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Big E wrote:

DTO Luv wrote:I was jogging

Brad wrote:

Big E wrote:

DTO Luv wrote:I was jogging

Things Change when you are "In Love"...

You know if you jog 10 miles and then go to Spaghetti Works and get Beer Cheese, Alfredo, Sausage, and Meatballs on you pasta, you jogging was pointless...

Big E wrote:

DTO Luv wrote:I was jogging

nativeomahan wrote:We attended the Grand Opening of the Sculpture Garden today.  The place was very busy.  It is an awesome addition to Omaha's cultural landscape, and something we have been sorely lacking all these years.  

I predict that we will soon be seeing new photos of the garden with the museum, Central H.S. and other nearby buildings in the background.  Come on now, all you photographers.   Let's see you do your thing!

iamjacobm wrote:Well, it won't cost much to take a trip to the museum for the next few years.

Brad wrote:

iamjacobm wrote:Well, it won't cost much to take a trip to the museum for the next few years.

Wow, that's cool it will be free for the next 3 years.

ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE:CAG) announced today that it plans to donate its corporate collection of nearly 600 original Currier & Ives prints to the Joslyn Art Museum, in Omaha, Nebraska. The prints represent a remarkably expansive pictorial documentation of the post-Civil War republic before the widespread use of photography.

“We’re excited to present ConAgra’s rare Currier & Ives collection to Omaha’s Joslyn Art Museum so that the entire community and visitors from all over the world can enjoy these historic works,” said Sean Connolly, president and chief executive officer, ConAgra Foods. “There is no better home for this artwork where it will be properly cared for and maintained in a professional, sustainable manner.”

Connolly added, “This donation is just one of the ways that we will continue to support the Omaha community, home to more than 2,100 of our valued employees.”

Brad wrote:That's interesting. I didn't know ConAgra had an art collection.

Professor Woland wrote:There is some potentially enormous news for the museum. Apparently they are going to acquire 50 works from the Phillip G. Schrager collection. Depending on which works they are, the importance of this gift could be difficult to overstate. If the gift includes the works by Rothko and de Kooning and Mangold, this would be bigger than the reattribution of the Rembrandt painting. The status of the Joslyn's collection would skyrocket. Whatever the gift includes, it will greatly improve the quality of the modern and contemporary art collection, but the addition of those works would be major news internationally among art enthusiasts.

Andrea Kszystyniak / World-Herald staff writer wrote:Harley Schrager, Phillip Schrager’s brother, said many pieces in the collection came from New York artists whom his brother met personally and purchased work from directly. A good many of the works he collected are by very well-known contemporary artists, Schrager said.

“The collection has spanned a period of time when contemporary art really started coming into its own in terms of marketability and value of paintings and sculptures and other works of art,” Schrager said.

The private collection features work by Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning and Robert Mangold, according to World-Herald archives. Some of his collection has been on view sporadically at 4405 S. 96th St.

Museum leaders on Wednesday are unveiling an ambitious expansion plan, one that will add a new building to the land Joslyn has occupied since 1931.
The expansion plan, which is in its early stages, will have Snøhetta and local architecture firm Alley Poyner Macchietto design a new building to be built somewhere on the existing Joslyn property off 24th and Dodge Streets. The expansion will also include new landscape design.

So far, there’s no price tag on the project, or renderings of the proposed building, or even a timeline for completion

The new building will most likely showcase some of the 50 pieces of high-profile contemporary art promised to the Joslyn by the Schrager family, though those works haven’t yet been given to the museum.

Attendance has boomed at the Joslyn in the past decade, spurred by the museum eliminating its entrance fee in 2013. The museum hosted nearly 200,000 people last year, a 62 percent increase since 2010.

iamjacobm wrote: ↑Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:28 am This is amazing news! Plus the large donation to fill it, huge asset for the community.

ita wrote: ↑Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:40 am

iamjacobm wrote: ↑Wed Oct 17, 2018 9:28 am This is amazing news! Plus the large donation to fill it, huge asset for the community.

Agreed wholeheartedly! This, with the expansion of Central High, will bring a breath of fresh air to that corridor. The firm that is co-designing the building has some seriously out of this world projects. I am very excited to see what the new building will look like, both inside and out. Any guesses about where the building might go up on the site?

GrandpaaSmucker wrote: ↑Thu Oct 18, 2018 9:32 am Common sense dictates that building your new million dollar building over a parking garage would be creating a big problem. Now you have the potential for one of those cars to catch on fire and burn the whole place down. Is there going to be a guard at the entrance to the garage checking all vehicles to make sure they are not going to blow up from either malfunction or terrorist or lunatic?