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Rolling Out | Closing Gallery Talk: Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing
Nov. 15 | Join Andrea Lee Harris, Ralph Steadman Exhibition Coordinator and Kevin Runyon, AU Museum Preparator, as they discuss the curation, design, and installation of Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing. This ambitious exhibition spans over 60 years of this legendary artist’s career.

Musée Magazine | Larry Fink / Martha Posner: Flesh and Bone at Sarasota Art Museum
Nov. 14 | Larry Fink / Martha Posner: Flesh and Bone opens November 17th at the Sarasota Art Museum at Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida. The exhibition presents works by both artists, showcasing their distinct careers as well as exposing the ways in which their 30+ year relationship influenced their art.

Antiques & the Arts | Honolulu Exhibition Showcases Evolution Of Art & Influence Of Artists From Diverse Backgrounds
Nov. 13 | Tracing the transformation of art over eight decades, the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) presents “Past-Forward: Modem and Contemporary Art from HoMA’s Collection.” With painting, sculpture and photographic work, “PastForward” explores the evolution of abstract painting in the decades after World War II, the rise of new figurative movements in the 1960s and 70s and the confluence of art and politics in subsequent decades. In addition to the debut of new acquisitions, key works by artists including Robert Rauschenberg and Lee Bontecou return to the galleries for the first time in more than two years.

The Washington Post | The art career of Ralph Steadman, gonzo illustrator of American chaos
Nov. 9 | Ralph Steadman, longtime illustrator of the corrupt, debauched and morbidly fascinating, is the subject of an enlivening survey at American University Museum.

American School & University | Special-needs school in Pittsburgh is getting an $18 million renovation
Nov. 8, 2024 | Pressley Ridge Day School Pittsburgh, which provides special education services for students with behavioral and mental health needs, is getting an $18 million renovation. The renovation centralizes and updates multiple services in one building, including the Family Counseling Center, administrative offices and the Day School; it also brings the Career Development Center back on campus.

Richmond Free Press | Va. museums partner for major exhibition on America’s 250th anniversary
Nov. 7, 2024 | Two of Virginia museums, the Virginia Museum of History & Culture (VMHC) and the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, are teaming up to present “Give Me Liberty: Virginia & the Forging of a Nation,” a landmark exhibition marking America’s 250th anniversary. The exhibition will debut at the VMHC on March 22, 2025, in line with the anniversary of Patrick Henry’s historic “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!” speech.

Antiques and the Arts | Q & A: Berit Ness
Nov. 11, 2024 | The Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) recently announced the addition of a new position to the museum’s team, focused on enhancing accessibility and inclusion: chief engagement officer. Berit Ness, former associate director and curator of academic engagement at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, is stepping into the new role at the Chazen

PBS News Hour | Universities turn museums into areas for political discourse
Nov. 1, 2024 | During the final days of this tense election, we take a look at a project fostering a different type of civic space to encourage young people to discuss issues, engage each other and vote. Jeffrey Brown visited the University of Michigan to see how this works. It’s part of our series, Art in Action, exploring the intersection of art and democracy and for our arts and culture coverage, CANVAS.

Hyperallergic | When Scandinavia Was a Hotbed of Black American Culture
Oct. 29, 2024 | Nordic Utopia? African Americans in the 20th Century zeroes in on a far less charted corner of Black history than that of expats to Paris: the artists who ventured north. An old suitcase with a small leather handle summons the presence of the person who once carried it across oceans and nations. Surrounding it in a display case are a pair of shoes, gloves, a hat, and a Bible, all owned by the Julliard-trained Black classical pianist Eugene Haynes.

New York Times | Museums Around the Country Explore Democracy
Oct. 26, 2024 | …Penn State’s Palmer Museum of Art, which will offer visitors voter registration opportunities, while presenting the exhibition “Politics and Daily Life” (running through Dec. 15), a collection of prints, drawings, photographs and sculpture on political themes from the mid-1800s to the early 2000s…

Travel + Leisure | This Midwest City Is One of the Best Places…
When you think of winter travel, you probably think of ski vacations to Colorado or holiday shopping in New York City. Chances are the mid-sized city of Toledo, Ohio, isn’t on your winter travel radar — and that may be a mistake. The city is investing over $200 million to turn a former riverfront industrial zone into a year-round recreation hub. One of the coolest features for winter visitors is The Ribbon, a 1,000-foot-long ice skating trail that winds along the river and leads to an adjacent 5,000-square-foot skating pond.

The New York Times | Ducks Do More Than You Might Think to Help Save the Planet
Oct. 22, 2024 | You don’t have to be a conservationist or a hunter to marvel at the portraits at the Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn. Each one is of a duck. Some show ducks flying — mergansers, pintails, mallards and elders. Some show ducks swimming. One shows a dog with a duck in its mouth. The portraits of the ducks (and that retriever) were drawn or painted for stamps. Not postage stamps, but federal duck stamps that hunters who want to shoot waterfowl are required to buy along with their state licenses.