Brian Kennedy plans to step down from his position as Director and CEO of the Peabody Essex Museum on Dec. 31, after leading the Salem institution since July of last…Continue Reading →
For decades, the old leatherback turtle lurked large and curious in a dim corner of the Peabody Essex Museum’s natural history galleries, displayed in one of the few places the…Continue Reading →
Most Massachusetts museums are planning to reopen in the next week or two, after having been closed since mid-March to stem the spread of coronavirus. Governor Charlie Baker has moved…Continue Reading →
Peabody Essex Museum will layoff 15 percent of its staff–or 38 of 260 people–“in order to sustain museum operations” as it deals with the financial costs of coronavirus, which have…Continue Reading →
In February 1953, Time magazine declared Jacob Lawrence “the nation’s (and probably the world’s) foremost Negro painter.” Lawrence was about to embark on what he intended to be a monumental…Continue Reading →
Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum hosted its annual Lunar New Year Festival on Jan. 25. It featured performances by the Gund Kwok Asian Women’s Lion Dance Troupe, one of the only all-women…Continue Reading →
“Archive of Mind” by South Korean artist Kimsooja invites you to sit at a large oval wooden table, spotlit in a darkened gallery at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum, and shape…Continue Reading →
After nearly three years of construction, this weekend the Peabody Essex Museum debuts its new $125 million wing. The Salem institution offers free admission on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 28 and…Continue Reading →
“In some districts, where twenty-five years ago they were plentiful, scarcely any are now to be seen,” the American ornithologist and artist John James Audubon warned about the Carolina parrot…Continue Reading →
Maria Molteni often operates at the intersection of art and craft and feminism and athletics. Her latest project is a visionary mural of moons, lightning and a roiling sea painted…Continue Reading →