UMASS Graduating Seniors Talk Exhibit Design

  Graduating UMASS seniors Virginia Luongo, Trish Birk, Audrey Cain and Lauren Scharf  came to Newport Art Museum today with their Senior Seminar Art History Professor, Anna Dempsey, to meet the Porsmouth High MUSE students and view their exhibition currently on...

Art Uncovered

  The Newport Daily News By Sean Flynn | The Newport Daily News February 20, 2014 NEWPORT, R.I. — Preservation students from South Carolina visiting Salve Regina University this week made a surprising discovery, a likely French painting on the ceiling of the...

An Exhibition Whose Curator Is 17

  The New York Times By JOHN STRAUSBAUGH Published: July 6, 2011   YOUTH, it turns out, is not always wasted on the young. Through Aug. 4 the New York Open Center in Manhattan is hosting the inaugural exhibition of the Teen Art Gallery, with paintings, collages,...

What, if Anything, Is a Museum?

Back in the 1950s a debate raged through the taxonomic world: were the lagomorphs—rabbits, hares, assorted fuzzy bunnies—a homogenous phylogenetic group with unique defining features? Or were they just a rag-tag collection of random rodents with some superficial...

MUSE Exhibition Opens May 8

     Newport, RI The MUSE Exhibition at Newport Art Museum opens to the public on Newport Gallery Night, May 8, from 5 – 7 PM. The Spring 2014 show is co-curated by high school students from three area high schools: East Bay Met School, Portsmouth High...