
Cheekwood Museum of Art and
Gardens
Through
September 6 – The American Impressionists in the
Garden
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum, 1200 Forrest Park
Dr. Over forty paintings and 4 bronze statues explore the
theme of the garden in American art and society of the
late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The exhibition
is divided into 3 categories: European Gardens, Gardens
in America, and Garden Sculpture.
Through
October 31 – Chihuly at Cheekwood
The legendary glass artist has an installment featuring
hand-blown sculptures on display throughout
the botanical garden, in water features and
within the Museum of Art and Frist Learning Center. A
Joint ticket for the Chihuly exhibits at Cheekwood
and the Frist Center for the Visual Arts will be available
for $20 through the Nashville Convention and Visitors
Bureau.
Admission
is $10 for adults, $5 for children 6 - 17. Hours are
9:30a.m. - 4:30p.m. Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00a.m. - 4:30p.m.
Sunday. Go to www.cheekwood.org or call (615) 356-8000.Located
at 1200 Forrest Park Dr. Admission is $10 for adults,
$5 for children 6 - 17. Hours are 9:30a.m. - 4:30p.m.
Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00a.m. - 4:30p.m. Sunday. Go
to www.cheekwood.org.
The
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Through
September 12– The Golden Age of Couture:
Paris and London 1947-1957
Organized by the Victoria & Albert Museum in
London, which possesses one of the finest costume collections
in the world, this exhibit makes its only US stop in Nashville.
The exhibition celebrates an important decade in fashion
history that began with the launch of Christian Dior’s
famous New Look in 1947 and ended with his death in 1957.
The romantic postwar silhouette pioneered by Dior scandalized
and delighted the public, and ushered in a period of remarkable
creativity. Other designers celebrated in this exhibit include
Cristóbal Balenciaga, Hubert de Givenchy, and Pierre
Balmain and London designers including Hardy Amies, Charles
Creed, and Norman Hartnell. Examples of daywear, cocktail
dresses, and evening gowns designed for royalty and aristocracy
are included. Images by legendary photographers Cecil Beaton,
Richard Avedon, and Irving Penn demonstrate how fashion
magazines enhanced the prestige of couture, while also
making its innovative ideas widely known.
Through January
2, 2011 - Chihuly at the Frist
Dale Chihuly's name is synonymous with the
medium of art glass, and he is widely considered to be
one of the most innovative artists to have worked with
the material. This
exhibit showcases nine installations drawn from some of
the master's most acclaimed series, designed specifically
for the Frist Center's galleries. Among the featured series are Venetians, a brilliantly
colored and intricately formed group of works that was
inspired in 1988 by a famed Italian glass master; Ikebana,
inspired by the Japanese art of flower arranging;
Persians, bringing forth the flavor of the Far
East; Macchia, borne of Chihuly’s
desire to use hundreds of colors in rippling forms based
on vases created in the famed Venini glass factory in Venice;
and Seaforms, which celebrates the waving and
rippling shapes and rhythms of underwater life. In addition,
the exhibition will include a spectacular Mille Fiori (a
thousand flowers) garden and the Sea Blue and Green
Tower, a mammoth
sculpture that masses colorful, curving forms in a large-scale
work that rises nearly ten feet tall and occupies an entire
gallery.
Open
Monday - Wednesday and Saturday 10:00a.m. - 5:30p.m.,
Thursday and Friday 10:00a.m. - 9:00p.m. and Sunday 1:00-5:30p.m.
Admission is $8.50 for non-member adults, $7.50 for seniors
and military, and free to children 18 and under. Call
615-244-3340 or go to the website www.fristcenter.org.
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The
Upper Room Chapel and Museum
Featuring a nearly-life-size wood carving
of da Vinci’s
“The Last Supper”. Currently, the museum is
under renovation, but visitors can still see The Last Supper
carving in the chapel. Admission is free; a donation of
$4 is encouraged. Located at 1908 Grand Ave., 340-7207.
Visit the website at upperroom.org.
Woodcuts Gallery and Framing
1613 Jefferson St., (615) 321-5357 telephone and (615)
321-2134 fax. Offering hundreds of open and limited edition
prints, serigraphs, original pieces, framed art, cards,
figurines, and fast custom framing. Also a wide selection
of commemorative Obama Inauguration prints. See www.woodcutsfineart.com for more information.
Other
Nashville include:
The Arts Company Studio
215 5th Ave. N., 254-2040, www.theartscompany.com
Artsynergy
615 5th Ave. S., 256-900.
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Cumberland Gallery
4107 Hillsboro Cir., 297-0296, www.cumberlandgallery.com
Finer Things
1898 Nolensville Pke., 244-3003, www.finerthingsgallery.com
Helios Artglassworks & Gallery
3108 Belmont Blvd., 297-5676, www.heliosnashville.com
In the Gallery
624-A Jefferson St., 255-0705
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Leu Gallery at Belmont University
1900 Belmont Blvd. ,460-6770, www.belmont.edu/art/leu_art_gallery
Local Color Gallery
1912 Broadway #203, 321-3141, localcolornashville.com
Midtown Gallery & Frames
1912 Broadway, 322-9966
Murfreesboro/Rutherford County Center for the Arts
110 W. College St., Murfreesboro, 904-2787, www.boroarts.org
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Ruthie
Cherry Fine Arts
The Loveless Motel Shops, 8400 Hwy. 100, 673-ARTS (2787)
www.ruthiecherryfineart.com
The Parthenon
Centennial Park, 862-8431
Sarratt Gallery
Sarratt Student Center, Vanderbilt University, 322-2471
www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/finearts/gallery.html
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TAG Art Gallery
429-7708, (no brick and mortar gallery anymore, but see the
website) www.tagartgallery.com
Tennessee
Art League and
808 Broadway, www.tennesseeartleague.org
Tennessee State Museum
505 Deaderick St., 741-2692. www.tnmuseum.org/
Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery
23rd and West Aves., 322-0605, www.vanderbilt.edu/gallery
Woodcuts African American Fine
Arts
1613 Jefferson St., 321-5357, www.woodcutsfineart.com
Zeitgeist
1819 21st Ave. S., 256-4805, www.vanderbilt.edu/gallery
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