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Openings, Closings, and Events plus Reminders 8-31-11 Newsletter
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We Welcome the Bruce Museum!

Bruce Museum
Greenwich, CT

Mission
The Bruce Museum promotes the understanding and appreciation of Art and Science to enrich the lives of all people.

The Bruce Museum has been voted the best museum in Fairfield County for the past five years, a recognition of its growing popularity and efforts to consistently address new subjects of remarkable beauty or great interest with new insights,

Exhibitions
  • Bijoux: The Origins and Impact of Jewelry
    • Through March 11, 2012
Bijoux: The Origins and Impact of  Jewelry
  • Saddle Up! Horsing Around at the Bruce Museum
    • Mitzi & Warren Eisenberg Gallery
    • July 29-September 25
Saddle Up! Horsing Around at the  Bruce Museum
  • Picasso’s Vollard Suite: The Sculptor’s Studio
    • Through October 16
Picasso’s Vollard Suite: The  Sculptor’s Studio
  • Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection
    • Opens Sept. 24, 2011 –
      January 8, 2012
Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George  Abrams Collection

Openings, Closings, and Events

New Exhibitons This Week



Huntsville, AL

Huntsville Museum of Art

  • Blood, Thread & Tears: World War II Quilts
    • August 21 –Nov. 7
  • A Sense of Place: Plein Air Painters of the Southeast
    • August 7 – Sept. 23
  • Sally Johnson: Projections and Reflections
    • August 7 – Sept. 23
  • Looking at the Collection: Encounters Alumn
    • Through Sept. 18
  • Events
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
    • August 4 -
  • Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories
    • Closes Sept. 6!!!!
  • Charlotte Salomon: Life? or Theatre?
    • Extended Through October 16
  • StoryCorps StoryBooth
    • Ongoing
  • “Being Jewish”: A Bay Area Portrait
    • Ongoing
Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories

Stanford, CA

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts

  • Expanding Views of Africa
    • Ongoing
  • Sequence, sculpture by distinguished American contemporary artist Richard Serra
    • Through 2016
  • Illustrated Title Pages: 1500 – 1900
    • Though Oct. 16
  • Rodin Sculpture Garden
    • Ongoing
  • Go Figure!
    • Through August 5, 2012
  • Collection Highlights from Europe, Ancient Greece and Rome
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Go Figure!

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
  • Events
Edward Weston: American Photographer

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

Pomona, CA

American Museum of Ceramic Art

  • Exposed: Sculpture and Promised Gifts from AMOCA’s Permanent Collection
    • August 13 – October 29
Exposed: Sculpture and Promised Gifts from AMOCA’s Permanent Collection

Storrs, CT

The William Benton Museum of Art University of Connecticut

  • Musical Prints: 1568-1949
    • August 30 – October 16
  • Project 35
    • August 30 - Dec. 18
Musical Prints: 1568-1949

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

Daytona Beach, FL

The Southeast Museum of Photography

  • A SECOND TELLING - SEPTEMBER 11th: HERE IS NEW YORK
    • August 18 - October 2
  • IN REVIEW: WAR : Ed Grazda, Louie Palu, Lucian Perkins and Christopher Sims
    • ED GRAZDA: EXCERPTS: AFGHANISTAN DIARY
    • LOUIE PALU: AFGHANISTAN: GARMSIR MARINES
    • CHRISTOPHER SIMS: THEATER OF WAR
    • LUCIAN PERKINS: A JOURNEY THROUGH AFGHANISTAN
      • August 18 - October 2
  • DEPARTURES
    • LYONIA GALLERY
    • Through October 23
IN REVIEW: WAR : Ed Grazda, Louie Palu, Lucian Perkins and Christopher Sims

Miami, FL

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University

  • Tipping Points
    • Sept. 7 - October 2
  • EAST/WEST: Visually Speaking
    • Closes Setpember 11
  • Who's Counting and Temporal State Of Being
    David and Hi-Jin Hodge
    • Closes September 18
Tipping Points

West Palm Beach, FL

Norton Museum of Art

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

Athens, GA

Georgia Museum of Art

  • American Letterpress: The Art of Hatch Show Print
    • August 27 - Nov. 6
  • Hot Metal and Cool Paper: The Black Art of Making Books
    • August 27 - Nov. 6
  • Introduction to the Centers
    • August 27 - Nov. 6
  • All Creatures Great and Small
    • Hartsfield-Jackson Airport, Atlanta, Georgia
    • Through April 20, 2012
  • Event
Hot Metal and Cool Paper: The Black Art of Making Books

Augusta, GA

Morris Museum of Art

  • Preservation of Place: The Art of Edward Rice
    • August 27 - Nov. 20
  • Naturalists in the South: Abbot, Audubon, Catesby, and Wilson
    • Through Sept. 25
  • Civil War Redux: Pinhole Photographs by Willie Anne Wright
    • July 9 - Sept. 11
  • Event

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

Ames, IA

University Museums
Iowa State University

  • French Art Nouveau: From the Permanent Collection
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • August 23 – Dec. 30
  • The Age of Brilliance: Cut Glass from the Permanent Collection
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • August 23 – Dec. 30
  • Relationships: Interstitial Connections
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • August 23 – Dec. 30
  • A Fragile Thread of Glass
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • August 23 – Dec. 30
  • Priscilla Sage: Contemporary Sculpture
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • August 23 – Dec. 30
  • Ulfert Wilke: Words To Be Seen
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • August 23 – Dec. 30
  • N. C. Wyeth: America In the Making
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • August 23 – Dec. 30
  • Iowa City & Keota Glass
    • Brunnier Art Museum
    • August 23 – Dec. 30
  • Subject to Change: Art and Design in the Twentieth Century
    • Christian Petersen Art Museum: Morrill Hall
    • August 22 – December 16
  • Commissioning a Collection: 75 Years of Public Art
    • Christian Petersen Art Museum: Morrill Hall
    • August 22 – December 16
  • Realties: The Lyric Sculpture of William King
    • Scupture Garden
    • August 22, 2011 – May 2012
  • Be It Enacted: Legislation and the Farm House
    • Farm House Museum
    • August 22, 2011 – May 2012
  • Events

Logan, KS

The Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum

  • Going Places
    • Exhibits USA
    • Sept. 2 - October 23
Going Places

Wichita, KS

Wichita Art Museum

  • Been in the Dark: What You Haven't Seen Lately
    • Through October 23
  • The American Abstract Artists
    • May 10 - Sept. 25
Been in the Dark: What You Haven't Seen Lately

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