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Press Release 5-26-10: 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

Albuquerque, NM The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales May16 – August 8 *Focus on Youth 2010* May 9 - August 1 Where's Albuquerque? Three hundred years of New Mexico Maps Through June Ships on the Line: Albuquerque and the Golden Age of Aviation Through July The Portrait Tradition: Albuquerque Photographers Through July Selections from the Collection of Drs. Bette K. and John R. Graham Through July Albuquerque's New Town Through July Common Ground: Art in New Mexico Ongoing. Four Centuries: The History of Albuquerque Permanent
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 Closes Jun 6 The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery Ongoing Here, Now and Always Ongoing Event
Museum of International Folk Art *Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda* June 6, 2010 - January 2, 2011 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 *Multiple Visions: A Common Bond* Ongoing
New Mexico Museum of Art Sole Mates: Cowboy Boots and Art 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 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

Chapel Hill , NC Ackland Art Museum Fortune Smiles: The Tyche Foundation Gift May 23 - August 29 The Early Modern Artist as Poet, Philosopher, and Orator Through August 8 Art and Cultural Exchange along the Silk Road Through June 5, 2011

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 Mark Hewitt: Falling Into Place February 11 - Events

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

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 Crocks, Jugs, and Jars: Decorated American Stoneware Opens May 29 - July 10 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 Closes June 6 Roxana Pérez-Méndez: Este Es Mi Pais May 22 - September 26

Columbia, SC Columbia Museum of Art *Imperial Splendor: Renaissance Tapestries from Vienna* May 21 - Sept. 19, 2010 *Innovation and Change: Great Ceramics from the Ceramics Research Center* May 28 - Sept. 5 Events

Charleston, SC Gibbes Museum of Art *JoAnn Verburg: Interruptions* Opens May 28 - August 22 *Modern Masters from the Ferguson Collection* April 30 - August 22 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

Memphis, TN Memphis Brooks Art Museum Ex Libris: The Art of Ownership Closes June 6 Photographs from the James K. Patterson Collection: Salon Style Through Sept. 5 Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present June 26 - September 26 Events

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

Nashville, TN Centennial Art Center *Scott Hodes – Glass Vessels, Michael Summers – Furniture, Tom Walton – Painting* Closes Today, May 26!!!!
Cheekwoood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art *Chilhuly at Cheekwood* May 25 - October 31 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 Events
Frist Center for the Visual Arts Chihuly at the Frist May 9, 2010 – January 2, 2011 Events


The Parthenon Cartagena Memories: Paintings by Jorge A. Yances Through June 26 HIDDEN GEMS: A HISTORY OF COLLECTING AT THE PARTHENON Closes June 12
Tennessee Art League Studio A Artists Closes May 29!!!!
Tennessee State Library and Archives Tennessee Myths and Legends Extended, closing soon

Chattanooga, TN Creative Discovery Museum Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body Opens May 29 – September 6 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 Event

Knoxville, TN The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture 2010 Members Show Closes May 28!!!! New Works in The Balcony Closes May 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 Tony Henson Solo Painting Exhibition May 17 to June 4 Apples, Peaches, Plums and Other Lively Things June 3 to 7 Tipton Gallery Event

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!!!! Randolph Howard: Painting Contemporary Artists Series June 11 – August 22

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 Materials & Meanings Through July 25 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 Event

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

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