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Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

That’s the question below the surface of Nick Cave’s exhibition, “Until,” that is now on display at The Momentary, downtown Bentonville’s new contemporary art space that’s a satellite to Crystal Bridges Museum of American...

International Tennis Hall of Fame

The International Tennis Hall of Fame has launched a new digital museum exhibit that offers a comprehensive look at the history of Black tennis in America. Breaking The Barriers: The ATA and Black Tennis...

Arts and Science Center for Southeast Arkansas

The Female Gaze exhibit illustrates how men have driven the conversation in the art world, inside the classroom and inside the museum in the past. It’s often a message of women as inferior, as...

New Museum Los Gatos

Local artists are taking this time of isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic to explore different media or try new methods and concepts. New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU) is celebrating this innovation with “Art in...

Greenville Museum of Art

2020 is a year of many different challenges — the pandemic, lockdowns, economic turmoil and political and social disorder. Mental health is affected by all of that and more. The Greenville Museum of Art is...

Rochester Museum & Science Center

The Rochester Museum & Science Center’s new exhibition featuring over 200 Rochester and Haudenosaunee women is open.  “The Changemakers: Rochester Women Who Changed the World” is a community-curated exhibition that aims to inspire and...

Birmingham Museum of Art

Artists often draw on historical events for inspiration. But American history through the brush of Jacob Lawrence has its own distinctive style. The African American artist is considered one of the great modernist painters...

Peabody Essex Museum

“Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion,” a new exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum in Massachusetts, explores 250 years of fashion through 79 women designers—innovators, entrepreneurs and activists who fostered social and political...

New Mexico State University Art Museum

The New Mexico State University Art Museum will kick off its Spring 2021 season with three new exhibits, “Sorry for the Mess,” “Pasos Ajenos,” and “Saint Joseph & The Laborers.” The three exhibitions will...

NC Museum of Natural Sciences

The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences announced Tuesday a first-of-its-kind exhibit coming to Raleigh that can’t be found anywhere else in the world. The museum is now in possession of an extremely rare discovery...

Cherokee National History Museum

The Cherokee National History Museum is sharing the story of the first Cherokee Christmas in a new exhibit now on display through Jan. 2 at the museum, 101 S. Muskogee Ave. in Tahlequah. The...

Carver 4-County Museum

Working in the rock quarry in Orange on April 27, 1938, World War I veteran Joseph Nathan Green, husband of Lucy H. Brown Green, and father of two young daughters was accidentally killed when...

Yellowstone Art Museum

If you needed an excuse to visit to the Yellowstone Art Museum, look no further. Two brand new exhibits opened last month, both by Montana-based artists.  Brooke Atherton’s exhibit, Mothers and Daughters, explores maternal,...

Greeley History Museum

The Greeley History Museum is scheduled to open a new exhibit addressing how war changes the lives of families, communities and military members. The “War Comes Home: The Legacy” exhibit will open at the...

Rochester Museum & Science Center

A new exhibit opening this week at the Rochester Museum & Science Center will celebrate 200 diverse Rochester-area women and showcase how they helped shape and inspire the community. Among those featured: Rochester native...

The Anchorage Museum

The Anchorage Museum launched a new exhibit this month celebrating the contributions, legacies and strength of women from the circumpolar north. “Extra Tough: Women of the North” gathers artwork from women from Alaska, Canada, Iceland, Finland...