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Art travel guide : must-see contemporary art sites across the USA / Connie Terwilliger.

Summary:

This guide contains listings of over 120 contemporary art sites across the United States, with over 100 full-color photographs--art listings rarely found in other travel guides. If you are an art lover, art-curious, or a museumgoer, you'll want to plan future vacations around the places you learn about in this guidebook; a state index is provided.--From publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 9780940899568 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0940899566 (pbk.)
Physical Description: 127 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Nevada City, CA : ArtNetwork, c2012.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Sculpture parks : Storm King Art Center ; Grounds for Sculpture ; Olympic Sculpture Park ; Laumeier Sculpture Park ; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum ; Kuenz Sculpture Park ; Socrates Sculpture Park ; Sculpture Center ; Benson Sculpture Garden ; LongHouse Reserve ; Oliver Ranch ; Donald Kendall Sculpture Garden ; D'Jerssi Resident Artists ; Fields Sculpture Park ; Pearl Fryar Topiary Garden ; Frederick Miejer Gardens & Sculpture Park ; Nasher Sculpture Center ; Franconia Sculpture Park ; Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park -- Events : Pageant of the Masters ; Hunters Point Open Studios ; Art Cars ; Kinetic Art Races ; Recycled Art ; Burning Man ; Canstruction -- Museums : Goss-Michael Foundation ; Chinati ; Dia:Beacon ; Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art ; The Noguchi Museum ; Rubell Family Collection ; City Museum ; PS 1 ; Fisher Landau Center for Art ; The Warhol ; Dalí Museum ; American Visionary Art Museum ; CIFO Art Space ; MASSMoCA ; Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation ; John Michael Kohler Arts Center ; The Phillips Collection ; Kreeger Museum ; Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts ; Sioux City Art Center ; SITE Santa Fe ; Di Rosa ; Intuit: Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art ; Smart Museum of Art ; Nelson-Atkins Museum ; The Mattress Factory ; Hess Collection ; Bechtler Museum of Modern Art --

Visionary sites : Watts Towers ; Forrestiere Underground ; Paradise Gardens ; Coral Castle ; Forevertron ; Garden of Eden ; Prairie Moon Sculpture Garden ; Salvation Mountain ; Dickeyville Grotto ; Wisconsin Concrete Park ; Wave Organ ; Cadillac Ranch ; Carhenge -- College art venues : University of Minnesota ; University of Washington ; University of Oregon ; Duke University ; Yale ; Stanford ; UC San Diego ; Pepperdine University ; Arizona State University ; UC Berkeley ; Appalachian State University ; UCLA ; MIT ; Florida International University -- Art centers : Creative Growth Art Center ; Torpedo Factory Art Center ; Grassroots Art Center ; Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts -- Architects : Frank Lloyd Wright ; Paolo Soleri ; Frank Gehry ; Rem Koolhaas ; Santiago Calatrava ; Brian Goggin ; Philip Johnson -- Churches : Thorncrown Chapel ; Our Lady of the Angels ; Skyspace -- Earth art : Double Negative ; Lightning Field -- Art media : Glass ; Clay ; Plein air ; Murals ; Mosaics ; Chalk -- Sculpture events : Snow and ice sculpture ; Sand sculpture -- Hotels and restaurants : Edgefield ; 21c Museum Hotel ; Sleep Wright ; House of Blues.