Frist Art Museum

Frist Art Museum The vision of the Frist Art Museum is to inspire people to look at their world in new ways through art. and international exhibitions.
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The Frist Art Museum is a nonprofit art-exhibition center, with approximately 24,000 square feet of gallery space, dedicated to presenting the finest visual art from local, state and regional artists, as well as major U.S. Unlike any traditional museum you’ve ever visited, the Frist Art Museum has become a magnet for Nashville’s rapidly expanding visual arts scene. With an exhibitions schedule tha

t has new art flowing through the magnificent Art Deco building every 6 to 8 weeks, no matter how often you visit, there is always something new and exciting to see in the spacious galleries.

✨ Last weekend to see them!Catch International Surrealism from Tate: Fifty Years of Dreams and Anila Quayyum Agha: Inter...
08/29/2026

✨ Last weekend to see them!

Catch International Surrealism from Tate: Fifty Years of Dreams and Anila Quayyum Agha: Interwoven before they close. Your final chance to experience these exhibitions is this weekend at the Frist.

🎟️ Plan your visit → link in bio

08/28/2026

Now on view! 🎨✨

Take a behind-the-scenes look at installing the 2026 Young Tennessee Artists exhibition.

Featuring work by 33 talented high school artists selected from nearly 600 submissions across Tennessee. The exhibition showcases artwork created by students in Advanced Placement (AP) and International Baccalaureate (IB) studio art programs during the 2025–26 academic year.

📅 Aug 28, 2026–Mar 28, 2027
📍 Conte Community Arts Gallery

Come see what these talented young artists have created! 💛

08/27/2026

Catch all of the wild images in International Surrealism from Tate: Fifty Years of Dreams at the Frist before they escape for good! August 30 is the last day to see the show! ✨

🎟️ Plan your visit at the link in bio.

Celebrating National Dog Day with some artful treats inspired by our favorite four-legged friends. 🐶✨Our Gift Shop is fu...
08/26/2026

Celebrating National Dog Day with some artful treats inspired by our favorite four-legged friends. 🐶✨

Our Gift Shop is full of dog-themed finds, perfect for the creative dogs lovers in your life.

Stop by and fetch whatever catches your eye! 🐾

A closer look at Wifredo Lam. 🌿When Wifredo Lam returned to Havana after the outbreak of World War II, he began explorin...
08/25/2026

A closer look at Wifredo Lam. 🌿

When Wifredo Lam returned to Havana after the outbreak of World War II, he began exploring Cuban identity through his art.

"I wanted with all my heart to paint the drama of my country."

In this work, an abstracted horned figure emerges from a smoky gray background, drawing on Afro-Cuban visual traditions to explore themes of identity, spirituality, nature, and social injustice. By blending these influences with modernist techniques, Lam challenged long-held assumptions about what "fine art" could be—and whose stories it could tell.

See this powerful work in International Surrealism from Tate: Fifty Years of Dreams before it closes this Sunday, August 30, and discover how surrealist artists reimagined the world around them.

✨ What details stand out to you first?

Wifredo Lam. Ibaye, 1950. Oil on canvas; 41 1/8 x 34 1/2 in. Tate, Purchased 1952. © Tate. Photo: Tate

There’s always something to see, do, and discover at the Frist. 🎨Check out what’s happening this week and find your next...
08/24/2026

There’s always something to see, do, and discover at the Frist. 🎨

Check out what’s happening this week and find your next reason to visit.

📅 Save the schedule and make your plans!

08/23/2026

💭 Is identity something we are or something we create?

Our 2025-26 Curatorial Fellow, Caroline, explores the surreal self-portraits of Claude Cahun, whose photographs challenged conventional ideas of gender and identity in the 1920s and ’30s.

Through costumes, masks, makeup, and performance, Cahun explored the idea of self and space between appearance and reality.

🎥 Watch to learn more about Cahun and the Surrealist exploration of identity.

Hey member friends, don’t miss your final chance to explore two of our current exhibitions. 💛✨Join us for a Member Morni...
08/22/2026

Hey member friends, don’t miss your final chance to explore two of our current exhibitions. 💛✨

Join us for a Member Morning at the Frist on Sunday, August 23! Enjoy early access to the museum, docent-led tours, quieter gallery time, Martin ArtQuest, and light bites and conversation with fellow members.

On view:
✨ International Surrealism from Tate: Fifty Years of Dreams
🌸 Anila Quayyum Agha: Interwoven
🖼️ An Indigenous Present

08/21/2026

🌀 Get a little surreal in ArtQuest!

From subconscious-inspired collage to Exquisite Co**se, automatism, and surrealist-inspired puppets, there’s plenty of ways to get creative and embrace the unexpected.

Our activities change throughout the year, so come experience these before they’re gone on September 14!

🎨 Stop by and make something surreal.

08/20/2026

Consider this your official invitation to a museum date. ✨

Join us Thursdays until 8 p.m. for an evening in the galleries.
College students enjoy free admission!

Bring a friend, take your time, and make a night of it. 🖼️

Address

919 Broadway
Nashville, TN
37203

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5:30pm
Thursday 10am - 8pm
Friday 10am - 5:30pm
Saturday 10am - 5:30pm
Sunday 1pm - 5:30pm

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+16152443340

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