The Indianapolis Museum of Art fired 56 gallery attendants Monday morning and will replace them with 100 IUPUI students on a federal work-study program. IMA also will employ 14 reserve police officers to patrol its campus.
The opening is a homecoming of sorts for Kathleen O’Neil Stevens, who formerly operated a studio-gallery for her own work on East Carmel Drive.
Dorothy Henckel, president of the Indianapolis International Film Festival, has accepted a job as director of acquisitions for The Documentary Channel.
The sale is the only one of its kind east of the Mississippi River.
A team of Puerto Rican artists sponsored by IMA will represent the United States in an exhibition in Venice.
From Mary Poppins to Tyler Perry, and from Liza to the Leisure Kings, there’s a lot to fill up your A&E calendar. Get your planners out and start circling dates. Here are some of my early must-do front-runners.
Heartland Truly Moving Pictures is well on its way to raising $12.5 million to use for numerous film-related projects, the
group announced Monday morning during a press conference featuring director Rob Reiner.
Seen from a distance, Lobyn Hamilton’s work might seem like something you’d find in a music shop—simple,
faithful re-creations of familiar portraits of the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan. Get a little closer, though, and the
medium becomes part of the message.
Walter Knabe, this year’s official artist of the Indianapolis 500, will set up shop this summer in the Indiana Design Center,
part of the Carmel’s Arts and Design District.
The $25 million park’s grand opening is scheduled for June 20 following an opening-night party and a members-only VIP preview
with artists and architect on June 19. Atelier Van Lieshout’s “Funky Bones” is one of the featured sculptures.
An exhibit on handgun engraving was one of the most heavily attended exhibits in the museum’s history.
AMC divested the property in order to proceed with its $275 million deal to buy 93 theaters operated by Kerasotes Showplace
Theatres.
In its 40th year, event will feature 225 artists in a format expanded to two days.
Society says the attendance represents a 57.4-percent increase over typical walk-in traffic to the Indiana History Center.
One art-collecting couple has opened a fine-art gallery in Zionsville, while the founder of a contemporary craft show is planning
a boutique in Irvington.
The Indianapolis Museum of Art expects its upcoming Andy Warhol exhibit to draw 40,000 people, helping it offset a drop in
funding from its endowment.
The $25 million project, which is the cornerstone of Carmel’s Arts & Design District, has signed 11 interior design-related tenants
and a restaurant.
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis is teaming with National Geographic on a permanent exhibit, "National Geographic
Treasures of the Earth," intended to provide immersive learning in archeological excavation.
This week, thoughts on exhibitions at Evan Lurie Gallery in Carmel and a new revue at the Cabaret at the Connoisseur Room.
Greg Lucas will be the second fine art gallery owner in Indianapolis to close shop this year. Lucas announced Tuesday that
he will close his gallery at 884 Massachusetts Ave. by year’s end.
