything here — video installation, photography, sculpture, painting, drawing…you name it, it’s at Modified Arts. but don’t bother looking for a connective thread between these…
Had it not been for the graffiti-ed plastic chairs by the door, we might have skipped over Just Blaze, which opened its doors on Saturday (now it just needs a bigger sign).Just Blaze was located on McDowell Road in Phoenix, but took over the building on the corner of Camelback…
