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'It Gets Worse,' new art exhibit at Gallery 100, actually really good

Pop surrealist monsters, disfigured aliens, pigeons and flowers are the subjects of new art exhibit, "It Gets Worse" at Gallery 100 on the Tempe campus.

By Zachariah Webb | October 8, 2014

Your personal event map for this week’s Individual World Poetry Slam

These are the events you should check out this week during the Individual World Poetry Slam competition.

By Aimee Plante | October 5, 2014

Joy Harjo and Winona LaDuke at ASU West campus

American Indians present on art and culture in environmental and social sustainability

Guest speakers Winona LeDuke and Joy Harjo, both American Indian activists, came to discuss how they utilize American Indian lessons in modern societal and environmental progress.

By Rachael Tashbook | October 2, 2014

Momentary together forever at the Richard T. Walker's art gallery at the ASU Art Museum.

Ode to the limitations of language: Richard T. Walker’s ‘the predicament of always (as we are)’

A new exhibit at the ASU Art Museum in Tempe transcends the limits of language to connect with the sublime desert landscapes around us.

By Zachariah Webb | October 1, 2014

The Firehouse blazes through Phoenix art scene

Local art gallery provides forum of free expression for artists and performers

By Emily Zentner | September 25, 2014

AAA's semester exhibit questions reality and imagination through community arts

Upon closer inspection, the paintings, drawings and multimedia works that pepper all eight floors of the UCENT reveal a thriving community of artists with a lot to say. From elementary school art classes to independent local artists looking to sell, the variety of images and interpretations provides a comprehensive overview of the creativity existing in our community.

| September 24, 2014

Who commissions public art?

State patronage has been an important part of the art world since the beginning of time, and continues to play an important role in public art commissions today. Here's what the process looks like.

| September 22, 2014

It’s a case of when Heaven meets Earth in the piece ‘Woman in a Dream’ as she watches over the residents of a downtown Tempe apartment building. (Photo by Olivia Richard)

Muralist reflects on the walls of Arizona's urban jungle

One artist takes his cause to the streets of Arizona risking it all to share his gift with community members.

By Olivia Richard | September 18, 2014

Race, class, gender and love: ASU alumnus to star at international poetry slam

ASU alumnus to represent Phoenix at the Individual World Poetry Slam this October.

By Aimee Plante | September 18, 2014

A different take on the Middle East at the ASU Art Museum

The ASU Art Museum holds a somewhat different kind of gallery.

By Damion Julien-Rohman | September 18, 2014

How to be inspired

Ideas create ideas, it just takes a bit of time and a a lot more than a half-second glance.

| September 18, 2014

Ximenna Hofsetz (left) and Tiernan Warner (right) on September 16 at the opening of their gallery "Why we Bend" at the Step Gallery.? (Photo by Emily Johnson)

Strange nostalgia: Exhibit ‘why we bend’ lends tangibility to memory

A new exhibit at the Step Gallery by Herberger students Tiernan Warner and Ximenna Hofsetz explores the surreal world of memory.

By Zachariah Webb | September 17, 2014

México: Politica y Poética, Sept. 16th, 2014

ASU Art Museum breaks borders

ASU Art Museum hosts students to take a trip to Latin America via art.

By Freesia Denaples | September 16, 2014

'Creatures' take over Firehouse Gallery

Local art show covers expanses of theme and imagery unheard of in the world of conventional art exhibitions

By Emily Zentner | September 16, 2014

Modernizing classic art creates compelling messages

These artists pay homage to master artists who influenced development and essentially shaped the art world we know today. But they also imbue these works with a striking aesthetic, creating something can at once be classically beautiful and dynamically compelling.

| September 15, 2014