Press Release:12-23-09

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Press Release 12-23-09: Openings, Closings, and Events plus Reminders
Newsletter is now so large it can not be sent by email and is built into the site.

There are now museums from twenty-one states on our site!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

WI & MI Museums Join!

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum
Wausau, WI

Mission Statement
The mission of the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum is to enhance lives through art. Therefore, the Museum will continually strive for excellence in providing audiences with quality art experiences through permanent collections, changing exhibitions, and education programs.

Exhibitions:

In Search of Norman Rockwell’s America
- Through January 24, 2010
- Did Norman Rockwell paint an idealized version of America, or was he painting what he really saw? With camera in hand, award-winning photojournalist Kevin Rivoli went in search of real “Rockwell moments.” Thirty-five of his slice-of-life images will hang side-by-side thirty-five similarly evocative Rockwell paintings, drawings, and artist’s prints. Find Norman Rockwell’s America this winter in the heart of Wisconsin.

In Search of Norman Rockwell’s America

Muskegon Museum of Art
Muskegon, MI

Mission & Vision Statement
The Muskegon Museum of Art, founded on a tradition of aesthetic excellence, is committed to fostering the life-long study and appreciation of the visual arts by strengthening, preserving, and exhibiting its collections; offering a wide range of traditional and contemporary exhibitions; stimulating learning and creativity through diverse public and educational programming; and enhancing community involvement and support in a safe, accessible, and welcoming environment.

Exhibitions:

Edward Curtis: Selections from The North American Indian portfolio
- Nov. 5, 2009 – Jan. 10 &
  Jan. 14 – April 10, 2010
BIRDS IN ART
- Through February 14, 2010
PATTERNS OF FLIGHT: THE ART OF CATHERINE McCLUNG
- Through Feb. 7, 2010
Jan. Events

Edward Curtis: Selections from The North American Indian portfolio

This holiday season check out the Events page to see the many different activities for indviduals, families and kids going on at the museums in your area!

The museum shops are great places to look for that special gift. Most do mail order if you need something shipped.

Information about how your museum can be listed FREE on Art Museum Touring.

Openings, Closings, and Events
See Exhibitions page to see a sample photos of current and upcoming shows.

Huntsville, AL Huntsville Museum of Art *Paintings from the Reign of Victoria: The Royal Holloway Collection* Nov. 22, 2009 - Jan. 31, 2010 Reflections of Reality: Great American Paintings from the Collection of Peter and Betsy Lowe Dec. 13, 2009 - Feb. 21, 2010 Events

West Palm Beach, FL Norton Museum of Art New York, New York: The 20th Century Closes December 27, 2009!!!! William Kentridge: Five Themes Nov. 7, 2009 - Jan. 17, 2010 Events

Miami, FL The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University The Missing Peace: Artists Consider The Dalai Lama October 9, 2009 - January 10, 2010 l a c u n a i n t e s t i m o n y October 9, 2009 - January 10, 2010 Event

Miami Beach, FL The Wolfsonian-Florida International University *Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection* Ongoing TRAFFIC! lobby Through January 24, 2010 *Styled for the Road: The Art of Automobile Design, 1908-1948* October 16, 2009 through March 14, 2010 *Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914-1939* Nov. 20, 2009 - Feb. 28, 2010 *New Voices. New Works* Site-specific pieces inspired by The Wolfsonian, curated by designer Todd Oldham for Art Basel Miami Beach Events

Atlanta, GA Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University Scripture for the Eyes: Bible Illustration in Netherlandish October 17, 2009 to January 24, 2010 Old Master Highlights of the Works on Paper Collection Closes Jan. 3, 2010 Events

Augusta, GA Morris Museum of Art Response and Memory: The Art of Beverly Buchanan Nov. 21, 2009 - Jan. 31, 2010 *Deep Sea: Drawings by William O. Golding* Dec. 12, 2009 - March 14, 2010

Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis Museum of Art Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World Closes Jan. 3 Fashion in Bloom Through Jan. 31, 2010 Judith G. Levy: Memory Cloud Through Jan. 24, 2010 *Paired Photographs* Through March 21, 2010 Events

Paducah, KY The National Quilt Museum *Quilts with a Kick.* Through Feb. 2, 2010 A Family of Quilts Dec. 18, 2009 – Mar. 16, 2010

Owensboro, KY *HOLIDAZE* Closes Dec. 31

Louisville, KY Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft *Holidazzle 2009* October 17 – December 31 *Holidazzle Clay* October 17 – December 31 Events
The Speed Art Museum Painting in Europe, 1600-1800 October 25, 2009 - January 24, 2010 European and American Art, 1800-1960 Opened October 11 Hattie Bishop Speed: A New Museum for Louisville September 1, 2009 to March 14, 2010 A Book of Prayers: The Medieval Bestseller October 11, 2009 to February 14, 2010 English Silver from the Age of Matthew Boulton The James C. Codell, Jr. Collection Closes January 3, 2010 *African Art at the Speed* Closes January 4, 2010 Events

New Orleans, LA Newcomb Art Gallery,Tulane University *Jaune Quick-to-See Smith* Closes TODAY December 23!!!!
New Orleans Museum of Art Skylar Fein: Youth Manifesto Closes Jan. 3rd 2010 Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studio Opened November 15 *William Woodward, 1859-1939: American Impressionist in New Orleans* Through Feb. 28, 2010 *Käthe Kollwitz: Graphics from the Jean Stein Collection* November 15-March 14, 2010 Events
Ogden Museum of Southern Art Bo Bartlett: Paintings 1984-2000 Closes Jan. 3, 2010 Storming the Ramparts: Objects of Evidence Closes Jan. 3, 2010 Walter Inglis Anderson: Watercolors from the Collection of Wesley and Norman Galen Ongoing Stanley Staniski: On the Road with Benny Andrews Through Jan. 3, 2010 Events

Baltimore, MD The Walters Art Museum Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece Closes January 3, 2010 Art on Purpose: Heroes in Our Midst Closes Jan. 3, 2010 The Christmas Story: Picturing the Birth of Christ in Medieval Manuscripts Dec. 3, 2009 – Feb. 28, 2010 Events

Salem, MA Peabody Essex Museum Rare Bird of Fashion: The Irreverent Iris Apfel Through Feb. 7, 2010 Valérie Belin: Made Up Through Feb. 7, 2010 Trash Menagerie Through June 1, 2010 ReVisions, Indian Artists Engaging Traditions Through Mar. 28, 2010

Grand Rapids, MI Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park Lynn Chadwick: In Contact Sculpture from the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College Closes Jan. 3, 2010 Henry Moore: Master Printmaker Closes Jan. 3, 2010 Events

Columbia, MO Museum of Art and Archaeology University of Missouri The Sacred Feminine: Prehistory to Postmodernity Closes Thursday December 24!!!! Ancient Glass from the Permanent Collection Ongoing from August 2007 The Fine Art of Living: Luxury Objects from the East and West Ongoing from May 29, 2008 Faces of Warhol: Constructing Gender Through February 7, 2010 The European and American Galleries Ongoing Treasures from Antiquity: The Weinberg Gallery of Ancient Art Ongoing Events

Santa Fe, NM The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture A River Apart Through Jun 6, 2010 Native American Picture Books of Change Closes Jan 2, 2010 Native Couture II: Innovation and Style Aug 30, 2009 through Feb 10, 2010 The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery Ongoing Here, Now and Always Ongoing Events
Museum of International Folk Art *Dancing Shadows, Epic Tales: Wayang Kulit of Indonesia* in the Bartlett Wing Through March 14, 2010 Nuevo México: El Corazon de La Cultura in Lloyd's Treasure Chest Through December 31, 2009 *Multiple Visions: A Common Bond* Ongoing A Century of Masters:The NEA National Heritage Fellows of New Mexico Sept. 27, 2009 - Jan 16, 2011 *Material World: Textiles and Dress from the Collection* Dec. 20, 2009 - May 23, 2011
New Mexico Museum of Art O’Keeffe and Baumann Ongoing How The West is One: The Art of New Mexico Ongoing The Surreal Life: Gerry Snyder and Marco Rosichelli Sep 25, 2009 - Jan 31, 2010 Landscape Reconsidered Closes Jan 10, 2010 Event

Katonah, NY The Katonah Museum of Art *Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era* Through Jan. 24, 2010 Brian Selznick’s Walt Whitman: Words for America Through Jan. 24, 2010 Steve Tobin: Katonah Steelroots Through Sep. 19, 2010 Hudson River Triology: Alison Moritsugu Through Jan. 24, 2010 Chakaia Booker Through March 1, 2010 Events

Philadelphia, PA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts *Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool* Closes January 3, 2010 Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious January 29 - April 11, 2010

Asheville, NC Asheville Art Museum Ruth Asawa: Drawing in Space Sept. 19, 2009 - Feb. 7, 2010 Lorna Blaine Halper: The Space Between Dec. 12, 2009 - May 9, 2010 Looking Forward: Celebrating New Art and New Directions for the Permanent Collection Through Feb. 10, 2010 Looking Back: Celebrating 60 Years of Collecting at the Asheville Art Museum Ongoing Events

Fayetteville, NC Fayetteville Museum of Art Historic Hairdressers Closes Jan.10, 2010

Durham, NC Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Picasso and the Allure of Language Closes Jan. 3, 2010. Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids Nov. 12, 2009 - Feb. 21, 2010 The Past is Present: Classical Antiquities at the Nasher Museum Ongoing Events

Wilmington, NC The Cameron Art Museum Toying with Art Nov. 13, 2009- March 28, 2010 GWATHMEY SIEGEL: Inspiration and Transformation Closes Jan.10, 2010 KALEIDOSCOPE: Changing Views of the Permanent Collection May 15, 2009- May 9, 2010

Columbia, SC Columbia Museum of Art *Ansel Adams: Masterworks* Oct. 23, 2009 Jan. 17, 2010 The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States Oct.23, 2009 – Jan. 17, 2010 *Larry Clark: Tulsa* The Mamie & William Andrew Treadway, Jr. Gallery 15. Oct. 14, 2009 - Feb. 7, 2010 Events

Charleston, SC Gibbes Museum of Art *Brian Rutenberg: Tidesong* Closes Jan. 10, 2010 The Charleston Story Ongoing

Brookings, SD South Dakota Art Museum Don’t Fence Me In (Quilted Wall Hangings) Closes January 3, 2010 *The Collector’s Eye: Amish Quilts from the International Quilt Study Center* September 4, 2009 – April 1, 2010 Oscar Howe Exhibit September 11, 2009 – April 1, 2010 Harvey Dunn: Select Works August 23, 2009 – November 1, 2010 Events

Memphis, TN Memphis Brooks Art Museum* Masterpieces of European Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce Closes January 10, 2010 Events * Brooks is now closed Mondays AND Tuesdays
Children's Museum of Memphis *Building Brainstorm* Closes Jan. 10, 2010
The Pink Palace Museum Enchanted Forest Festival of Trees Closes Dec. 31

Nashville, TN Cheekwoood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art From Washington to Warhol: Americana Redefined Closes Jan. 3, 2010 *William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit* Closes Jan. 3, 2010 Temporary Contemporary – Nashville Memoir: Photographs by Greg Miller Through Feb. 22, 2010 New Directions: Video Artists Explore the South Through Feb. 22, 2010 The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection of Faberge Ongoing
Frist Center for the Visual Arts *The City in Twilight: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris 1924–1939* Ingram Gallery Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Times: American Modernism from the Lane Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Oct. 2, 2009– Jan. 31, 2010 Oliver Herring: Sculpture and Video Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery Oct. 2, 2009– Jan. 31, 2010 *Thomas Hart Benton in Story and Song* Oct. 2, 2009– Jan. 31, 2010 Events


Tennessee Art League Women A two person exhibit of photographic works by Clarkesville artists Malcolm Glass and Mitzi Cross Closes Dec. 30!!!! Carol Wiel’s exhibit of acrylic works Ethel Smith Gallery Closes Dec. 30!!!! The Underground 9, present their themed exhibit, “Sanctuary” Closes Dec. 30!!!! Work by Studio A Artists 2nd Floor Gallery Closes Dec. 30!!!!
Tennessee State Library and Archives Tennessee Myths and Legends Through April 29, 2010
Tennessee State Museum *Renaissance Jack: The Work of Jack Stoddart – Hippies, Hill People & Other Southern Marvels* Closes Jan, 3, 2010

Sewanee, TN University Art Gallery Sewanee: The University of the South North Korean Images at Utopia's Edge Dec. 4, 2009 – Feb. 14, 2010

Chattanooga, TN Creative Discovery Museum Events

Hunter Museum of American Art *The Kennedys \| Portrait of a Family Photographs by Richard Avedon* Nov. 22, 2009 - Jan.24, 2010 *Twenty Original American Etchings* Closes Jan 1st, 2010 Jellies: Living Art Ongoing Events

Knoxville, TN The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture *Here & Now* in The Balcony Closes Today Dec. 23!!!!
Knoxville Museum of Art Devorah Sperber: Threads of Perception Through January 24, 2010 *Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee* *Ongoing* *See Newly Acquired Rare Ansel Adams photograph of Smoky Mountains* *The KMA is seeking prints of Adams’ other three published images of the Smoky Mountains Fourth Annual Student Art Exhibition Closes Jan, 3, 2010**
Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee Discovering American Indian Art Through January 10, 2010

Gatlinburg, TN Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts *Women in Wood* Closes January 2, 2010

Johnson City, TN Slocumb Galleries ETSU Constructing Image: Insights to the Andy Warhol Photographs Closes Jan. 7

Midland, TX Museum of the Southwest *Christmas at the Mansion* Closes Dec. 30!!!! *Tonight the West is Sleeping* Closes Dec. 30!!!!

Fort Worth, TX Kimbell Art Museum From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern European Art South Gallery Current *Asian Art* North Gallery Current *Pre-Columbian and African Art* East Gallery Michelangelo’s First Painting: The Torment of Saint Anthony On View beginning Sept. 26 Events

Dallas, TX Dallas Museum of Art *All the World’s a Stage: Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts* August 30 - Performance/Art October 8 - THE ARTISTIC FURNITURE OF CHARLES ROHLFS Closes January 13, 2010 Materials & Meanings Through Summer 2010 Center for Creative Connections Events
Meadows Museum SMU Face and Form: Modern and Contemporary Sculpture in the Meadows Collection ongoing Events

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