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Huntsville, AL

Huntsville Museum of Art

  • The Red Clay Survey: 2012 Exhibition of Contemporary Southern Art
    • May 20 - Sept. 16
  • CHICKS: American Women from the Collection
    • Through July 15
  • Encounters: Sloane Bibb
    • April 1 – September 16
  • Darkness into Life: Alabama Holocaust Survivors Through Photography and Art
    • Closes June 10
  • Event

Stanford, CA

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts

  • Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley
    • May 16 – October 14
  • Wood, Metal, Paint: Sculpture from the Fisher Collection
    • Feb. 29, 2012 – Oct. 13, 2013
  • Memory and Markets: Pueblo Painting in the Early 20th Century
    • Closes May 27
  • Light Works: Dan Flavin and Robert Irwin, Art from the 1960s
    • March 21 – July 8
  • Go Figure!
    • Through August 5, 2012
  • Expanding Views of Africa
    • Ongoing
  • Sequence, sculpture by distinguished American contemporary artist Richard Serra
    • Through 2016
  • Collection Highlights from Europe, Ancient Greece and Rome
    • Ongoing
  • Rodin Sculpture Garden
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley

Monterey, CA

Monterey Museum of Art

  • Youth Arts Collective (YAC)
    • May 19-August 2
  • Water/Paper/Brush
    • April 5 - TBD
    • MMA Pacific Street
  • Urban Life: Photography in the City
    • April 5, 2012-January 6, 2013
    • MMA Pacific Street
  • Monterey Modernism
    • April 5 – June 17
    • MMA Pacific Street
  • A New Deal: Art of the Great Depression
    • April 5 – June 17
    • MMA Pacific Street
  • FROM DAWN TO DUSK: GOTTARDO PIAZZONI’S FINAL MURALS
    • Through Dec. 2012
    • MMA La Mirada
  • Arline Fisch: Sea Jellies
    • March 24 – July 22
    • MMA La Mirada
  • Events
FROM DAWN TO DUSK: GOTTARDO PIAZZONI’S FINAL MURALS

Irvine, CA

The Irvine Museum

  • Inner Visions: Women Artists of California
    • Closes June 7!!!!
Inner Visions: Women Artists of California


Torrance, CA

Torrance Art Museum
  • Between The Knowing
    • Closes June 2!!!!
  • Two-Headed Monster: CamLab and Davis & Davis
    • Closes June 2!!!!
  • Events
Between The Knowing

Greenwich, CT

Bruce Museum

  • The Olympic Games: Art, Culture & Sport
    • May 12 - September 2
  • Marking a Century: Recent and Promised Gifts to the Bruce Museum: Part I.
    • April 14 - July 8
  • The Games: The Science of Sport
    • March 24 - August 12
  • Event
The Olympic Games: Art, Culture & Sport

New London, CT

Lyman Allyn Art Museum

  • Curtain Up: Broadway Behind the Scenes
    • April 14 - Sept. 1
  • America @ Work: New Deal Murals in New London and Beyond
    • March 8 - June 9
  • Event
Curtain Up: Broadway Behind the Scenes

Washington, DC

Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens

  • The Style that Ruled the Empires: Russia, Napoleon, and 1812
    • Closes June 2!!!!
  • Events
The Style that Ruled the Empires: Russia, Napoleon, and 1812

Winter Park, FL

Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College
  • The Prints of Gustave Baumann
    • May 18 - Dec. 30
  • British & Modern: Art by the Bloomsbury Group and Their Contemporaries
    • Extended through September 2
  • A Room of One's Own: Women Artists from the Permanent Collection
    • Extended through September 2
The Prints of Gustave Baumann

Daytona Beach, FL

The Southeast Museum of Photography
  • ALUMNI FOCUS: CHRISTIAN WEBER: Since the Millennium
    • May 23 – September 16
  • DEPARTURES 2012: A Juried Student Exhibition
    • May 2 - July 29
  • UCF THESIS EXHIBITION 2012: Graduating Student Photography from the University of Central Florida (Daytona Beach)
    • May 2 - July 29
  • Beate Sass – TALL TIMBERS PLANTATION PROJECT
    • Through July 31
  • Events
ALUMNI FOCUS: CHRISTIAN WEBER: Since the Millennium

Miami, FL

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University
  • Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture
    • April 21, August 5
  • scapes: lynne golob gelfman
    • May 16 – September 2
  • Museum Studies Spring 2012 Exhibition: Jamaican Art
    • April 25 – August 26
  • The War We Have Not Seen by Juan Manuel Echavarría
    • March 7 – July 1
  • Events
DEPARTURES 2012: A Juried Student Exhibition

Miami Beach, FL

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

  • Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010
    • May 11 - September 9
  • Visions of Victory: Picturing the Spanish-American War
    • April 19 - August 19
  • MANIFEST AND MUNDANE: SCENES OF MODERN AMERICA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
    • Sept. 8 - August 2012
  • Food and Wine Advertisement
    • On view in the library vestibule
    • Jan 26 - May 21
  • LAWRENCE WEINER (MIRA & VE)
    • Ongoing installation
  • Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010

Boca Raton, FL

Boca Raton Museum of Art
  • 61st Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition
    • May 30 - July 8
  • Boca Museum Attists' Guild Biennial Exhibition
    • May 30 - July 8
  • GLASS ACT: The Contemporary Studio Art Glass Movement Turns 50
    • May 30 - July 8
  • THERESA BERNSTEIN: An Early Modernist: Paintings from the Martin and Edith Stein Collection
    • Ongoing
  • Portraits from the Permanent Collection
    • Ongoing (in the Auditorium)
  • Sculpture Garden
    • Ongoing
  • Event
61st Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition

West Palm Beach, FL

Norton Museum of Art

  • American Masters at the Norton: Clyfford Still and Joan Mitchell
    • Mar 22 - Fall 2012
  • Outside/In: Florida Photographers Face-to-Face with the Museum Collection
    • March 22 - June 10
  • Event
American Masters at the Norton: Clyfford Still and Joan Mitchell

Athens, GA

Georgia Museum of Art

  • Defiant Beauty: The Work of Chakaia Booker
    • April 28, 2012 - April 28, 2013
    • Jane and Harry Willson Sculpture Garden
  • Remixing History: Manolo Valdés
    • April 28, 2012 - April 28, 2013
    • Performing and Visual Arts Complex, University of Georgia
  • John Baeder
    • April 28 - July 22
  • Southern Folk Art from the Permanent Collection
    • April 28 - July 22
  • Polly Knipp Hill: Marking a Life Through Etching
    • Closes June 3!!!!
  • Performing Identity: Marina Abramovic, Eleanor Antin, and Hannah Wilke
    • Closes June 10
  • Pattern and Palette in Print: Gentry Magazine and a New Generation of Trendsetters
    • March 17 - June 17
  • Performing Identity: Marina Abramovic, Eleanor Antin, and Hannah Wilke
    • Closes June 10
  • A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery
    • March 17 - July 29
  • All Creatures Great and Small
    • Through October 16
    • Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Events
Polly Knipp Hill: Marking a Life Through Etching

Augusta, GA

Morris Museum of Art

  • Golden Afternoon: English Watercolors from the Elsley Collection
    • April 21 - July 1
  • Sculpture by Bob Trotman
    • April 10 -Sept. 30
  • Window on the West: Views from the American Frontier
    • Through July 22
  • Events
Office: Sculpture by Bob Trotman

Savannah, GA

Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace

  • The year 2012 is the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouting in the United States!
  • Events
Permanent Collection

Champaign, IL

Krannert Art Museum
(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  • Walking in Paris: Viewing the City and Its Denizens in the 19th Century
    • May 22 - August 12
  • Expressions in Color: Selections from the Museum's 20th Century Collection
    • May 22 - August 12
Walking in Paris: Viewing the City and Its Denizens in the 19th Century

Indianapolis, IN

Indianapolis Museum of Art

  • Provincetown
    • May 18-August 11
  • Alyson Shotz: Fluid State
    • May 10, 2012-January 6, 2013
  • An American Legacy: Norell, Blass, Halston and Sprouse
    • May 4, 2012-January 27, 2013
  • Aziz + Cucher: Some People
    • April 13-October 21
  • Urban Vision: American Works on Paper, 1900–1950
    • March 30-Sept. 30
  • Aziz + Cucher: Some People
    • April 13-October 21
  • Allora & Calzadilla: Vieques Series:
    • Through October 14
  • Looking West
    • Feb. 3- Aug. 5
  • Universe Is Flux: The Art of Tawara Yūsaku
    • Closes June 10
  • Printmakers in the Cafés of Paris
    • Through August 22
  • The Tomb of Vigna Codini II
    • Through January 2013
  • The Viewing Project: Above and Below
    • Through December 31
  • Events
Looking West

Ames, IA

University Museums
Iowa State University

  • HOT and COOL: Contemporary Studio Glass from the Permanent Collection
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • May 15 through August 5, 2012
  • The Age of Brilliance: Cut Glass from the Permanent Collection
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • January 10-August 3, 2012 
  • Realties: The Lyric Sculpture of William King
    • Through August 2012
    • Anderson Sculpture Garden, around Morrill Hall
  • Salon to Modern Gallery: Paintings from the Permanent Collection
    • January 10-August 3, 2012 
    • Brunnier Art Museum
  • French Art Nouveau: From the Permanent Collection
    • January 10-August 3, 2012 
    • Brunnier Art Museum
  • A Fragile Thread of Glass
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • January 10-August 3, 2012 
  • Priscilla Sage: Contemporary Sculpture
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • January 10-August 3, 2012 
  • Salon to Modern Gallery: Paintings from the Permanent Collection
    • January 10-August 3, 2012 
  • N. C. Wyeth: America In the Making
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • January 10-August 3, 2012 
  • Iowa City & Keota Glass
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • January 10-August 3, 2012 
  • Be It Enacted: Legislation and the Farm House
    • Farm House Museum
    • Through May 2012
  • Remembering the Sculpture of Christian Petersen
    • Christian Petersen Art Museum: Morrill Hall
    • May 14 through August 3, 2012
  • Events
HOT and COOL: Contemporary Studio Glass from the Permanent Collection

Logan, KS

The Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum

  • Midwest Transplant Donor Quilt & Quilt Class Exhibit
    • June 1 - July 1
Midwest Transplant Donor Quilt & Quilt Class Exhibit

Wichita, KS
  • Gustave Wolff: An Impressionist Eye for New York
    • May 13 - August 5, 2012
  • Visions of Mexican Art at Wichita Art Museum
    • April 29 - August 26
  • The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art
    • Extended through June 24
  • Make It POP!
    • Ongoing
  • Events
The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art

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