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Frist Arts Fest Weekend Celebrates New Exhibitions with Live Music, Tours, Art-Making Activities, and More!

May 8, 2023
Celebrating guitars, photography, and more, the Frist Art Museum will hold a weekend-long Frist Arts Fest on June 3–4 spotlighting the exhibitions Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art, Guitar Town: Picturing Performance Today, Ron Jude: 12 Hz, and Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature. Read More

Frist Art Museum Presents Imposing, Large-Scale Photographs by Ron Jude Depicting the Powerful Forces that Shape Our World

May 1, 2023
The Frist Art Museum presents Ron Jude: 12 Hz, an exhibition of large-scale black-and-white photographs that defy customary expectations of landscape imagery, revealing the planet’s raw materials and the often-imperceptible forces that shape its appearance. Organized by the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment, the exhibition will be on view in the Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery from May 26 through August 13, 2023.  Read More

Exhibition Exploring the Guitar’s Place in American Art and Society Features Paintings, Photography, and Seminal Instruments

April 12, 2023
The Frist Art Museum presents Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art, the first exhibition to explore the instrument’s symbolism in American art from the early nineteenth century to the present. Featuring 125 works of art as well as thirty-five exceptional instruments, Storied Strings will be on view in the Ingram Gallery from May 26 through August 13, 2023. The companion photography exhibition Guitar Town: Picturing Performance Today, which celebrates Nashville’s diverse music scene, will be presented concurrently in the always-free Conte Community Arts Gallery from April 21 through August 20, 2023. Read More

Nashville’s Diverse Music Scene Celebrated in Exhibition of Works by Ten Local Photographers

March 1, 2023
The Frist Art Museum presents Guitar Town: Picturing Performance Today, a group photography exhibition that celebrates the diversity and energy of Nashville’s music scene through images of guitar players performing in venues across the city and elsewhere. Featuring ten Nashville-based photographers, the exhibition will be on view in the always-free Conte Community Arts Gallery from April 21 through August 20, 2023. It is presented in conjunction with Storied Strings: The Guitar in American Art, on view in the Ingram Gallery from May 26 through August 13, 2023. Read More

Frist Art Museum Presents Family-Friendly Beatrix Potter Exhibition Celebrating the Creative and Ecological Achievements of the Beloved Author and Illustrator

February 16, 2023
The Frist Art Museum presents Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature, the first exhibition to tell the beloved English author and illustrator’s broader life story. Organized by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum—home to the world’s largest collection of Potter’s artworks—the exhibition will be on view in the Frist’s Upper-Level Galleries from April 7 through September 17, 2023. Read More

Frist Arts Fest Weekend Celebrates Contemporary Art with Artist Talks and Tours, Art-Making Activities, Music, and More!

January 17, 2023
Celebrating the work of three renowned contemporary artists, the Frist Art Museum will hold its inaugural weekend-long Frist Arts Fest on February 4–5. The event marks the first time in the Frist’s history that all three main galleries are featuring contemporary art. Read More

Nigerian Belgian Artist Otobong Nkanga Explores Connections Between Geography, Nature, and the Human Body in Striking Paintings, Tapestry, and Video

January 4, 2023
The Frist Art Museum presents Otobong Nkanga: Gently Basking in Debris, featuring a selection of tapestries, drawings, video, sculpture, and more that make metaphorical connections between the landscape and human body. Organized by the Frist Art Museum, the project will be on view in the Frist’s Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery from February 3 through April 23, 2023, and is part of the Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art, a program of Tri-Star Arts. Read More

Vibrant Paintings, Installations, and Video by Celebrated Multidisciplinary Indigenous Artist Jeffrey Gibson at Nashville’s Frist Art Museum

December 12, 2022
The Frist Art Museum presents Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric, a major exhibition devoted to one of today’s leading artists whose multidisciplinary practice combines aspects of traditional Indigenous art and culture with a modernist visual vocabulary. Organized by SITE Santa Fe, The Body Electric will be on view in the Frist’s Ingram Gallery from February 3 through April 23, 2023, and is part of the Tennessee Triennial for Contemporary Art, a program of Tri-Star Arts. Read More

Frist Art Museum Presents Career Survey and New Works by Renowned Transmedia Artist Matthew Ritchie

September 21, 2022
The Frist Art Museum presents Matthew Ritchie: A Garden in the Flood, a thematic survey of the artist’s work since 2000, comprising paintings, drawings, sculpture, and video. Organized by the Frist Art Museum, the exhibition will be on view in the Upper-Level Galleries from November 11, 2022 through March 5, 2023.  Read More

Frist Art Museum Announces 2023 Schedule of Exhibitions

August 31, 2022
The Frist Art Museum is excited to announce its 2023 schedule of exhibitions. In the Ingram Gallery, the year begins with Jeffrey Gibson: The Body Electric, a survey of the celebrated Indigenous multidisciplinary artist’s vibrant paintings, sculpture, video, and installations. Read More