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...
by Leandra Velez | Jan 27, 2016 | 2016, archive
What if you could have a Picasso painting that has been hanging in the lobby of a New York City building for 45 years, and all you had to do was take it down? But what if it was HYUUGE? Check out how the pros did...
by Leandra Velez | Jan 27, 2016 | 2016, archive
What’s possibly the most calming yet nerve-racking job in the world? Come behind the scenes of the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery of Art to find out! follow @nammuse on...
