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Huntsville, AL

Huntsville Museum of Art

  • Herb Ritts: Celebrity and Fashion
    • Oct. 14, 2011 – Jan. 29, 2012
  • Southern Comfort: Regional Photography from the Collection
    • Oct. 2, 2011 - Feb. 26, 2012
  • Blood, Thread & Tears: World War II Quilts
    • Closes Nov. 7
Blood, Thread & Tears: World War II Quilts

San Francisco, CA

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

  • Houdini: Art and Magic
    • Oct. 2, 2011 - Jan. 16, 2012
  • Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations
    • 2011 - 2012
  • StoryCorps StoryBooth
    • Ongoing
  • “Being Jewish”: A Bay Area Portrait
    • Ongoing
Houdini: Art and Magic

Stanford, CA

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts

  • Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation 1876–1936
    • Oct. 5 – Jan. 1, 2012
  • Rodin and the Dancing Body
    • Oct. 5 – Jan. 1, 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
Go Figure!

Monterey, CA

Monterey Museum of Art

  • 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
  • Monterey Masterworks: Paintings from the City of Monterey Collection
    • Sept. 30, 2011 - Jan. 8, 2012
  • MontereyNOW: Greg Mettler
    • July 21 – Nov. 6
  • FROM DAWN TO DUSK: GOTTARDO PIAZZONI’S FINAL MURALS
    • Through Dec. 2012
    • MMA La Mirada
  • The Art of California, 1880 to the Present
    • Closes Oct. 23!!!!
    • MMA Pacific Street
  • California Artists and Portraiture
    • Through Jan. 8, 2012
    • MMA Pacific Street
  • Adams & Weston and the Masters of California Photography
    • Through Jan. 8, 2012
    • MMA Pacific Street
  • Events
POP ICONS: ANDY WARHOL AND ROY LICHTENSTEIN

Torrance, CA

Torrance Art Museum

  • The Unseen
    • Closes Oct. 29!!!!
  • CITIES: visionary places
    • Closes Oct. 29!!!!
CITIES: visionary places

Laguna Beach, CA

Laguna Art Museum

  • Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California,
    1964-1971
    • Oct. 30, 2011 – Jan. 22, 2012
  • California Artists: Late nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries
    • Oct. 24, 2011 - April 29, 2012
  • Beauty Perceived: Photographs from JSerra Catholic High School, San Juan Capistrano
    • Oct. 30, 2011 – Jan. 22, 2012
    • Young Artists Society Gallery
  • Events
Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California,

Pomona, CA

American Museum of Ceramic Art

  • Exposed: Sculpture and Promised Gifts from AMOCA’s Permanent Collection
    • Closes October 29!!!!
Exposed: Sculpture and Promised Gifts from AMOCA’s Permanent Collection

Irvine, FL

The Irvine Museum

  • California Rhapsody: Early Artists of the Bohemian Club
    • Closes Nov. 5
California Rhapsody: Early Artists of the Bohemian Club

Greenwich, CT

Bruce Museum

  • Divided Light and Color: American Impressionist Landscapes
    • Oct. 29, 2011 - Jan. 29, 2012
  • The Prints of Martin Lewis
    • Oct. 2, 2011 - Feb. 19, 2012
  • Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection
    • Sept. 24, 2011 – January 8, 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

  • In Retrospect: Art Department Faculty Emeriti, 1961 to 2001
    • Oct. 29 – Dec. 18
  • Barkley L. Hendricks: Some Like It Hot
    • Oct. 25 – Dec. 18
  • Project 35
    • August 30 - Dec. 18
  • Event
In Retrospect: Art Department Faculty Emeriti, 1961 to 2001

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!

Washington, DC

Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens

  • Wedding Belles: Bridal Fashions from the Marjorie Merriweather Post Family, 1874-1958
    • June 18, 2011 - January 1, 2012
  • Event
Wedding Belles: Bridal Fashions from the Marjorie Merriweather Post Family, 1874-1958

Winter Park, FL

Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College

  • The Very Queer Portraits of Heyd Fontenot
    • Oct. 22 – Jan. 8, 2012
  • Synchronicity: Studio Faculty Biennial Exhibition 2011
    • Oct. 22, 2011 - Jan. 15, 2012
  • A Room of One’s Own: Women Artists from the Permanent Collection
    • Oct. 22, 2011 - Jan. 15, 2012
  • Contested Object: Ninomiya Kinjiro and Rollins College’s Cultural Property Controversy
    • Oct. 22, 2011 - Jan. 15, 2012
  • Event
Synchronicity: Studio Faculty Biennial Exhibition 2011

Daytona Beach, FL

The Southeast Museum of Photography

  • KHALID HADI: PORTRAITS from AFGHANISTAN
    • Sept. 9 - Dec. 16
  • KATE BROOKS: IN THE LIGHT OF DARKNESS: A Photographer's Journey after 9/11
    • Oct. 21, 2011 - Feb. 12, 2012
  • DOUGLAS KIRKLAND: RETROSPECTIVE: Fifty Years of Photography
    • Oct. 21, 2011 - Feb. 12, 2012
  • WONDERS: Images of Florida’s Forests: Stuart Rome
    • LYONIA GALLERY
    • Sept. 26, 2011 – March 19, 2012
  • Events
KHALID HADI: PORTRAITS from AFGHANISTAN

Boca Raton, FL

Boca Raton Museum Of Art

  • THE WORLD ACCORDING TO FEDERICO URIBE
    • Sept. 21 - Dec. 4
  • OUTSIDER VISIONS: Self-taught Southern Artists of the 20th Century
    • Sept. 21, 2011 -
      January 8, 2012
  • Portraits from the Permanent Collection
    • Sept. 6, 2011- May 13, 2012
  • Events
Portraits from the Permanent Collection

Miami Beach, FL

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

  • 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
Statistically Speaking: The Graphic Expression of Data

West Palm Beach, FL

Norton Museum of Art

  • The Emperor’s Orders: Designs from the Qianlong Imperial Workshop (1736 -1796)
    • Oct. 22, 2011 - Feb. 19, 2012
  • Recent Acquisitions: Photography
    • Oct. 1, 2011 – Jan. 1, 2012
  • The Art of War in East Asia
    • Through Nov. 13
  • Events
Recent Acquisitions: Photography

Atlanta, GA

Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University

  • A Harlot’s Progress: Hogarth’s Comic History
    • October 1 - December 4
  • Life and Death in the Pyramid Age: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy
    • Sept. 10 - Dec. 11
  • Divine Intervention: African Art and Religion
    • Through Dec. 4
  • Events
Divine Intervention: African Art and Religion

Athens, GA

Georgia Museum of Art

  • Edmund Lewandowski: Precisionism and Beyond
    • Sept. 10 - Dec. 4
  • American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print
    • Closes Nov. 6
  • Hot Metal and Cool Paper: The Black Art of Making Books
    • Closes Nov. 6
  • Introduction to the Centers
    • Closes Nov. 6
  • All Creatures Great and Small
    • Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Atlanta, Georgia
    • Through April 20, 2012
Introduction to the Centers

Milledgeville, GA
  • The Fluidity of Gender: Sculpture by Linda Stein
    • Closes Nov 9
The Fluidity of Gender: Sculpture by Linda Stein

Augusta, GA

Morris Museum of Art

  • Down South: Paintings by Art Rosenbaum, Photographs by Margo Newmark Rosenbaum
    • Closes Nov. 6
  • Preservation of Place: The Art of Edward Rice
    • August 27 - Nov. 20
  • Event

Indianapolis, IN

Indianapolis Museum of Art

  • FLOW: Can You See the River?
    • installlation
    • Sept. 22 -
  • Brian McCutcheon: Out of this World
    • Sept. 9, 2011 - March 4, 2012
  • Venetian Views: American Works on Paper
    • June 3 - Nov. 27
  • Material World
    • Through February 5, 2012
  • Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria
    • July 8, 2011 - Jan. 16, 2012
  • Selections from Project 35
    • Closes Oct. 30
  • The Old Masters
    • Through December 31
  • Events
Venetian Views: American Works on Paper

Ames, IA

University Museums
Iowa State University

  • French Art Nouveau: From the Permanent Collection
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • August 23 – Dec. 30
  • The Age of Brilliance: Cut Glass from the Permanent Collection
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • August 23 – Dec. 30
  • Relationships: Interstitial Connections
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • August 23 – Dec. 30
  • A Fragile Thread of Glass
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • August 23 – Dec. 30
  • Priscilla Sage: Contemporary Sculpture
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • August 23 – Dec. 30
  • Ulfert Wilke: Words To Be Seen
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • August 23 – Dec. 30
  • N. C. Wyeth: America In the Making
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • August 23 – Dec. 30
  • Iowa City & Keota Glass
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • August 23 – Dec. 30
  • Subject to Change: Art and Design in the Twentieth Century
    • Christian Petersen Art Museum: Morrill Hall
    • August 22 – December 16
  • Commissioning a Collection: 75 Years of Public Art
    • Christian Petersen Art Museum: Morrill Hall
    • August 22 – December 16
  • Realties: The Lyric Sculpture of William King
    • Scupture Garden
    • August 22, 2011 – May 2012
  • Be It Enacted: Legislation and the Farm House
    • Farm House Museum
    • August 22, 2011 – May 2012
  • Events

Iowa City, IA

University of Iowa Museum of Art

  • Graphic Language: The Art and Literature of Comics
    • Sept. 24 - Dec. 11
  • Labyrinths and Other Daily Exits: The Art of Tom Aprile
    • Fall 2011 Semester
  • Events
Labyrinths and Other Daily Exits: The Art of Tom Aprile

Logan, KS

The Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum

  • K is for Kansas
    • Oct. 28 - Dec. 18
  • Considering the Common Place: Prairie Towns Through the Lens of Bob Regier
    • Oct. 28 - Dec. 18
K is for Kansas

Wichita, KS

Wichita Art Museum

  • The Lawrence Lithography Workshop: Suites and Portfolios
    • Oct. 29, 2011- Feb.12, 2012
  • Make It POP!
    • Ongoing
The Lawrence Lithography Workshop: Suites and Portfolios

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