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Frist Center Celebrates Fourth Birthday Friday, April 9
March 30, 2005
Release Date: 3/30/2005
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FRIST CENTER CELEBRATES FOURTH BIRTHDAY FRIDAY, APRIL 8
WITH FREE ADMISSION FOR ALL VISITORS
Nashville, Tenn. – (March 30, 2005) – The Frist Center for the Visual Arts invites Nashville to help celebrate its fourth birthday Friday, April 8, 2005, with a full day, from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., of free admission for all to view current exhibitions including American Anthem: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum, Manuel: Star-Spangled Couture and Living On: Portraits of Tennessee Survivors and Liberators.
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts officially opened with much celebration on April 8, 2001, with free admission, art-making activities, a performance by the Nashville Symphony and a gala ribbon cutting. More than 7,000 people attended the Frist Center on opening day.
Since opening, the Frist Center has hosted a wide array of exhibitions, including last year’s blockbuster From El Greco to Picasso: European Masterworks from The Phillips Collection, enjoyed by more than 196,000 visitors during its exhibition at the Frist Center from January 31 through May 16, 2004. The Center has also inaugurated several public programs that have gained recognition in the community: the popular Frist Fridays and Live at the Frist concert series, as well as Family Day events that feature a variety of art activities, musical and theatrical offerings, and art demonstrations designed to complement the exhibitions on view.
Upcoming Frist Center exhibitions include Renaissance to Rococo: Masterpieces from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, featuring lush oil paintings dating from the Italian Renaissance; The Splendid Palette: Painting in France from Monet to Bonnard, a collection of Impressionist and Modern masterworks; and The Fragile Species: New Art Nashville, highlighting cutting-edge contemporary works by local artists, which are set to open in summer 2005. In the fall, the Frist presents 55 paintings from the Hudson River movement from the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. This exhibition, Hudson River School: Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, will be on view September 23, 2005 – January 8, 2006. Beautiful Italian art glass will be on view in this winter’s exhibition Murano: Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection, on view October 14, 2005 – January 29, 2006.
A highlight of the 2006 exhibition series will be The Quest for Immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt, on view June 8 – October 8, 2006. Considered the largest group of antiquities ever on loan from Egypt for exhibit in North America, this exhibition includes 115 objects, many of which have never been seen publicly or outside of Egypt.
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, located at 919 Broadway in downtown Nashville, Tenn., is an art exhibition center dedicated to presenting the finest visual art from local, regional, U.S. and international sources in a program of changing exhibitions. The Frist Center’s Martin ArtQuest Gallery features 30 interactive stations relating to Frist Center exhibitions. Gallery admission to the Frist Center is free for visitors 18 and under and to Frist Center members. Frist Center admission for adults is $8.50, $7.50 for seniors and military, and $6.50 for college students with ID. Discounts are offered for groups of 10 or more with advance reservation by calling 615.744.3246. The Frist Center is open Monday through Saturday 10:00 a.m. until 5:30 p.m. and Sundays 1:00 until 5:00 p.m. The Frist Center is open extended hours Thursdays until 8:00 p.m. and Fridays until 9:00 p.m. The Frist Center website can be accessed at www.fristcenter.org.
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