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May 2025
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Gallery: ‘Superfine’ comes to Brooks at Met Gala watch party
As part of the Brooks’ Memphis Art & Fashion Week, interior designer and HGTV star Carmeon Hamilton and interior designer Colin Chapman hosted a Met Gala watch party on Monday, May 5.
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April 2025
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Dive into Spanish culture at the Brooks
A new concert series at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art explores the different styles and genre of Spanish music, led by Marina Carracedo, a visiting lecturer at the University of Memphis.
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March 2025
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Who determines how riverfront is used? Lawsuit over new Memphis Art Museum narrows.
Chancellor Melanie Taylor Jefferson dismissed most of the claims in the Friends for Our Riverfront lawsuit seeking to stop construction of the new museum. But she kept the central question in the case.
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February 2025
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Brooks to partner with regional museums on exhibitions
Powered by a $1.65 million grant, shared exhibitions will involve Fisk University, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Birmingham Museum of Art and the Mississippi Museum of Art.
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December 2024
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End of an Arrow: Two artists work to revive local organization
“I just feel a tug to continue it somehow,” said Kristina Tubinis, an Arrow artist and retail and events associate.
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Arrow Creative closing; Brooks Museum to absorb programs
The nonprofit, known for Memphis Fashion Week and its Holiday Bazaar, will close its doors at the end of the year. But officials with the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art plan to keep the fire alive.
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November 2024
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Thousands gather to celebrate life on Day of the Dead at Brooks Museum
The event included a parade from Overton Square to the museum, several musical performances, food vendors, informational booths and so, so many bright fanciful costumes and parade floats.
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July 2024
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Opponents of Downtown art museum will try again to stop construction
They want a public walkway along the bluff to continue at ground level. The museum’s plans call for a public area atop the museum that offers a view of the riverbluff.
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April 2024
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Head of Regional One advocates for academic medical center
Dr. Reginald Coopwood continues his community outreach to drum up support for transforming Shelby County’s public hospital into an academic medical center in partnership with UTHSC.
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Where to watch the solar eclipse in the Memphis area
The sun will only be 97.7% obscured in Memphis on Monday. But that doesn’t mean locals can’t join in on some solar eclipse fun at parks, rooftops and gardens.
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March 2024
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From Rembrandt’s mother to the red carpet: Brooks’ Christian Siriano exhibit opens today
“Lizzo won her first Grammy in one of the dresses downstairs, and Michelle Obama gave one of the greatest speeches of her career in one of these dresses,” Christian Siriano said. “That feels more important than just clothes to me.”
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February 2024
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150-year-old image of dark-skinned Jesus finds home
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art was selected by Rhode Island leaders in the arts, historical preservation and Black history to receive the oldest known stained glass depicting Jesus as a person of color, also known as the “Black Gospel Window.”
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January 2024
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Brooks, Dixon highlight work of local teens in new exhibitions
The Scholastic Art Awards are “like the art-kid championship game” said Brooks director of education, Kathy Dumlao.
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Feast & Graze’s owner to operate Brooks Museum cafe
The Brooks Museum recently terminated its relationship with its previous cafe operator, Loaf, after an unsanctioned fundraising event for a Palestinian relief fund.
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December 2023
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City nails down Brooks Museum agreement, delays vote on Chickasaw Gardens gates
Memphis City Council heard oppositions to the new Memphis Art Museum before giving the green light to an agreement with the Brooks Museum to run it and punted a vote on closing two streets in Chickasaw Gardens.
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October 2023
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The To-Do List: Swift on screen, Monster Market and fall fests galore
This week, artists collaborate onstage at the Tambourine Bash, Loaf and Cxffeeblack come together for brunch and Willie Nelson is on the road again (and coming to Southaven).
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Brooks Museum to change name
The current building in Overton Park will continue to be known as the Brooks Museum of Art while it’s still occupied, but the name of the new Downtown location will be more Memphis-focused.
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Letter to the Editor: The Brooks will ‘interrupt and steal’ the riverwalk
“This is Memphis’s chance to correct something for the good of the community. I hope that the current ‘powers that be’ reconsider the placement of this museum.”
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September 2023
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Construction on Downtown Brooks can continue for now, but future uncertain
Construction on the new downtown location of the Brooks museum can move forward for now but the future of the project remains uncertain.
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Brooks Museum reveals details for rooftop park at Downtown location
Amid a battle over public use of the river bluff, the Brooks Museum announced new details of a proposed open rooftop park at its planned Downtown location.
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August 2023
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Riverfront group, including Overton Heirs, sues to stop new Brooks construction
The Chancery Court lawsuit seeks to stop construction on the new riverfront Brooks Museum, charging violations of the terms of the “public promenade” established when the city was founded in 1819.
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Tina Turner, Chadwick Boseman, Grace Jones alight at the Brooks
“We’re just so proud to have the exhibition here in what is now the largest majority Black city in America,” said the Memphis Brooks Museum’s executive director. “We think it’s so essential that every Memphian sees themselves reflected here in our museum.”
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July 2023
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Calling the bluff: Gambling for a piece of the action
“While I understand, and share, Virginia McLean’s passion to realize the vision, I submit that her passion has prohibited her from seeing the obvious.”
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Brooks Museum faces mediation over planned site
Friends for Our Riverfront, a local group dedicated to protecting the city’s riverfront promenade for public use, is legally challenging the museum’s right to build at the Downtown site.
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