Thursday, September 9, 2010

This Week at the Art Museum 9/10 - 9/16

Coffeehouse Nights
Thursdays, September 9 & 16
7:00-9:00 p.m.
Thomas T. Solley Atrium

The Art Museum kicks off the new school year with its popular Coffeehouse Nights series featuring the fusion of music, art, coffee, and more! Enjoy coffee samples and sweet treats compliments of Bloomingfoods and Angles in the museum's atrium. See art from a new perspective as you browse the galleries while enjoying a related performance. Each night one of the museum's three permanent galleries will be featured. Participate in an art scavenger hunt for a chance to win prizes from the IU Art Museum and Angles Cafe & Gift Shop.



September 9

Gallery of the Art of the Western World, first floor
Spanish art featuring Spanish guitar music

September 10
German Expressionist Prints
Meet in the Museum's third floor offices
3:00-4:00 p.m.
September 16

Raymond and Laura Wielgus Gallery of the Arts of Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas, third floor
African art highlighted by the beats of African drumming



Nineteenth-Century Art Reinstallation
Opening September 7, 2010
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, first floor

This reinstallation provides an opportunity to display several important acquisitions in our permanent collection gallery for the first time. New works include paintings by the Austrian symbolist painter Walter Sigmund Hampel, Italian impressionist Giacomo Favretto, and German landscape painter Julius Lange. In addition, favorite nineteenth-century landscape and impressionist paintings from the collection have been newly reinstalled.

The Indiana University Art Museum's galleries are open Tuesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sunday from Noon to 5:00 p.m. Angles Café & Gift Shop is open Monday through Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sunday Noon to 5:00 p.m. The Art Museum's galleries are closed on Mondays and major holidays. The museum and all exhibitions and programs are free and open to the public.

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