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Contemporary Gallery Closing

It’s time to say au revoir to Bonjour Julie, Flin Flon VI, and all of the other beautiful works in our contemporary gallery as we make room for an exciting […]

Year of the Rooster

Happy Chinese New Year! If you were born in 1969, 1981, 1993, or 2005, your Asian zodiac is the rooster. According to this zodiac, people born in the Year of the […]

5 Things to Know about Third Space

  The BMA’s latest exhibition, Third Space /shifting conversations about contemporary art, opens tomorrow. While this is an exhibition you truly must see for yourself, here are five things to know about Third Space […]

A BMA Thanksgiving Turkey

A native of Fayette County, Alabama, where he was born in 1910, Jimmy Lee Sudduth made art most of his life. His first memory of painting is of wandering in […]

A Presidential Plate

  Originally, President Theodore and First Lady Edith Roosevelt wanted their official White House dinner service – which was needed after the State Dining Room was enlarged around 1900 to […]

A Christenberry Collection

The Museum actively collects the work of Alabama artists, and expanding the depth in our holdings of works by William Christenberry has been a longtime strategy. Born in 1936, Christenberry […]

Spotlight on the Collection: August 2016

At the beginning of this year, the latest sculpture for the Red Mountain Garden Club Memorial Garden at the Museum was placed in its new home in a tree-shaded bower. Shiva, the […]

Visitors’ View: Flin Flon VI

While viewers of Frank Stella’s Flin Flon VI often let their imaginations run wild with hidden meanings and symbolisms, the artist once said of his non-representational work that “only what can be […]