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The Art Center, 344 S. Main St., will open its 75th annual spring show on May 8. Regular gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, noon to 9 p.m. Fridays, and noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays. Art Center admission is free. Call 724-283-6922 or visit www.butlerartcenter.net.
Maridon Museum, 322 N. McKean St., features the recently renovated netsuke exhibit. The museum also has hundreds of pieces of ancient and contemporary Asian art as well as Meissen porcelain on display. Regular museum hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays; closed Mondays and holidays. Admission is $4 for adults, $3 for senior citizens and students, and free for children younger than age 8; children must be accompanied by an adult. Tours are led by trained docents and are available with advance notice. The museum also has a gift shop specializing in objects relating to China and Japan. Call 724-282-0123.
<B>Silver Eye Center for Photography</B>, 1015 E. Carson St., presents "The Analytical Eye," a retrospective featuring 50 photographs by Pittsburgh artist Aaronel deRoy Bruber whose images range from panoramas of landscapes to industrial views of steel mills, through June 27. Gallery hours are noon to 6 p.m. Wednesdays through Fridays, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays. Call 412-431-1810 or visit the Web site, www.silvereye.org.<B>Andy Warhol Museum</B>, 117 Sandusky St., concludes "The Vader Project," an exhibition examining the iconic "Star Wars" villain through the eyes of 100 international pop surrealist and underground contemporary artists, on Sunday. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Sundays with extended hours until 10 p.m. Fridays; closed Mondays. Admission is $15 for adults, $9 for senior citizens, and $8 for children. Call 412-237-8300 or visit the Web site, www.warhol.org.<B>Carnegie Museum of Art</B>, 4400 Forbes Ave., hosts "Opera for a Small Room," a collaboration between contemporary artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller, through July 19. The exhibit introduces visitors to the quirky world of an imaginary man named R. Dennehy, the owner of a collection of opera records that the artists purchased at a secondhand store in a small town in British Columbia. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, with additional hours until 8 p.m. Thursdays, and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. Closed major holidays. Admission, which includes the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, is $15 for adults, $12 for senior citizens, and $11 for students and children age 3 and older, and free for members and children younger than 3. Call 412-622-3131 or visit the Web site, www.cmoa.org.<B>Society for Contemporary Crafts</B>, 2100 Smallman St., features 14 Latin American artists in "Beyond Shared Language: Contemporary Art and the Latin American Experience" opening Friday with a reception from 5:30 to 8 p.m. and continuing through Aug. 29. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and by appointment Mondays. Call 412-261-7003.
<B>Blue Heron Gallery</B>, 600 Main St., Volant, has extended the exhibit of fused glass and photos by Tiffany Wolfe, Mark Cappabianco and Douglas Michaels through Saturday. A closing reception is planned for 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday. Call 724-652-0752.<B>Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts</B>, 124 E. Leasure Ave., New Castle, concludes the exhibit "Lost in Form, Found in Line" on Friday. Admission is free. New gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Call 724-652-2882, or visit the Web site, www.hoytartcenter.
