Saturday, December 2, 2023

The Phoenix Art Museum

 Phoenix. AZ


Phoenix Art Museum

Today we used our NARM membership to visit The Phoenix Art Museum.  There were some great exhibits and I am sure we will be back before we leave.

Luckily this dinosaur was caged so we were safe.


Cihuateotl with Mirror from Private Landscapes and Public Territories - Amalia Mesa-Bains

An Ofrenda for Dolores del Rio - Amalia Mesa-Bains
This installation pays homage to the famous Mexican actress Dolores del Rio.

What the River Gave to Me - Amalia Mesa-Bains

Fireflies Infinity Mirror Room - Yayoi Kusama


Female Bather With Raised Arms - Pablo Picasso

Untitled - Alexander Archipenko

We have been to a few museums that display Joan Miro along with Alexander Calder.

Pink Abstraction - Georgia O'Keeffe

Tensions - Emil Bisttram

Dive Bombing - George L. K. Morris

White Buffalo Ceremony - Fritz Scholder

City Dynamism - Raymond Jonson


Job - Alphonse Marie Mucha

Ambassadeurs: Arstide Bruant - Henry Marie Raymond De Toulouse-Lautrec

Memling: After Memling's Portrait of a Man in a Red Hat - Kehinde Wiley



This might be the first time Donna considered running out of a museum with an arm full of clothes.

Untitled (Blue and Green) - Mark Rothko


The gift shop had this awesome Keith Haring chess set.  I don't play chess, I don't need a chess set, but it was cool.  "I don't know how to play chess, but to me, life is like a game of chess" - Thierry Guetta

On the way out I saw the restroom graphics and the man graphic reminded me of something.

Klaus Nomi

That's it for today.  If you missed The Best Botanic Garden in the Country? and a Tiki Bar, check it out.

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