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Openings, Closings, and Events plus Reminders 12-29-10 Newsletter
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Openings, Closings, and Events

The newsletter is now divided into three pages:

Lousiana to North Carolina - page 2

Click here for page 1 - Alabama to Kentucky

Click here for page 3 - Pennsylvania to Wyoming


New Orleans, LA

New Orleans Museum of Art

  • Great Collectors/Great Donors: The Making of the New Orleans Museum of Art, 1910-2010
    • Closes Jan. 23, 2011
  • Bernard Faucon: The Most Beautiful Day of My Youth
    • Nov. 14, 2010 - March 13, 2011
  • Déjà Vu All Over Again
    Generic Art Solutions
    • Through February 13, 2011
  • Residents and Visitors: 20th-Century Photographs of Louisiana
    • September 29 -
  • Selections from Projects 35: International Video
    • Closes January 30, 2011
  • Events
Joan Mitchell in New Orleans

Baton Rouge, LA

Hill Memorial Library LSU Libraries Special Collections

  • The Dear Ones at Home: Women’s Letters and Diaries of the Civil War Era
    • Through April 30, 2011
The Dear Ones at Home: Women’s Letters and Diaries of the Civil War Era

Baltimore, MD

The Walters Art Museum

  • German Drawings from the Walters' Collection
    • Nov. 20, 2010 - Feb.13, 2011
  • Beasts on Parchment: Picturing Animals in Medieval Manuscripts
    • Nov. 06, 2010 - Feb. 06, 2011
  • Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic
    • Closes Jan. 02, 2011!!!!
  • Art of the Ancient Americas
    • Ongoing
  • Palace of Wonders: Renaissance & Baroque Galleries
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic

Lowell, MA

Whistler House Museum of Art

  • Annual Juried Members Exhibit 2010
    • Closes Dec. 30!!!!
  • Back Central in Black & White, Inside & Out
    • Closes Dec. 30!!!!

Salem, MA

Peabody Essex Museum

  • Charles Sandison: FreePort [No. 001]
    • Oct. 2 - spring 2011
  • Hidden Treasures from the Forbidden City, The Emperor’s Private Paradise
    • Closes Jan. 9, 2011
  • Imprints: Photographs by Mark Ruwedel
    • Closes January 1, 2011!!!!
  • Eye Spy
    • June 19, 2010 - June 1, 2011
  • Faces of Devotion, Indian Sculpture from the Figiel Collection
    • April 10, 2010 to Jan. 16, 2012
  • Fish, Silk, Tea, Bamboo: Cultivating an Image of China
    • Closes Dec. 31!!!!
  • Events

Muskegon, MI

Muskegon Museum of Art

  • Splendid Threads, Secret Messages: The Language of Japanese Kimonos
    • Closes January 23, 2011

Grand Rapids, MI

Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

  • Sculptors Celebrate the Legacy and Fred and Lena Meijer
    • Closes January 2, 2011!!!!
  • Events
Sculptors Celebrate the Legacy and Fred and Lena Meijer

Saint Louis, MO

Saint Louis Art Museum

  • Joe Jones: Painter of the American Scene
    • Closes Jan. 2, 2011!!!!
  • Portrait of Depression-Era America
    • Closes through Jan. 9, 2011
    • Galleries 321 and 322
  • New Media Series: Pae White: Dying Oak
    • Oct. 22, 2010 – Jan. 16, 2011
    • Gallery 301
  • Events
Joe Jones: Painter of the American Scene

Missoula, MT

Missoula Art Museum

  • MAM’s 39th Benefit Art Auction: Art & Soul Exhibition & Dinner
    • January 7 – February 3, 2011
  • Angela Babby: Wolakota
    • Through Feb. 06, 2011
  • Clarice Dreyer: Bird on a Limb
    • Nov. 17, 2010 - Feb. 13, 2011
  • Steve Muhs: I Have A Coffee Table
    • Through Feb. 06, 2011
  • Jim Poor: New Works, Exploring a Visual Vocabulary
    • Through Feb. 27, 2011
  • Events
Angela Babby: Wolakota

Albuquerque, NM

The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History

  • Colcha: Embroidered Connections
    • Dec. 29, 2010 – March 13, 2011
  • SENSORY CROSSOVERS: SYNESTHESIA IN AMERICAN ART
    • Closes Jan. 2, 2011!!!!
Colcha: Embroidered Connections

Santa Fe, NM

Museum of Indian Arts and Culture

  • Harry Fonseca: In the Silence of Dusk
    • Closes Jan. 2, 2011!!!!
  • Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World
    • Through Mar 6, 2011
  • A River Apart
    • Closes Jan. 2, 2011!!!!
  • The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery
    • Ongoing
  • Here, Now and Always
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Harry Fonseca: In the Silence of Dusk
Museum of International Folk Art
  • Empowering Women: Artisan Cooperatives That Transform Communities
    • Closes Jan. 2, 2011!!!!
  • Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda
    • Closes Jan. 2, 2011!!!!
  • A Century of Masters:The NEA National Heritage Fellows of New Mexico
    • Through Jan 16, 2011
  • Material World: Textiles and Dress from the Collection
    • Through May 23, 2011
  • Multiple Visions: A Common Bond
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda
New Mexico History Museum
  • The Threads of Memory: Spain and the United States (El Hilo de la Memoria: España y los Estados Unidos)
    • Closes Jan. 9, 2011
  • Imagining Mexico: From the Aztec Empire to Colonial New Spain
    • Closes Jan. 23, 2011
  • Segesser Hide Paintings
    • Ongoing
  • Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción
    • Ongoing
  • Telling New Mexico
    • Ongoing
  • Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton
    • May 23, 2010 - May 8, 2011
  • Events
Imagining Mexico: From the Aztec Empire to Colonial New Spain

Katonah, NY

The Katonah Museum of Art

  • MAPPING: MEMORY & MOTION IN CONTEMPORARY ART
    • Closes Jan. 9, 2011
  • Event
MAPPING: MEMORY & MOTION IN CONTEMPORARY ART

Albany, NY

Albany Institute of History & Art

  • The Perfect Fit: Shoes Tell Stories
    • Closes Jan. 2, 2011!!!!
  • Old Soles: Three Centuries of Shoes from the Albany Institute’s Collection
    • Closes Jan. 2, 2011!!!!
  • Hudson River Panorama: 400 Years of History, Art, and Culture
    • Closes Jan. 2, 2011!!!!
  • Ancient Egypt
    • Ongoing
  • The Landscape that Defined America: The Hudson River School
    • Ongoing
  • Events

Asheville, NC

Asheville Art Museum

  • The Olmsted Project: Photographs by Lee Friedlander
    • Dec. 10, 2010 - April 24, 2011
  • The Director's Cut I: 1995 - 2000
    • Through March 13, 2011
  • Sewell Sillman: Pushing Limits
    • Closes January 9, 2011
  • Looking Back: Celebrating 60 Years of Collecting at the Asheville Art Museum
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Sewell Sillman: Pushing Limits


Chapel Hill, NC

Ackland Art Museum

  • Tradition in Clay: Two Centuries of
    Classic North Carolina Pots
    • Opens Dec. 26, 2010 -
      March 20, 2011
  • Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids
    • Oct. 2, 2010 – Jan. 2, 2011
  • Art and Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road
    • Through June 5, 2011

Tradition in Clay: Two Centuries of Classic North Carolina Pots


Durham, NC

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

  • Jaume Plensa: The Heart of Trees
    • Through Spring 2011
  • Containing Antiquity
    • Oct. 24 -
  • The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-18
    • Closes Jan. 2, 2011!!!!
  • The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl
    • Sept. 2, 2010 - February 6, 2011.
  • Mark Hewitt: Falling Into Place
    • February 11 -

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