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Press Release 10-20-10: Openings, Closings, and Events plus Reminders
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Museum from DC Joins!
Lyman Allyn Art Museum

Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
Washington, D.C.

Mission:
To enlighten and engage visitors with an experience inspired by founder Marjorie Merriweather Post’s passion for excellence, gracious hospitality, and intent to preserve and share the beauty and history of her collections, gardens, and estate.

Collections:
One of the premiere art collector’s museums in the United States, Hillwood’s collection includes the most comprehensive assemblage of 18th- and 19th-century Russian imperial art outside of Russia and one of the country’s most notable collections of French decorative art.

Upcoming Exhibition:
  • A Photographic Journey of the Ambassador’s Daughter: Moscow, 1937-38
    • Opens Oct. 21, 2010 - May 29, 2011
A Photographic Journey of the Ambassador’s Daughter: Moscow, 1937-38
Newsletter features: 33 new exhibitions that have opened in the past week, or will open this coming week, plus 7 exhibitions that will close this week!
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Openings, Closings, and Events
The newsletter is now divided into three pages:

Alabama to Kentucky - page 1

Click here for page 2 - Louisiana to North Carolina

Click here for page 3 - Ohio to Wyoming


Huntsville, AL

Huntsville Museum of Art

  • Encounters: Mark Messersmith
    • Oct. 3, 2010 – Jan. 16, 2011
  • Turning Wood into Art, The Jane and Arthur Mason Collection
    • Opens Oct. 3 - Dec 5
  • We Hate Jackson Pollock: Beyond Abstract
    • Through Feb. 27, 2011
  • Events
Encounters: Mark Messersmith

San Francisco, CA

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

  • Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations
    • August 26, 2010 – March 22, 2011
  • Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)
    • Closes October 26!!!!
  • As It Is Written: Project 304,805
    (The Torah Project)
    • Through Fall 2010
  • “Being Jewish”: A Bay Area Portrait
    • Ongoing
  • StoryCorps StoryBooth
    • Through November 7

Stanford, CA

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts

  • Vodoun/Vodounon: Portraits of Initiates
    • Oct. 13, 2010 – March 20, 2011
  • Longing for Sea Change: Odile and Odette
    • June 16 – January 9, 2011
  • Go Figure!
    • Sept. 1 - August 5, 2012
  • Collection Highlights from Europe 1500 - 1800, Ancient Greece and Rome
    • ongoing
  • Mami_wata1Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas
    • August 4, 2010 - January 2, 2011
  • Event

Irvine, CA

The Irvine Museum

  • Saving Paradise
    • Closes October 23!!!!
Saving Paradise

Laguna Beach, CA

Laguna Art Museum

  • Artists in California, Early Twentieth Century: From the Permanent Collection
    • Closes October 24!!!!
Artists in California, Early Twentieth Century: From the Permanent Collection

Pomona, CA

American Museum of Ceramic Arts

  • Peregrinación: Mexican Folk Ceramics
    • Oct. 9, 2010 - Jan. 8, 2011.
  • Event
Peregrinación: Mexican Folk Ceramics

New London, CT

Lyman Allyn Art Museum

  • American Stories
    • Ongoing
  • Members Collect:  The Thrill of the Chase
    • Opens Oct. 17, 2010 -March 20, 2011
  • Event
Members Collect:  The Thrill of the Chase

Daytona Beach, FL

The Southeast Museum of Photography

  • Rwanda/Intended Consequences – Jonathan Torgovnik
    • September 4 – Nov. 7
  • Home Stills – Bastienne Schmidt
    • September 4 – Nov. 7
  • I still do – Judith fox
    • Opens Sept. 25– Dec. 16
  • Photographs - Elaine ling
    • Opens Sept. 25– Dec. 16
  • Events
I still do – Judith fox

Winter Park , FL

Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College

  • MASTER/Plan: Visionary Architects and Their Utopian Worlds
    • Sept. 11 - Dec. 23
  • Robert Motherwell and Jasper Johns: Poetic Works as Metaphor
    • Sept. 11 - Dec. 23
  • REMIX: Old and New Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection
    • Sept. 11 - Dec. 23
  • Event
JASPER JOHNS, Hatching Pattern, 1976, aquatint and drypoint

West Palm Beach, FL

Norton Museum of Art

  • Artist Nick Cave’s Soundsuits
    • Oct. 9, 2010 – Jan. 9, 2011
  • On the Silk Road and High Seas: Chinese Ceramics, Culture and Commerce
    • August 21–November 28, 2010
  • Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait from the National Gallery of Art
    • Sept. 4, 2010 - Feb. 8, 2011
Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait from the National Gallery of Art

Miami, FL

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University

  • Embracing Modernity: Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction
    • Oct. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011
  • Florida Artists Series: Selections from Anomie 1492-2006: Arnold Mesches
    • Oct. 13 - Dec. 5
  • Sequentia: Xavier Cortada
    • Oct. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011
  • La Habana Moderna
    • In The Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at The Frost Art Museum
    • Oct. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011
  • Event
Sequentia: Xavier Cortada

Miami Beach, FL

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

  • Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection
    • Ongoing
  • Advertising for Health
    • Ongoing
  • Speed Limits
    • September 17 -
  • Event

Atlanta, GA

Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University

  • Wondrous Transformations: Photographs by Michael A. Smith
    • Through Jan. 16, 2011
  • Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an
    • August 28 – December 5
  • Events

Augusta, GA

Morris Museum of Art

  • Helen M. Turner: The Woman's Point of View
    • Oct. 9, 2010 – Jan. 16, 2011
  • Wolf Kahn Pastels
    • Sept. 11–Nov. 7
  • Events
Helen M. Turner: The Woman's Point of View

Indianapolis, IN

Indianapolis Museum of Art

  • Andy Warhol Enterprises
    • Oct. 10, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011
  • Ball-Nogues Studio: Gravity's Loom
    • Sept. 3, 2010 - March 6, 2011
  • Drawings to Prints
    • July 3, 2010 - January 2, 2011
  • Body Unbound: Contemporary Couture from the IMA's Collection
    • April 10, 2010 - Jan. 30, 2011
  • Shots in the Dark: Photos by Weegee the Famous
    • April 17, 2010-January 23, 2011
  • Events
Body Unbound: Contemporary Couture from the IMA's Collection

Wichita, KS

Wichita Art Museum

  • Bernard Chaet: Paintings From the 1960's Through the Present
    • Oct. 10, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011
  • Community Favorites
    • Through Nov. 30
Bernard Chaet: Paintings From the 1960's Through the Present

Paducah, KS

The Yeiser Art Center

  • Silence is Never as Golden as When it’s Gray Paintings by Robert Bean
    • Oct. 16 – Nov. 20
  • YAC Artist of the Month: Paul Lorenz
    • Oct. 16 – Nov. 20
  • Event
YAC Artist of the Month: Paul Lorenz

Louisville, KY

Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft

  • PLANES, TRAINS AND SUPERHEROES
    • Oct. 23 - Dec. 31
  • Rooted in Place
    • Oct. 23 - Dec. 31
  • Healing Creatively
    Art Therapy Experiences from Kosair Children’s Hospital
    • Oct. 23 - Dec. 3
  • Dia de los Muertos “Day of the Dead” Public Altar Installation
    • October 12 – November 12
  • Events
Louisville Visual Art Association
  • Reflections on a Louisville Landmark: 150 years of Louisville Water Company
    • Closes Oct. 22!!!!
  • Events
Reflections on a Louisville Landmark: 150 years of Louisville Water Company
The Speed Art Museum
  • Andy Warhol: Myths
    • Closes October 31
  • European and American Art, 1800-1960
    • Extended
  • Pursuing the Masterpiece: Five Recent Acquisitions
    • Sept. 12 – Dec. 31
  • Events

Andy Warhol: Myths


Lexington, KY

The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky

  • The 2010-11 Robert C. May Photography Lecture Series: Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao
    • Oct. 9 - Nov. 14
  • HOOFBEATS and HEARTBEATS: The Horse in American Art
    • August 22 - Nov. 21
  • Event
The 2010-11 Robert C. May Photography Lecture Series: Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao

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