Eiteljorg Museum

The Eiteljorg’s annual model train holiday display is off the rails, but in a good way.

The museum’s redesigned Native American Galleries open to the public after an overhaul years in the making. Associate curator Dorene Red Cloud talks about her tribe, allowing Native Americans to tell their own stories, and why the exhibits are now arranged in a totally new way.

Immerse yourself in Black culture with entertainment, food, and educational moments for the whole family this weekend.

Among the MLK Day events is storyteller Portia Jackson speaking about courageous children from the Civil Rights Movement at the Children’s Museum.

This year’s show includes paintings inspired by abstract expressionism, waxed cloth sculpted around steel rods, and a multimedia installation of faces and masks on drums that seem to sing in Tlingit.

Among the emails Hillary Clinton sent as secretary of state—and recently released by the U.S. State Department—is one from 2010 in which she referred to Indianapolis as “basketball-crazed Indianoplace.”

Left unfinished in the 1880s, the Canal now hosts museums, music, a burger joint, and much more.

There’s something about running along the Canal that makes me want to give everyone I see a big thumbs-up.

Great picks at Children’s Museum, Eiteljorg, IMA, and more

They say the best bands are greater than the sum of their parts. In the case of The Last IV, the parts are pretty excellent themselves.

The film selection sometimes strays a long way from the genre at Roving Cinema’s annual party. Even so, it’s one of our 10 Best of Indy holiday picks.

Says the artist, “If my pictures have a message, it’s an organic message. It’s not like I set out to improve rights for LGBT people.”

Jim Wilke, a former rider in the International Gay Rodeos, is featured in the exhibit, and spoke at the museum about openly gay life in the American West.

A caravan of imagined art vehicles, inspired by the campaign to build an Indy Fringe Truck that will bring theater to festivals across the state.