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Explore the Speed and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of our collection. Free with admission. For more information, visit our tours page.
Explore the Speed and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of our collection. Free with admission. For more information, visit our tours page.
The Speed Ball is the most significant fundraiser for the Speed Art Museum and is critical for its current and future success. This premier event supports the Museum’s mission, exhibitions, programming, and vision. Individual tickets for Late Night are $200. White or black tie is required. Join us for the Late Night portion of the … Continued
Explore the Speed and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of our collection. Free with admission. For more information, visit our tours page.
2022 Oscar Nominated Short Films Various Directors TICKETS Best Documentary Short Subject Running time: 160 minutes. Recommended for 16+ Audible Directed by Matt Ogens and Geoff McLean Football player Amaree McKenstry-Hall and his Maryland School for the Deaf teammates attempt to defend their winning streak while coming to terms with the tragic loss of a … Continued
Explore the Speed and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of our collection. Free with admission. For more information, visit our tours page.
Explore the Speed and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of our collection. Free with admission. For more information, visit our tours page.
2022 Oscar Nominated Short Films Various Directors TICKETS Best Live Action Short Film Program length: 122 minutes. Due to themes of racism, violence, and sexual assault, we recommend this program for 17+. Ala Kachuu-Take and Run Directed by Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger A young Kyrgyz woman is kidnapped and forced to marry. This is … Continued
2022 Oscar Nominated Short Films Various Directors TICKETS Best Animated Short Film Program length: 97 minutes. Due to themes of sexuality and violence in the program, we recommend this program for adults only. Affairs of the Art Directed by Joanna Quinn and Les Mills A family’s eccentric, yet endearing, obsessions with everything from drawings, screw … Continued
Explore the Speed and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of our collection. Free with admission. For more information, visit our tours page.
2022 Oscar Nominated Short Films Various Directors TICKETS Best Documentary Short Subject Running time: 160 minutes. Recommended for 16+ Audible Directed by Matt Ogens and Geoff McLean Football player Amaree McKenstry-Hall and his Maryland School for the Deaf teammates attempt to defend their winning streak while coming to terms with the tragic loss of a … Continued
Members are invited for a first look at the Speed's latest exhibition! Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch is the first survey of quilt-based works—inspired, in part, by the rich creative legacies of African American quilters—produced by the American interdisciplinary artist Sanford Biggers (born 1970). The works, part of Biggers’s Codex series, consist of mixed-media paintings and sculptures done directly on … Continued
All visitors age 12 or older must provide proof of full COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID test from within 72 hours to attend an event or program at the Speed, including Speed Cinema Screenings. Proof of vaccination is not currently required for general admission to the Museum or its exhibitions. CLICK HERE for details. March … Continued
Breaking Bread Directed by Beth Elise Hawk TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “A film that celebrates culinary diplomacy.”—Elizabeth Weitzman, The Wrap At a time when world tensions are high, the documentary Breaking Bread shows how food can bring people together to share our common love of enjoying a good meal. Breaking Bread follows Arab and Jewish chefs in … Continued
Harlan Jacobson’s Talk Cinema Gagarine Directed by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh TICKETS $18 / $16 Speed members / Free for Speed Cinephiles “Free of cliché, visually ingenious, Gagarine is a pleasure—pure magic realism, a homespun spectacular.”—Danny Leigh, Financial Times Yuri, 16, has lived all his life in Gagarine Towers, a vast red brick housing project on the … Continued
Explore the Speed and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of our collection. Free with admission. For more information, visit our tours page.
Breaking Bread Directed by Beth Elise Hawk TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “A film that celebrates culinary diplomacy.”—Elizabeth Weitzman, The Wrap At a time when world tensions are high, the documentary Breaking Bread shows how food can bring people together to share our common love of enjoying a good meal. Breaking Bread follows Arab and Jewish chefs in … Continued
Sunday Showcase Sonita Directed by Rakhsareh Ghaem Maghami Sunday, March 20, 12:30 pm CINEMA+ Free “Inspiring . . . a certified crowd-pleaser.”—Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter Winner of two Sundance Film Festival awards, the compelling documentary Sonita tells the inspiring story of Sonita Alizadeh, an 18-year-old Afghan refugee in Iran, who thinks of Michael Jackson … Continued
Explore the Speed and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of our collection. Free with admission. For more information, visit our tours page.
Breaking Bread Directed by Beth Elise Hawk TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “A film that celebrates culinary diplomacy.”—Elizabeth Weitzman, The Wrap At a time when world tensions are high, the documentary Breaking Bread shows how food can bring people together to share our common love of enjoying a good meal. Breaking Bread follows Arab and Jewish chefs in … Continued
Finding Meaning in Abstraction The Hite Institute of Art & Design announces the publication of Seeing Sam Richards’ Sculpture by Frances Kratzok. To celebrate the book and honor Richards’ career, UofL will be hosting a colloquium moderated by curator Erika Holmquist-Wall. This event is free and open to the public. Proof of COVID-19 vaccination is required, masks … Continued
Explore the Speed and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of our collection. Free with admission. For more information, visit our tours page.
Explore the Speed and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of our collection. Free with admission. For more information, visit our tours page.
Great Freedom (Grosse Freiheit) Directed by Sebastian Meise TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “An exquisite marriage of personal, political, and sensual storytelling.”—Guy Lodge, Variety In Germany after WWII, the liberation by the Allies did not mean freedom for everyone. Hans (Franz Rogowski—last seen at the Speed Cinema in Undine) has been found guilty of something the government … Continued
Join us for Speed Reading Book Club, a book discussion inspired by both special exhibitions and artworks in the Speed's permanent collection! You can find copies of all the Book Club books in the Museum Store. Speed Reading Book Club is free with admission. Life Studies: Stories by Susan Vreeland
Explore the Speed and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of our collection. Free with admission. For more information, visit our tours page.
Great Freedom (Grosse Freiheit) Directed by Sebastian Meise TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “An exquisite marriage of personal, political, and sensual storytelling.”—Guy Lodge, Variety In Germany after WWII, the liberation by the Allies did not mean freedom for everyone. Hans (Franz Rogowski—last seen at the Speed Cinema in Undine) has been found guilty of something the government … Continued
Great Freedom (Grosse Freiheit) Directed by Sebastian Meise TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “An exquisite marriage of personal, political, and sensual storytelling.”—Guy Lodge, Variety In Germany after WWII, the liberation by the Allies did not mean freedom for everyone. Hans (Franz Rogowski—last seen at the Speed Cinema in Undine) has been found guilty of something the government … Continued
Explore the Speed and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of our collection. Free with admission. For more information, visit our tours page.
Sunday Showcase ripples and pools Premiere Produced and directed by Robin Burke Free Faced with expensive, debilitating surgery, director Robin Burke sought out an aqua therapy pool in Louisville. Affirming and quiet, sorrowful, and joyous, ripples and pools honors and celebrates the unexpected healing powers of water and community. The warm saltwater pool at the Home of the … Continued
Explore the Speed and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of our collection. Free with admission. For more information, visit our tours page.
Join us at Late Til 8 hours at the Speed for open figure drawing sessions! This series provides visitors ages 14 and up the opportunity to draw from a live model dressed in costuming inspired by one of the artworks from the Speed’s permanent collection. Registration not required, but materials and folding stools available first-come, … Continued
Strawberry Mansion Directed by Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “Strawberry Mansion is an eccentric hybrid, like a handmade valentine.”—Sheila O’Malley, RogerEbert.com One of the most audacious films of the year premiered at Sundance and has been winning audiences over with its mixture of fantasy, adventure, social commentary, and thrilling … Continued
Explore the Speed and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of our collection. Free with admission. For more information, visit our tours page.
Strawberry Mansion Directed by Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “Strawberry Mansion is an eccentric hybrid, like a handmade valentine.”—Sheila O’Malley, RogerEbert.com One of the most audacious films of the year premiered at Sundance and has been winning audiences over with its mixture of fantasy, adventure, social commentary, and thrilling … Continued
Strawberry Mansion Directed by Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley TICKETS $12 / $8 Speed members “Strawberry Mansion is an eccentric hybrid, like a handmade valentine.”—Sheila O’Malley, RogerEbert.com One of the most audacious films of the year premiered at Sundance and has been winning audiences over with its mixture of fantasy, adventure, social commentary, and thrilling … Continued
University of Louisville’s French Film Festival/Sunday Showcase Godard, Mon Amour (Le Redoutable) Directed by Michel Hazanavicius Sunday, April 3, 12:30 pm CINEMA+ Free “Part homage, part dissection, this cheeky drama (based on the recently deceased Wiazemsky’s memoirs) is a cleverly meta piece that is often very funny.”—Dennis Harvey, 48 Hills In 1968 France, actress Anne … Continued
Explore the Speed and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of our collection. Free with admission. For more information, visit our tours page.
Explore Sanford Biggers: Codeswitch and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of the exhibition. This special exhibition requires a timed admission ticket purchased at the front desk.
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