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Art Greg CookDecember 15, 2020 0

Peabody Essex Director Brian Kennedy Stepping Down After 1.5 Years

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 →

Leatherback turtle being reinstalled at Salem's Peabody Essex Museum, 2020. (Photo: Kathy Tarantola)
Nature Greg CookOctober 31, 2020 0

Curious Leatherback Turtle Returns To Peabody Essex After 2 Decades In Storage

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 →

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Dec. 31, 2018. (Greg Cook photo)
Art Greg CookJuly 8, 2020 0

Museums Begin To Reopen: A Schedule

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, Salem. (Greg Cook photo)
Art Greg CookJune 17, 2020 0

Salem's Peabody Essex Museum To Layoff 15% Due To Costs Of Coronavirus

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 →

Jacob Lawrence, "Listen, Father! The Americans have not yet defeated us by land; neither are we sure they have done so by water—we therefore wish to remain here and fight our enemy . . . —Tecumseh to the British, Tippecanoe, 1811​," Panel 21, 1956, from ​"Struggle: From the History of the American People,​ 1954–56," egg tempera on hardboard. Collection of Harvey and Harvey-Ann Ross. (© The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography by Bob Packert/PEM)
Art Greg CookFebruary 9, 2020 0

In ‘Struggle,’ Jacob Lawrence Reclaimed African Americans’ Place In American History

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 →

Gund Kwok Asian Women’s Lion Dance Troupe's Cubs performed at the Lunar New Year Festival at Salem's Peabody Essex Museum, Jan. 25, 2020. (Greg Cook)
Our Photos Greg CookJanuary 26, 2020 0

Photos: Lunar New Year at Peabody Essex Museum

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 at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum, July 20, 2019. (Greg Cook photo)
Art Greg CookNovember 23, 2019 0

Kimsooja Invites You To Roll A Ball Of Clay And Reshape Your Mind

“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 →

The Peabody Essex Museum's new wing (at right) designed by the New York firm Ennead Architects sits beside the East India Marine Hall on Salem's Essex Street. (Courtesy photo)
Art Greg CookSeptember 26, 2019 0

First Look Inside The Dazzling New Wing At Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum

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 →

Alexandre Hogue, "Crucified Land", 1939. Oil on canvas. (Courtesy Peabody Essex Museum)
Art Greg CookApril 20, 2019 0

'Nature's Nation': Digging Into American Art For A More Honest History Of Our Relationship To The Land

“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's “Storming the Court” mural on Ward Street in Salem's Point neighborhood, June 12, 2018. (Photo by David Valecillos of the Punto Urban Art Museum)
Art Greg CookJune 14, 2018 0

Maria Molteni Brings Art, Feminism And A Witch To The Basketball Court With Her New Salem Mural

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 →

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