by Kim Pike | May 17, 2016 | 2016, archive
Recently, The Arts Advisory of the East Bay Met took a trip up to Providence to visit the Natural History Museum in Roger Williams Park. Once they entered the museum, the group came upon a plethora of different rooms and exhibits, with many different artifacts...
by Leandra Velez | Apr 13, 2016 | 2016, archive
As controversies go in the art world, you won’t get much more divisive and impassioned than the Italian 16 century artist Caravaggio. We have less than 60 paintings from his tumultuous life, and Caravaggio historians know the story of each and every one. So if a...
by Leandra Velez | Apr 3, 2016 | 2016, archive
A fascinating new series of radio shows on BBC Radio 4, Museum of Lost Objects traces the histories of 10 antiquities or cultural sites that have been destroyed or looted in Iraq and Syria. There are 10 episodes about different objects or sites that are now defaced or...
by Leandra Velez | Apr 1, 2016 | 2016, archive
Paul Miller, Curator of the Preservation Society of Newport County, has the responsibility of oversight of the interiors of nine famous Newport mansions and the countless objects within. He recently took time from his duties to share his amazing breadth of knowledge...
by Kim Pike | Mar 22, 2016 | 2016, archive
The New York Times published a special section on Museums last week that is full of interesting articles and opinions about the current state of museums and how museums are adapting to stay relevant and enticing to the public. Making Museums Moral Again, by Holland...
by Kim Pike | Mar 17, 2016 | 2016, archive
Artist Jason Smith talks to Portsmouth High School students about his art and process when they came to visit the Art Museum to see Jason’s current solo exhibition, Outer Myths, which runs through May 15, 2016. follow @nammuse on...
by Leandra Velez | Mar 14, 2016 | 2016, archive
“It is not every community that is given a once in a lifetime chance to shape an iconic space in the heart of its town center,” So says they home page of the Historic Newport Town Spring website. Indeed, a change is coming to the space that intersects...
by Leandra Velez | Mar 11, 2016 | 2016, archive
Recently at Newport Art Museum we took down a group of portrait paintings that had ben on extended loan from Newport Historical Society. The paintings are quite old and rather delicate, so they must be handled observing museum best practices for objects and works of...
by Leandra Velez | Mar 10, 2016 | 2016, archive
As visitors arrived at December opening reception of the MUSE Exhibition, which all MUSE students in the fall term had co-curated at Newport Art Museum, they were treated to an unexpected show of students modeling duct tape dresses and playing live music. The evening...
by Kim Pike | Feb 11, 2016 | 2016, archive
Recently, the Newport Art Museum accepted works for its annual juried show, where any member of the museum can submit a piece for the show, and a third-party judge chooses a select group of the works to be put in the show. Once in the show, the judge also awarded what...
