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Better chug a Red Bull before you walk into "Frank Lloyd Wright: Organic Architecture for the 21st Century," currently taking up Steele Gallery at Phoenix Art Museum. You'll...
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Gunshots shatter the quiet of ASU Art Museum.
Thankfully, the shots are coming from an edgy video installation created as part of "Securing a Free State: The Second Amendment...
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Way back in the mists of time — September 2000, to be exact — I reviewed one of the very first "Chaos Theory" shows, which have become an arts institution in this...
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I'm always somewhat leery of museum exhibitions based on work collected by one person. Many times, these shows are less than stellar, with an unsuspecting viewing audience...
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The home of 81-year-old artist Dick Seeger doesn't have a lot of curb appeal.
Located in a quiet, upscale neighborhood of North Scottsdale, it certainly doesn't look like...
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Keep your head up or you'll completely miss the almost-hidden turn from Indian School Road into the parking lot of Sekong by Night, Phoenix's first Cambodian restaurant (and...
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On any given day, you'll find Brazilian multi-media artist Rivane Neuenschwander digging through the utterly humdrum details and detritus of daily life in search of ideas for...
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One good thing I can say right off the bat about The Arrogant Butcher, the latest "concept" eatery from restaurant guru Sam Fox, located in CitySpace, kitty-corner to US...
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If you still believe in the trite Hollywood myth of the anguished artist — alone in a cold-water, walk-up garret, frenziedly cranking out masterpieces in a couple of...
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California artist and fabled '70s underground cartoonist Joyce Farmer was using raw meat to make a statement decades before Lady Gaga ever dreamed of showing up at a music...
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Maybe I shouldn't admit that I've watched every single rerun of Charmed at least three times. Sneer if you must, but my devotion to the early-21st-century TV show featuring...
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In 18th- and 19th-century Europe, during the alleged Age of Enlightenment, telling someone that he needed to have his head examined in no way carried the contemporary...
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I have to say that photographs of the paintings of Fausto Fernandez, now on display in "The Virtue of Wisdom" at Gebert Contemporary on Scottsdale's Main Street, really do not...
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It all began back in 1996, when Jeffrey Deitch of New York's Deitch Gallery mounted an exhibition called "Shopping." Never without his trademark pair of large, round...
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Artist Colin Chillag keeps the titles to his new portrait paintings, now on display through October 30 at Pravus Gallery, refreshingly simple. Most are either labeled...
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Editor's note: This story has been edited for clarity and accuracy since its initial publication.
Long before it was fashionable (or commercially profitable),...
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Art is art, no matter where you find it. Vietnamese-American artist/photographer Dinh Q. Lê has found it in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City (the city formerly known as...
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In the mid-1960s, when artist Chris Mars was 5 years old, his 16-year-old brother, Joe, was diagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized because of his mental disorder....
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'Tis the season here in the Valley. Even die-hard Phoenicians flee from summer's suffocating heat to anywhere remotely cooler. And, as sure as the thermometer will register...
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Long ago, Emily Post, that maven of manners for the would-be civilized, decreed that, ideally, you should behave around a disabled person the same way you would behave toward...
