Press Release: 3-3-10

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Press Release 3-3-10: Openings, Closings, and Events plus Reminders
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Openings, Closings, and Events
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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

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 Through 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, 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

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 *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 Cloes Mar. 14 *Paired Photographs* Through March 21 Heather Rowe: Tenuous Arrangements February 19-August 1 Events

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

Louisville, KY Louisville Visual Art Association Water Tower Regional Closes March 7!!!!
The Speed Art Museum European and American Art, 1800-1960 Extended *Hattie Bishop Speed: Founder and Collector* Closes March 7!!!! Hattie Bishop Speed: A New Museum for Louisville Closes March 14

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 Through 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 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 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
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 Events

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

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

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 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
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
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

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

Nashville, TN 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 - Masterpieces of European Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce Feb. 19 - Events


The Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery Kamal Al Mansour: Connected Closes tomorrow, March 5!!!!
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 Event
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

Sewanee, TN University Art Gallery Sewanee: The University of the South *Caroline Allison’s A Common Place* Feb.19 – April 11

Chattanooga 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

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* Feb 26 - Mar 13 Event
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 The Nashville Portraits by Jim McGuire January 26 - March 14 Burton Pritzker: Forgotten Planes Closes February 28!!!! Jean Cappadonna-Nichols January 22nd - March 21

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 Event

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 Through 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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