Need a date idea this Valentine’s Day? Join us for a panel discussion on collecting contemporary art and hear from Jonathan Freedman, Mikell Stringham, and Jeff Lambson. It will be held tomorrow, Thursday from 5-6 p.m. at the Museum of Art. The panel discussion is co-sponsored by the Studio Areas in the Department of Visual [...]

Beginning January 14, Brigham Young University Museum of Art invites educators to bring their 7th to 12th graders to its new school program, Teen Connect: Contemporary Voices in Art. Students will visit the museum for a guided exhibition tour and art making activity in connection with the exhibition We Could Be Heroes: The Mythology of Monsters and Heroes in Contemporary Art.  The Museum [...]

While preparing for the upcoming exhibition Shaping America: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection of American Art, Marian Wardle, MOA Curator of American Art, planned on displaying a long-neglected painting from BYU’s private collection. The untitled work shows a gallant, winged warrior wearing a plumed hat and fashionable, tall leather boots and holding a large [...]

New York City-based animator Annie Poon addressed an audience in the MOA Auditorium on Thursday, January 24 as part of the ongoing Contemporary Art Lecture Series. Poon’s animated work has been shown in various film festivals, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art and now in the BYU Museum of Art. Poon explained [...]