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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
    • Closes Sept. 23!!!!
  • Sally Johnson: Projections and Reflections
    • Closes Sept. 23!!!!
A Sense of Place: Plein Air Painters of the Southeast

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
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
  • Events
California Artists and Portraiture

Torrance, CA

Torrance Art Museum

  • The Unseen
    • Sept. 17 - Oct. 29
  • CITIES: visionary places
    • Sept. 17 - Oct. 29
  • Event
CITIES: visionary places

Irvine, CA

The Irvine Museum

  • California Rhapsody: Early Artists of the Bohemian Club
    • Through November 5
California Rhapsody: Early Artists of the Bohemian Club

Laguna Beach, CA

Laguna Art Museum

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

Greenwich, CT

Bruce Museum

  • Two Rembrandt Paintings
    • Through October 10
  • Drawings by Rembrandt, his Students and Circle from the Maida and George Abrams Collection
    • Sept. 24, 2011 – January 8, 2012
  • Bijoux: The Origins and Impact of Jewelry
    • Through March 11, 2012
  • Saddle Up! Horsing Around at the Bruce Museum
    • Closes Sept. 25!!!!
  • Picasso’s Vollard Suite: The Sculptor’s Studio
    • Through October 16
  • Event
Two Rembrandt Paintings

Storrs, CT

The William Benton Museum of Art University of Connecticut

  • The 45th Annual Art Department Faculty Exhibition
    • Through October 16
  • Musical Prints: 1568-1949
    • August 30 – October 16
  • Project 35
    • August 30 - Dec. 18
Musical Prints: 1568-1949

New London, CT

Lyman Allyn Art Museum

  • Skateboards: Art on the Ply
    • Sept. 17, 2011- Feb. 4, 2012.
  • Events

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

Winter Park, FL

Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College

  • The Velvet Years: 1965-1967, Warhol's Factory
    • July 2 - October 9
  • It's Always Rock and Roll: The Work of Photojournalist Janet Macoska
    • July 2 - October 9
  • E. Brady Robinson: Transfer
    • July 2 - October 9
  • Douglas Witmer: I Found a Reason
    • July 2 - October 9
  • Event

Daytona Beach, FL

The Southeast Museum of Photography

  • DOUGLAS KIRKLAND: RETROSPECTIVE: Fifty Years of Photography
    • Sept. 21, 2011 - Feb. 12, 2012
  • KATE BROOKS: IN THE LIGHT OF DARKNESS: A Photographer's Journey after 9/11
    • Sept. 9 - Dec. 16
  • KHALID HADI: PORTRAITS from AFGHANISTAN
    • Sept. 9 - Dec. 16
  • 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
  • Events

Boca Raton, FL

Boca Raton Museum Of Art

  • THE WORLD ACCORDING TO FEDERICO URIBE
    • Sept. 21 - Dec. 4
  • OUTSIDER VISIONS: Self-taught Southern Artists of the 20th Century
    • Sept. 21, 2011 -
      January 8, 2012
  • Portraits from the Permanent Collection
    • Sept. 6, 2011- May 13, 2012
  • Events
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO FEDERICO URIBE

Miami, FL

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University

  • Tipping Points
    • Sept. 7 - October 2
  • Events
Tipping Points

Miami Beach, FL

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

  • REFLECTIONS ON LOSS AND COMMEMORATION: Commemorates a Month of Remembrance On the Anniversary of 9/11
    • Sept. 8 - 30
  • MANIFEST AND MUNDANE: SCENES OF MODERN AMERICA FROM THE WOLFSONIAN COLLECTION
    • Sept. 8 - August 2012
  • Statistically Speaking: The Graphic Expression of Data
    • On view in the library vestibule through January 2012
  • LAWRENCE WEINER (MIRA & VE)
    • Ongoing installation
  • Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Statistically Speaking: The Graphic Expression of Data

Atlanta, GA

Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University

  • Life and Death in the Pyramid Age: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy
    • Sept. 10 - Dec. 11
  • Divine Intervention: African Art and Religion
    • Through Dec. 4
  • Events
Divine Intervention: African Art and Religion

Athens, GA

Georgia Museum of Art

  • Edmund Lewandowski: Precisionism and Beyond
    • Sept. 10 - Dec. 4
  • 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
Hot Metal and Cool Paper: The Black Art of Making Books

Augusta, GA

Morris Museum of Art

  • Down South: Paintings by Art Rosenbaum, Photographs by Margo Newmark Rosenbaum
    • Sept. 17 - Nov. 6
  • Preservation of Place: The Art of Edward Rice
    • August 27 - Nov. 20
  • Naturalists in the South: Abbot, Audubon, Catesby, and Wilson
    • Closes Sept. 25!!!!
  • Event

Milledgeville, GA

Georgia State College & University Museum

  • “the surveyed extent” by Sandra Trujillo
    • Closes Sept. 21!!!!
  • Curtis Stewardson
    • Closes Sept. 21!!!!
“the surveyed extent” by Sandra Trujillo

Indianapolis, IN

Indianapolis Museum of Art

  • FLOW: Can You See the River?
    • installlation
    • Sept. 22 -
  • Brian McCutcheon: Out of this World
    • Sept. 9, 2011 - March 4, 2012
  • Venetian Views: American Works on Paper
    • June 3 - Nov. 27
  • Material World
    • Through February 5, 2012
  • Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria
    • July 8, 2011 - Jan. 16, 2012
  • Selections from Project 35
    • Through Oct. 30
  • The Old Masters
    • Through December 31
  • Events
FLOW: Can You See the River?

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

Iowa City, IA

University of Iowa Museum of Art

  • Graphic Language: The Art and Literature of Comics
    • Sept. 24 - Dec. 11
  • Labyrinths and Other Daily Exits: The Art of Tom Aprile
    • Fall 2011 Semester
  • Events
Graphic Language: The Art and Literature of Comics

Logan, KS

The Dane G. Hansen Memorial Museum

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

Wichita, KS

Wichita Art Museum

  • The American Abstract Artists
    • Closes September 25
  • Been in the Dark: What You Haven't Seen Lately
    • Through October 23
  • Make It POP!
    • May 1 -
The American Abstract Artists

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