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| Saturday, June 02, 2012 |
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| Sunday, June 03, 2012 |
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| Tuesday, June 05, 2012 |
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Artbreak // Collection Highlight: Hunting As Art And Sport (12:00 - noon - 1:00 pm)
FREE
The first Tuesday Artbreak of each month will focus on a different object from our collection. Join Assistant Curator of Education Kristen Greenwood for an informal talk in the exhibition Future Perfect: The Birmingham Museum of Art at 60! Look for more Collection Highlights every month beginning in July!
Join us for these special 20-30 minute talks and if you stay for lunch at Oscar’s, they’ll even throw in dessert!
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| Thursday, June 07, 2012 |
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Art & Conversation // Sculpture: Inside And Out (10:30 am - 12:30 - noon)
Over the years the Museum has acquired many impressive works of modern and contemporary sculpture. Curator Ron Platt focuses on ten that explore the diversity of approaches, media, and materials throughout the building and the Sculpture Garden.
$10 Members //$15 Non-members
Enjoy learning about art in a social setting. Coffee and pastries follow. First Thursday of each month at 10:30am.
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First Thursdays: After Hours At The BMA (5:00 pm - 9:00 pm)
The Museum stays open until 9pm on the first Thursday of each month. The First Thursday of June will focus on the exhibition Arctic Beauty: Inuit Art from Canada. Explore the Museum and our restaurant, Oscar’s and join us for these special, FREE events:
6pm, Gallery Talk: Art of the Inuit, Emily Hanna, Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Americas
7pm, Film: Martha of the North (2009), 83 minutes
In the most northerly part of the Arctic, director Marquise Lepage takes us into the life of Martha, grand-daughter of Robert J. Flaherty, the celebrated filmmaker who made the Inuit people known across the world with his film Nanook of the North.
Martha of the North tells the story of the Inuit families who, lured by false promises of a better life, were moved to the Far North by the Canadian government in the mid-1950s and left to their own devices.
The film, acclaimed by the media when first seen at the International Documentary Film Festival in Montreal, has been screened at the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois, the Human Rights Film Festival and the Créteil International Women's Film Festival and has been shown in Montreal and across the province.
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| Friday, June 08, 2012 |
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| Saturday, June 09, 2012 |
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Visually Impaired Program // How The West Was Won (10:00 am - 11:00 am)
FREE
The Museum resumes its tours for visitors with visual impairments this spring. In this program for adults, specially trained docents present the permanent collection by means of verbal descriptions, three-dimensional tactile models based on original works of art, and sculpture. The experience may be enhanced by related music and/or art-making to provide multi- sensory access to the visual arts.
June 9: How the West Was Won
Space is limited; reservations are required by June 4th. To reserve your spot, call 205.254.2964. VIP tours are also available for school-age or adult groups; visit our website or call 205.254.2964 for more information.
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| Sunday, June 10, 2012 |
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| Tuesday, June 12, 2012 |
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Artbreak // Visions Of The Future (12:00 - noon - 1:00 pm)
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Deputy Director and Chief Curator Jeannine O’Grody, PhD, gives an overview of the exhibition, Future Perfect: The Birmingham Museum of Art at 60. This exhibition spans all collecting areas of the Museum and explores the generous gifts that have been given in honor of the Museum’s 60th Anniversary.
Join us for these special 20-30 minute talks and if you stay for lunch at Oscar’s, they’ll even throw in dessert!
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| Saturday, June 16, 2012 |
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| Sunday, June 17, 2012 |
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| Tuesday, June 19, 2012 |
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| Saturday, June 23, 2012 |
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| Sunday, June 24, 2012 |
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Warhol And Cars: American Icons Opens (12:00 - noon)
June 24th - September 16th // Contemporary Galleries //Free
Warhol and Cars: American Icons is the first exhibition to examine Andy Warhol’s enduring fascination with automotive vehicles as products of American consumer society. The exhibition features more than forty drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptural models, and related archival material spanning the Pop Art icon’s entire career. As one of the most important and influential artists of the 20th century, Andy Warhol has helped to define America. His signature images, whether American products such as Campbell’s soup cans or Coca-Cola bottles, or celebrities like Liz Taylor and Marilyn Monroe, are instantly recognizable worldwide.
Warhol and Cars highlights include early line drawings and 1950s commercial work, paintings, and works on paper from the 1960s through the 1980s that present his signature silkscreen process. Also included is a 1979 film of Warhol painting and discussing a BMW M1 as part of the BMW Art Race Car Projects introduced by French racer Herve Poulin.
Warhol and Cars was organized by the Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, and curated by Gail Stavitsky, MAM chief curator. The majority of the work in the exhibition is from the permanent collection of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog, Warhol and Cars: American Icons, published by the Montclair Art Museum. The catalog is available for purchase through the Museum Store.
Click here to book a group tour.
This exhibition is made possible by the generous support of PNC Bank.
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Summer Solstice Concert (3:00 pm - 5:00 pm)
FREE
Get a sneak preview of the BMA's fall blockbuster exhibition, Norman Rockwell's America, with live chamber music from the early 1900s performed by members of the Red Mountain Chamber Orchestra. Travel back to American life in the early part of the twentieth century, when lazy summer Sunday afternoons were spent in the park listening to live music. The appeal of those concerts is a part of Americana that remains strong today.
Conducted by Yurii Henriques, the Red Mountain Chamber Orchestra will present a musical background for the Rockwell era with compositions by composers such as Copland, Ives, and William Grant Still. We will offer a sneak preview of selected images from the exhibition as well. Join us!
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| Tuesday, June 26, 2012 |
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Artbreak // Contemporary Inuit Art And Experience (12:00 - noon - 1:00 pm)
FREE
Feed your body and mind at lunchtime every Tuesday at noon. Join us for these free 20-30 minute gallery talks, then stay for lunch at Oscar’s. They’ll even include a free dessert!
Curator of the Arts of Africa and the Americas, Dr. Emily Hanna, will discuss Contemporary Inuit Art and Experience, in conjunction with the exhibition Arctic Beauty: Inuit Art from Canada. Native American Gallery.
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| Friday, June 29, 2012 |
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Art On The Rocks! (6:00 pm - 10:00 pm)
Mark your calendar now!
Back by popular demand, Art On The Rocks will return this summer! Attendees can participate in gallery tours, art activities, and scavenger hunts all while listening to live music in the Red Mountain Garden Club Memorial Garden.
Stay tuned—we will be announcing the exciting details for the 2012 season on Facebook, Twitter, and at artsbma.org soon!
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| Saturday, June 30, 2012 |
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