2025
This summer, Phoenix Art Museum explores the use of comedy throughout the history of photography in Funny Business: Photography and Humor.
Certain motifs stay with an artist throughout their career. For conceptual artist Charles Gaines, the recurring motif is a tree.
Artist Carlos Amorales鈥� installation Black Cloud is his way of saying goodbye. The Mexico City-based artist has described the massive artwork as a farewell to his grandmother.
In the spring, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) will present Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape.
2024
This December, Phoenix Art Museum presents the work of one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century in Richard Avedon: Among Creatives.
The Phoenix Art Museum devotes an exhibition to the Light and Space movement luminary, featuring enchanting, enigmatic work from across his decades-long career.
This fall, Phoenix Art Museum opens the original exhibition Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series), marking the first complete public display of Gaines鈥� most recent body of work, Numbers and Trees: Arizona Trees 1, 2023.
Phoenix Art Museum today announces the speaker lineup for its annual Lenhardt Lecture series.
The creation of engagement-focused roles reflects 鈥渁 more expansive view that museums have taken in recent history that includes community partnerships, collaboration and education."
On October 9, 2024, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) presents its newest major fashion exhibition and the largest collections-based endeavor in the history of the Museum with Greatest Fits (Vol. 1): The Art of Archiving Fashion.
Renowned American sculptor Larry Bell (b. 1939) offers a straightforward description of his practice: 鈥淢y work is about the various properties of light and the way it interacts with surfaces.鈥�
Walking through this exhibition of some 250 works by nearly a hundred artists working in the former Eastern Bloc, I was forced at one point to turn back and re-enter it through the exit so that a mess left by a 鈥渟ervice鈥� dog could be cleaned up.
Thirty-two years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the exhibition Multiple Realities offers a geographically expansive introduction to the creative autonomy that existed behind the Iron Curtain.
This spring, Phoenix Art Museum presents Larry Bell: Improvisations, showcasing the artistic achievements and career of one of the most influential artists to emerge from the Light and Space movement.
Mirrors have been used in art for a long time. One early example comes from poet Giovanni Boccaccio鈥檚 (1313-1375) treatise, De Mulieribus Claris (Concerning Famous Women, 1374).