Following the abrupt cancellation of her previous exhibition, Samia Halaby’s eagerly awaited Eye Witness has opened at the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University (MSU). This exhibition, two years in the making, is a monumental retrospective of Halaby’s 70-year career

The first American survey of Samia Halaby’s work involved a three-year collaboration between curatorial teams at Halaby’s alma maters, Michigan State University and Indiana University.

Some 60 years ago, during her undergraduate studies at Michigan State University (MSU), Samia Halaby’s interest in abstract painting began to take shape. Now, at 87, the influential Palestinian painter is realizing her first United States retrospective: “Samia Halaby: Eye Witness,” at MSU’s Broad Art Museum.

I discovered the McNay last year, and it’s definitely worth the trip if you’re coming from Austin or other environs. Aside from the gorgeous surroundings and a most impressive display of art, McNay’s Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts knocked me out.

The wallpapered-room is filled with antiques and a menagerie of blinged-out taxidermy. A 24-foot-long banquet table has been laid out, but the dinner guests seem to have disappeared, leaving their coats behind.

The brothers Einar and Jamex de la Torre create mixed-media works of dazzling complexity. Working and living on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, they shatter entrenched ideas about beauty and good taste.

The artist’s solo show at the Bruce Museum features 5,000 recycled insect bodies. The show begins with an Alice in Wonderland-esque experience in which Angus plays with scale.

Before the United States Supreme Court in its unanimous 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling threw out “separate, but equal,” determining racial segregation in America’s public schools violated the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment of the Constitution, Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896 codified “separate, but equal” as law. Separate, of course, was never equal for African Americans.

The University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art (Stanley) is part of the arts ecosystem at the country’s premier university for the study of creative writing. As a curatorial team, we have long been aware of the unique position this puts us in to advance ekphrasis—the use of visual art for literary creation—as an effective tool for art interpretation.

The Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) reopens on 1 June after a three-year, $85m project to build a new facility that almost doubles the old museum’s space to 73,000 sq. ft.

After serving as the organization’s executive director for five years, Dr Vedet Coleman-Robinson has been named the newest president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Association of African American Museums (AAAM). Coleman-Robinson holds a bachelor’s in US history from Virginia State University, both a doctorate and master’s degree in US history from Howard University and is an adjunct professor of history at Coppin State University.