Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art News
The Barrick presents fine art exhibitions and programs of educational outreach. We are also southern Nevada’s most important collecting institution.
Current Barrick Museum News
Open to the public through Dec. 20, the collection was curated through a collaboration between the museum and UNLV's Asian and Asian American Studies program.
On Nov. 22, enjoy a live dance performance, a conversation about art and dance, and more as we celebrate 'Dancing Shoes,' an artwork by Los Angeles-based artist Michael Rippens.
Huajing Maske will lead the institute in promoting intercultural exchange, Mandarin language learning, and Chinese cultural understanding.
The series is comprised of public lectures presented by internationally recognized artists, designers, art historians, and curators.
UNLV’s Take Your Child to Work Day gives kids a chance to see what their parents do while exploring a fun range of educational and career-related activities.
Chihuly Studio pledged a gift of the Chihuly Fire Opal Chandelier to be displayed in the learning center upon its completion.
Barrick Museum In The News
Just a short ride off the Strip, the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas delivers a welcome shock of authentic art clarity.
There’s no shortage of art galleries and spaces in Southern Nevada — and subsequently, art exhibits to populate them.
To many, he was known as “The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” to others, “The Hillbilly Cat,” “The Memphis Flash,” “Elvis the Pelvis,” or simply “The King.” In Las Vegas, the Entertainment Capital of the World, Elvis Presley will always be remembered for the many years he spent performing to sold-out audiences from 1969 to 1977.
The song’s opening line tells the story of Las Vegas — then and today. “Bright light city, gonna set my soul, gonna set my soul on fire.” “It showed you there was more to Las Vegas than mobsters and the Rat Pack. That message had value,” Las Vegas historian Michael Greene says of the titular tune from the 1964 film “Viva Las Vegas.”
The Marjorie Barrick Museum on the UNLV campus has always been a container for feeling. Every work of art it features holds multiple complex themes and ideations. The most recent exhibition, The Emotional Show, brings these already present factors to the forefront, a gambit of sentiment forming a panorama of emotional landscapes. In the panoply of sensations in attendance, fear and its corollaries present themselves boldly. The work in this show has become pronounced in relevance since the December 6 UNLV campus shooting that had the museum staff sheltering in place with terror and uncertainty.
You can learn a lot about a city in its museums — and just by the types of museums it has.
