Art Museum Touring.com
A tourism website designed for the Art lover

Openings, Closings, and Events plus Reminders 7-27-11 Newsletter
Newsletter is now so large it can not be sent by email and is built into the site.

We Welcome the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey!
Newark Museum
Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
Summit, NJ

Mission and Vision Statement
Founded in 1933, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey is the state’s largest organization dedicated exclusively to viewing, making and learning about contemporary art. Comprising a renowned studio school and a thriving exhibition, education and programming schedule, the Art Center welcomes over 60,000 visitors each year.

Exhibitions
  • Jersey Bounce
    • Main Gallery
    • July 29-September 25
  • Stephen Mallon: Next Stop Atlantic
    • Mitzi & Warren Eisenberg Gallery
    • July 29-September 25

Openings, Closings, and Events

New Exhibitons This Week



Huntsville, AL

Huntsville Museum of Art

  • A Sense of Place: Plein Air Painters of the Southeast
    • August 7 – Sept. 23
  • Sally Johnson: Projections and Reflections
    • August 7 – Sept. 23
  • Edward Weston: Leaves of Grass
    • Closes August 7!!!!
  • Looking at the Collection: Encounters Alumn
    • Through Sept. 18
  • Event
A Sense of Place: Plein Air Painters of the Southeast

San Francisco, CA

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

  • Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations
    • Opens August 4
  • Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories
    • Through Sept. 6
  • Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?
    • Extended Through October 16
  • Questions with Questions
    • Through July
  • “Being Jewish”: A Bay Area Portrait
    • Ongoing
  • StoryCorps StoryBooth
    • Ongoing
Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations

Stanford, CA

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts

  • Expanding Views of Africa
    • Opens August 3, then Ongoing
  • Sequence, sculpture by distinguished American contemporary artist Richard Serra
    • Through 2016
  • The Art of the Book in California: Five Contemporary Presses
    • Through August 28
  • Illustrated Title Pages: 1500 – 1900
    • Though Oct. 16
  • Greco-Roman Marble Sculpture
    • Closes August 7!!!!
  • Go Figure!
    • Through August 5, 2012
  • Collection Highlights from Europe, Ancient Greece and Rome
    • Ongoing
  • Rodin Sculpture Garden
    • Ongoing
Expanding Views of Africa

Monterey, CA

Monterey Museum of Art

  • MontereyNOW: Greg Mettler
    • July 21 – Nov. 6
  • FROM DAWN TO DUSK: GOTTARDO PIAZZONI’S FINAL MURALS
    • Through Dec. 2012
    • MMA La Mirada
  • The Art of California, 1880 to the Present
    • Through Oct. 23
    • MMA Pacific Street
  • California Artists and Portraiture
    • Through Jan. 8, 2012
    • MMA Pacific Street
  • Adams & Weston and the Masters of California Photography
    • Through Jan. 8, 2012
    • MMA Pacific Street
  • Event
Adams & Weston and the Masters of California Photography

Laguna Beach, CA

Laguna Art Museum

  • Noguchi: California Legacy
    • June 12 - October 2
  • Lita Albuquerque: Emergence
    • June 12 - October 2
  • Natural Wonders: Wood Sculptures Inspired by Isamu Noguchi
    • June 12 - October 2
  • Landscape and Figuration from the Collection: Early to Mid-Twentieth Century
    • Through Oct. 9
  • Event
Landscape and Figuration from the Collection: Early to Mid-Twentieth Century

Storrs, CT

The William Benton Museum of Art

  • The Colored Woodcut in 19th-Century Japan: Edo and Osaka
    • Closes August 7!!!!
  • The Art of Dr. Seuss
    • Closes August 7!!!!
  • The Sum of Its Parts: Selections from the Benton Collections
    • Closes August 7!!!!
  • 2011 Project 35
    • Through Dec. 18
  • Event
The Art of Dr. Seuss

New London, CT

Lyman Allyn Art Museum

  • The Subject is Light: The Henry and Sharon Martin Collection of Contemporary Realist Paintings
    • March 19 - August 21
  • Face Off: Portraits by Contemporary Artists
    • April 10 - Sept. 18
  • American Stories
    • Ongoing
  • Event

Washington, DC

Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens

  • Wedding Belles: Bridal Fashions from the Marjorie Merriweather Post Family, 1874-1958
    • June 18, 2011 - January 1, 2012
  • Event
Wedding Belles: Bridal Fashions from the Marjorie Merriweather Post Family, 1874-1958

Miami Beach, FL

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

  • CLASS DISTINCTIONS: SELECTIONS FROM THE LAURENCE MILLER COLLECTION
    • Through September 30
  • Art for All: British Posters for Transport
    • Closes August 14
  • Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection
    • Ongoing
  • LAWRENCE WEINER (MIRA & VE): installation
    • Ongoing
  • Event

West Palm Beach, FL

Norton Museum of Art

  • The Art of War in East Asia
    • July 23 - Nov. 13
  • Out of This World
    • Through Sept. 4
  • From A to Z: 26 Great Photographs from the Norton Collection
    • Extended Through October 16
Out of This World

Atlanta, GA

Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University

  • Divine Intervention: African Art and Religion
    • Through Dec. 4
Divine Intervention: African Art and Religion

Athens, GA

Georgia Museum of Art

  • Lamar Dodd: Paintings and Drawings
    • July 2 - August 28
  • American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection
    • Closes August 7!!!!
  • The Art of Disegno: Italian Prints and Drawings from the Georgia Museum of Art
    • Closes August 7!!!!
  • All Creatures Great and Small
    • Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Atlanta, Georgia
    • Through April 20, 2012
  • Event
American Watercolors from the Permanent Collection

Milledgeville, GA

Georgia State College & University Museum

  • “the surveyed extent” by Sandra Trujillo
    • May 26 – Sept. 21
  • Curtis Stewardson
    • May 26 – Sept. 21
“the surveyed extent” by Sandra Trujillo

Augusta, GA

Morris Museum of Art

  • Civil War Redux: Pinhole Photographs by Willie Anne Wright
    • July 9 -
  • Philip Juras: The Southern Frontier, Landscapes
    Inspired by Bartram's Travels
    • Closes August 14
  • Event
Philip Juras: The Southern Frontier, Landscapes

Indianapolis, IN

Indianapolis Museum of Art

  • Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria
    • July 8, 2011 - Jan. 16, 2012
  • Venetian Views: American Works on Paper
    • June 3 - Nov. 27
  • Material World
    • Through February 5, 2012
  • William Lamson: Divining Meteorology
    • Through August 28
  • Selections from Project 35
    • Through Oct. 30
  • The Old Masters
    • Through December 31
  • Gauguin as Printmaker: The Volpini Suite
    • Through Sept.18
  • Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial
    • Through Sept 18
  • Events
Venetian Views: American Works on Paper

Sections:

Exhibitions pages to see a list and thumbnail photos of current shows.

Events pages for openings, receptions, other museum activities.

Index pages: find museums alphabetically, or by state. Who has newest pictures.

Home page shows museums that have recently been added.

Blog: Kwang-Young Chun: Aggregations, new work Blog: Kwang-Young Chun: Aggregations, new work
Fay's Page: My Life in Girl Scouts, 1925 - 1973 A special Girl Scout section:
Fay's Page: My Life in Girl Scouts, 1925 - 1973

**New addition posted 5-18-11 thanks to Girl Scouts of the USA National Historic Preservation Center!**

(For you Girl Scout alumns, we, also, periodically put out a separate newsletter for Girl Scouts.)

Carris Studio pottery archives Carris Studio pottery archives

Copyright 2011 Art Museum Touring