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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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.
Until recently, the building housed a Memphis Fire station and headquarters for the department.
“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.
The idea behind “Action!: Art in Motion” was to harness children’s love of animation.
Brooks on the Bluff is being designed through a collaboration between the Swiss-based firm Herzog & du Meuron and Memphis’ archimania.
“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.
The photographer has shot for Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair and Vogue, and a new show of his work opens here this weekend.
Heather Nickels from the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar.
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.
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.
The gallery resonated deeply with what we’re experiencing right now, outside the walls, in real time.
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’
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.
The Brooks plans to build a new, $105 million museum overlooking the Mississippi River.
The Brooks Museum is on a "soft pause" as it adapts to the new realities of restrictions on public spaces and an economic downturn.
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.
As a public space, The Peabody lobby is an enduring classic that defines the center of Downtown Memphis. Now, the Central Station Hotel lobby is an instant classic that does the same for South Main. One has ducks spinning around a fountain. The other has vintage vinyl spinning around a turntable.
The Brooks’ executive director walks through the decision to move the museum to the riverfront – and gives a progress report on the new building.
Important shows in two Memphis museums are winding up soon: the Bouguereau at Brooks, and two by Southern women artists at the Dixon.
The architect in charge of the new Brooks Museum design says the Downtown site offers much more character than just the river views.
The city's selection process has reduced to 10 the number of proposals for repurposing Rust Hall and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art building.
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art has chosen Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron to design its $105 million future home overlooking the Mississippi River Downtown.
The European architect leading the design of the new Memphis Brooks Museum of Art said months of research will take place before building shapes and materials are considered.
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art's plan to demolish a parking garage to make room for its new riverfront museum has Downtown residents and commuters in a tizzy.