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Speed Museum offers Free Day of Admission[Visual Art]

Saturdays…do they get boring? Do the children complain they have nothing to do? Tired of weekend TV and housework? Are you always looking for something new and fun? I have the answer, at least for one day!

On Saturday, May 19, 2012, The Speed Art Museum is offering Free Admission. It is International Art Museum Day and The Speed Museum wants you to celebrate with them. This free admission will extend to the Art Sparks Interactive Gallery and all Museum event and exhibits.

Welcome to Louisville [Opinion: The Arena]

Welcome to Louisville!
Louisville has the prettiest girls, most beautiful flowers, best food & liquor, and fastest horses in the whole damn world (at least for this week), and we’re proud to share them with our honored guests. As grandpa used to say: “It don’t get much better than this.”

If you’ve come to Louisville for the races, or are just passing through on your way to Albuquerque for the Cinco de Mayo festivities, welcome to our little city by the Falls of the Ohio River.  We pride ourselves on our hospitality, food, and laid-back ambience.  And our weather… Did we mention our hospitality, etc.?  We want you to have a good time, and generally feel like Blanche DuBois felt in the last line of

Visual artist Ann Hamilton speaks [Visual Art]

Ann Hamilton
Visual Artist Ann Hamilton will lecture at the Speed Museum on April 5th @ 6pm.

 

2012 Speed Art Museum Ball [Louisville Dot Chic]

The Speed Art Museum will hold one of the most elegant spring galas, the 39th annual Speed Art Museum Ball, on Saturday, March 3, 2012.

The Speed Art Museum will hold one of the most elegant spring galas, the 39th annual Speed Art Museum Ball, on Saturday, March 3, 2012. The Museum's exquisite Impressionist exhibition, Renoir to Chagall: Paris and the Allure of Color, will serve as the inspiration for the evening. The collection of magnificent Impressionist works from the Dixon Gallery and Gardens will transport attendees to the romantic French countryside or a Parisian café as depicted by artists Degas, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne and others.

Sundays are for movies [Visual Art]

The Speed presents a film series that you're bound to remember or maybe not.

 

Sundays are days to take rest from the business of the week. People do this in various ways and the Speed Museum wants you to spend some time resting and watching a collection of documentaries, avant-garde, and classic movies.

Free fun in the city [Family and parenting]

Battle the summertime boredom with one of these free or inexpensive adventures in the city.

 

Perhaps you're a suburban mouse, or maybe you are simply running out of activities that keep the kiddos entertained, but downtown offers many free or inexpensive family activities. Not only can you drive out the dreaded "I'm bored" but you will be supporting this growing city as well.

Free Demo Music Classes at Shine--

Do you hear that, suburbia? Downtown's calling [Family and parenting]

Make art in the city at the drop-in Spring Break Camps offered at the Kentucky Museum of Arts and Craft or the Speed Museum. Support your budding artists and our blossoming city.

 

Speed Museum announces more changes for the future [Visual Art]

Art institution uses building renovations as inspiration to rediscover collection.

Just a few months after receiving a major donation and announcing plans for building renovation, the J.B.

Louisville is for lovers (of art) [Family and parenting]

Family-friendly art in the city this week.

 

It’s good to be raising a family in Louisville this week. Not only will we almost reach 60 degrees by mid-week, but there are some unique, cheap, family-friendly opportunities to experience some great art in the city. Valentine’s Day is on Monday, and this week, Louisville just might be for lovers of art (even lovers with kids).  

Daddy day care: kid-friendly activities around town that won't suck for dads [Family and parenting]

A testosterone-filled guide filled with ideas for kid and dad diversions around Louisville.

Soon I will be heading back to teaching full time, which means my nearly 17-month stint as a stay-at-home mom will end. And once a week Jack will be home from day care in my better half's loving care and guidance. I asked hubby what activities he was planning with our toddler, and he gave me a shrug. "I don't know....we can go to Lowe's. Or maybe he can help me work on the car?" Images of our 17-month-old covered in diesel weilding a ratchet flashed before my eyes.

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