The Brooks is creating a Memphis College of Art exhibition
The Brooks Museum of Art has begun working on an exhibition dedicated the impact and legacy of the Memphis College of Art.
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July 2023
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June 2023
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Brooks Museum breaks ground on new site Downtown
“This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a world-class new home for Memphis’ art collection,” the museum’s executive director said. “Right now, Memphis is known for music, barbecue and the Grizzlies. In 2026, it will also be known for its history, present and future, as a world-class, visual arts destination.”
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In advance of today’s groundbreaking, Brooks raises $135M for Downtown museum
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In advance of today’s groundbreaking, Brooks raises $135M for Downtown museum
“The astonishing thing about this campaign is that the first $100 million was raised without a rendering or a clear visual of what the new museum will look like.”
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April 2023
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Brooks Museum director discusses art, food, new building
A conversation with Zoe Kahr, the Brooks Museum’s executive director, about new exhibits, live music, how her family led her into the art museums world and a future exhibit on the the Memphis College of Art.
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March 2023
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Review: Brooks exhibit is ‘a journey of exploration of human commonality’
An exhibition of detailed and luminously colored paintings in the Renaissance style that has “taken the art world by storm” is now on display at the Brooks.
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New Brooks Museum design hopes to create ‘living room’ for Downtown
“I want you to come to the museum to meet old friends for coffee on the roof garden, where you’ll also encounter beautiful sculpture,” said the museum’s executive director. “I want art to spill out onto your path as you walk, bike, or run past the museum.”
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Artists chalk fun up to ‘childhood joy’ at Brooks Museum
As hundreds of Memphians covered the ground around Brooks Museum of Art for Chalkfest 2023, local artists recreated works from the museum’s collection.
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January 2023
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New Eats: Loaf at Brooks may be best thing since sliced bread
The menu at Loaf, located in the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, is about 60% static, leaving almost half of the menu for the chef to get creative with seasonal and rotating items.
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Former food truck finds home at Brooks Museum
“The ethos is modern Memphis cuisine. To me that means taking Memphis, Mid-South classic dishes and incorporating different ingredients or influences of the major immigrant communities that exist in the Mid-South,” said the food truck’s founder.
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October 2022
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Dia de los Muertos festival bridges cultures and connects loved ones
Memphians gather at the Brooks Museum to celebrate Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, a holiday hosted annually to honor those who have died.
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August 2022
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Demolition begins for Downtown fire station
Until recently, the building housed a Memphis Fire station and headquarters for the department.
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With Brooks’ move, new director will be ‘critical’ for Downtown
“I think the museum field has been going through this long, kind of traumatic, transition from being a place that was for a very small group of people, by a very small group of people, to a place that is very much a civic asset for a city,” said incoming Memphis Brooks Museum of Art executive director Zoe Kahr.
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June 2022
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‘Action!’ New Brooks exhibit captures moments of motion
The idea behind “Action!: Art in Motion” was to harness children’s love of animation.
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November 2021
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New Brooks Museum of Art Downtown may be crown jewel of riverfront development
Brooks on the Bluff is being designed through a collaboration between the Swiss-based firm Herzog & du Meuron and Memphis’ archimania.
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September 2021
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Transgender photo exhibit breaks ground for Brooks Museum
“On Christopher Street: Transgender Portraits by Mark Seliger” first became a book in 2016, with a companion film in which Seliger’s subjects tell their own stories. This weekend, in Memphis and for the first time, it becomes a museum exhibit at the Brooks Museum of Art.
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Listen to photographer Mark Seliger on building trust with his subjects
The photographer has shot for Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and Vogue, and a new show of his work opens here this weekend.
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July 2021
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The Brooks and the impact of African American art
Heather Nickels from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.
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June 2021
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Brooks executive director resigns
Emily Ballew Neff has resigned as executive director of Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, the board of directors announced in a release Thursday, June 3.
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April 2021
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The weekend blooms with art events
The debut of “Pour Me Another” at Brooks Museum is among several art events – indoors, outdoors, in-person, online – available to viewers April 17 and 18 in Memphis.
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February 2021
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Opinion: A peaceful pandemic moment at Brooks – ‘just me and the art’
The gallery resonated deeply with what we’re experiencing right now, outside the walls, in real time.
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September 2020
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The art shows must go on: Exhibitions stay on through pandemic
Memphis museums reopened slowly and carefully, and shows that were expected to leave in May are still open through Sept. 27.
Related story: Downtown art museum’s veiled design: ‘It’s exceeding our expectations’
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Downtown art museum’s veiled design: ‘It is exceeding our expectations’
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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August 2020
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Brooks Museum gets grant for permanent collection assessment
The Brooks plans to build a new, $105 million museum overlooking the Mississippi River.
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July 2020
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How the Brooks Museum is adapting to life under coronavirus
The Brooks Museum is on a "soft pause" as it adapts to the new realities of restrictions on public spaces and an economic downturn.
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December 2019
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City adds ideas for Overton Park buildings
The city this week issued a request for proposals to fill upcoming vacancies at the Rust Hall and Brooks Museum buildings in Overton Park. The new timeline shows final choices will be made by next spring.
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