MUSE Show Opens This Week!

  The Fall MUSE Exhibition opens Thursday, December 11, from 5 – 7 PM. Museum admission is free. Students from Portsmouth High School, Rogers High School and the East Bay Met School are at work preparing their exhibition at Newport Art Museum. As part of...

New York Times Exhibits Section

Museums Morph Digitally Once reluctant to accept the virtual world, institutions are now using interactivity, 3-D imaging and “augmented reality” in displays. Local Art Showcased at Global Museums Major museums across the country, from Brooklyn to Minneapolis, are...

Museum awarded $10K grant from IMLS

Newport Art Museum Awarded $10,938 Grant by Institute of Museum and Library Services (Newport, RI – September 18, 2014) – Today, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded $10,938 to the Newport Art Museum. The Museum will use the grant...

MUSE Interns at NALAC Arts Training Workshop

main photos On Saturday October 11th Violet Anderson, Makayla Corrigan, and Muse coordinator Peter Dickison went to the NALAC Arts Training Workshop in Providence, RI, to lead a collaborative mural activity called “The Mirror Mural”. The mural was created...

Los Angeles Museum Given Art Worth $500 Million

This may seem like Los Angeles County Museum won the lottery, and they kind of did along with the LA public, yet there was work behind it. Approaching him, working out the plans and timing, pushing forward with new building construction as required by the terms of the...