There are 11 article(s) tagged Memphis Art Museum:

• August 2025

  • Photo Gallery: A look at Memphis Art Museum construction

    The new museum will feature a new Monroe Avenue plaza connecting the museum to the Cossitt Library and providing access to the Mississippi River. 

    By The Daily Memphian Staff August 31, 2025

• June 2025

  • Where things stand with Memphis museum projects

    Construction on the Memphis Art Museum, what the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art will become when it moves Downtown, has continued. So has construction on the Metal Museum’s location in the Memphis College of Art building.

    By Elle Perry, Bill Dries June 23, 2025

• March 2025

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries March 01, 2025

• July 2024

  • Appeal in Brooks Museum construction lawsuit alleges mistake by judge

    Friends for Our Riverfront argue a June ruling denying their motions to halt Brooks Museum construction “improperly departed from the course of judicial conduct.”

    By Bill Dries July 25, 2024

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries July 03, 2024

• June 2024

  • Art museum construction can continue Downtown, court rules

    A Friday court ruling denies a request by opponents of the museum’s construction who sought a temporary injunction last September to stop construction on the riverfront.

    By Bill Dries June 28, 2024

• January 2024

  • Memphis Tourism buys Memphis in May HQ

    The $1.5 million sale expands office space for Memphis Tourism, which keeps its office just 120 feet away and allows Memphis in May to remain in its headquarters after a year of big changes in the festival.

    By Bill Dries January 19, 2024

  • Brooks Museum receives donation of 75 works by Black artists

    The donation includes 75 works created by Black local, national and international artists. Mediums represented include painting, photography, video and sculpture.

    By Kambui Bomani January 03, 2024

• December 2023

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries December 19, 2023

• October 2023

  • ‘It’s just sad’: Brooks descendants react to museum’s new name

    The family was told last spring after the decision was made to change the name, says descendant Vance Lewis. 

    By Jane Roberts October 17, 2023

  • 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. 

    By Christin Yates October 10, 2023