ROSE ART MUSEUM

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Inch by inch, putting it together.

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The Best University Art Museums in America

AD surveys the best university art museums across the country

Architectural Digest just named us one of the best university art museums in the country!

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New Hours

Starting this fall, the Rose will have new hours. Open Wednesday - Sunday, with our usual 12-5 on Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday, there will now be extended hours on Friday and Saturday, 12-7.

Come enjoy the Rose at night!

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A New Chrome Extension Turns Your Browser Into an Archive of Cat Art

It is a tired maxim that the Internet basically exists to help us find pictures of cats. That particular search just got a lot easier—and a lot classier—thanks to Meow Met, a new Chrome extension. Designed by Emily McAllister for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Media Lab, Meow Met shows you a cat-related picture from the museum’s collection every time you open up a new tab.

We were not kidding. We love cats. Art + Cats = Basically peak Rose staff interests. 

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That cats “rule the Internet” is an undisputed truism. Internet users have created and viewed millions of images and videos of cats, delighting in media that dwell on the cat’s many paradoxes: its independence and powerlessness, its curiosity and indifference, its human qualities and sheer inscrutability. How Cats Took Over the Internet tells the history of cats online, examining phenomena like Caturday, lolcats, cat videos, celebrity cats, and more to unearth why images and videos of the feline kind have transfixed a generation of web users. Touching on concepts like anthropomorphism, the aesthetics of cuteness, the Bored at Work Network, and the rise of user-generated content, this exhibit takes a critical look at a deceptively frivolous phenomenon.

We’re pretty obsessed with cats here at the Rose -- I’m sensing a staff field trip in the near future.

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Review: ‘Pretty Raw’ Recounts Helen Frankenthaler’s Influence on the Art World

An exhibition at the Rose Art Museum in Waltham, Mass., tells how Ms. Frankenthaler became a leading figure in Color Field painting.

WALTHAM, Mass. — A groundbreaking show at the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University here clears a more prominent place for Helen Frankenthaler in the history of postwar New York painting. “Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler” re-examines her 1952 invention of stain-painting and traces some of its repercussions up to the present.

In a way that eludes most exhibitions that include contemporary art, “Pretty Raw” is gorgeous, full of fresh insights and diverse yet coherent, connected throughout by a formal rather than a literary theme: color used freely and inventively often at full strength — in liquid, process-oriented ways. Another through line is feminist thought and its aesthetic ramifications, especially in painting, with “the feminine” as both a stereotype to be shattered and an artistic potential to be explored. Above all there is the implication that it remains in many ways implicitly political for a woman to paint.

Break out the celebration dances, this NYT review has us floating through the rest of Pretty Raw’s run.

Come see what all the fuss is about, open through Sunday.

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This Artist Experiences Sound As Colors And Paints What Music Looks Like

Melissa McCracken, a painter with synesthesia, explains what it’s like to see your favorite songs. [x]

“Karma Police” — Radiohead

“Little Wing” — Jimi Hendrix

“Gravity” — John Mayer 

“Imagine” — John Lennon

“Joy in Repetition” — Prince

“Since I’ve Been Loving You” — Led Zeppelin

“Life On Mars?” — David Bowie

“Tonight, Tonight” — The Smashing Pumpkins

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tbt to 50 years ago, a totally different Rose.

Two Urbanists: The Engineering-Architecture of R. Buchminster Fuller and Paolo Soleri

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Burning Boards, from set up to tear down.

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Burning Boards tonight is being plagued by wind. Rather than keep the audience away, they’re getting closer and acting as human windbreaks. Art collaboration at its finest.

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We’re loving #poseMW day, the final day of #MuseumWeek, for all of these great visitor photos.

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#throwback in honor of #museumweek #poseMW #poseattheRose #roseartmuseum #Warhol #balloons #PARTICIPATE

A photo posted by Sarah Horn (@sarahfaithhorn) on Mar 29, 2015 at 1:00pm PDT

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But of course our actual #favMW thing is you, the visitors. Cue studio audience 'awwwwww' #MuseumWeek #CheesyButTrue

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March 28, 2015

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Korean Museum Uses Adorable Cats in Visitor Etiquette Guide

(Visitor etiquette guide from the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, photo via John Overholt/Twitter; text from Andrea Fraser’s “From the Critique of Institutions to an Institution of Critique” in Artforum, September 2005)

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Some helpful (and adorable) tips on bringing your #familyMW to a museum.

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Having too much fun Brickifying our works today. Whaddya got? We’ll brickify it.

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Remember when the Rose had a pond? 🌊 

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One staff member’s shelf of #souvenirsMW includes a rock from the pond that used to be in our Lower Rose Gallery and a reminder of home with a mini Arch from the Museum of Westward Expansion gatewayarchstl #museumweek