
Queering Cowboy Culture with José Villalobos: It’s a Quick, Rough Ride
José Villalobos: Rough Rider at Arizona State University queers the traditional masculinity inherent in cowboy culture’s objects of desire.
May 08, 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
Cybele Lyle attempts, in confounding and curious ways, to queer desert landscapes in her current installation Cybele Lyle: Floating Seeds Make Deep Forms.
Camille LeFevre • October 17, 2024
The traveling exhibition ARX3 pairs artists and scientists, while Brains and Beauty at SMoCA draws on neuroaesthetics, to visualize transformative research.
Lynn Trimble • October 10, 2024
Flagstaff-based artist Shawn Skabelund returns to the storm-swept ravine that birthed his latest show—and explains what a squirrel stick is—in an intrepid studio visit.
Camille LeFevre • September 26, 2024
Graves for the Rain and 500 Places at Once blend sound, performance, and poetry engaging visitors in ecological narratives. On view through February 16, 2025.
Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson • September 24, 2024
The Hamrah Arts Club, founded by artist Nazafarin Lotfi, uses art and creative expression to foster solidarity between refugee and asylum-seeking communities for youth in Tucson.
Lara Schoorl • September 13, 2024
FeatureArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Seeking fresh hope in the 20th-century futurisms of Arizona architectural marvels Biosphere 2, Taliesin West, and Arcosanti.
Jordan Eddy • September 06, 2024
ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Phoenix-based designer and interdisciplinary artist Wabwila Mugala uses chitenge fabric to build a unique visual glossary of diasporic symbols.
Gina Pugliese • September 06, 2024
ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Arizona-based artist Jimmy Fike asks, what will the end of the world like like? His answer is weird—and weirdly hopeful.
Justin Duyao • September 06, 2024
ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Tra Bouscaren blends critiques of waste culture with "dark beauty" in maximalist installations that speak to 21st-century paranoia.
Lynn Trimble • September 06, 2024
ReviewArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
PORTALS at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson in Arizona features new works by California-based artist Fay Ray, who imagines radical futures in the Sonoran Desert and Southwest borderlands.
Lynn Trimble • September 06, 2024
With a nod to Andy Warhol's most raucous series, this Scottsdale show of contemporary Native art explodes expectations of medium and message.
Camille LeFevre • August 08, 2024
Even the propaganda is sabotaged in Multiple Realities, a Soviet spy novel of an exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum.
Jordan Eddy • August 06, 2024
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