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	Devil Robots Life is Snack and Music		Buzz Club: News From Japan P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Queens July 1-September, 2001 More than 100 artists displaying pop culture works including a 70-foot-long beehive structure with interactive works, web-based animation and sound and five successive performance-based exhibitions in the largest exhibition of pop culture creators outside of Japan. Curators: Kazue Kobata, P.S. 1 and David d'Heilly. Also On view: Outdoor installation "subWave: Roy co.," "Kim Sooja," "Ashkan Sahihi: The Drug Series," opening July 1, 2001.

	Beatriz Milhazes O Guitarrista 2000		Beatriz Milhazes Birmingham (Ala.) Museum of Art July 1-Sept. 2, 2001 7 paintings and 8 silkscreens by the abstractionist who specializes in appliqu� mandala patterns. Curator: David Moos, BMA. Catalogue: Essays by Moos, Paulo Herkenhoff. Search our Galleries: Beatriz Milhazes

	Arthur Tress Stephen Brecht, Bride and Groom, NYC 1970		Arthur Tress: Fantastic Voyage, 1956-2000 Corcoran Gallery of Art July 1-Sept. 23, 2001 130 whimsical, autobiographical and visionary images from the Corcoran collection by the pioneer of staged photography. Curator: Philip Brookman, Corcoran. Catalogue: 200 pp. Funding: Richard A. Florsheim Art Fund. Also on view: "Andr� Kert�sz and Theodore Fried: Away from Home," July 21-Sept. 17, 2001.

	Raúl Cárdenas OSUNA/Torolab Untitled 1999		Torolab: Laboratorio of the Future in the Present Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego July 1-Sept. 25, 2001 A Tijuana-based consortium of artists and designers create three ambient spaces: a lounge with bar, an urban life installation and an installation on the border areas between California and Mexico. The security staff will also be outfitted in "Toro Gear." Curator: Toby Kamps, MCA.

	James Whistler The Beggars		Whistler in Venice: The First Set of Etchings Freer Gallery of Art July 1, 2001-Jan. 6, 2002 The fifth installment in a series of the artist's printed work, this show presents early and late versions of 12 etchings. Curator: Kenneth Myer, Freer. Search our Galleries: James Whistler

	Esther Bubley Waiting Room, Greyhound Bus Terminal, New York City 1947		Esther Bubley: American Photo-Journalist PaineWebber Art Gallery, N.Y. July 5-Sept. 7, 2001 135 black-and-white prints and six color images printed from the Post-World War II documentary photographer's original transparencies. Curator: Bonnie Yopchelson.

			Harmonizing with the Infinite: Seattle Collects Chinese Art Seattle Asian Art Museum July 5-Oct. 28, 2001 Around 40 Chinese works, largely done on paper and silk. Curators: Jerome Silbergeld, Jay Xu, SAM. Funding: Bank of America, King County Arts Commission, Seattle Homes and Lifestyles.

	Joel Sternfeld High School Prom at the Hilton, San Antonio, Texas, April 1999 2001		Stranger Passing: Collected Portraits by Joel Sternfeld San Francisco Museum of Modern Art July 6-Oct. 2, 2001 Documenting the ethnic diversity of America from Main Street to the mall, via 65 large-scale color photographs made over the last decade and a half. Curator: Douglas R. Nickel, SFMOMA. Catalogue: 60 images, 136 pp. Search our Galleries: Joel Sternfeld

	Elizabeth Catlett Homage to Black Women Poets 1984		Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art Tacoma Art Museum July 7-Nov. 25, 2001 Around 80 African American works from the mid-19th century to the present, from Walter Evans' private collection. Curator: Greg Bell, TAM. Catalogue: 55 color plates, 165 pp.

	Two from a set of four Regency dining chairs with detachable seats and legs ca. 1810		Britain's Portable Empire: Campaign Furniture of the Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian Periods Katonah (N.Y.) Museum of Art July 8-Sept. 30, 2001 Some 100 collapsible tables, chairs, beds and other objects from the 200-year reign of the British empire. Curator: Nicholas A. Brawer Catalogue: 36 pp. Also on view: "Arnie Zimmerman," July 8-Sept. 30, 2001.

	Walker Evans Penny Picture Display, Savannah 1936		Walker Evans & Company: Works from the Museum of Modern Art J. Paul Getty Museum July 10-Sept. 16, 2001 Around 250 works by Evans and others. Curator: Peter Galassi, MoMA. Catalogue: 272 pp. 390 illustrations. Also on view: "The American Tradition and Walker Evans," July 10-Oct. 28, 2001, "Work and Play: Everyday Life in Drawings, 1520-1820," July 31-Oct. 14. Search our Galleries: Walker Evans

	"Red Grooms: Selections from the Graphic Work" invitation card		Red Grooms: Selections from the Graphic Work National Academy of Design Museum, N.Y. July 11-Nov. 11, 2001 Over 100 objects spanning more than 40 years of printmaking by Charles Rogers "Red" Grooms. Curator: Susan Knowles. Catalogue: 320 pp. Tour: Chicago Cultural Center, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, dates tba. Search our Galleries: Red Grooms

	Fern Logan Jacob Lawrence		Fern Logan: The Artist Portrait Series Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Queens, N.Y. July 14-Aug.18, 2001 An exhibition coinciding with the publication of Logan's book of 61 portraits of African American artists.

	Adam Ames Dead of the Day		Video Jam Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art July 14-Aug. 19, 2001 More than 50 contemporary video artists from the U.S., Argentina, England, Sweden, Canada, Germany, Ireland and Scotland. Includes works by Kiki Seror, Justine Kurland, Kristin Lucas and Seth Price. Curators: Michael Rush, PBICA, and Galen Joseph-Hunter, Electronic Arts Intermix, N.Y.

	Yoko Ono Cut Piece 1965 performance at Carnegie Recital Hall		Y E S Yoko Ono Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston July 14-Sept. 16, 2001 Over 150 works spanning 40 years and many media, focusing on the beginning of the artist's career. Curator: Alexandra Munroe, Japan Society Gallery. Catalogue: 350 pp., including a CD. Funding: NTT DoCoMo, Inc. Also on view: "Ghada Amer: Pleasure," July 27-August 26, 2001. Search our Galleries: Yoko Ono

	Volume: Bed of Sound installation view photo Eileen Costa		Volume: Bed of Sound Henry Art Gallery, Seattle July 14-Sept. 30, 2001 Historical and cutting-edge sound art, via audio works spanning the last three decades by over 60 artists. Curators: Elliott Sharp and Alanna Heiss, P.S.1, and Robin Held, Henry.

	Gary Winogrand Untitled ca. 1975		The Social Scene Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston July 18-Sept. 30, 2001 250 photographs documenting American society from the 1930s through the '80s, focusing on the Civil Rights movement and the struggles of the working class. Catalogue: Fully illustrated, by LAMOCA. Funding: Banana Republic. Also on View: "Nikki S. Lee," July 18-Sept. 30, 2001.

	Wayne Thiebaud Jackpot Machine 1962		Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville July-Sept. 9, 2001 69 20th-century artworks in the second round of exhibitions at the new art museum that opened in April. Catalogue: 112 pp. Funding: Principal Financial Group. Tour: Worchester (Mass.) Art Museum, National Academy Museum, Des Moines Art Center.

	May Hamilton de Causse and Geneviéve Hamilton Platter, Rippled ca. 1936 Vernon Kilns, Vernon, Ca.		California Pottery: From Missions to Modernism San Francisco Museum of Modern Art July 20-Oct. 14, 2001 Commercially produced ceramic tableware and accessories from the first half of the 20th century, featuring both abstract design and pop narratives. Guest curator: Bill Stern. Catalogue: 108 pp. Also on view: "Martin Venezky: Selections from the Permanent Collection of Architecture and Design," July 20-Oct. 14, 2001.

	Elizabeth Catlett Sharecropper 1968		Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection Virginia Museum of Fine Arts July 21-Sept. 30, 2001 Almost 100 paintings, sculptures, prints and photographs spanning 125 years and including works by Elizabeth Catlett, Aaron Douglas, Jacob Lawrence and Henry O. Tanner. Curator: Juanita Holland. Catalogue: 192 pp.

	Tacita Dean Disappearance at Sea 1996		Directions: Tacita Dean Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden July 26-Oct. 21, 2001 Two wide-screen projections by the London-based artist and filmmaker: Fernsehturm (2000), a 44-minute panorama of contemporary Berlin, and Disapperance at Sea, (1996), a 14-minute allegory of light and sky. Curator: Kerry Brougher.

	Beverly Semmes video still from Walking Around the Shinnecock Pots 2001		About the Bayberry Bush Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y. July 29-Oct. 14, 2001 Richard Artschwager, Joseph Grigely, Cai Guo-Qiang, Joan Jonas and eight other artists make works after William Merritt Chase's The Bayberry Bush. Curators: Ingrid Schaffner and Melissa Feldman. Catalogue: 113 pp.

	Bernardo Belloto View of the Grand Canal from Campo Santa Maria Zobenigo, Venice ca. 1745		Bernardo Belloto and the Capitals of Europe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston July 29-Oct. 21, 2001 67 paintings of cityscapes from the 18th century artist in an exhibition that premiered at the Museo Correr in Venice. Curator: Edgar Peters Bowron. Also on View: "Robert Frank: A Retrospective from the Collection," July 14-Oct. 14, 2001, "10 Works from the Edward R. Broida Collection," July 22-Sept. 16, 2001.

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