General Admission
$18- $23 Adults / $15- $20 Seniors 65+ / $13- $18 Students w/ID / Free- $14 for Youth / Free for Museum Members and Military Families Includes access to Wondrous Worlds.
General Admission includes Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam Through Time & Place
Our admission pricing flexes based on gallery closures and special exhibitions currently on view. All admission prices include special exhibitions. See exhibition pages for detailed pricing.
General admission is reduced to a voluntary donation during the times listed below. During these times, special-engagement exhibitions are not included and require a $5 ticket for entrance.
Wednesdays, 3pm-9pm
First Fridays, 6pm-10pm
Second Sundays, 12pm-5pm
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Tickets are $18 / $15 for Museum Members and Students w/ID. Does not include General Admission.
Please note: National Theatre Live is a simulcast/telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.
Broadcast live from London’s West End, see Ian McKellen’s ‘extraordinarily moving portrayal’ of King Lear in cinemas.
Chichester Festival Theatre’s production received five-star reviews for its sell-out run, and transfers to the West End for a limited season. Jonathan Munby directs this contemporary retelling of Shakespeare’s tender, violent, moving and shocking play.
Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two ageing fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, as family and state are plunged into a violent power struggle with bitter ends.
(Jonathan Munby, PG-13, 220 mins)
During voluntary donation times, when general admission is free, tickets to special engagement exhibitions have a reduced price. These tickets are to see the exhibition Wondrous Worlds: Art and Islam During Time and Place during Pay What You Wish Wednesdays after 3pm.
Concert featuring pianist Elizabeth Pridonoff and violinist Steven Moeckel playing a selection of music including Copeland, Gershwin, Bloch and Shoenfeld.
About Violins of Hope:
Violins of Hope tells the remarkable stories of violins played by Jewish musicians during the Holocaust. Each violin has its own unique and inspiring story that educates both young and old about the Holocaust in a deeply personal and emotional way. Today these instruments serve not only as powerful reminders of an unimaginable experience but also reinforce key lessons of tolerance, inclusion, and diversity that are essential for today and for future generations.
Bergman had discovered the bleak, windswept island of Fårö while scouting locations for "Through a Glass Darkly" in 1960. Nearly a decade later, and after shooting a number of arresting dramas there, the director set out to pay tribute to the inhabitants of Fårö. In Fårö Document, shot on handheld 16 mm by the peerless Sven Nykvist, Bergman interviews a variety of locals, in the process laying bare the generational divide between young residents eager to leave the island and older folk more deeply rooted in bucolic tradition. The film revealed Bergman to be a sensitive and masterly documentarian.
(Directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1970, Sweden, Swedish with English subtitles, 88 min, Not Rated)
All sessions are open to all.
Please note: Starting July 2018, Slow Art & Mindfulness is free with the purchase of General Admission. Pricing reflects General Admission.
Join us as we use art and guided meditation to connect to the moment and create a deeper understanding of artworks once per month. Take a little extra time to look, listen and relax your mind with our teams of museum educators and mindfulness guides.
Presented in partnership with Hospice of the Valley, each session focuses on one work of art in the Museum, blending guided mindfulness practice with a deeper reflection of an individual artwork. Each week, we will explore a different artwork on view.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction was developed at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in 1979 by physicist Jon Kabat-Zinn. Scientific studies show the practice of mindfulness can relieve anxiety, depression, pain, and stress and actually change the way you feel, think, work and play by opening new pathways in the brain.
$5 per person / FREE for members
Join us at 6:30 pm on Thursday, February 28 for the 2018 Phoenix Art Museum Artists’ Grants Recipients exhibition opening and Julio César Morales: Invaders, the 2018 Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Award Recipient.
Schedule for the evening:
6:30 – 7:00 pm Presentation by Julio César Morales, the 2018 Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Award Recipient, and Q&A with the artist.
7:00 pm Cash bar and exhibition viewing
*Stay tuned for an announcement about the "Call for Submissions" for the 2019 Artists’ Grants Recipients.
This presentation by the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Arizona begins with basic terminology and demographics of Muslims in the United States and the world, describes the major beliefs and practices of Islam, including major Muslim holidays. It also addresses common misconceptions about Islam and Muslims and describes its relation to other religions, including Judaism and Christianity.
About the Islamic Speakers Bureau:
The Islamic Speakers Bureau of Arizona (ISBA) is a non-profit, apolitical,educational organization founded in 1999. ISBA is an outreach institution thatprovides education about Islam and Muslims, builds cultural awareness andpromotes interfaith dialogue and collaborations.
LADIES OF THE CANYONS: A LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY WOMEN AND THEIR ADVENTURES IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST By Lesley Poling-Kempes
Ladies of the Canyons is the true story of remarkable women who left the security and comforts of genteel Victorian society and journeyed to the American Southwest in search of a wider view of themselves and their world.
Educated, restless, and inquisitive, Natalie Curtis, Carol Stanley, Alice Klauber, and Mary Cabot Wheelwright were plucky, intrepid women whose lives were transformed in the first decades of the twentieth century by the people and the landscape of the American Southwest. Part of an influential circle of women that included Louisa Wade Wetherill, Alice Corbin Henderson, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Mary Austin, and Willa Cather, these ladies imagined and created a new home territory, a new society, and a new identity for themselves and for the women who would follow them.
Ladies of the Canyons is the story of New Women stepping boldly into the New World of inconspicuous success, ambitious failure, and the personal challenges experienced by women and men during the emergence of the Modern Age.
"The members of her 'league of extraordinary women' come together in the Southwest much like the members of television's A-Team assemble for their maverick adventures" - Western Historical Quarterly
Ticket includes resources, appetizers & Museum admission.
Space is limited.
A Wednesday evening professional development series for educators.
Open to all educators, no art background required. Discover techniques for integrating art into your classroom learning, hear from local arts professionals, enjoy special tours of Museum exhibitions, and network while enjoying hands-on learning in a fun, casual atmosphere (with snacks!).
Special thanks to William Randolph Hearst Foundation for generously sponsoring educator events at Phoenix Art Museum.
The Art of Peaceful Living: A Public Talk and Meditation with International Teacher, Gen-la Kelsang Jampa
Within our mind lies an extraordinary potential for inner peace and happiness. Through the simple practice of meditation we can learn to access that potential. In meditation we learn to let go of the agitated states of mind, such as anger, that produce unhappiness, and instead to cultivate peaceful, powerful minds such as love, acceptance, wisdom, and joy. We also learn to transform our day-to-day experiences, especially our conflicts and problems, into opportunities for developing these peaceful minds. In this way, we learn the art of being peaceful and the special skill of creating happiness for ourselves and others.
Gen-la Kelsang Jampa is the Deputy Spiritual Director of the New Kadampa Tradition -- International Kadampa Buddhist Union (NKT-IKBU) and Resident Teacher of the International Kadampa Retreat Center Grand Canyon. He is an American Buddhist monk dedicated to helping people solve their daily problems by developing the capacity of their mind through the practice of meditation and modern Buddhism. Gen-la Jampa has been a student of Buddhist master Geshe Kelsang Gyatso for many years. Under Geshe Kelsang's guidance, he has taught at many centers and event internationally. Gen-la is well loved for his clear and inspiring teachings, and his ability to touch people's hearts through his sincerity and loving-kindness.
Volunteers are the heart and soul of Phoenix Art Museum. This group of dedicated and passionate volunteers provides vital support to the Museum while working with staff and visitors in an energizing and inspiring environment. Volunteering is also a great way to get a behind-the-scenes look at the premiere arts institution in the Southwest. As a new volunteer to Phoenix Art Museum, the New Volunteer Orientation will aid you in your duties in assisting visitors and staff. Follow the prompts to reserve your spot on one of the session days that is convenient for you.
FREE reservation.
Tickets are $18 / $15 for Museum Members and Students w/ID. Does not include General Admission.
Please note: National Theatre Live is a simulcast/telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.
Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power.
Caesar and his assassins are dead. General Mark Antony now rules alongside his fellow defenders of Rome. But at the fringes of a war-torn empire the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love. In a tragic fight between devotion and duty, obsession becomes a catalyst for war.
Director Simon Godwin returns to National Theatre Live screens with this hotly anticipated production, following previous broadcasts of Twelfth Night, Man and Superman and The Beaux’ Stratagem.
(Simon Godwin, PG-13, 220 mins)
While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family's already fragile ties are tested when daughter Karin (Harriet Andersson) discovers her father has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary means. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, the father (Gunnar Bjornstrand), along with Karin's husband (Max von Sydow) and her younger brother (Lars Passgard) are unable to prevent Karin's harrowing descent into the abyss of mental illness. Winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and featuring an astonishing lead performance by Andersson, "Through a Glass Darkly" presents an unflinching vision of a family's near disintegration and a tortured psyche further taunted by God's intangible presence.
(Directed by Ingmar Bergman, 1961, Sweden, Swedish with English subtitles, 91 min, Not Rated)
University of Arizona Poetry Series reading with Naomi Shihab Nye
Presented with the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Sponsored by the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing, the Creative Writing Program at Arizona State University, the Literary and Prologue Society of the Southwest, Superstition Review, and the Angela and Leonard Singer Endowment for Performing Arts.
Tickets are $18 / $15 for Museum Members and Students with ID. Does not include General Admission.
Please note: Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema is a simulcast/telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.
In the 1920’s, The Golden Age cabaret is a favorite nightly haunt. The young fisherman Boris falls in love with Rita. He follows her to the cabaret and realizes that she is the beautiful dancer “Mademoiselle Margot,” but also the love interest of the local gangster Yashka. With its jazzy score by Dmitri Shostakovich and its music-hall atmosphere featuring beautiful tangos, The Golden Age is a refreshing and colorful dive into the roaring 20’s. A historic ballet that can be seen only at the Bolshoi!
Libretto by Yuri Grigorovich and Isaak Glikman.
(140 min, PG)
Space is limited, advance purchase is recommended.
Seating is first-come, first-seated.
Doors to Whiteman Hall open at 7pm, show starts at 7:30pm.
The Whole Story returns to Phoenix Art Museum in 2019! Now in its fourth year, the live storytelling show seeks to bring greater depth and breadth to our understanding of the human experience from the Black perspective and celebrates the nuances of our humanity. To learn how to be a part of The Whole Story, visit www.thewholestoryis.com.
Please note: National Theatre Live is a simulcast/telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.
Simon Russell Beale plays William Shakespeare’s Richard II, broadcast live from the stage of theAlmeida Theatre in London to cinemas.
This visceral new production about the limits of power will be directed by Joe Hill-Gibbins, whose previous plays include Little Revolution at the Almeida and Absolute Hell at the National Theatre.
Richard II, King of England, is irresponsible, foolish and vain. His weak leadership sends his kingdom into disarray and his court into uproar. Seeing no other option but to seize power, the ambitious Bolingbroke challenges the throne and the king’s divine right to rule.
Simon Russell Beale returns to National Theatre Live screens following broadcasts of Timon of Athens and King Lear, and his recent role in the National Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of The Lehman Trilogy.
Please note, National Theatre Live is a telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.
(150min, PG-13)
Please note: National Theatre Live is a simulcast/telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.
I’m Not Running is an explosive new play by David Hare, premiering at the National Theatre and broadcast live to cinemas.
Pauline Gibson has spent her life as a doctor, the inspiring leader of a local health campaign. When she crosses paths with her old boyfriend, a stalwart loyalist in Labour Party politics, she’s faced with an agonising decision.
What’s involved in sacrificing your private life and your piece of mind for something more than a single issue? Does she dare?
Hare was recently described by The Washington Post as ‘the premiere political dramatist writing in English’. His other work includes Pravda and Skylight, broadcast by National Theatre Live in 2014.
(180min, PG-13)
Tickets are $18 / $15 for Museum Members and Students w/ID. Does not include General Admission.
Carmen is as sensual and free-spirited as ever as she finds herself caught in a love triangle. The passionate one act ballet by Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso, originally conceived for legendary Bolshoi prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, will captivate audiences alongside Petrushka, a new creation for the Bolshoi by contemporary choreographer Edward Clug. The double-bill event for cinemas encapsulates and showcases the soul of Russian Ballet.
Please note: Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema is a simulcast/telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.
Run time: 140 minutes
Tickets are $18 / $15 for Museum Members and Students w/ID. Does not include General Admission.
Please note: National Theatre Live is a simulcast/telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.
The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-to-grave hospital serving a town in Yorkshire, is threatened with closure as part of an efficiency drive. A documentary crew, eager to capture its fight for survival, follows the daily struggle to find beds on the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward, and the triumphs of the old people’s choir.
One of Britain’s most celebrated writers, Alan Bennett’s plays include The History Boys, The Lady in the Van and The Madness of George III, all of which were also seen on film. Allelujah! is his tenth collaboration with award-winning director Nicholas Hytner.
(170 minutes including interval, PG-13)