News & Reviews

Local, regional and national media coverage featuring The Haggin Museum's temporary exhibitions, permanent collections, special events and knowledgeable staff.

Free is the word for artistic events
The Record - Saturday, January 8, 2011

There's nothing like colorful creations to brighten up a gloomy day. There are two free - and indoor - opportunities to create artful masterpieces today in Stockton. At The Haggin Museum in Victory Park, it's a total free-for-all.

Alan Sanchez LIVE at The Haggin Museum
Good Day Sacramento - Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Good Day Sacramento's Alan Sanchez takes a tour of the special exhibition Necessity's Children: 150 Years of Local Inventions

Arts groups hit hard
The Record - Sunday, December 19, 2010

Purveying arts and culture in San Joaquin County is a difficult game. Major nonprofit institutions - The Haggin Museum, Stockton Symphony and Stockton Civic Theatre - report strong admission and ticket sales. But in a stagnant economy, with double-digit inflation and continuing waves of housing...

Visions of cookies dance in her head
The Record - Wednesday, December 8, 2010

When she returns to Stockton to visit her mom, Fran, and her sister, Susan, Janet Krietemeyer Keeler said there are must-visit places on her itinerary. In the summer there are trips to San Francisco Giants games. Her 15-year-old son, Jensen, loves to eat at Whirlow's in Lincoln Center and husband...

An unforgettable night at the museum
The Record - Sunday, November 7, 2010

Re-inventing itself, The Haggin Museum unbuttons its starchy shirt twice a month on first and third Thursdays and transforms itself into a nightspot. Thursday night it presented "The Ballads." Fifteen of the best local rock musicians and singers covered songs that would have had The Haggin's old mummy holding its Bic aloft.

See innovations from our backyard, around world
The Record - Monday, November 1, 2010

The Haggin Museum has prized artwork on its walls, but it's governed by the San Joaquin Pioneer and Historical Society, and this month history takes center stage. "Necessity's Children: 150 Years of Local Inventions" celebrates more than 2,300 patents and inventions by San Joaquin County residents ...

Tour culture through arts
The Record - Thursday, October 21, 2010

Richard Rios adopted the name because it's rooted in ancient Aztec culture. "It's what's referred to as art: a flower and a song," Rios said. "It's the best the Spaniards could do to translate what art is. It goes way back in history." Tarde de Flor y Canto certainly converts appropriately as part ...

Five artists win major awards in Haggin exhibition
The Record - Monday, October 11, 2010

Five area artists have received major awards in the Stockton Art League's 56th juried exhibition at The Haggin Museum. Tina Moore of Stockton won the Dolly Sellars second place award for her pastel "Working Class." Moore is president and exhibition chairwoman for the Pastel Society of the West ...

Haggin Museum, Stockton Symphony and Sierra Repertory receive funds
The Record - Thursday, October 07, 2010

The Haggin Museum added evening programs on the first and third Thursdays of the month. The Stockton Symphony created a pops series, now in its second season. All were possible because of money awarded during Phase 1 of the James Irvine Foundation's Arts Regional Initiative in 2007.

Insight: Valerie Hemingway
Capital Public Radio - Monday, September 27, 2010

Freelance writer, editor and speaker Valerie Hemingway has written a book about her life with the Hemingway family. She worked as Ernest Hemingway's secretary and also married his son. She's in Stockton on Wednesday to talk about her book, "Running with the Bulls: My Years with the Hemingways."

Hemingway memories to be shared at The Haggin
The Record - Monday, September 27, 2010

The name Ernest Hemingway conjures images of a hunter, fisherman and globetrotter who lived with other expatriates in Paris in the 1920s and reported on the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s. For scholars, including University of the Pacific Assistant Professor Jeffrey Hole, the works of the Pulitzer...

The Haggin a special place for children this weekend
The Record - Friday, September 10, 2010

The Haggin Museum, in Stockton's Victory Park, has always been a welcoming place for children, and this weekend it is throwing its doors open wide to kids with two special events - an art adventure Saturday and the annual Teddy Bears' Picnic on Sunday.

Annual show brings outstanding artwork
The Record - Monday, August 30, 2010

Since he returned to the Stockton area five years ago, sculptor Jeff Drullard has been building a body of work. He began entering pieces in shows this year, and one of them, "Melting Ice," was selected for the Stockton Art League's Juried Exhibition and Sale that opens Thursday at The Haggin Museum.

The Haggin books inventive exhibit
The Record - Friday, August 20, 2010

The Haggin is publicizing its showcase early because curators want to recruit living Stockton inventors for the exhibition. And inventions, be they from workshops or dusty attics.

Haggin goes Gaga for style of Victorians
The Record - Monday, August 9, 2010

It was a night of masks and merriment at The Haggin Museum on Thursday when the "Bustles and Balustrades" exhibit spawned an event called "Steampunk/Goth/Lady Gaga Costume Party." The museum invited attendees to come dressed in extreme outfits, or make their own wild accessories at the party.

What do you like about life, living in our fair city?
The Record - Monday, August 9, 2010

OK, let's push rewind and try this again. Two years ago, during the sizzling days of summer and after a spate of "bad news" on the front page of The Record, we tried a little experiment in this space. We asked readers to submit via e-mail the things they love about living in Stockton.

If doors could talk
The Record - Tuesday, August 3, 2010

"It was a gorgeous building," said Tod Ruhstaller, The Haggin Museum's executive director and history curator. "Stockton and the people of San Joaquin County were justifiably proud."

Jewel of Stockton: The Haggin Museum
Our Stockton - Monday, August 2, 2010

I have lived in Stockton for nearly five years and, until last week, I had never visited the Haggin Museum. Words can’t express how much of a mistake it was to wait that long.

'Mudville' joy returns to Billy Hebert
The Record - Saturday, July 31, 2010

Kimberly Bray, the curator of archival collections at the Haggin Museum in Stockton, said historians from across the country contact her many times a year looking for a definitive answer to the question: Where is Mudville?

Chillin' at The Haggin
The Record - Monday, July 19, 2010

The Haggin Museum is a pretty cool place. In more ways than one. Especially on a 102-degree Sunday afternoon in July. The mummy might be gone, but J.C. Leyendecker's artwork has returned, helping sustain The Haggin as a local cultural and educational oasis.

Haggin hosts youth plein-air painting class
The Record - Thursday, July 08, 2010

Artist Marika Wolfe stood alongside Alayna Williams' easel at Victory Park on Wednesday morning. "Ali," she said to the 12-year-old, whose canvas was filling with a painting of roses, "Don't be afraid to put some yellows in your greens."

A Pariah Gets His Day
Wall Street Journal - Tuesday, July 06, 2010

What may be the year's surprise blockbuster exhibition, "The Spectacular Art of Gérôme" at the J. Paul Getty Museum, is also a jarring reminder that we need occasionally to reconsider our own relationship to art and taste. One of the 19th century's most celebrated French artists, Jean-Léon Gérôme has long been a painter dismissed for his over-the-top, melodramatic paintings.

Art review: 'The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme' @ J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles Times - Monday, June 21, 2010

If you liked "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" at the movie theater, you'll love "The Spectacular Art of Jean-Léon Gérôme" at the J. Paul Getty Museum. More than a century ago, Gérôme helped to invent the genre of sword-and-sandal epic, later peddled in the movies by everyone from Steve Reeves to Jake Gyllenhaal.

Alan Sanchez LIVE at The Haggin Museum
Good Day Sacramento - Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Guest Curator Jonathan Singer takes Good Day Sacramento's Alan Sanchez on a tour of Bustles & Balustrades