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	Jorge Pardo Adjusted Wrenches 1990		Public Offerings Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art at the Geffen Contemporary Apr. 1-July 29, 2001 Seminal works from 1980-90 by 25 important contemporary artists with an emphasis on their art school backgrounds, including Matthew Barney, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Takashi Murakami, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Jorge Pardo. Curators: MoCA chief curator Paul Schimmel and project director Ciara Ennis, L.A. MoCA. Catalogue: designed by Jonathan Barnbook.

	Anna Gaskell video still from Future's Eve 2001		Anna Gaskell, Future's Eve New Langton Arts, San Francisco Apr. 4-May 5, 2001 Gaskell's first show on the West Coast features a film-to-DVD installation and 30 pen-and-ink drawings on the motifs of time and memory.

	Gary Hume Snowman 1996 edition for Parkett 48, 1996		*Collaborations with Parkett:* 1984 to Now** Museum of Modern Art Apr. 5-June 5, 2001 Over 150 multiples published by the tony art journal over the last 18 years, in a show highlighting MoMA's acquisition of the entire set. Curator: Deborah Wye, MoMA. Catalogue: 250 pp.

			Illustrating Nature: Three Centuries of Botanical Prints National Museum of Women in the Arts Apr. 5-July 22, 2001 51 prints and four books by women botanical artists working in the 17th-19th centuries.

	Mary Ellen Mark Bull Riders Craig Scarmardo and Cheyloh Mather, Boerne Rodeo, Texas 1991		Mary Ellen Mark: American Odyssey International Center of Photography Apr. 6-June 17, 2001 40-year retrospective featuring approximately 140 images by the recipient of ICP's second annual Cornell Capa Award. Organized by Aperture Foundation. Funding: Artur Walther.

	Federico Fellini Film still from La Dolce Vita 1960		Conversations Between Shadows and Light: Italian Cinematography Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Apr. 6-July 28, 2001 Works by 16 cinematographers -- Vittorio Storaro, Otello Martelli, Dante Spinotti -- will be screened in the museum's Peter B. Lewis Theater. Call (212) 360-4321 for details. Curators: Antonio Monda, NYU, Maria-Christina Villase�or, Guggenheim. Catalogue: Edizioni Olivares, 72 pp., illustrated.

	Carte de visite of Frank Mayo in the title role of Davey Crockett; or, Be Sure You're Right, Then Go Ahead 1881-82		Touring West: 19th-century Performing Artists on the Overland Trails New York Public Library Apr. 6-July 7, 2001 The companion exhibition to "Heading West: Mapping the Territory" (currently on view at the library, Mar. 9-May 19, 2001) includes a variety of printed handbills, song books, correspondence and other items relating to 19th-century performing artists who entertained pioneers. Curator: Barbara Cohen-Stratyner. Catalogue: 88 pp., 70 illustrations.

	Eugenio Dittborn La cuisine et la guerre 1994		Eugenio Dittborn: La cuisine et la guerre Seven Airmail Paintings Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston Apr. 7-July 29, 2001 Seven large-scale collages by the Chilean mail artist. Curator: Blaffer director Terrie Sultan. Catalogue: Includes interview with the artist.

	Unidentified artist Bottlecap Giraffe		Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures From the Smithsonian American Art Museum Tacoma Art Museum April 7-June 17, 2001 70 paintings and sculptures by folk artists from the past 40 years. Catalogue: 112 pp. Tour: "Treasures to Go", Oct.10 2001-Jan. 20, 2002, Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, F.L., Feb. 16 -Apr. 13, 2002, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, G.A., Sep. 7-Nov. 3, 2002, Fort Wayne Museum of Art. Funding: The Principal Financial Group.

	Paul Signac Place des Lices, St. Tropez 1893		Light! The Industrial Age: 1750-1900 Art, Science, Technology, and Society Carnegie Museum of Art Apr. 7-July 29, 2001 More than 300 scientific and historic objects, as well as artworks by van Gogh, Blake, Monet, Turner and Goya. Curators: Louise Lippincott, CMA, and Andreas Bl�hm, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Catalogue: Light!, 272 pp., 304 illustrations. Funding: Bayer, PNC Financial Services Group.

	Franz Marc The Large Blue Horses 1911		Franz Marc and the Blue Rider Walker Art Center Apr. 8-July 15, 2001 Marc's The Large Blue Horses (1911) from the Walker's collection is the centerpiece of an exhibition of some 40 works, including several of Marc's visionary horse paintings from the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart and works by Kandinsky, Klee, Macke and Jawlensky from the Busch-Reisinger (both co-organizing institutions). Walker curator: Joan Rothfuss.

	N. W. Wineland Group of Merino Sheep ca. 1879 (detail)		American Folk Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Apr. 8-Aug. 5, 2001 The museum's first major folk art show features 150 objects from museum holdings and area collectors. Curators: Sue Welsh Reed, Gerry Ward, Carol Troyen, Pamela Parmal, Gilian Shallcross, all MFA Boston. Catalogue: 144 pp. Funding: Merrill Lynch.

			Circa 1900: Design at the Turn of the Century Dallas Museum of Art Apr. 8-Aug. 19, 2001 Examples of 20th-century furniture, glass, ceramics, textiles and graphics from the museum collection.

			FOCUS: Rineke Dijkstra Art Institute of Chicago Apr. 11-Jul. 29, 2001 Arresting color photos of children and adolescents by the Dutch artist. Curator: James Rondeau, AIC. Catalogue: 129 pp.

	Willie Cole International Balls 2000 1999 photo Nancy Robinson Watson		Game Show: Installations and Sculptures by Willie Cole Bronx Museum of the Arts Apr. 12-Sept. 9, 2001 Old and new works by the African American artist -- known for works that convert the pre-Civil Rights era "lawn jockey" into the Yoruban gatekeeper figure -- on the theme of games of chance as a metaphor for fate and consequence. Curator: Marysol Nieves, Bronx Museum. Funding: Cowles Charitable Trust, Jackie and Gene Brodie.. Also on view: "Aztl�n Today: The Chicano Postnation," "(un)Shop: An Installation by Gillie Holme," and "Collaborative Art Projects: The RICE Banquet" by Rune Olsen.

	Younghusband exhibition encampment at Phari Dzong, Spring 1904		Tibet: Mountains and Valleys, Castles and Tents Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York Apr. 12-June 22, 2001 From the Newark Museum collection, artifacts dating back to the 13th century plus early photographs in a show that explores the range of daily life in Tibet, from the aristocracy to farmers, traders and nomads.

			�Propaganda! Cuban Political and Film Posters American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York Apr. 12-June 29, 2001 100 original posters dating from the 1950s to the late 1990s.

	Rogelio López Marín (Gory) Es sólo agua en la lágrima de un extraño (It's Only Water in the Teardrop of a Stranger) 1986		Shifting Tides: Cuban Photography after the Revolution Los Angeles Museum of Art Apr. 15-July 1, 2001 Three sections, organized by generations of artists from the past 40 years and a prologue gallery feature work by Enrique de la Uz, Gory, Manuel Pi�a and Ernesto Leal. Curator: Tim B. Wride, LACMA. Catalogue: 160 pp. Tour: Aug. 28-Oct. 27, 2001, Grey Art Gallery, New York.

			Performance Drawings Drawing Center Apr. 19-July 28, 2001 Solo installations and related performances by Milan Grygar, Alison Knowles, Erwin Wurm, Christopher Taggart and Elena del Rivero. Catalogue: Drawing Papers 21, 70 pages.

			Artexts Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning Apr. 23-June 16, 2001 25 artists from Jackie Chang to Mark Lombard to Seong Chun explore the relationship between text and visual art. A symposium will held May 19 from noon to 3 pm at the Queens Public Library, Flushing. Curator: Karina Skuirsky. Catalogue: Includes historical and recent developments.

	Henri Matisse The Yellow Dress 1929-31		Grand Reopening of the Cone Collection Baltimore Museum of Art Apr. 22, 2001 More than 100 paintings, sculptures and works on paper, with a focus on Matisse, in nine renovated galleries. Reinstallation team: BMA director Doreen Bolger, Jay Fisher, Katherine Rothkopf, Karen Nielsen, David Harvey. Catalogue: Matisse in the Cone Collection: The Poetics of Vision, 120 pp., essay by Jack Flam. Also on view, the first focus exhibition, "Picasso: The Circus Family," opening Apr. 22.

	Landscape frieze, USA ca. 1900 photo Matt Flynn		A Room with a View: Landscape & Wallpaper Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York Apr. 24-Oct. 14, 2001 19th-century block-printed landscape wallpaper from the museum collection. Curator: Joanne Kosuda-Warner, Cooper-Hewitt. Catalogue: 128 pp., 100 color images. Funding: Esme Usdan, Blumenthal.

	Isaac Julien still from The Long Road to Mazatl�n 1999		Isaac Julien, The Long Road to Mazatl�n and Vagabondia MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Mass. Apr. 26-July 1, 2001 Film installations on the themes of popular mythology, history, race and high society are part of the "Race in Digital Space" conference and the CyberArts Festival. Also on view, Paul Pfeifer's The Long Count (I Shook Up the World) and Johan Grimonprez's Inflight.

	Alexis Rockman The Farm 2000		Alexis Rockman: Future Evolution Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Apr. 27-Aug. 19, 2001 Studies and paintings for the artist's 1997 mural, A Recent History of the World, housed in the New Fisheries Building at the University of Washington. Guest curator: Kurt Kiefer.

			Between Street and Mirror: The Drawings of James Ensor Drawing Center Apr. 27-July 21, 2001 Over 100 works from 1880-1900, the Belgian artist's most prolific period, when he experimented with etching, large-scale drawing and a range of subjects. Curators: Robert Hoozee, director of the Museé des Beaux-Arts of Ghent, and Drawing Center director Catherine de Zegher. Catalogue: Co-published with the University of Minnesota Press. Funding: Robert Lehman Foundation.

	Piet Mondrian No. 9 1939-42		Mondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Apr. 28-July 22, 2001 14 works from the artist's final years, made in Europe and reworked in America, plus new technical research that provides insight into Mondrian's working process. Curators: Harry Cooper, Fogg, and Ron Spronk, Straus Center for Conservation, Harvard. Catalogue: Includes X-radiographs, UV and infrared images.

	Marc Chagall Lovers in Blue 1914		Marc Chagall: Early Works from Russian Collections Jewish Museum Apr. 29-Oct. 14, 2001 56 paintings and drawings never before seen in the Western hemisphere, plus murals dating from 1908 to 1920 for the State Jewish Chamber Theater in Moscow. Curator: Susan Tumarkin Goodman, Jewish Museum. Catalogue: 110 pages, 107 illustrations. Funding: Dresdner Bank, Delta Airlines. Also on view: 13 paintings by Yehuda Pen, Chagall's first teacher.

	Fernand Léger The Mechanic 1920		L'Esprit Nouveau: Purism in Paris Los Angeles County Museum of Art Apr. 29-Aug. 5, 2001 Works by Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (better known as Le Corbusier) and Am�d�e Ozenfant, founders of the Purist movement, plus works from their closest colleague, Fernand L�ger. Centerpiece is a reproduction of Corbusier's Pavillion de L'Esprit Nouveau built for the International Exposition of Decorative and Industrial Arts in 1925. Curator: Carol S Eliel, LACMA. Catalogue: Includes the first English translation of Ozenfant and Jeanneret's Apr�s le cubisme, 1918.