10 Metro Phoenix Artists to Follow on Instagram

Instagram is turning 3 years old this month, but we haven’t seen any signs that the popular social networking site is slowing down. These days, more and more people are using the app to take photos of things other than their breakfast (thank God). And if you love art as…

Vintage Phoenix Business: Tovrea Castle

Even if you don’t know it by heart, you certainly know Tovrea Castle — the wedding cake-shaped building perched above Loop 202. Besides being a compelling visual landmark, Tovrea Castle is an eclectic piece of Arizona history. Alessio Carraro, the castle’s builder, was an Italian immigrant from San Francisco with…

First Friday in Phoenix: 5 Must-See Shows Oct. 4

First Friday heats up tonight with creative works going up all over the city. Here are our picks for shows not to miss this artful evening. “Hot Plate!” @ R. Pela Contemporary Art Don’t mind us while we toot our own horn just a little bit. The series of commemorative…

Vernon Avenue Pocket Park to Open in Phoenix This Fall

Editor’s note: This post has been modified from its original version to reflect that the Vernon Avenue Pocket Park will open in fall of 2013, instead of March 2014. Like many Phoenicians, Christiaan Blok and Laryn Callaway-Blok, the husband-and-wife team behind Shine Coffee, grew tired of seeing the dirt lot…

10 Comic Books That Need a TV Series

Comic books have been dominating the movie theaters for the last several years. Now they’ve set out to conquer television. DC Comics made the initial incursion into live action television with the successful Smallville series; they followed up with Arrow, and have announced that new shows about the Flash and…

Phoenix Art Museum Modern and Contemporary Art Curator Sara Cochran Resigns

Phoenix Art Museum curator of modern and contemporary art Sara Cochran has resigned. Though a formal statement wasn’t released on the matter, the museum’s public relations manager Nicole DeLeon confirmed that Cochran submitted her resignation Thursday, September 19. Cochran has served as PAM’s modern and contemporary art curator since 2008…

Herberger Busted for Censorship in This Week’s New Times

When Herberger Theater Center’s art gallery canceled the group exhibition “Prime Example” less than a week before the show was set to open at the theater’s gallery, the arts community cried foul. Although it took a few days for all the details to come out, it’s clear that the show…

30 Photos of Burning Man 2013 as Shot By Arizona Artists

Visionary arts and counterculture event Burning Man is akin to a feast for the senses writ large. Very large. Or at least that’s how some of the Valley creatives who frequently attend the epic weeklong festival each year out in Nevada’s desert hinterlands describe the experience. It’s a seven-day communal…

11 Must-See Art Exhibitions in Metro Phoenix This Fall

Shout-out everyone who braved the higher temps of the past months to continue supporting the local art scene. We salute you. As the temperatures drop, we know y’all are getting excited to wander around First Friday with your scarves and pumpkin spice lattes. But the temperature isn’t the only thing…

First Friday in Phoenix: 6 Must-See Shows Sept. 6

First Friday heats up tonight with creative works going up all over the city. Here are our picks for shows not to miss this artful evening. “No Phobia Tattoo Art Show” @ FilmBar Whether it’s a heartfelt memento, a meaningful mantra, or a night of too much tequila, every tattoo…