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Press Release 6-3-09: Openings, Closings, and Events plus Reminders (once a month listings for longer running exhibitions that are not closing in the next couple of weeks.

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Openings, Closings, and Events
See Exhibitions page to see a sample photos of current and upcoming shows.

Huntsville, AL

Huntsville Museum of Art

  • NASA/ART: 50 Years of Exploration
    • May 24-August 19
  • Looking at the Collection: Buccellati Highlights
    • Through November 2009

Daytona Beach, FL

The Southeast Museum of Photography

  • Departures IV
    • June 2 - Sept. 12
  • Images of Recovery
    • June 2 - Sept. 12
Departures IV

Winter Park, FL

Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College

  • Portrait of a Lady: Selections from the Permanent Collection
    • Through August 30
  • Studio Art Biennial (Exhibition of Faculty Art)
    • Through August 30
  • Andy Warhol: Personalities
    • Opens June 5
Studio Art Biennial (Exhibition of Faculty Art)

Miami, FL

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University

  • Because I Say So, Sculpture Selections from the Scholl Collection
    • through August 16
  • Genetic Portraits by Nela Ochoa
    • Through Sept. 6
  • What Comes After
    Nancy Friedemann
    • Through Sept. 20
  • Cintas Fellows Exhibition
    • May 20 – Aug. 23
  • Events

Genetic Portraits by Nela Ochoa

Miami Beach, FL

The Wolfsonian–Florida International University

  • STREAMLINED: FROM AIRPLANES TO ARCHITECTURE
    • IN THE MUSEUMS' RARE BOOK AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS LIBRARY VESTIBULE
    • Through July
  • FREE PAGE AT A TIME
    • May 7 through Sunday, June 7
    • On display in the lobby.
  • Events
STREAMLINED: FROM AIRPLANES TO ARCHITECTURE

West Palm Beach, FL

Norton Museum of Art

  • Off the Wall: The Human Form in Sculpture
    • May 23 - Sept. 6
  • Roman Vishniac:  Selections from The Vanished World
    • March 7- July 26
Off the Wall: The Human Form in Sculpture

Atlanta, GA

Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University

  • Wonderful Things: The Harry Burton Photographs and the Discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamun
    • Extended through July 26!
Milledgeville, GA

Georgia State College & University Museum

  • Peacock’s Feet
    • May 28 – July 30
Peacock’s Feet

Augusta, GA

Morris Museum of Art

  • Southern Eccentric: Paintings by Larry Connatser
    • May 2-August 16
  • Stories to Tell, Memories to Keep: Folk Art in the South
    • May 16 - August 30
  • Event
Stories to Tell, Memories to Keep: Folk Art in the South

Paducah, KY

The National Quilt Museum

  • European Art Quilts V
    • thru August 10
  • News Winds from Asia,
    • Through July 7
  • Best of Show: 25 Years of Quilting Excellence
    • Through July 6
European Art Quilts

Owensboro, KY

Owensboro Museum of Fine Art

  • THE NEW REALITY: The Frontier of Realism in the 21st Century
    • Opens June 14-July 19

Louisville, KY

Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft

  • Andréa Keys: Ceramic Sculpture
    • May 23 – July 6
  • Event
Andréa Keys: Ceramic Sculpture
Louisville Visual Art Association
  • Children’s Free Art Classes 2009
    Elementary Classes
    • Closes June 7!!!!
  • A Ballad for Kenya
    • Opens June 5 - July 26
  • Events
A Ballad for Kenya
The Speed Art Museum
  • 4 Salvaged Boxes by wHY Architecture
    • Closes June 14
  • English Silver from the Age of Matthew Boulton
    The James C. Codell, Jr. Collection
    • April 12 to June 14
  • African Art at the Speed
    • Through July
  • The Private Eye:
    Photographic Highlights from the Henry V. Heuser, Jr. Collection
    • Opens June 7 - September 13
  • Events
4 Salvaged Boxes by wHY Architecture

Lexington, KY

The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky

  • EXCAVATING EGYPT: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeolog, University College London
    • Closes June 14
EXCAVATING EGYPT: Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeolog, University College London

Paris, KY

Hopewell Museum

  • Waco and the Bybees: Central Kentucky Art Pottery, 1900 to 1935
    • June
  • Event
Waco and the Bybees: Central Kentucky Art Pottery, 1900 to 1935

New Orleans, LA

New Orleans Museum of Art

  • Evening in Paris
    • Through June 28
  • The Art of Caring
    A Look at Life through Photography
    • May 16 - Oct. 11
  • Women Artists in Louisiana,
    1825-1965: A Place of Their Own
    • Through September 13
  • Events
The Art of Caring
The Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University
  • Closed for the summer.
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
  • Randy Shull: Crossing Boundaries
    An exh
    ibition of works by noted North Carolina artist pushes the limits of American craft
    • Closes June 4!!!!
  • Arthur Q. Davis: Legacy of a Modern Architect
    • April 23 - July 19
  • Timex All-Star Jazz Show 1958: Photographs by Jerry Dantzic
    • April 23 - July 19
  • Charleston Renaissance
    • Ongoing
  • Events

Biloxi, MS

Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art

  • Attention to Detail: Lorna Meaden and Lana Wilson
    • May 22-August 21

Highlands, NC

The Bascom

  • Cheers! Handcrafted Glass Stemware
    • Closes June 6!!!!
  • Instruments of Appalachian Music
    • May 30–June 25
  • The Three Potters: Bringle, Hewitt and Stuempfle
    • Opens June 13–July 11
  • Helen Frankenthaler and the Color Field Painters
  • Opens June 18–August15
Cheers! Handcrafted Glass Stemware

Asheville, NC

Asheville Art Museum

  • Mapping the Mountains: The Photographs of George Masa
    • Through July 5
  • Expectant Gaze
    • Closes June 21
    • 2nd Floor Galleries
  • Response and Memory: The Art of Beverly Buchanan
    • May 8 – September 13
  • Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft & Traditional Art
    • May 22 – August 23, 2009
  • Events
Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft & Traditional Art

Fayetteville, NC

Fayetteville Museum of Art

  • North Carolina Living Treasures, Clay works by Norm Schulman and Cynthia Bringle
    • May 15th through July12th
  • NEWCOMER SHANNON STAMEY AT GALLERY 208
    • June 12th - August 30
  • Events

Wilmington, NC

The Cameron Art Museum

  • KALEIDOSCOPE: Changing Views of the Permanent Collection
    • May 15, 2009-May 9, 2010
  • Winning IDEAs: Selected Product Designs 2008
    • April 17-October 25
Winning IDEAs: Selected Product Designs 2008

Columbia, SC

Columbia Museum of Art

  • Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales
    • Closes June 7!!!!
  • Cleve Gray: Man and Nature
    • Opens June 26 - Sept. 27
Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales

Gibbes Museum of Art
  • Prop Master: An Installation by Juan Logan and Susan Harbage Page
    • April 3 - July 19
  • Jeff Whetstone: Post-Pleistocene
    • April 3 - July 19
  • The Printmaking Process
    • Through August 16
    • Explore Gallery
  • The Charleston Story
    • Ongoing

Memphis, TN

Children's Museum of Memphis

  • Top Secret: Mission Toy
    • Opens June 13-Sept. 13
  • Events
Top Secret: Mission Toy

Memphis Brooks Art Museum

  • Contempt for the New
    • Through July 5
  • William Christenberry: Signs
    • Through June 21
  • The Prints of Jacob Lawrence, 1963 – 2000
    • June 20 – Sept. 8
  • Events
Pollock
The Pink Palace Museum
  • Underground Memphis: Archaeology and the African American Experience
    • Through October 16
  • Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity
    • May 16 - August 16
Kente

Nashville, TN

Centennial Art Center

  • Patricia Green – Paintings
    Roberta Winnett Harrison – Paintings and Mixed Media
    Timothy Weber – Clayworks in Stoneware, Raku and Mixed Media
    • June 5 – July 31
    • Event
Patricia Green – Paintings
Cheekwoood Botanical Garden &
Museum of Art
  • Passing Time: The Art of William Christenberry
    • Closes June 14
  • Michael Baggarly: Reverberant Measures
    • Closes June 14
  • A Lens with a Conscience
    • Through Sept. 20
  • Tennessee Abstract Painters
    • Through Sept. 20
  • The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation
    Collection of Faberge
    • Ongoing
  • William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit
    • Through Jan. 3, 2010
  • Events
Tennessee Abstract Painters
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
  • Medieval Treasures from the
    Cleveland Museum of Art
    • Closes June 7!!!!
    • Ingram Gallery
  • Museums in the 21st Century: Concepts, Projects, Buildings
    • May 29–Aug. 23, 2009
    • Upper-Level Galleries
  • Events
Medieval Treasures from the
The Parthenon
  • HIDDEN GEMS: A HISTORY OF COLLECTING AT THE PARTHENON
    • June 1 - July 11
HIDDEN GEMS: A HISTORY OF COLLECTING AT THE PARTHENON
Tennessee State Museum
  • The People’s House: A Temple of Democracy
    • Through Aug. 9
  • Capitol Memories
    • June 6 - Aug. 9
Capitol Memories
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery
  • Closed for the summer while moving from the Old Gym before the gallery moves to the Cohen Memorial Building.

University Art Gallery Sewanee:The University of the South
  • Closed for the summer
  • reopens Sept. 3

Chattanooga, TN

Hunter Museum of American Art

  • Jellies: Living Art
    • In partnership with the Tennessee Aquarium
    • Through Aug. 9
  • Window on the West: Views from the American Frontier – The Phelan Collection
    • Opens June 7 - August 9

Oak Ridge, TN

Children's Museum of Oak Ridge

  • Photography Exhibition
    • Opened May 5 - June 30
  • Event
Oak Ridge Art Center
  • Sacred Symbols
    • Closes June 15

Knoxville, TN

Blount Mansion

  • Through Our Eyes
The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture
  • Smoky Mountain Visions
    • June 5 - July 30
  • Iron Clad
    • June 5 - July 30
  • Event
Smoky Mountain Visions
The Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture University of Tennessee Knoxville
  • JIAS JAPAN INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS SOCIETY
JIAS JAPAN INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS SOCIETY
Knoxville Museum of Art
  • Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee
    • Ongoing
  • Arms, Legs, Feet, Heart & Soul: The Cumberland Furniture Guild
    • Opened April 21 - August 9
  • Made in Hollywood: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation
    • May 8 - September 9
  • Art from the Ashes, a Community Exhibition and Silent Auction to Benefit Victims of the Recent Coal Ash Spill.
    • Community Gallery through June 28, 2009.
  • Events

See Sherrie's blog about Arms, Legs, Feet, Heart & Soul

Arms, Legs, Feet, Heart & Soul: The Cumberland Furniture Guild

Gatlinburg, TN Summer Faculty Exhibition

Johnson City, TN

ETSU and General Shale Brick Natural History Museum

  • Rainforest Adventure
    • Opens May 30- September 7

Check our:

  • Home page and/or Index page to see which museums recently updated their page and on what date. Look for the new photos tag.
    • Museums and galleries that have joined in the past month are listed at the top of the column on the Home page
  • Events page for openings, receptions, other museum activities
  • Exhibitions page to see a list and thumbnail photos of current shows. Check a particular museum's website (available on its page on our site) for all its activities and exhibitions.

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