Press Release: 3-10-10

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Press Release 3-10-10: 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-four states on our site!

Openings, Closings, and Events
New Mexico to Wisconsin - page 2 Click here for page 1: California to Missouri

Torrance, CA Torrance Art Museum Ryan Taber - Looking out fearfully upon the confined deep March 6 – April 17 12 GAUGE: Kristin duCharme March 11-13 Event

Irvine, CA The Irvine Museum *El Camino De Oro ~ Journey Through Early California* February 24 - June 5

Laguna Beach, CA Laguna Art Museum *OsCene 2010* Feb. 21 – May 16 Select works from Northern and Southern California artists Through May 16 Event

Storrs, CT The William Benton Museum of Art From Amazing Stories to Weird tales: Covering Pulp Fiction Closes March 14!!!! The Old and The New: Recent Acquisitions and Works from the Collections Closes March 21 CounterMart, An Installation by Abby Manock March 25 - May 9 Poem & Picture March 25 - May 9 Events

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

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

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

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* Closes March 14!!!! *Advertising for Health* February 19 - Events

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 Regional Dialect: American Scene Paintings from the John and Susan Horseman Collection. March 6- Grand Reopening of Morris Museum Events

Indianapolis, IN Indianapolis Museum of Art Omer Fast: The Casting McCormack Forefront Galleries Closes Mar. 14!!!! *Paired Photographs* Through March 21 Heather Rowe: Tenuous Arrangements February 19-August 1 Joshua Mosley: American International March 12-August 29 Events

Logan, KS The Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum Dichroic Glass Light Sculptures by Ray Howlett March 19-May 2

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 Closes 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

Paducah, KY 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

Owensboro, KY Owensboro Museum of Fine Art *LINCOLN THEN AND NOW* Closes March 21

Louisville, KY The Speed Art Museum European and American Art, 1800-1960 Extended The Most Famous People in the World: Karsh 100 March 12 - June 27 Hattie Bishop Speed: A New Museum for Louisville Closes March 14!!!! Events

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: Sarah Hoskins* Opens March 6 - April 11 GIFTED HANDS: Ceramic Work by Cliff Lee Through May 14

New Orleans, LA Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University Polaridad Complementaria: Recent Works From Cuba Closes March 14!!!!
New Orleans Museum of Art Dreams Come True: Art of the Classic Fairy Tales from the Walt Disney Studio Closes March 14!!!! *Käthe Kollwitz: Graphics from the Jean Stein Collection* Closes March 14!!!! Luis Cruz Azaceta Swimming to Havana Closes Mar. 28 Events

Baton Rouge, LA Hill Memorial Library LSU Libraries Special Collections Campus Chronicle: 150 Years of LSU February 22 - May 29

Baltimore, MD Contemporary Museum *Project 20:* The Pantheon Project Through April Project 20: Finishing School: GO Through April *Project 20: Neighborhood Public Radio* Through April Event
The Walters Art Museum *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 Events

Lowell, MA New England Quilt Museum Kinder Komforts: Amish Crib Quilts March 4 - May 9, 2010

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

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

Ridgeland, MS Mississippi Craft Center Pottery of Claudia Ka Cartee March 1 - 31

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 Event

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 Event
Museum of International Folk Art *Dancing Shadows, Epic Tales: Wayang Kulit of Indonesia* Closes March 14!!!! *Multiple Visions: A Common Bond* Ongoing 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 Event
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 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

Katonah, NY The Katonah Museum of Art Steve Tobin: Katonah Steelroots Through Sep. 19 The Art of Contemporary Puppet Theater Feb. 28 - June 13 Event

Albany, NY Albany Institute of History & Art *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

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 Lorna Blaine Halper: The Space Between Through May 9 Looking Back: Celebrating 60 Years of Collecting at the Asheville Art Museum Ongoing Events

Durham, NC Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University 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

Wilmington, NC The Cameron Art Museum Toying with Art Closes March 28 KALEIDOSCOPE: Changing Views of the Permanent Collection Through May 9

Greensburg, NC Westmoreland Museum of American Art Concerning the 1930s in Art: Paintings from the Schoen Collection Closes March 21 *Ben Schachter: Kosher/Treif and Eruvim* Closes March 21 Event

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 Closes March 14!!!! N.C. Wyeth and the Philadelphia Sketch Club March 20 - May 23 Drawing From a Story: Illustrations by Select Caldecott Medal Winners March 20 - May 23 Events

Columbia, SC Columbia Museum of Art The Chemistry of Color: Contemporary African-American Artists Feb. 5 –May 9 Events

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

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

Memphis, TN Memphis Brooks Art Museum 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

Clarksville, TN Customs House Museum and Cultural Center Modern Girls, Women’s History Month exhibit Closes Feb. 28!!!! *3rd Biennial Arts & Craft Juried Exhibition* Jan. 12th - April 3rd Event

Nashville, TN Centennial Art Center Paintings and Sculptures by Kaaren Hirschowitz Engel and Sydney Reichman Closes March 26
Cheekwoood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art Abstract Visions: 20th Century American Art March 13 - May 2 The American Impressionists in the Garden March 13 - Sept. 6 The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection of Faberge Ongoing *William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit* Ongoing
Frist Center for the Visual Arts *Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece* Jan. 29 - April 25 Masterpieces of European Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce Feb. 19 - May 16 U-Ram Choe: New Urban Species Feb. 19 - May 16 Events


The Parthenon Cartagena Memories: Paintings by Jorge A. Yances March 6-June 26 HIDDEN GEMS: A HISTORY OF COLLECTING AT THE PARTHENON Feb. 20 – June 12 Event
Tennessee Art League COLOR THROUGH TIME: Noriko Register Through April The Premiere Gallery WOMENS HISTORY MONTH EXHIBIT Through March 27 2nd Floor Gallery
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery Eye & Mind: A Legacy of Art Collecting at Vanderbilt University Through May 13, 2020.

Chattanooga, TN Creative Discovery Museum Good For You: Healthy Fun on the Run Through May 16 Event
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 Event

Oak Ridge, TN Children's Museum of Oak Ridge *Marta’s Fairy Tales* Through April 13

Knoxville, TN The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture *New to Knoxville* March 5-26 *Headlights and Streetlights* March 5-26 Arts in the Airport April 22, 2010
The Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture University of Tennessee Knoxville *2010 MFA Exhibitions: Group 1* Closes Mar 13!!!!
Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee 2,000 Years of Chinese Art Han Dynasty to the Present Through May 23, 2010
Knoxville Museum of Art *Wind/Rewind/Weave* Jan. 22–April 25 *Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee* Ongoing
Ramsey House Plantation Event

Johnson City, TN Slocumb Galleries ETSU MFA Exhibitions at Slocumb Galleries March 15 to March 19 Event

Midland, TX Museum of the Southwest The Nashville Portraits by Jim McGuire Closes March 14!!!! Midland Arts Association Annual Juried Exhibit March 11 – April 11 Jean Cappadonna-Nichols Closes March 21

Fort Worth, TX Kimbell Art Museum From the Private Collections of Texas: European Art, Ancient to Modern Closes March 21 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 Meadows Museum SMU Royal Splendor: from art collection of King Charles IV of Spain (1748-1819) March 7 – July 18 Events

Dallas Museum of Art Performance/Art Closes Mar. 21 Jacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture Through May 23 Materials & Meanings Through Summer 2010 Center for Creative Connections Events

Wasau, WI Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Las Artes de Mexico January 30 – April 11 Events

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