Press Release: 2-23-11 page 2

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Openings, Closings, and Events
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New Orleans, LA New Orleans Museum of Art The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin Feb. 11 - April 17 Different Strokes for Different Folks: Glass from the Harter, Jastremski and Sawyer Gifts Through May 15 Bernard Faucon: The Most Beautiful Day of My Youth Trhough March 13, 2011 Events
Ogden Museum of Southern Art Mark Hewitt: Big-Hearted Pots Through April 10 Richard Ritter: A Life In Glass Through April 10 Birney Imes: Selections from "Partial to Home" - Photographs of Mississippi Through April 10 On Location: Southern Portraits Through April 10 North Carolina Craft Now Through April 10

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

Baltimore, MD Contemporary Museum Agitated Histories Feb. 11 – May 1 Event
The Walters Art Museum Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics and Devotion in Medieval Europe Opens Feb. 13 - May 15 German Drawings from the Walters' Collection Closes Feb.13!!!! *Palace of Wonders: Renaissance & Baroque Galleries* Ongoing *Art of the Ancient Americas* Ongoing Events

Lowell, MA Whistler House Museum of Art Prints from the Permanent Collection Closes March 6

Salem, MA Peabody Essex Museum Golden: Dutch and Flemish Masterworks from the Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo Collection OPENS FEB. 26 Charles Sandison: FreePort [No. 001] Oct. 2 - spring 2011 Hidden Treasures from the Forbidden City, The Emperor’s Private Paradise Extended Through March 31 Faces of Devotion, Indian Sculpture from the Figiel Collection Through Jan. 16, 2012 Eye Spy Through June 1, 2011 Events

Muskegon, MI Muskegon Museum of Art WE ARE THE SHIP: The Story of Negro League Baseball: Original Paintings by Kadir Nelson Closes March 13 Event

Saint Louis, MO Saint Louis Art Museum Glimpsing History through Art: Selections from the Charles and Rosalyn Lowenhaupt Collection of Japanese Prints Jan, 14 - April 10 *Aaron Douglas* Jan, 14 - April 10 Fiery Pool: The Maya and the Mythic Sea Feb. 13 - May 8 New Media Series — William Kentridge: Two Films Jan. 28 – May 22 Events

Missoula, MT Missoula Art Museum Cathryn Mallory: Levitate/Gravitate Feb. 23 - May 22 Phoebe Toland: High Impact Feb.17 - May 29 Marvie Redmond: Skyscapes Feb.17 - May 29 *Jim Poor: New Works, Exploring a Visual Vocabulary* Closes Feb. 27 *Angela Babby: Wolakota* Closes Feb. 27 Events

Albuquerque, NM The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History A Passionate Light: The Polaroids of H. Joe Waldrum Jan. 30 - April 10 Colcha: Embroidered Connections Through March 13, 2011

Santa Fe, NM Georgia O'Keeffe Museum O’Keeffiana: Art and Art Materials Through May 8 Event
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture Creative Spark!: The Life and Art of Tony Da Feb 13 - Dec 31 Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World Through Mar 6 The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery Ongoing Here, Now and Always Ongoing Event
New Mexico History Museum A Passionate Light: The Polaroids of H. Joe Waldrum Jan. 30 - April 10 Segesser Hide Paintings Ongoing Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción Ongoing Telling New Mexico: A Noble Legacy: The USS “New Mexico” Ongoing Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton May 23, 2010 - May 8, 2011 Events
New Mexico Museum of Art Cloudscapes: Photographs from the Collection Feb 4 - May 4 *Case Studies From The Bureau Of Contemporary Art* Through March 20 O’Keeffe and Baumann Ongoing How The West is One: The Art of New Mexico Ongoing

Albany, NY Albany Institute of History & Art Historical Russian posters Feb. 5–25!!!! GRAPHIC DESIGN—GET THE MESSAGE! Feb. 5 – June 12 ART AND NATURE: THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL PAINTINGS JAN. 15 - AUGUST BILL SULLIVAN: A LANDSCAPE ARTIST REMEMBERED JAN. 15 -FEB. 27!!!! CURATOR’S CHOICE: RECENT ACQUISITIONS JAN. 15 - JUNE 5 Event

Asheville, NC Asheville Art Museum A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes Jan. 28 - June 26 Western North Carolina Scholastic Art Awards Exhibition Jan. 28 - March 6 The Olmsted Project: Photographs by Lee Friedlander Dec. 10, 2010 - April 24, 2011 The Director's Cut I: 1995 - 2000 Through March 13, 2011 Looking Back: Celebrating 60 Years of Collecting at the Asheville Art Museum Ongoing Events

Winston-Salem, NC Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) NCNC [North Carolina New Contemporary] Through March 13 Event

Chapel Hill, NC Ackland Art Museum At Work in the Wilderness: Picturing the American Landscape, 1820-1920 Jan. 14 - March 20 The Oldest Paintings in America: Utah's Rock Art Photographed by Goodloe Suttler Jan. 14 - March 20 Tradition in Clay: Two Centuries of Classic North Carolina Pots Through March 20 Art and Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road Through June 5 Events

Durham, NC Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in New York City, 1957-1965 Feb. 3 - July 10 Body of Christ Jan. 27 - June 16 Containing Antiquity Ongoing Jaume Plensa: The Heart of Trees Through Spring 2011 Event

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