Georgia Street honorees. Who’s missing?
Was Cole Porter more influential than Wes Montgomery? Kurt Vonnegut more deserving than Lew Wallace? Should there been a place for Eugene Debs? John Wooden?
On display
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More museum retail on the canal?
The canal-side institutions are having trouble luring White River State Park visitors. Why not use retail to get them in the
doors?
Outside views of ‘100 Acres’
The Indianapolis Museum of Art’s new art and nature park is the rare Indy arts creation attracting national attention.
You-review-it Monday: 100 Acres and more
The Indianapolis Museum of Art’s new art and nature park was the place to be this weekend.
Ticket giveaway: Sinatra on the canal
Indiana History Center prize package include entry into The Indiana Experience.
Ticket giveaway: Stutz Artists Open House
We’ve got a pair of passes each for two lucky winners.
Vonnegut Library gets a home. So it goes.
Tribute to Hoosier literary icon to set up shop in former IMOCA spot.
Museum attendance, and museum stress, up
A report from the American Association of Museum’s notes increases, particularly in Midwest.
Indianapolis (Museum of Art) vs. New Orleans (Museum of Art)
It’s an art-world smack-down.
Why is the room – and that vase – spinning?
Indianapolis Art Center adds drinks to pottery class.
Snow business like show business
Does the over-dramatization of weather conditions keep audiences away?
Where do you stand on Barbie?
The iconic doll is the subject of a Children’s Museum exhibition. Join in on the debate here.
Touring the new Rhythm! Discovery Center
Take a video tour–and hear a favorite drummer joke.
Notes from the blogroll
"Carol" in Chicago with familiar faces, artists take on graffiti in Boston, and I strike out on this year’s National Book Awards.
ArtPrize: Do you trust the public to judge art?
Call it the American Idol-ing of art. Starting Sept. 23, what’s being billed as the world’s largest art prize competition
begins in Grand Rapids…with you as judge.
Smoking pics, Julia Child, etc.
In England, Lynn Barber, author of the memoir “An Education,” withdrew from the Books Now festival because the event organizers
refused to print her photograph in the program. Why?
White Rabbit news
Wondering what’s up with Fountain Square’s new White Rabbit Cabaret? (See Property Lines blog here.)
Debra Silveus, a partner in the new 2000-square-foot, 100-person capacity venue, tells me that her new space will include, but won’t be limited to,…