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Press Release 5-12-10: 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 Feb. 14- Jan. 2, 2011 Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World Apr 11, 2010 through Mar 6, 2011 A River Apart Through Jun 6 The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery Ongoing Here, Now and Always Ongoing Event
New Mexico Museum of Art Sole Mates: Cowboy Boots and Art Opens May 14 - September 5 New Arrivals: Works from the Collection February 12 - O’Keeffe and Baumann Ongoing How The West is One: The Art of New Mexico Ongoing Closes April 18 Art on the Edge 2010 April 16 - August 1 Event
New Mexico History Museum Segesser Hide Paintings Ongoing Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción Ongoing Telling New Mexico Ongoing Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton May 23, 2010 - May 8, 2011 Events

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 *Hands in Harmony: Traditional Crafts and Music in Appalachia, Photographs by Tim Barnwell* Opens May 14 – October 10 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 Closes May 16!!!! Mark Hewitt: Falling Into Place February 11 - Events

Raleigh, NC *With Lathe and Chisel: North Carolina Wood Turners and Carvers* Closes May 15 *Faces and Mazes* Closes May 15

Wilmington, NC The Cameron Art Museum *Recollection: The Past Is Present* Through June 20 KALEIDOSCOPE: Changing Views of the Permanent Collection Extended to August 15 *North Carolina Collects: The Real McCoy* April 23 - September 12

Cincinnati, OH Contemporary Arts Center Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand Through August 22 *Ernesto Neto: Dancing Allowed* Opens May 22 Pat Steir: Water & Stone Opens May 22 UnMuseum Exhibition: *Stay Up! Cincinnati* Through October 31 Event

Greensburg, PA Westmoreland Museum of American Art Concerning the 1930s in Art: Paintings from the Schoen Collection Closes May 16!!!! Paul Binai: Pulp Nation Closes 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 Closes May 23 N.C. Wyeth and the Philadelphia Sketch Club Closes 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 Closes May 30 109th Annual Student Exhibition May 15 – June 6, 2010 Roxana Pérez-Méndez: Este Es Mi Pais Opens May 22 - September 26

Columbia, SC Columbia Museum of Art *Imperial Splendor: Renaissance Tapestries from Vienna* Opens May 21 - Sept. 19, 2010 Events

Charleston, SC Gibbes Museum of Art *Modern Masters from the Ferguson Collection* April 30 - August 22 Whistler’s Travels Closes May 16!!!! The Charleston Story Ongoing Events
Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art Call and Response: Africa to America / The Art of Nick Cave and Phyllis Galembo Opens May 27 - June 26

Brookings, SD South Dakota Art Museum Harvey Dunn: Select Works Through Nov. 1, 2010

Memphis, TN Children's Museum of Memphis *Run! Jump! Fly! Adventures in Action* Closes May 16!!!! *Harry's Big Adventure: My Bug World!* Feb. 13- June 13
Pink Palace Museum *I Am A Man* Through October 24

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

Frist Center for the Visual Arts Chihuly at the Frist May 9 Masterpieces of European Painting from Museo de Arte de Ponce Closes May 16!!!! U-Ram Choe: New Urban Species Closes May 16!!!! Events


Tennessee Art League Studio A Artists May 1 - 29
Tennessee State Library and Archives Tennessee Myths and Legends Extended, closing soon
Tennessee State Museum We Shall Not Be Moved: The 50th Anniversary of Tennessee’s Civil Rights Sit-Ins Closes May 16!!!!

Sewanee, TN University Art Gallery Sewanee: The University of the South *Wherefore: Sewanee Senior Art Majors 2010* Closes May 15!!!!

Chattanooga, TN Creative Discovery Museum Good For You: Healthy Fun on the Run Closes May 16!!!! Event
Hunter Museum of American Art Transformation 6: Contemporary Works in Glass May 9 - Oct 27 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

Knoxville, TN The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture 2010 Members Show May 7-28 New Works in The Balcony May 7-28
Knoxville Museum of Art *BLOOM* April 1 - August 1 North Garden Vision, Language, and Influence: Photographs of the South by Baldwin Lee, Walker Evans, and Eudora Welty Opens May 14 – August 1 *Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee* Ongoing Event

Gatlinburg, TN Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts *2010 Instructor Exhibition* May 7 - October 8

Johnson City, TN Slocumb Galleries ETSU Mockingbird Show May 10 to 14 Tony Henson Solo Painting Exhibition May 17 to June 4

Museum of the Southwest New York, September 11th by Magnum Photographers Closes May 30 Expatriate, Neighbors and Friends: Denny Pickett: Painting April 2 - May 30

Albany, TX The Old Jail Center Sean Scully: Works from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Closes May 23 A Cell of One’s Own: Nancy Lamb – The Business of Pleasure Closes May 23 Asian Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection Ongoing 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 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 April 25 - August 22 The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874 Closes May 23 Jacob Lawrence: The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture Closes May 23 Materials & Meanings Through Summer 2010 Center for Creative Connections Events

Wausau, 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

Racine, WI Racine Art Museum *Catherine Chalmers: American Cockroach* April 18 – Sept.12 *Jennifer Angus: Patterns of Insect Life* April 25 – Sept. 26 *The Insectopedia of Joanna Poehlmann* April 25 – Sept. 26 *Insects and Invaders in RAM's Collection* June 13 – Oct. 17

Casper, WY Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center 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 Event

Click here for page 1: Alabama to Missouri

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