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We Welcome the Krannert Art Museum!

Krannert Art Museum
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Champaign, IL

Mission Statement
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion is a catalyst in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the extended community to support interdisciplinary collaboration and the synthesis of knowledge for the benefit of current and future generations. The museum is a cultural destination and a virtual presence that strives to enrich the human experience by inviting visitors to make connections through the visual arts between the past and present, between what is understood and what is unknown.

Exhibitions:
At Fifty: Krannert Art Museum, 1961–2011
  • Through December 30, 2011
At Fifty: Krannert Art Museum, 1961–2011

Makeba!

  • Through December 30, 2011
Makeba!

Jerusalem Saved! Inness and the Spiritual Landscape

  • Through May 13, 2012
Jerusalem Saved! Inness and the Spiritual Landscape

Astral Convertible Stage Set

  • Through December 30, 2011
Astral Convertible Stage Set

School of Art + Design Faculty Exhibition

  • Through December 30, 2011
  • Event
School of Art + Design Faculty Exhibition

Openings, Closings, and Events

New Exhibitons This Week



Huntsville, AL

Huntsville Museum of Art

  • In Company With Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows
    • Nov. 5, 2011 – Jan. 15, 2012
  • Herb Ritts: Celebrity and Fashion
    • Oct. 14, 2011 – Jan. 29, 2012
  • Southern Comfort: Regional Photography from the Collection
    • Oct. 2, 2011 - Feb. 26, 2012
  • Event
In Company With Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows

San Francisco, CA

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

  • Stanley Saitowitz: Judaica
    • Nov. 3, 2011 – Oct. 16, 2012
  • 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
Stanley Saitowitz: Judaica

Stanford, CA

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts

  • The Legend of Rex Slinkard
    • Nov. 9, 2011 – Feb. 26, 2012
  • 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
The Legend of Rex Slinkard

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
Cultural Collisions: Prints by Enrique Chagoya from the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation

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
Beauty Perceived: Photographs from JSerra Catholic High School, San Juan Capistrano

Pomona, CA

American Museum of Ceramic Art

  • COMMON GROUND: CERAMICS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 1945-1975
    • NOV. 12, 2011 – MARCH 31, 2012
  • Event
COMMON GROUND: CERAMICS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 1945-1975

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
Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George  Abrams Collection

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
Contested Object: Ninomiya Kinjiro and Rollins College’s Cultural Property Controversy

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
KATE BROOKS: IN THE LIGHT OF DARKNESS: A Photographer's Journey after 9/11

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
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO FEDERICO URIBE

Miami, FL

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University

  • Magdalena Fernández: 2iPM009
    • Through Jan. 8, 2012
  • The Florida Artist Series: Humberto Calzada: The Fire Next Time
    • Through Jan. 8, 2012
  • Tour de France/Florida: Contemporary Artists from France in Florida's Private Collections
    • Nov. 9, 2011 – March 18, 2012
  • color on roloc
    • Nov. 9, 2011 – Feb. 19, 2012
  • Events
color on roloc

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

  • Dave Cole: Flags of the World
    • Nov. 30, 2011 - March 4, 2012
  • 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
    • Closes Nov. 13!!!!
  • Events
The Art of War in East Asia

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
A Harlot’s Progress: Hogarth’s Comic History

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

  • Local Color: Photography in the South
    • Nov. 12, 2011 - Jan. 29, 2012
  • Preservation of Place: The Art of Edward Rice
    • Closes Nov. 20
  • Event
Local Color: Photography in the South

Indianapolis, IN

Indianapolis Museum of Art

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

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
    • Through 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 Mary Wilson Supremes Collection
    • Nov. 13, 2011 - Jan. 12, 2012
  • The Lawrence Lithography Workshop: Suites and Portfolios
    • Oct. 29, 2011- Feb.12, 2012
  • Make It POP!
    • Ongoing
The Mary Wilson Supremes Collection

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