The grant from the Indianapolis-based Richard M. Fairbanks Foundation is designated to improve infrastructure such as bike paths and walking trails, add parking and bathrooms, and create an endowment for maintenance and new art commissions.
The improvements are part of a masterplan that aims to bring hundreds of thousands more visitors to the complex, which includes the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
The title elements aren’t quite given equal weight in “Sensual/Sexual/Social: The Photography of George Platt Lynes.”
Robert Indiana was born Robert Clark in New Castle and later relocated to Indianapolis, where he attended Arsenal Technical High School.
The grounds outside the Indianapolis Museum of Art electrify the holidays.
Indianapolis Museum of Art celebrates graffiti with touring show “City as Canvas”
For some, Venable is facing the IMA’s fiscal challenges by making the museum relevant to more people. But to critics, he has turned the IMA into a members-only club, de-emphasizing art.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art on Tuesday unveiled a unifying name for its 152-acre campus. The branding points up IMA’s increased emphasis on leveraging its grounds and developing outdoor experiences.
Stuart Alter, the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s first director of technology strategy, said collaborations with partners in the community and with other museums help the institution enhance the visitor experience and make its art available to more people.
It’s tough to look at your own community and figure out what it’s doing that no one else is. But IBJ gave it a shot. Here are four things other cities could copy from us.
With a flower show outside supplemented by exhibitions focusing on birds, you might question the very nature of the IMA.
The sculpture by Robert Indiana was removed from display for two months of critical conservation treatment.
Highlights include “Fences” at the IRT and “Beyond Spaceship Earth” at the Children’s Museum.
The move means people must pay museum entry fees to see the iconic sculpture, which was artist Robert Indiana’s first in a series of “LOVE” works.
More than a year after the Indianapolis Museum of Art enacted an $18 general admission, membership numbers are up and CEO Charles Venable says visitors are spending more time at the museum.
It’s a nice surprise—especially for those caught up in the current wave of coffee-mania—to find coffeepots in a museum. The contemporary design wing of the Indianapolis Museum of Art has several in its collection.
Mayors, their staffs and policy experts from across the country—about 1,200 conference attendees in all—will attend the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ annual summer gathering that runs Friday through Monday.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art plans to pay off more than $17 million in debt at the end of the year, reducing its overall debt load to less than $100 million for the first time since 2004.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art’s artist-designed mini-golf course is likely to be a temptation for anyone who has ever swatted a colored ball and kept score with a tiny pencil.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art has given CEO Charles Venable a contract extension that will keep him in the position for another 10 years, the IMA announced Tuesday.
