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To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum
October 7, 2011 – January 8, 2012
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Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Through January 8, 2012
To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum features 109 works including jewels, coffins, and statuary. The objects in the exhibition were created over a period of more than 4000 years ago and illustrate ancient Egyptian beliefs regarding death and immortality.
Other current Frist exhibitions:
A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery (Sept. 9, 2011–February 5, 2011)
The exhibition focuses upon the collection of Faith and Edward Deming Andrews, pioneers in the field of Shaker studies and Shaker art. The comprehensive collection, featuring over 200 objects drawn from household items, furniture, drawings, and textiles, offers insight into the Shakers' way of life and religious ideas.
Collecting Cultures: Children's Stories from Across the World (April 15, 2011–March 27, 2012)
An immersion into diverse cultures, narratives, interpretations, and reflections, this exhibition presents artwork that depicts children's stories from different traditions around the world. The stories serve as a medium to emphasize both the similarities and differences of cultural perspectives and values around the world.
For more information and to confirm admission times and fees:
Frist Center for the Visual Arts
919 Broadway. 615-744-3998.
Music in the Frist Lobby
Free Live Music in the Grand Lobby of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts
For more information and to confirm dates and times of performances, please visit Frist Center for the Visual Arts or call 615-744-3998.
The Parthenon Galleries at Centennial Park
2600 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203. Phone: 615-862-8431.
Cheekwood
Botanical Garden & Museum of Art
David Wood: Double Heliotrope: A Conversation between Earth and Water
Through October 31, 2011
Description from the Cheekwood website on the Wood exhibit:
Cheekwood features a sculpture project by earth artist David Wood. Wood, who is also a professor of philosophy and art at Vanderbilt University, creates outdoor sculpture in the tradition of Robert Smithson, Andy Goldsworthy, and Chris Drury. His Cheekwood installation is part of an ongoing Heliotrope series: horizontal radial wooden sculptures that engage materially, visually, and symbolically with the significance and power of the sun. At Cheekwood, the artist will be installing two pieces, Awakening and Reflection, one on land and the other on water. Awakening has a long modernist poem inscribed on it; Reflection will sport reflective mylar circles and nocturnal illumination. The Cheekwood project will be Wood’s first double installation in which two pieces are thought of as in conversation, creating a mirror effect. The “echoes” that these pieces create resonate with Cheekwood’s Carell Woodland Sculpture Trail, as one of Wood’s pieces will be in proximity to sculptures by James Turrell and Ian Hamilton Finlay.
For more information and to confirm admission times and fees:
Cheekwood
Botanical Garden & Museum of Art
1200 Forrest Park
Drive, Nashville. 615-353-2148 or 615-356-8000.
Figure 1: Scientists and Artists Picture the Intangible
Through Nov. 12, 2011
A multi-media exhibition featuring photography, video, sound sculpture, objects and prints, Japan also includes reflections on the recent happenings in Japan by Japanese-Nashville artists. Admission is free.
Gallery F @ Scarritt-Bennett
1000 19th Avenue South (at the corner of Grand Avenue and 19th Avenue South). 615-320-4651.
Robert Rauschenberg's Swim/ROCI USA (Wax
Fireworks), 1990 (a gift of Donald & Ruth Saff to Vanderbilt's
permanent collection.)
Fine Arts Gallery at Vanderbilt
Polar Probings: Sculpture by Gabriel Warren
Oct. 13, 2011 – Dec. 8, 2011
Description from the Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery website on the Polar Probings exhibit:
Gabriel Warren creates sculptures using natural ice formations as source material. As noted by the artist, his sculpture is “intended to reflect the beauty of the natural sources from which they emerge… They represent my attempts to triangulate an understanding of a single natural phenomenon: ice.” Warren adds, “although ice is not the only source in the natural world for my sculptural probings, it is the dominant one and has been so for decades. Ice exhibits mind-numbing variability and variety on a visual plane, and, on a scientific one, understanding its behavior is key to understanding many other components of our world.”
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery will present a number of works by Warren, each layered with meanings and references to the condition of the planet and based on his close observation of the way ice behaves, including an outdoor sculpture installation adjacent to Cohen Memorial Hall, the home of the Fine Arts Gallery
Admission is free.
Fine
Arts Gallery at Vanderbilt
Cohen Memorial Hall, 1220 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37203. 615-322-0605.
Works by local contemporary artists. Admission is free.
Nashville Metro Arts Gallery
Metro Office Building, 4th Floor, 800 2nd Ave. South, Nashville, TN. 615-862-6720.
