On Thursday, March 27, Phoenicians gathered under a cloud-streaked sky in the downtown sector. Some sprawled amongst the grass, others chased their children while still more stood, beer in hand, facing the stage. It wasn’t a rock concert or a festival — not yet anyway. That would be March 28…
After 28 years on Marshall Way, Lisa Sette is leaving Scottsdale for midtown Phoenix. Lisa Sette Gallery will host one last show — “Domesticated,” featuring paintings by Carrie Marill, opening Thursday, April 3, in Scottsdale — before packing up and moving this summer to a renovated Al Beadle building near…
Winners of the 2014 Arizona Governor’s Art Awards were announced Tuesday, March 25, during a ceremony held at Mesa Arts Center. Presented by Arizona Citizens for the Arts in partnership with the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Office of the Governor, the awards honor both individuals and businesses…
Yatika Starr Fields, an artist currently in transition from New York City to Los Angeles, made a stop in Phoenix for the early March mural event Paint PHX to create Sonoran Waltz a new mural on 16th Street. Fields, a friend of local artists Thomas “Breeze” Marcus and Douglas Miles,…
New Times photographers were out and about at art and cultural events in Phoenix this past weekend. Phoenix Festival de Espana at Phoenix Center for the Arts Phoenix Center for the Arts was transformed into a center for Spanish culture on Saturday, March 22 for the Phoenix Festival de Espana…
It might be difficult to imagine a favorite Dr. Seuss book covered in graffiti or a Lorax tagging the pages and adding street art to the sweet, quirky illustrations. But that image is exactly what you’ll find in one of Grand Avenue’s newest murals. The parking lot wall of Bragg’s…
Some would say skateboarding is an art form in and of itself. The way skateboarding enthusiasts, both young and old, figure out how to roll, and sometimes float, over wood and concrete has become something that challenges both gravity and logic. Like artists who work in other media, skateboarders look…
The timing could not be any more perfect for “Moctezuma’s Revenge,” the current exhibition of work by multimedia artist Eduardo Sarabia at ASU Art Museum. Curated by ASUAM curator Julio César Morales, the expansive show deals with Mexico’s notorious underground drug culture and the deadly havoc left in its wake…
The timing could not be any more perfect for “Moctezuma’s Revenge,” the current exhibition of work by multimedia artist Eduardo Sarabia at ASU Art Museum. Curated by ASUAM curator Julio César Morales, the expansive show deals with Mexico’s notorious underground drug culture and the deadly havoc left in its wake…
Spring officially starts on March 20, but to catch all the great exhibitions this season, you’ll want to get started ASAP. From a group show that entrances your senses to a solo exhibition featuring one of our favorite street artists, there’s plenty to be excited about in the art scene…
Douglas Miles doesn’t need your praise. The artist, who hails from the San Carlos Apache reservation just east of Globe, seeks to reinvent contemporary Native American iconography, challenging mainstream imagery associated with the Native experience. It’s no small feat. But as much as his art has the power to shift…
Douglas Miles doesn’t need your praise. The artist, who’s affiliated with the Apache and Akimel O’odham tribes and hails from the San Carlos Apache reservation just east of Globe, seeks to reinvent contemporary Native American iconography, challenging mainstream imagery associated with the native experience. It’s no small feat, to be…
Nicole Whittington and James Waldron, the duo better known as Handmade Riot, once were using their hands to roast and brew coffee at Lux on Central. Now they’ve shifted that attention to craft not just to coffee, but also to wooden bike shelves, toys, coffee pour-over stations, and honeycomb shelves…
Arizona native, artist and new mom Sarah Hurwitz brought her singularly imaginative style to this year’s Quick PHX (our annual pocket guide to the city) — and answered a few questions, too…
We hit the streets for Art Detour 26. The 2014 edition of the self-guided art tour featured 100 stops at galleries, studios, and pop-ups on March 8 and 9. And for all our pavement-pounding around Phoenix, our eyes were rewarded plenty. Here are our favorites: the 9 paintings, sculptures, and…
Where to begin? That is the biggest question when it comes to the annual free festival and self-guided tour that is Art Detour. Now in its 26th year, the celebration of Phoenix’s growing arts scene covers more than 100 stops, including galleries, pop-up shows, art spaces, cultural venues, and studios…
Quick PHX, our annual pocket guide to art, shopping, and partying in Phoenix, is on stands now — just in time for Viva PHX on Friday, March 7, and Art Detour 26 on Saturday and Sunday, March 8 and 9. Illustrated by Sarah Hurwitz, the hand-held guide will keep you…
From the Mini Stack to law offices to two-story suburbs miles outside metropolitan Maricopa County, the Valley is known for a sprawling façade of muted beige and brown, camouflaged in the desert. This weekend, a group of area artists plan to change that. Dozens of creatives are banding together for…
We’d like to think Jay-Z would be pleased with the name of Phoenix’s newest local press. Art Problems, the brainchild of photographer Mo Neuharth, “aims to provide the creative platform for visual artists to transform their art into printed material,” according to the press’ lovely website…
Currently installed at The Lab Pop-Up Gallery are Latin-inspired works by Jon Garza, an illustrator and artist working out of Gilbert, and Chiara Bautista, a surreal illustrator and designer native to Mexico…
Love art but hate crowds? Head to downtown Phoenix tonight for Third Friday to get your fix of arty goodness without the sea of humans that typically accompanies First Friday. Here are our picks for shows you will not want to miss: “Twenty-Six” at Modified Arts Local painter James Angel…
This Sunday artist James B. Hunt wants to give you the bird — 23 of them, to be precise. Hunt, who also goes by NXOEED, plans to perch his bird paintings all around Tempe for anyone to seek and find. And once you find a painting, it’s yours to keep…
