Bruce Museum
Looking through The New Yorker cartoonist James Stevenson’s artwork for an exhibition at the Bruce Museum was an enjoyable experience for the two curators. “We spent a lot of time giggling as we went...
by Nicole Ackman · Published January 10, 2021 · Last modified February 22, 2021
Looking through The New Yorker cartoonist James Stevenson’s artwork for an exhibition at the Bruce Museum was an enjoyable experience for the two curators. “We spent a lot of time giggling as we went...
by Nicole Ackman · Published January 8, 2021 · Last modified February 22, 2021
Throughout the pandemic, Arkansas landmarks are getting creative to still bring the history that Arkansans want to see. Downtown Arkansas is the home of three Arkansas museums with so much history and opportunities for...
by Nicole Ackman · Published January 8, 2021 · Last modified February 22, 2021
Over 20 years after an archaeological excavation uncovered a record of nearly a century of Black families who were enslaved on the Wilton House tobacco plantation in Henrico County, the home’s museum is finally...
by Nicole Ackman · Published January 7, 2021 · Last modified February 22, 2021
Near the entrance of The Health Museum’s “Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World” exhibit, volunteers staff a new informational cart distributing materials about the COVID-19 vaccine. Some of the messaging is targeted specifically to...
by Nicole Ackman · Published January 5, 2021 · Last modified February 22, 2021
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum kicks off 2021 by celebrating a Nashville bluegrass institution. In a new exhibit, the museum highlights more than four decades of Station Inn — a venerable 12th Avenue club...
by Nicole Ackman · Published January 4, 2021 · Last modified February 22, 2021
The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) announced the opening of the “Warren D. Allmon Changing Climate: Our Future, Our Choice exhibit,” which will include a permanent exhibit at the Museum of the Earth in Ithaca,...
by Nicole Ackman · Published January 4, 2021 · Last modified February 22, 2021
Ben Uri has launched the first full scale virtual museum. The strategy to go primarily online was formulated in 2018, but has proved to be ahead of its time in a pandemic world. Is...
by Nicole Ackman · Published January 4, 2021 · Last modified February 22, 2021
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) in Washington, D.C. has acquired 40 works by African American artists from the Southern United States. As first reported by Zachary Small of the New York Times, the collection includes pieces by 21...
by Nicole Ackman · Published January 4, 2021 · Last modified February 16, 2021
Houston-area art fans and UFO enthusiasts, are you ready for a close encounter of the art kind? A new, interactive museum will soon touch down in Space City. The “technology-fueled experiential” art museum dubbed...
by Nicole Ackman · Published January 3, 2021 · Last modified February 16, 2021
Telling stories with watercolors, Loring W. Coleman painted old farms and rugged vistas that evoked – and preserved in memory – the beauty and character of a changing New England. That fading world of empty houses...
by Nicole Ackman · Published January 2, 2021 · Last modified February 22, 2021
How do you put a year like 2020 into words? Decades from now, how will you remember it? They’re tough questions, but curators Sam Vong and Shannon Perich at the National Museum of American...
by Nicole Ackman · Published December 27, 2020 · Last modified February 22, 2021
Photos taken on Staten Island during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic are on display at the Museum of the City of New York in Manhattan. The pictures were submitted by the College of Staten Island’s (CSI’s)...
by Nicole Ackman · Published December 16, 2020 · Last modified February 22, 2021
Ruth E. Carter made history in 2019 by becoming the first Black person to win an Oscar for costume design for her work on “Black Panther.” It was her third nomination in a career...
by Nicole Ackman · Published December 15, 2020 · Last modified February 22, 2021
A new exhibit, “Ink to Paper: Exploring the Advancement of Letter Writing and its Uses,” has opened at the Madison County Archival Library at 801 N. Main St., Edwardsville. In the exhibit, David Thompson...
by Nicole Ackman · Published December 15, 2020 · Last modified February 22, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic forced millions of businesses and organizations across the globe to pause and rethink their strategies, concoct creative solutions to new challenges and raise awareness of this evolution to keep from sinking in...
by Nicole Ackman · Published December 14, 2020 · Last modified February 22, 2021
In a historic photograph at the Levine Museum of the New South, a young Dorothy Counts-Scoggins makes her way up the auditorium stairs to enter her new school. A mob of white students crowd...