Hyperallergic

A Neuroscientist Helps the Peabody Essex Museum Get Inside Your Head

Installation view of XYZT: A Journey in 4 Dimensions exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum (all photographs of this exhibition courtesy of Adrien M. & Claire B. ©RomainEtienne) SALEM, Mass. — The ...
Hyperallergic

An Exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum Explores How Revolution Inspired a Generation of Modern Indian Artists

Biren De, "August '78" (1978) oil on canvas, gift of the Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection (2001), photo by Walter Silver/PEM The Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, holds the most ...
The New York Times

Peabody Essex Museum

A Witch’s Brew of an Exhibit Enters the Modern Age in Salem The “Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming” exhibition at the Peabody Essex Museum draws parallels between the country’s most ...
The Boston Globe

In Salem, a new exhibit summons the spirits at Peabody Essex Museum

Spiritualism captured the attention of the curious and the mourning, mediums, and illusionists — all of whose stories are explored in ‘Conjuring the Spirit World: Art, Magic, and Mediums.’ It’s a ...
WXYZ

Peabody Essex Museum names Lynda Roscoe Hartigan its first female director in its 221-year history

One of the nation's oldest continuously operating museums has named Lynda Roscoe Hartigan its first female director in its 221-year history. The Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, announced ...
WBUR

Peabody Essex Museum conjures the spirit world in new exhibit

William Sidney Mount, "Saul and the Witch of Endor," 1828. (Courtesy Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.) Shannon Taggart spent almost two decades researching Lily Dale, New York, a ...
Wall Street Journal

At the Peabody Essex Museum, Korean Diplomacy and Design

The reinstalled Korean gallery of the Peabody Essex Museum opened this spring after a 13-year closure. Its name, the Yu Kil-Chun Gallery of Korean Art and Culture, commemorates a young diplomat from ...
The New York Times

Peabody Essex Museum

Photography and portraiture are at the center of exhibitions this spring and beyond, examining their forms and themes and the people behind them. By Morgan Malget Siblings, parents and grandparents ...