New England Summer Guide 2006

ART MUSEUMS > NEW HAMPSHIRE

Currier Museum of Art
201 Myrtle Way, Manchester, NH (map)
603.669.6144
visitor@currier.org
http://www.currier.org

The permanent collection features European and American paintings, decorative arts, sculptures, and photographs. The Frank Lloyd Wright Zimmerman House is New England's only Wright-designed home open to the general public. Open on Mon, Wed, Fri, and Sun from 11 am to 5 pm, on Thurs from 11 am to 8 pm, and on Sat from 10 am to 5 pm. Admission $7, $6 for seniors and students, free for children under 18. Free for all on Sat from 10 am to 1 pm.

THROUGH JUNE 26 Voces y Visiones: Highlights from El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection, The Currier Past, Present, and Future

Hood Museum of Art
Wheelock St., Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (map)
603.646.2808
hood.museum@dartmouth.edu
http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/

Permanent collection includes European, American, Asian, African, and modern art. Highlights include a set of Assyrian reliefs from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Northern Renaissance and Baroque prints, and notable works by American artists such as Thomas Eakins, Frederic Remington, and John Sloan. Open on Tues, Thurs, Fri, and Sat from 10 am to 5 pm, on Wed until 9 pm, and on Sun from noon to 5 pm. Free.

THROUGH JULY 16 Life Forms: Visual Lessons in Biology
THROUGH SEPT 16 Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art and Society in the Papuan Gulf of New Guinea, Rembrandt: Master of Light and Shadow
THROUGH OCT 1 Globalization in Ancient Costa Rican Arts

Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site
Rte 12A, Cornish, NH (map)
603.675.2175
http://www.sgnhs.org

The home, gardens, and studios of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens feature sculptures of subjects ranging from Pan to Colonel Robert Gould Shaw (a 1997 cast of the memorial displayed on Boston Common). Through October, open daily from 9 am to 4:30 pm. Admission $5, free for children under 16.

THROUGH JULY 4 Works by Emily Eveleth and Jonathan Shahn
JULY 8 THROUGH SEPT 4 Sculpture by Hirsch Perlman, 2005 Saint-Gaudens Memorial Fellow


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