New Mexico Museum of Art
A new exhibit at the New Mexico Museum of Art explores something critical many take for granted. The show called “Breath Taking” comes as respiratory health has become a big concern during the pandemic. The...
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Boise Art Museum
People view the world through subjective lenses but one way to open up different perspectives is to view the arts. Boise Art Museum is presenting a new exhibition that hopes to do just that,...
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art has experimented from time to time with installations or temporary exhibitions that mix historical and contemporary art. But it has probably never done so well in this vein as...
Bell County Museum
A brand new exhibit honoring African Americans in WWII is now open to the public at the Bell County Museum in Belton. “I thought this room was fantastic,” Katye Ricketts, who runs the educational...
National Museum of African American Music
Much of African American music is borne of hardship and heartache, from slavery and Jim Crow to civil rights struggles and police violence. Despite those deep and difficult roots, I couldn’t help but clap...
The Sanford Museum and Planetarium
The Sanford Museum and Planetarium in Cherokee opened a new exhibit on February 15th that will run through the summer of 2021: “People of the Northwest Coast and Arctic.” The artifacts on display have origins...
ROUNDUP: Five Online Museum Exhibits to Visit for Black History Month
Since February marks Black History Month in the United States and Canada, we wanted to share some exhibitions that specifically highlight the history and art of Black Americans (and Canadians). Also known as African...
The Art Institute of Chicago
Getting “Bisa Butler: Portraits” before the public has been a struggle against COVID-19 from the start. Days before the exhibition of the artist’s extraordinary and ebullient quilted portraits of African Americans was to premiere...
The Samuel Dorsky Museum
Much has been written about Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious, a belief that all humans share a collective ancestral knowledge and imagery described as archetypes. After living through 2020, it seems that...
Hancock Historical Museum
A new historical exhibit will help you GO back and experience what life was like in northwest Ohio in the Roaring ’20s. “My dear Marie, Your lovely box of candy arrived today and every...
New Museum
On Sunday, September 15, 1963, four black girls were slain in an explosion at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The bombing was instigated by four Ku Klux Klansmen. “These children,” Martin Luther...
Houston Museum of Natural Science
The destruction of Pompeii by Mount Vesuvius is one of the most famous disasters in human history. One of the reasons that it has remained in the public mind for so long is that...
Michigan State University Museum
Detroit writer and activist Adrienne Maree Brown pointed out that the experience of Black Americans, is by definition, a story of science fiction. Enslaved ancestors had to dream up a Black future that was...
Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, unknowingly served many different positions for many different people. For some, she was a champion of the gender equality and women’s rights...
Museum of Latin American Art
The pieces in the Museum of Latin American Art’s new “Herland: Women Artists from the MOLAA Collection” exhibit cover topics such as race, social injustice and female empowerment. And it’s coming to viewers at...
Henry Ford Museum
Dr. Debra Reid, Curator of Agriculture and Environment, joins Lisa Germani on Community Connect to talk about the history of Food Soldiers and their impact on the economic welfare of the Black community. They...
