The Brooks Museum is located in Overton Park, the Memphis equivalent to New York’s Central Park. Brooks is the largest and most comprehensive “art” museum in Memphis. “Free day” is on Wednesday, but no worries, the crowds are nothing like “free day” at the zoo so, you can safely go on Wednesdays without fear of being trampled.
Stylistically, this museum has some type of art for everyone ranging from neo-classical Roman sculpture, impressionist, Greek pottery; to stuff so modern you can’t even tell what it is. There is a room of traditional Christian religious art, a room with African primitives and a room with beautifully crafted leather book bindings which defiantly belong in a museum because now we all get our paperbacks from Amazon and are transitioning to Kindles. Antique home furnishings and decorative arts are scattered about intermittently for good measure.
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I never knew that I grew up in an art museum but a new acquisition is a couch covered in plastic; just like home! Let’s face it, art is all around us. Please note that you can take pictures at Brooks but “no flash photography”. One of my favorite aspects of art museums is the traveling installations that change quarterly. These guest appearances are always a surprise, sometimes being exquisite and other times mundane. The quality of traveling exhibits has steadily gone downhill as budgets have been cut.
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