Subject: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

• Not Just For Refrigerators Anymore: May Magnet Month at SMoCA

  May 2, 2008

• Installment Plan

  Electronic techno-art show is an on-again, off-again proposition

  July 1, 1999

• Best Art Museum

  Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

  September 26, 2002

• Art Scene

  A peek at five Valley exhibits

  June 10, 2004

• Art Scene

  Reviews by Gina Cavallo Collins and Kathleen Vanesian

  June 24, 2004

• Art Scene

  A look at five Valley art exhibits.

  July 22, 2004

• Art Scene

  August 5, 2004

• Art Scene

  August 19, 2004

• BEST ALTERNATIVE TO SNOTTSDALE

  SMoCA Nights

  September 30, 2004

• Art Scene

  Current shows, exhibits and installations

  March 17, 2005

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

  June 12, 2008

• Club Candids: SMoCA Nights: Stitched

  By Lilia Menconi You should know the drill by now. Click this link to the slideshow. We've gone to a number of these lovely parties and this time, we were particularly impressed with the way it all came together. The theme, inspired by Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art's current exhibition, "Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting" was all about sewing, knitting and all the things one can do with fibers in fashion. Fibers and sewing? Hmmm. This sounds familiar... As usual, SMoCA Nights is

  November 19, 2008

• Arty Girl: Robots in Flight at the Scottsdale Civic Center

  There are certain things in this world that will win me over no matter what. Whenever my niece cracks up laughing with her high pitched squeals, sparkling eyes and a huge grin of jagged first grader teeth, I'm so overwhelmed with adoration, I feel like my heart is going to die.Or this morning, when I was absent-mindedly adjusting the too-low neckline of my shirt and my boyfriend handed over a safety pin without me having to say a word. Oh my god, marry me now.And robots. I'm a complete sucker fo

  December 10, 2008

• Arty Girl: 2009 Contemporary Catalyst Award

  If you're reading this, I assume you keep up with the local arts scene, right?Either that, or you're my boyfriend, my best friend or my mother and you're fulfilling your obligation (thanks guys).If you belong to the first group, it's time to think real hard...who do you know in the scene who's due for some recognition? Here's your chance to throw them a little credit.

  January 5, 2009

• Arty Girl: SMoCA's Seriously Funny Stuff

  Being the avid New Times reader that you undoubtedly are (oh, you!), you've probably already heard of the opening of "Seriously Funny" tonight at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. If you haven't, just click here so my fellow writer, Wynter Holden, can fill you in.So, yes, there's an opening tonight at the museum from 7-9 p.m. but I want to talk about a peripheral project that you don't have to walk through museum doors to see.Artist Nina Katchadourian launches her temporary site-specific ar

  February 13, 2009

• Arty Girl: Wanna be an Architect?

  Photo by Mark on Flickr Creative Commons.Or, rather, does your kid wanna be an architect?I often think it would have been nice to have a little pressure from the parents when I was a teenager. Instead, they took the "hands off" approach and I was a bit of a free spirit. And, no, "free spirit" is not code for "slut". After high school, I lacked direction and, consequently, spent a few years too long in college to figure my sh*t out.So if you're the parent of a teenager, don't hesitate to be asser

  March 25, 2009

• SMoCA Public Birthday Party

  February 12, 2009

• Beyond the Valley of the Malls

  How to gussy up a strip and other revolutionary thinking

  October 2, 2008

• Thank Buddha It's Friday

  It couldn’t come soon enough

  July 17, 2008

• Summer SMoCA Nights

  June 19, 2008

• Secondhand SMoCA

  Out with the old really cool stuff, in with the new

  May 15, 2008

• Mind Play

  None of these is a pipe

  December 27, 2007

• Lost in Space

  As in taking up

  July 12, 2007

• Shear Magic

  Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen

  July 20, 2006

• Doesn't Compute

  Things that make you feel dumb

  February 2, 2006

• Slam Bang

  Video artists of resistance

  November 10, 2005

• Snap Shots

  Contemporary sampler platter

  October 27, 2005

• Cutting-Edge Cup o' Joe

  Tea and mocha at SMoCA, anyone?

  September 1, 2005

• Art Scene

  Current shows, exhibitions and installations

  August 18, 2005

• Art Scene

  Current shows, exhbitions, and installations

  July 7, 2005

• About Face

  Show some skin at "Nip/Tuck" Tuesdays

  May 19, 2005

• Design of the Times

  Practical magic at SMoCA show

  March 3, 2005

• Designs on Greater Things

  January 27, 2005

• '50s-Sent

  New exhibit looks at the designs of a decade

  January 22, 2004

• Day of the Dreads

  Good and bad hair days in Scottsdale

  December 4, 2003

• Design and Conquer

  Local designers look to go national

  August 28, 2003

• Type A Negative

  Museum program stretches the definition of expression

  July 25, 2002

• Think Pieces

  Four Arizona artists fall into focus at SMoCA exhibition

  June 13, 2002

• Much Ado About Numbers

  Arts groups are discovering that counting heads doesn't really add up to arts success

  June 21, 2001

• The Art of Play

  Scottsdale exhibit has plenty for both the parents and the kids

  October 5, 2000

• Moving Violations

  May 28, 2009

• Arty Girl: Summer Solstice Sunrise at James Turrell Skyspace

  Look at the end of this blog for the longest photo credit known to man.If you're new to Arty Girl, you won't be annoyed by this blog. If you've been following Arty Girl, on the other hand, you might be turned off by my incessant need to write about the James Turrell Skyspace at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.I can't help it. It's an obsession of mine. I've already written a handful of blurbs about the thing but I still feel the need to pimp it.Plus, I went to one of the sunrise viewings l

  June 10, 2009

• Arty Girl: Call for Music Objects @ SMoCA

  By jayceeloop on flickr creative commons.That drum machine is totally bitchin'.Back in the late 80's, little nine-year-old me saved my $2.50 per week allowance to buy my first cassette tape, "Faith No More: The Real Thing". I played that thing to death on some crappy, portable tape player with one speaker. Needless to say, both the player and the cassette are long gone.I'm assuming that most music fans had better equipment than I. At least, that's my hope. And it looks like Scottsdale Museum of

  June 22, 2009

• Your Old MiniDiscs Could Be Art

  The MiniDisc: Technology has been headed steadily downhill since this late 90s innovation.Still got that MiniDisc player in a drawer somewhere? Now's your chance to see what if it's art, as the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (best known by it's delightful acronym SMoCA) is holding a second call for entries in its future exhibition, Rewind Remix Replay: Design, Music and Everyday Experience.All objects will be reviewed by SMoCA's curatorial staff and Prasad Boradkar, Associate Professor, I

  July 17, 2009

• Culture Club

  October 1, 2009

• Bill Rankin: "Radical Cartography"

  October 1, 2009

• Club Candids at SMoCA Nights

  ​So we were a little worried that SMoCA Nights might suffer on a Saturday night. Even though the event was filled with fine art, boozy cocktails, good music and an incredible fashion show, we feared it would get lost in the overwhelming shuffle of so many partying opportunities on that most sacred of weekend evenings. But there was no need for concern. SMoCA Nights on Saturday, October 3rd was way more packed than we ever saw it on a Thursday night. And since no one was rushing to get there af

  October 6, 2009

• Antique Roadshow

  October 22, 2009

• Lingering Monsters

  October 29, 2009

• Cur Couture

  November 19, 2009