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Memphis, TN

Memphis Brooks Art Museum

  • SMS: A Collection of Original Multiples
    • June 11, 2011 – January 8, 2012
  • Eye Spy: Elements of Art
    • Through July 24
  • (Extra)Ordinary: The Story of Documentary Photography and the American South
    • Through July 17
  • Events
(Extra)Ordinary: The Story of Documentary Photography and the American South
Dixon Gallery and Gardens
  • Larry Edwards
    • Closes July 24
  • Jean-Louis Forain: La Comédie Parisienne
    • June 26 - Oct. 9
  • John Rogers: American Stories
    • June 26 - Oct. 9
  • Event
Larry Edwards
The Pink Palace Mansion
  • Unmentionables: Fashion's Hidden Foundations
    • Through summer
DASHING! Furs and Winter Style

Clarksville, TN

Customs House Museum and Cultural Center

  • Call of the Wild
    • July 8 - October 9
  • Painted Visions: The Paintings of Gwen Rodriguez
    • Through July
  • Winslow Homer’s War – Original Harper’s Weeklies from the collection of Haynes Galleries, Franklin, TN.
    • Through July
  • Event
Call of the Wild

Nashville, TN

Cheekwoood Botanical Garden &
Museum of Art

  • British & American Screen Prints
    • July 9 - October 2
  • Works of local earth artist David Wood in a special ‘twinstallation’.
    • Through Oct 21
  • Material Apparatus
    • Through Sept. 18
  • The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection of Faberge
    • Ongoing
  • William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit
    • Ongoing
  • Event
British & American Screen Prints

Frist Center for the Visual Arts

  • Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Andy Warhol’s Work
    • June 24 – Sept. 11
  • Vesna Pavlovic: Projected Histories
    • June 24 – Sept. 11
  • Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection
    • May 20 - August 21
  • Young Tennessee Artists Exhibition
    • April 15 - March 27, 2012
  • Events
Gather Up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker Collection
Tennessee Art League
  • Judy Bobula: Mixed Media
    • July 2 - August 27
  • John Boegel
    • July 2 - July 30
  • Art Seen: "A Brush with Paint"
    • July 2 - July 30
  • Works by Tennessee Art League
    • July 2 - July 30
Judy Bobula: Mixed Media

Chattanooga, TN

Creative Discovery Museum

  • Bob the Builder™–Project: Build It
    • Through Sept.11
Bob the Builder™–Project: Build It
Hunter Museum of American Art
  • Celebrating Volkswagen: The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg at the Hunter
    • May 24 -
  • Between the States: Photographs of the American Civil War from the George Eastman House Collection
    • Through Aug. 28
  • Beverly Semms: Starcraft
    • May 15 – Oct. 23
  • Jellies: Living Art at Tennessee Aquarium
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Celebrating Volkswagen: The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg at the Hunter

Knoxville, TN

The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture!

  • Fountain City Art Guild - Summer Solstice Show
    • July 1 - 29
  • New Group Exhibition in the Balcony
    • July 1 - 29
  • Arts in the Airport
    • 2011-2012
  • Event
New Group Exhibition in the Balcony
Frank H. McClung Museum, University of Tennessee
  • Sudan: The Land and the People
    • Through August 28
 Sudan: The Land and the People
Knoxville Museum of Art
  • Kwang-Young Chun: Aggregations, new work
    • June 10-Sept. 4
  • Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn (Ceramic Works, 5000 BCE-2010 CE)
    • May 13-August 7, 2011
  • Anne Wilson: Local Industry
    • May 13-August 7, 2011
  • Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee
    • Ongoing
  • Event

Johnson City, TN

Slocumb Galleries ETSU

  • Land-Scape by Wes Sherman
    • July 5 to 22
  • Soaring: Nine Women
    • June 3 - July 29
  • Stone Soup
    • July 1 to 29
    • Tipton Gallery
  • Event
Land-Scape by Wes Sherman

Odessa, TX

Ellen Noël Art Museum

  • Inside Information: Works on Paper by Warren Taylor
    • Closes July 10!!!!
  • The Ellen Noël Art Museum Announces its newest exhibition: Sculpture by Steve Teeters
    • Closes July 10!!!!
  • Form & Substance: The Art of George Tobolowsky
    • June 3 – Sept. 11
  • Event
The Ellen Noël Art Museum Announces its newest exhibition: Sculpture by Steve Teeters

Albany, TX

The Old Jail Center

  • Big Bend: From The Pecos To The Rio Grande
    • June 4 – Sept. 11
  • Cell Series featured artist: Will Henry
    • June 4 – Sept. 11
  • West Texas Triangle: Tobolowsky
  • Asian Art: Selections from the Permanent Collection
    • Ongoing
  • W.O. Gross, Jr. Collection of Pre-Columbian Art
    • Ongoing
  • Sallie Reynolds Matthews Room
    • Ongoing
Cell Series featured artist: Will Henry

Fort Worth, TX

Kimbell Art Museum

  • Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910–1912
    • May 29 -
  • Michelangelo’s First Painting: The Torment of Saint Anthony
    • Ongoing
  • European Art
    • South Gallery
    • Current
  • Asian Art
    • North Gallery
    • Current
  • Pre-Columbian and African Art
    • East Gallery
  • Events
Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910–1912

Dallas, TX

Dallas Museum of Art

  • Art of the American Indians: The Thaw Collection
    • Through Sept. 4
  • Concentrations 54: Matt Connors and Fergus Feehily
    • Through August 14
  • Line and Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Portfolio
    • Closes July 17
  • Form/Unformed: Design from 1960 to the Present
    • Tower Gallery
    • Through Jan. 29, 2012
  • Encountering Space
    Center for Creative Connections
    • Through Aug. 31, 2012
  • Events
Line and Form: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Wasmuth Portfolio
Meadows Museum SMU
  • Concrete Improvisations - Collages and Sculpture by Esteban Vicente
    • Closes July 31
  • New acquisition Portrait of Influential American Merchant Richard Worsam Meade, First Major Collector of Spanish Art in U.S.
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Concrete Improvisations - Collages and Sculpture by Esteban Vicente

Charlottesville , VA

Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of UVa

  • Ricky Maynard: Portrait of a Distant Land
    • Closes August 14
  • Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kluge-Ruhe Collection
    • Through August 2011
  • Events
Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kluge-Ruhe Collection

Williamsburg, VA

DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum
Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg

  • "A True North Britain": The Furniture of John Shearer, 1790-1820
    • April 2, 2011 through March 2012
  • Fashion Accessories from Head to Toe
    • Through Dec. 31, 2012
  • Dollars, Farthings & Fables: Money and Medals from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection
    • November 25, 2010 -
  • Rebuilding Charlton's Coffeehouse
  • Conservation: Where Art and Science Meet
    • Through May 31, 2012.
  • Declarations of Independence
    • Exended Through August 2011
  • Masterworks
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Treasure Quest: Great Silver Collections from Colonial Williamsburg
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Identifying Ceramics: The Who, What and Ware
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Musical Instruments
    Ongoing exhibit
  • Selections from the Henry H. Weldon Collection
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Lock, Stock, and Barrel
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Artistry and Ingenuity
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Revolution in Taste
    • Ongoing exhibit
  • Event
"A True North Britain": The Furniture of John Shearer, 1790-1820

Wausau, WI

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum

  • Iron: 2010: New Work by American Blacksmiths
    • June 20 - August 28
  • Ax Lore: Historic Tools from the John and Brenda Henson Collection
    • June 20 - August 28
  • Event
Iron: 2010: New Work by American Blacksmiths

Racine, WI

Racine Art Museum

  • Pocket Guide to New Zealand Jewelry
    • June 12 – Oct. 23
  • Racine and Vicinity Show: All Media Juried Competition
    • June 4- August 27
    • Wustum Location
  • The Wright Stuff: Artists Respond to the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright
    • May 29 - August 2
  • Field of Vision: Artists Explore Place
    • May 22 – October 2
  • Event

Racine and Vicinity Show: All Media Juried Competition

Casper, WY

Nicolaysen Art Museum & Discovery Center

  • Jamie Burmeister
    • May 20- August 7
  • Living History: A Group Exhibition
    • May 20-September 11
  • Event

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