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 Karel Teige Collage Number 196 1941 |
Dreams and Disillusion: Karel Teige and the Czech Avant-Garde Grey Art Gallery, NYU May 1-July 7, 2001 100 objects, including 21 of Teige's Surrealist collages and a full-scale model of his ideal apartment for workers. Curators: Dr. Eric Dluhosch, MIT, James Wechsler and Wendy Kaplan, Wolfsonian-Florida International University. Catalogue: Karel Teige, 1900-1952: L'Enfant Terrible of the Czech Modernist Avant-Garde. Tour: Smart Gallery of Art, Chicago. |
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 Jacqueline Kennedy and her sister, Lee Radziwill, during a daytime boatride on Lake Pichola, Udaipur, India, Mar. 17, 1962. Dress by Oleg Cassini |
Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years Metropolitan Museum of Art May 1-July 29, 2001 80 original costumes mark the 40th anniversary of the brief White House reign of the celebrated First Lady. Creative Consultant: Hamish Bowles, Vogue. Catalogue: 208 pp, 150 illustrations. Funding: L'Oreal, Condé Nast. Also on View: "Joel Shapiro on the Roof," May 1-late fall, 2001, "African, Oceanic and Ancient American Art: Recent Acquisitions," May 22-Oct. 28, 2001, and "Summer Selections: American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 29-Sep. 2, 2001. |
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 Georgia O'Keeffe Jack in the Pulpit No. 3 1930 |
O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection Milwaukee Art Museum May 4-Aug. 19, 2001 73 works spanning 50 years of the artist's career. Curators: Barbara Buhler Lynes, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Russell Bowman, MAM. Catalogue: Complete color reproduction of entire show. Tour: Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, Sept. 14, 2001-Jan. 13, 2002, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, Feb.-Apr. 2002. Funding: Ameritech. Search our Galleries:
Georgia O'Keeffe |
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 Ralph Gibson Dictionary 2001 |
Ex Libris: Ralph Gibson Center for Creative Photography, Tucson May 5-July 8, 2001 Close to 40 textured black-and-white exhibition prints chart typographic and linguistic history. Catalogue: 144 pp., 109 duotone photographs. Search our Galleries:
Ralph Gibson |
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 Christian Marclay (Dada D.J.) |
Christian Marclay Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago May 5-Sep. 2, 2001 Guitar Drag, the most recent video installation by Marclay, joins a set of over-scale, altered instruments. Curator: Sylvia Chivaratanond. |
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 John Singer Sargent The Bead Stringers ca. 1880-82 |
Circa 1900: From the Genteel Tradition to the Jazz Age Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo May 5-Aug. 19, 2001 Nearly 100 American and European paintings, sculptures, photographs, ceramics, glass and furniture by a range of artists such as Man Ray, Auguste Rodin and Frank Lloyd Wright celebrate the centennial of the Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, 1901. Curators: Helen A. Raye, Douglas Dreishpoon, Albright Knox. Catalogue: 144 pp. and 50 colorplates. Tour: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, Sep. 8-Nov. 25, 2001; Albany Institute of History and Art, Dec. 14, 2001-Mar. 3, 2002; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, Mar. 22-May 26, 2002; and Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, June 15-Sep. 15, 2002. |
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 Tom Leader Coastlines 2001 |
Revelatory Landscapes San Francisco Museum of Modern Art May 5-Oct. 14, 2001 Site-specific projects at five outdoor locations in the Bay Area. Curators: Aaron Betsky, SFMoMA, Leah Levy. Catalogue: 120 pp. |
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| Helen Mirra Renaissance Society, University of Chicago May 6-June 24, 2001 A presentation of Sky-Wreck, a large site-specific textile work based on the geodesic dome. Search our Galleries:
Helen Mirra |
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 Cy Twombly Cycnus 1978 |
Cy Twombly: The Sculpture National Gallery of Art May 6-July 29, 2001 First major retrospective of Twombly's sculpture includes more than 600 works dating from 1946. Curator: Jeffrey Weiss, NGA, with Cy Twombly's assistance. Organization: Menil Collection, Houston, and Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel. Catalogue: Katharina Schmidt. Search our Galleries:
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| Henri Matisse UCLA Hammer Museum May 8-July 29, 2001 Works on paper drawn from the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts. Centerpiece is a selection of Matisse's paper cut-outs. Also on View: "Chris Johanson and Emma Kay," opening May 1, and "Around the Parisian Table: Pleasures and Politics of Food," May 8-July 29, 2001. Search our Galleries:
Henri Matisse |
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| Chris Burden The Arts Club of Chicago May 9-July 21, 2001 Two feature works: All the Submarines of America, an installation of 625 miniature submarines, and Hell Gate, a 28-foot-long bridge made of Meccano and Erector set parts; plus supporting drawings. Catalogue: Essay by Charles Wylie. |
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 Spear decorated with Cicada design Eastern Zhou period 8th-3rd century B.C. |
Treasures form a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan Seattle Art Museum May 10-Aug.12, 2001 128 artifacts including bronzes, jades, and clay sculptures from recently discovered Bronze Age civilization in Sanxingdui. Curator: Jay Xu, SAM. Catalogue: 360 pp. Funding: Boeing. Tour: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. |
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 Uta Barth Ground #41 |
Uta Barth: In Between Places Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston May 12-July 1, 2001 First survey of artist's career includes nearly 50 photographic works. Curator: Sheryl Conkelton. Catalogue: 125 color reproductions. |
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 Salomón Huerta Untitled Head 1999 |
New Works 5: Salomón Huerta Austin Museum of Art May 12-Jul. 8, 2001 25 recent paintings of Los Angeles natives by the hip Tijuana artist. Curator: Elizabeth Ferrer, AMOA. Search our Galleries:
Salomón Huerta |
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 Charles M. Russell The Scouts 1902 |
Painters and the American West: The Anschutz Collection Corcoran Gallery of Art May 12-July 30, 2001 75 paintings from 180 years of American Western painting by such artists as Marsden Hartley, Georgia O'Keeffe and Albert Bierstadt, drawn form the collection of Philip Anschutz. Curator: Joan Carpenter Troccoli, Denver Art Museum. Catalogue: 218 pp with 200 full-color illustrations. Tour: Joslyn Art Museum, Nov. 3, 2001-Jan. 13, 2002; Art Institute of Chicago, Summer 2003. Also on view: "Native Land: Photographs from the Robert Lewis Collection," May 12-Aug. 6, 2001. |
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 Robert Smithson Slantpiece 1969 |
As Painting: Division and Displacement Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Oh. May 12-Aug. 12, 2001 110 works by 26 artists pushing the boundaries of painting, including Gerhard Richter, Robert Smithson and Anne Truiit. Commisioned works by Daniel Buren, Christian Bonnefoi and Polly Apfelbaum. Sherrie Levine and Mel Bochner recreate previously realized works. Curators: Philip Armstrong, Laura Lisbon, Stephen Melville. Catalogue: 280 pp. with 14 anthology essays. Symposium: May 17-19. Funding: Pochet of America. |
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 Enrique Chagoya Uprising of the Spirit 1994 (detail) |
The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland Los Angeles County Museum of Art May 13-Aug. 26, 2001 More than 250 art and artifacts from the Pre-Columbian, colonial and contemporary eras of Mexican art. Curator: Virginia Fields. Catalogue: "The Road to Aztlan." Also on view: "Shifting Tides: Cuban Photography after the Revolution." |
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 El Greco Purification of the Temple ca. 1595-1600 (detail) |
El Greco: Themes and Variations Frick Collection May 15-July 29, 2001 Focused presentation of seven paintings, on view together for the first time. Curators: Jonathan Brown, NYU; Susan Grace Galassi, Frick. Catalogue: Fully illustrated. |
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 Leon Golub Head XXV 1959 |
Leon Golub: Paintings, 1950-2000 Brooklyn Museum of Art May 18-Aug. 19, 2001 Last stop of traveling survey features 35 major works. Curators: Jon Bird, Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Brooklyn Museum. Catalogue: 100 color plates. Also on view: Reinstallation of African Galleries, opening May 4. Search our Galleries:
Leon Golub |
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 Frank Gehry Stata Center, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. sketch |
Frank O. Gehry Retrospective Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum May 18-Aug. 26, 2001 Architectural models, drawings, plans and photographs by the celebrated architect. Curators: Mildred Friedman, J. Fiona Ragheb, Guggenheim. Catalogue: Fully illustrated. |
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| Origamic Architecture American Craft Museum May 18-Sep. 2, 2001 More than 100 origami works by Tokyo architect Masahiro Chatani, his colleagues Keiko Nakazawa and Takaaki Kihara, and other international artists. Includes scaled down origami reproductions of monuments such as the Guggenheim, the Chrysler Building and Falling Water. Curators: David R. McFadden, Susan Barry, Yoshiko Ebihara. Also on view: "Radiant Geometries: Fifteen International Jewelers", May 18-Sep. 2, 2001. |
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| Hip-Hop Nation Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco May 19-Aug. 12, 2001 Installations, hip-hop memorabilia, performances, films, public programs, hundreds of artifacts highlight hip-hop culture. Curator: Kevin Powell, YBCA. Also on view: Graffiti art, "Elevated," through July 14, 2001. |
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| 2001 Exhibition of Public Art Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, N.Y. May 19-Oct. 7, 2001 Works by Robert Chambers, Keith Christensen, Tom Doyle, Lisa Hein and Bob Seng, others. |
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| Fiona Tan/MATRIX 144 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, New Haven May 19-Sept. 2, 2001 First U.S. solo show featuring recent video works by the Amsterdam-based Indonesian artist. Curator: Nicholas Baume. Catalogue: 200 pp. |
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 Thomas Rowlandson Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, her sister Harriet, Viscountess Duncannon and a Musician 1790 |
The Line of Beauty: British Watercolors and Drawings of the Eighteenth Century Yale Center for British Art, Conn. May 19-Sept. 2, 2001 Large-scale exhibition watercolors and informal sketches by William Blake, John Singleton Copley, J. M. W. Turner, George Stubbs and contemporaries, grouped by themes: portraiture, landscape, metropolitan and rural. Curators: Scott Wilcox and Gillian Forrester, YCBA. Catalogue: Illustrated. |
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 Preston T. Phillips Hommage to Iakov Chernikhov 2001 |
Follies: Fantasy in the Landscape The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y. May 20-July 22, 2001 50 depictions of garden follies by architects, designers and artists. Curator: Barbara Toll. |
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 Alexander Calder Five Swords 1976 |
Grand Intuitions: Calder's Monumental Sculpture Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, N.Y. May 21-Nov. 15, 2001 18 monumental sculptures and 24 preparatory models and archival photographs by Alexander Calder. Curator: Alexander S.C. Rower, Calder Foundation, David R. Collens, Storm King. Catalogue: Exhibition brochure with major catalogue to be released in 2002. |
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| Illuminating Color J. Paul Getty Museum May 22- Aug. 26, 2001 Use of color in illuminated books, via 23 works made in Europe during the Middle Ages. Includes The Nativity by Jean Bourdichon. Also on view: "To Create a Living Art: Nineteenth-Century Drawings," May 1-July 15, 2001, "A Royal Menagerie: Porcelain Animals from Dresden," opening May 1. |
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 Antonio Frasconi New York, New York (II) 1999 |
176th Annual Exhibition National Academy of Design, New York May 24-June 24, 2001 Over 200 paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Academy members, including Wayne Thiebaud, Red Grooms, Chuck Close and Wolf Kahn. |
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 Ed Ruscha Standard Station 1966 |
The Graphic Works of Ed Ruscha California Palace of the Legion of Honor May 26-Sept. 9, 2001 Three decades of print-making drawn from the Achenbach Foundation. |
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 Alfred Stieglitz Georgia O'Keeffe: A Portrait 1920 |
The Model Wife Cleveland Museum of Art May 27-Aug. 5, 2001 Nine photographers are featured for their long-term, collaborative portrayal of their wives. Curator: Arthur Ollman, Museum of Photographic Arts. Catalogue: 220 pp. |
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 Jacob Lawrence "The Migration Series" panel no. 57 The female worker was also one of the last groups to leave the South 1940-41 |
Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. May 27-Aug. 19, 2001 200 works spanning Lawrence's entire career gathered from over 80 lenders. Curator: Elizabeth Hutton Turner. Catalogue: Full color. Tour: Whitney Museum of American Art, Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Funding: ExxonMobil. |
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 Christoph Draeger TWA 800 from the series "The most beautiful disasters in the world" 1998 |
Game Show Mass MoCA, North Adams, Mass. May 27, 2001-Apr. 2002 13,000-square foot exhibition of artists games from the 1990s, with works by such artists as Sophie Calle, Mel Chin, Matthew Ritchie and a commissioned piece by Kay Rosen. Also related exhibitions of Fluxus games, Marcel Duchamp's games, and Öyvind Fahlström retrospective. Performances by Philip Glass, Yasuko Yokoshi, Shirin Neshat and Sophie Calle, among others. Catalogue: 135 pp. |
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 Frederic Leighton Study for Captive Andromache ca. 1866 |
Telling Tales I: Classical Images from the Dahesh Museum of Art Dahesh Museum of Art, New York May 29-Sept. 29, 2001 Classical legacy explored through paintings, drawings and sculptures from the Neoclassical period. Curator: Roger Diederen, Dahesh. |
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 Wolfgang Laib Milkstone 1987-89 |
Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective Dallas Museum of Art May 30-Sep. 2, 2001 Includes 26 drawings and 24 conceptual sculptures and installations made of Pollen, beeswax sculptures and slabs of marble spanning a 30-year career. Guest curator: Klaus Ottman Catalogue: Fully Illustrated. Tour: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Oct. 5-Dec. 30, 2001, MCA, San Diego, Jan. 27-May 29, 2002; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Oct. 8, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003. Also on view: "Box City Dallas," May 5-June 10, "Concentrations 39: John Pomara," May 17-Aug. 26, 2001 |
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