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Currier In The News
Here is some of our latest press coverage.
“Embellish Me” Expands the Narrative of the Pattern and Decoration Movement
Boston Art Review | By Kendall DeBoer
March 23, 2026
"Embellish Me asks us to join in, to embellish and to be embellished, engaging in the capacious, expansive, expressive potential of ornament." Kendall DeBoer writes in her beautiful and thoughtful review of the exhibition in Boston Art Review.
Collectors make historic $3 million gift to Manchester’s Currier Museum of Art
Union Leader | By Paul Feely
March 10, 2026
"It’s an investment in the Currier Museum of Art — an investment in Manchester itself — like no other. Currier staff have announced the endowment of its senior curator position — the first endowed position in the museum’s nearly 100-year history — by Eijk van Otterloo, a Marblehead, Mass.-based fund manager at Chemonics, and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, notable collectors of 17th-century paintings from Dutch and Flemish masters and well-known patrons of the arts."
Photo: David Lane/Union Leader
Jane Swavely: Chance Elements
The American Scholar | By Noelani Kirschner
March 9, 2026
The American Scholar shines the spotlight on contemporary artist Jane Swavely, and her work featured in Painting in Color: Contemporary Abstraction, discussing the luminous and often surprising elements of her art and process.
Color is just around the corner
Ink Link | By Ali Goldstein
February 23, 2026
The Currier is here for you with a March full of color, from the landmark exhibition, Spray: Jules Olitski in the 1960s to the inaugual season of a new signature event, Bloom: A Floral Palette. Dive into the Currier's Ink Link column for a preview of spring delights and experiences at the museum.
Rindge artist’s 18th-century inspired desk features intricate hidden mechanisms
Monadnock Ledger-Transcript | By Community Arts Desk
January 21, 2026
The Monadnock Ledger-Transcript tells the story of a desk that is way more than a desk. It was featured alongside exceptional furniture like it in the 30th-anniversary exhibition of the New Hampshire Furniture Masters at the Currier.
10 Things to Do in NH this weekend: Mend, make, and master new skills from Dublin to Tamworth
New Hampshire Public Radio | By Zoë Mitchell
Published November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM EST
Start off your weekend with color, texture, and celebration: NHPR includes the Currier’s Embellish Me opening party on November 7 in its list of the top 10 things to do this weekend.
Opening Nov. 6: Embellish Me celebrates the power of decoration
Manchester Ink Link | By Ali Goldstein
October 29, 2025
“Gold foil? Bright plumage? Mathematical patterns? The tile in your childhood kitchen? Pattern and Decoration artists believed that art was vast enough to contain it all. That existing limits about the nature of art hamstrung its extraordinary possibilities. That pretty things, exuberant with life, should also appear in museums.” Read more about Embellish Me: Works from the Collection of Norma Canelas Roth and William Roth in the Currier’s “Art to live by” column in Ink Link.
One of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Rare Usonian Automatic Homes Achieves Landmark Status
Smithsonian Magazine | By Ella Feldman
October 22, 2025
The Kalil House – one of two Frank Lloyd Wright homes in the Currier collection – earns designation in the National Register of Historic Places. Smithsonian Magazine walks you through what it means.
Art to Live By: Furniture Masters/Layers
Manchester Ink Link | By Ali Goldstein
September 30, 2025
“Joined Together: 30 Years of the New Hampshire Furniture Masters invites you to see the many layers of a great creative tradition. Step into the Currier this fall and breathe in the rich, unmistakable smell of wood. Be inspired by an artistic heritage embracing new possibilities.” The Currier’s “Art to live by” column in Ink Link shines the spotlight on the museum’s milestone Furniture Masters exhibition.
10 things to do in NH this weekend: Egyptian Food Festival, 'Crafternoon' and free admission to the Currier
New Hampshire Public Radio | By Zoë Mitchell
Published September 3, 2025 at 4:57 PM EDT
NHPR encourages listeners to attend the Currier’s kick off of the Manchester Citywide Arts Festival.
