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Topic: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
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March 2026
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Museum showcases legacy, history of Memphis College of Art
Marina Pacini — the former chief curator of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art — talks about how she put together the exhibition marking Memphis College of Art’s history and impact.
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Case dismissed in lawsuit to stop Brooks’ Downtown museum
The 2023 lawsuit, filed by Friends for our Riverfront and others, challenging the new Memphis Art Museum Downtown has hit another barrier.
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From kites to colors: 3 ways to celebrate Holi in Memphis
Holi is known as the “Festival of Colors.” Celebrators typically wear white and throw colored powder at each other.
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November 2025
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From Beale to Broadway, statewide art exhibition spotlights 4 museums in Tennessee
The statewide event’s Memphis exhibit will focus on the legacy of the Memphis College of Art.
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Ask the Memphian: Has Memphis ever had an art heist like the Louvre?
Curios, statues, Albrecht Durer and Elton John: How have Memphis museums been victimized by thieves in the last century?
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October 2025
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Memphis Art Museum has a plan for opening
The Brooks Museum will change its name to “Memphis Art Museum” when it moves to the new building.
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Brooks Museum names new chief curator
Born in New Jersey, raised in North Carolina and now a mother of two “full-blooded Memphians,” Patricia Lee Daigle is no stranger to change. And as the Brooks Museum’s new chief curator, she’s taking on some big changes.
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Brooks Museum hosts Black quilting exhibition, meet Metal Museum master metalsmith
Plus, GPAC hosts the work of late Memphis College of Art graduate Edward H. Perry, and Sheet Cake Gallery opens two exhibitions.
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September 2025
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Photo Gallery: Come As Thou Art Shakespearean Masquerade
The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art held its second annual Come As Thou Art event on Friday, Sept. 26.
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August 2025
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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.
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Brooks curators want Memphis to be nationally known for Black art
In her newly permanent role, Adeze Wilford comes to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art to help provide opportunities to people who frequently feel left out.
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July 2025
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Gender, erasure and ‘pink lives': August art exhibitions explore social issues, connection
One artist uses performance, mixed media, collage, and video “to converse with other young, alienated women and femmes who struggle to find their entire selves in a capitalistic landscape.”
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Arts Beat: What is a docent and why does the Brooks Museum need more of them?
“It’s really surprising how many kids have never been to a museum before,” said docent Anne Whirley. “But they’re all engaged and well-behaved.”
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‘A win for the kids’: Local real estate company launches initiative to help at-risk youths
Funding will go toward three nonprofits with programs to support children dealing with trauma, death and stress through stage performances, art classes and instruments.
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June 2025
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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.
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May 2025
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Memphis May art exhibitions feature AAPI, youth artists
In May, Memphis art exhibitions are showcasing youth and Asian American and Pacific Islander artists.
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Chalkfest brings out the child in everyone
Chalkfest drew hundreds to the Brooks Museum of Art in Overton Park, as Memphians took advantage of a sunny afternoon to have fun at outdoor events around town.
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Arts Beat: Brooks Museum hosts Memphis Art & Fashion Week
Fashion programming has become so in-demand at a local art museum that the institution will soon host a week of festivities dedicated to it.
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March 2025
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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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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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