by Leandra Velez | Apr 24, 2015 | 2015, archive
Upon their first visit to Newport Art Museum, new MUSE students walk into the grand entry of the John N. A. Griswold House. As they stand in the central axis of one of the most treasured architectural gems in North America, students cast their eyes around the...
by Leandra Velez | Apr 14, 2015 | 2015, archive
Tuning Out Digital Buzz, for an Intimate Communion With Art By HOLLAND COTTER, March 16, 2015 The New York Times Once upon a time, our big museums were the “quiet cars” of a fast-track American culture industry. Like libraries, they were places where the volume was...
by Leandra Velez | Apr 13, 2015 | 2015, archive
FREDERIC WISEMAN’S NATIONAL GALLERY Jane Pickens Theater April 13, 2015 A packed house supported MUSE at Jane Pickens Theater to see this fabulous film! London’s National Gallery, one of the world’s foremost art institutions, is itself portrayed as a brilliant...
by Leandra Velez | Apr 9, 2015 | 2015, archive
Review: ‘Personal Correspondents: Photography and Letter Writing in Civil War Brooklyn’ By HOLLAND COTTER, April 9, 2015 New York Times – Commemorations of the end of the Civil War, when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in a Virginia parlor on...
by Leandra Velez | Apr 1, 2015 | 2015, archive
The Newport Art Museum Board of Trustees and staff are very excited this Spring. April brings with it warming, flowers, renewal, and at the Museum, a brand new Executive Director. Norah Diedrich was named as the successor to replace Elizabeth Goddard, who retired in...
by Leandra Velez | Mar 14, 2015 | 2015, archive
The Preservation Society of Newport County hosted Muse groups from Rogers High, Portsmouth High and the East Bay Met schools at Rosecliff Mansion as the house reopened for the spring season of tours. The house has been closed over the winter months while a new...
