A crisp white sheet that’s hung like fresh laundry using wooden clothespins bears three carefully embroidered letters: KKK. It’s placed behind a small wooden ironing board, its flat surface bearing the diagram of a crowded slave ship cargo hold. Nearby, a white dress hangs above a small chair holding the…
New Times picks the best things to do in the Phoenix area from Monday, April 18, through Thursday, April 21. Crossfade LAB When the CALA Alliance and ASU Art Museum announced that they would team up with help from Casandra Hernandez, we knew that the Valley was in for some stellar…
Love is in the air, and here in the Valley of the Sun, wedding season is more of a year-round thing. While we can’t tell you what dress to wear, who should be on the guest list, or whether you should write your own vows, we can point you in the right direction of where to put it all together. Between museums, resorts, and art galleries, there are plenty of prime places to put a ring on it in metro Phoenix. Here are our top 25.
Daniel Schay cornered me at a cocktail party a few years ago. Usually, encounters between myself and theater people don’t go well, and often involve a thespian telling me how disappointed they are in my recent critique of their work. But not Dan, who died suddenly last Thursday. Dan wanted…
To read poet Marilyn Hacker’s work is to enter a landscape both wild and artfully contained, where classic forms of poetry are no longer emissaries from a lost world of meticulous manners and pristine hosiery, but are transformed into a call for dynamic action or a lament for fallen revolutionaries…
Give your best scissors and most beloved camera a long, hard look before you head out to see the new crop of exhibitions opening on Third Friday this month. Because you might be amazed by what some local artists have accomplished using these tools most of us tend to take…
Spring is usually a cinematic wasteland. Oscar season is almost a year away, and the glut of bloated summer action flicks hasn’t started its assault on our senses (Batman v. Superman aside). The Phoenix Film Festival fills in the gaps, in the best ways possible, starting on Thursday, April 7, with…
April’s First Friday in Phoenix was bustling as people descended on downtown to check out the latest Fortoul Brothers show in their 40 Owls pop-up gallery, hit a MOD-AZ show at Chartreuse that helped to usher in Modern Phoenix Week, and explore shoes decked out in everything from rhinestones to…
New Times picks the best things to do from Monday, April 4, to Thursday, April 7. The Circus Let us blow your mind: For 16 years, GateWay Community College has shared its film program with the general public a couple of times a year. In tandem with the Valley of the…
When Roosevelt Row landed on the radar of the Arizona Legislature earlier this year, it seemed like everyone knew (or thought they knew) what was best for the area, which is recognized as one of the country’s top neighborhoods and art districts. The Phoenix City Council voted on January 20 to…
In an urban landscape dominated by billboards, fast food signs, and other uninspiring fare, it’s nice to stumble on a nice work of public art now and then. Public art reminds us that there’s more to life than logos and taglines. And the Valley just happens to be one of…
New Times picks the best events and things to do in metro Phoenix from April 1 through 3. “Alley Art” The First Friday art scene has a habit of overflowing from galleries to doorsteps and stoops, and eventually into streets and vacant lots. Now a new monthly show, “Alley Art,” has…
You’re well ahead of the curve if you made the gallery rounds during Art Detour, which featured several exhibitions that will still be up for April’s First Friday – including the Fortoul Brothers show at their 40Owls Pop-Up Gallery. Several additional shows continue this week – including exhibitions of works by…
Turns out, you don’t have to be an architect or urban planner to have a say in how your city looks or functions. During Phoenix Urban Design Week from March 31 to April 7, you can be part of brainstorming a temporary art installation in Roosevelt Row. And that’s just one of…
If you still haven’t recovered from the end of Mad Men, you’re in luck. Starting April 1, Modern Phoenix Week returns to the Valley for its 10th consecutive year. This 10-day festival of all things Midcentury Modern features films, lectures, previews of renovated properties, architectural wonders, a marketplace replete with mod…
Thirty-three large tear-shaped drops made from off-white paper file folders hang suspended at eye level inside a pop-up gallery space in central Phoenix. They’re part of the latest local exhibition by Isaac and Gabriel Fortoul, ages 36 and 39 respectively, who operate a nomadic gallery called 40Owls. Using the name Fortoul…
After three years of fundraising and community input, construction is scheduled to begin on the former Phoenix Indian School music building at Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix. The building, which has fallen into disuse, will become the site of a new Indian Center. The improvements and future center…
Congrats are in order, Arizona. On the evening of March 23, the 2016 Arizona Governor’s Arts Award winners were announced in a ceremony at the Sheraton Phoenix Downtown Hotel. Since 1981, the awards have recognized creatives and organizations who have made a positive impact on the state’s arts and culture…
Walk into Jarrod’s Coffee, Tea & Gallery in downtown Mesa on any given day, and you’re likely to find an eclectic crew of patrons sipping lattes and perusing the art. Tattooed bikers sprawl on couches near mothers minding fussy toddlers. A woman wearing a hijab pops in for a coffee…
Capes. Powers. Brawls. Everyone has a favorite superhero, maybe even more than one. And while it’s fun when they take down the latest Big Bad, there’s something both hair-raising and sometimes heartbreaking about seeing iconic good guys face off against each other. Movie studios are making the fans pick a…
The Phoenix arts scene is humming along. Creative types are opening new venues, artists are collaborating across disciplines, and First Friday art walks are bustling. Art is popping up in all sorts of unconventional places – including bars, churches, and hair salons. And public art, from murals to light rail…
Curious types, take note. More than three dozen students with ASU’s School of Art are opening the doors of their studios in the Phoenix warehouse district this weekend for all to explore. Which means you can check out work spaces of some serious creatives and talk with them about their…
