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Soon to the Frist: Museums in the 21st Century

On May 29th a new exhibition, Museums in the 21st Century, will open at the Frist Center. The show examines the role of the contemporary museum as well as the design of the buildings and the constructed spaces themselves.The...

Abstract Painting and Language

It seems wise to take seriously a common response to abstract painting, bewilderment and silence. Abstract painting seems caught in a circular logic; while intending to express the inexpressible it alienates the viewer from a painting, keeping the inexpressible unexpressed...

Tennessee Abstract Painting

The TN Abstract painting show at Cheekwood includes a wide range of thinking about abstraction, whether as painting in a critical relationship to photography, the mechanical in dialogue with the handmade, considerations of the paintings as an object. However, the...

Reverberant Measures

Michael Baggarly’s “Reverberant Measures” opened at Cheekwood on March 14th and will be up until June 14th. The show is made up of wall mounted steel sculptures that have been hammered into shape. Baggarly punctures the...

Lens with a conscience

There is always the danger that politically, morally motivated exhibitions will lack visual subtlety. Artists sometimes give up the pleasure of the medium and the subtlety of form in order to communicate a clear, stable message. The aesthetic becomes secondary...

Free Admission to the Frist April 8th

On Wednesday April the 8th the Frist Center is celebrating its 8th birthday by offering free admission.Currently the exhibitions on view are Paint Made Flesh that runs through May 10th, Medieval Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art that...

Museum of African American Music, Art, and Culture

The Grand Opening of the Museum of African American Music, Art, and Culture is scheduled for 2012. It will be built at the intersection of Jefferson Street and Rosa Parks Boulevard next to the Bicentennial Mall. Currently the project is...

Imitations of Life

Mike Hoolboom, a “fringe filmmaker” as he calls himself form Canada, has a video installation at the Gordon Contemporary Arts gallery at the Frist Center. He made a name for himself with “White Museum” in 1986...

Medieval Treasures

From February 13th through June 7th the Frist Center is exhibiting Medieval Treasures in its main gallery. The show includes ivories, enamels, metalwork, sculpture, paintings and illuminated manuscripts of medieval art from the third to the sixteenth century. The collection...

Jenny Saville at the Frist Center

Paint Made Flesh, an exhibition of paintings at the Frist Center, examines figurative painting from the late fifties to the present. The exhibition shows how the post war of the 50’s and 60’s used paint to...

Soon to the Frist: Museums in the 21st Century

Abstract Painting and Language

Tennessee Abstract Painting

Reverberant Measures

Lens with a conscience

Free Admission to the Frist April 8th

Museum of African American Music, Art, and Culture

Imitations of Life

Medieval Treasures

Jenny Saville at the Frist Center

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