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Top exhibitions are shown alongside the Museum’s collection of more than 20,000 objects of American, Asian, European, Latin American, Western American, modern and contemporary art, photography, and fashion design. Phoenix Art Museum hosts photography exhibitions through its landmark partnership with The University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography. Visitors can also enjoy the Lemon Art

Research Library, the largest specialized fine arts library in the region, along with the Dorrance Sculpture Garden, the Thorne Miniature Rooms of historic interiors and a collection of works by renowned Arizona artist Philip C. For additional information please visit phxart.org or call 602-257-1880.

06/18/2026

ON VIEW | Modern Treads: The Discount Tire Poster Collection

Drawn exclusively from the Collection of Discount Tire, the exhibition presents 15 oversized posters from approximately 1900 to 1930 celebrating industrial innovation and the growing popularity of the automobile. The collection traces both artistic innovation and industrial transformation through bold graphics, luminous color, and striking advertising imagery from companies including Michelin, Dunlop, Continental, Pirelli, and Goodyear. Exploring themes of mobility, modernity, industry, and reform, the posters reveal how artists helped shape the imagery and ideals of a rapidly changing world.

Tickets: https://phxart.org/visit/tickets/
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Exhibition Sponsors:
Modern Treads: The Discount Tire Poster Collection is organized by Phoenix Art Museum and co-curated by Rachel Sadvary Zebro, Associate Curator of Collections and Susan Driver, Curator, Collection of Discount Tire.

Modern Treads: The Discount Tire Poster Collection is made possible by Presenting Sponsor Men’s Arts Council (logo).

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.

06/17/2026

ON VIEW | Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Instrument of Troubled Dreams ⚡☁️

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have collaborated since 1995 on immersive multimedia works that explore sound. The Instrument of Troubled Dreams is an interactive audio installation in which you are invited to sit at a replica of a 1960s Mellotron and play the keyboard. While the original Mellotron was used to compose music using prerecorded tape banks, this instrument has been transformed into a storytelling device. Each of the 72 keys has been programmed to play back a different sound effect, vocal track, or musical part so participants can compose their own film-like soundtrack. These sounds and narratives are played back in full spherical surround sound over 23 speakers encircling the listener/performer in a dystopian story of their own making.

Tickets: https://phxart.org/visit/tickets/

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Image Credits:
Cardiff & Miller, The Instrument of Troubled Dreams, 2018. Interactive audio installation with ambisonic sound. © 2026 courtesy the artists. Oude Kerke Amsterdam.

Exhibition Credits:
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller's The Instrument of Troubled Dreams is on loan from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection. Contemporary art exhibitions and projects are made possible in part by the Rob Walton, Jordan Rose, and Rose Law Group Fund for Contemporary Art. 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.

06/11/2026

There's less than a month remaining to experience Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) at PhxArt ✨

Through striking photographic works, Cara Romero celebrates the multiplicity, beauty, and resilience of Native American and Indigenous experiences. Her visual storytelling brilliantly challenges dominant narratives of Indigenous decline and erasure and disrupts preconceived notions about what it means to be a Native American, showing the diversity within Indigenous nations and communities.

Don't miss your chance to see Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) before it closes on June 28.

Grab your tickets: https://phxart.org/visit/tickets/

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This month’s Kids Day celebrates contemporary artist Leonardo Drew, renowned for creating monumental abstract sculptures...
06/10/2026

This month’s Kids Day celebrates contemporary artist Leonardo Drew, renowned for creating monumental abstract sculptures incorporating a variety of textured materials. Bring the whole family to enjoy hands-on arts-making, interactive storytelling, and creative activations designed for all ages:

🧶 10 am–2 pm | Drop by to experiment with various tactile materials and construct your own unique, abstract sculpture inspired by Leonardo Dre
🎞️ 10 am–2 pm | Participate in a hands-on activity inspired by In Her Own Image, where art, film, and technology converge through creative exploration
🧑‍🎨 11 am–3 pm | Stop by Create Playdate to craft a textured project that plays with shape, form, and surface style
📖 11:30 am–Noon | Join us for a live reading of Perfect Square by Michael Hall

📍 June 13, 2026
🕦 10 am–2 pm
🎟 Take advantage of Juneteenth General Admission Pricing | $10 Adults | $5 Youth (6–17) | Free for PhxArt Members

Tickets: https://bit.ly/4uvxCHp

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Kids Day is made possible by Desert Financial Credit Union, with additional support from the Angela and Leonard Singer Endowment for Performing Arts, The Discount Tire Endowment for Children’s Art Programs, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs.

This First Friday PhxArt will premiere Coyote Appears at Muhaḍagĭ Doʼag (Greasy Mountain), a new commission by contempor...
06/05/2026

This First Friday PhxArt will premiere Coyote Appears at Muhaḍagĭ Doʼag (Greasy Mountain), a new commission by contemporary photographer Cara Romero, whose first major museum exhibition, Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light), is currently on view at PhxArt through June 28, 2026.

The artist’s first triptych, the large-scale photograph was created at South Mountain Park and Preserve in Phoenix and depicts Dre Noline who is both San Carlos Apache and Salt River Pima-Maricopa reclining within the landscape and embodying the human connection to Coyote and all animals.

Grounded in regional, collaborative storytelling with Native peoples, Coyote Appears at Muhaḍagĭ Doʼag (Greasy Mountain) is emblematic of Romero’s practice in touching on universal themes of women’s empowerment, environmental stewardship, and the role of landscape in shaping identity. The image’s model connects us to Coyote, who exists as both herself and a conduit for the Coyote spirit. She wears ashell necklace, a Pima cotton dress, and Pima sandals, markers of her ancestral connection to this landscape and peoples of Phoenix. Romero made the Coyote mask and collaborated with fiber artist Leah Mata-Fragua to create the model’s necklace. The sandals are the model’s personal shoes, an intimate detail demonstrating the way Romero invites her sitters to take part in the creative process alongside her.

🎟️ Grab your First Friday tickets: https://bit.ly/4x5rV5z

Image Credit:
Cara Romero, Coyote Appears at Muhaḍagĭ Doʼag (Greasy Mountain), 2026, archival pigment print. © Cara Romero. Image courtesy of the artist.

Join us at Phoenix Art Museum for the Matriarch Mixer, presented in collaboration with the Indigenous Community Collabor...
05/29/2026

Join us at Phoenix Art Museum for the Matriarch Mixer, presented in collaboration with the Indigenous Community Collaborative and inspired by Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light).

"We are the story. The light. The lineage."

Rooted in this powerful theme, visitors are invited to explore identity, resilience, and community through immersive activities, storytelling, and shared experiences. Inspired by Romero’s exploration of light as a carrier of memory, this space is open to all to reflect, participate, and connect through art.

Schedule of Events:

🎨 5:15–6 pm | Commission Reveal with Cara Romero
🎤 6–7 pm | Open Mic with Rashaad Thomas
🪶 7–7:45 pm | Bird Singing Performance in the Dorrance Sculpture Garden

Throughout the Evening:

💫 Move through a space inspired by Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) and reflect on presence and connection
📹 Share your story through a short video prompt and contribute to a living archive created live during First Friday
✍️ Visit the Journal Prompt Writing Table with Sketchclub Cafeto add a drawing or written reflection centered on lineage and memory
🎶 Live Music with DJ J-ME LEE
🌮 Local food vendors and drinks available for purchase from Skoden Coffee
🖼️ Docent-Led Tours at 5:30 + 6:30 pm

🎟️ Grab your tickets: https://bit.ly/4vjLMw7

First Fridays are made possible through the generosity of APS, with additional support from Arizona Community Foundation.

Unlimited art. All summer. Just $75. 🌞Summers in Phoenix are hot, but Phoenix Art Museum is the perfect indoor escape. F...
05/28/2026

Unlimited art. All summer. Just $75. 🌞

Summers in Phoenix are hot, but Phoenix Art Museum is the perfect indoor escape. From Memorial Day through Labor Day, get out of the heat and into our air-conditioned galleries with the PhxArt Summer Pass.

For just $75, pass holders get:

🎟️ Unlimited visits from May 27–September 6, 2026
👫 Free general admission for two adults and all youth (17 and under)
🎬 Free monthly film screening
🛍️ 10% off at the award-winning Museum Store
🎨 Free access to art-making activities + more

And if you don’t want the fun to end after Labor Day, apply the cost of your Summer Pass toward an annual Family Level Membership or above, starting at just $99*

Grab your PhxArt Summer Pass today: https://phxart.org/summer-pass/

*General Admission access during regular Museum hours. Does not include special exhibition tickets during Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays and First Fridays or discounts at Alden restaurant. Valid May 27–September 6, 2026. Cannot be combined with other offers. May be applied to an annual Family Level Membership or above at the end of the access period.

05/23/2026

It's your LAST CHANCE to experience Eric Fischl: Stories Told at Phoenix Art Museum. Closing June 14, this powerful exhibition brings together 40 large-scale works by renowned figurative painter Eric Fischl (), tracing his career from the late 1970s to today.

Raised in both Long Island and Phoenix, Fischl studied at Phoenix College and Arizona State University before becoming one of the most influential figurative painters of his generation. Stories Told explores the complexities beneath everyday life — family dynamics, social tensions, memory, masculinity, privilege, and the uneasy spaces between public and private life — through emotionally charged, deeply human scenes.

This exhibition also celebrates Fischl’s lasting connection to Phoenix and his impact on the local arts community through decades of mentorship and philanthropy. Don’t miss your chance to see this extraordinary exhibition before it closes.

🎟️ Grab your tickets: https://phxart.org/visit/tickets/

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Exhibition Sponsors:
The exhibition is presented by the Men’s Arts Council, with leadership support from Margaret T. Morris Foundation, and Steven Martin and Anne Stringfield.

Major support provided by Michael and Nancy Gifford, James and Janet Dicke, Bruce and Suzie Kovner, and DL Withers Foundation.

Additional support is provided by Rafael Jablonka, Erica Samuels, and Skarstedt Gallery.

In-kind support provided by Kimpton Hotel Palomar Phoenix.

Contemporary art exhibitions and projects are made possible in part by the Rob Walton, Jordan Rose, and Rose Law Group Fund for Contemporary Art. 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.

Leadership support for the exhibition publication, Eric Fischl: Late America, is provided by Skarstedt Gallery.

On view June 13 | Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: The Instrument of Troubled DreamsExperience Janet Cardiff and G...
05/15/2026

On view June 13 | Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: The Instrument of Troubled Dreams

Experience Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller’s acclaimed interactive audio installation, on view in Arizona for the first time.

Born in small rural towns in Canada, artists Janet Cardiff (b. 1957) and George Bures Miller (b. 1960) have collaborated for more than three decades, developing a singular practice rooted in sound, storytelling, and immersive installation. Working with film, robotics, and advanced audio technologies, their work blurs the boundaries between memory and narrative, inviting viewers into shifting worlds where space, time, and perception are constantly in flux.

In The Instrument of Troubled Dreams, visitors are invited to take a seat at a modified 1960s Mellotron keyboard and become active participants in the work itself. Each of the instrument’s 72 keys triggers a distinct sound, musical fragment, or spoken narrative—from a raven crossing the gallery to soldiers searching an apartment to a carnival drifting past on a barge.

As visitors improvise, they construct their own evolving audio landscapes—composing fragmented, cinematic narratives that shift with every interaction. The result is an experience that is at once intimate and expansive, structured and unpredictable, echoing the unstable nature of memory itself.

Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller: The Instrument of Troubled Dreams marks the artists’ second presentation at Phoenix Art Museum and the Arizona premiere of this major interactive work.

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Image Credits:
Cardiff & Miller, The Instrument of Troubled Dreams, 2018. Interactive audio installation with ambisonic sound. © 2026 courtesy the artists. Oude Kerke Amsterdam.

Join us for a special screening of the silent-era masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc, one of cinema’s most transcend...
05/14/2026

Join us for a special screening of the silent-era masterpiece The Passion of Joan of Arc, one of cinema’s most transcendent and emotionally powerful works, directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer.

Spiritual rapture and institutional hypocrisy come to stark, vivid life in one of the most transcendent masterpieces of the silent era. Chronicling the trial of Joan of Arc in the hours leading up to her ex*****on, Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer depicts her torment with startling immediacy, employing an array of techniques—expressionistic lighting, interconnected sets, painfully intimate close-ups—to immerse viewers in her subjective experience. Anchoring Dreyer’s audacious formal experimentation is a legendary performance by Renée Falconetti, whose haunted face channels both the agony and the ecstasy of martyrdom.

🍿 We're thrilled to now offer concessions! Grab your favorite movie snacks, including popcorn, soda, and candy, to enjoy during the film.⁠

📅 Date: Wednesday, May 20
🕛 Time: 6 pm⁠
📍 Location: Whiteman Hall at Phoenix Art Museum⁠

🎟️ FREE for Members | $8 for non-Members⁠
Grab tickets: https://bit.ly/49DqJfh

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