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Telfair’s Dutch Utopia on GPB
October 2, 2009

Telfair’s Dutch Utopia on GPB

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Telfair’s Dutch Utopia featured on WTOC
October 2, 2009

Telfair’s Dutch Utopia featured on WTOC

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Telfair Launches New Website!
August 24, 2009

Telfair Launches New Website!

Designed by Brightwhitespace with development by Nicasio, these two Savannah based firms have created a beautifully designed and carefully organized website while highlighting our three distinct buildings under the Telfair brand, Telfair Museums. The site uses WordPress, a Content Management System, which was highly customized to fulfill the needs of our members and visitors. It [...]

Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914
August 19, 2009

Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914

Encompassing over seventy works drawn from public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe, Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914 examines the work of forty-three American painters drawn to Holland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These artists, responding to the negative aspects of rapid urbanization, established colonies in six [...]

Fall Studio Classes
August 2, 2009

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Counter Photography: Japan’s Artists Today
July 31, 2009

Counter Photography: Japan’s Artists Today

Co-organized by the Japan Foundation and the Consulate General of Japan in Atlanta, Counter Photography introduces an exciting selection of photographs by eleven contemporary Japanese artists. Reacting to a society defined by constantly shifting values, demographics, and technologies, these artists employ varied approaches to photographic expression and representation. Some delve beyond external appearance to expose [...]

Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran
July 31, 2009

Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran

Persian Visions: Contemporary Photography from Iran consists of fifty-eight works of photography and video by renowned Iranian artists. The first survey of contemporary Iranian photography to tour the United States, the exhibition provides a rare and revealing view of life and experience in Iran. Among Iran’s most celebrated photographers, the twenty artists represented in the [...]

Counterillumination (C-2010): An Installation by Shih Chieh Huang
July 30, 2009

Counterillumination (C-2010): An Installation by Shih Chieh Huang

Telfair will present a dynamic new installation by artist Shih Chieh Huang in the Lewis Gallery of the Jepson Center in conjunction with the museum’s 2010 Pulse: Art and Technology Festival. Shih Chieh Huang (b. Taiwan, 1975) creates kinetic, glowing, “breathing,” environments of low tech electronic creatures inspired by the evolutionary adaptations of life forms [...]

Constucts and Inventions: The Etchings of Erik Desmazières
July 30, 2009

Constucts and Inventions: The Etchings of Erik Desmazières

This captivating exhibition features a diverse selection of work by French printmaker Erik Desmazières including architectural views, building interiors, grotesque figures, and still lifes. Although major one-person shows of Desmazières’ prints have recently been mounted by museums in France, Switzerland, Italy, and the Netherlands, Constructs and Inventions marks the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in [...]

Gaming Tables for Whist, Chess, and Other Amusements
July 30, 2009

Gaming Tables for Whist, Chess, and Other Amusements

Reflecting the American predilection for card-playing and gaming during the Federal era, the card table was one of the most common articles of furniture imported to Savannah in the years following the American Revolution. In this small, specialized exhibition, the Telfair Museum of Art draws primarily from its permanent collection to survey card tables and [...]