The Frist Center for the Visual Arts is an art museum in downtown Nashville. It has just recently finished exhibitions of Chilhuly and Haute Couture fashion. The vision of the Frist Center is to inspirepeople through art to lookat their world in new ways. The Frist strives to present and originate high quality exhibitions for the community. The center opened in April 2001, and since that time has hosted a spectacular array of art from the region, the country, and around the world.
Just recently at the Frist Center “The Golden Age of Couture” ended. This exhibition transports visitors to the most glamorous fashion houses of Paris and London in the years after WWII celebrating an important decade in fashion history that began with the launch of Christian Dior’s famous New Look in 1947 and ended with his death in 1957. The Frist Center is the only U.S. venue hosting this stunning exhibition from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
Coming up at the Frist Center an exhibition called “The Birth of Impressionism—Masterpieces from the Musée D’Orsay. The exhibition includes 100 masterpieces of mid-to-late 19th-centuryFrench painting from the Musée d’Orsay. This museum in Paris is dedicated to the art of the early modern period (1840s through the early 20th century). The exhibition includes artists such as Courbet, Manet, Cézanne, Monet, and Renoir, Degas, Fantin-Latour, and Whistler. I’m looking forward to this event mainly for the six works by Degas, including Ballet Rehearsal on the Set.
The Frist Center is a beautiful museum filled with magnificent art. If you live in Nashville or are simply visiting, you must see the Frist. For more information click here.
