The Saint Louis Art Museum is pleased to welcome acclaimed artist Lorna Simpson, together with author and art history professor Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, to the Auditorium for a free lecture October 4 at 7 p.m

The Young Friends of the Saint Louis Art Museum, in partnership with the Flora Conservancy of Forest Park, present the second annual Bacchus at the Basin September 28 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Grand Basin in Forest Park.

The Saint Louis Art Museum has purchased The Milliners (Les Modistes), an important painting by the French artist Edgar Degas. Painted in about 1898 as part of a series the artist launched at the height of Impressionism, the work bridges the 19th and 20th centuries.

The Saint Louis Art Museum welcomes local acoustic guitarist and songwriter Javier Mendoza to Grigg Gallery for a free concert September 28 at 6 p.m.

The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the August 24 opening of Feline Impressions, an exhibition of eight fascinating works that explore the meanings some of the world's greatest printmakers have given to members of the feline family over the past five centuries.

The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the September 7 opening of Currents 101: Patrick Jouin, an exhibition of new, revolutionary furniture forms. Jouin's use of rapid-manufacturing technology, known as stereolithography and selective laser sintering, marks a turning point in the history of furniture design.

The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the October 12 opening of George Caleb Bingham: The Making of "The County Election", a captivating exhibition exploring the creation of the Missouri artist's celebrated painting. Nearly 30 drawings, prints and engraving plates, on view together with The County Election painting, reveal Bingham's careful process for producing one of his greatest successes.

The Saint Louis Art Museum announces opening of Andreas Feininger's New York, an exhibition of eight large black and white prints that form a compelling portrait of the city and its environs in the late 1940s.

The Saint Louis Art Museum welcomes the Carolbeth Trio to Grigg Gallery for a free concert at 6 p.m. March 23. The performance is part of the Museum's Art After 5 series, which features solo and ensemble musicians the fourth Friday of each month.

The Saint Louis Art Museum celebrates the 100th installation in its Currents series with the March 30 opening of Currents 100: Angelina Gualdoni. A native of St. Louis, Angelina Gualdoni uses painting to explore the conflicts and synchronicities between the built environment and landscape.

The Saint Louis Art Museum announces the acquisition of Pine Burr Quilt, a colorful textile created in 1995 by artist Lucy Mingo in the rural community of Gee's Bend, Alabama. The quilt was given to the Museum by Cuesta Benberry, a St. Louis-area historian who is recognized as a pioneer in the study of African American quilting.