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Palm Springs Art Museum
Palm Springs, CA

Mission
The Palm Springs Art Museum strives to serve diverse communities as one of the outstanding mid-size art museums in the country. Its mission is to promote enjoyment, education and involvement with visual art of the highest quality, and enhance appreciation of the performing arts. By collecting, preserving, exhibiting, and interpreting art from a broad chronological and geographic range according to the highest professional standards, and presenting a varied program of performing art, the museum seeks to maximize its public service to audiences of all ages and social backgrounds and to make art a dynamic part of their lives.

Exhibitions
  • OUT OF THE FIRE:MESOAMERICAN AND PUEBLO CERAMICS
OUT OF THE FIRE:MESOAMERICAN AND PUEBLO CERAMICS
  • RECLINE/DESIGN: ART AND THE AESTHETICS OF REPOSE
  • Stunning Glass Exhibition Featujring Works by Prominent Australian Artists and their American Counterparts Links: Australian Glass and the Pacific Northwest
    • Opens October 18, 2014 - January 25, 2015

Many of the Art Museum Touring museums are participating in the Blue Star Museums program offering free admission through Labor Day, or discounts to military personnel and their families in collaboration with the National Endowment for the Arts, Blue Star Families, and the Department of Defense. Check the museum's website for details.

Openings, Closings, and Events
8-28-14 newsletter

New Exhibitions This Week


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Huntsville, AL

Huntsville Museum of Art

  • The Red Clay Survey: 2014 Exhibition of Contemporary Southern Art
    • August 17, - October 26, 2014
  • Al Hirschfeld: A Celebration of Hollywood and Broadway
    • May 31 – September 14, 2014
  • Encounters: Cal Breed
    • Closes August 31!!!!

Al Hirschfeld: A Celebration of Hollywood and Broadway


Phoenix, AZ

Phoenix Art Museum
  • INFOCUS Juried Exhibition of Self-Published Photobooks
    • August 23 to September 28, 2014
  • The Resonance Of Clay: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz Collection
    • Through April 1, 2015
  • Quiet Rage, Gentle Wail: Prints and Masks of Japanese Noh Theatre
    • Through November 16, 2014
  • Antonio Berni: Juanito and Ramona
    • Through September 21, 2014
Quiet Rage, Gentle Wail: Prints and Masks of Japanese Noh Theatre

  • Global Citizen: The Architecture of Moshe Safdie
    • Closes Sept. 1!!!!
  • American Encounters: Anglo-American Portraiture in an Era of Revolution
    • May 17 - September 15, 2014
The William S. Paley Collection: A Taste for Modernism

San Francisco, CA

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

  • Project Mah Jongg
    • July 13–October 28, 2014
  • DESIGNING HOME: JEWS AND MIDCENTURY MODERNISM
    • April 24–October 6, 2014
  • To Build & Be Built: Kibbutz History
    • Ongoing
  • Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations
    • Ongoing
  • StoryCorps StoryBooth
    • Ongoing
  • Events
DESIGNING HOME: JEWS AND MIDCENTURY MODERNISM

  • Sympathy for the Devil: Satan, Sin, and the Underworld
    • August 20–December 1, 2014
  • Fatal Laughs: The Art of Robert Arneson
    • August 20, 2014–Sept. 28, 2015
  • Pop Art from the Anderson Collection
    • August 13–October 26, 2015
  • The New Landscape: Experiments in Light by Gyorgy Kepes
    • July 23–Nov. 17
  • Night, Smoke, and Shadows: The Presence of Atmosphere in the 19th Century
    • May 14–October 6
  • Artists Observe Nature, 1600–1800
    • May 14–October 6
  • Within and Without: Transformations in Chinese Landscapes
    • February 19–December 2014
  • Sequence, sculpture by distinguished American contemporary artist Richard Serra
    • Through 2016
The New Landscape: Experiments in Light by Gyorgy Kepes

Monterey, CA

Monterey Museum of Art
  • The Spirit of Motion—Photographs by Michael Furman and Automotive Jewelry
    • August 7–18, 2014
  • Iconic Masterpieces of Early California Painting
    • On view through October 2015
  • Crossing the Bridge: Emiko Nakano—Abstract Landscapes
    • Through September 22, 2014
  • Jules Tavernier: Artist and Adventurer
    • June 6–October 20, 2014
  • Monterey Now: Malin Lager
    • June 6–October 20, 2014
  • SHIFT—Five Decades of Contemporary California Painting
    • May 1–September 22, 2014
  • FROM DAWN TO DUSK: GOTTARDO PIAZZONI’S FINAL MURALS
    • Ongoing
Jules Tavernier: Artist and Adventurer

Irvine, CA

The Irvine Museum
  • Then and Now: 100 Years of Plein Air Painting
    • May 17-October 2, 2014
California Impressionism: Selections from The Irvine Museum

Laguna Beach, CA

Laguna Art Museum
  • John Altoon: Drawings and Prints
    • June 28-Sept. 21
  • REX BRANDT: IN PRAISE OF SUNSHINE
    • June 28-Sept. 21
  • Frank Cuprien: Pacific Views, 1914–1938
    • Ongoing
REX BRANDT: IN PRAISE OF SUNSHINE

Pomona, CA

American Museum of Ceramic Art
  • Large as Life: Betty Davenport Ford, Elaine Katzer, Lisa Reinertson 
    • Closes August 31!!!!
  • La Catrina: Tribute to Jose Posada (in the Vault)
    • Closes August 31!!!!
  • Event
Large as Life: Betty Davenport Ford, Elaine Katzer, Lisa Reinertson

Denver, CO

Denver Art Museum
  • Beyond Pop Art: A Tom Wesselmann Retrospective
    • July 13, 2014 – September 14, 2014
  • At the Mirror: Reflections of Japan in 20th Century Prints
    • July 6, 2014 – September 21, 2014
  • Daniel Sprick’s Fictions: Recent Works
    • June 29, 2014 – November 2, 2014
  • The American West in Bronze, 1850–1925
    • Closes August 31!!!!
  • Drawn to Action: Posters from the AIGA Design Archives
    • Through January 18, 2015
  • All That Glistens: A Century of Japanese Lacquer
    • Through October 5, 2014
  • Sovereign: Independent Voices
    • Extended through July 26, 2015
The American West in Bronze, 1850–1925

Greenwich, CT

Bruce Museum

  • Being, Nothingness and Much, Much More: Roz Chast, Beyond The New Yorker
    • July 12 – October 19, 2014
  • Greenwich Collects: Wyeth, Italian Renaissance Drawings, Chinese Antiquities
    • Closes August 31!!!!
  • Tales of Two Cities: New York & Beijing
    • Closes August 31!!!!
  • Extreme Habitats: Into the Deep Sea
    • April 5, 2014 - November 9, 2014
  • Event
Tales of Two Cities: New York & Beijing

Norwalk, CT

Center for Contemporary Printmaking
  • 4th Biennial Footprint International Exhibition
    • Closes August 31!!!!
  • Event

Storrs, CT

The William Benton Museum of Art University of Connecticut

  • The 48th Annual Art Department Faculty Exhibition
    • September 2 – October 12, 2014
  • Victory is a Question of Stamina: Posters from the First World War
    • September 2 – October 12, 2014
  • Event
The 48th Annual Art Department Faculty Exhibition

New London, CT

Lyman Allyn Art Museum
  • Still Life Studio
    • June 3, 2014 – February 1, 2015
  • Inside the Natural World of Jan Beekman
    • June 14, 2014 – January 5, 2015
  • Lost at Sea: Shipwrecks of the Ancient World
    • Through February 1, 2015
Still Life Studio

Newark, DE

University Museums University of Delaware
  • Delaware Awake! World War I at Home and Abroad
    • September 3 – December 7, 2014
    • OLD COLLEGE WEST GALLERY
  • Renderings: New Narratives and Reinterpretations
    • September 3 – December 7, 2014
    • MECHANICAL HALL
  • Sculpted by Nature: Silver and Copper from the Peter H. Farquhar Collection
    • September 3 – December 7, 2014
    • MINERALOGICAL MUSEUM
  • Events
Renderings: New Narratives and Reinterpretations

Washington, DC

Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
  • Cartier: Marjorie Merriweather Post's Dazzling Gems
    • June 7 - Dec. 31
Cartier: Marjorie Merriweather Post's Dazzling Gems

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