Gifts of paintings, photographs added to St. Louis Art Museum collection
Museum director Brent R. Benjamin says the new acquisitions broaden SLAM's holdings.
Museum director Brent R. Benjamin says the new acquisitions broaden SLAM's holdings.
To keep the art contemporary, the museum is looking to the future.
When photographer Pete Souza started "throwing shade" at President Donald Trump, he was fairly subtle.
Like many sixth-graders, Ronald Ollie dreaded art class. Drawing realistic pictures felt impossible. A buddy he shot marbles with made a suggestion: Go abstract.
A museum expansion is on schedule to debut next month. At least most of it is.
Visual artists have connected with Ferguson in the most intimate way possible.
We know what art collectors think of Paul Gauguin's paintings of Polynesian girls and women. The royal family of Qatar paid $210 million for one.
Believed to be the only existing panorama of the Mississippi Valley, the 19th-century painting is 350 feet long. Now, the St. Louis Art Museum is having its final three panels restored.
St. Louis seems to have some interesting links recently to the Turner Prize. The Turner is Britain's famous art award, often controversial for the contemporary work it anoints.
Counterpublic is an ambitious public art triennial that will envelope the neighborhood starting April 13.
Rachel Whiteread's "House" only stood for about three months, but even London cabbies knew where to go when riders asked.
Would that every fundraiser went so well. The St. Louis Art Museum Foundation has paid off its debt related to its modern East Building, designed by David Chipperfield.
Artist Arthur Osver was known for his fierce work ethic. Even when hospitalized in his last year " he died at 93 in 2006 " Osver pestered nurses for paints.
Wellston resident Ashley Cooper now has a second home " the St. Louis Art Museum.
The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis is a recipient of an Art Works grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Unwearied still, lover by lover,
A memorial and celebration of Michael Castro's life is planned for Jan. 20.
A small landscape by German Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich was bought Wednesday for $2.75 million by the St. Louis Art Museum.
A Revolution-era oil painting will join other 18th-century American works at the St. Louis Art Museum, part of a controversial sale by a Massachusetts museum.
The St. Louis Art Museum had to close today because of a water main break. All of its events are canceled.
Ashley Cooper thought the artist might be pulling a prank.
St. Louis' 39th storytelling festival begins Wednesday.
James Comey, whose upcoming book is already No. 10 on the Amazon list, will kick off this fall's St. Louis Speaker Series.
There was the Spirit of St. Louis. But before that, there were the spirits of St. Louis.
Both Missouri and Illinois events run through Aug. 20.