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Huntsville, AL

Huntsville Museum of Art

  • 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
    • March 25 – June 10
  • Event
Encounters: Sloane Bibb

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
    • Feb. 22 – 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

  • 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
  • California Impressionism: Selections from the Irvine Museum
    • March 24 – May 27
    • MMA La Mirada
  • Arline Fisch: Sea Jellies
    • March 24 – July 22
    • MMA La Mirada
  • FROM DAWN TO DUSK: GOTTARDO PIAZZONI’S FINAL MURALS
    • Through Dec. 2012
    • MMA La Mirada
  • Events
Urban Life: Photography in the City

Laguna Beach, CA

Laguna Art Museum

  • Laguna College of Art + Design’s graduate MFA in Painting and Drawing exhibition spring 2012
    • May 5-27
  • California Artists: Late nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries
    • Extended through May 20
  • Event
Victor Hugo Zayas: Mi Obra

Pomona, CA

American Museum of Ceramic Art
  • kilnopening.edu 2012
    • April 14 – June 30
  • Big Fish, Small Pot V
    • April 14 – June 30
  • High School
    • April 14 – June 30
Big Fish, Small Pot V

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
  • Greenwich Lost and Preserved
    • March 3 - May 27
  • Event
The Olympic Games: Art, Culture & Sport

Storrs, CT

The William Benton Museum of Art University of Connecticut

  • Object: Found Sculpture by Leo Sewell
    • March 22 – May 20
  • Screenshots
    • March 22 – May 20
  • Events
Screenshots

Norwalk, CT

Center for Contemporary Printmaking

  • Panorama: The Annual Members’ Exhibition
    • April 1 - May 27
  • From the Studio: Wet-on-wet Woodcuts
    • April 1 - May 27
  • Events
Panorama: The Annual Members’ Exhibition

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
Curtain Up: Broadway Behind the Scenes

Washington, DC

Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens

  • The Style that Ruled the Empires: Russia, Napoleon, and 1812
    • Feb. 14 – June 2
  • Events
The Style that Ruled the Empires: Russia, Napoleon, and 1812

Winter Park, FL

Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College
  • MENAGERIE: Studio Art Class of 2012
    • Closes May 13!!!!
  • Dust and Shade: Drawings by Charles Ritchie
    • Closes May 13!!!!
  • British & Modern: Art by the Bloomsbury Group and Their Contemporaries
    • Closes May 13!!!!
  • Sam Gilliam: Contingencies
    • Closes May 13!!!!
  • A Room of One's Own: Women Artists from the Permanent Collection
    • Closes May 13!!!!
  • Event

Daytona Beach, FL

The Southeast Museum of Photography
  • 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
DEPARTURES 2012: A Juried Student Exhibition

Miami, FL

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University
  • Creative Visions
    • May 9 – May 16
  • scapes: lynne golob gelfman
    • May 16 – September 2
  • Ursula von Rydingsvard: Sculpture
    • April 21, August 5
  • Michael Genovese: P.S. / P.P.S.
    • April 17 - May 27
  • 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
scapes: lynne golob gelfman

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
MANIFEST AND MUNDANE: SCENES OF MODERN AMERICA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION

Boca Raton, FL

Boca Raton Museum of Art
  • AMERICAN TREASURES: Masterworks From the Butler Institute of American Art
    • Closes May 20
  • GLASS ACT: The Contemporary Studio Art Glass Movement Turns 50
    • March 27 - October 14
  • MUTED IMPRINTS: An Installation by MISAKO INAOKA
    • Closes May 20
  • Portraits from the Permanent Collection
    • Closes May 13!!!!
  • THERESA BERNSTEIN: An Early Modernist: Paintings from the Martin and Edith Stein Collection
    • Ongoing
  • AN ARTISTIC DISCOVERY: The Congressional Student Art Competition
    • Closes May 20
  • Event
WILL BARNET AT 100: Eight Decades of Painting and Printmaking

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
  • Beth Lipman: A Still Life Installation
    • Jan. 18 – May 27
  • Studio Glass: Works from the Museum Collection
    • Jan. 18 – May 27
  • Beth Lipman: A Still Life Installation
    • Jan. 18 – May 27
  • Event
Decoding Messages in Chinese Art

Atlanta, GA

Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University
  • Embodied Seeing: Modernist Works on Paper
    • Closes May 20
Embodied Seeing: Modernist Works on Paper

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
    • April 7 - June 3
  • Performing Identity: Marina Abramovic, Eleanor Antin, and Hannah Wilke
    • March 21 - 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
    • March 21 - 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
Remixing History: Manolo Valdés

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)
  • School of Art + Design Bachelor of Fine Arts
    • Closes May 13!!!!
  • Jerusalem Saved! Inness and the Spiritual Landscape
    • Closes May 13!!!!
  • Events
Jerusalem Saved! Inness and the Spiritual Landscape

Indianapolis, IN

Indianapolis Museum of Art

  • 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
    • Extended through 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
Alyson Shotz: Fluid State


Logan, KS

The Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum

  • Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
    • April 20 - May 27
State of Kansas Historical Mural

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
    • Feb. 19 - May 13
  • Make It POP!
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Visions of Mexican Art at Wichita Art Museum

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