ASU’s Ceramics Research Center will be moving to a new home in the coming months, but luckily its extensive ceramics collection doesn’t have too far to go. The new ceramics center is slated to take over a portion of The Brickyard on Mill, the ground-floor space formerly occupied by Borders…
The first event in the second cycle of Scottsdale Public Art’s Canal Convergence series will be taking over the Scottsdale Waterfront this weekend between Soleri Bridge and Goldwater Boulevard. Canal Convergence | Water + Art + Light is a four-day event that celebrates the canal through a series of installations,…
Musicians remix songs all the time. Artists do the same thing, only they call it appropriation. So just think of “Messin’ with the Masters” at Mesa Contemporary Arts as a compilation of visual remixes of old art world masterpieces…
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. “Robots and What Nots! A Space Boy Robot Show” @ Practical Art While the rise of the robots has yet to happen, it doesn’t…
To most people passing by the Monarch Theatre in downtown Phoenix, the dance club’s exterior is like a big, gray, monolithic slab of nothing, save for its smallish sign over the door. To local artists, designers, and muralists, however, it could be their next canvas, and a large and prominent…
Community members will have the chance to view the works of local student photographers in the 44th annual “Western Eye Photography Exhibition,” which will open Monday, November 4, at the Eric Fischl Gallery at Phoenix College. The contest is open to all students in the Maricopa Community College district and…
Art Detour returns to downtown Phoenix for its 26th year on March 8 and 9, 2014. The annual event is organized by local non-profit Artlink and offers a weekend full of art appreciation through gallery openings, studio tours, and more…
At first glance, many of Kevork Cholakian’s paintings look like photographs. The Los Angeles-based artist works in both painting and sculpture to create still lifes that mirror reality, while somehow eschewing it at the same time. This month, a selection of Cholakian’s paintings and sculptures will be on view in…
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…
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…
Drive down 16th street between Thomas and Jefferson and you’ll take in more than just the sights and smells of of dulcerias, carnicerias, and a full spectrum of Mexican restaurants. Calle 16 is the road where art borders on action, as artists illustrate the ongoing struggles, injustices, emotions, and influences…
Who could have imagined that “Chaos Theory,” a three-day, ragtag invitational art exhibition uncurated by artist Randy Slack of Legend City Studios, would hit its teenage prime and actually force local artists to hone their skills for public review? Fourteen years ago, “Chaos Theory” borrowed its name, quite aptly, from…
Who could have imagined that “Chaos Theory,” a three-day, ragtag invitational art exhibition uncurated by artist Randy Slack of Legend City Studios, would hit its teenage prime and actually force local artists to hone their skills for public review? Fourteen years ago, “Chaos Theory” borrowed its name, quite aptly, from…
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…
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…
Randy Slack’s annual exhibition at Legend City Studios is easily one of the most highly anticipated Phoenix art events of the year. But the anticipation won’t last much longer, because the show opens Friday, October 4…
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…
Herberger Theater Center stirred up local controversy by abruptly canceling the art exhibition “Prime Example” in August because of its content. Now the arts organization, which is owned by the city of Phoenix, is getting national attention. The New York City-based National Coalition Against Censorship has called out Herberger for…
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…
The galleries of Roosevelt Row are certainly no strangers to showing off artsy nude photography. As a matter of fact, stylishly rendered pictures of the naked form have been a regular part the downtown Phoenix art scene mix, whether its scandalous shots leaving little to the imagination or more elegant…
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…
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…
