The ASU Art Museum presents the Ant Farm Media Van v.08 , 2008, by Chip Lord, Curtis Schreier and Bruce Tomb. (Lord and Schreier were partners in the legendary art and technology cooperative Ant Farm, active from 1968-1978.) The Media Van is a repurposed 1972 Chevy with interior modifications including vintage Ant Farm videos, a […]
Visiting artist Miguel Palma (Portugal) has developed a “Desert Initiative Remote Shuttle” that investigates ways in which meaning of place, particularly in remote desert environments, is created and communicated. Palma's work in this exhibition engages issues through the lens of exploration: military history in Arizona and the Southwest, the military's role in desert preservation, the […]
Beautiful and expansive landscapes, immense clouded skies, strange cacti and fowl, and the inhabitants and workers of the land inspired Walter E. Bohl, Edwin Borein and George Elbert Burr. Each of the artists worked in different professions before they began to make prints. They lived in different states until health and their art brought them […]
The ASU Art Museum in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of new site-specific artwork by Italian artist Matteo Rubbi in the new downtown Phoenix venue Project Space. A small New York City skyline magically appears in the desert. A copper casting of a […]
The ASU Art Museum was the first arts institution in the state to exhibit and collect new media art. This selection from the Museum's permanent collection highlights contemporary artists working with or commenting on technology since the 1970s. Nam June Paik, one of the earliest video artists, is represented by a classic piece from 1989, […]
In the paintings, drawings and prints in the exhibition You Are Here, drawn from the ASU Art Museum's permanent collection, artists explore the ways that we map, mark or claim the land. Anchored by a historic Dutch engraving of a walled city, most of the works begin in the late 1970s and reflect the strength […]
In conjunction with the 2012 International Conference on Romanticism (ICR), held on ASU's Tempe campus, the ASU Art Museum is showing Ross Birrell's film Duet: Lift Me Up For I Am Dying. A Palestinian violist and an Israeli violist perform Ross Birrell's musical composition “Lift Me Up For I Am Dying,” in the Spiegelsaal of […]
Born of Fire: The Pottery of Margaret Tafoya and Re: Generation: A Survey of Margaret Tafoya's Descendants Extended hours during the Heard Museum Indian Market on March 2-3 (Ceramics Research Center open Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.) Reception and book signing: Feb. 8, 2013, 6:30-8:30 p.m. Charles King will be signing his book “Born […]
Artists Mathew Moore (Phoenix) and Clare Patey (London) collaborate on a project centered on the issue of endangered elements in the periodic table, specifically copper. Copper plays a major role in Arizona's history and in its current economic, environmental and cultural life. Cu²⁹ explores the process of staking a claim, the idea of owning the […]
Working in conjunction with Fundación/Colección Jumex, the ASU Art Museum is proud to present Turn off the Sun, a rare opportunity for the public to experience selected works of art from one of the largest and most important contemporary art collections in Latin America. La Colección Jumex is a spectacular collection of more than 2,600 […]
The ASU Art Museum and Ceramics Research Center in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts present Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby, a landmark exhibition featuring the work of contemporary ceramist Wayne Higby, who is widely considered one of the most innovative second generation artists to emerge from the post–World War […]
This Is Not America looks at the intersection of art and social change through the lens of the ASU Art Museum's collection in conversation with emerging and established artists. Works are paired as a form of call and response in order to create a dialogue around current issues related to protest and poetic gestures within […]
