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Press Release 6-9-10: 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

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 Extended through Jan 2, 2011 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* Opens June 6, 2010 - Jan. 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 Event
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

Katonah, NY The Katonah Museum of Art Steve Tobin: Katonah Steelroots Through Sep. 19 The Art of Contemporary Puppet Theater Closes June 13!!!! Event

Albany, NY Albany Institute of History & Art *Tomorrow’s Masters Today* June 11-27 *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 Asheville Art Museum 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* May 14 – October 10 Looking Back: Celebrating 60 Years of Collecting at the Asheville Art Museum Ongoing Events

Durham, NC Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Color Balance: Paintings by Felrath Hines and Alma Thomas June 10 - September 5 *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

Wilmington, NC The Cameron Art Museum *Recollection: The Past Is Present* Closes June 20 KALEIDOSCOPE: Changing Views of the Permanent Collection Extended to August 15 *North Carolina Collects: The Real McCoy* April 23 - Sept. 12

Greensburg, PA Westmoreland Museum of American Art The Westmoreland Juried Biennial June 6 - July 4

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 May 29 - July 10 Events

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* 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 May 27 - June 26

Memphis, TN Memphis Brooks Art Museum 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
Children's Museum of Memphis *Harry's Big Adventure: My Bug World!* Extended through August 31
The Pink Palace Mansion Linen, Cotton & Silk Through Fall 2010
Pink Palace Museum Moving Stories Now through October 17 *I AM A MAN* Through October 24

Nashville, TN Centennial Art Center Barbara Rembert, sculptor Tom Rice and stained glass artist Sam Simms June 4 – July 28 Event
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 June 5 - 25

Chattanooga, TN Creative Discovery Museum Grossology: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body May 29 – September 6 Event
Hunter Museum of American Art Transformation 6: Contemporary Works in Glass May 9 - Oct 27 Event

Knoxville, TN The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture Anomaly Art Event Showcasing Southern LGBTIQ Artists June 4-25 *Art Awakening* June 4-25
Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee SHELLS: GEMS OF THE SEA June 5- Sept. 5

Museum of the Southwest 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 Retrospective of Painter Luc Tuymans June 6 - Sept. 5 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 Closes June 20 Elliott Erwitt: Dog Dogs Closes 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

Click here for page 1 - Alabama to Missouri

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