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1. Art

   Lodestar Day Resource Center at the Downtown Phoenix Homeless Campus Offers Art Classes and a Place to Create

   By Kathleen Vanesian

   Published: September 24, 2009

   If you pick up this week's Best of Phoenix issue (trust us, you won't be disappointed), you'll notice something different this year as you read raptly through our awards for...

2. Art

   Unburied Treasure: Phoenix Convention Center's Public Art Projects

   By Kathleen Vanesian

   Published: August 13, 2009

   Unless you're a comic fanatic, a Mary Kay representative, or a hardcore Trekkie, chances are you haven't haunted the halls of a convention center in a while. But don't let that...

3. Feature

   Rose Johnson: The Phoenix Arts Community Mourns One of Its Pioneers

   By Kathleen Vanesian

   Published: June 18, 2009

   Anyone who's traveled south on 16th Street past Thomas Road in the past 10 years has seen the fading mural that snakes along the side of the old Mercer Mortuary building....

4. Art

   “Binh Danh: In the Eclipse of Angkor” at Lisa Sette Gallery Uses an Alternative Photographic Process to Burn Images of Khmer Rouge Victims Into Your Soul

   By Kathleen Vanesian

   Published: June 4, 2009

   Ghostly traces of somber Asian children's faces are just part of the stark imagery that will haunt your dreams after seeing "Binh Danh: In the Eclipse of Angkor," the current...

5. Art

   Martha + Mary Throws a Fund-Raising Street Party for ASU Art Museum’s “Open for Business” Exhibit

   By Kathleen Vanesian

   Published: April 16, 2009

   Hot dogs, cold beer, hot tunes, and cool art — I can't think of a better way to drift through a mellow April afternoon than eating grilled pups, chewing the fat with...

6. Feature

   Arizona State University's Future Arts Research is Shortsighted in Failing to Focus on Phoenix

   By Kathleen Vanesian

   Published: March 5, 2009

   Let's get this straight: Millions of dollars are being hacked from Arizona university and college budgets. Entire university programs are being eliminated. There's talk of...

7. Art

   “Angela Ellsworth: Underpinnings” Has Us in Stitches

   By Kathleen Vanesian

   Published: January 22, 2009

   Multi-media artist Angela Ellsworth never, ever disappoints me. And just when I think she can't outdo herself, she proves me wrong. Her aesthetic coup this time can be seen in...

8. Art

   Light-Rail Stations Ride the Line Between Public Art and Construction Detail

   By Kathleen Vanesian

   Published: December 25, 2008

   Editor's note/correction: The original version of this review incorrectly attributed statements made in a letter to the editor ("Feedback," February 14, 2008) to Bob Adams, a...

9. Art

   “Eastern Promise: Contemporary Art from China” at the Lisa Sette Gallery Saves Visitors Airfare to See These Works on Consumerism

   By Kathleen Vanesian

   Published: November 27, 2008

   Wandering through "Eastern Promise: Contemporary Art from China," the latest fare being dished up at Lisa Sette Gallery, until January 3, is like stuffing your face at a...

10. Art

    We May Be Losing Cultural Cornerstones Like ASU’s “Duke” Reiter and SMoCA’s Susan Krane, but Just As Much Talent Is Coming to the Valley As Leaving It

    By Kathleen Vanesian

    Published: September 25, 2008

    I'm sort of befuddled about the recent requiems for Phoenix arts community members who've left town for greener pastures — just as they always have and just as they...

11. Art

    Phoenix Art Museum brings Chinese ink drawing to the Valley with “A Tradition Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Ink Paintings from the Chu-tsing Li Collection”

    By Kathleen Vanesian

    Published: August 21, 2008

    For the downright dazzling opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, world-famous film director Zhang Yimou utilized the form of a basic painting scroll as the...

12. Art

    Cerealism at West Valley Art Museum is part of a complete breakfast

    By Kathleen Vanesian

    Published: July 10, 2008

    In the 1930s, in what can only be considered the first official culinary performance art piece, Mexican émigré painters Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varos...

13. Art

    SMoCA’s "Pushing Paint Around" is splashy testament to the art of painting

    By Kathleen Vanesian

    Published: June 12, 2008

    Besides the notion of ultimate creation, God and painting clearly have something in common. For the past 60 years or so, both have been declared dead and buried innumerable...

14. Art

    "Josh Greene: Some Parts Might Be Greater Than the Whole," the latest in ASU Art Museum’s "Social Studies" series, is a literal work in progress

    By Kathleen Vanesian

    Published: April 3, 2008

    "Josh Greene: Some Parts Might Be Greater Than the Whole," a current offering at Arizona State University Art Museum, is a work in progress. Literally. Greene's project is the...

15. Art

    "Masterpiece Replayed: Monet, Matisse and More" anything but a blockbuster

    By Kathleen Vanesian

    Published: March 20, 2008

    "Eleven French Artists. One Revolutionary Event," screams the headline for Phoenix Art Museum's self-proclaimed blockbuster, "Masterpiece Replayed: Monet, Matisse & More."...

16. Art

    ASU Art Museum goes Minimalist with a unique pairing of works by Carl Andre and Tim Hawkinson

    By Kathleen Vanesian

    Published: February 21, 2008

    If you're looking for razzle-dazzle, interactivity, or anxious introspection in an art experience, don't bother seeing ASU Art Museum's "Carl Andre/Tim Hawkinson," a bare-bones...

17. Art

    Fifteen years after the Squaw Peak Pots debacle, the Phoenix art community rallies around a public-art project

    By Kathleen Vanesian

    Published: January 24, 2008

    Not long after I arrived in Phoenix, a strange site appeared as I traveled north on the 51. The Pots Along the Freeway were like a divine apparition to a suffering saint....

18. Cafe

    Let Them Eat Cake

    By Kathleen Vanesian

    Published: August 2, 2007

    If this were 16th-century Europe, David Pham would be considered a renaissance man. Not only does Pham, hands-on owner of Bamboo Bakery on West Glendale Avenue, have a degree...

19. Cafe

    From Yasha with Love

    By Kathleen Vanesian

    Published: July 5, 2007

    If you've been pining for piroshki (Russia's answer to the Hot Pocket) like your dear departed babushka used to make — or maybe jonesing for some nose hair-singeing adjika...

20. Art

    Highfalutin' Folk

    "Folk art" not an apt term for some of the work in "Great Masters"

    By Kathleen Vanesian

    Published: September 2, 2004

    With some notable exceptions, you won't find the folk art now appearing in "Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art" at Phoenix Art Museum popping up in your average Mexican mercado....