The Indianapolis Museum of Art has just completed an extensive $80,000,000 addition and renovation that is a work of art in itself! Located at 4000 Michigan Road, it is open from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday through Sunday. Entry: $7.00; seniors and college students concession $5, 12 and younger free. On Thursdays entry is free and the museum remains open until 9 pm. Phone: 317-920-2660.
This month the museum is featuring two major shows. The first is La Fornarina: the remarkable portrait by the Renaissance painter Raphael.Described by Colin Bailey, Curator of New York's Frick Collecton as "one of the most famous and immediately identifiable paintings in the canon of Western art", the artist's enigmatic and seductive portrait La Fornarina, (painted c 1520), has exerted a fascination among artists and writers for nearly five centuries and provoked comparisons with da Vinci's Mona Lisa.
This is the first time it has been seen outside Italy and Indianapolis is fortunate to be numbered among the three US cities chosen to exhibit it.
The artistic craftsmanship of the six Overbeck Sisters of Cambridge City, Indiana is a part of America's art history. Their pottery, produced over a nearly fifty years, (from 1911 - 1955), made a major contribution to the Arts and Crafts Movement in the USA and the exbihition of their work at the museum this month is an excellent opportunity to see their work outside Cambridge City.
There are many special programs going on every week at the IMA and it pays to call their phone number when you are in town and see what's on so that you do not miss a special exhibit you may wish to see.
Another unique museum is the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art, 500 W. Washington St., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Entry:$7.00, seniors $6.00, children 5-17 $4.00, 4 and younger free. Phone: 317-636-9378.
Your Hoosier Hannah spent four years as a trained "Spirited Hands Guide" here in the Native American Gallery on the second floor. I also manned the "Quill Cart", a cart with its own Porcupine to use to explain things like Guard Hair, and Quills!
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