{"id":298448,"date":"2025-10-12T23:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/298448\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T23:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T23:17:12","slug":"phoenix-art-museum-to-premiere-renovated-galleries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/298448\/","title":{"rendered":"Phoenix Art Museum to premiere renovated galleries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Special to Independent Newsmedia<\/p>\n

After nearly four months of major renovations, Phoenix Art Museum will reopen its Art of the Americas + Europe galleries in November.<\/p>\n

The galleries will open Friday, Nov. 28, the day after Thanksgiving, in the newly dedicated James K. Ballinger Wing, a 17,000-square foot space named in honor of the Museum’s Director Emeritus, who served in the leadership role for four decades until his 2014 retirement.<\/p>\n

Home to 10 gallery spaces, the Ballinger Wing will present historical American, Western American, Viceregal Latin American, and European art from the Phoenix Art Museum collection, alongside contemporary works by Amalia Mesa-Bains, Virgil Ortiz, and Federico Solmi, among other new acquisitions and significant loans.<\/p>\n

Special exhibitions titled \u201cCurated Encounters\u201d will also offer focused explorations on Arizona artist Ed Mell and George Elbert Burr. Also, look for the renovated Thorne Miniature Rooms and the relocated and reimagined Ullman Center for the Art of Philip C. Curtis.<\/p>\n

\u201cPhoenix Art Museum is excited to honor James K. Ballinger\u2019s incredible legacy with the naming of our Art of the Americas + Europe Wing, which reopens this fall with more than 250 outstanding works from the Museum\u2019s Collection and beyond,\u201d Jeremy Mikolajczak, the museum\u2019s Sybil Harrington Director and CEO, shared in a press release. \u201cThis first comprehensive renovation of these gallery spaces in nearly a decade, with their new installations and interpretative texts and materials, is a testament to the museum\u2019s curatorial team.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEd Mell\u2019s \u201cTowering Clouds\/Lake Powell,\u201d from 1990, as oil on canvas, will be on display in the new the Ballinger Wing. Courtesy of The St\u00e9phane Janssen Art Foundation. Edmund Paul Mell Jr Trust.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(Provided by Phoenix Art Museum)\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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