LSU Museum of Art wins awards in the 2023 Southeastern Museums Conference (SEMC) Publication Competitions. Read this press release to learn more!
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The LSU Reveille features the exhibition African American Masterworks from the Paul R. Jones Collection in this article. Click the button below to read.
Read MoreThe LSU Museum of Art says farewell to its first curatorial fellow, Clarke Brown. Learn about Brown’s contributions to the museum during her two year fellowship, made possible by the Winifred and Kevin P. Reilly Initiative for Underrepresented Artists in this article.
Read MoreLSUMOA remembers Dr. Adolph Brooks Cronan, longtime supporter, art collector, and community leader. Learn more in this blog post.
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Mark Tullos, LSU Museum of Art Executive Director
Check out this feature from The Advocate Baton Rouge to learn more about LSU Museum of Art’s new executive director Mark Tullos.
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Romare Bearden, Sorcerer's Village , ca. 1980, silkscreen, The Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art at the University of Alabama, ©2023 Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
225 Magazine features African American Masterworks from the Paul R. Jones Collection.
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LSU Museum of Art gives Baton Rouge kids, community free summer art classes. Read this article by BR Proud News to learn more.
Read MoreLSU Hires Louisiana Native and Alum Mark A. Tullos Jr. as Executive Director of the LSU Museum of Art.
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Listen to this interview with Richard Dial, the son of Thornton Dial, and co-curator of I, Too, Am Thornton Dial, Paul Barrett
Read MoreThe LSU Museum of Art premieres the exhibition African American Masterworks from the Paul R. Jones Museum at The University of Alabama on Thursday, August 3, 2023. The show features sixty paintings, sculptures, photographs, and prints by prominent twentieth century Black artists including Sam Gilliam, Faith Ringgold, Jacob Lawrence, Howardena Pindell, Emma Amos, and Romare Bearden. Learn more in this press release.
Read MoreLSU MOA is premiering two fall exhibitions exploring LGBTQ+ themes: "The Shaping of Us: Queerness in Ceramics" and "Reveal: Photographs by Jerry Siegel.” Read the full press release to learn more
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Two LSU Digital Media Arts & Engineering students, Katie Wilson and Meredyth Yorek (pictured above), came to the galleries to create digital scans of Thornton Dial’s artworks. Visitors will soon be able to interact with these digital scans and see details of Dial’s works, which are filled with found objects and made with multiple materials, on iPads in the galleries. Read to learn more!
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Thornton Dial, Changes of the Moon, 2003. Found objects and painted canvas on wood. Private collection. ©2023 Estate of Thornton Dial / ZuZu Inc.
The Advocate Baton Rouge, LA features I, Too, Am Thornton Dial. On view at the LSU Museum of Art from March 30–July 2, 2023.
Read MoreDr. Blaise Ducos, the Curator of 17th- and 18th-Century Dutch and Flemish Paintings at the Musée du Louvre, discusses European decorative arts. Dr. Blaise Ducos will give a lecture at LSU MOA titled, Metal into Paint: The Many Lives of the Van Vianen Vase during the annual Decorative Arts Lecture Series.
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Thornton Dial, Struggling Tiger, 1989.Oil on canvas. Collection of Robert S. Taubman. © 2023 Estate of Thornton Dial / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
I, Too, Am Thornton Dial opening March 30, 2023 at the LSU Museum of Art was chosen by Paper City Magazine as one of The 13 Most Extraordinary Art Exhibits to Catch Worldwide in 2023. Read this feature to learn more!
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