After Audrey Thacker faced a bitter battle with Old Town Scottsdale gallery and business owners who effectively shut down her Artisan Market events on the Scottsdale Waterfront, the event organizer started considering other options. Now, she’s found one. Thacker is working with Downtown Tempe to launch a new event called 6th…
New Times pick the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, August 15, through Thursday, August 18. For more events, see our curated online calendar. Diamondbacks vs. Mets By all accounts, the Arizona Diamondbacks should be better. Beleaguered by injuries, underachieving pitchers, and an abysmal home record, the boys…
Two Roosevelt Row art galleries will close this month, their owners recently confirmed. Located in a building on the southeast corner of Roosevelt and Fifth streets that features a collaborative mural by El Mac and Augustine Kofie, Lotus Contemporary Art and Five15 Arts will shutter by the end of August 2016. They’re owned…
Before there was Hamilton, the latest musical to take Broadway audiences by storm, there was The Phantom of the Opera. It’s one of many shows featuring music by British composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, whose other claims to fame include Cats and Jesus Christ Superstar. Those needing proof that The Phantom of the…
Last week, Discount Tire Company, which has more than 900 stores in 31 states, posted signs reading “Re-Elect Sheriff Joe Arpaio” in its stores in Maricopa County, where the controversial sheriff known for racially profiling Latinos is seeking a seventh term. Community outcry came swiftly from both politically engaged groups and…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, August 8, through Thursday, August 11. For more events, see our curated online calendar. Land of a Thousand Dances You’ve heard of the British boy band the Beatles, who hailed from Liverpool and made waves in the early…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, August 5, though Sunday, August 7. For more events, see our curated online calendar. Game On Expo If Pokémon Go leads you in the direction of Mesa Convention Center this weekend, it’s not a fluke: The second annual…
It’s all about first and last chances during August’s First Friday in Phoenix. Bassim Al-Shaker is showing his first exhibition in his new Babylon Gallery, and Phoenix Art Museum is getting ready to close its “Defining Moments: 50 Years of Fashion” exhibition, which ends on Sunday, August 7. For those…
Due in part to a particularly robust lineup of local gallery exhibitions for July’s First and Third Friday art walks in downtown Phoenix, there was an abundance of great art on view during July 2016. We saw plenty of great art outside of Phoenix, too – especially in East Valley…
A trio of birds created by Phoenix artist Lauren Lee now tower over part of Roosevelt Row, an area of downtown Phoenix that’s been named one of the nation’s best neighborhoods and art districts. Lee’s Three Birds in Flight comprises acrylic paintings on three 10-by-10-square-foot metal panels and was installed on…
Iraqi-born artist Bassim Al-Shaker recently moved into a new studio and gallery space in Roosevelt Row, and will present his first exhibition there on August 5, during Phoenix’s First Friday art walk. He’s calling it Babylon Gallery, which references his Iraqi roots. Until recently, the space located at 918 North Sixth Street…
Just one month after announcing it needed $50,000 to continue operations, Scottsdale-based Don Bluth Front Row Theatre has announced that it will close effective September 17 in order to focus on fundraising. The goal is to raise $50,000 in time to reopen and present a holiday production of It’s a Wonderful…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, July 29, through Sunday, July 31. For more events, see our curated online calendar. Untidy Secrets Storytelling When it comes to the next installment of Untidy Secrets Storytelling, think less Mulder and Scully and more out-of-this-world real…
Michael Lanier, whose eclectic plant-centric boutique The Bosque opened in the monOrchid during July’s First Friday in 2015 (and promptly earned a New Times Best of Phoenix award), is already planning a second location. He’s opening an expanded iteration of The Bosque this fall in the Garfield Historic District, and says…
Theater Works, which performs at Peoria Center for the Arts, has promoted Chris Hamby to producing artistic director and Cate Hinkle to managing director, according to a July 25 announcement. The news comes just months after Dan Schay, who joined the company as executive director in February of 2012, passed…
Photographer Andrew Pielage has closed Drive-Thru Gallery in downtown Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row. But the artist isn’t done with the gallery business. He’s already announced plans for a new gallery opening later this year in the neighboring Garfield Historic District. Pielage is an occasional New Times contributor whose work drew widespread attention after…
New Times picks the best things to do from Monday, July 25, through Thursday, July 28. For more events, see our curated online calendar. “A Group Effort” It’s tough to find exhibitions featuring works by more than 50 artists outside museum walls or the art-festival circuit. But “A Group Effort,” a…
A new art venue called Herberger Gallery at Arizona Center is coming to downtown Phoenix. The opening for its first official exhibition takes place during Third Friday on September 16, although a soft opening and other activities are happening sooner, says A O Tucker, a local photographer who will co-curate…
New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Friday, July 22, through Sunday, July 24. “Water” Using fine-art aerial photographs taken around the globe, Canadian artist Edward Burtynsky raises questions about humanity’s relationship to water. Forty of his large-scale color prints are part of an exhibition…
The Phoenix art scene will have a new venue this fall, when art boutique hotel FOUND:RE opens in Central Phoenix. Developers include Habitat Metro, the Phoenix-based firm that created Portland on the Park and Portland Place condos, and Bond Partners. They had hoped to open FOUND:RE in spring 2016. But renovations…
Ralph Remington, a theater professional and former arts administrator with both Actors’ Equity Association and National Endowment for the Arts, has been hired by the City of Tempe as its Arts and Culture Deputy Director. It’s a new position created within Tempe’s Community Services Department to further implementing its 2015…
Arizona Theatre Company, which announced on June 27 that it needed to raise $2 million to avoid closing, has reached its fundraising goal, according to a statement released on Monday, July 18. It’s good news for the Tucson-based company founded in 1966, which is Arizona’s only member of the prestigious…
