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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August 2025
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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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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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