Even though “The Great Gatsby” has gotten the movie treatment several times in the past, no film adaptation has ever really stood out as the definitive version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s celebrated novel.

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Tempe Union High School District's Mountain Pointe High School is one of four schools in the U.S. chosen as a John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts National School of Distinction in Arts Education, honoring the school's work for the 2010-2011 school year.

When, where, parking, cost and other odds and ends about the MAC.

Adonis Watt discovered a skill found in a most unexpected place.

The new year feels full of possibility. Promise. Hope. Dreams. Perhaps, then, it’s not too far a stretch for two New York artists, recently arrived in Tempe, to go looking for miracles.

Mesa officials are looking forward to more space for city arts classes when the vaunted $94.5 million downtown arts center opens in spring 2005.

Lace and knitting - hip and avant-garde. Doesn't sound quite right, does it?

More than a third of the Mesa Arts Center’s fall classes have been canceled because of low enrollment, a trend arts supporters link to the latest price increases.

More than a third of the Mesa Arts Center’s fall classes have been canceled because of low enrollment, a trend arts supporters link to the latest price increases.

The giant leaves tumbling out of John Wayne Jackson’s garden studio didn’t fall from trees. His touchable sculptures came from a compelling fusion of natural leaves, Portland cement, powdered metals, crowded airports, Martha Stewart and the inventive spirit of Jackson himself.

Research. Bioscience. Creativity. These are the buzzwords flying around Arizona State University and part of ASU President Michael Crow’s grand plan to propel the university to national prominence.

Mesa Contemporary Arts, the Mesa Arts Center’s visual arts galleries and one of the city's few arts institutions unaffected by recent budget cuts, has revealed its offerings for the upcoming 2006-07 season.

As long as skateboards have been around, kids have been covering them in stickers and drawing on them with markers. Maybe that’s why a Chandler art show full of skate decks (the platform where your feet go) seems to strike a chord with all ages.

A new arts center could be in downtown Scottsdale's long-term future.

July 14, 2004

The orchestra could be without chairs and music stands.

Size is everything. The Tempe Center for the Arts’ first major event Saturday night, a black-tie gala culminating in a concert by jazz singer Natalie Cole, proved as much.

The curtain may finally rise on a long-proposed arts center in Gilbert, as town officials work on a concept for a facility and put up seed money.

The curtain may finally rise on a long-proposed arts center in Gilbert, as town officials work on a concept for a facility and put up seed money.

Chances are you haven’t seen Native American art like this before.

More than a decade in the making, and after more than a year of construction delays, the $66.5 million Tempe Center for the Arts opens next weekend.

The following is a list of upcoming events to be held at the Mesa Arts Center. For ticket information, please call (480)-644-6500 or visit www.mesaartscenter.com