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Catskill, NY

Thomas Cole National Historic Site

  • Robert S. Duncanson: The Spiritual Striving of the Freedman's Son
    • Through October 30
Robert S. Duncanson: The Spiritual Striving of the Freedman's Son

Katonah, NY

The Katonah Museum of Art

  • Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy
    • June 5 - Sept. 18
  • Stephen Talasnik: Elusive Landscape
    • June 5 - Sept. 18
  • Sarah Perry, "If...," 1995,
    Getty Publications
    • June 5 - Sept. 18
  • Joseph Wheelwright: Tree Figures
    • June 5 - Sept. 18
  • Event
Sarah Perry, "If...," 1995

Albany, NY

Albany Institute of History & Art

  • PARKER C. DUNN: THE DUNN MEMORIAL BRIDGE
    • AUG. 6 – NOV. 13
  • The 75TH EXHIBITION BY ARTISTS OF THE MOHAWK-HUDSON REGION
    • July 9 – Sept. 4
  • From the Page's Edge
    • July 2 – August 28
  • A GATHER OF GLASS: SELECTIONS FROM THE MUSEUM’S COLLECTION
    • Through June, 2012
  • FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN: GEORGE WASHINGTON
    • Opens August 27, 2011–
      May 20, 2012
  • CURATOR’S CHOICE: RECENT ACQUISITIONS
    • Closes August 28
  • Event
FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN: GEORGE WASHINGTON

Asheville, NC

Asheville Art Museum

  • A Tisket A Tasket: Appalachian, Cherokee and Low Country Baskets
    • July 15, 2011 - Jan. 8, 2012
  • Color Study
    • July 9 - Nov. 6
  • Artists at Work: American Printmakers and the WPA
    • Through Sept. 25
  • Looking Back: Celebrating 60 Years of Collecting at the Asheville Art Museum
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Artists at Work: American Printmakers and the WPA

Hickory, NC

Hickory Museum of Art

  • FROM THE MILLENIUM FORWARD: A Decade of Donations to the Hickory Museum of Art
    • July 9 - Nov. 6
  • Catawba County Collects Philip Moose
    • Through Sept. 25
  • THE LOUIS ORR ETCHINGS OF
    NORTH CAROLINA
    • Through Dec. 31
  • NY 10 and NY INTERNATIONAL PORTFOLIOS
    • June 18 - November 6
  • 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
Catawba County Collects Philip Moose

Durham, NC

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

  • Becoming: Photographs From The Wedge Collection
    • August 11, 2011 - January 8, 2012
  • Jaume Plensa: Glückauf?
    • Now on view
  • Containing Antiquity
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Becoming: Photographs From The Wedge Collection

Raleigh, NC

Gregg Museum of Art & Design North Carolina State University

  • Rocaterrania: the secret world of Renaldo Kuhler
    • Closes Sept. 3
Rocaterrania: the secret world of Renaldo Kuhler

Wilmington, NC

The Cameron Art Museum

  • Clyde Connell: Swamp Songs
    • May 8 – October 2
  • Terrell James: Field Study
    • May 8 – October 2
  • State of the Art/Art of the State
    • May 8 – October 2
  • Event
Terrell James: Field Study

Cincinnati, OH

Contemporary Arts Center

  • Guy Tillim: Avenue Patrice Lumumba
    Photographs by Renowned South African Photographer
    • July 27 - Sept. 5
  • Matthew Monahan
    • Through October 30
  • Keith Haring: 1978-1982
    • Feb. 26- Sept. 5
  • Event

Greensburg, PA

Westmoreland Museum of American Art

  • They Practice What They Teach: Artist Faculty of Carnegie Institute of Technology (1925 – 1950)
    • Closes Sept. 4
  • Moments in Time: Paintings by Hubert J. FitzGerald
    • Closes Sept. 4
  • Events

American Landscapes: Treasures from the Parrish Art Museum


Philadelphia, PA

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

  • Urbanism: Reimagining the Lived Environment
    • Closes Sept. 4
  • Hiro Sakaguchi: No Particular Place To Go
    • Closes August 28!!!!
  • American Art Starts Here: PAFA Refreshed and Reloaded
    • Ongoing
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
  • Special Display: Excavating Ground Zero: Fragments from 9/11
    • August 20 - Nov. 6
  • Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetery
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Special Display: Excavating Ground Zero: Fragments from 9/11

Columbia, SC

Columbia Museum of Art

  • Michael Kenna: Venezia
    • July 16 - Oct. 23
  • An Artist’s Eye from the Modern and Contemporary Collection at the Columbia Museum of Art
    • June 17 - Oct. 23
  • Events
Michael Kenna: Venezia

Charleston, SC

Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art

  • Steve Johnson - From the Ground Up
    • Opens Aug. 27 - Oct. 7
  • Bob Ray - White Days Unswallowed
    • Opens Aug. 27 - Oct. 7
  • Event
Steve Johnson - From the Ground Up

Brookings, SD

South Dakota Art Museum

  • South Dakota Artist Series: Paintings/Ceramics: Sheila Agee and Ben Suga
    • Through October 23
  • Madeiran Stitchery
    • Through November
  • Harvey Dunn: What Lies Beneath?
    • Closes Sept. 2
  • African Beads and Beadwork: Jewels of a Continent
    • Closes Sept. 2
  • The Art of the Basket
    • Through Sept. 18
Harvey Dunn: What Lies Beneath?

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