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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
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.
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.
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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