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Openings, Closings, and Events

Memphis Brooks Art Museum
  • Art and Scandal: The McCall Purchase
    • Through May 13
  • Peaceful Warriors: Aim for Change
    • Jan 21 - Mar 25
  • Armed + Dangerous: Art of the Arsenal
    • Through Mar 11
  • Events
Peaceful Warriors: Aim for Change
Dixon Gallery and Gardens
  • Rembrandt, Rubens, and the Golden Age of Painting from the Speed Art Museum
    • Jan. 22 - April 15
  • Selections from the Kattner Collection of American Painting
    • Jan. 22 - April 15
  • Event
Rembrandt, Rubens, and the Golden Age of Painting from the Speed Art Museum
The Pink Palace Mansion
  • Head to Toe
    • Through March 26
Head to Toe
The Pink Palace Museum
  • The Bison: American Icon
    • Jan. 28 - May 25
  • The Highsmith Collection of Indian pottery
    • Ongoing
  • Greatest Little Show on Earth
    Clyde Parke minature circus
    • Ongoing
  • Events
The Bison: American Icon

Clarksville, TN

Customs House Museum and Cultural Center

  • Assemblages: The Art of Sandra Paynter Washburn
    • Jan. 11 - March 11
  • Bold Expressions: Paintings by Larry Martin
    • Jan. 4 - March 2
  • Richard LeFevre: The Civil War Series
    • Through April 1
Assemblages: The Art of Sandra Paynter Washburn

Nashville, TN

Cheekwoood Botanical Garden &
Museum of Art
  • Visions of the American West: Masterpieces Exhibition from Buffalo Bill Historical Center
    • Through March 4, 2012
  • William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit
    • Ongoing
  • The Scholastic Art Competition & Exhibition
    • Jan, 27 - Feb. 19
  • Events
The Scholastic Art Competition & Exhibition

Frist Center for the Visual Arts

  • A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery
    • Through Feb. 5, 2012
  • Tracey Snelling. "Woman on the Run," 2008–201
    • Through Feb. 5, 2012
  • Young Tennessee Artists Exhibition
    • Through March 27, 2012
  • Events
Connecting Cultures: Children’s Stories from Across the Worldes from the Musée d'Orsay
The Parthenon
  • WISH YOU WERE HERE: CULTURAL TOURISM AND THE PARTHENON
    • Jan. 28 - May 19
  • PURLIEU: SHARON CHARNEY & ANNE WILLIAMS
    • Through April 28
  • ORIGINS OF NASHVILLE’S PARTHENON
    New permanent exhibition exploring the history of Nashville’s beloved landmark
    • Ongoing
  • Events
WISH YOU WERE HERE: CULTURAL TOURISM AND THE PARTHENON
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
  • THE ARTS OF JAPAN
    • Jan. 12 -Feb. 26
  • Event
THE ARTS OF JAPAN

Sewanee, TN

University Art Gallery Sewanee: The University of the South & The Carlos Gallery

  • The Gathering, a solo exhibition of oil paintings by Robert Sparrow Jones, Assistant Professor of Painting at Piedmont College, Demorest, Georgia.
    • Jan. 18 – Feb. 11
    • Carlos Gallery
  • Bryan LeBoeuf: Fight and Flight
    • Through Feb. 12, 2012
    • University Art Gallery
The Gathering, a solo exhibition of oil paintings by Robert Sparrow Jones, Assistant Professor of Painting at Piedmont College, Demorest, Georgia.

Chattanooga, TN

Creative Discovery Museum

  • CHILDREN OF HANGZHOU: CONNECTING WITH CHINA
    • Jan. 14 - May 13
CHILDREN OF HANGZHOU: CONNECTING WITH CHINA
Hunter Museum of American Art
  • Good Design Stories from Herman Miller
    • Jan 14th - Mar 4th
Good Design Stories from Herman Miller

Oak Ridge, TN

Children's Museum of Oak Ridge
  • Children's Art: A World Apart, Children's Painting from Oak Ridge's Sister City, Nakamachi, Japan
    • Through March 18
Children's Art: A World Apart, Children's Painting from Oak Ridge's Sister City, Nakamachi, Japan

Knoxville, TN

The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture
  • National Juried Exhibition of 2011
    • Closes Jan. 27!!!!
  • New Group exhibition
    • Closes Jan. 27!!!!
  • Arts in the Airport
    • Oct. 28, 2011 – April 19, 2012
New Group exhibition
The Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • Redefining the Multiple: Thirteen Japanese Printmakers
Redefining the Multiple: Thirteen Japanese Printmakers, Toshinao Yoshioka
Girl Scout Museum
  • The year 2012 is the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouting in the United States! Special exhibit including a 100 year timeline broken into 25 year segments.
The year 2012  is the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouting in the United States! Special exhibit including a 100 year timeline broken into 25 year segments.
Knoxville Museum of Art
  • After the Fall
    • Nov. 4, 2011 - Feb. 5, 2012.
  • Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee
    • Ongoing
  • SRitta Elementary School
    • Education Gallery
    • Closes Jan. 29!!!!
  • Event
Liquid Light: Watercolors from the KMA Collection
Frank H. McClung Museum,
University of Tennessee
  • Continents Collide: The Appalachians and the Himalayas
    • Jan. 14 - May 20
Continents Collide: The Appalachians and the Himalayas

Johnson City, TN

Slocumb Galleries ETSU

  • Revelation: Two-Man Show by Donna Wilt and John Hilton
    • Tipton Gallery
    • Jan. 23 - Feb. 3
  • Dreaming Day
    • Closes January 27!!!!
Revelation: Two-Man Show by Donna Wilt and John Hilton

Odessa, TX

Ellen Noël Art Museum

  • Downstream: Paintings by Joyce Howell
    • Jan. 20 - March 11
  • From the Pueblo to West Texas: Paintings by René Alvarado
    • Closes Jan. 29!!!!
From the Pueblo to West Texas: Paintings by René Alvarado

Midland, TX

Museum of the Southwest

  • Linda Vallejo’s A Prayer for the Earth
    • Jan. 28 – March 18

Fort Worth, TX

Kimbell Art Museum
  • Nicolas Poussin's Sacrament of Ordination (Christ Presenting the Keys to Saint Peter)
    • On view as of Sept. 14, 2011.
  • Michelangelo’s First Painting: The Torment of Saint Anthony
    • Ongoing
  • European Art
    • South Gallery
    • Current
  • Asian Art
    • North Gallery
    • Current
  • Pre-Columbian and African Art
    • East Gallery
  • Events
European Art

Dallas, TX

Dallas Museum of Art
  • Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments
    • Jan. 15– April 15
  • The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk
    • Nov. 13, 2011 - Feb. 12, 2012
  • Form/Unformed: Design from 1960 to the Present
    • Tower Gallery
    • Closes Jan. 29!!!!
  • Encountering Space
    Center for Creative Connections
    • Through Aug. 31, 2012
  • Events

Form/Unformed: Design from 1960 to the Present

The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC)
  • Eric Eley: Coincident Disruption
    • Jan. 14 - Feb. 18
  • Marilyn Jolly, Melba Northum, Susan Sitzes: Transience: Imperfect, Impermanent, Incomplete
    • Jan. 14 - Feb. 18
  • Walter Nelson: Graffiti on Aspen Trees – Nature vs. Man
    • Jan. 14 - Feb. 18
  • LIZ LONDON: SEEKING INFINITY
    • Mercantile Coffee House
    • Jan. 19 - Feb. 25
  • Events
Walter Nelson: Graffiti on Aspen Trees – Nature vs. Man

Charlottesville, VA

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVa

  • ill-like
    • January 24 -
  • Collection's permanent exhibit for the 2011-12 academic year
  • Event
ill-like

Williamsburg, VA

DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg
  • "A True North Britain": The Furniture of John Shearer, 1790-1820
    • Through March 2012
  • Fashion Accessories from Head to Toe
    • Through Dec. 31, 2012
  • Dollars, Farthings & Fables: Money and Medals from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection
    • November 25, 2010 -
  • Rebuilding Charlton's Coffeehouse
  • Conservation: Where Art and Science Meet
    • Through May 31, 2012.
  • Revolution in Taste
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Masterworks
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Treasure Quest: Great Silver Collections from Colonial Williamsburg
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Identifying Ceramics: The Who, What and Ware
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Musical Instruments
    Ongoing exhibit
  • Selections from the Henry H. Weldon Collection
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Lock, Stock, and Barrel
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Artistry and Ingenuity
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Event
Treasure Quest: Great Silver Collections from Colonial Williamsburg

Wausau, WI

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum

  • Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney
    • Jan. 28 - April 7
Dinotopia: The Fantastical Art of James Gurney

Racine, WI

Racine Art Museum

  • A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes
    • Jan. 29 - May 27
  • Watercolor Wisconsin 2011
    • RAM's Wustum Museum of Fine Arts
    • Through April 21, 2012
  • To Wear or Not to Wear
    • Through Feb. 19, 2012
  • Terra Nova: Polymer Art at the Crossroads
    • Through Feb. 5, 2012
  • Kim Cridler: My Wisconsin Home in RAM’s Windows on Fifth Gallery
    • Through July 22, 2012
  • Events

A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes


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