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Tickets on Sale for SENSUOUS STEEL: ART DECO AUTOMOBILES, Opening 6/14 at Nashville's Frist Center

Advance tickets for Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles opening June 14, 2013 are now on sale through the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and NowPlayingNashville.com. While not required for admissio... (more...)

Brazilian Artist Vik Muniz's Work Goes On View at the Frist Center in June

This summer, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts' Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery will feature works by contemporary Brazilian artist Vik Muniz. Muniz is widely celebrated for his photogr... (more...)

Exhibition of Art Deco Automobiles Opens at Frist Center, 6/14

This summer, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts will present Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles, an exhibition of unique and luxurious autos from the 1930s and '40s. Sensuous Steel includes 18 aut... (more...)

Photo Flash: INVETERATE COMPOSITION FOR CLARE Sculpture Installed at Nashville's Frist Center

Today the Frist Center for the Visual Arts installed its newest outdoor sculpture, Inveterate Composition for Clare by Brooklyn-based artist Rachel Owens. The multimedia sculpture-composed of Humvee s... (more...)

EXPLORING THE ART OF THE ANCIENT AMERICAS Opens at Nashville's Frist Center Today

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts welcomes an impressive array of nearly 125 ancient American art objects in Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection. Opening today, March ... (more...)

Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles Opens at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, 6/14

This summer, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts will present Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles, an exhibition of unique and luxurious autos from the 1930s and '40s. Sensuous Steel includes 18 aut... (more...)

Nashville's Frist Center Hosts REMBRANDT AND THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE Exhibition, Now thru 5/19

Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age: Highlights from the Detroit Institute of Arts will open at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts today, February 1, 2013. Drawn entirely from the superb collection o... (more...)

EXPLORING THE ART OF THE ANCIENT AMERICAS to Open at Nashville's Frist Center, 3/1

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts welcomes an impressive array of nearly 125 ancient American art objects in Exploring Art of the Ancient Americas: The John Bourne Collection. Opening Friday, March... (more...)

Guggenheim Schedule of Exhibitions Through Spring 2014

This retrospective of Indian-born American artist Zarina Hashmi is the first major exploration of the master printmaker's career, charting a developmental arc from her work in the 1960s to the present... (more...)

Frist Center Announces Camille Utterback Exhibition

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts' Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery will feature the interactive installations of San Francisco artist Camille Utterback in an exhibition entitled Tracing... (more...)

Nashville's Frist Center Hosts REMBRANDT AND THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE Exhibition, 2/1-5/19

Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age: Highlights from the Detroit Institute of Arts will open at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts on February 1, 2013. Drawn entirely from the superb collection of th... (more...)

'Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age' Exhibit Comes to Frist Center 2/01-5/19

Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age: Highlights from the Detroit Institute of Arts will open at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts on February 1, 2013. Drawn entirely from the superb collection of th... (more...)

Food Donations Gain Free Admission to TN's Frist Center Galleries thru Dec 2012

In what has become a holiday tradition at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, visitors bringing non-perishable food items to the Frist Center on Mondays through December receive free admission to th... (more...)

German Expressionism Exhibition Opens 10/19 at the Frist Center

Opening October 19, 2012, German Expressionism from the Detroit Institute of Arts will be on view in the Frist Center for the Visual Arts' Upper-Level Galleries through February 10, 2013. Featuring pa... (more...)

Frist Center Opens CARRIE MAE WEEMS: THREE DECADES OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO Today, 9/21

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts will receive $48,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts in support of Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video, opening today, Sept. 21, 2012... (more...)

Frist Center Highlights Nashville Artists in METAMORPHOSES, Opening Today, 6/8

Works by four Nashville-area artists-Erin Anfinson, Kristi Hargrove, Mark Hosford and Chris Scarborough-will be on view in the Frist Center's Conte Community Arts Gallery from today, June 8 through Oc... (more...)

METAMORPHOSES & CONSTABLE Set for June-August at Frist Center, Nashville

It's officially summer come June and this summer season promises to be an active one at the Frist Center. Next month kicks off with the opening of Metamorphoses: Drawings by Erin Anfinson, Kristi Harg... (more...)

Frist Center Announces Participation in Blue Star Museums

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts will once again join Blue Star Museums, a collaboration among the National Endowment of the Arts, Blue Star Families, the Department of Defense, and more than 1,50... (more...)

Nashville's Frist Center Offers Free Admission on International Museum Day, Armed Forces Day, Now thru 5/19

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts will offer free admission today, May 18, 2012 as part of the Association of Art Museum Directors' (AAMD) Art Museum Day coinciding with International Museum Day, a... (more...)

Carrie Mae Weems Retrospective Opens at Frist in September

The first major museum retrospective devoted to contemporary artist and photographer Carrie Mae Weems - described as 'one of today's most eloquent and respected interpreters of the African American ex... (more...)

Nashville's Frist Center Offers Free Admission on International Museum Day, Armed Forces Day, 5/18-19

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts will offer free admission on Friday, May 18, 2012 as part of the Association of Art Museum Directors' (AAMD) Art Museum Day coinciding with International Museum Da... (more...)

Giro Gabayoyo Wins TO SEE AS ARTISTS SEE THE FIRST, Nashville - Online Exhibition on View Through 7/31

Nashville artist Giro Gabayoyo's work, FristFridays, received the largest number of votes in the Frist Center for the Visual Arts' first online exhibition of local artists' work selected from the To S... (more...)

Frist Center Announces Upcoming Exhibitions: Bill Traylor and More

This summer, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee, presents two exhibitions devoted to folk and self-taught artists of the American South. Creation Story: Gee's Bend Quilts and t... (more...)

Frist Center Highlights Nashville Artists in METAMORPHOSES, Opening 6/8

Works by four Nashville-area artists-Erin Anfinson, Kristi Hargrove, Mark Hosford and Chris Scarborough-will be on view in the Frist Center's Conte Community Arts Gallery from June 8 through October 2... (more...)

Patricia Piccinini Discusses Her Work at the Frist Center, 4/13 & 14

On April 13 and 14 the Frist Center for the Visual Arts proudly welcomes artist Patricia Piccinini, who will travel from Australia for a public lecture and gallery conversation in which she will discu... (more...)