Half century feast of fashions
Opening in the Grand Gallery on Sunday, January 31,“Inspiring Beauty: 50 Years of Ebony Fashion Fair” and remaining on view through April 24, 2016 at the Memorial Art Gallery in…
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Show focuses on Needleworks
On view through February 28, 2016 at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, “Georgia’s Girlhood Embroidery: ‘Crowned with Glory and Immortality’” focuses on ornamental needlework created…
NY: Rochester
WHERE: Memorial Art Gallery. WHEN: Through January 24, 2016. Une Une Danse des Bouffons (A Jester’s Dance) The silent, black-and-white video work by Canadian artist Marcel Dzama, which is repeated…
Indy museum has ‘false’ ceiling
WHERE: Indianapolis Museum of Art. WHEN: Through June 5, 2016. Richard Wentworth: False Ceiling—Indianapolis This large-scale work by Wentworth is the most ambitious installation to date and…
Works talk visually
Nashville is also noted for its love of storytelling in words, images and voices. For years, the city has been home to major publishing houses, printing presses, nationally recognized writing…
Collaboration connects to Carol’s art
Opening Friday, November 6, 2015 at ArtSpace in Lima, Ohio is an exhibit, “Furnishing the Suite” that will explore of the secret life of furnishings: Where did they come…
Bay Area composer a first
As its first Composer Lab & Workshop Fellow, the Nashville Symphony named Gabriella Smith to return several times next year to work with music director Giancarlo Guerrero and the orchestra.…
Bourgeois’s works: A visual celebration
In the West Building of the National Gallery of Art, this exhibition entitled, “Louise Bourgeois: No Exit” is made up of evocative drawings, prints and sculptures by Bourgeois, goes on…
MI: Detroit
WHERE: Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit/MOCAD. WHEN: On view October 16, 2015 through January 3, 2016. Dor Guez: The Sick Man of Europe: The Architect Artist Dor Guez focuses on…
TN: Nashville
WHERE: Frist Center for the Visual Arts. WHEN: October 30, 2015 through January 6, 2016. Michelangelo: Sacred and Profane, Masterpiece Drawings from the Casa Buonarroti This exhibition offers…
Germany: Düsseldorf
WHERE: K21 Ständehaus. WHEN: On view through January 24, 2016. The Problem of God BRIEF ABOUT: Christian iconography is omnipresent in our collective memory, and many contemporary artists incorporate…
Deputy Director’s desk filled
Miah Michaelsen of Bloomington, Indiana has become the next Indiana Arts Commission agency’s deputy director. “We are so thrilled to have Miah join the staff of the Arts Commission,” said…
They ‘raised’ him up
Promoted to Associate Conductor, Vinay Parameswaran said, “It is an incredible honor to be a part of the Nashville Symphony, and I am excited for the next three years as…
She is number 1
Shawnya L. Harris became the first Larry D. and Brenda A. Thompson Curator of African American and African Diasporic Art recently for the Georgia Museum of Art at the University…
New leader chosen for Museum
Gary Stoppelman has been named the Museum’s Deputy Director for Marketing and External Affairs of the Indianapolis Museum of Art. “Having worked at three of the world’s most prominent museums,…
KY: Prestonsburg
WHERE: Mountain Arts Center. WHEN: Saturday, October 24, 2015 at 7:00 pm. Bluegrass Extravaganza BRIEF ABOUT: Featuring Nathan Stanley/ http://www.nathanstanleymusic.com/index.html with the Clinch Mountain Boys and Russell Moore & IIIrd…
NY: Rochester
WHERE: Memorial Art Gallery grounds. WHEN: Saturday, September 12 and Sunday 13, 2015. M&T Bank Clothesline Festival BRIEF ABOUT: Original work by 400+ artists from across New York State,…
Exhibit mirrors artists’ worlds
In the Inez Greenberg Gallery at the Artistry in the Bloomington Center for the Arts in Bloomington, Minnesota, on view through October 9, 2015, “It’s Personal” is an exhibition with…
Works on view span artist’s career
On view at the Georgia Museum of Art in Athens, “Ralph Chessé” (1900–1991) was an multifaceted artist: painter, sculptor and puppeteer who spent time in New Orleans, Europe and San…
Conference to highlight poet’s life
Poet Sonia Sanchez will return to the September 11-12, 2015 Kentucky Women Writers Conference in Lexington, Kentucky, on the 10th anniversary of the founding of the conference series named for…
Artist 1st solo in the Motor City
Opening Friday, September 18, 2015, this multi-year research program is one of the most ambitious undertakings to date for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit/MOCAD. Detroit City is comprised of…
Ioannides to pass baton
At the helm for 12 seasons, Music Director and Conductor of Spartanburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Sarah Ioannides will be passing the baton to her new successor at the end of…
Indy to ‘rock’ with Booth
On Friday, September 4, 2015 from 11:30 am to 1:30 pm at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown, Actor, business owner, entrepreneur, author and renowned teaching artist Eric Booth will be our…
Meacham and Gilliam on the ‘marquee’
Historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “American Lion” and “Franklin and Winston” as well as the former editor of Newsweek magazine, Jon Meacham will headline the Martin School of Public…
Artist chosen to craft Bicentennial Medal
Nearly 100 design concepts from 50 artists across the state were submitted for consideration by the Bicentennial Medal Jurors and chosen was Donna Weaver of Vevay, Indiana to create the…
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WHERE: Memorial Art Gallery. WHEN: Through September 13, 2015 in the Grand Gallery. 65th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition BRIEF ABOUT: Rochester’s oldest and longest-running juried exhibition once again showcases works…
CA: San Francisco
WHERE: Throughout the Bay Area. WHEN: October 2-10, 2015. Asia Week San Francisco Bay Area BRIEF ABOUT: West Coast’s first, major region wide event celebrating Asian art, involving 17…
Symphony picks new CFO
A certified public accountant in the state of Tennessee, Marye Walker Lewis began her career as an auditor at Arthur Andersen. After an extensive nationwide search by the Nashville Symphony,…
IL: Chicago
WHERE: Moonlight Studios (1446 West Kinzie Street) WHEN: Sunday, September 6, 2015 from 6:00-10:00 pm. Fashion Loves Art BRIEF ABOUT: Hosted by SAStyle Studio founder, Stephanie Alexis White, the goal…
University seeks ‘possible people’
Since its inception in 1990 and still one of University of Kentucky’s most prestigious awards, the Libraries Medallion for Intellectual Achievement, nominations are now sought for the 2016 through Friday,…
IMA appoints 8 new leaders
The Indianapolis Museum of Art elected eight new members to its Board of Governors at its recent 131st annual meeting. They are: Â Â Â Â David Barrett is president and CEO of…
Dual sites to show artist’s works
Sculptures by internationally renowned Spanish artist Jaume Plensa will be on view concurrently at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee from Friday, June 5 to September…
OH: Chillicothe
WHERE: Pump House Center for the Arts at 1 Enderlin Circle. WHEN: Thursday, June 4, 2015 at 7:00 pm through June 27, 2015 at 8:00 pm. Ohio Watercolor Society’s 37th…
Bender-Vogel show set to open
The exhibition, “Marjorie Bender and Barbara Vogel: Family and Friends” of photos, collage, acrylic, mixed media and clay will be on view in the Dublin Arts Council gallery at…
Curb Concerto Competition winners
The Nashville Symphony has chosen the winners of the 2015 Curb Concerto Competition, one of Tennessee’s most prestigious student competitions, which annually showcases gifted music students between the ages of…
OH: Columbus
WHERE: Wexner Center for the Arts in the Mershon Auditorium. WHEN: April 23 through 26, 2015 the theater is a blank page This world premiere production is the…
Show to dazzle viewers
Opening April 1, 2015 at the Lilly House, the historic mansion which is the cornerstone of the 52-acre Oldfields Estate of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the exhibit, “Tiffany, Gorham,…
Art of Humanity
On March 1 and March 3, 2015, Window World of Tidewater sponsored two Veterans Airlift Command (VAC) transporting Lieutenant Commander Scott Woods and his family to and from Memphis, Tennessee,…
Saraceno installation extended
It shakes, has holes, and is 80 feet high above the ground, but that hasn’t stopped 100,000 people from visiting and climbing this K21 Museum’s giant art installation that looks…
Brosvik new COO for symphony
With more than two decades of experience in the orchestra field, who comes to Nashville, Tennessee from the Houston Symphony, where he served as general manager and chief operating officer…
150 years strong
In February 1865, just before the end of the Civil War, farmer and lawyer John Bryan Bowman challenged the Kentucky state legislature to take advantage of the opportunity offered…
The ‘Green Beret’ returns to DAC
For this Columbus, Ohio-based artist, his solo exhibition, “Mac Worthington: Urban Sprawls” marks a primarily new medium and context of acrylic paintings and sculpture. His show opens with a reception…
Media giants moved by Baitz play
Opening Friday, February 27 through March 22, 2015 at the Bloomington Theatre and Art Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, “Other Desert Cities” by Playwright Jon Robin Baitz and directed by Robert…
Visual tales to be told
At the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee, “Telling Tales: Stories and Legends in 19th-Century American Art” opens on Friday, February 27 and runs through June 7,…
“To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven.” – Ecclesiastes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Simon “As long as we live, they too will live; for they are…
New creator to build dream
On January 15, 2015, Don Bacigalupi joined the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art as the museum’s founding President. With more than 20 years of experience in collection and exhibition…
Artist’s works ’sirs’ with inner pulse
http://www.scribd.com/doc/252305586/Artist-s-works-sirs-with-inner-pulse While living in Russia, Padrick Bentley became immersed in the sights, sounds, history, myths and legends. Like the fabled Prince, he brought back with him the magical feather…
The ‘Best of Best’ list grows
First introduced in 1958, the Illinois State Scholars has chosen over 18,800 elite honorees to join the other top Illinois high school students honored with the prestigious designation for 2015-16,…
TN: Nashville
WHERE: Frist Center for the Visual Arts. WHEN: Opens Friday, October 31, 2014 and on view through January 25, 2015. Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders…
NY: Rochester
WHERE: Memorial Art Gallery. WHEN: On view through January 4, 2015. Golden Legacy: 65 Years of Golden Books BRIEF ABOUT: This major traveling exhibition represents the most extensive public…