
What’s Up With Phoenix’s Latest Gallery Scene Shuffle?
Change is afoot in the metro Phoenix gallery scene due to closures, mergers, and redevelopment plans.
September 11, 2025
Change is afoot in the metro Phoenix gallery scene due to closures, mergers, and redevelopment plans.
Lynn Trimble • September 11, 2025
Studio VisitArizonaVol. 12 Obsession
Working in her Phoenix studio, artist Gloria Martinez-Granados creates works countering the nation’s anti-immigrant obsession.
Lynn Trimble • September 05, 2025
Lisa Frank, headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, offers up a rainbow-bedazzled mirror to the emptiness of the American dream.
Natalie Hegert • September 05, 2025
ArtistsArizonaVol. 12 Obsession
In video performance and charged sculptures, Philip Gabriel Steverson channels rage and pain at the loss of his mother through a devotion to healing.
Nicholas Frank • September 05, 2025
ReviewArizonaVol. 12 Obsession
Artists working along the U.S.-Mexico border bring the rasquachismo aesthetic to Ya Hecho: Readymade in the Borderlands as the U.S. government escalates its anti-immigrant stance.
Lynn Trimble • September 05, 2025
Join ASU Art Museum's opening celebration on September 13 for Tierras Reimaginadas: Migration and Michelangelo Lovelace: Art Saved My Life.
ASU Art Museum • September 02, 2025
Explore the vibrant Scottsdale art scene with galleries, museums, public art installations, and exciting arts events in this free guidebook.
Experience Scottsdale • August 29, 2025
Venezuelan curator Gabriela Rangel and her international circle discuss her "double viewpoint" of the Global North and South, and what it means for MOCA Tucson.
Mari Carmen Barrios Giordano • August 28, 2025
Whether you're a local Arizonan looking for community support or a visitor looking for an idyllic new setting to inspire, let our roundup of Arizona Artist Residencies guide you to your next opportunity.
Lauren Tresp • August 19, 2025
Jennifer Ling Datchuk's live-wire practice is rooted in ceramics but branches into performance, installation—and biting cultural critique.
Lynn Trimble • July 24, 2025
In a David Bowie–inspired show in Scottsdale, Steven J. Yazzie and Erika Lynne Hanson confront earthly disillusionment through landscape-based abstraction.
Lynn Trimble • July 17, 2025
Informed by his family history, Dean Terasaki uses activist imagery and charged ephemera—including postcards from Japanese American internment camps—to send a present-day "warning."
Lynn Trimble • May 27, 2025
José Villalobos: Rough Rider at Arizona State University queers the traditional masculinity inherent in cowboy culture’s objects of desire.
Camille LeFevre • May 08, 2025
Hank Willis Thomas's LOVERULES offers a comprehensive survey of a decade's worth of artwork but flounders in our current political crisis.
Angella d'Avignon • May 02, 2025
Shepard Fairey was nearly censored at the Mesa Arts Center. He's back with a monumental artwork—and thoughts on police power, fascism, and art as a "counterwind."
Lynn Trimble • April 24, 2025
Local artists and gallerists weigh in on Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week’s debut—and its efforts to bust regional stereotypes and elevate the Southwest on a global stage.
Lynn Trimble • April 03, 2025
Local artists and art-world power players are next-door neighbors in Winslow, Arizona. Everyone and the mayor is weighing in on the town's creative direction.
Eva-Marie Hube • March 27, 2025
Arizona-based artist Farraday Newsome's studio extends into her high-desert garden, sprouting ideas for intricate ceramics about nature's self-perpetuating systems.
Lynn Trimble • March 24, 2025
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art made last-minute revisions to a traveling show of women, queer, and trans artists. Museum leadership and a co-curator differ on what happened.
Lynn Trimble • March 13, 2025
Field ReportArizonaTravelVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Some of best art offerings in metro Phoenix happen off the beaten path. Here’s our eclectic Phoenix art guide.
Lynn Trimble • March 07, 2025
ArtistsArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Shaunté Glover explores the muscular narrative power—and queer, femme force—of women’s basketball through the lens of South Phoenix.
Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025
ArtistsArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Urgent Care Art’s pop-ups in quotidian Tucson spaces juxtapose the healing and fear inherent to queer visibility.
Jordan Eddy • March 07, 2025
ReviewArizonaVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
A group of white New York painters blended modernist and Native-inspired aesthetics. Space Makers at the Heard Museum pairs them with historical and contemporary Native artists.
Camille LeFevre • March 07, 2025
The City of Tempe says there are no plans to demolish DIY arts hub Danelle Plaza, but the mayor is sending different signals. Local artists are demanding clarity.
Lynn Trimble • February 04, 2025
Keith Haring was a Phoenix teacher's second choice for a 1986 art workshop, but the invite made a major mark on the city.
Lynn Trimble • January 14, 2025
The Arizona-born artist’s MOCA Tucson exhibition draws inspiration (and soil) from the Santa Cruz River, melding body and land.
Camille LeFevre • December 23, 2024
The School of Art at ASU advances generative art practices driven by research, ideas, and effective public engagement. Attend an info session on December 6, 2024, and apply by January 15, 2025.
Arizona State University School of Art • November 22, 2024
The desert—in all of its arid, minimalist, color-block permutations—permeates this selection of Surrealist artworks.
Camille LeFevre • November 19, 2024
Tiffany Fairall, former chief curator of Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in Arizona, sues the City of Mesa in the aftermath of censorship allegations.
Lynn Trimble • November 05, 2024
Black artists imagine radical futures through hope, healing, and history in Reclaiming Hope: Afrofuturist Visions.
Lynn Trimble • October 29, 2024
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