Find an Exhibit in a Texas Museum

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Abilene

The Grace Museum

Sandria Hu: Smoke and Ash, Sep 11-Dec 29, 2008;
Apron Chronicles: A Patchwork of American Recollections, Oct 7, 2008 - Jan 9, 2009.

National Center for Children’s Illustrated Literature

Knuffle Funny: The Art and Whimsy of Mo Willems, Nov 7, 2008 to Jan 30, 2009

Albany

The Old Jail Art Center:

A Cell of One’s Own : Denny Pickett Sep 27-Jan 4, 2009;
James Abbott McNeil Whistler: Realism in Print from the Dr. Richard L. Shorkey Collection, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Sep 27, 2008-Jan 4, 2009

Alpine

Museum of the Big Bend

Goofus Glass, Sept 6, 2008 – Feb 10, 2009

Arlington

Arlington Museum of Art:

Quilt Mania, Sep 27 - Dec 13, 2008.

Amarillo

Amarillo Museum of Art:

Silence - Passion - Expression: The Sculptures of Carole A. Feuerman, Nov 7, 2008-Jan 11, 2009.

Don Harrington Discovery Center:

Black Holes, through Jan 4, 2009.

Austin

Arthouse at the Jones Center:

Rapture in Rupture, Nov 15, 2008 – Jan 11, 2009

Austin Children’s Museum:

All Systems Go, Sep 27, 2008 - May 30, 2009; Maker Kids, Jun 6, 2009 - Sep 11, 2009; Cyberchase, Sep 19, 2009 - Jan 23, 2010.

Austin Museum of Art (Downtown):

Workers: Photographs by Sebastião Salgado, Nov 15, 2008-Feb 8, 2009;
The Texas Chair Project by Damian Priour, Nov 15, 2008-Feb 8, 2009.

Austin Museum of Art (Laguna Gloria)

Laguna Gloria-Grounded, Oct 3, 2007-Sep 27, 2009.

Blanton Museum of Art

America/Americas, ongoing; European Paintings from the Permanent Collection, ongoing; Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection, ongoing
Refiguring the 1960s: The Park Place Gallery, New York 1963-67, Sep 23, 2008-Jan 18, 2009;
The New York Graphic Workshop, Sep 23, 2008-Jan 18, 2009.
WorkSpace 10: Marcelo Pombo, Oct 4, 2008 – Feb 22, 2009.
Alternate Worlds: The Visionary Artist in Texas, through Mar 8, 2009;

The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum:

Cowboys and Presidents, Oct 18, 2008-Jan 4, 2009

Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

Linda Calvert Jacobson Exhibit, through Dec 14, 2008;
Barry George Sculptures, through January 2009.

LBJ Library and Museum:

To the Moon: The American Space Program in the 1960s, Aug 27, 2008 - Jul 20, 2009.

Mexic Arte Museum:

Serie Project Exhibition #15, Nov 22, 2008 - Feb 8, 2009.

Ransom Center Galleries

The Mystique of the Archive, Sep 2, 2008-Jan 4, 2009;
A Cabinet of Drawings: Selections from Across the Collections, Sep 2, 2008-Jan 4, 2009.

Texas Memorial Museum

Natural Wonders: Treasures of the TMM, ongoing.

Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum

Ben Woitena: A Retrospective (1963-2008),
Sep 12, 2008 - Jan 4, 2009

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Beaumont

Art Museum of Southeast Texas:

Eating Your Friction by Howard Sherman, Oct 18, 2008-Jan 4, 2009

Texas Energy Museum:

Unlocking the Energy of Oil, ongoing.

Beeville

Beeville Art Museum:

Sans Souci Chronicles: Bernard Mattox, Sep 20-Dec 30, 2008; Then and Now: The World of Kermit Oliver, Sep 20 – Dec 30, 2008.

Belton

Bell County Museum

Bell County in Miniature: The C.O. Buckellew Collection, ongoing
Visioning Beauty: An Ella K. MeWhinney Retrospective, Nov 1, 2008-Jan 31, 2009; The Inspired Line, Jun 16-Aug 11, 2009.

Big Spring

Hangar 25 Air Museum

SMGT Robert Underwood: Collection of Military Service, B-52 Exhibit, ongoing

Bryan

Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History

Cotton Farming of the Brazos Valley, ongoing:
Ice Age Animals of the Brazos Valley, ongoing.

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Canyon

Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum

Studer and Johnston: Treasures of the Panhandle, Sep 29, 2008 - Jan 4, 2009;
75th Anniversary Exhibit Sep 27, 2008 - Mar 29, 2009;
Don Ray Retrospective, Oct 11, 2008 – Feb 15, 2009.
The Santa Fe Collection, Oct 18, 2008 – Jan 25, 2009;
“EXTRA! EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!”: The Amarillo Globe-News, Mar 21—Sept7, 2009;
Belles of the Ball, Feb 14—Aug 9, 2009;
The James D. Hamlin Collection, Apr 18, — Oct 11, 2009.

College Station

The George Bush Library & Museum:

From the Moon and Beyond: The 50th Anniversary of NASA, Sep19, 2008-Aug 23, 2009.

MSC Forsyth Center Galleries

Objects from the American Cut Glass Association (ACGA) Collection, ongoing
Guatemalan Maya Weavers: Colors of Tradition, Oct 16 – Dec 15, 2008;
¡Siempre! Hispanics at Texas A&M, Celebrating 130 Years, Sep 9-Dec 14, 2008.

J. Wayne Stark Galleries:

Driven, Nov 4 - Dec 14, 2008;
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art, Nov 11 - Dec 14, 2008;

Colorado City

The Heart of West Texas Museum

Chief Lone Wolf Exhibit, opened June 24

Corpus Christi

Art Museum of South Texas:

The Mary Grace and Frank Horlock Collection of American Western Art, Jan 10-Dec 31, 2008;

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Dallas

African American Museum

The Souls of Black Folk, ongoing

The Crow Collection of Asian Art:

Texas Collects Asia: Japanese Folk Art, Oct 18 – Dec 28, 2008;
Tending the Afterlife: Chinese Tomb Art from the Neolithic Period to the Ming Dynasty, Sep 27, 2008 – Jul 12, 2009; Texas Collects Asia: Contemporary Art, Oct 18, 2008-Jan 4, 2009;

Dallas Museum of Art

Materials & Meanings in the Center for Creative Connections, May 3, 2008–Summer 2009;

The Dallas Contemporary:

Joseph Havel: Two Sheets (to the wind), Sep 5 - Dec 24, 2008;

Meadows Museum:

Spain’s War of Independence: 1808-1814, Sep 28 – Dec 2, 2008;
From Manet to Miro: Modern Drawings from the Abello Collection, Sep 14-Dec 2, 2008;
From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany, Jan 25-May 17, 2009

Museum of Nature & Science(Formerly Dallas Museum of Natural History & The Science):

The Human Geonome: Reading the Book of Life, opened Jan 28, 2006.
The Magic School Bus Kicks Up A Storm, ongoing.

Pollock Gallery, SMU

Marco Breuer: Principles of Extraction, Oct 27 – Dec 6, 2008.

The Women’s Museum:

Partisan Pieces: Quilts of Political and Patriotic Persuasion, Nov 6, 2008 – Mar 29, 2009.

Denton

Denton County Courthouse-on-the-Square Museum

Historic African American Families of Denton County, ongoing
Historic Hispanic Families of Denton County, ongoing.

The University of North Texas Art Gallery

Kate Gilmore: Girl Fight, Nov 11 – Dec 13, 2008.

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El Paso

The Centennial Museum on the University of Texas El Paso:

Miguel Covarrubias: Caricaturista, Sep 3 to Dec 19, 2008

El Paso Museum of Art:

Contemporary Prints from the Permanent Collection, Aug 3, 2008 - Mar 12, 2009;
Karel Appel: Cats, Aug 3, 2008 – Mar 8, 2009.

El Paso Museum of History

El Paso A to Z, ongoing;
The Changing Pass, ongoing.

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Fort Worth

Texas Civil War Museum:

Ray Richey Collection, ongoing; Judy Richey Victorian Dress Collection, ongoing.

Kimbell Art Museum:

A Nativity from Naples: Presepio Sculpture in the 18th Century, Nov 25, 2008-Feb 15, 2009;
Reconstructing the Renaissance: Five Paintings from an Altarpiece by Fra Angelico, Nov 25, 2008-Feb 15, 2009;
Art and Love in Renaissance Italy, Mar 15-Jun 14, 2009;
Butchers, Dragons, Gods, and Skeletons: An Exhibition of Film Installations by Phillip Haas Inspired by Works in the Collection, Jul 19-Oct 25, 2009;
Private Collection, Texas: European Masterpieces from Texas Homes, Past and Present, Nov 22, 2009-Mar 21, 2010.

The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth:

Hubbard/Birchler: No Room to Answer, Sep 14, 2008-Jan 4, 2009.

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Georgetown

Williamson Museum:

WCHM Mural Exhibit, ongoing.

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Hillsboro

Texas Heritage Museum (Hillsboro)

The Legacy of the Texas Confederate Museum, ongoing

Houston

Blaffer Gallery

Texas Oil: Landscape of an Industry Jan 17-Mar 28, 2009;
Electric Mud, Jan 17-Mar 28, 2009.

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston:

Perspectives 163: Every Sound You Can Imagine
Oct 3 – Dec 7, 2008; Cinema Remixed & Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image since 1970, Oct 18, 2008 – Jan 4, 2009.

The Heritage Society:

What's Cookin'? Two Centuries of American Foodways, Oct 7, 2008 – Jan 4, 2009.

Holocaust Museum Houston:

A One-Man Army: The Art of Arthur Szyk, Oct 20-Feb 8, 2009.

Houston Center for Contemporary Craft:

Hot Glass, Cool Collections, Dec 13, 2008-Mar 15, 2009; Environments = Form + Space, Dec 13, 2008-Mar 15, 2009

Houston Museum of Natural Science:

Dinosaur Mummy CSI: Cretaceous Science Investigation, Sep 26, 2008-Jan 11, 2009;
Stones From the Sky, Sep 13, 2008-Mar 1, 2009;
BODY WORLDS 2 & The Brain – Our Three Pound Gem: The Original Exhibition of Real Human Bodies, Sep 12, 2008-Feb 22, 2009; Echoes in the Ice, Sep 6, 2008-Jan 8, 2009;
Quest for High Bear: A Boy’s Odyssey through Indian Country 1925-1939, Aug 15, 2008-Mar 15, 2009.

John P. McGovern Museum of Health & Medical Science:

Einstein, Oct 11, 2008 - Jan 4, 2009;
Zap! Surgery: Beyond the Cutting Edge, Jan 23 - May 10, 2009.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Duncan Phyfe: Master Craftsman of the Empire City, Apr 2009-Jul 2009
Ancient Arts of Vietnam, Summer 2009.

Museum of Printing History:

AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers, Aug 28, 2008-Dec 13, 2008;
Texas Grassroots: Botanical Prints by David J. Webb, Jun 12, 2008-Dec 13, 2008

Rice University Art Gallery:.

Michael A. Salter: too much, Nov 6-Dec 14, 2008

The Menil Collection

Imaginary Spaces: Selections from The Menil Collection, Aug 15, 2008-Mar 1, 2009;
Max Ernst: In the Garden of Nymph Ancolie, Oct 23, 2008-Feb 15, 2009.
Art and Power in the Central African Savanna, Sep 26, 2008-Jan 4, 2009.
Maurizio Cattelan, Feb 6-May 24, 2009;
Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave, Mar 26-Jun 21, 2009;
Contemporary Conversations: John Chamberlain – American Tableau, Mar 19-Aug 2, 2009; Joaquin Torres-Garcia: Wood Constructions, Sep 24, 2009-Jan 3, 2010

Huntsville

Texas Prison Museum:

Last Statement, opened Feb 2, 2007.

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La Porte

San Jacinto Museum of History

Developing Houston: Photographic Treasures from the Cecil Thomson Collection, May 24-May 2009.

Longview

Longview Museum of Fine Arts:

Ansel Adams, November 15-Dec 20, 2008

Lubbock

Buddy Holly Center:

Craft's Etc. Glassworks, Dec 16, 2008-Feb 15, 2009

Lufkin

Texas Forestry Museum:

Animal Secrets, October – December 2008

The Museum of East Texas:

John James Audubon: American Artist and Naturalist, October 2009 – Jan 15, 2010.

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Marshall

The Michelson Museum of Art:

Painting the Beautiful: American Impressionist Paintings from the Mitchner Art Museum Collection, Nov 11, 2008 - Jan 11, 2009

McKinney

North Texas History Center:

The Reluctant Confederates, opened Jan 2008.

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Orange

Stark Museum of Art

The Luckless Hunter
by W. H. Dunton

The American Frontier Revisited, ongoing

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Port Isabel

Museums of Port Isabel

The Masonic Lodge of Texas, through Dec 30, 2008;

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San Antonio

Art Pace, San Antonio:

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Making Public Buildings, Sep 11, 2008 – Jan 4, 2009.

San Antonio Museum of Art:

Perspectivas Populares, through Jul 10, 2009;
Volkskunst: German-American Folk Art from Pennsylvania and Texas, Oct 4, 2008-Jan 18, 2009; Chocolate: A Photography Exhibition, Sep 6, 2008-Jan 11, 2009;
Marcia Gygli King: Botanical Paintings, Jan 29, 2009-Apr 12, 2009;
Vincent Valdez: El Chavez Ravine, Mar 14, 2009-Aug 2, 2009;
Zoe's Room, Mar14, 2009-Aug 2nd, 2009.

Southwest School of Art and Craft:

Travis Townsend: Anxious Accumulations, Oct 30, 2008-Jan 11, 2009
Holly Hanessian: The Poetry of Space, Oct 30, 2008-Jan 11, 2009.
Tzompantli, Oct 30, 2008 - Jan 11, 2009.

San Marcos

The Wittliff Collections:

Lonesome Dove Revisited, ongoing;

Snyder

Scurry County Museum:

Rags to Riches: Handcrafted Rugs, opened January 10
The Art of Roxanne Boardman, opened Jun 19

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Texarkana

Tyler

Tyler Museum of Art

Selections from the Permanent Collection, Jun 8, 2008–Jan 4, 2009.
Eva Zeisel: The Shape of Life, Sep 13-Dec 9, 2008.

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Victoria

Victoria Regional Museum Association

Jesse Lott Retrospective, Nov 20, 2008- Jan 25, 2009.

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Waco

Martin Museum of Art:

Selections from the Permanent Collection, opened on June 10, 2008.

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