Advance Tickets on Sale for Birth of Impressionism at the Frist
Ticket Includes Admission to Chihuly Exhibition
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Advance timed tickets for The Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musee 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 Musee 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, Edouard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Adolphe-William Bouguereau, Edgar Degas, Henri Fantin-Latour and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, whose 1871 Arrangement in Gray and Black, No. 1: Portrait of the Painter's Mother (often called Whistler's Mother), will be on view in the exhibition.
Admission prices for this specially ticketed exhibition:
Visitors 18 and younger |
FREE |
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Frist Center Members |
FREE |
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Adults |
$15.00 |
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Seniors (65+) |
$12.00 |
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Active duty military |
$12.00 |
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College students with ID |
$12.00 |
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Groups of 10 or more (with reservations) |
$13.00 per person |
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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.
Hotel Packages
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.
Exhibition Sponsors
The Frist Center gratefully acknowledges the exhibition sponsors:
Platinum Sponsor: The HCA Foundation on behalf of HCA and the TriStar Family of Hospitals
Gold Sponsor: First Tennessee
Silver Sponsor: Dream Systems
The Frist Center for the Visual Arts is supported in part by the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission and the Tennessee Arts Commission.
Exhibition Credits
The Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musee d'Orsay is organized by the Frist Center for the Visual Arts with gratitude for exceptional loans from the collection of the Musee d'Orsay.
The Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musee d'Orsay is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities.
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