Events

Hayden Library, Level 1 "Print Wikipedia" is a both a utilitarian visualization of the largest accumulation of human knowledge and a poetic gesture towards the futility of the scale of big data. Michael Mandiberg wrote software that parsed the entirety of the English-language Wikipedia database (in April 2015) and programmatically laid out thousands of volumes, […]

The ASU Art Museum presents an audio-visual installation of a version of Cage's "49 Waltzes" for the ASU Tempe campus, realized by 23 students from the School of Music and the School of Arts, Media + Engineering for the museum. In 1977 the American composer John Cage created "49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs of […]

Join us for a special guided tour of selected prints from the Jules Heller Print Study Room. These tours offer a rare opportunity to study original prints without a frame's glass, allowing for an intimate encounter with artists throughout history. Tours are offered every Thursday–Sunday at 1 p.m. To make a reservation, contact Raechel Miller […]

Taking the spirit of Octavio Paz's poem, Where Without Whom, as a guide, this exhibition from the ASU Art Museum's collection of Latin American prints and photographs features work by José Ygnacio Bermúdez, Enrique Chagoya, Luis Gonzalez Palma, Vincent Valdez and others. This exhibition is supported by the Evelyn Smith Exhibition Fund. Where Without Whom […]

Legendary curator and museum director Paul J. Smith has spent his career creating exhibitions and supporting the careers of artists who have come to define the contemporary studio craft movement. This exhibition pairs a portfolio of 20 of Smith's portraits with works from the ASU Art Museum's unparalleled collection of contemporary ceramics. Smith will present […]

Taking the form of an experimental laboratory or studio, “Superfake/The Parley” features new images, video and sculptural works by the Danish artist collective SUPERFLEX. The commissioned project takes a painting in the ASU Art Museum collection attributed to Frederic Remington as a starting point to examine issues of authenticity, reproduction and value, including the emotional […]

Since the early 1990s, Spencer Tunick has traveled the globe creating staged images of multiple nude figures in urban and rural public settings. And since 2000, collector Stephane Janssen has been a participant in photographs that range from a handful of figures in an art museum to thousands of volunteers in the Dead Sea. “Participant” […]

Cuban artist Sandra Ramos has exhibited her work internationally since the late 1980s. This exhibition revolves around eight recent, short video animations that explore the complex historic and current relationship between Cuba and the U.S. Her witty figures and settings draw from literature, popular media and the island of Cuba, and combine in narratives that […]