Jackson Pollock

Sam Pillsbury: Treat Your Wine Tasting Room with Respect

A comment overheard recently: 'If it looks like a Bar, sounds like a Bar, it is a Bar.' It's hard enough to grow and plant wine grapes in Arizona, or anywhere for that matter, and fortunately this is not a majority opinion, but I beg to differ. Let me explain about the gap between these two state ... More >>

World of Paint

Entering the Fifth World: "Namingha Family: Landscape, Form, and Light"

Art Intelligence

Contraband: Just Another "One Last Job" Movie

Toxic Avengers

AndyTalk: Cooking Without a Net

Philosophy or quantum physics (or some combination of the disciplines) suggests that one of an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters will eventually type a Shakespeare play. This leads me to believe that the average person can make a salad without a recipe.

Top 5 Favorite Cookbooks

​We wanted to remind you that we've started our Chow Bella Book Club in partnership with Changing Hands Bookstore. This month (October) we're reading the new book by Kathleen Flinn called Kitchen Counter Cooking School. If you still need a copy, you can get a discounted one from Changing Hands, ju ... More >>

Five Best Food Fights on Film

Tony Curtis (left) looks on as Jack Lemmon gets hit in the face with a brandy-flavored cream pie in 1965's The Great Race. Lemmon has a taste before proclaiming, "Brandy! Throw more brandy! Moooore brandy!" From the classic Laurel and Hardy custard pie fight to Eva Mendez angrily chucking veg ... More >>

Rivane Neuenschwander's "A Day Like Any Other" Is Anything But

Gang of New York

Doc shows how de Kooning, Pollock, et. al., stole Paris’ fire

Fritz Scholder’s Work Is on View at the Smithsonian – and Larsen Gallery in Scottsdale

Maximum Strategery

East Valley facility woos cheapskate Rambos

Who the #$&% is Jackson Pollock?

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

Art Breaker

Jackson Pollock paintings going for… $5?

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

Doc Block

Nonfiction continues its ascent on screen

Amblin' Man

The "topical pop" creations of a bass-playing adventurer

Jibes Sans Frontiers

In which you are sent away to bordering school

Art Detour 2007 Listings

The low-down details on where to do what

Tone Deaf

Ed Harris cuts loose in Copying Beethoven, but a poorly composed script lets him down

Brush With Greatness

Okami shows that videogames can be art

The Surreal World

The persistence of persistence

Raging Machine

Digital deconstructionists

A Whisper in the Crowd

Hip-hop rediscovers minimalism, thanks to a sea of surprisingly great singles

After the Bombs

Exhibition examines post-war aesthetics

Exile Adrift

Neglected German artist Jochen Seidel deserves greater recognition

Chairmen of the Board

Bad-boy skaters perpetuate their own myth in Dogtown and Z-Boys

Minimal Effort

Less is much more at the Phoenix Art Museum's 2001 Triennial exhibition

Drip Shtick

Ed Harris flings himself into art-splattered Pollock

Birth of the Cool: Beat, BeBop and the American Avant-Garde

By Lewis MacAdams (Simon & Schuster Free Press)

Harden's Crossing

She's finally been invited to the Oscar party, but what will she do after the ball?

Yazzie's Razzle-Dazzle

With his 160-foot mural in a major museum and his face on the cover of a magazine, artist Steven Yazzie still loves his hometown

Analyze Diss

Mumford's mystical psychobabble delivers shrinking returns

Trout Mask Original

New Captain Beefheart boxed set documents 17 stormy years of brilliant eccentricity

Flashes

How Dare They?

Can a city-funded museum afford to explore the riskier edges of contemporary art? The West's Most Western Town is about to find out.

Rough Sketch

Basquiat misses its scrawling

I Love a Band in a Uniform

The fashionable dos and duds of pop's greatest costume gimmick bands

WHISKER'S MOTHERIS A CAT REALLY CAPABLE OF CREATING AN ARTISTIC MOUSERPIECE?

DADA'S GOT A BRAND-NEW BAG

HAVANA WONDERFUL TIME

Sons of Beatles

Wouldn't you like to be Sgt. Pepper, too?