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Charlie, a polar bear donated by SeaWorld, is one of the 17 taxidermy animals featured in the exhibit “On Thin Ice: Alaska’s Warming Wilderness” at th

A Visit to Alaska Inspires a Climate Change Exhibit in Connecticut

New York Times | By Shivani Vora April 25, 2025

Women in the Blanche Lazzell Exhibition

Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist By Benjamin Clifford

The Brooklyn Rail | ArtSeen | By Benjamin Clifford

Moses Ros- Print making with Moses, Artist in Residence

Bruce Museum Selects Moses Ros as 2025 Artist-in-Residence

By Greenwich Sentinel | News, Press Releases

Bruce Museum to Exhibit Seminal Works from Renowned Sculptor Isamu Noguchi, Greenwich Sentinel

Bruce Museum to Exhibit Seminal Works from Renowned Sculptor Isamu Noguchi

By Greenwich Sentinel | News, Press Releases

Blanche Lazzell, Planes II

Modernist Contrarian | Arts & Antiques | March and April Edition

AMERICAN PAINTER and printmaker Blanche Lazzell (1878-1956) spent a lifetime dedicated to the pursuit of abstraction.

Mary Kate O'Hare

Bruce Museum Names a New Executive Director and CEO

The Bruce Museum board of trustees announces Mary-Kate O’Hare as the new Susan E. Lynch executive director and CEO following a national search.

Blanche Lazzell, Shell

Winter Exhibition Celebrates One of the First U.S. Abstract Artists

'Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist’ is the first monographic exhibition of the artist’s work in nearly two decades.

Kenji Nakahashi, Japanese and Italian

Bruce Museum Announces New Exhibition: “Kenji Nakahashi: Strange Beauty”

Andrew Wyeth, Buttonwood, Study for The Hunter

One Fine Show: ‘Andrew Wyeth’s Botanical Imagination’ at the Bruce Museum

The exhibition takes its name from a line in 'Walden' and, like that memoir, explores just what a person might get up to alone in the woods. Observer | By Dan Duray

Canyon Country, California, June 1983  50 x 60 in.  © Joel Sternfeld

Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects | The Bruce Museum

Musée Magazine | Written by Giuliana Brida, Image: Joel Sternfeld, Canyon Country, California, 1983. Courtesy of the artist and the Bruce Museum. © Joel Sternfeld

Adam Grimm,  Spectacled Eiders, 2025 Federal Duck Stamp Winner

Ducks Do More Than You Might Think to Help Save the Planet

NYTimes | By James Barron

James Hautman, Redheads, 2022

Fact Sheet: ‘Conservation Through the Arts: Celebrating the Federal Duck Stamp’ Exhibition

In the past 90 years, the Federal Duck Stamp has raised more than $1.2 billion to fund habitat conservation that protects waterfowl species that once faced extinction because of market hunters and agricultural growth that drained wetlands.

Jennifer Angus: The Golden Hour - Bruce Presents

‘I always want to do something new’ Jennifer Angus: The Golden Hour

The Hour, By Joseph Tucci, Staff Writer

King Nyani close up

King Nyani

The World’s Largest Bronze Gorilla Sculpture Takes Up Residence at The Bruce Museum ‘King Nyani’ raises awareness of endangered species

Ellen Chen, Rye Country Day

iCreate 2024

iCreate 2024, the annual regional juried art exhibition organized by high school students for high school students.

small is beautiful installation

An intimate look at Andy Warhol’s best-known subjects

‘Andy Warhol: small is beautiful’ opens at the Bruce Museum this April

Kimberly Klause Artist in Residence

Kimberly Klauss ‘Expanding my understanding’

Bruce Museum’s artist-in-residence program a ‘homecoming’ for Kimberly Klauss, By Bekah Wright CORRESPONDENT, Greenwich Time

Kulad Khud Helmet 18th-19th century

Arms and Armor exhibition at the Bruce Museum

The Bruce Museum is creating a novel way of looking at arms and armor. Medievalists.net

Kimberly Klauss Artist in Residence

Bruce Museum Selects Inaugural Artist-in-Residence to Ignite Creative Dialogues

Kimberly Klauss

A Grand Procession of Dignitaries in the Semi-Egyptian Style, 1961

How David Hockney’s Early Experiments Shaped His Iconic Style

Interview with Hyperallergic, Rhea Nayyar

Kenneth Silver-CT Modern

‘Connecticut Modern: Art, Design, and the Avant-Garde, 1930-1960’ Review: A Creative Corridor

The Wall Street Journal–By Judith H. Dobrzynski

Cardiff Giant, circa 1868, Henry Salle & Fred Mohrmann, Farmers' Museum; Daniel T. Ksepka (photograph)

Cardiff Giant, circa 1868, Henry Salle & Fred Mohrmann, Farmers' Museum; Daniel T. Ksepka (photograph)

David Hockney (British, b. 1937) Swimmer Underwater (Paper Pool 16),1978

Hockney/Origins’ Reveals Unique Perspective on Artist’s Early Career

Exhibition will feature rarely displayed works on loan from the Roy B. and Edith J. Simpson Collection

Helen Frankenthaler (American, 1928–2011)   Harvest II, 1975

Discover the Legacies of Abstract Expressionism in ‘Tracing Lineage: Abstraction and its Aftermath’

Kida drawing in the CT Modern Exhibition

Learning to draw, and the art of seeing better

Slowing down, looking at what’s really there — often children are the best teachers when it comes to artistic expression Lilah Raptopoulos–Financial Times

Harry Bertoia in his Bally, Pennsylvania studio Image courtesy of the Harry Bertoia Foundation

The Bruce Museum Presents: Harry Bertoia: Sculpture for Living

Press Release

Charles Sheeler On a Connecticut Theme

Connecticut Modern: Art, Design, and the Avant-Garde, 1930–1960

Press Release

Robert Motherwell and Multiplicity

Press Release

Hyperallergic

Your Guide to Art Excursions Outside NYC This Fall

Here are 19 art exhibitions to check out in Upstate New York, Long Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey.

Alexis Rockman Departure

Journey to Nature’s Underworld: Exploring Our Role In, And Impact On, Nature With Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman

How can art inspire us to reflect on – and ultimately address – our burgeoning climate and ecological crises?

Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman American Landscape

The Bruce Museum is the first venue to exhibit Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld

Bruce Presents Mark Dion, Alexis Rockman, and Tim Walsh

Stepping Into the Newly Realized and Relevant Bruce Museum of Art and Science

Emily Han, Un-Happy Earth Day, Acrylic and gel medium on board , Cresskill, High School, Grade 11

iCreate 2023

Don’t Miss the Stunning Display of High School Art in the iCreate Exhibit at the Bruce

Bigelow & Howes: Guide for the Curious

Press Release: Bruce Presents: Unlocking the Cabinet of Curiosities – With Mark Dion, Alexis Rockman and Tim Walsh

A highlight of this extraordinary show is a one-of-a-kind, bespoke installation created specifically for the Bruce Museum – a “Cabinet of Curiosity” fashioned from artifacts in the museum’s collection.

Mark Dion (American, b. 1961) and Alexis Rockman (American, b. 1962) with Aaron Delehanty (American, b. 1961), Low Cow Studio American Landscape, 2021

Press Release: Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld

The Bruce Museum is the first venue to exhibit Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld

Case with rare minerals at the Bruce Museum. (Photo by Ben Crowther)

Greenwich’s Bruce Museum Reopens with a Triumphant Redo

By BRIAN T. ALLEN | National Review

Lois Dodd’s Life in Nature-Faye Hirsch -Hyperallergiic

Lois Dodd’s Life in Nature

Faye Hirsch | Hyperallergic

‘Lois Dodd: Natural Order’ Review: Playfully Painted Realism

By Willard Spiegelman | Wall Street Journal

Press review of Penguins, Musée

EXHIBITION REVIEW: PENGUINS! PAST AND PRESENT

Musée \ Written by Wenjie (Demi) Zhao, Photo Edited by Haley Winchell, Copy Edited by Robyn Hager

Lois Dood, New York Times

Her Views From Close Up Are on Everyone’s Radar–New York Times

Lois Dodd, at 95, is finally getting her largest museum show yet at the newly expanded Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Conn.

Hyperallergic

The Bruce Museum Announces Grand Reopening After $67M Expansion–Hyperallergic

The new building in Greenwich, CT, triples the space for art and science exhibitions and includes community spaces like an auditorium, café, and education wing.

Lois Dodd, Natural Order

Bruce Museum to open exhibition: LOIS DODD: NATURAL ORDER, on view through May 28, 2023

On April 2, 2023, the Bruce Museum will open Lois Dodd: Natural Order, on view through May 28, 2023.

Bruce Presents: Do Artist-Activists Really Create Change?

The Bruce Museum examines contemporary artists who create in the hopes of transforming society in Bruce Presents: Do Artist-Activists Really Create Change?

Five Must-Visit Museums in Fairfield County, Connecticut

“The new Bruce is poised to capture the attention of not only locals, but a global audience,” said Jeffrey Jackson, broker/owner of Corcoran Centric Realty. “It’s a pivotal institution for our town.”

11-Million-Year-Old Fossil Leads to Discovery of New Bird Species

The fossil sat in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, unidentified, for nearly 100 years.

Bruce Presents Astrophotography: The Art of Place in Space

October 25, 2022

Bruce Museum Announces New Additions to Board of Trustees and Continued Success at Annual Meeting

July 14, 2022

Bruce Museum to Receive Promised Gift of a Major Collection of European and American Art

April 13, 2022

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