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Press Release 2-24-10: Openings, Closings, and Events plus Reminders
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There are now museums from twenty-three states on our site!

Museum from NY Joins!

Albany Institute of History & Art

Albany Institute of History & Art
Albany, NY

Mission
Founded in 1791, the Albany Institute of History & Art, one of the oldest museums in the United States, is dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and promoting interest in the history, art and culture of Albany and the Upper Hudson Valley.  The museum achieves this mission through its collections, exhibitions, education programs, library, research projects, publications and other programs offered to the general public.

Exhibitions:
  • Hudson River Panorama: 400 Years of History, Art, and Culture
    • Through Jan. 2, 2011
  • The Eternal Light of Egypt: The Photography of Sarite Sanders
    • Through June 13
  • Ancient Egypt
    • Ongoing
  • The Landscape that Defined America: The Hudson River School
    • Ongoing
  • Events

Hudson River Panorama: 400 Years of History, Art, and Culture
The Eternal Light of Egypt: The Photography of Sarite Sanders
Ancient Egypt
The Landscape that Defined America: The Hudson River School
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Openings, Closings, and Events
See Exhibitions page to see a sample photos of current and upcoming shows.

San Francisco, CA

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

  • “Being Jewish”: A Bay Area Portrait
    • Ongoing
  • StoryCorps StoryBooth
    • Through November 7
  • As It Is Written: Project 304,805
    (The Torah Project)
    • Through Fall 2010
  • Jews on Vinyl
    And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl
    • Through Spring 2010
As It Is Written: Project 304,805 The Torah Project

Torrance, CA

Torrance Art Museum

  • Ryan Taber - Looking out fearfully upon the confined deep
    • March 6 – April 17
  • 12 GAUGE: Sea and Space
    • March 4–6
  • Event
The Reflected Gaze - Self Portraiture Today

Irvine, CA

The Irvine Museum

  • El Camino De Oro ~ Journey Through Early California
    • February 24 - June 5
Selections From The Irvine Museum, 2009

Laguna Beach, CA

Laguna Art Museum

  • OsCene 2010
    • Feb. 21 – May 16
  • Select works from Northern and Southern California artists
    • Through May 16
OsCene 2010

Storrs, CT

The William Benton Museum of Art

  • From Amazing Stories to Weird tales: Covering Pulp Fiction
    • Through March 14
  • The Old and The New: Recent Acquisitions and Works from the Collections
    • Through March 21
  • CounterMart, An Installation by Abby Manock
    • March 25 - May 9
  • Poem & Picture
    • March 25 - May 9
The Old and The New: Recent Acquisitions and Works from the Collections

Daytona Beach, FL

The Southeast Museum of Photography

  • Double Exposure – Armistad Center
    • Through May 30
  • Bikeriders – Danny Lyon
    • Through May 30
  • Al sol – Stella Johnson
    • Through May 30
  • Events
Al sol – Stella Johnson

Winter Park, FL

Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College

  • Man and the Machine
    • Jan. 23 - Summer
  • Wonderful and Curious
    • Jan. 23 - Summer
  • Out of the Shadow
    • Jan. 23 - Summer
  • Event
Out of the Shadow

West Palm Beach, FL

Norton Museum of Art

  • Habsburg Treasures: Renaissance Tapestries from the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
    • January 16 – April 11
  • Avedon Fashion 1944–2000
    • Feb. 9 – May 9
  • Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker
    • Feb. 13 – May 9
  • RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered: Photographs by Paul Fusco
    • Feb. 13 – May 9
  • Here Comes the Sun: Warhol and Art after 1960 at the Norton
    • Feb. 13 – May 9
  • Events
RFK Funeral Train Rediscovered: Photographs by Paul Fusco

Miami, FL

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University

  • The Fantastic World of José Gurvich
    • January 20 – April 11
  • In Body and Soul: The Performance Art of María Teresa Hincapié
    • January 20 – May 16
  • Taiwan Discovered
    • February 19 – May 16
  • Women’s Work / Men’s Work: Labor and Gender in America
    • January 20 – April 25
    • Wolfsonian Teaching Gallery at The Frost
  • Event
In Body and Soul: The Performance Art of María Teresa Hincapié

Miami Beach, FL

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

  • Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection
    • Ongoing
  • Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection
    • Ongoing
  • 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
    • Closes Feb. 28!!!!
  • Advertising for Health
    • February 19 -
  • Events
Advertising for Health

Atlanta, GA
  • Artists in Georgia: Contemporary Works from the Collection
    • February 6-May 16
  • Events

Augusta, GA

Morris Museum of Art

  • Deep Sea: Drawings by William O. Golding
    • Dec. 12, 2009 - March 14, 2010
  • Events
Deep Sea: Drawings by William O. Golding

Indianapolis, IN

Indianapolis Museum of Art

  • Omer Fast: The Casting
    McCormack Forefront Galleries
    • Through Mar. 14
  • Paired Photographs
    • Through March 21
  • Heather Rowe: Tenuous Arrangements
    • February 19-August 1
  • Events
Heather Rowe: Tenuous Arrangements

Wichita, KS

Wichita Art Museum

  • Murdock and Friends
    • Through Oct. 3
  • Sensitive and Relevant
    • Through Mar. 28
  • Community Favorites
    • Through Nov. 30
  • This is My Land: A Photographic Portrait of America by James Yarnell
    • Through March 7
  • Docent Selections
    • Through May 2
  • Try Some Color, Please!
    • January 10 – April 18
  • American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwel
    • March 7 - May 30
  • Events
American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwel

Paducah, KY

The National Quilt Museum

  • School Block Challenge 2010
    • Feb. 5 - April 6
  • Quilts of the Coastal South
    • Feb. 5 - April 6

The Yeiser Art Center

  • Landscape Musings: Recent Artwork by Jake Wells and M. Ben Cohan
    • Feb. 27 – March 27
  • Artist of the Month: Keyth Kahrs
    • Feb. 27 – March 27
  • Event
Landscape Musings: Recent Artwork by Jake Wells and M. Ben Cohan

Louisville, KY

Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft

  • Searching for the Heart of Black Identity
    • January 9 – April 10
  • Gold Key Scholastic Awards
    • Closes February 26!!!!
Gold Key Scholastic Awards
Louisville Visual Art Association
  • Water Tower Regional
    • Closes March 7
Water Tower Regional
The Speed Art Museum
  • European and American Art, 1800-1960
    • Extended
  • Hattie Bishop Speed: Founder and Collector
    • Through March 7
  • Hattie Bishop Speed: A New Museum for Louisville
    • September 1, 2009 to
      March 14, 2010
  • What Would the Community Think?
    • Closes March 1!!!!
  • Events
What Would the Community Think?

The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky
  • The British Are Coming!
    • Jan. 24-April 11
  • POST IT : TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY MAGAZINE POSTERS FROM THE COLLECTION
    • Through April 4
  • Robert C. May Photography Lecture Series: LILI ALMOG
    • Closes Feb. 28!!!!
  • GIFTED HANDS: Ceramic Work by Cliff Lee
    • Through May 14
Robert C. May Photography Lecture Series: LILI ALMOG

New Orleans, LA

Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University

  • Polaridad Complementaria: Recent Works From Cuba
    • Closes March 14
  • Event

New Orleans Museum of Art

  • 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
    • Closes Feb. 28!!!!
  • Käthe Kollwitz: Graphics from the Jean Stein Collection
    • November 15-March 14, 2010
  • Luis Cruz Azaceta
    Swimming to Havana
    • Through Mar. 28
  • Events
William Woodward, 1859-1939: American Impressionist in New Orleans
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
  • José Bedia
    • Through April 11
  • Billie Ruth Sudduth
    • Through April 11
  • New Southern Photography
    • Through April 11
  • Bo Bartlett: Paintings 1984-2000
    • Closes Feb. 28!!!!
  • Walter Inglis Anderson: Watercolors from the Collection of Wesley and Norman Galen
    • Ongoing
Bo Bartlett: Paintings 1984-2000

Baton Rouge, LA

Hill Memorial Library
LSU Libraries Special Collection
s

  • Campus Chronicle: 150 Years of LSU
    • February 22 - May 29
Campus Chronicle: 150 Years of LSU

Baltimore, MD

The Walters Art Museum

  • The Christmas Story: Picturing the Birth of Christ in Medieval Manuscripts
    • Closes Feb. 28!!!!
  • Beauty and the Brain: A Neural Approach to Aesthetics
    • January 23 - April 11
  • Mummified
    • Through November 2010
  • Japanese Cloisonné Enamels from the Stephen W. Fisher Collection
    • February 14 - June 13
  • Art of the Ancient Americas
    • Ongoing
  • Palace of Wonders: Renaissance & Baroque Galleries
    • Ongoing
The Christmas Story: Picturing the Birth of Christ in Medieval Manuscripts

Lowell, MA

New England Quilt Museum

  • Masters: 40 Contemporary Master Quilters
    • Closes Feb. 25!!!!
Masters: 40 Contemporary Master Quilters

Salem, MA

Peabody Essex Museum

  • Valérie Belin: Made Up
    • Extended through April 4
  • Trash Menagerie
    • Through June 1, 2010
  • ReVisions, Indian Artists Engaging Traditions
    • Through Mar. 28, 2010
  • Fish, Silk, Tea, Bamboo: Cultivating an Image of China
    • Through Dec. 31
  • Events
Trash Menagerie

Muskegon, MI

Muskegon Museum of Art

  • Edward Curtis: Selections from The North American Indian portfolio
    • Jan. 14 – April 10, 2010
  • Inspired: The Corky Tuttle Glass Legacy
    • Feb.11 – April 18
  • Mirror, Mirror: Art Inspired by Fairy Tales
    • Feb.18 - May 2
  • Events
Mirror, Mirror: Art Inspired by Fairy Tales

Grand Rapids, MI

Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

  • Spirit and Form: Michele Oka Doner and the Natural World
    • Jan. 29 – May 9
  • Events
Spirit and Form: Michele Oka Doner and the Natural World

Ridgeland, MS

Mississippi Craft Center

  • Jerry Hymel - Glass Artist
    • Closes February 28
  • Event

Columbia, MO

Museum of Art and Archaeology
University of Missouri

  • Faces of Warhol: Accessing the Private
    • Feb. 9 - June 6
  • 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
  • Connecting with Contemporary Sculpture
    • January 30 - May 16, 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

  • Harry Fonseca: In the Silence of Dusk
    • February 14- January 2, 2011
  • A River Apart
    • Through Jun 6, 2010
  • The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery
    • Ongoing
  • Here, Now and Always
    • Ongoing
Harry Fonseca: In the Silence of Dusk
New Mexico Museum of Art
  • New Arrivals: Works from the Collection
    • February 12 -
  • O’Keeffe and Baumann
    • Ongoing
  • How The West is One: The Art of New Mexico
    • Ongoing
  • Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings
    • Jan. 29 - April 18
  • New Arrivals: Works from the Collection
    • February 12, 2010 -
  • Event
New Arrivals: Works from the Collection

New Mexico History Museum
  • Fashioning New Mexico
    • Through Apr 14, 2010
  • Telling New Mexico
    • Ongoing
  • Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción
    • Ongoing
  • Segesser Hide Paintings
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Segesser Hide Paintings

The Katonah Museum of Art
  • Steve Tobin: Katonah Steelroots
    • Through Sep. 19
  • Chakaia Booker
    • Through March 1
  • The Art of Contemporary Puppet Theater
    • Feb. 28 - June 13
  • Events
StoryCorps StoryBooth

Asheville, NC
  • Limners to Facebook: Portraiture from the 19th to the 21st Century
    • Feb. 27 – July 18
  • Nouns: Children’s Book Artists Look at People, Places and Things
    • Feb. 13 – July 11
  • Looking Forward: Celebrating New Art and New Directions for the Permanent Collection
    • Closes Today Feb. 10!!!!
  • Looking Back: Celebrating 60 Years of Collecting at the Asheville Art Museum
    • Ongoing
  • Lorna Blaine Halper: The Space Between
    • Through May 9
  • Events

Durham, NC

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

  • Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids
    • Nov. 12, 2009 - Feb. 21, 2010
  • The Past is Present: Classical Antiquities at the Nasher Museum
    • Ongoing
  • Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature
    • Feb. 4 - May 16
  • Mark Hewitt: Falling Into Place
    • February 11 -
  • Events
Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature

Chadds Ford, PA

Brandywine River Museum

  • Laugh Lines: Cartoons and Caricatures from the Collection
    • January 24 - March 21
  • N.C. Wyeth's The Portrait of a Farmer and Five Illustrations for Robinson Crusoe
    • Through March 14

Columbia, SC

Columbia Museum of Art

  • The Chemistry of Color: Contemporary African-American Artists
    • Feb. 5 –May 9
  • Events
The Chemistry of Color: Contemporary African-American Artists

Charleston, SC

Gibbes Museum of Art

  • Lure of the Lowcountry
    • Jan. 22, - April 18
  • Whistler’s Travels
    • Jan. 22 – May 16
  • The Charleston Story
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Lure of the Lowcountry

Brookings, SD

South Dakota Art Museum

  • The Collector’s Eye: Amish Quilts from the International Quilt Study Center
    • Through April 1, 2010
  • Oscar Howe Exhibit
    • Through April 1, 2010
  • Harvey Dunn: Select Works
    • Through November 1, 2010
  • South Dakota Artist Series: Phillip Michael Hook & Gerry Punt
    • Through April 1, 2010
  • Events
South Dakota Artist Series: Phillip Michael Hook & Gerry Punt

Memphis, TN

Memphis Brooks Art Museum

  • Salt of the Earth: Photographs of the Farm Security Administration
    • Closes Feb. 28!!!!
  • The Apocalypse: A Series of Woodcuts by Joseph Weisz
    • Through April 25
  • Ex Libris: The Art of Ownership
    • Through June 6
  • Venice in the Age of Canaletto
    • Feb. 14 - May 9
  • Events
Salt of the Earth: Photographs of the Farm Security Administration
Children's Museum of Memphis
  • Run! Jump! Fly! Adventures in Action
    • January 23-May 16
  • Harry's Big Adventure: My Bug World!
    • Feb. 13- June 13
Harry's Big Adventure: My Bug World!
The Pink Palace Museum
  • Chocolate The Exhibition
    • January 30 - April 25
  • Bagels & Barbecue: The Jewish Experience in Tennessee
    • February 6 - April 11
  • I Am A Man
    • February 13 - October 24, 2010
Bagels and Barbeque: The Jewish Experience in Tennessee

Clarksville, TN

Customs House Museum and Cultural Center

  • Home and Abroad: The Paintings of Matthew Deric Gore
    • Closes Feb. 28!!!!
  • 3rd Biennial Arts & Craft Juried Exhibition
    • Jan. 12th - April 3rd
Home and Abroad: The Paintings of Matthew Deric Gore

Nashville, TN

Frist Center for the Visual Arts

  • Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece
    • Jan. 29 -
  • Masterpieces of European Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce
    • Feb. 19 -
  • Events
Masterpieces of European Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce
The Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery
  • Kamal Al Mansour: Connected
    • Closes March 5
Kamal Al Mansour: Connected
The Parthenon
  • HIDDEN GEMS: A HISTORY OF COLLECTING AT THE PARTHENON
    • Feb. 20 – June 12
HIDDEN GEMS: A HISTORY OF COLLECTING AT THE PARTHENON
Tennessee Art League
  • Jason Saunders
    • Closes February 27!!!!
    • The Premiere Gallery
  • An exhibition of work by Studio A Artists featuring artists Asia Emerson, Marlynda Augelli, Mary Field Neville, Peach McComb, and Vinci Kilodziejski
    • Closes February 27!!!!
    • 2nd Floor Gallery

Nashville artist Jason Saunders

Tennessee State Museum
  • We Shall Not Be Moved: The 50th Anniversary of Tennessee’s Civil Rights Sit-Ins
    • February 4 - May 16
  • Sharaku Interpreted by Japan’s Contemporary Artists
    • February 18 - April 11
We Shall Not Be Moved: The 50th Anniversary of Tennessee’s Civil Rights Sit-Ins
Tennessee State Library and Archives
  • Tennessee Myths and Legends
    • Through April 29
Tennessee Myths and Legends

Sewanee, TN

University Art Gallery Sewanee:
The University of the South

  • Caroline Allison’s A Common Place
    • Feb.19 – April 11
Caroline Allison’s A Common Place

Chattanooga

Creative Discovery Museum

  • Good For You: Healthy Fun on the Run
    • Jan. 22 - May 16
  • Event
Good For You: Healthy Fun on the Run
Hunter Museum of American Art
  • Still Lifes from the Hunter Museum Collection
    • Feb.7 – April 25
  • Twenty Original American Etchings
    • Through June 6th
  • Themes of Identity
    • Through June 6th
  • Jellies: Living Art at Tennessee Aquarium
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Still Lifes from the Hunter Museum Collection

Knoxville, TN

The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture

  • New to Knoxville
    • Closes February 26!!!!
  • Headlights and Streetlights
    • Closes February 26!!!!
  • Arts in the Airport
    • April 22, 2010
New to Knoxville
The Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • 2010 MFA Exhibitions: Group 1
    • Feb 26 - Mar 13
2010 MFA Exhibitions: Group 1

Frank H. McClung Museum,
University of Tennessee

  • 2,000 Years of Chinese Art
    Han Dynasty to the Present
    • Through May 23, 2010
 2,000 Years of Chinese Art
Ramsey House Plantation

Gatlinburg, TN

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts

  • Sevier County Artists in The Sevier County Invitational
    • Closes Feb. 27!!!!
  • Jerry Drown Turned Wood Collection Wood Studio Gallery
Sevier County Artists in The Sevier County Invitational

Midland, TX

Museum of the Southwest

  • The Nashville Portraits by Jim McGuire
    • January 26 - March 14
  • Burton Pritzker: Forgotten Planes
    • Closes February 28!!!!
  • Jean Cappadonna-Nichols
    • January 22nd - March 21
Burton Pritzker: Forgotten Planes

Albany, TX

The Old Jail Center

  • Sean Scully: Works from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
    • Feb. 6 - May 23
  • A Cell of One’s Own: Nancy Lamb – The Business of Pleasure
    • Feb. 6 - May 23
  • Asian Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection
    • Ongoing
  • W.O. Gross, Jr. Collection of Pre-Columbian Art
    • Ongoing
  • Sallie Reynolds Matthews Room
    • Ongoing
A Cell of One’s Own: Nancy Lamb – The Business of Pleasure

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
From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern

Dallas, TX

Meadows Museum SMU

  • Royal Splendor: from art collection of King Charles IV of Spain (1748-1819)
    • March 7 – July 18
  • Events
Face and Form: Modern and Contemporary Sculpture in the Meadows Collection

Dallas Museum of Art
  • All the World’s a Stage: Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts
    • Closes Feb. 28!!!!
  • Performance/Art
    • Through Mar. 21
  • Jacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture
    • Through May 23
  • Materials & Meanings
    • Through Summer 2010
    • Center for Creative Connections
  • Events
All the World’s a Stage: Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts

Wasau, WI

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum

  • Las Artes de Mexico
    • January 30 – April 11
  • Events
Las Artes de Mexico

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