One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? “When everyone is gone and god’s not looking, we need to pick up some sweet stereo equipment and maybe some new furniture for the…
Kellie Wallace and Olivia Perry are looking for a solution. The two seniors at Arizona School for the Arts are in a classed called Challenge-Based Learning, in which students are encouraged to find a social issue, or challenge, and find the means for a solution. They know illegal immigration and…
Looks like Sundays in Phoenix are getting a little spicier. Local mixologists and favorite cocktail gurus Jason Asher and Casey Wallin are back behind the bar at Mabel’s on Main with a weekly event for all lovers of vintage drinks and funky vinyl records. Mabel’s kicks off its weekly Sunday…
It’s Third Friday, and if you’re ready to fall in love with a piece of local artwork, take a Red Dress Tour down Grand Avenue, or peruse a few galleries in Phoenix, we have you covered. Here are a few shows you don’t want to miss. 1. Not a cloud…
Artist: Fausto Fernandez Medium: mixed media collage on canvas All the best experiences I’ve had as an artist have been in Phoenix so far. The community support, my gallery, and working for most of the local museums installing exhibitions was super fun. My studio, where I’ve been working for the…
School’s out, summer’s here, and the family and friends are coming out to visit to “take in some sunshine.” Fortunately, this all means it is time for some relaxation by the pool with a few popsicles, or hell, maybe even a frozen margarita. But when friends or family suggest the…
There’s a recipe to a good man hunt: a cute outfit, a good group of friends, a series of eye-contact games and small talk, and typically, a ton of alcohol. Next weekend, PoolBoy Magazine, the Phoenix-based lookbook full of (mostly nude) Phoenix dudes will celebrate the success of its first…
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? Five years ago, David Hofmann doodled on a box. It was a lighthearted character, which he made by folding the cardboard a few times…
When Ashley Harder moved to Arizona from Boston, she wasn’t in the business of opening art galleries, connecting with the local food scene, or rehabilitating spaces — she was selling cosmetics. Six years later, she’s ditched her make-up gig in Scottsdale, moved to downtown Phoenix, and started her own business,…
Perhaps you can fall in love with a piece of art, after all. Research by Semir Zeki, Professor of Neuroesthetics at University College London shows that the viewing of a great piece of art creates the same chemical response in the brain (namely, a release of dopamine) as being in love. That said, Third Friday…
Artist: Allison ElliottMedium: Calotype Photography (Salt Print)…
When Armando Rascon, Pablo Luna, Lalo Cota, El Mac, Brent Atwood, Harry Baldwin, Matt Minjares, Matt Dickson, Keith Knight, and Luiki are together in one room, it’s bound to be a good time — with some seriously good artwork. The group of artists were part of The Nitty Gritty — a series of bi-annual exhibitions from 1998 to 2003 that…
Bless the British men, who — not to be outdone by their snaggle-tooth female counterparts — are busy popularizing the pubic art of the pejazzle. This week, Mark Wright, star of Britain’s trainwreck television show The Only Way is Essex, became the head, er, face of the pejazzling trend, which much…
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? Tim Devin’s taking a survey. The Boston-based artist is known for putting his work in public places, and in March, he began calling out…
Dennita Sewell can’t believe she didn’t keep the note she scribbled on a pad by her phone the day she got a phone call from Vernon Taylor.It was late 2007, or early 2008, when Taylor called Sewell, the Curator of Fashion Design at the Phoenix Art Museum, to say that…
Artist: Kyle DeWitt Medium:Photography “Most of the time when the sun sets at Tempe Town Lake, folks are looking at the horizon. This summer afternoon, I took the time to run around.”…
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? For the centennial of New York Public Library, on Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, librarians put together a special text, Know the Past, Find…
Artist: Jason HillMedium: Screen Print”This is the Phoenix Travel Poster screen print from my 2005 exhibition, Visions of a Modern Oasis, featuring the Phoenix Financial Center that sits at Central and Osborn.”…
FOX announced last night that Napoleon Dynamite will attempt a (hopefully doomed) animated comeback mid-season of next year. This just in: the nerdy, annoying, nasal-voiced cartoon character may also accelerate the apocalypse countdown. Buckle up…
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? The now-defunct television show was popular early 2000s. It starred rapper Xzibit, who took people’s clunky cars to Los Angeles’ West Coast Customs to…
Five local fashion designers (and their models) will go head-to-head this Friday night in Scottsdale, when Project Ethos continues its nationwide tour at Axis Radius on May 20.The night will showcase runway looks by Tiffe Fermaint, Rebecca Turley, Jennyvi Dizon, Monkieu Tran, and Shantidas Contu-Owen. Axis will also host local…
In today’s example of why your office mates aren’t that loud, annoying, or totally neurotic, a 36-year-old accountant in Brazil has officially won the right to watch porn … and masturbate in the office. Ana Catarian Bezerra has a chemical imbalance that triggers severe anxiety and hypersexuality — a condition…
