Imbibe and dine at Palette, the Museum restaurant, from 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. every Wednesday and every First Friday of the month for an artfully delicious happy hour before exploring Phoenix Art Museum!   On this special happy hour menu, enjoy: $3.50 beers, $5 select wines, $5 margaritas $4 baskets of herb-parmesan fries with aioli sauce $6 hummus with naan $6 Bruschetta Choose 2: Avocado & EVOO, Goat Cheese/Balsamic/Fig, Prosciutto & Parmesan, Tomato/Mozzarella/Basil $7 Honey-Almond Brie warmed and served with Lavosh and Apple Compote $8 Grilled Veggie Board with seasonal selection of Veggies Palette at Phoenix Art Museum is casual American restaurant offering a seasonally focused m... (View more)

Tickets are $10 Seating is first-come, first-choice Visit tickets.phxart.org to purchase Jim Hodges, I Dreamed a World and Called it Love, 2016. Glass on canvas. Lenhardt Collection. Installation view at Phoenix Art Museum, 2018. On April 24, 2018, Phoenix Art Museum will present world-renowned artist Jim Hodges as the inaugural speaker at the Museum’s annual Lenhardt Lecture, a key component of the recently announced David and Dawn Lenhardt Contemporary Art Initiative. Hodges was born in 1957 in Spokane, Washington, and lives and works in New York. His work has been the subject of exhibitions at museums around the world.  Known for the materials and varied scale of his work, which ranges from small... (View more)

4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Circles of Support members are invited to join Vanessa Davidson, the Shawn and Joe Lampe Curator of Latin American Art, and Betsy Fahlman, adjunct curator of American art, for an exclusive Circles curator-led tour of Border Crossings: Mexico and the American Southwest. Border Crossings: Mexico and the American Southwest represents a cultural conversation between Mexico and the United States. Paul Pletka’s triptych introduces this installation, a monumental work inspired by Mexico’s Spanish Colonial and Pre-Columbian heritage as well as contemporary Mexican-American culture. Once part of colonial Spain and then Mexico, the American Southwest in part shares this legacy.  3:45 p.m.     &nbs... (View more)

3-5 pm Amada Cruz, the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO, and the Board of Trustees of Phoenix Art Museum cordially invite you to an appreciation reception for our generous 21st Century Society members. 3:00 pm | Cocktails and hors d'oeuvres 3:30 pm | Remarks 4:00 pm | Curator-led tour of Border Crossings: Mexico and the American Southwest RSVP by April 19, 2018 to Rossi Todorova, Major and Planned Giving Officer, at rossi.todorova@phxart.org or 602.257.2169. Generously sponsored by Bonhams, Sacks Tierney P.A., and Versant Capital Management. Image credit: Maynard Dixon, Home of the Desert Rat (detail) 1944-1945. Oil on Canvas. Bequest of Leon H. Woolsey.