Phoenix Art Museum Sets Exhibitions Through End of 2015

Here are the exhibitions that are currently open or scheduled to open at Phoenix Art Museum through the end of 2015. For additional details please visit phxart.org.

Quiet Rage, Gentle Wail: Prints and Masks of Japanese Noh Theatre
June 4-November 16, 2014

Come explore Noh, the traditional Japanese theatre form that incorporates music, dance and drama. This exhibition takes a multi-dimensional approach to appreciate Noh and its aesthetics: simplicity, nuance, and the distaste for realism. Included in the exhibition are Noh masks and prints that depict Noh actors on stage.

Paulo Bruscky: Art Is Our Last Hope
September 6-December 28, 2014

Brazilian artist Paulo Bruscky came of age during the '60s when his country was undergoing a dictatorial oppression, but he always operated under the utopian vision that art has the potential to instigate social change, and his broad range of art forms - from mail to Xerox - aimed to challenge the socio-political status quo.

Sacred Stories and Images of the Buddha: The Vessantara Jataka Scroll

September 20-March 8, 2014

Visitors can explore the complex story of the Buddha through its portrayal on a rarely seen large painted cloth scroll from Laos that will be shown along with Thai Buddhist figures and other Southeast Asian Theravada Buddhist works from the museum's collection.

Focus Latin America: Art Is Our Last Hope
October 1-November 23, 2014

Organized in conjunction with the Paulo Bruscky exhibition, Focus Latin America: Art Is Our Last Hope is a contemporary, international mail art exhibition featuring submissions from local artists as well as from mail artists around the world on the theme of Latin America.

Fashioned in America
October 11, 2014-March 15, 2015

This is an exhibition about how economics, ecology, and labor ethics are driving a revival of fashion designs made in the United States. Featuring more than forty ensembles and accessories, it highlights work by contemporary designers including Ralph Rucci, Anna Sui, Nanette Lepore, and J. Mendel whose vision and talent are invigorating the revival of clothing manufacturing in the USA.

Don Coen: The Migrant Series
October 18, 2014-February 1, 2015

View this dynamic series of recent, large-scale (9'6" x 6'6"), photo-realist portrait paintings of migrant farmers in America shown primarily in the working environment where the artist initially contacted his subjects.

All That Glitters is Not Gold: Platinum Photography from the Center for Creative Photography
November 1, 2014-March 1, 2015

An exploration of one hundred years of photography's most exquisite print types - platinum and palladium - featuring some of the masters including Peter Henry Emerson, Clarence White, Laura Gilpin, Edward Weston, Jan Groover, and Kenro Izu.

Vanitas: Contemporary Reflections on Love and Death from the Collection of Stéphane Janssen

November 2, 2014-February 8, 2015

On display are works in a variety of media that use symbols like skulls, skeletons, rotting fruit, and hourglasses to depict the transient nature of earthly goods, the certainty of death, and the meaningless of earthly life. The exhibition features portraits by prominent artists including Karel Appel, Robert Arneson, Brassaï, Robert Mapplethorpe, Vik Muniz, and Joel-Peter Witkin.

The West Select Exhibition and Sale
Sale: November 14, 2014

Exhibition: November 16-December 28, 2014

Enjoy new and diverse representations of the American West by many of today's leading artists in this annual exhibition and museum fundraising sale.

Stories of Europe

November 22, 2014-April 19, 2015

This exhibition will present treasures from the museum's collection of European works on paper.

Exhibitions opening in 2015:

Platinum Photography

January 10-April 5, 2015

Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Leicester and the Power of Observation

January 24-April 12, 2015

Andy Warhol: Portraits

March 4-June 21, 2015

Unique Photographs

March 7-September 27, 2015

Pattern Play: The Contemporary Designs of Jacqueline Groag

April 4-August 9, 2015

American/European 1920s and 30s

May 2, 2015-TBD

Alexander Calder

May 16, 2015-TBD

Vilcek - From NY to New Mexico: Masterworks of American Modernism from the Vilcek Fndn Collection

June 5-September 6, 2015

Culpepper Collection

Fall 2015

The West Select

November 13-December 27, 2015

Photographic Still Lifes

November 21, 2015-May 15, 2016

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About Phoenix Art Museum

Since it opened in 1959 Phoenix Art Museum has become the largest art museum in the southwestern United States providing access to visual arts and educational programs in Arizona. In the last fifty years millions have visited the museum to view the over four hundred national and international exhibitions it has hosted. These are shown alongside Phoenix Art Museum's collection that has grown to over 17,000 objects of American, Asian, European, Latin American, Western American, modern and contemporary art, photography and fashion design. The museum hosts photography exhibitions through its landmark partnership with The University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography in Tucson.

Museum visitors can also enjoy the PhxArtKids gallery, the Dorrance Sculpture Garden, the Thorne Miniature Rooms of historic interiors and a collection of works by renowned Arizona artist Philip C. Curtis. Inside the museum is also full service restaurant Palette that features casual fare made from local organic produce and The Museum Store that stocks a comprehensive selection of art books, handcrafted jewelry, home décor, children's toys and other gifts.

Phoenix Art Museum serves as a valuable community resource and a center of enrichment for audiences of all ages. In addition to the exhibitions the museum hosts each year, it also offers a mix of always-available and date-specific public programs including film screenings, lectures, workshops, performances, tours and other special events.