Frist Center for Visual Arts

The Frist Art Museum is a museum of fine arts in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. In April 2018, it was renamed the Frist Center for the Visual Arts.

History

Marr and Holman built it as the Central Post Office near Union Station in 1933-34, when mail was delivered by train. Nashville's growing population has increased the demand for newer facilities. In 1986, a new post office headquarters was constructed elsewhere, leaving only a small portion of the first floor of the old building to serve as the downtown branch office.

Through the Frist Foundation, the United States Postal Service, and the public and private agencies of the City of Nashville, Thomas F. Frist, Jr. and his family assisted in converting the former post office into a museum in the early 1990s. both sides were performed The City of Nashville purchased the building from the US Postal Service in 1999 in order to establish the museum. The same year, a renovated post office branch opened in the basement, and it became a museum in April 2001.

The gallery will be approximately 24,000 square feet (2,200 m 2) in size and will feature works by both local and national and international artists .

Underage admission is free.

Exhibition

It does not have permanent exhibitions and instead focuses on building exhibitions as well as national and international touring.

In 2007, the main exhibition featured the work of ceramic artist Sylvia Hyman .

Thirty Decades of Photography and Video, Carrie Mae Weems' first retrospective, was held from September 21, 2012 to January 13, 2013. Brian Alfred's " It's Already the End of the World " was also performed at the Gordon Contemporary Artists Project Gallery at the same time.

The Detroit Institute of Arts displayed paintings by German Expressionists Wassily Kandinsky, Max Beckman, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Franz Marc from October 19, 2012 to February 10, 2013.

Hour

Saturday, November 26, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Architecture Tour

No reservations are required; meet in the Grand Lobby.

On every Saturday at 4:30 p.m.

When was the Frist Art Museum constructed? Who was the designer? Can you tell me about the gallery floors? Every Saturday at 4:30 p.m., take a guided tour of our historic art deco building.