IMA to Celebrate Super Bowl XLVI With Special Robert Indiana Installation

Newly-restored sculpture Numbers will be placed in IMA Welcome Center to honor Super Bowl 46 in Indianapolis

INDIANAPOLIS, IN, January 25, 2012— The Indianapolis Museum of Art announced today that it will place Robert Indiana’s sculptures Numbers (four) and Numbers (six) in the IMA Welcome Center to celebrate Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis. The sculptures will be on view from January 27 to February 9, 2012. Read more

IMA Announces Recruiting Firm to Assist with Search for Next Director and CEO

INDIANAPOLIS, IN, January 16, 2011— The Indianapolis Museum of Art today announced that the Board of Governors has retained recruiting firm Phillips Oppenheim to assist in the search for the next Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO. Phillips Oppenheim is a national leader in nonprofit executive search and its arts practice group has worked with some of the most prominent museums and cultural institutions in the field. Phillips Oppenheim previously worked with the IMA in the search to recruit its former director, Maxwell L. Anderson. Phillips Oppenheim also has recruited and placed chief executives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Smithsonian Institution (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum). Read more

International Exhibition at the IMA Explores Impact of Photography on Post-Impressionist Painters

More than 200 photographs, many on view for the first time, reveal how artists experimented with the handheld Kodak camera at the turn of the century

INDIANAPOLIS, IN, January 9, 2012 — An exhibition exploring the influence of the handheld Kodak camera on artists of the Post-Impressionist era will open at the Indianapolis Museum of Art on June 8, 2012. Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard examines how the photographs of seven European artists relate to the paintings and prints for which they are best known. These artists did not consider photographs their official work and never exhibited them during their lifetimes. Featuring more than 200 photographs and 60 paintings, drawings and prints, the exhibition includes work by the painters Pierre Bonnard, George Breitner, Maurice Denis, Henri Evenepoel, Félix Vallotton, and Edouard Vuillard as well as French printmaker Henri Rivière. Snapshot will be on view in the Allen Whitehill Clowes Gallery June 8, 2012, through September 2, 2012. Read more

IMA Announces Search Committee

IMA Board of Governors establishes search committee to identify the museum’s next director

INDIANAPOLIS, IN, December 1, 2011 – The Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) today announced that the Board of Governors has appointed a 14-member search committee tasked with finding the museum’s next Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO. Maxwell L. Anderson will step down as the Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of the IMA on December 31, 2011, as he has been appointed the Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art. Read more

IMA Announces Call for Proposals for 2012 Residency on Andrea Zittel’s Indianapolis Island

Students and emerging professionals from around the world are encouraged to apply by January 13, 2012

INDIANAPOLIS, IN, November 14, 2011 — The Indianapolis Museum of Art is issuing a call for proposals for a summer 2012 six-week residency on Andrea Zittel’s Indianapolis Island within the IMA’s 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park. Graduate and undergraduate students and emerging professionals in the fields of art, design, architecture and performing arts are encouraged to apply to customize and reside on Indianapolis Island. Read more