Press Release:9-24-08

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Press Release 9-24-08: Openings, Closings, and Events

New Museum Joins Art Museum Touring.com

The Wolfsonian–Florida International University
Miami Beach, FL

The Wolfsonian is a museum, library, and research center that uses objects to illustrate the persuasive power of art and design, to explore what it means to be modern, and to tell the story of social, historical, and technological changes that have transformed our world. The collections comprise approximately 120,000 objects from the period of 1885 to 1945—the height of the Industrial Revolution to the end of the Second World War—in a variety of media including furniture; industrial-design objects; works in glass, ceramics, and metal; rare books; periodicals; ephemera; works on paper; paintings; textiles; and medals.

Current Exhibition

A Bittersweet Decade: The New Deal in America, 1933-43
- Through January 19, 2009

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

Huntsville, AL Huntsville Museum of Art *Encounters: Shane Fero* Closes September 28!!!! *Looking at the Collection: Buccellati Highlights* through February 1, 2009 Looking at the Collection: Whimsy in 3-D through May 31, 2009

Milledgeville, GA Georgia College & State University Museum *Visions and Voices, works by Kristin Cassaletto* Opened September 18 – December 5 *Solo Exhibition featuring the works of Frances de La Rosa* Through Oct. 2 Events

Augusta , GA Morris Museum of Art *Realist Paintings by Bryan LeBoeuf* Closes September 28!!!! Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art Through October 19 Events

Paducah, KY National Quilt Museum On a Grand Scale: Quilts by Inge Mardal/Steen Hougs & Eleanor McCain Through November 5 9th Quilt Japan Through October 7 Events: Workshops

Louisville, KY Louisville Visual Art Association Launchings Through October 4
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft 2008 Images and Ideas: The Photographic Art of Julius Friedman Through October 11 Whackers and Hackers: Artist Made Golf Clubs Through October 18 Kentucky Collectors Series 2: Shelly Zegart: Passionate About Quilts Through October 26 American Tapestry Alliance: Biennial 7 Through January 3, 2009

Lexington, KY The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky *Master Works by Kentucky Painters: 1819-1935* Through November 30

New Orleans, LA Ogden Museum of Southern Art Fundamental Abstraction: Paintings by Tom Young Southeast College Art Conference Exhibition Closes Sept. 28!!!! *Sally Mann: What Remains* Opens Oct. 4 Silver Bullets and Holy Water: Paintings by Margaret Evangeline Opens Oct. 4 Lisa Silvestri “The New Orleans Portrait Project: The Series” Opens Oct. 4

Biloxi, MS Ohr-O'Keefe Art Museum *George Ohr’s National Challenge: The Juried Exhibition* Opened Sept. 19 - Nov. 7

Asheville, NC Asheville Art Museum Life’s Rich Pageant: A Centennial Celebration of The Eight September 12, 2008 - January 4, 2009 Holden Community Gallery *Ash Cans, Factories and Trains: Students and Followers of The Eight* Friday, Sept. 19, 2008 - Sunday, January 11, 2009 *Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats Along the Way: A Retrospective of Paintings by John Baeder* Through Sunday, October 26 Appleby Foundation Gallery *Expectant Gaze* Through 2008 2nd Floor Galleries Events

Fayetteville, NC Fayetteville Museum of Art Sense of Place, September 13 - November 2 Japanese artist Etsuko Komori September 26 – November 16 Events

Wimington, NC Cameron Art Museum ROBERT DELFORD BROWN: Meat, Maps and Militant Metaphysics Closes September 28!!!! Bob Trotman: Business as Usual Through October 12 Art and Social Conscience: HOLOCAUST Through October 19 Bearden to Ruscha: Contemporary Art from the North Carolina Museum of Art Through May 24, 2009

Columbia, SC Columbia Museum of Art *Dale Chihuly: Seaforms* Opened September 5 – November 30

Charleston, SC Gibbes Museum of Art The Charleston Story Ongoing Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art Through November 30

Memphis, TN: Children's Museum of Memphis *Curious George: Let’s Get Curious* Closes Sept. 28!!!! Event Emergency Preparedness Day *Curious George: Let’s Get Curious* Pink Palace Museum *On Track in Memphis* Opens Oct. 4 In Spite of Race, The Robert R. Church Family of Memphis Closes October 26


Clarksville, TN Customs House Museum Civil War: Hoofbeats in the Heartland Closes Sept. 28!!!! (was extended) Time Made Real: The Carvings of Tim Lewis Through October 31

Nashville, TN Centennial Art Center Wear Art: TN Textiles, V. 2008 Closes September 26!!!! Event
Cheekwoood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art Song Archive Project Closes Sept. 28!!!! *Artists' Books From Post War to Present* Closes Sept. 28!!!! **William Edmondson: The Hand and the Spirit Through January 4, 2009 The Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection of Faberge Ongoing Artists Collect: The Red Grooms and Lysiane Luong Private Collection October 11, 2008 - January 4, 2009**
Frist Center for the Visual Arts Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession, Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation Sept. 12, 2008 – Jan. 4, 2009 Upper-Level Galleries *The Best of Photography and Film from George Eastman House Collection* Oct. 10, 2008– Jan. 25, 2009 *The Photographs of Lalla Essaydi* Oct. 10, 2008– Jan. 25, 2009
Hiram Van Gordon Memorial Gallery Tennessee State University Faculty Biennial Closes Sept 30!!!! Event
Tennessee Art League *Nick Long* Through October 30
Tennessee State Museum Akira Blount’s Enchanted Dolls September 26 - November 30 *The River Inside* Opens October 3rd Events
The Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery Line Up, Strip Down, Fade Out Polaroid Photographs and Videos by Andy Warhol, Grant Worth Opened August 28 - Oct. 10

Sewanee, TN University Art Gallery Sewanee: The University of the South *Greg Pond: Userland[s]* Through October 15 Event

Chattanooga, TN Hunter Museum of American Art *William Morris: Myth, Object and the Animal* Closes September 28!!!! *Object Project* Opens October 12, 2008 - January 11, 2009

Knoxville, TN
Blount Mansion “Watercolors of Tennessee” - An Art Exhibition by the Knoxville Watercolor Society. 200 W. Hill Ave. Closes September 29!!!! Blount Mansion Visitors Center *3Artists-3Dimensions featuring works by Donna Conliff, Jessica VanNeste and Gay Bryant* October1-31 event
Emporium Center Works of Mänya Pirkle and Jonathan Pirkle Closes September 26 *Eclectia:* Works by Charlie Daniel and Jon Gustin" Closes 26 Wonder and Whimsy: Works of JoAnn Parsley and Olga Rader Opens October 3-31 event
Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture New York Rises Closes October 1!!!!
Knoxville Museum of Art *Higher Ground: A Century of Visual Arts in East Tennessee* Ongoing exhibition Latino Arts Exhibition Community Gallery Through Oct. 16 Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft and Traditional Art October 4, 2008- January 18, 2009

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Events page for openings, receptions, other museum activities
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Tom Carris
Art Museum Touring.com
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