Visual Arts

Mural Obligation: Preserving Art and Building Community

Art Detour 2007 Listings

The low-down details on where to do what

State of the Art

If you paint it, they will come. Then what?

Highfalutin' Folk

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

Art Scene

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

Art Scene

A look at five Valley art exhibits.

Art Scene

Reviews by Gina Cavallo Collins and Kathleen Vanesian

Art Scene

A peek at five Valley exhibits

Show of Strength

Traveling exhibit stops at Phoenix Art Museum

Designing Arizona

Constructing outside of the lines

Ghosts of Mars

The movement that Phoenix's Chicano artists began 25 years ago is far from dead. But the gallery that was their headquarters soon will be.

Best Art For Under $1,000

Art One

Sultan of Style

In the world of mixed media, Donald Sultan reigns as the czar of tar

Art Pulpitations

Sun City artist Norman Baer looks back at babes, blood baths and bazookas.

Drip Shtick

Ed Harris flings himself into art-splattered Pollock

Artistic Differences

Is this any way to run a museum?

That '80s Show

Former art-world rage du jour Julian Schnabel has a lot to live down in ragged Reagan-era retrospective

Dine Hard

Artist Jim Dine shows us the robes at Scottsdale retrospective

Understated Original

Phoenix owes its art museum and its cultural life in part to the late Philip Curtis

Beijing Beauties

Is Chinese 'Forbidden City' exhibition in tea leaves for Phoenix Art Museum?

Crème de la Kremlin

PAM show drops curtain on Russian revolutionary culture

Western Union

"Taos" retrospective retraces a new direction in art

Grand Funk

In search of the Wiley doodler

Monet Via Modem

In search of the Wiley doodler

The Eyes Have It

Take time to stop and see the roses at Monet exhibit

Sculpt Friction

Modern-art patron envisions 500-acre desert sculpture garden -- in McDowell Mountain Regional Park

Installment Plan

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

Wizards of West Wood

Exhibition goes against the grain with "a boy show"

What a Crock

A recent gift of pottery leaves ASU's art museum wondering where to stack its wares

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.

Standard Brands

Meanwhile, back at the museum, Cowboy Artists of America mostly draw blanks

Havana Wonderful Time

Meanwhile, back at the museum, Cowboy Artists of America mostly draw blanks

Cuba-ism

Young artists break through the red tape to star in ASU Art Museum's new exhibit, "Contemporary Art From Cuba: Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island"

The Mural Has Two Faces

Young artists break through the red tape to star in ASU Art Museum's new exhibit, "Contemporary Art From Cuba: Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island"

The Vision Quest of Philip Curtis

More than 500 paintings of social and psychological truths spanning 50 years have made Curtis the dean of Arizona artists. At 90, he's losing the most important tools of his trade.

Painting the Light Fantastic

Fleischer Museum show tracks American impressionist painters from the New York islands to the redwood forests . . .

The Art of Darkness

ASU art professor Joe Young has spent four years telling the world he's the victim of institutional homophobia. But he's no victim. He's the incredibly persistent aggressor in a long, vicious game of smear-the-boss.

An Artistic Challenge

Can the Phoenix Art Museum upgrade its mediocre permanent collection to match a newly expanded and renovated exhibition space?

Legionnaire's Disease

An art exhibit featuring Old Glory has city and state officials scrambling to do something

RED ROCK TEST

An art exhibit featuring Old Glory has city and state officials scrambling to do something

RAVERS' EDGE

An art exhibit featuring Old Glory has city and state officials scrambling to do something

DADA'S GOT A BRAND-NEW BAG

An art exhibit featuring Old Glory has city and state officials scrambling to do something

FREEZE FRAME

An art exhibit featuring Old Glory has city and state officials scrambling to do something

BRIAN KINGMAN'S BLUE PERIOD

THE FORMER OAKLAND A'S PITCHER GOT ENTANGLED IN THE THEFT OF A MILLION-DOLLAR PICASSO. EXCEPT IT WASN'T A PICASSO.

VENICE,ANYONE?

THE FORMER OAKLAND A'S PITCHER GOT ENTANGLED IN THE THEFT OF A MILLION-DOLLAR PICASSO. EXCEPT IT WASN'T A PICASSO.

AMERICAN GRAFFITIAEROSOL ARTISTS ANSWER SCRAWL OF THE WILD

THE FORMER OAKLAND A'S PITCHER GOT ENTANGLED IN THE THEFT OF A MILLION-DOLLAR PICASSO. EXCEPT IT WASN'T A PICASSO.

That's All Folk?

Two folk art shows in the Valley

BRUSH WITH THE LAWPHOENIX'S REGAL LEGALS ARE WELL-BRIEFED IN THE ARTS

Two folk art shows in the Valley

NADA THIS EARTHGRINGO ART HITS THE CANVAS IN NEW "SOUTH OF THE BORDER" EXHIBITION

Two folk art shows in the Valley

OBJECTION D'ART SAY, BUB, WHAT'S THE EXCHANGE RATE ON A RUSCHA?

Two folk art shows in the Valley