Water in Brooks’ latest? A force of pleasure and pain
The exhibit features paintings and an interactive gallery that immerses visitors in community, history, love and reflection.
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March 2025
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Memphis art exhibitions in March center on air, water
Also opening this month: a group show featuring nine Memphis artists at Marshall Arts.
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February 2025
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Brooks’ new curator talks about Downtown museum and more
Adeze Wilford is the Memphis Brooks Museum’s new curator of African American art and art of the African Diaspora. She joined Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of “The Sidebar.”
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January 2025
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Brooks’ Lunar New Year celebrations draws almost 1K people
Hundreds made crafts, ate and danced to celebrate the Lunar New Year at the Brooks Museum on Saturday.
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December 2024
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Five must-see shows in Memphis for December
Raised by Sound Fest returns. Also, a celebrated bluegrass singer-songwriter-guitarist plays two nights and Jhene Aiko’s tour brings heavy hitters to the FedExForum.
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October 2024
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Brooks Museum fuses fashion, fall with Tim Burton-inspired costume ball
Couture Collective, the museum’s new fashion affinity group, and award-winning designer and University of Memphis fashion design professor Sonin Lee are hosts of “Come as Thou Art.”
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September 2024
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Here’s a look at Memphis museums, galleries in September
September art shows have themes of abstract expressionism and minimalism, making syrup from fruit, expanding the definition of drawing, the rural U.S., video games and “ana” — slang for “animosity.”
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New exhibit shows recent Memphis history through a ‘fresh lens’
Through Morales' lens, viewers will meet drag queens, people working at restaurants, people worshipping at church, neighborhood football players, cheerleaders and majorettes.
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August 2024
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Artists draw on reality with in-the-flesh models
Drawing classes with live models (sometimes clothed, sometimes not) help artists hone their skill at sketching the human form.
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Meet the Brooks Museum’s new Memphis-area curators
The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art added two locals to its curatorial staff in 2023. Meet Kristin Pedrozo and C. Rose Smith.
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What to Order: Toasts, tunes and an eggless brunch at the Brooks
For the month of August, Feast & Graze is doing a Sunday brunch pop-up at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. It’s everything you’d want in brunch, except the eggs.
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July 2024
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Brooks gets first pick of Belz family Chinese art collection
From the Belz family to the Brooks, museum curators have selected 95 pieces and expect to take several more from the iconic art collection.
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The impact of photography at the Brooks
C. Rose Smith joined Eric Barnes on this week’s episode of “The Sidebar.” They talked about the power of photography going back to the 1800s, the intersection of photography and music and more.
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March 2024
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The To-Do List: Siriano style, hoops on Beale and cherry blossoms in bloom
This week, sci-fi fans unite at Mid-South Con, ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd share a stage and the Memphis Symphony Orchestra gets cosmic with Pink Floyd.
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February 2024
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Year of the Dragon roars in at Brooks Museum
The Lunar New Year is “a celebration of the arrival of spring, and a time for families to gather,” Kathy Dumlao, Director of Education and Interpretation at the Brooks Museum of Art, said.
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The To-Do List: Mardi Gras, Valentine’s and a T. rex named Sue
This week, a Black History Month exhibition opens at Arrow, the Brooks Museum celebrates Lunar New Year and Elvis tribute artists invade Graceland.
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Sound Bites: Bold burgers, barbecue battles and more
On this week’s episode of “Sound Bites,” Holly Whitfield returns from her dark Memphis winter with a tales of burst pipes and combined pantries. She and Chris Herrington also talk about some recent Memphis food news.
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January 2024
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Black Arts Collective is working to change the canvas at the Brooks
With the collective’s knowledge and funding, the Brooks will annually present one major exhibition by Black artists and buy at least one work by a Black artist for its permanent collection.
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The To-Do List: Elvis’ birthday, wrastling and a party for the ‘grrls’
This week, artist Vera Reed celebrates her 90th birthday, the Metal Museum offers a “taste” of the metal arts and there’s a one-mile race to kickstart your resolutions.
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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.
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December 2023
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The To-Do List: Holiday burlesque, Rudolph and a peek at Cafe Noir
This week, Trans-Siberian Orchestra brings lasers and metal, Santa makes a stop at a Hickory Hill pool and two questionable Christmas films screen at Black Lodge.
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October 2023
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Brooks statues damaged after hit by van
Two of the museum’s three Wheeler Williams statues, named “Spring” and “Summer,” as well as the Brooks' exterior, were damaged.
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The To-Do List: Halloween hike, underwater bubbles and ‘Beetlejuice’
This week, 1990s R&B legends Tony! Toni! Tone! play the Orpheum, spooky double dutch comes to Tom Lee and you can sample your way around India at the Agricenter.
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AutoZone team surprises founder with nearly $7M donation for museum
Pitt Hyde was told he’d be filming an interview with AutoZone leaders. Instead, he was welcomed to a party with about 100 past and present AutoZone employees.
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‘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.
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