Tradition lives on
WATER MILL, NY (PNAN) – Artworks of more than 1,000 young artists from Eastern Long Island schools goes on view in the Parrish Art Museum during its annual Student Exhibition on…
At the Museums dept
50th Anniversary Exhibition
ANCHORAGE, AK (PNAN) – On view through Sunday, April 3, 2022, the Anchorage School District Youth 50th Art Exhibition is a celebration by young student artists from kindergarten through high…
Colorist roots are deep in Hartford society
HARTFORD, CT (PNAN) – Going on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art on Saturday, March 5, works by Milton Avery, who is considered one of North America’s greatest…
Icon’s painting in the spotlight
BLOOMINGTON, IN (NWPR) – On view through May 22, 2022 in the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, “Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural”…
Visionary painter’s show a must-see
CHICAGO, IL (AAPNW) – Going on view Tuesday, February 15 in the Smart Museum of Art, “Bob Thompson: This House Is Mine” is an exhibition offering a rich reconsideration of…
Museum has hometown artist on their mind
ATHENS, GA (PNAN) – Since 1962, Lou Stovall has lived and worked in Washington, D.C., but his artistic journey will come full circle next year, with a return to his…
Roll ‘em, roll ‘em to the 58th
PITTSBURGH, PA (AAPNW) – For its 2022 season, the Carnegie Museum of Art has on schedule exhibitions that probe local concerns and national histories as part of the museum’s wider…
Architect’s stories are towering
RALEIGH, NC (PNAN) – Opening Saturday, February 26, 2022 at the North Carolina Museum of Art, “Container/Contained: Phil Freelon Design Strategies for Telling African American Stories” will be an exhibition…
World Forest show extraordinary
ANCHORAGE, AK (PNAN) – Opening Friday, November 19, 2021 at the Anchorage Museum, “Borealis: Life in the Woods” exhibition presents the images of Dutch photographer Jeroen Toirkens and words of…
Viewers to give art life
RALEIGH, NC (PNAN) – Opening Saturday, December 18, 2021 at the North Carolina Museum of Art, “PARTICIPATE: Activate the Senses” will be an exhibition where viewers can interact with art…
A tropical show of flutters
NEW YORK, NY (PNAN) – On Saturday, November 20, 2021 at the American Museum of Natural History and now in its 23rd year, “The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in…
Imaginations will bloom
PITTSBURGH, PA (AAPNW) – A new mural, “Over The Rainbow” by artist Typoe graces the exterior wall of the Andy Warhol Museum, facing Rose Way, is inspired by Pop Art,…
Pioneers to show new works
WATER MILL, NY (PNAN) – Going on view November 7, 2021 at the Parrish Art Museum in three solo exhibitions entitled: “peter campus: when the hurly burly’s done”, “Virginia Jaramillo:…
Rare, real creatures in sight
RALEIGH, NC (PNAN) – What is it about the natural world that calls to us? Is it the color of the macaw’s feathers? The vibrant sheen of the beetle’s carapace?…
Showcasing bests in the best
MYSTIC, CT (PNAN) – On view through the summer of 2022 at the Mystic Seaport Museum, dolphins, mermaids, seaweed, sea urchins, fast ships and ocean waves, “Sea as Muse” is…
Modern Beauty campaign inspired by exhibit
RALEIGH, NC (PNAN) – To celebrate the upcoming Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau Visionary exhibition opening on Saturday, October 23, 2021 at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the NCMA tapped…
Final stretch goal in sight
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (NWPR) – The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art is in the home stretch of a $55 million capital and endowment campaign that is funding transformational…
Really big first major show
PORTLAND, ME (PNAN) – On view at the Portland Museum of Art, “Clifford Ross: Sightlines” is the first major exhibition in Maine that explores this relentless exploration of the natural…
Acquisition debuts Indy museum
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (NWPR) – “Dog with a Candle and Lilies” (early 1660s), by Spanish painter Juan de Pareja (Antequera, c. 1606–Madrid, 1670) was recently acquired by the Indianapolis Museum of…
Printmaking works records the truth
ATHENS, GA (PNAN) – First embraced by Native American artists in the mid-20th century, printmaking offered them a means of modernist experimentation, communal engagement and social commentary. “Collective Impressions: Modern…
Gold and silver lights up show
LANCASTER, CA (PNAN) – On view through December 26, 2021 at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History (MOAH), “Painting Architecture” continues the narrative by Kimberly Brooks of the intersection…
Now and then artworks feed each other
RALEIGH, NC (PNAN) – On view through February 6, 202 at the North Carolina Museum of Art in the Joyce W. Pope Gallery, “Break the Mold: New Takes on Traditional…
A Que Sera, Sera eye opener show
RALEIGH, NC (PNAN) – On view through April 10, 2022 at the North Carolina Museum of Art, “To Be Young: Coming of Age in the Contemporary” offers an introspective overview…
To be understood ‘paint-fully’
ANCHORAGE, AK (PNAN) – Contemporary artworks that examine our relationship to land, proposing alternative ways of thinking about and experiencing the landscape around us goes on view Friday, October 8,…
New Forum series show ‘captured’
PITTSBURGH, PA (AAPNW) – Opening Saturday, October 16, 2021 at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Sara Greenberger Rafferty photographic works goes on view in this solo exhibition and 85th installment…
Exhibit ponders art and beauty
FORT WAYNE, IN (AAPDN) – Opening Saturday, August 22, 2020 at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, this exhibit, “Posing Beauty in African American Culture” explores the contested ways in…
Museum to have with fabulous shows
BLOOMINGTON, IN (AAPJ) – The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at the Indiana University Bloomington, reopens to visitors on Thursday, August 27, 2020. The museum will follow the…
Set to open with guidelines
ATHENS, GA (AAPJ) – The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia will reopen its galleries to the public on Thursday, August 13, 2020. Guests can expect some…
Teens artfully express themselves
NASHVILLE, TN (APPJ) – Prompted by our vision of inspiring people through art to look at their world in new ways, the Frist Art Museum is showcasing works by teens…
Shows reveal much local historical wealth
WAUSEON, OH (AAPDN) – Current exhibitions on view at the Museum of Fulton County are: Drafting a Declaration: The Marjorie Whiteman Story. 75 years before the “Me Too” movement,…
Oldies to be on show
ARCHBOLD, OH (AAPDN) – From 10:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturday, August 1, 2020, Sauder Village will celebrate the automobiles of days gone by during the Antique Car Gathering…
Kim’s art ‘speak’ native tongue
ANCHORAGE, AK (AAPDN) – On exhibit, from the Anchorage Museum’s Dena’ina language book, “Nkenaghch’: Good Words to Never Forget” are illustrations by local-based artist Ted Kim, who is known for…
Portraits of abuse show riveting
ANCHORAGE, AK (AAPDN) – On view at the Anchorage Museum through September 13, 2020, “Unheard: A Public Photography and Audio Installation” features the survivors who chose to speak publicly about…
Hopper show is marvelous
INDIANAPOLIS, IN (AAPJ)- On view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields through Sunday, October 25, 2020, “Edward Hopper and the American Hotel” is brought by Schahet Hotels welcomes…
64-year tradition cancelled
AUBURN, IN (AAPDN) – Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Auburn Cord Duesenberg Festival, one of Indiana’s largest tourist events, which is over Labor Day weekend, has been cancelled.…
Pioneering show to open live
NASHVILLE, TN (AAPJ) – Opening on Friday, July 31, 2020 at the Frist Art Museum, “We Count: First-Time Voters” features the work of five local artists inspired by the 100th…
Curator chosen for 58th
PITTSBURGH, PA (AAPJ) – Sohrab Mohebbi was chosen as the Kathe and Jim Patrinos Curator of the 58th Carnegie International, the longest-running survey of contemporary art in North America. The…
Exhibitions are now open
NASHVILLE, TN (AAPJ) – The Frist Art Museum is now open to the public, but they are adhering to all the health and safety protocols outlined by Mayor John Cooper…
Major first show for figurative artist
Going on view Sunday, June 2, 2019 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, “David Park: A Retrospective†is the first major museum exhibition in more than 30 years…
40 years of Architecture Innovation
Founded in 1979, the international Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually to a living architect or architects for significant contribution to the art of architecture. This exhibition at the Carnegie…
Marion-born artist debuts at museum
Opening Friday, March 15, 2019 at the Newfields, “Samuel Levi Jones: Left of Center” is an exhibition that provides visual commentary on the oppressive nature of American power structures.…
First show about slavery
At Skokie, Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center, “Purchased Lives: The American Slave Trade from 1808 to 1865” is an exhibition that illuminates just how widespread the practice of…
She answered call of photography
On view in the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee from Friday, March 15 through May 27, 2019, “Dorothea Lange: Politics of Seeing” is an exhibition that examines a…
Series puts spotlight on imagemaker
Showing now at the Modern Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas through March 17, 2019, “FOCUS: Dirk Braeckman” are photographs of this Ghent-based artist (b. 1958, Eeklo, Belgium) which have…
Painter is the lead of new show
Viewing Thursday, February 7 through May 5, 2019, “Emily Mae Smith / MATRIX 181†features experimental art, performance art and explore new developments in painting. Marking the first MATRIX…
A new look at ‘identity’
“Stony the Road We Trod” is an exhibition featuring works by African American artists in the Georgia Museum of Art Museum’s permanent collection and Leo Twiggs, the 2019 Larry…
Illustrator works are expressive
On Saturday, February 16, 2019, “Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective” opens at the University of Kentucky Art Museum in Lexington. Featuring more than 100 original artworks and prints, this show…
Italian artist’s works to debut at museum
Organized by Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee by Executive Director Susan H. Edwards, “Claudio Parmiggiani: Dematerialization” is this Italian artist first North American museum exhibition. Opening on Saturday, February…
Flower bouquets to color region
The North Carolina Museum of Art hosts its fifth annual Art in Bloom from Thursday, March 21 to the 24th. The show features more than 50 floral designers from around…
New ‘guard’ to watch over museum
After an extensive search, Susan Turner is the new Executive Director of Terre Haute, Indiana Children’s Museum on January 1, 2019. “For the past 30-years, the Terre Haute Children’s Museum…