The Currier Museum of Art will offer free admission to the museum Sunday, March 30 to Sunday, April 6 to celebrate their grand reopening. The museum has been closed since June of 2006 to build a 30,000 foot addition. The Currier Museum of Art is an internationally renowned art museum featuring European and American paintings, decorative arts, photographs and sculpture. The permanent collection includes works by Picasso, Matisse, Monet, O'Keeffe, Calder and Wyeth. If you can’t make the grand re-opening make sure to use the Library’s passes and you can visit the museum free anytime.
Thursday, March 27, 2008
The Currier Museum of Art Is Reopening
The Currier Museum of Art will offer free admission to the museum Sunday, March 30 to Sunday, April 6 to celebrate their grand reopening. The museum has been closed since June of 2006 to build a 30,000 foot addition. The Currier Museum of Art is an internationally renowned art museum featuring European and American paintings, decorative arts, photographs and sculpture. The permanent collection includes works by Picasso, Matisse, Monet, O'Keeffe, Calder and Wyeth. If you can’t make the grand re-opening make sure to use the Library’s passes and you can visit the museum free anytime.
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Internationally renowned? To be honest, the Currier Museum of Art is not always familiar to the average Granite Stater. Its recent 30,000 square foot addition was an attempt to raise its stature, as if bigger were automatically better. But all it did was rehang a provincial collection of art in a sprawling modernist box (which engulfs and overwhelms the lovely original Beaux Arts building, as well as the surrounding Victorian neighborhood).
ReplyDeleteIf the Currier really desired international acclaim, it should have foregone the expansion and instead spent the bequest money to buy better art. Presently, the collection includes a handful of great artists (exactly one major Picasso) and innumerable "school of somebody or other" artists nobody ever heard of. And no matter how grandiose the setting, a rhinestone will never be a diamond.