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Press Release 9-9-09: Openings, Closings, and Events plus Reminders

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Openings, Closings, and Events
See Exhibitions page to see a sample photos of current and upcoming shows.

Huntsville, AL

Huntsville Museum of Art

  • Looking at the Collection: Nature’s Realm
    • August 16 - November 22
  • Looking at the Collection: The Elegant Vessel
    • Opens August 30 - November 8.
  • Looking at the Collection: Buccellati Highlights
    • through November 2009

Daytona Beach, FL

The Southeast Museum of Photography

  • Departures IV
    • Closes September 12!!!!
  • Images of Recovery
    • Closes September 12!!!!
Departures IV

Miami, FL

The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum Florida International University

  • The Geoffrey Olsen exhibition The Miami Paintings
    • Through Oct. 4
  • What Comes After Nancy Friedemann
    • Through Sept. 20
  • Poet's Room. Teorema. by Horacio Sapere
    • Through Oct. 2
  • Events
The Geoffrey Olsen exhibition The Miami Paintings

West Palm Beach, FL

Norton Museum of Art

  • George Segal: Street Scenes
    • September 5 - December 6
  • Events

Miami Beach, FL

The Wolfsonian-Florida International University

  • BEAUTY ON THE BEACH: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF SWIMWEAR
    • Through October 11
  • SUN STROKE STIMULUS
    • Through October 11
  • Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection

Milledgeville, GA

Georgia State College & University Museum

  • War on Terror
    • September 10 – October 15
  • Soldier Portraits photographs by Ellen Susan
    • September 10 – October 15
  • Event
Augusta, GA

Morris Museum of Art

  • Emil Holzhauer: The Georgia Years
    • Aug. 29-Nov. 29
  • William Christenberry Photographs, 1961–2005
    • Opens September 12 - Nov. 8
  • Events

Indianapolis, IN

Indianapolis Museum of Art

  • Fashion in Bloom
    • April 4, 2009–January 31, 2010
    • Paul Fashion Arts Gallery
  • Eighteenth-Century Furniture Design
    • May 23, 2009–February 21, 2010
    • Conant Gallery
  • Judith G. Levy: Memory Cloud
    • July 10, 2009–January 17, 2010
    • Efroymson Family Entrance Pavilion
  • Paired Photographs
    • July 18, 2009–March 21, 2010
    • Golden Gallery
  • Omer Fast: The Casting
    • September 11, 2009 –
      March 14, 2010
    • McCormack Forefront Galleries
  • Sacred Spain: Art and Belief in the Spanish World
    • October 11, 2009–
      January 3, 2010
    • Clowes Gallery in the Wood Pavilion

Paducah, KY

The National Quilt Museum

  • Hand-carved wooden quilts by artists Fraser Smith and Fay Jean Hooker combine with antique fabric quilts from the collection of Gerald E. Roy
    • July 10 - October 6
  • Masters: Art Quilts
    • through November 10
  • Event
Masters: Art Quilts

The Yeiser Art Center

  • Yeiser Art Center Members Show
    • September 8 – October 3
    • Event
Paducah Photo ’09

Owensboro, KY

Owensboro Museum of Fine Art

  • Expressions
    • August 9 - October 17
  • Event

Louisville, KY

Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft

  • The Wind in Your Hair: Vintage Motorcycles
    • Closes Sept. 19
  • Event
The Wind in Your Hair: Vintage Motorcycles
The Speed Art Museum
  • English Silver from the Age of Matthew Boulton
    The James C. Codell, Jr. Collection
    • Extended through October 11
  • African Art at the Speed
    • Extended through January 4, 2010
  • The Private Eye:
    Photographic Highlights from the Henry V. Heuser, Jr. Collection
    • Extended through October 11
  • Events
American Art

Lexington, KY

The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky

  • Kentucky Folk: Art from the UK HealthCare Collection
    • Closes September 20
Kentucky Folk: Art from the UK HealthCare Collection

Baton Rouge, LA

Hill Memorial Library LSU Libraries' Special Collections

  • Two Gentlemen from Louisiana:
    The Congressional Papers of Senators John B. Breaux and J. Bennett Johnston, Jr.
    • Opens Sept. 8 - January 30
Two Gentlemen from Louisiana:

New Orleans, LA

Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University

  • American Letterpress:
    The Art of Hatch Show Print
    • August 12 to October 11
    • Events

New Orleans Museum of Art

  • FLOATULENTS: Inflatable Photographs by Martin Von Haselberg
    • Closes Sept. 20th
  • The Mind's Eye: Without Subject Matter, What Does the Artist See?
    • May 16th - Oct. 11th
  • With a Little Help from Our Friends: Recent Accessions in the Decorative Arts
    • June 20th - Oct. 18th
  • The Art of Caring
    A Look at Life through Photography
    • May 16 - Oct. 11
  • Women Artists in Louisiana,
    1825-1965: A Place of Their Own
    • Closes September 13!!!!
  • Skylar Fein: Youth Manifesto
    • Sept. 12th 2009 - Jan. 3rd 2010
  • Events
Women Artists in Louisiana, 1825-1965:
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
  • Bo Bartlett: Paintings 1984-2000
    • Through Jan. 3, 2010
  • Storming the Ramparts: Objects of Evidence
    • Through Jan. 3, 2010
  • Looking to Learn: New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
    • Through Mid-September
  • Charleston Renaissance
    • Ongoing
  • Walter Inglis Anderson: Watercolors from the Collection of Wesley and Norman Galen
    • Ongoing
  • Events

Ridgeland, MS

Mississippi Craft Center

  • A selection from the Apron Museum
    in Iuka, MS
    • September 8 – October 3
    • Event
A selection from the Apron Museum

Biloxi, MS

Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art

  • From the Vault
    • August 28, 2009-
      January 29, 2010
    • Events

Santa Fe, NM

The Museum of Indian Arts & Culture

  • A River Apart
    • Through Jun 6, 2010
  • Native American Picture Books of Change
    • Through Jan 2, 2010
  • Native Couture II: Innovation and Style
    • Aug 30, 2009 through Feb 10, 2010
  • The Buchsbaum Gallery of Southwestern Pottery
    • Ongoing
  • Here, Now and Always
    • Ongoing
  • Events
Native Couture II: Innovation and Style
Museum of International Folk Art
  • Dancing Shadows, Epic Tales: Wayang Kulit of Indonesia
    • in the Bartlett Wing
    • Through March 14, 2010
  • Nuevo México: El Corazon de La Cultura
    in Lloyd's Treasure Chest
    • Through December 31, 2009
  • Multiple Visions: A Common Bond
    • Ongoing
  • A Century of Masters:The NEA National Heritage Fellows of New Mexico
    • Sept. 27, 2009 - Jan 16, 2011
  • Events
Dancing Shadows, Epic Tales: Wayang Kulit of Indonesia
New Mexico History Museum
  • Segesser Hide Paintings
    • Ongoing
  • Treasures of Devotion/Tesoros de Devoción
    • Ongoing
  • Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe
    • Through Oct. 25
  • Telling New Mexico
    • Ongoing
  • Fashioning New Mexico
    • Through Apr 14, 2010
  • Santa Fe Found: Fragments of Time
    • Nov 20, 2009 through
      Nov 20, 2010
  • Events
Segesser Hide Paintings
New Mexico Museum of Art
  • American Impressionism: Paintings From the Phillips Collection
    • Closes Sep. 13!!!!
  • O’Keeffe and Baumann
    • Ongoing
  • How The West is One: The Art of New Mexico
    • Ongoing
  • The Surreal Life: Gerry Snyder and Marco Rosichelli
    • Sep 25, 2009 - Jan 31, 2010
  • Landscape Reconsidered
    • Oct 9, 2009 - Jan 10, 2010
  • Events

American Impressionism: Paintings From the Phillips Collection

Highlands, NC

The Bascom

  • Southern Landscapes by Lamar Dodd and Will Henry Stevens
    • August 22 - Oct. 17
  • Cat Chow: Beyond Fiber Art
    • September 5–October 10
  • Events
Architectural Ceramics

Asheville, NC

Asheville Art Museum

  • Cherokee Carvers: Tradition Renewed
    • Friday, July 10 to Sunday, December 6, 2009
  • Response and Memory: The Art of Beverly Buchanan
    • Closes September 13!!!!
  • Events
Response and Memory: The Art of Beverly Buchanan

Durham, NC

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

  • Picasso and the Allure of Language
    • August 20 - Jan. 3, 2010.
  • DAVID ROBERTS AND THE HOLY LAND
    • Through Nov. 29
  • THE PAST IS PRESENT: CLASSICAL ANTIQUITIES AT THE NASHER MUSEUM
    • Through Nov. 29
  • Beyond Beauty: Photographs from the Duke University Special Collections Library
    • July 2-Oct. 18
  • Events
DAVID ROBERTS AND THE HOLY LAND

Charleston, SC

Gibbes Museum of Art

  • Ancestry and Innovation
    • July 31 - October 11
  • The Charleston Story
    • Ongoing
  • Events
The Printmaking Process

Memphis, TN

Memphis Brooks Art Museum*

* Brooks is now closed Mondays AND Tuesdays

Prints of Jacob Lawrence
Children's Museum of Memphis
  • Top Secret: Mission Toy
    • Closes Sept. 13!!!!
Top Secret: Mission Toy

Nashville, TN

Belle Meade Plantation

Cheekwoood Botanical Garden &
Museum of Art
  • From Washington to Warhol:
    Americana Redefined
    • July 11, 2009 - January 3, 2010
  • Easton Selby: Rootwork
    • Closes September 20
  • A Lens with a Conscience
    • Closes Sept. 20
  • Tennessee Abstract Painters
    • Closes Sept. 20
  • The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection of Faberge
    • Ongoing
Tennessee Abstract Painters
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
  • Dean Byington: New Works
    • Closes Sept. 13!!!!
    • Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery
  • Chuck Close Prints: Process and Collaboration
    • Closes Sept. 13!!!!
  • The City in Twilight: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris 1924–1939
    • Ingram Gallery
Medieval Treasures
The Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery
  • Ghost Cities: Timothy Portlock
    • Aug. 24-Sept. 30
The Parthenon
  • Nashville’s Soul: Images of the Sacred
    Photographs by Tamara Reynolds
    • Through October 31
    • Parthenon, East Gallery
Nashville’s Soul: Images of the Sacred
Tennessee Art League
  • The Seven Deadly Sins: A photographic interpretation By David Farmerie
    • September 4 — 12
  • Mary Spelling
    • Premiere Gallery
    • September 1 - October 31 2009
  • Events
Vicissitudes in Color
The Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA)
  • Abraham Lincoln: Beyond the Penny
    • Through October 29
Abraham Lincoln: Beyond the Penny
Tennessee State Museum
  • A Unity of Opposites: Recent Work by Michael Taylor
    • Sept. 17 - Oct. 25
  • Talking Graphics: The Visual Designs of Jane Davis Doggett
    • Sept. 17 - Oct. 25

Sewanee, TN

University Art Gallery Sewanee:
The University of the South

  • Cloudmapping: Paintings by Julie Püttgen
    • Sep. 4 - Oct. 4

Chattanooga, TN

Hunter Museum of American Art

  • New York Cool: Painting and
    Sculpture from the NYU Art Collection
New York Cool: Painting and

Knoxville, TN

Blount Mansion

  • Bridges-From There to Here…..works by B.D. Busey
    • Sept. 1-29
  • Events
The Emporium Center for Arts & Culture
  • Sound Booth
    • September 4-25
  • A 20-Year Retrospective
    • September 4-25
  • Event
Knoxville Museum of Art
  • Contemporary Focus
    • Sept. 4 - Nov. 8
  • Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee
    • Ongoing exhibition
  • Event
Frank H. McClung Museum,
University of Tennessee
  • Discovering American Indian Art
    • August 29, 2009-
      January 10, 2010

Discovering American Indian Art

Gatlinburg, TN

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts

  • In View of the Smokies: Celebrating 75 Years
    • August 21 – October 10
  • Jerry Drown Turned Wood Collection Wood Studio Gallery
    • Ongoing

Midland, TX

Museum of the Southwest

  • Ed Haddaway Sculpture
    • Through October 4th
  • Of, By and About the American Indian
    • August 18th - October 18th
  • Taos Masters paintings
    • Through October 25th
  • Event

Fort Worth, TX

Kimbell Art Museum

  • Butchers, Dragons, Gods & Skeletons
    plus Film Installations by Philip Haas
    Inspired by Works in the Collection
    • Opening July 18-October 25
  • European Art
    • South Gallery
    • Current
  • Asian Art
    • North Gallery
    • Current
  • Pre-Columbian and African Art
    • East Gallery
  • Events

Dallas, TX

Dallas Museum of Art

  • All the World’s a Stage: Celebrating Performance in the Visual Arts
    • Through November 8
  • Private Universes: Media Works
    • June 14 - November 8
  • Materials & Meanings
    • Through Summer 2010
    • Center for Creative Connections
  • Events
Meadows Museum SMU
  • Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits, 1913-1917
    • Closes Sept. 20
  • There Was A Forest – Jewish Life in Eastern Europe Today
    • Through Nov. 15
    • Mildred Hawn Gallery, Hamon Arts Library – Owen Arts Center
  • By Magical Means: Drawings by Anna Zemánková
    • Through Oct. 10
    • Pollock Gallery in Hughes-Trigg Student Center
  • Events
Diego Rivera: The Cubist Portraits, 1913-1917
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