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Albuquerque, NM

The Albuquerque Museum of Art and History
  • EXPLORING ART OF THE ANCIENT AMERICAS: THE JOHN BOURNE COLLECTION
    • June 10 - August 26
  • ALBUQUERQUE: ALONG THE RIO GRANDE
    • Through Sept. 2013
  • Events
EXPLORING ART OF THE ANCIENT AMERICAS: THE JOHN BOURNE COLLECTION

Santa Fe, NM

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
  • Georgia O'Keeffe and the Faraway: Nature and Image
The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture
  • They Wove for Horses: Diné Saddle Blankets
    • March 25 - Aug 25
  • Margarete Bagshaw: Breaking the Rules
    • Feb 12, 2012 through Dec 30, 2013
  • Woven Identities
    • Nov 20, 2011 - April 1, 2014
  • The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery
    • Ongoing
  • Here, Now and Always
    • Ongoing
  • Events
They Wove for Horses: Diné Saddle Blankets
Museum of International Folk Art
  • Young Brides, Old Treasures: Macedonian Embroidered Dress
    • Through Jan 6, 2013
  • Folk Art of the Andes
    • Through March 10, 2013
  • Multiple Visions: A Common Bond
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Young Brides, Old Treasures: Macedonian Embroidered Dress
New Mexico Museum of Art
  • The Curve: Center Award Winners, 2012
    • May 25 - Aug 26
  • It’s About Time: 14,000 Years of Art in New Mexico
    • May 11, 2012 through Jan 1, 2013
  • Treasures Seldom Seen
    • March 2 -
  • Alcove 12.0: Susan Marie Dopp, Mike Edge, Miguel Gandert, Rebekah Potter, and Todd Volz
    • March 23, 2012 - April 5, 2013
  • Waterscapes: Photographs from the Collection
    • March 23 - August 26
  • O’Keeffe and Baumann
    • Ongoing
  • Events
The Curve: Center Award Winners, 201
New Mexico History Museum
  • Illuminating the Word: The Saint John’s Bible
    • Extended through December 30
  • Contemplative Landscape
    • Through Dec 31, 2012
  • Native American Portraits: Points of Inquiry
    • May 18 - Nov 4
  • Telling New Mexico: A Noble Legacy: The USS “New Mexico”
    • Ongoing
  • Segesser Hide Paintings
    • Ongoing
  • Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción
    • Ongoing
  • Events
47 Stars

Catskill, NY

Thomas Cole National Historic Site
  • Worlds Between - Landscapes of Louis Rémy Mignot
    • Through October 28
Worlds Between - Landscapes of Louis Rémy Mignot

Albany, NY

Albany Institute of History & Art

  • Recent Acquisitions
    • Opens June 30 then ongoing
  • Great, Strange and Rarely Seen: Objects from the Vault
    • April 14 - August 16
  • FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN: GEORGE WASHINGTON
    • Extended through August 12
  • Events
RECENT ACQUISITIONS

Asheville, NC

Asheville Art Museum

  • The Essential Idea: Robert Motherwell's Graphic Works
    • March 31 - August 26
  • Artworks Project Space: Hoss Haley
    • March 23 - October 28,
  • Prime Time: New Media Juried Exhibition
    •  March 23 - Sept. 9
  • Fire on the Mountain: Studio Glass in Western North Carolina
    • Closes July 8
  • Ancient Forms, Modern Minds: Contemporary Cherokee Ceramics
    • March 23 - Sept. 16
  • Looking Back: Celebrating 60 Years of Collecting at the Asheville Art Museum
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Prime Time: New Media Juried Exhibition

Hickory, NC

Hickory Museum of Art

  • The Catawba Valley Remembered: Paintings by Arie Reinhardt Taylor
    • June 2 - Sept. 16
  • From Billy to Wiili
    • Through August 26
  • Waking Up with Van Gogh
    • April 7 - July 29
  • Susan Webb Tregay: Contemporary Art for Adult Children
    • May 26 - August 26
  • Waking Up with Van Gogh
    • April 7 - July 29
  • DISCOVER FOLK ART: Unique Visions by Southern Self-Taught Artists from the Hickory Museum of Art Collection
    • Ongoing
  • SOUTHERN CONTEMPORARY FOLK ART
    • Ongoing
  • AMERICAN ART POTTERY: From the Museum's Moody Collection
    • Ongoing
  • BORN OF FIRE: Glass from the Museum's Luski Collection
    • Ongoing
  • Event
From Billy to Wiili

Winston-Salem, NC

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA)
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    • April 27 - Sept. 16
  • Light and Space: The Sculpture of Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová
    • April 27 - August 5
  • Events
Light and Space: The Sculpture of Stanislav Libenský and Jaroslava Brychtová

Chapel Hill, NC

Ackland Art Museum
  • Adding to the Mix 4: Johann Joachim Kändler’s Apollo (c. 1748)
    • June 1 - August 12
  • Thornton Dial: Thoughts on Paper
    • Closes July 1!!!!
  • Piece by Piece: Quilts, Collages, and Constructions
    • Closes July 1!!!!
  • Chords of Memory: Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton
    • Extended through August 5
  • Highlights from the Permanent Collection
    • Through Dec. 31, 2013
  • Event
Chords of Memory: Lithographs by Thomas Hart Benton

Durham, NC

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

  • Romare Bearden: 20th Century American Master
    • Extended through August 26
  • Angels, Devils and the Electric Slide: Outsider Art from the Permanent Collection
    • Dec. 10, 2011 – July 8, 2012
  • Containing Antiquity
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Angels, Devils and the Electric Slide: Outsider Art from the Permanent Collection

Raleigh, NC

Gregg Museum of Art & Design North Carolina State University
  • In Response - Weaving by Ann Roth and Vita Plūme
    • May 31-September 6
  • Barkcloth, Bras, and Bulletproof Cotton: The Powers of Costume
    • EXTENDED THROUGH AUG. 31!
In Response - Weaving by Ann Roth and Vita Plūme

Wilmington, NC

The Cameron Art Museum
  • Elliott Daingerfield: Art and Life in North Carolina
    • May 25 – August 19
  • Julie VonDerVellen: Tailored Narratives
    • April 28 – August 19
  • Out of Fashion
    • April 28 – August 19
  • Event
Julie VonDerVellen: Tailored Narratives

Cincinnati, OH

Contemporary Arts Center

  • Jannis Varelas
    • May -September
  • Francis Upritchard
    • May -September
  • Spectacle: The Music Video
    • March 3 - Sept. 3
  • Event
Francis Upritchard

Toledo, OH

Toledo Museum of Art
  • Color Ignited: Glass 1962–2012
    • June 14–Sept. 9, 2012.
  • For the Birds
    • April 13–September 2, 2012
  • Refraction/Reflection
    • April 20–August 5, 2012
  • Student Curators Present: African Art
    • April 27–July 24, 2012
  • Findlay Area Artists Exhibition
    May 4–July 19, 2012
    Community Gallery
  • Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski
    May 31–Aug. 26, 2012
    Canaday Gallery
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