Museums

“Narrative Wisdom and African Arts,” the largest show of African art that St. Louis Art Museum has ever organized, shows how African artists working in many mediums have preserved cultural memory by passing along inherited wisdom.

Choreographer and art-maker Brendan Fernandes has devised “In Two” for four dancers moving throughout the Pulitzer Arts Foundation’s major exhibition of Scott Burton’s sculpture.

Delcy Morelos’s exhibition “Interwoven” at Pulitzer Arts Foundation offers a rare chance to follow the threads that tie together the Colombian artist’s deeply felt work. Its centerpiece includes three tons of St. Louis soil and buckets of red brick dust.

Artist Kahlil Robert Irving is a St. Louis native with two solo exhibitions in museums right now. His exhibition at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis is like an archeological dig into a contemporary urban landscape.

“The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st century” at St. Louis Art Museum maps the broad influence of hip-hop culture in a wide-ranging exhibition.

The National Building Arts Center plans to place the statue at its entrance. “Little Liberty” traveled from Brooklyn to the Sauget preservation museum on the back of a flatbed truck.

A new exhibit at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum features a variety of Metro East figures, including Tina Turner, the Indigenous people who built Cahokia Mounds and surveyor Don Alonzo Spaulding.

“Confluences,” an exhibition of Faye Heavyshield’s work at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, includes new pieces that reflect on Cahokia Mounds and the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.

Where you learn Black history, and from whom, determines your understanding of it.

Fourth grade students from Meramec Elementary learned about the Lewis and Clark expedition during a visit to the Gateway Arch museum, where they took a tour through St. Louis history.