CityWay hires IMA curators to populate new hotel with art
Curators have selected 24 contemporary artists to create work for hotel, to be known as The Alexander.
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IMA exhibit to showcase Hoosier fashion designers
Norman Norrell, Bill Blass, Stephen Sprouse and Halston will all be featured in "An American Legacy," which opens in May.
LOU’S VIEWS: Best in shows for 2011
Highlights included the ISO’s Opening Night Gala, Civic’s “Drowsy Chaperone,” and the opening of the Miller House.
LOU’S VIEWS: IMA shows are worlds apart
Three shows at the Indianapolis Museum of Art display a wide range of artistic approaches.
Indianapolis Museum of Art preps for long CEO search
Finding a replacement for Maxwell Anderson could take six months to a year.
LOU’S VIEWS: Adieu, Anderson
Are we better off, as arts patrons, then we were five years or so ago when Maxwell Anderson joined the Indianapolis Museum of Art?
IMA losing chief right before big fundraising effort
Maxwell Anderson is leaving his post as CEO at the Indianapolis Museum of Art just as the institution is preparing to launch a capital campaign it hopes will make up for financial pain inflicted by the recession.
Art museum CEO Anderson headed to Dallas
Achievements during Max Anderson's tenure included opening the 100 Acres art-and-nature park as well acquiring the Miller House and Garden in Columbus. However, he also had to grapple with fiscal challenges that led to more than $7 million in budget cuts.
Team-building exercises remain popular, but do they work?
Even in today’s tight economy, the trend of organizing off-site team-building exercises for employees is still going strong.
Indianapolis outpaces Atlanta pound-for-pound on tourism
With 1.8 million people, the Indianapolis area is only one-third the size of Atlanta, yet the area holds its own in conventions and tourism. Indianapolis, for example, has about half the convention space of Atlanta.
LOU’S VIEWS: Ife sculptures at IMA paint a thousand words
I love a good creation story, and the Yoruba people of the ancient city of Ife, in what is now Nigeria, have a doozy. It involves a god indulging in a bit too much palm wine, a snail-shell full of soil, a chameleon, and a chicken (with five toes).
SHELLEY: Columbus architecture focus would work in Indianapolis
Imagine what could happen in Indianapolis if we adopted some of the principles Columbus has? Ensuring that every design has meaning and purpose. Creating structures that tell stories. Allowing designers to push the limits and take risks.
Indianapolis Museum of Art drops student-run security
The IMA is back to using traditional security guards after IUPUI vetoed its plan to use federally funded work-study students.
Art museum to charge for parking
The Indianapolis Museum of Art will charge $5 for parking starting Sept. 1. The new fee comes a year after the museum opened an outdoor sculpture park that drove up attendance.
LOU’S VIEWS: Home is where the art is
With the Miller House open, Columbus becomes even more of a design draw.
Columbus prepares for wave of Miller house visitors
The Indianapolis Museum of Art and Columbus Area Visitors Center expect national media attention to drive bookings for tours of the Miller house starting in May.
LOU’S VIEWS: Inside the outsider at the IMA
Thornton Dial created his own artistic rule book; the results are stunning.
Indianapolis Museum of Art shuffles gallery space
The remodeling of third-floor galleries will create more space for the IMA’s growing design-arts collection.
Art museum closing design-centered gift shop
The Indianapolis Museum of Art will close its design-centered gift shop next year to make way for a display about the Miller house and gardens in Columbus, Ind.
Art museum names fundraising chief
Cynthia Rallis, who begins work Jan. 1, held a similar job at the National Museum of Science and Industry in London.