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‘Grandfather of Native American Art’ Oscar Howe honored in Plains Art Museum exhibit
The Plains Art Museum has extended the run of its major exhibit, “Oscar Howe: Ikíćiksapa” through the summer. The show was to end in March, but museum staffers wanted to continue showcasing the significant work.
“We want to make sure people have the opportunity to come and see it,” said Erin Shapiro, director and CEO of the Plains.
The show opened in late October, around the time Shapiro started at the museum, and she said the Plains could have done more to promote it.
She’s making up for that by offering a guided tour of the show from 11 a.m. to noon this Saturday — part of an ongoing effort to make the museum and its exhibits more accessible for the public.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is set to make the announcement on Thursday, including a 5% budget increase for all national museums and art galleries.
She is expected to use a speech in Stratford-upon-Avon, birthplace of William Shakespeare, to announce a new £270 million Arts Everywhere Fund to help organisations in urgent need of financial support.
Five museums in Yorkshire have been awarded funding as part of a £270m investment in arts and culture in the UK.
The Museum of North Craven Life, in Settle, will receive almost £800,000, while the Land of Iron, in Skinningrove, will be given almost £656,000.
Millennium Gallery, in Sheffield, will be awarded £315,000, the Bankfield Museum in Halifax, is to receive £442,000 and the Beck Isle Museum, in Pickering, will receive almost £400,000.
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brand-new private museum to its ranks – PoMo, short for Post Office Modern. Its mission is to make art more accessible, challenge gender inequality in collections, and boost the region’s cultural scene.
Set in an Art Nouveau building that used to serve as the city’s post office, PoMo spans five floors and 4,000 square metres. The space is a product of the vision and personal art collection of Monica Reitan and Ole Robert Reitan, who’ve spent over two decades collecting works from artists like Simone Leigh, Louise Bourgeois, Anne Imhof, and Franz West. Ole Robert, who’s also a co-owner of the Norwegian retail and finance giant Reitan AS, believes art should be for everyone
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