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Press Release 3-17-10: 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 Wyoming - page 2 Click here for page 1: Alabama to Missouri

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
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, PA Westmoreland Museum of American Art Concerning the 1930s in Art: Paintings from the Schoen Collection Closes May 16 *Ben Schachter: Kosher/Treif and Eruvim* Closes March 21!!!! Event

Chadds Ford, PA Brandywine River Museum Laugh Lines: Cartoons and Caricatures from the Collection Closes March 21!!!! Drawing From a Story: Illustrations by Select Caldecott Medal Winners March 20 - May 23 N.C. Wyeth and the Philadelphia Sketch Club March 20 - May 23 Events

Philadelphia, PA Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious January 29 - April 11 C. R. Ettinger Studio Selections from 2000 to 2010 January 29 - April 11 Public Treasures/Private Visions: Hudson River School Masterworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Private Collections Through May 30 *Robert Ryman: Philadelphia Prototype, 2002* Jan. 23 -

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 Through April 18th *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 Event
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
Tennessee Art League COLOR THROUGH TIME: Noriko Register Through April The Premiere Gallery WOMENS HISTORY MONTH EXHIBIT Closes March 27 2nd Floor Gallery

Chattanooga, TN 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* Closes March 26 Everyday Adorned: A Collection by Paige Barbee Closes March 26 Arts in the Airport April 22, 2010
The Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture University of Tennessee Knoxville 63rd Annual Student Art Competition March 23-31 Events
Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee 2,000 Years of Chinese Art Han Dynasty to the Present Through May 23, 2010
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 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

Casper, WY Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center A Relative Condition: The Landscape Paintings of Karen Kitchel Jan. 22-April 11 The Spaces In Between, by Kate Petley Jan. 22-April 11 Drawing on the West: Selections from the Permanent Collection Ongoing *Conrad Schwiering Studio collection* Ongoing

Click here for page 1: Alabama to Missouri

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