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Art Exhibits in Nashville>Gallery Directory

Frist Center for the Visual Arts

	The Best of Photography and Film from the George Eastman House Collection
Dorothea Lange (American, 1895-1965) Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California, 1933. Gelatin silver print. Credit: Courtesy George Eastman House	Through Jan. 25, 2009	William Wegman (American, b. 1942). In, 1993. Color print, internal dye diffusion transfer (Polacolor) print. Credit: Copyright William Wegman. Courtesy George Eastman House

Location: Ingram Gallery

Exhibition description (from the Frist Center for the Visual Arts website): Featuring masterpieces of photography and film from throughout history, this exhibition includes such iconic works as Mathew Brady's portrait of Abraham Lincoln, Ansel Adams's Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico; Edward Weston's Pepper No. 30; and Alfred Stieglitz's The Steerage. The exhibition also presents various versions of famous photographs, such as Lewis Hine's Power House Mechanic, and Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother, which together provide insight into the artists' creative processes. Films represented in the exhibition include The Phantom of the Opera, Peter Pan and The Lost World. See details at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts website.

Rodin: A Magnificent Obsession, Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
Sept. 12, 2008–Jan. 4, 2009
This exhibition features more than sixty bronze sculptures spanning the artist's career,including such works as The Thinker (1880) and The Kiss (ca. 1881-82).

MUSIC IN THE LOBBY
Free Live Music in the Grand Lobby of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Thursday and Friday evenings

Frist Center for the Visual Arts
919 Broadway 615-744-3998

Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art

faberge exhibit at cheekwood

The Matilda Geddings Gray Collection of Fabergé
March 20, 2007 - December 31, 2011

Cheekwood's Museum of Art has been selected to house the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation Collection, among the world’s most significant compilation of Fabergé pieces. The Collection includes 57 rare pieces highlighted by three Russian Imperial Easter eggs, and a number of important functional items, fantasy items and floral works. Cheekwood will dedicate a gallery in the Museum of Art to the Collection beginning March 2007.

Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art
1200 Forrest Park Drive, Nashville.353-2148 or 356-8000

Fine Arts Gallery at Vanderbilt
Fine Arts Building, also known as the Old Gym, 23rd and West End Avenues. Gallery: 615-322-0605:

Robert Rauschenberg's Swim/ROCI USA (Wax Fireworks), 1990 (a gift of Donald & Ruth Saff to Vanderbilt's permanent collection.)

Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt

Carl Van Vechten Art Gallery

Currently closed to the public due to renovations.

Fisk University Galleries
1000 Seventeenth Avenue North, Nashville TN 37208
615-329-8720

>Gallery II: Permanent exhibition of the Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern Art, including works by O'Keefee, Renoir, Cézanne, Picasso, Toulouse-Latrec and more.

Art Galleries at the Parthenon
Centennial Park. Information: 862-8431.