Advance Tickets on Sale for BIRTH OF IMPRESSIONISM at Frist Center
Advance timed tickets for The Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay, opening Oct. 15, 2010, at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts, are now on sale at www.fristcenter.org (additional charges apply), through the advance ticket call center (866-683-4978) and on site at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in downtown Nashville. Tickets to The Birth of Impressionism also include admission to Chihuly at the Frist.
The Birth of Impressionism will be on view through Jan. 23, 2011, and Chihuly at the Frist will be on view through Jan. 2, 2011.
The Frist Center is one of only three venues, worldwide, to host this magnificent exhibition from the Musée' d'Orsay in Paris, which is dedicated to the art of the early modern period (1840s through the early 20th century). The exhibition, which includes 100 works (including 17 that will be seen only in Nashville), includes paintings by Gustave Courbet, Édouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Adolphe-William Bouguereau, Edgar Degas, Henri Fantin-Latour and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whose 1871Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 1: Portrait of the Painter's Mother (often called Whistler's Mother), will be on view in the exhibition.
Thursday and Friday evenings from 5:00-9:00 p.m., college students with ID will be admitted for $5.00. Group reservations can be made by calling the Group Tour Coordinator at (615) 744-3247. A number of special hotel packages will be available during the run of the exhibition. Information is available online at www.fristcenter.org and www.visitmusiccity.com
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts is supported in part by the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission and the Tennessee Arts Commission.
The Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay is organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts with gratitude for exceptional loans from the collection of the Musée d'Orsay.
The Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities.
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