Current Exhibit: Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids
May 26, 2007 - January 6, 2008

Learn about the origin of mythic creatures including dragons, unicorns, mermaids, and sea serpents.

Resources
Natural History Museum
http://www.amnh.org

The Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida features the world’s most comprehensive collection of late works by Salvador Dali.  

Salvador Dali (Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí y Domènech), 1904-1989, was a surrealist painter from Catalonia, Spain. He was well known for his striking, bizarre, and beautiful images of surrealist work, although he was also a film maker, sculptor, and photographer.

The Hallucinogenic Toreador
c. 1970

Current Exhibits

Dali in Focus
July 13, 2007 – January 2008

The Fine Art of Collecting Dali
June 22 – September 23, 2007

Dali’s ‘Biblia Sacra’
August 3 – November 18, 2007

Resources

Salvador Dali Museum
http://www.salvadordalimuseum.org

Whose Line is it Anyway? Featuring Salvador Dali.

Art.com: Salvador Dali
http://www.art.com

Current Exhibit

Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau Extraordinaire
http://www.allentownartmuseum.org/gallery/exhibits/mucha.html
The art of Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), one of the most influential artists to impact the Art Nouveau movement.

Resources

Mucha Foundation
http://www.muchafoundation.org

Mucha Museum
http://www.mucha.cz

Current Exhibits
http://www.rodinmuseum.org
The Rodin Museum features a permanent collection of sculpture by Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917).  According to the web site, “His uncanny ability to convey movement and to show the inner feelings of the men and women he portrayed, the bravura of his light-catching modeling, and his extraordinary use of similar figures in different mediums, have established him as one of the greatest sculptors of all time.”

Current Exhibit
(More exhibits)

Ellsworth Kelly
October 3, 2006 – February 24, 2008
Features art by Ellsworth Kelly that was painted in Paris during a transitional phase.

Current Exhibit
(More exhibits)

Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney
June 26, 2007 – August 19, 2007
Features approximately 60 paintings by William Ranney (1813–1857) that highlights a cultural era in the United States, mid-nineteenth century.

Current Exhibits

Abingdon Pottery Artware
August 10, 2007 to October 15, 2007
Based on Abingdon Pottery made in Western Illinois.

Funk Minerals plus Coal Mining and Processing Models
May 17, 2007 to May 18, 2008
“The exhibition includes spectacular, large specimens of tourmaline, calcite, pyromorphite, wulfenite, gypsum, native copper, quartz, smithsonite, and gypsum.”

Current Exhibits

Encompassing the Globe
June 24–September 16, 2007
Trace voyage routes, see locations of 16th and 17th century events.

Tales of the Brush: Literary Masterpieces in Chinese Painting
July 28, 2007–January 13, 2008

Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia
April 1, 2007 through 2010

View all of the ceramics in the collection in the eGallery

Parades: Freer Ceramics Installed by Gwyn Hanssen Pigott
November 4, 2006–November 4, 2007

Current Exhibits
Through: January 20, 2008
IDEO Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection
http://ideo.cooperhewitt.org

Design for the Other 90%
Through: September 23, 2007
http://cooperhewitt.org/EXHIBITIONS/other/
“On view in the Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden, this exhibition highlights the growing trend among designers to create affordable and socially responsible objects for the vast majority of the world’s population (90 percent) not traditionally serviced by professional designers.”

Current Exhibits:

Voices & Visions of Tha Bloc:
An Exhibition by Ellis L. Marsalis III
June 10 to August 12, 2007

“Using photographs, poetry, and essays, Ellis L. Marsalis III details the lives on one block in Baltimore City. Developed over the past decade, the exhibition exposes the paradoxes of the mythologies held by his neighbors and those off the block.”

John R. Kinard Gallery/Community Gallery
A Creative Profile: Artists of the East Bank
May 13 to August 12, 2007