Downtown art museum’s veiled design: ‘It is exceeding our expectations’
Seen from the top of the Cotton Exchange Building, the intersection at Union Avenue and Front Street in Downtown Memphis is the proposed site of the $110 million Brooks Museum of Art. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
A celebratory grand reveal of the design concept had been scheduled for March 25. The pandemic and social distancing put that event in long-term limbo, but the design work has continued.
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Brooks Museum of Art Emily Ballew NeffTom Bailey
Tom Bailey retired in January as a business reporter at The Daily Memphian, and after 40 years in journalism. A Tupelo, Mississippi, native, he graduated from Mississippi State University. He has lived in Midtown for 36 years.
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