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Press Release 9-15-10: Openings, Closings, and Events plus Reminders
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Openings, Closings, and Events

The newsletter is now divided into three pages:

Lousiana to North Carolina - page 2

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New Orleans, LA

New Orleans Museum of Art

  • UNTITLED [New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, 2005]: Photographs by Richard Misrach
    • Through October 24
  • Ancestors and Descendants: Ancient Southwestern America at the Dawn of the 20th Century
    • July 24 - October 24
  • Every Year Something New: A Centennial Celebration from the Collection of Prints and Drawings
    • July 24 - October 24
  • Scents and Sensibility
    • June 30 - October 24
  • Events
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
  • The Art of Tennessee: From the Collection of Gertrude and Ben Caldwell
    • August 7 - Sept. 19
  • The Art of Country Music: The Marty Stuart Collection
    • August 7 - Sept. 19
  • Place Meets Time: Photographs by Tom Rankin
    • August 7 - Sept. 19
  • Jenny K. Hager: Flight Lab
    • August 7 - Sept. 19
The Art of Country Music: The Marty Stuart Collection

Baltimore, MD

Contemporary Museum

  • Project 20: Ben Gest: Commissure
    • Sept. 11, 2010 - Jan., 23, 2011
Project 20: Ben Gest: Commissure

The Walters Art Museum

  • Checkmate! Medieval People at Play
    • July 17, 2010 - October 10
  • Art of the Ancient Americas
    • Ongoing
  • Palace of Wonders: Renaissance & Baroque Galleries
    • Ongoing
  • Mummified
    • Through November 2010
  • Events
Checkmate! Medieval People at Play

Lowell, MA

New England Quilt Museum

  • Contemporary Broderie Perse: An Elegant Revival
    • July 15 - October 17
  • Events
Women's Writes: Signature Quilts & Their Stories
Whistler House Museum of Art
  • Meredith Fife Day: 35 Years, A Beginning
    • Sept. 16 - Oct. 30
  • Event
Meredith Fife Day: 35 Years, A Beginning

Salem, MA

Peabody Essex Museum

  • Hidden Treasures from the Forbidden City, The Emperor’s Private Paradise
    • Sept. 14, 2010 - Jan. 9, 2011
  • Imprints: Photographs by Mark Ruwedel
    • June 12, 2010 - January 1, 2011
  • Eye Spy
    • June 19, 2010 - June 1, 2011
  • Faces of Devotion, Indian Sculpture from the Figiel Collection
    • April 10, 2010 to Jan. 16, 2012
  • Fish, Silk, Tea, Bamboo: Cultivating an Image of China
    • Through Dec. 31
  • Events

Muskegon, MI

Muskegon Museum of Art

  • Shout Freedom! Photo League Selections from the Columbus Museum of Art
    • Sept. 2 - Nov. 7
  • Detour Art—Outsider, Folk Art, and Visionary Environments Coast to Coast
    • Sept. 16 - Nov. 7
Detour Art—Outsider, Folk Art, and Visionary Environments Coast to Coast

Grand Rapids, MI

Frederick Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park

  • Sculptors Celebrate the Legacy and Fred and Lena Meijer
    • June 4, 2010 – January 2, 2011
  • Chihuly at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park: A New Eden
    • Closes September 30
  • Events
Chihuly at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park: A New Eden
Grand Rapids Art Museum
  • Selections from the Photography Collection
    • Closes Sept. 25
Selections from the Photography Collection

Columbia, MO

Museum of Art and Archaeology
University of Missouri

  • The Voyage of a Contemporary Italian Goldsmith in the Classical World: Golden Treasures by Akelo
    • Closes September 26
  • Ancient Glass from the Permanent Collection
    • Ongoing from August 2007
  • The Fine Art of Living: Luxury Objects from the East and West
    • Ongoing from May 29, 2008
  • Treasures from Antiquity: The Weinberg Gallery of Ancient Art
    • Ongoing
  • The European and American Galleries
    • Ongoing
  • Event
The Voyage of a Contemporary Italian Goldsmith in the Classical World: Golden Treasures by Akelo
Santa Fe, NM

The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

  • Harry Fonseca: In the Silence of Dusk
    • Feb. 14- Jan. 2, 2011
  • Huichol Art and Culture: Balancing the World
    • Apr 11, 2010 through Mar 6, 2011
  • A River Apart
    • Extended through Jan 2, 2011
  • The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery
    • Ongoing
  • Here, Now and Always
    • Ongoing
  • Event
The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery
Museum of International Folk Art
  • Empowering Women: Artisan Cooperatives That Transform Communities
    • July 4, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011
  • Silver Seduction: The Art of Mexican Modernist Antonio Pineda
    • June 6, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011
  • A Century of Masters:The NEA National Heritage Fellows of New Mexico
    • Through Jan 16, 2011
  • Material World: Textiles and Dress from the Collection
    • Through May 23, 2011
Empowering Women: Artisan Cooperatives That Transform Communities
New Mexico Museum of Art
  • Sole Mates: Cowboy Boots and Art
    • May 14 - September 5
  • New Arrivals: Works from the Collection
    • February 12 -
  • O’Keeffe and Baumann
    • Ongoing
  • How The West is One: The Art of New Mexico
    • Ongoing
  • Event
Sole Mates: Cowboy Boots and Art
New Mexico History Museum
  • Segesser Hide Paintings
    • Ongoing
  • Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción
    • Ongoing
  • Telling New Mexico
    • Ongoing
  • Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton
    • May 23, 2010 - May 8, 2011
Wild at Heart: Ernest Thompson Seton

Katonah, NY

The Katonah Museum of Art

  • Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection
    • Closes Sept. 19!!!!
  • Steve Tobin: Katonah Steelroots
    • Closes Sept. 19!!!!
  • Event
Steve Tobin: Katonah Steelroots

Albany, NY

Albany Institute of History & Art

  • Ransoming Mathew Brady: Re-Imagining the Civil War, Recent Paintings by John Ransom Phillips
    • Closes October 3
  • Hudson River Panorama: 400 Years of History, Art, and Culture
    • Through Jan. 2, 2011
  • Ancient Egypt
    • Ongoing
  • The Landscape that Defined America: The Hudson River School
    • Ongoing
  • Event

Asheville, NC

Asheville Art Museum

  • Hands in Harmony: Traditional Crafts and Music in Appalachia, Photographs by Tim Barnwell
    • May 14 – October 10
  • Looking Back: Celebrating 60 Years of Collecting at the Asheville Art Museum
    • Ongoing
  • Sewell Sillman: Pushing Limits
    • August 6, 2010 - January 9, 2011
  • Events
Hands in Harmony: Traditional Crafts and Music in Appalachia, Photographs by Tim Barnwell

Chapel Hill, NC

Ackland Art Museum

  • Flowers from Earth and Sand: Art Glass and Ceramics, 1880-1950
    • September 12 - December 12

Flowers from Earth and Sand: Art Glass and Ceramics, 1880-1950


Durham, NC

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

  • The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl
    • Sept. 2, 2010 - February 6, 2011.
  • THE PAST IS PRESENT: CLASSICAL ANTIQUITIES AT THE NASHER MUSEUM
    • Through Nov. 29
  • Mark Hewitt: Falling Into Place
    • February 11 -
  • Event

Raleigh, NC

Gregg Museum of Art & Design North Carolina State University

  • Southern Roots of Mid-Century Modern
    • Aug. 19 - Dec. 18
  • Sequence of Impressions: The Work of Douglas Gorsline, 1946 to 1981
    • June 17 – October 2
  • Event

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