Audrey Thacker Bringing Artisan Market-Style Event to Downtown Tempe

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…

5 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

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…

5 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

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…

11 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

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…

10 Art Shows You Should See in Phoenix This Week

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…

The 10 Best Artworks We Saw in Metro Phoenix in July 2016

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…

Phoenix Artist Bassim Al-Shaker Opens Babylon Gallery in Roosevelt Row

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…

11 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

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…

Why Photographer Andrew Pielage Left Downtown Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row for the Garfield Historic District

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…

9 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

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…

9 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

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…

Meet Ralph Remington, Tempe’s New Arts and Culture Deputy Director

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…