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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.

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 h...

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 an...

skindberg@post-journal.com Taped to a wall in the bedroom of George Barone’s West Ellicott apartment — next to plaques and other mementos commemorating a lifetime of coaching youth baseball — is a handwritten note, dated a little more than two years ago. “Thanks so much for your Christmas card. I had a great time playing for you and my awesome teammates. Enjoy 2019.” The missive is signed by Dayton Moore. Moore is now the general manager of the Kansas City Royals, but a piece of his heart apparently still remains on the diamonds in Lakewood where he was mentored by Barone decades ag...