LOU’S VIEWS: Funky furniture, slamming doors and more
This week, I empty the notebook with thoughts on the IMA's contemporary galleries, a furniture show at the State Museum, a Beef &Boards farce and an ambitious new CD.
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LOU’S VIEWS: On Matisse and Macheath
The IMA offers a brilliantly colored blockbuster while the opera presents a shark with no teeth
Ai Weiwei on the NSA: Shocking if American citizens allow this to continue
The artist who could not leave his country to attend the retrospective of his work at the Indianapolis Museum of Art compares U.S. to China.
Senior curator leaving IMA after 11-year stay
Lisa Freiman directed the opening of the Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park: 100 Acres in June 2010 at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. and is credited with transforming the experience of contemporary art in Indianapolis.
Lilly gives $1 million for art museum initiative
The five-year program is designed to transform the Indianapolis Museum of Art into a more visitor-centered institution. The first year will include enhancements to the upcoming Matisse show.
LOU’S VIEWS: Doing it Ai Weiwei’s way
The eyes of the creative world are on Ai Weiwei. The Indianapolis Museum of Art offers a chance to put your eyes on his works. Plus, thoughts on the IBJ A&E “War Horse” road trip.
Art museum cutting more than 20 employees
The museum said 19 full-time employees and two part-time employees will complete their employment Monday. Eight additional vacant positions will not be filled.
IMA’s new CEO aims to bolster finances by doubling attendance
Indianapolis Museum of Art CEO Charles Venable plans to cut costs and use major exhibits to boost attendance—a strategy aimed at reducing the museum’s reliance on investment returns and allowing its endowment to grow back to pre-recession level.
New art museum CEO shakes up management team
The new head of the Indianapolis Museum of Art has reduced the size of his executive team, including cutting a top position, as an initial step to organization-wide restructuring.
LOU’S VIEWS: Graphite the power
The Indianapolis Museum of Art proves that the mineral isn’t just for pencils. Plus new shows at the Indianapolis Art Center.
LOU’S VIEWS: God is in the details
At the IMA, an Islamic art show holds glorious surprises.
Group forms to challenge arts corridor along canal
Save Our Scenic Central Canal, led by local activist Clarke Kahlo, is objecting to the proposed Art2Art project that would develop and decorate 4-1/2 miles along the Central Canal towpath.
A&E SEASON PREVIEW: Talking Points
What will be on the minds of A&E patrons and producers this season?
IMA chooses new CEO from Kentucky art museum
Charles L. Venable, 52, the director and CEO of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville since 2007, was chosen to replace Maxwell Anderson, who left the IMA in January to become director of the Dallas Museum of Art.
LOU’S VIEWS: When painters snap
Indianapolis Museum of Art’s new ‘Snapshot’ exhibition examines the photography that inspired 7 artists. Plus, ‘Cabaret’ at the Athenaeum.
Endowment’s resurgence emboldens IMA’s leaders
After three years of shrinking budgets, Indianapolis Museum of Art leaders are ready to leave the lean times behind. The IMA’s endowment, which has covered close to 70 percent of operating expenses, is on the rebound and reached $324 million at the end of last year.
LOU’S VIEWS: Indy Zoo’s new ‘Flights of Fancy’ area soars
What’s new at the Zoo. Plus thoughts on “Forever Sung” and “Antigone.”
LOU’S VIEWS: In and out at the IMA
Inside the Indianapolis Museum of Art, there’s African art. Outside, there’s “Oedipus at Colonus.”
Indy art museum receives grant for Miller House
The Indianapolis Museum of Art has received a grant to digitize, catalog, and put online a collection of materials about a 1957 modernist-style home in Columbus designed by famed architect Eero Saarinen.
LOU’S VIEWS: Urban etchings reveal treasures
This week: a small but strong show at the IMA, plus thoughts on the Humana Festival, A&E road trips, and some Disney magic.