To improve accessibility to the five exhibition openings, the galleries are teaming up to provide a shuttle to connect the Kemper and the Steinberg Gallery at Washington University with the three featured galleries in the Grand Center District. Admission to all five galleries is free, as is the shuttle.

Getting Started
With public receptions are at different times, the smart money is on starting at the Grand Center District. There is an excellent selection of restaurants is within walking distance of the museums.

Bruno David Gallery
The opening reception at the Bruno David Gallery begins at 5 p.m. and features works by four artists: Leslie Laskey (also featured at the Steinberg gallery) - "S.E.N.T.:Security Envelopes Now Tampered;" Kelley Johnson: "Works on Paper Series;" "MoPA (Museum of Pocket Art): Retrospective;" and William Morris: "Atraxia."

Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts
The exhibition generating the most buzz is Reflections of the Buddha at the Pulitzer. The exhibit brings together images of the Buddha from different periods and different parts of Asia.  It opens at 5 p.m. with a Buddist chant at 6 p.m.  Emily Pulitzer and senior curator Francesca Herndon-Consagra will make opening remarks at 6:30 p.m.

Contemporary Art Museum
Australian artist David Noonan has his first US solo next door at the Contemporary Art Museum. The public reception begins at 7 p.m. Noonan's art uses different mediums to create a sense of mystery and challenge perceptions.

Mildred Kemper Lane Art Museum
There are two new exhibitions at the Kemper opening at 7pm. "Precarious Worlds: Contemporary Art from Germany" explores the post-Wall zeitgeist found in these recent additions to the Kemper's permanent collection. Tomas Saraceno: CLOUD-SPECIFIC is a fascinating partially aerial installation that envisions a world of living in the sky -- not in the Jetsons' sense, but instead in natural constructs such as spider webs, clouds and bubbles.

Art is said to have the ability to take you to different places, and it's difficult to imagine that adage being more true than here in St. Louis on September 9.

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