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Press Release 10-27-10: Openings, Closings, and Events plus Reminders
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Lyman Allyn Art Museum

About the Ellen Noël Art Museum
For 25 years, the Ellen Noël Art Museum has provided residents of the Permian Basin with access to art of enduring quality for the culturally diverse audience of our more than 100,000 square mile region, through changing exhibitions with a cross-cultural focus, the growth of a Permanent Collection of American Art since 1860, collaboration with regional schools, colleges, and Universities, and by providing art classes, workshops, lectures and family activities.

Upcoming Exhibitions:
  • British Paintings 1550-1800: From the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
    • Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 9, 2011
British Paintings 1550-1800: From the Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
  • The Art of English Beadwork from the 19th Century
    • Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 9, 2011
The Art of English Beadwork from the 19th Century
Newsletter features: 19 new exhibitions that have opened in the past week, or will open this coming week, plus 23 exhibitions that will close this week!
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Openings, Closings, and Events
The newsletter is now divided into three pages:

California to Kentucky - page 1

Click here for page 2 - Louisiana to North Carolina

Click here for page 3 - Ohio to Wyoming


San Francisco, CA

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

  • Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker
    • October 29, 2010 - March 29, 2011
  • Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations
    • August 26, 2010 – March 22, 2011
  • StoryCorps StoryBooth
    • Ongoing
  • As It Is Written: Project 304,805
    (The Torah Project)
    • Through March 29, 2011
  • “Being Jewish”: A Bay Area Portrait
    • Ongoing
Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker

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

Torrance, CA

Torrance Art Museum

  • Baker’s Dozen #2
    • Closes Nov. 6
Baker's Dozen

Irvine, CA

The Irvine Museum

  • All Things Bright & Beautiful
    • Nov. 10, 2010 - June 11, 2011
All Things Bright & Beautiful

Laguna Beach, CA

Laguna Art Museum

  • John Paul Jones
    • Oct.31, 2010 - Jan. 23, 2011
  • E. Roscoe Shrader
    • Oct.31, 2010 - Jan. 23, 2011
  • Sean Duffy: Searcher
    • Oct.31, 2010 - Jan. 23, 2011
  • Masterstrokes: Selections from Laguna Plein Air Painters Association Signature Members
    • Oct.31, 2010 - Jan. 23, 2011
  • Events
John Paul Jones

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

Washington, D.C.

Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens

  • A Photographic Journey of the Ambassador’s Daughter: Moscow, 1937-38
    • Oct. 21, 2010 - May 29, 2011
A Photographic Journey of the Ambassador’s Daughter: Moscow, 1937-38

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
Rwanda/Intended Consequences – Jonathan Torgovnik

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
  • John Storrs: Machine-Age Modernist
    • October 2, 2010 – January 2, 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
Embracing Modernity: Venezuelan Geometric Abstraction

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
Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an

Augusta, GA

Morris Museum of Art

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

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
Shots in the Dark: Photos by Weegee the Famous

Logan, KS

The Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum

  • The Science of SuperCroc
    • Closes Nov. 7
Uncommon Threads : Stitched Artwork by Margaret Cusack

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
Silence is Never as Golden as When it’s Gray

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
Equine Divine
Louisville Visual Art Association
  • Louisville Visual Art Association and University of Louisville Hite Art Institute 2010 Art Auction.
    • October 28-November 12
  • Events
Louisville Visual Art Association and University of Louisville Hite Art Institute 2010 Art Auction.
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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