There are 25 article(s) tagged Memphis Art Museum:

• September 2026

  • Memphis Art Museum commissions works for the roof down to the garage

    On its grand opening day, the new Memphis Art Museum will have four site-specific installations.

    By Elle Perry September 23, 2026

• July 2026

  • Ask the Memphian: Will the Memphis Art Museum land major touring exhibitions?

    From a fresh start to a growing gallery to more national recognition and tourists, here’s why the Memphis Art Museum staffers are so excited about the tantalizing possibilities that will come with the new space.

    By John Klyce July 27, 2026

  • Businesses scramble to adjust as $6M makeover closes Front Street

    The iconic Front Street Deli is among the businesses struggling with the loss of pedestrian traffic as the city closes the street in preparation for the December opening of Memphis Art Museum.

    By Wallis Rogin July 20, 2026

  • City Council renews grant program, approving $13,000 for temporary housing

    The Memphis City Council’s $2.6 million grant fund allocates $200,000 for each council member to propose grants to nonprofits. 

    By Bill Dries July 08, 2026

  • Memphis Art Museum rooftop sign approved

    A Downtown Memphis Commission board gave the green light for the new Memphis Art Museum’s signage, including a code deviation.

    By Andy Ashby July 01, 2026

• June 2026

  • Arts Beat: Nearly 20 exhibitions will open the Memphis Art Museum

    “We’re finding ways to tell new stories with our permanent collection, but also introduce our visitors to new works, new acquisitions that we’ve been holding onto very eagerly to debut them in our new building,” said chief curator Patricia Daigle.

    By Elle Perry June 28, 2026

  • Local restaurant to open second location in Memphis Art Museum

    But the restaurant’s owner thought the opportunity was “too good to be true” at first.

    By Sophia Surrett June 25, 2026

  • Memphis Art Museum will have free admission for Shelby County residents

    There’s an opening date set for the Memphis Art Museum. And when it opens, it will welcome locals to a bigger gallery space, a sculpture garden, a rooftop walking path and more for free. 

    By Elle Perry June 24, 2026

  • Calkins: The Memphis Art Museum will be the next great place in the city — because of Barbara and Pitt Hyde.

    Pitt and Barbara Hyde didn’t want their name on the new Memphis Art Museum. That didn’t stop Memphis mayor Paul Young from highlighting the couple’s astounding work. “For a generation you have led with generosity and vision,” Young said. “And your mark on the city — on Downtown in particular — is everywhere.”

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    By Geoff Calkins June 18, 2026

• April 2026

  • Memphis Art Museum tour ends with $6 million

    Memphis City Council members got a peek inside what will be the new Memphis Art Museum before voting to repurpose city funds for public infrastructure outside the Front Street museum.

    By Samuel Hardiman April 14, 2026

  • $13 million MATA bridge loan tops City Council agenda

    The Memphis City Council also looks at moving $6 million from riverfront projects to improvements around the future Memphis Art Museum.

    By Bill Dries April 13, 2026

• March 2026

  • 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.

    By Bill Dries March 25, 2026

  • Spring sprung early — and with it, so does heightened Downtown security

    Downtown Memphis Commission CEO Chandell Ryan talked on “Behind The Headlines” about an early spring on Beale Street and the city’s plan for enhancing safety.

    By Bill Dries March 14, 2026

• October 2025

  • 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

    By Elle Perry October 31, 2025

• August 2025

  • 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. 

    By The Daily Memphian Staff August 31, 2025

• June 2025

  • 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.

    By Elle Perry, Bill Dries June 23, 2025

• March 2025

  • Who determines how riverfront is used? Lawsuit over new Memphis Art Museum narrows.

    Chancellor Melanie Taylor Jefferson dismissed most of the claims in the Friends for Our Riverfront lawsuit seeking to stop construction of the new museum. But she kept the central question in the case.

    By Bill Dries March 01, 2025

• July 2024

  • Appeal in Brooks Museum construction lawsuit alleges mistake by judge

    Friends for Our Riverfront argue a June ruling denying their motions to halt Brooks Museum construction “improperly departed from the course of judicial conduct.”

    By Bill Dries July 25, 2024

  • Opponents of Downtown art museum will try again to stop construction

    They want a public walkway along the bluff to continue at ground level. The museum’s plans call for a public area atop the museum that offers a view of the riverbluff.

    By Bill Dries July 03, 2024

• June 2024

  • Art museum construction can continue Downtown, court rules

    A Friday court ruling denies a request by opponents of the museum’s construction who sought a temporary injunction last September to stop construction on the riverfront.

    By Bill Dries June 28, 2024

• January 2024

  • Memphis Tourism buys Memphis in May HQ

    The $1.5 million sale expands office space for Memphis Tourism, which keeps its office just 120 feet away and allows Memphis in May to remain in its headquarters after a year of big changes in the festival.

    By Bill Dries January 19, 2024

  • 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.

    By Kambui Bomani January 03, 2024

• December 2023

  • City nails down Brooks Museum agreement, delays vote on Chickasaw Gardens gates

    Memphis City Council heard oppositions to the new Memphis Art Museum before giving the green light to an agreement with the Brooks Museum to run it and punted a vote on closing two streets in Chickasaw Gardens.

    By Bill Dries December 19, 2023

• October 2023

  • ‘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. 

    By Jane Roberts October 17, 2023

  • Brooks Museum to change name

    The current building in Overton Park will continue to be known as the Brooks Museum of Art while it’s still occupied, but the name of the new Downtown location will be more Memphis-focused. 

    By Christin Yates October 10, 2023