The budding art and food scene continues just outside of downtown in neighbourhoods like Broad Ripple, which is home to the Indianapolis Museum of Art and a 152-acre outdoor art garden complex.

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Mountain View just added 20 US museums to its battery of 10, 000 indoor schematics, including the de Young Museum in San Francisco, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Cincinnati Museum Center, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, 17 Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo in DC.

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The Alexander, a top-end hotel opening in Indianapolis, Indiana on 21 January, will feature paintings and installations curated by the impressive Indianapolis Museum of Art.

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There you can see five focus shows devoted to the artists who recently received contemporary art fellowships from the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis.

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Woodruff was 38 when he received the Talladega commission. (Born in 1900 in Ohio, and raised in Tennessee, he died in 1980 in New York, where he taught at New York University for more than 20 years.) After studying at the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Woodruff broadened his experience at the Art Institute of Chicago's school, Harvard's Fogg Museum School, and in Paris between 1927 and 1931.

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