There are 86 article(s) tagged Memphis Brooks Museum of Art:

• November 2019

  • Permit calls for new city fire station headquarters

    Plans for a new headquarters for the city's fire department have taken a step forward with a building permit filed this week.

    By The Daily Memphian Staff November 07, 2019

• March 2019

  • City issues call to ‘reimagine’ Brooks Museum, Memphis College of Art buildings

    The city of Memphis has issued a “Create Your Space” call for ideas to occupy the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and Memphis College of Art buildings in Overton Park. 

    By Elle Perry March 27, 2019

• February 2019

  • Vive le Brooks is new name for annual wine and food series

    Memphis Brooks Museum of Art rebrands its food and wine series; the first Destination: Delicious Going Global event is booked for Feb. 13

    By Jennifer Biggs February 04, 2019

  • ArtsMemphis boosts operating support for arts organizations

    ArtsMemphis is increasing its operating grant support for local arts organizations and rolling out a redesigned process that aims to ensure the funding is more accessible and equitably distributed.

    By Elle Perry February 01, 2019

• December 2018

  • How Feldman’s time in Memphis prepped the incoming National Gallery of Art director

    Earlier this week Kaywin Feldman was named the first female director of the National Gallery of Art in the museum’s 77-year history – and nobody in Memphis was surprised.

    By Elle Perry December 15, 2018

  • Former Brooks director to head National Gallery of Art

    Kaywin Feldman, who served as director of the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art from 1999 to 2007, has been named director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

    By Patrick Lantrip December 12, 2018

• November 2018

  • Citizens offer more feedback on future of Overton Park buildings

    However Overton Park’s two iconic buildings are reused in the future, they should welcome the public with open arms, continue to celebrate art and support artists, and provide continuing education.

    By Tom Bailey November 29, 2018

  • Brooks Museum’s mural project takes classic art to the streets of Memphis

    When Tonya Dyson was little, she recalls, grandmothers were the protectors of the neighborhood. They would be there when the school bus pulled up at the end of the day and would keep a watchful eye until suppertime, making sure all the little ones were safe and cared for.

    By Mark Jordan November 09, 2018

  • Memphis groups celebrate Dia de los Muertos

    Dia de los Muertos is a Mexican holiday. The title translates into "Day of the Dead."

    By Elle Perry November 01, 2018

• October 2018

  • Chance to design bluff-top art museum draws global response

    The two large passenger vans stopped at Union and Front on a gorgeous morning Wednesday and disgorged more than 20 architects from around the U.S. and world as well as Tennessee and Memphis.

    By Tom Bailey October 22, 2018

  • Local arts groups participating in nationwide ‘For Freedoms’ initiative

    Last September, conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas gave Memphis College Art’s Downing Pryor Lecture.

    By Elle Perry October 22, 2018