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NOTICE: We will be closed on Sat., 
May 11 for the Night Circus gala. 
Additionally,we will close  at 5:00pm
on Fri., May 10.

 

 

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SMoCA Lounge
"The Most Of" Lit Lounge

A special Lit Lounge on the BIG stage in Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts featuring Comedy Central stage performer Shaz Bennett, The Moth Storytelling Slam (N.Y.) winner Molly McCloy, L.A. Drama Critics’Circle Award Winner playwright Kim Porter, award-winning author Hillary Carlip and more! A peek at some of our musical guests (with more to come!): Where Are All the Buffalo and Doug Bale. 



Pictured: Tania Katan
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May 30
Special Engagements
Summer 2013 Opening Celebration

Join us for SMoCA's free public Summer Opening Celebration to experience three new exhibitions, plus the young@art gallery's annual summer teen Visions show. Mix + mingle, enjoy music by Djentrification in SMoCA Lounge, meet the artists + curators and see the art in style for one of our infamous thrice-annual fetes!  



Sonny Assu, Salmon Loops, from the Breakfast Series, 2006. Digital print, Fome-cor, 12 x 7 x 3 in. Seattle Art Museum, Gift of Rebecca and Alexander Stewart © Sonny Assu, photograph by Chris Meier. 
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May 31
Exhibitions
MASHup: New Video Art

A mashup recombines elements of two or more pre‐existing songs or videos, usually by two different artists. Today’s mash‐ups mirror the ubiquity of popular culture, internet and memetics of the hive‐mind. Artists Cory Arcangel, Natalie Bookchin, Christian Marclay and Michael Robinson’s artworks pay homage to mass media: film, music, television and YouTube videos.  

Organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.



Michael Robinson, video still, These Hammers Don't Hurt Us, 2011. Single-channel digital video projection, color, sound; running time: 13 min. Courtesy of the artist and © the artist.  
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Feb 9 -
May 19
Exhibitions
Learning to See

In his publication, The Interaction of Color, artist and teacher Josef Albers argued that there is no way to understand colors except in relationship to one another. A radical departure from conventional art education when first published in 1963, Albers’s book is now considered a classic. This installation of selections from SMoCA’s permanent collection celebrates the artist’s legacy and the 50th anniversary of his seminal publication. 

Organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.

Sponsored by Allison Gee Fine Art Appraisals. 



Josef Albers, Untitled from the portfolio Formulation: Articulation II, 1972. Screenprint; 15 x 40 inches. Collection of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Gift of Karla and Walter Goldschmidt, 2003.035.02 © 2013 The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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May 18 -
Sep 22
Exhibitions
Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles

Shopping carts, candy wrappers, grocery lists, paper bags, milk bottles, and cereal boxes—these ordinary items emerge as objects for artistic investigation in Stocked. This exhibition presents the work of contemporary artists who keenly and cleverly interrogate the grocery items we purchase, the environments in which we shop, the social frameworks we encounter there, and the cultural norms that inform our habits of consumption. 

Organized by the Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University. The exhibition has been generously supported by the Lois Kay Walls Foundation Trust, Spirit Aerosystems, and Delta Dental. Additional sponsors include Louise Beren, John and Nancy Brammer, Norma Greever, Richard D. Smith and Sondra Langel, and Keith and Georgia Stevens. Support has also been provided by Wichita State University and the City of Wichita.

 

Sponsored locally by Henkel Consumer Goods Inc.; Dr. Eric Jungermann

 

 



Brian Ulrich, Chicago, IL, 2003, from the series Retail, 2002–2006. C-print on Dibond, 40 x 50 in. Courtesy of the artist and Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
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May 25 -
Sep 1