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  • June 14, 2019

    There's a Unicorn Loose in the Museum

    While we underwent our recent physical transformation, the Columbia Museum of Art staff worked thoughtfully behind the delicate scrim of dust and heavy construction barriers to make five new experience promises to our museum guests. These include being playful and vibrant, and I’m not sure that a single exhibition could hit those points any better than Wow Pop Bliss: Jimmy Kuehnle’s Inflatable Art. 

  • June 14, 2019

    Exploring the Worlds of Mimi Kato

    Mimi Kato: Ordinary Sagas is storytelling that brightly interweaves the fantastical and the everyday in imagined landscapes. The action ranges from falling off a bike in the city to epic battles in the woods. Ultra-contemporary and also based on historical Japanese painting, this exhibition is food for the senses and for the brain. I am excited about the different kinds of conversations Kato’s work sparks about culture, humor, landscape, memory, feminism, theater, human activity, and control. 

  • November 6, 2018

    The Renovation

    The CMA went through extensive renovations in 2018 to provide more galleries, more studios, more spaces for programs, and a new entrance on Main Street. As you can imagine, it was quite a lot of work to protect priceless works of art during the construction! Read on for a behind-the-scenes look at what was involved in this massive transformation.
  • October 26, 2018

    On Willi Baumeister and His Cosmic Gesture

    by Peter Chametzky
    Professor of Art History
    School of Visual Art and Design
    University of South Carolina

  • August 30, 2018

    CMA Contemporaries Board Travels To New York to Visit with Artist Creating Piece for Museum’s Permanent Collection

    For more than two decades, The Contemporaries of the Columbia Museum of Art have helped the museum acquire numerous works for its collection.  The two pillars of those efforts — Dale Chihuly’s Untitled (Chandelier) and Henry Mandell’s Tatara Fire, both of which were specifically commissioned by the Contemporaries — sit prominently on display in the museum’s upper atrium. In June 2018, the Contemporaries trekked to New York to visit with the artist who was then working on the next piece to join the CMA collection.

  • June 4, 2018

    The One that Got Away

    Arts education is important to us here at the Columbia Museum of Art, and we are always happy to work with partners like the University of South Carolina’s Media Arts department to help support creative educational endeavors and projects. So when USC Instructor (and my former professor) Jen Tarr reached out on behalf of her Narrative Production students in need of a location to make their short film, I was excited by the opportunity to host these students at the museum for their shoot. 

  • May 10, 2018

    What's Hidden in the Walls?

    Have you ever come to Arts & Draughts at the CMA? Have you ever drawn on the walls in the Loft with chalk while it was still an unfinished space? If you have, you can probably technically tell your friends that your art is being preserved on the walls in an art museum. Well, not so much on them as in them.

  • June 7, 2016

    CMA Receives the National Medal from the Institute of Museum and Library Services

    Representatives of the CMA were thrilled to visit the White House on June 1, 2016, to receive the National Medal from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. First Lady Michelle Obama presented the award to executive director Karen Brosius and community member Joyce-Rose Harris. This prestigious award is the nation’s highest honor given to museums and libraries for service to their communities.
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