Phoenix Art Museum

🎨 NOW OPEN | The Collection: Dutch Art Expanded Highlighting the PhxArt European art collection alongside contemporary works by Arizona-based artists, Rachel Bess and Alanna Airitam, The Collection: Dutch Art Expanded creates conversations across cultures and time periods. Check out our free digital guide with the Bloomberg Connects app, powered by Bloomberg Philanthropies, to learn more about this exciting new exhibition. On the app, you can listen to, and read along with, Charlotte Quinney, PhxArt’s Interpretation Manager, in discussion with PhxArt’s Associate Curator of Collections and curator of Dutch Art Expanded, Rachel Sadvary Zebro. Learn more about our digital guide: https://lnkd.in/g_nRDZen

ACI is wrapping up the year with a bang closing out with the most successful Holiday Luncheon to date! A HUGE thank you to our guest speaker Christian Siriano for his generosity, warmth and enthusiasm.  We appreciate everyone who attended this year’s Luncheon, and who helped make this incredible event possible, including our Honorary Chair Jacquie Dorrance, Co-chairs Barbara Lytle and Catherine Tuton, and Luncheon Ambassadors Lauri Termansen, Hillary Sher, and Oscar De las salas. Thank you to the Jacquie Dorrance Curator of Fashion Design Helen Jean, Phoenix Art Museum’s Sybil Harrington Director and CEO Jeremy Mikolajczak, ACI President Joy Sprink, and Chrissy Sayare. Finally, we thank our Presenting Sponsors: TBC Consignment, Thomas Carlton Rogers II, The Bob & Renee Parsons Foundation, Jackson Family Foundation; and Major Sponsors: My Sister’s Closet Fashion Consignment, Anonymous, Miriam Sukhman. Additional thanks to Neiman Marcus Group, WUNDERKIND, and Arizona Biltmore. Join us next year for the 2025 ACI Holiday Luncheon! Not an ACI member? Learn more about membership at https://lnkd.in/gbB-NHA6

Every year, Phoenix Art Museum offers 300 free-access hours to our shared community— an astounding $1 million in admission given without hesitation to ensure EVERYONE, regardless of background, circumstance, or ability, can experience the transformative power of art. This Giving Tuesday, consider a donation to PhxArt to support free access to our galleries and enriching art experiences for visitors of all ages. This includes First Fridays and Family Fundays, which provide an affordable opportunity for thousands of visitors to engage with visual art, artmaking, and each other. No gift is too small to make a difference. www.phxart.org/donate

"A modern master." 🙏 Thank you to The Wall Street Journal for their review of our exhibition, Larry Bell: Improvisations, which celebrates the artistic achievements and lifelong career of Larry Bell, of one of the most renowned and influential artists to emerge from the Light and Space movement. https://lnkd.in/gHBah4Vv

Phoenix Art Museum turns 65 tomorrow! 🎉 Enjoy FREE general admission, exclusive membership deals, creative workshops, live music, delicious food, and a spectacular fireworks show at 7:30 pm to cap off the night. Plus, pick up your very own limited edition t-shirt made in collaboration with State Forty Eight, available exclusively in-person at The Museum Store and online. There's NO ONE we'd rather spend the day with than our very own Phoenix community. See you here! https://lnkd.in/gM6PynBz

Listen to the latest episode of the Museum Confidential podcast, from Philbrook Museum of Art and NPR, where Jeff Martin travels to Phoenix Art Museum to interview Charles Gaines on the eve of PhxArt's opening of the original exhibition, Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series), which is complemented by the presentation of Charles Gaines: 1992-2023, a major survey of the artist’s career organized by Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gUSy7-jG

Thank you to Phoenix New Times for spotlighting our upcoming film series, Class of 1999: A Most Original Year, where beginning tonight we're showing a highly unruly, deeply influential set of films that would not only change filmmaking, but also give us our first glimpse of the coming 21st century. Plus, this Saturday, catch Brian Raftery, author of Best. Movie. Year. Ever.: How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen (Simon & Schuster), live at PhxArt after our screening of Run Lola Run. Learn more about Class of 1999: A Most Original Year below. https://lnkd.in/gGMGVRdf

Phoenix Art Museum hosted an exclusive reception for Circles of Support and General Members celebrating our newest exhibitions, Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series) and Charles Gaines: 1992–2023. PhxArt Members had special access to the exhibitions and enjoyed remarks from Jeremy Mikolajczak, The Sybil Harrington Director and CEO, Olga Viso, The Selig Family Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, and Charles Gaines himself. Image credits: Installation view of Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees (Arizona Trees), 2024. © Charles Gaines. Photo: Charles Darr. Image credits: Installation view of Charles Gaines: 1992–2023. © Charles Gaines. Photo Charles Darr. Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series) is organized by Phoenix Art Museum and curated by Olga Viso, Selig Family Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs.⁠ ⁠ It is made possible through the generosity of Men’s Arts Council, Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, National Endowment for the Arts, Ellen and Howard Katz, Jane and Mal Jozoff, Ten Figures, and Avnet.⁠ ⁠ Generous support for both exhibitions is provided by Hauser & Wirth.

We are thrilled that The New York Times just named the upcoming PhxArt exhibitions Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series) and Charles Gaines: 1992-2023, as “Art to See” in museums and galleries across the country this fall. https://lnkd.in/g6TQaD5T

💃 NOW OPEN: PhxArt‘s first major investigation into the formation of our renowned fashion collection.     The Collection: Greatest Fits (Vol.1): The Art of Archiving Fashion features more than 80 garments and accessories that illuminate the history and influence of PhxArt’s fashion collections. Presented in the Museum’s newly named Kelly Ellman Fashion Galleries, it will be the first in the Museum’s multi-part Greatest Fits series, which will exhibit the vastness of the Museum’s 9,000-object fashion collection.     On Tuesday night, there was an exclusive VIP opening celebration of The Collection: Greatest Fits (Vol.1): The Art of Archiving Fashion, with Phoenix Art Museum’s Circles of Support and Arizona Costume Institute (@azcostumeinstitute.) Then later that evening there was an additional opening just for general members.    If you are interested in learning more about the perks of becoming a PhxArt member  which gives you exclusive access to exhibition openings such as this one, visit: https://lnkd.in/g7JDR6dc The Collection: Greatest Fits (Vol. 1): The Art of Archiving Fashion is organized by Phoenix Art Museum and curated by Helen Jean, the Jacquie Dorrance Curator of Fashion Design at Phoenix Art Museum, with Catherine Wise, the Hirabayashi Intern in Fashion Design. It is made possible by Arizona Costume Institute and the Kelly Ellman Fashion Endowment Fund.     All exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum are underwritten by the Phoenix Art Museum Exhibition Excellence Fund, founded by The Opatrny Family Foundation with additional major support provided by Joan Cremin.     Image credits: Installation views of The Collection: Greatest Fits (Vol. 1): The Art of Archiving Fashion, 2024. Phoenix Art Museum. Photo: Airi Katsuta.    Crowns by (@clutch_crowns)