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Openings, Closings, and Events 9-26-12 Newsletter

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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
  • CHICKS: American Women from the Collection
    • Extended through Nov. 11, 2012
  • Encounters: Sloane Bibb
    • Extended through September 30
  • Event
The Art of Nature: The Sanctuary Artists Group

San Francisco, CA

The Contemporary Jewish Museum

  • 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

  • Drawings from Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s: The Marmor Collection
    • August 29–February 4, 2013
  • 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
Central Nigeria Unmasked: Arts of the Benue River Valley

Monterey, CA

Monterey Museum of Art

  • Auguste Rodin: Light and Shadow
    • July 5 -October 21
    • MMA Pacific Street
  • Monterey Artists Abroad
    • July 5–October 21
    • MMA Pacific Street
  • Sharp Focus: The Legacy of Monterey Photography
    • Closes 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
Sharp Focus: The Legacy of Monterey Photography

Torrance, CA

Torrance Art Museum
  • The Subterraneans
    • Sept. 22 - Nov. 3
  • XYZ: The Geometric Impulse in Abstract Art
    • Sept. 22 - Nov. 3
  • Event
XYZ: The Geometric Impulse in Abstract Art

Irvine, CA

The Irvine Museum

  • Autumn's Glory, Winter's Grace
    • Sept. 29, 2012 - Jan. 17, 2013
Autumn's Glory, Winter's Grace

Laguna Beach, CA

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

Pomona, CA

American Museum of Ceramic Art
  • Patti Warashina : Wit and Wisdom
    • Closes September 29!!!!
  • Vault Show: William Catling: Of Times and Days
    • Closes September 29!!!!
  • Event
Patti Warashina : Wit and Wisdom

Greenwich, CT

Bruce Museum

  • Face & Figure: The Sculpture of Gaston Lachaise
    • Sept. 22, 2012 - Jan. 6, 2013
  • Extreme Habitats: Living Desert Dry
    • August 25, 2012 - March 3, 2013
  • Marking a Century: Recent and Promised Gifts to the Bruce Museum, Part II
    • July 21 - November 4
  • Event
Extreme Habitats: Living Desert Dry

Storrs, CT

The William Benton Museum of Art University of Connecticut
  • The Dark Side of Life: 19th-Century Narrative Cycles by Rethel, Klinger, and Kollwitz
    • SEPTEMBER 4–OCTOBER 14
  • The 46th Annual Art Department Faculty Exhibition
    • SEPTEMBER 4–OCTOBER 14
  • Event
The 46th Annual Art Department Faculty Exhibition

Norwalk , CT

Center for Contemporary Printmaking
  • Will McCarthy: Paintings and Monotypes
    • Sept. 16 - Nov. 4
  • Event
Will McCarthy: Paintings and Monotypes

New London, CT

Lyman Allyn Art Museum

  • Dinotopia: Art, Science, and Imagination
    • Through February 2, 2013
  • The Rockets’ Red Glare: The War of 1812 in Connecticut
    • July 6, 2012 - January 5, 2013
Dinotopia: Art, Science, and Imagination

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 Mysterious Content of Softness
    • Sept. 15 - Dec. 30
  • The Prints of Gustave Baumann
    • May 18 - Dec. 30
  • Event
The Prints of Gustave Baumann

Daytona Beach, FL

The Southeast Museum of Photography
reopens August 14th!
  • A GIRL AND HER ROOM: Rania Matar
    • Sept. 14 - Dec. 14
  • EDGE TO EDGE: Vintage Panoramic Photography in Florida
    • Sept. 14 - Dec. 14
  • LYONIA GALLERY
    Beate Sass – TALL TIMBERS PLANTATION PROJECT
    • Extended through October 14
  • Event
EDGE TO EDGE: Vintage Panoramic Photography in Florida

Miami, FL

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University
  • Out of the Ordinary Geometry by Lydia Azout
    • Sept. 12 - Oct. 21
  • FIU Art & Art History Faculty Exhibtion
    • Closes Oct. 7
  • Shared Threads: Maria Lino’s Portrait of a Shipibo Healer
    • Closes September 30!!!!
  • This and That: Unconventional selections from the Permanent Collection
    • July 18 – October 21
FIU Art & Art History Faculty Exhibtion

Miami Beach, FL

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

  • Politics on Paper: Election Posters and Ephemera from The Wolfsonian–FIU Collection
    • Sept. 24 - October
  • 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
Politics on Paper: Election Posters and Ephemera from The Wolfsonian–FIU Collection

Boca Raton, FL

Boca Raton Museum of Art
  • The Art of Video Games
    • Oct. 24, 2012 - Jan. 13, 2013
  • Politics NOT as Usual: Quilts with Something to Say
    • Sept. 11, 2012 - Jan. 13, 2013
  • 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
    • Through January 27, 2013
  • Clubs, Joints and Honky-Tonks
    • Closes Sept. 30
  • Crying Seasaw Tear Between
    • Through Oct. 7
  • American Masters at the Norton: Clyfford Still and Joan Mitchell
    • Mar 22 - Fall 2012
  • Event
Crying Seasaw Tear Between

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