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  • IRIS at the Brooks featuring the Pinchas Zukerman Trio

    Dec 8th, 2019
    3:00pm - 5:00pm
    Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

    The IRIS at the Brooks concert series features an hour long performance and will be paired with a featured Memphis Brooks Museum of Art exhibition and a reception.

    The Zukerman Trio will perform pieces by Beethoven's Archduke Trio at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Hohenberg Auditorium followed by a Q & A with the audience.

    Tickets are $40 per person (or $35 for Brooks, Iris Orchestra, & GPAC subscribers) at irisorchestra.org/tickets

    IRIS at the Brooks is generously sponsored by Dorothy O. Kirsch.

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  • Talk: Architecture of Art Museums 101 with Emily Ballew Neff.

    Dec 11th, 2019
    6:30pm - 8:00pm
    Free

    Discover the world of art museums and their architecture in this richly-illustrated talk by Executive Director Emily Ballew Neff, Ph.D. Learn more about plans for the architectural development of “Brooks on the Bluff,” to be designed by Herzog & de Meuron, with archimania as the Architect of Record.

    The talk, which will take place in our Dorothy K. Hohenberg Auditorium, begins at 6:30 p.m. Please join us for a reception beforehand, beginning at 5:30 p.m. This event is free and open to the public; however, space is limited. 

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  • Café Conversations

    Dec 18th, 2019
    6:00pm - 7:30pm
    Memphis Brooks Museum of Art | Free.

    Café Conversations coincide with a tour of a related special exhibition or works from the Brooks permanent collection. Led by local Memphians, the series encourages visitors to contemplate real life issues by drawing comparisons to themes in art.

    Free. No reservations required.

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  • GUIDED TOUR: PHOTOGRAPHY IN MEMPHIS WITH WAYNE DOWDY

    Jan 5th, 2020
    2:00pm - 3:00pm
    Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

    Experience a fascinating tour of this dynamic exhibition that is both a celebration of and a reckoning with the history of the city, led by local archivist, author and historian Wayne Dowdy of the Memphis and Shelby County Room at Memphis Public Libraries.

    Free.

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    John Vachon, American, 1914 – 1975

    Rents Are Going up in Memphis, Tennessee, 1940

    Gelatin silver print; printed in 1980

    Brooks Memorial Art Gallery purchase; funds provided by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Brooks Friends Foundation  81.1.24

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