Through clothing, shoes, and photographs, this exhibition demonstrates how designers such as Dior, Balenciaga, and Chanel brought glamour back to Europe after World War II.

Dale Chihuly, the most acclaimed glass artist of our time, is beloved for his abstract evocations of sea life, flowers, and other graceful subjects.

Presence or Absence is an exhibition of 13 landscape photographs by one of Japan’s most acclaimed and best-known contemporary artists

Asa & Yehoshafat, a work by New-York based sculptor Boaz Vaadia, is installed near the Demonbreun Street entrance to the Frist Center.
 

Learning is FUN in the Martin ArtQuest Gallery! This gallery on the upper level is a colorful, exciting, interactive education space where visitors of all ages discover exciting ways to learn about art. 

This panel exhibition outlines the history of the transformation of the Frist Center from a federal post office to Nashville's premier art exhibition center.

College students can visit FREE every Thursday and Friday night. It's the perfect place for a group outing or to make a great impression on a date!
 

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts and WAMB-AM present Senior Mondays, a series of events on select Mondays for those who admit their “senior” status.

Join us in the Grand Lobby on Thursday and Friday evenings in September, and take part in our featured art activity.

On Thursday and Friday evenings from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. (with the exception of Frist Fridays evenings) the Frist Center presents free music in the Grand Lobby. 

Learn more about our landmark building.

Grace Kelly is remembered not only as one of the leading Hollywood actresses of the 1950s, but also as a style icon both on and off screen.

Designed for 5–10 year olds, the Frist Center Kids Club offers exciting opportunities for children to explore, discover, and create art!

Join a Frist Center Educator for an enthusiastic reading of an award winning children’s book.

“Art and Opera: From Monarchy to Modernity” will explore how the French Revolution altered the social and political landscape of France during the late eighteenth century and paved the way for the Impressionists of the nineteenth century.

Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar analyzes, reflects, and responds to contemporary socioeconomic issues through installations, texts, photographs, films, and public interventions.

The exhibition includes approximately 100 masterpieces of mid-to-late 19th-century French painting from the Musée d’Orsay, a museum in Paris dedicated to the art of the early modern period.

William Eggleston: Anointing the Overlooked brings together more than 70 photographs made by the Memphis, Tenn., resident who is one of the most influential artists of his generation.

Simen Johan’s works reflect uneasy connections between humans and other species.

Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior will be the first major museum exhibition to focus on Vishnu—one of Hinduism’s three major deities.

This exhibition is the result of the Frist Center and ten diverse local community organizations working together on a project that explores the ways art may be used to tell children’s stories from a number of cultural perspectives.

Gather Up the Fragments focuses upon the collection of Faith and Edward Deming Andrews, who from the 1920s through the 1960s formed a large and important assemblage of Shaker art and pioneered Shaker studies.

This exhibition will include photographs taken in Vesna Pavlovic’s native Serbia and the United States over the last two decades.

Over the course of his meteoric career, Andy Warhol used the medium of music to transform himself from fan to record album designer, producer, celebrity night-clubber and rock impresario.

The Cuban-born artist María Magdelena Campos-Pons creates photographs, video, and multi-media installations that tell the story of the survival of African cultures by evoking rites, myths, and narratives that have evolved through generations.

This exhibition presents 28 Renaissance paintings from one of the most renowned Old Master collections in the United States.

This exhibition includes 109 important works from the superb collection of the Brooklyn Museum that illustrate Egyptian beliefs regarding the defeat of death and promise of the eternal afterlife.

Tracey Snelling’s sculptures of vernacular buildings, streets, and rundown neighborhoods show a keen sensitivity to the psychological tensions and hidden narratives of small town America.