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Huntsville, AL

Huntsville Museum of Art

  • Herb Ritts: Celebrity and Fashion
    • Closes Jan. 29, 2012
  • Southern Comfort: Regional Photography from the Collection
    • Closes Feb. 26, 2012
  • Event
Southern Comfort: Regional Photography from the Collection

San Francisco, CA

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

  • California Dreaming: Jewish Life in the Bay Area from the Gold Rush to the Present
    • Nov. 17, 2011 –Oct. 16, 2012
  • Stanley Saitowitz: Judaica
    • Nov. 3, 2011 – Oct. 16, 2012
  • Jacques Lipchitz: Hagar in the Desert
    • Ongoing
  • Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations
    • 2011 - 2012
  • StoryCorps StoryBooth
    • Ongoing
  • “Being Jewish”: A Bay Area Portrait
    • Ongoing
Jacques Lipchitz: Hagar in the Desert

Stanford, CA

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts

  • The Legend of Rex Slinkard
    • Closes Feb. 26, 2012
  • Expanding Views of Africa
    • Ongoing
  • Sequence, sculpture by distinguished American contemporary artist Richard Serra
    • Through 2016
  • Collection Highlights from Europe, Ancient Greece and Rome
    • Ongoing
  • Rodin Sculpture Garden
    • Ongoing
  • Go Figure!
    • Through August 5, 2012
  • Events
The Legend of Rex Slinkard

Monterey, CA

Monterey Museum of Art

  • MontereyNOW: Paul Roehl
    • Nov. 17, 2011– March 4, 2012
  • POP ICONS: ANDY WARHOL AND ROY LICHTENSTEIN
    • Oct. 29, 2011 – Feb. 26, 2012
    • MMA La Mirada
  • John Haley: Berkeley School Abstract Expressionist
    • Oct. 29, 2011 – Feb. 26, 2012
    • MMA La Mirada
  • Cultural Collisions: Prints by Enrique Chagoya from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation
    • Oct. 29, 2011 – Feb. 26, 2012
    • MMA La Mirada
  • FROM DAWN TO DUSK: GOTTARDO PIAZZONI’S FINAL MURALS
    • Through Dec. 2012
  • Events
Cultural Collisions: Prints by Enrique Chagoya from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

Torrance, CA

Torrance Art Museum

  • To Live and Paint in LA
    • Jan. 21 - March 10
  • Event
To Live and Paint in LA

Irvine, CA

The Irvine Museum

  • Gardens and Grandeur: Porcelains & Paintings by Franz A. Bischoff
    • Through March 8
Gardens and Grandeur: Porcelains & Paintings by Franz A. Bischoff

Laguna Beach, CA

Laguna Art Museum

  • Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964-1971
    • Closes Jan. 22!!!!
  • California Artists: Late nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries
    • Through April 29, 2012
  • Beauty Perceived: Photographs from JSerra Catholic High School, San Juan Capistrano
    • Closes Jan. 22!!!!
    • Young Artists Society Gallery
  • Events
California Artists: Late nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries

Greenwich, CT

Bruce Museum

  • Divided Light and Color: American Impressionist Landscapes
    • Closes Jan. 29, 2012
  • The Prints of Martin Lewis
    • Oct. 2, 2011 - Feb. 19, 2012
  • Bijoux: The Origins and Impact of Jewelry
    • Through March 11, 2012
  • Event
Divided Light and Color: American Impressionist Landscapes

Storrs, CT

The William Benton Museum of Art University of Connecticut

  • Women of New England: Dress from the Industrial Age, 1850–1900
    • Jan. 17 - March 11
  • Classical Mythology in Modern and Contemporary Art
    • Jan. 17 - March 11
  • Themes from the Collections: The 16th to the 21st Century
    • Jan. 17 - March 11
  • Event
Classical Mythology in Modern and Contemporary Art

New London, CT

Lyman Allyn Art Museum

  • Hello Manga!
    • Oct. 15, 2011 - March 17, 2012.
  • Skateboards: Art on the Ply
    • Sept. 17, 2011- Feb. 4, 2012.
  • Events
Hello Manga!

Miami, FL

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University

  • Qin Feng: West Wind East Water
    • Jan. 25 – March 18
  • Maria Thereza Negreiros: Offerings
    • Jan. 25 – April 1
  • Annette Turrillo: A Thought for the Planet / Un Pensamiento por el Planeta
    • Jan. 25 – April 1
  • Metropole/Colony: Africa and Italy
    • In the Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at the Frost Art Museum
    • Jan. 17 – April 15
  • Tour de France/Florida: Contemporary Artists from France in Florida's Private Collections
    • Through March 18
  • color on roloc
    • Through Feb. 19
  • Events
Annette Turrillo: A Thought for the Planet / Un Pensamiento por el Planeta

Miami Beach, FL

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

  • Mr Somebody & Mr Nobody Present The Amazing Afro Pop Up Shop
    • Through Feb. 4
  • LIBERTY, EQUALITY, AND FRATERNITY: From the Collection of the Centre national des art plastiques
    • Nov. 25, 2011- March 26, 2012
  • MANIFEST AND MUNDANE: SCENES OF MODERN AMERICA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
    • Sept. 8 - August 2012
  • Statistically Speaking: The Graphic Expression of Data
    • On view in the library vestibule through January 2012
  • LAWRENCE WEINER (MIRA & VE)
    • Ongoing installation
  • Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Mr Somebody & Mr Nobody Present The Amazing Afro Pop Up Shop

West Palm Beach, FL

Norton Museum of Art

  • Studio Glass: Works from the Museum Collection
    • Jan. 18 – May 27
  • Beth Lipman: A Still Life Installation
    • Jan. 18 – May 27
  • Corning Museum of Glass Hot Glass Road show
    • Jan. 18 – March 25
  • Cocktail Culture
    • Dec. 15, 2011 - March 11, 2012
  • Jenny Saville
    • Nov. 30, 2011 - March 4, 2012
  • The Emperor’s Orders: Designs from the Qianlong Imperial Workshop (1736 -1796)
    • Oct. 22, 2011 - Feb. 19, 2012
  • Event

Atlanta, GA

Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University

  • Mandala: Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism
    • Jan. 21 - April 15
Mandala: Sacred Circle in Tibetan Buddhism

Athens, GA

Georgia Museum of Art

  • Will Henry Stevens
    • Jan. 21 - March 25
  • Georgia Bellflowers: The Furniture of Henry Eugene Thomas
    • Jan. 14 - April 15
  • Dale Nichols: Transcending Regionalism
    • Dec. 17, 2011 - Feb. 27, 2012
  • Bill Viola: Collected Work, 1977–80
    • Dec. 3, 2011 - Feb. 19, 2012
  • Lycett China
    • Dec. 3, 2011 - March 04, 2012
  • Introduction to the Centers
    • Dec. 3, 2011 - March 04, 2012
  • Images of the Midwest from the Collection
    • Dec. 17, 2011 - Feb. 27, 2012
  • Quiet Spirit, Skillful Hand: The Graphic Work of Clare Leighton
    • Nov. 19, 2011 - Feb. 3, 2012
  • All Creatures Great and Small
    • Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Atlanta, Georgia
    • Through April 20, 2012
Will Henry Stevens

Milledgeville, GA

Georgia State College & University Museum
  • Pretty/Much Collective + Not About Beauty
    • Jan. 18 - Feb. 15
Pretty/Much Collective + Not About Beauty

Augusta, GA

Morris Museum of Art

  • Working South: Paintings and Sketches by Mary Whyte
    • DEC. 3, 2011 – MAR. 11, 2012
  • Local Color: Photography in the South
    • Nov. 12, 2011 - Jan. 29, 2012
  • Event
Local Color: Photography in the South

Indianapolis, IN

Indianapolis Museum of Art

  • Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection
    • Dec. 2, 2011 - Feb. 12, 2012
  • Universe Is Flux: The Art of Tawara Yūsaku
    • Nov. 11, 2011 - April 1, 2012
  • Brian McCutcheon: Out of this World
    • Sept. 9, 2011 - March 4, 2012
  • FLOW: Can You See the River?
    • installlation
    • Sept. 22 -
  • Material World
    • Through February 5, 2012
  • Events
FLOW: Can You See the River?

Ames, IA

University Museums
Iowa State University

  • Salon to Modern Gallery: Paintings from the Permanent Collection
    • January 10-August 3, 2012 
  • French Art Nouveau: From the Permanent Collection
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • January 10-August 3, 2012 
  • The Age of Brilliance: Cut Glass from the Permanent Collection
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • January 10-August 3, 2012 
  • Relationships: Spheres of Influence
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • January 10, 2012 to May 6, 2012
  • A Fragile Thread of Glass
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • January 10-August 3, 2012 
  • Priscilla Sage: Contemporary Sculpture
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • January 10-August 3, 2012 
  • Salon to Modern Gallery: Paintings from the Permanent Collection
    • January 10-August 3, 2012 
  • N. C. Wyeth: America In the Making
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • January 10-August 3, 2012 
  • Iowa City & Keota Glass
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • January 10-August 3, 2012 
  • Be It Enacted: Legislation and the Farm House
    • Farm House Museum
    • Through May 2012
  • Commissioning a Collection: 75 Years of Public Art
    • Christian Petersen Art Museum: Morrill Hall
    • Through May 2012
  • Realties: The Lyric Sculpture of William King
    • Through August 2012
    • Anderson Sculpture Garden, around Morrill Hall
  • Events
Relationships: Spheres of Influence

University of Iowa Museum of Art
  • Eye on UI Faculty
    • Second Floor North Reading Room, UI Main Library
    • Spring 2012 Semester
Eye on UI Faculty

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