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By Deborah Sussman Susser
Nov 5, 2009

Here's a Scottsdale paradox: Many of its most fashionable residents sport clothing purchased elsewhere — meaning New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and Milan. Enter Barneys, the chic New York department store that landed here last month. The name alone is guaranteed to make the heart of any fashionista (or fashionister)...
Arts and Crafts

Mesa Contemporary Arts presents its annual crafts show, and it's not as boring as it sounds. Honest.

By Deborah Sussman Susser
Feb 13, 2003

My father disliked comic books, even smart, deep ones, like Art Spiegelman's Maus. He just couldn't get past the words-and-pictures-in-boxes thing. To him, the comic book was a crude, impoverished vehicle, and its content became less significant by virtue of its form. This frustrated me. After all, he liked art,...
Modern Lovers

See classic works by Picasso, Renoir, Van Gogh and more at Phoenix Art Museum

By Deborah Sussman Susser
Jan 30, 2003

Duncan Phillips was one of those quintessentially 19th-century white men of privilege who used his position to realize his own ambitious dream. Lucky for the rest of us, he was also a philanthropist with an unerring eye for art. His dream: "an American Prado," where visitors could see the finest...
Surreal World

Two Chicago artists dive into the past and come up with gold at Scottsdale's Lisa Sette Gallery

By Deborah Sussman Susser
Jan 9, 2003

I can't help thinking about empire lately, as in the end of. Only that's not Nero fiddling. It sounds more like the Charlie Daniels Band. In July, I went to see "The Surrealist Revolution" at the Pompidou Center in Paris, and I thought about how Surrealism often has been written...
Voodoo Daddy

Artist paints Haiti's history

By Deborah Sussman Susser
Jan 2, 2003

As a teenager in Haiti, Edouard Duval-Carrié spent a lot of time hanging around artists. "I was fascinated by what they were doing," Duval says now. "Things have gone not very well since, but there was a period in Haiti when art was quite glorious." The lost promise that Duval...

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