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

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

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:

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.

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.

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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:

Charting History: Maps from the Don Martin Collection- November 2008 through May 2009
Picturing the Past: Exhibit by Summer History Explorers- through February 2009
Museum Works Project: Williamson County History Murals- ongoing
From Milam to Williamson: Creating Our County- ongoing
Uncovering the Past: 10,000 years in Williamson County- ongoing
From Smaland Sweden to Big Land Texas- ongoing
Welcome to Williamson County- ongoing
Return to Splendor: Williamson County Courthouse- 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:

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.

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.

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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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