The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
With the number of Covid-19 cases rising throughout the US, many museums that reopened in the summer or fall are now facing a second wave of closures. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, announced today that it will close from 16 December to comply with Mayor Marty Walsh’s orders of a partial shutdown of the city. Down the street, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Collection will also shut its doors, and across town the ICA Boston is doing the same. The MFA has said it hopes to reopen in January.
Museums across Philadelphia, including the Barnes Foundation and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, are also closing, as is the Milwaukee Museum of Art, which aims for a second reopening in January. In Los Angeles, most museums have been closed since the pandemic first sent the city into lockdown earlier this year. According to a recent survey by the American Alliance of Museums, nearly a third of museums throughout the US have remained closed since March.
Frist Art Museum Announces 2021 Exhibition Schedule Celebrating Museum s 20th Anniversary
Pablo Picasso, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, American Art Deco, Kara Walker, Medieval Bologna, and More
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NASHVILLE, Tenn., Dec. 15, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Frist Art Museum is proud to announce its
In the Ingram Gallery, the year begins with
Picasso. Figures, an exhibition from the Musée national Picasso-Paris that offers an in-depth look at his career-long fascination with the human body. Featuring paintings, sculptures, and works on paper,
Picasso. Figures will make its sole U.S. appearance at the Frist. In the summer,
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One of my favorite events each year has been an opportunity to enjoy a gathering with so many good people, who are also good friends, at the annual spring fundraiser for Smile Farms. My family and I founded this nonprofit in 2015 to provide developmentally disabled adults with meaningful work opportunities at farms, urban gardens, greenhouses and farm stands.
This signature event has been a chance to mingle with friends and partners and to bring our mission to life amidst good food, music, an exciting auction and more. Launched five years ago, the fundraiser has gotten bigger and more successful each year. In fact, we had outgrown our original venue and were going to hold this year’s event at Guastavino’s, a Manhattan space that accommodates 500 people.
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BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) Young writers from Crook, Deschutes, Harney, Jefferson and Lake counties are now invited to submit essays exploring desert landscapes to the High Desert Museum’s Waterston Student Essay Competition.
The Waterston Student Essay Competition, now in its second year, is part of the Waterston Desert Writing Prize. It’s open to students in grades nine through 12, in public or private school, or home-schooled, who live in Crook, Deschutes, Harney, Jefferson and Lake counties. Submission is free.
Students may submit essays of 750 to 1,000 words of nonfiction prose to waterston@highdesertmuseum.org from now through May 1, 2021. The submissions will be judged on originality, clarity of expression, accuracy, and their contribution to the understanding and appreciation of desert regions.
by Jasmyne Keimig • Dec 14, 2020 at 8:55 am
With the way things are going, it might be a while before we re all able to do this again. Courtesy of SAM/L. Fried
This year has been rough for everyone, and that includes art institutions. With government-mandated closures, reduced capacity, and weary art patrons, museums are collectively looking at a potential loss of close to $30 billion. One survey found 30% of museums are unsure if they ll make it through the pandemic. That could mean no more rainy Sunday afternoons wandering around a museum and overthinking 139-year-old bubbles.
This crisis has also spawned a debate over deaccessioning, the process through which museums sell off pieces in their collections to raise funds. In April, the Association of Art Museum Directors loosened regulations around the practice to allow more financial flexibility. Museums like the Baltimore Museum of Art, Everson Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum