TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — Art has changed drastically over the last one hundred years and the Tucson museum of art has been there to keep record of it all.
The Tucson Museum of Art is honored to commemorate Alice and Paul Baker and Beth and Michael Kasser as the 2023 TMA Lifetime Achievement Award recipients.
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The UA Museum Of Art Housed A Real Treasure: Director Peter Bermingham.
By Margaret Regan
FOUR OR FIVE summers ago, Peter Bermingham the artist surfaced
in Davis Dominguez Gallery s
Small Works Invitational.
The director of the University of Arizona Museum of Art, he had
contributed a deadpan fantasy of a museum in chaos. Calling the work Untitled (After Theodore Géricault s Raft of the Medusa 1818-1819), Bermingham painted a torrent
of water spewing out of the Géricault on a museum wall.
There was a dangerous, flooded moat right below the painting,
but a soaked survivor was pulling himself up to the solid ground
The Best And Worst Of The Local Arts Scene In 1997.
By Margaret Regan
ONE OF THE best moments in the whole art year took place
in its earliest weeks. Liz Lerman s Dance Exchange had come
to town in January, and worked intensively with local groups to
incorporate them into a professional performance at Centennial
Hall. After weeks of rehearsals, old Mexican-American women from
El Rio Neighborhood Center, Jewish mothers and children from the
Hebrew Academy, gay activists and even Ken Foster, head of
UApresents,
joined Lerman s troupe onstage for Still Crossing,
a dance about immigration and nationhood. It was a performance at once solemn and joyful. Its best moment,