There are 29 article(s) tagged Metal Museum:

• March 2023

  • Where to get free admission to Memphis attractions

    Museum admission for a family can quickly add up, but in Memphis, several institutions offer free days throughout the year. 

    By Kylah Strickland-Paige March 12, 2023

• October 2022

  • The To-Do List: Watch movies, buy art, honor your dead

    This week, metalsmiths repair your broken stuff, brewers descend on Cooper-Young and Chicago comes to Memphis.

    By Bianca Phillips, Elle Perry October 20, 2022

• August 2022

  • The To-Do List: ‘Soul queen’ King, ‘Moonlight,’ and the Golden Age of Magic

    This week, view the sunset with your dog, watch 2016’s Best Picture Academy Award winner on the big screen and party hop between Grind City, Wiseacre and Hampline breweries.

    By Bianca Phillips, Chris Herrington, Elle Perry August 31, 2022

• July 2022

  • The To-Do List: Black metalworkers, Blvck Hippie and a dream weekend for music fans

    This week, Theatre Memphis honors Priscilla Presley with a black-tie gala, a Tops Gallery group exhibition explores “metafiguration” and the Time Warp Drive-in will take you way back to Fantasia and Neverland.

    By Bianca Phillips, Elle Perry July 25, 2022

  • Metal Museum exhibit highlights Black artisans

    “From Artisans to Artists” — the Metal Museum’s new exhibit — began with research for a University of Memphis art history professor’s book.

    By Mikayla Higgins July 17, 2022

  • Metal Museum plans for Rust Hall and its campus on the bluff

    Carissa Hussong joins Eric Barnes on The Sidebar to talk about expansion in the former home of the Memphis College of Art and plans for the museum’s campus on the bluff.

    By Eric Barnes July 15, 2022

• June 2022

  • The To-Do List: Watch the sky get lit, view the sunset and make a splash

    This week, Regina Bradley talks Southern hip-hop, a two-day music fest raises funds to help those struggling with addiction and Backbeat Tours drives you around town for beer and pizza.

    By Elle Perry, Bianca Phillips June 30, 2022

• April 2022

  • The To-Do List: Stax soul fest, jookin meets Philip Glass, and a puppet fashion show

    This week, The Subteens get the band back together, Bodywerk plays electronic music at Silly Goose and Memphians of all ages share their stories at Storyfest. Plus, it’s Beale Street Music Festival weekend.

    By Bianca Phillips, Elle Perry April 28, 2022

• March 2022

  • The To-Do List: Science fiction, secret feature (and some places to Gogh)

    This week, Arooj Aftab and Bang on a Can All-Stars perform at Crosstown Theater, Pussii Dusse’s music and art come to the Benjamin L. Hooks Library, bluegrass is back on the Collierville Town Square and the Metal Museum puts on “RINGS!”

    By Elle Perry, Bianca Phillips, Chris Herrington, Abigail Warren March 24, 2022

• September 2021

  • Pink Palace Crafts Fair returns

    After a one-year hiatus, the festival hosted by Museum of Science and History, has more than 150 artisan vendors, plus crafts demonstrations and a slew of children’s activities. 

    By Julia Baker September 25, 2021

• August 2021

  • Metal Museum receives $1M to acquire works of living artists

    The $1 million gift not only will expand the Metal Museum’s permanent collection, it will help the museum continue to support living artists by purchasing their works.

    By Tom Bailey August 30, 2021

  • Author stops at Metal Museum for ‘A Piece of Your City’

    Daniel Seddiqui, known for working 50 jobs in 50 states, was at the Metal Museum Monday, Aug. 16, crafting a metal music note for his latest project, “A Piece of Your City.” 

    By Rob Moore August 17, 2021

• July 2021

  • The To-Do List: Metal Museum highlights Black artists, old and new

    This weekend, metal is a way of life.

    By Rob Moore July 22, 2021

• April 2021

  • The weekend blooms with art events

    The debut of “Pour Me Another” at Brooks Museum is among several art events – indoors, outdoors, in-person, online – available to viewers April 17 and 18 in Memphis.

    By Peggy Burch April 17, 2021

• February 2021

  • Overton Park during the pandemic and beyond

    Eric Barnes talks to Overton Park Conservancy director Tina Sullivan about the park, the future of Rust Hall, the golf course renovation and the change and development happening in the surrounding neighborhoods.

    By Eric Barnes February 03, 2021

• December 2020

  • Poetic justice: Rogue road sign finds legal home outside Metal Museum

    Now, the refinery and steelworkers of Presidents Island as well as Metal Museum visitors will be asked: “When you were still young, Did you ever dream about, Being who you are.”

    By Tom Bailey December 23, 2020

• November 2020

  • Metal Museum confident it can raise $13M more for Rust Hall work

    Museum’s leadership expresses confidence it can a meet a proposed city deadline: Within two years, add $13 million to the $12 million it has already raised to make Overton Park its new, expanded headquarters. 

    By Tom Bailey November 16, 2020

  • 100-year lease proposed for Metal Museum in Overton Park’s Rust Hall

    The Metal Museum has raised $12 million toward a $35 million goal to both renovate Rust Hall and create an endowment, states a resolution before the City Council.

    By Tom Bailey November 12, 2020

• October 2020

  • Transformation for historic Marine Residence nearly finished

    Marine Hospital Residence, at 360 Metal Museum Drive, comprises just 71 units on 3.2 acres. The place will offer a different, less dense experience than apartment life in Downtown’s core and South Main District.

    By Tom Bailey October 26, 2020

• September 2020

  • The art shows must go on: Exhibitions stay on through pandemic

    Memphis museums reopened slowly and carefully, and shows that were expected to leave in May are still open through Sept. 27.

    Related story: Downtown art museum’s veiled design: ‘It’s exceeding our expectations’

    By Peggy Burch September 18, 2020

  • See Inside: Metal Museum

    As the Metal Museum eyes a potential move to Rust Hall in Midtown with the hopes of offering more space to host galleries, work carried on as usual for the museum’s resident blacksmiths who remained busy during the pandemic with several projects including this one for the Playhouse on the Square. 

    By Patrick Lantrip September 18, 2020

• August 2020

  • Opinion: Memphis discovered, again and again

    Dan Conaway: "Memphis, in fact anywhere, is about connections. There is no more connected place to our beginnings than here."

    By Dan Conaway August 28, 2020

• July 2020

  • Metal Museum gets recommendation as Rust Hall’s next tenant

    Mayor Jim Strickland will consider the committee's recommendation that the Metal Museum be Rust Hall's future occupant. If he accepts it, the City Council would have final say.

    By Tom Bailey July 01, 2020

• November 2019

  • The Weekly Memphian: Marcus King, Grilled Cheese Fest, Malted VI

    The folks at Hi-Tone Café are hosting their fifth grilled cheese cook-off and festival.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff November 07, 2019

• October 2019

  • Metal Museum: Steel Magnolia country

    The Metal Museum's executive director Carissa Hussong calls the crowd-pleasing annual Repair Days “a reunion for the metalsmithing community.” The fundraising event is Oct. 17-20 this year.

    By Jill Johnson Piper October 22, 2019