Indianapolis Contemporary—known as the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art up until 11 months ago—announced Thursday that it was calling it quits after an internal review “determined it was not economically feasible to continue operations.”
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The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art plans to move out of its headquarters gallery in the Murphy Arts Center by the end of the year to make room for an expansion of bar and music venue Hi-Fi and other building renovations.
Applause for the efforts of the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art and CityWay to carve out gallery space in the well-trafficked building that also houses the Alexander Hotel.
IMOCA has history of building exhibits around pop-culture figures.
The founder of the museum of contemporary art, who has worked for the organization unpaid since 2009, presided over a move that doubled its size.
The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, which faltered in the summer of 2009, is on stable footing at its year-old location in Fountain Square—so much so that it won’t move closer to downtown, as it had planned.
Key Indianapolis Museum of Art fundraiser Kathy Nagler has been hired as the first development director for Health Foundation
of Greater Indianapolis.
Architect and developer Craig Von Deylen hopes to close by next week on the purchase of the Murphy Arts Center in Fountain
Square and is in the process of signing new tenants, including the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art.
Jeremy Efroymson recently agreed to return to the financially flailing Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art as its executive
director and work for free. Efroymson, one of the museum’s early leaders, has a strategy for seeing IMOCA through a financial
rough spot, but what remains unclear is how the museum will wean itself off his support.
Traditionally, as the year winds down, critics’ thoughts tend toward "best of the year" lists. But I’m feeling the need for
a more accurate label.
The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, the Indianapolis-Marion
County Public Library and the Indianapolis Opera have come together to produce "Hansel & Gretel: Lost in the
Arts."
