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Alabama to Florida - page 1
Page 2 : GA-LA Page 3: MD-NJ Page 4 : NM - OH
Page 5: PA-TN Page 6: TX - WY

Huntsville, AL

Huntsville Museum of Art

  • The Art of Nature: The Sanctuary Artists Group
    • Through October 7
  • The Red Clay Survey: 2012 Exhibition of Contemporary Southern Art
    • May 20 - Sept. 16
  • Encounters: Sloane Bibb
    • April 1 – September 16
  • Event
Encounters: Sloane Bibb

San Francisco, CA

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

  • Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought
    • Extended Through Setember 9
  • California Dreaming: Jewish Life in the Bay Area from the Gold Rush to the Present
    • Nov. 17, 2011 –Oct. 16, 2012
  • Stanley Saitowitz: Judaica
    • Nov. 3, 2011 – Oct. 16, 2012
  • Jacques Lipchitz: Hagar in the Desert
    • Ongoing
  • Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations
    • Ongoing
  • StoryCorps StoryBooth
    • Ongoing
  • “Being Jewish”: A Bay Area Portrait
    • Ongoing
California Dreaming: Jewish Life in the Bay Area from the Gold Rush to the Present

Stanford, CA

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts

  • Divided Visions: Reportage from the Sino-Japanese Wars
    • Aug. 15, 2012–Jan. 13, 2013
  • When Artists Attack the King: Honoré Daumier and La Caricature, 1830–1835
    • August 1–November 11
  • Guardians: Photographs by Andy Freeberg
    • July 25, 2012 – January 6, 2013
  • Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel: John Cage Plexigrams
    • John Cage’s Visual Word Constructions on View at Stanford
    • June 13–November 11, 2012
  • Adventures in the Human Virosphere: The Use of Three-Dimensional Models to Understand Human Viral Infections
    • Through October 28
  • Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley
    • May 16 – October 14
  • Wood, Metal, Paint: Sculpture from the Fisher Collection
    • Feb. 29, 2012 – Oct. 13, 2013
  • Expanding Views of Africa
    • Ongoing
  • Sequence, sculpture by distinguished American contemporary artist Richard Serra
    • Through 2016
  • Collection Highlights from Europe, Ancient Greece and Rome
    • Ongoing
  • Rodin Sculpture Garden
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Divided Visions: Reportage from the Sino-Japanese Wars

Monterey, CA

Monterey Museum of Art

  • Auguste Rodin: Light and Shadow
    • July 5 -October 21
    • MMA Pacific Street
  • Monterey Now: Loran List
    • July 13–September 23
    • MMA Pacific Street
  • Monterey Artists Abroad
    • July 5–October 21
    • MMA Pacific Street
  • Sharp Focus: The Legacy of Monterey Photography
    • June 16 - Sept. 30
  • Water/Paper/Brush
    • April 5 - TBD
    • MMA Pacific Street
  • Urban Life: Photography in the City
    • April 5, 2012-January 6, 2013
    • MMA Pacific Street
  • FROM DAWN TO DUSK: GOTTARDO PIAZZONI’S FINAL MURALS
    • Through Dec. 2012
    • MMA La Mirada
  • Events
FROM DAWN TO DUSK: GOTTARDO PIAZZONI’S FINAL MURALS

Torrance, CA

Torrance Art Museum
  • Baker's Dozen 4
    • Closes Sept. 1
Baker's Dozen 4

Irvine, CA

The Irvine Museum

  • Paradise Found: Summer in California
    • June 16 - September 20
  • Paradise Found: Summer in California

    Laguna Beach, CA

    Laguna Art Museum
    • Modern Spirit and the Group of Eight
      • June 10-October 7
    • Clarence Hinkle
      • June 10-October 7
    • ex·pose: peter bo rappmund
      • June 10-October 7
    • Abstract Classicists
      • May 29-October 28
    Clarence Hinkle

    Pomona, CA

    American Museum of Ceramic Art
    • Patti Warashina : Wit and Wisdom
      • July 14 - September 29, 2012
    • Vault Show: William Catling: Of Times and Days
      • July 14 - September 29, 2012
    • Event
    Patti Warashina : Wit and Wisdom

    Greenwich, CT

    Bruce Museum

    • Marking a Century: Recent and Promised Gifts to the Bruce Museum, Part II
      • July 21 - November 4
    • White on White: Churches of Rural New England
      • June 30 - Sept. 23
    • The Olympic Games: Art, Culture & Sport
      • May 12 - September 2
    • The Games: The Science of Sport
      • Closes August 12!!!!
    • Event
    Marking a Century: Recent and Promised Gifts to the Bruce Museum, Part II

    Storrs, CT

    The William Benton Museum of Art University of Connecticut
    • Women of New England: Dress from the Industrial Age, 1850–1900
      • Closes August 15!!!!
    Women of New England: Dress from the Industrial Age, 1850–1900

    Norwalk, CT

    Center for Contemporary Printmaking
    • The 3rd Biennial Footprint International Exhibition 2012
      • Closes September 2
    • Event
    The 3rd Biennial Footprint International Exhibition 2012

    New London, CT

    Lyman Allyn Art Museum

    • The Rockets’ Red Glare: The War of 1812 in Connecticut
      • July 6, 2012 - January 5, 2013
    • Curtain Up: Broadway Behind the Scenes
      • Closes Sept. 1
    • Event
    The Rockets’ Red Glare: The War of 1812 in Connecticut

    Washington, D.C.

    Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
    • Prêt-à-Papier: The Exquisite Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave
      • June 16 -Dec. 30
    • Event
    Prêt-à-Papier: The Exquisite Art of Isabelle de Borchgrave

    Winter Park, FL

    Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College
    • The Prints of Gustave Baumann
      • May 18 - Dec. 30
    • British & Modern: Art by the Bloomsbury Group and Their Contemporaries
      • Extended through September 2
    • A Room of One's Own: Women Artists from the Permanent Collection
      • Extended through September 2
    • Event
    A Room of One's Own: Women Artists from the Permanent Collection

    Daytona Beach, FL

    The Southeast Museum of Photography
    reopens August 14th!
    • ALUMNI FOCUS: CHRISTIAN WEBER: Since the Millennium
      • Through Sept. 16
    ALUMNI FOCUS: CHRISTIAN WEBER: Since the Millennium

    Miami, FL

    The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University
    • Shared Threads: Maria Lino’s Portrait of a Shipibo Healer
      • July 18 – September 30
    • This and That: Unconventional selections from the Permanent Collection
      • July 18 – October 21
    • scapes: lynne golob gelfman
      • May 16 – September 2
    • Museum Studies Spring 2012 Exhibition: Jamaican Art
      • Closes August 26
    Shared Threads: Maria Lino’s Portrait of a Shipibo Healer

    Miami Beach, FL

    The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

    • The Good Neighbor Fleet: Selections from the Gift of Thomas C. Ragan
      • Closes August 13!!!!
    • Graphic Intervention: 25 Years of International AIDS Awareness Posters 1985–2010
      • May 11 - September 9
    • Visions of Victory: Picturing the Spanish-American War
      • Closes August 19
    • MANIFEST AND MUNDANE: SCENES OF MODERN AMERICA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
      • Through August 2012
    • Out of the Darkness: Selling Light
      • Ongoing
    • Cleaner, Healthier, Easier: Improving the Modern Home, 1900–1945
      • Ongoing
    • LAWRENCE WEINER (MIRA & VE)
      • Ongoing installation
    • Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection
      • Ongoing
    • Event
    MANIFEST AND MUNDANE: SCENES OF MODERN AMERICA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION

    Boca Raton, FL

    Boca Raton Museum of Art
    • Big Art: Miniature Golf
      • July 18 - October 7, 2012
    • GLASS ACT: The Contemporary Studio Art Glass Movement Turns 50
      • Through October 14
    • THERESA BERNSTEIN: An Early Modernist: Paintings from the Martin and Edith Stein Collection
      • Ongoing
    • Portraits from the Permanent Collection
      • Ongoing (in the Auditorium)
    • Sculpture Garden
      • Ongoing
    • Event
    Big Art: Miniature Golf

    West Palm Beach, FL

    Norton Museum of Art

    • Watercolors from the Collection
      • August 3 - October 14
    • Clear Water and Blue Hills: Stories in Chinese Art
      • June 30, 2012 - January 27, 2013
    • Clubs, Joints and Honky-Tonks
      • June 21 - Sept. 30
    • Crying Seasaw Tear Between
      • June 21 - Oct. 7
    • Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey
      • June 7 - September 2
    • American Masters at the Norton: Clyfford Still and Joan Mitchell
      • Mar 22 - Fall 2012
      • Beth Lipman: A Still Life Installation
      • Extended through September 2
    • Event
    American Masters at the Norton: Clyfford Still and Joan Mitchell

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