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Press Release 4-21-10: 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 Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World Apr 11, 2010 through Mar 6, 2011 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* Closes April 18 Art on the Edge 2010 April 16 - August 1 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 *Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam & Contemporary Chinese Art.* March 25 - July 25 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 KALEIDOSCOPE: Changing Views of the Permanent Collection Through May 9 *Recollection: The Past Is Present* Through June 20

Greensburg, PA Westmoreland Museum of American Art Concerning the 1930s in Art: Paintings from the Schoen Collection Through May 16 Paul Binai: Pulp Nation Through May 16 Event

Chadds Ford, PA Brandywine River Museum John Haberle: American Master of Illusion April 17 - July 11 Eye to Eye: Portrait Miniatures from the Collection of Jamie Wyeth April 17 - July 11 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 Public Treasures/Private Visions: Hudson River School Masterworks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Private Collections Through May 30 109th Annual Student Exhibition May 15 – June 6, 2010

Columbia, SC Columbia Museum of Art The Chemistry of Color: Contemporary African-American Artists Closes 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
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art Annual juried student exhibition, Young Contemporaries 2010 Featuring recent work by current College of Charleston students Closes April 27!!!!

Memphis, TN Memphis Brooks Art Museum The Apocalypse: A Series of Woodcuts by Joseph Weisz Closes April 25!!!! Ex Libris: The Art of Ownership Through June 6 Venice in the Age of Canaletto Feb. 14 - May 9 Photographs from the James K. Patterson Collection: Salon Style Through Sept. 5 Events
The Pink Palace Museum *Chocolate The Exhibition* Closes April 25!!!!

Clarksville, TN Customs House Museum and Cultural Center *Bagels and Barbeque: The Jewish Experience in Tennessee* Through June 27 *Our Water, Our Life* Through June 29 *Gone Fishing* April 23 - August 8 Event

Nashville, TN Centennial Art Center *Scott Hodes – Glass Vessels, Michael Summers – Furniture, Tom Walton – Painting* April 2 – May 26
Cheekwoood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art Abstract Visions: 20th Century American Art Closes 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* Closes 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 Closes April 30th The Premiere Gallery Shouts and Whisipers: Stephanie Helmey Closes April 30th Ethel Smith Gallery
Tennessee State Library and Archives Tennessee Myths and Legends Closes April 29
Tennessee State Museum We Shall Not Be Moved: The 50th Anniversary of Tennessee’s Civil Rights Sit-Ins February 4 - May 16

Sewanee, TN University Art Gallery Sewanee: The University of the South *Wherefore: Sewanee Senior Art Majors 2010* April 20 – May 15

Chattanooga, TN Creative Discovery Museum Good For You: Healthy Fun on the Run Jan. 22 - May 16 Event
Hunter Museum of American Art Still Lifes from the Hunter Museum Collection Closes April 25!!!! Twenty Original American Etchings Through June 6th Themes of Identity Through June 6th Jellies: Living Art at Tennessee Aquarium Ongoing

Rugby, TN Historic Rugby Event

Oak Ridge, TN Children's Museum of Oak Ridge Event

Knoxville, TN The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture *Re-Vision: Viewing Ordinary Objects in Extraordinary Ways* Closes April 23!!!! Student Art Closes April 23!!!! Arts in the Airport Closes April 22!!!!
Knoxville Museum of Art *BLOOM* April 1 - August 1 North Garden *Wind/Rewind/Weave* Closes April 25!!!! *Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee* Ongoing
Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee 2,000 Years of Chinese Art: Han Dynasty to the Present Through May 23

Gatlinburg, TN Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Arrowmont Resident Artists Annual Exhibition Closes May 1 Jerry Drown Turned Wood Collection Wood Studio Gallery Ongoing

Fort Worth, TX Kimbell Art Museum 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 Goya and López: Court Painters for Charles IV March 7 – July 18 Events

Dallas Museum of Art Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea Opens April 25 - August 22 The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874 Feb. 21–May 23 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 William Steig: The Man Who Never Grew Up April 17 - June 20 Elliott Erwitt: Dog Dogs April 17 - June 20 Events

Casper, WY Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center Sensational Small Stuff Invitational Closes April 23!!!! A Perfect Fit: Traveling Exhibition from the Fuller Craft Museum May 1-September 12 Allen True's West May 1-July 25 *Conrad Schwiering Studio collection* Ongoing

Click here for page 1: Alabama to Missouri

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