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	Laylah Ali Untitled 2001		Laylah Ali: Paintings on Paper Albright Knox Art Gallery Jan. 11-Apr. 6, 2003 Small gouache drawings addressing race, politics and power Curators: Dr. Lisa Fischman (Atlanta College of Art Gallery) and Claire Schneider (Albright-Knox)

	Anthony van Dyck Rinaldo and Armida 1628-29		A Grand Legacy: Five Centuries of European Art Baltimore Museum of Art Opening Jan. 12, 2003 European art from the 15th- through the 19th-century, featuring Anthony van Dyck's monumental Rinaldo and Armida (1629), inaugurates the museum's renovated Jacobs Wing galleries, originally designed by John Russell Pope and now given a $1.9-million modernization Curator: Sona Johnston (BMA) Funding: Richard C. von Hess Foundation

	Albert Eugene Gallatin May Composition 1936		The Park Avenue Cubists: Gallatin, Morris, Frelinghuysen and Shaw Grey Art Gallery, NYU Jan. 14-Mar. 29, 2003 50 paintings by four artists from the American Abstract Artists group -- Albert Eugene Gallatin, George L.K. Morris, Suzy Frelinghuysen and Charles B. Shaw -- known during the Depression Era as the "Park Avenue Cubists" for their patrician backgrounds and affluence Curator: Debra Bricker Balken Catalogue: Published by Ashgate, Ltd., with essays by Balken and Robert S. Lubar Tour: Addison Gallery of American Art at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., Apr. 22-July 31, 2003, and the Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Sept. 2-Nov. 30, 2003

			Edgar Degas: Defining the Modernist Edge Yale University Art Gallery Jan. 14-May 18, 2003 Paintings, etchings, drawings, bronze and wax sculptures focusing on the artist's acute skills of observation and their importance to 20th-century modernism Curator: Jennifer Gross (Yale) Catalogue: Essays by Gross, Suzanne Boorsch, Susan Casteras, Helen Cooper, Jill DeVonyar, Susan Greenberg, Richard Kendall, Edgar Munhall, $16.95 Also on view: "The Once and Future Art Gallery: Renewing Yale's Oldest Museum," Jan. 21-May 18, 2003

	Horace Pippin Self-Portrait 1944		African-American Artists, 1929-1945: Prints, Drawings and Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art Jan. 15, 2002-May 4, 2003 More than 80 works -- many drawn from 200 prints donated to the museum in 1999 by Reba and Dave Williams -- that focus on daily life during the Harlem Renaissance, the Depression and World War II Curators: Lisa M. Messinger, William S. Lieberman (Met) Funding: Fletcher Foundation, Fletcher Asset Management

	Monticello's south wall		Framing the West at Monticello: Thomas Jefferson and the Lewis and Clark Expedition Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Monticello, Va. Jan. 15-May 4, 2003 On the 200th anniversary of the beginning of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, a recreation of the display of natural history specimens, Native American objects, European art, a model of an Egyptian pyramid, mastodon bones and more, put on view in Monticello's entrance hall by the second president as an educational exhibition.

			Alfred Jensen: Concordance Santa Monica Museum of Art Jan. 15-Apr. 19, 2003 The first comprehensive West Coast solo of the late numberphiliac painter features 10 monumental canvases from the Dia Center for the Arts Curator: Lynne Cooke (Dia Center) Catalogue: 96 pp. (Dia)

	A work by Mary Frank in "Clay Works"		Clay Works: 20th-Century American Ceramics from the Everson Museum of Art UBS Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York Jan. 16-Mar. 28, 2003 The first New York showing of the Emerson ceramic collection features more than 60 works, ranging from turn-of-the-century Art Pottery to modernist sculptures and non-utilitarian vessels by Robert Arneson, Mary Frank, Roy Lichtenstein, Peter Voulkos and other artists

	Seder Meal, the Abrahamsen family, Tredheim, 1926		Jewish Life and Culture in Norway: Wergeland's Legacy Scandinavia House, New York Jan. 17-Mar. 22, 2003 The history of the Norwegian Jewish population is shown through photographs, interviews and artifacts

	Andreas Feininger Nude against Sea 1933		Andreas Feininger Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College Jan. 17-Apr. 12, 2003 A retrospective exhibition of 60 photographs by the longtime Life Magazine staffer (who died in 1999), selected from a gift of 72 prints by the artist's widow, Wysse Feininger Curator: Joel Smith (Vassar) Funding: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation

	Marsden Hartley Military 1913		Marsden Hartley Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Jan. 17-Apr. 20, 2003 85 paintings and 21 works on paper from every stage of the artist's career, including the early and controversial "War Motif" series Curator: Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser Catalogue: 330 pp., 150 color illustrations, 50 black-and-white images, hardback $55, softcover $ 39.95 Tour: Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., June 7-Sept. 7, 2003; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 11, 2003-Jan. 4, 2004 Funding: United Technologies Corp., Henry Luce Foundation

	Leon Golub Mercenaries 1979		War (What is it Good For?) Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago Jan. 18-May 18, 2003 The first post-9/11 museum exhibition to address the newly militant U.S. mood, via works by Leon Golub, Barbara Kruger, Mike Kelley, Andy Warhol and others drawn from the museum collection Curator: Michael Rooks, ICA Also on view: "Categorically Speaking," Jan. 18-May 18, 2003, and Juan Angel Chavez, Jan. 3-Feb. 2, 2003

			The Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dusk Drawing Center, New York Jan. 18-Mar. 8, 2003 The first major museum survey (co-organized with the Power Plant, Toronto) of the low-tech, humorous works by the group of artists known as the Royal Art Lodge: Michael Dumontier, Hollie Dzama, Marcel Dzama, Neil Farber, Drue Langlois, Myles Langlois, Jonathan Pylypchuk and Adrian Williams Curators: Wayne Baerwaldt (Power Plant), Joseph R. Wolin

			Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College A survey of works by the provocative African-American artist, including the 50-foot-long mural Gone..., not seen since its debut in 1994 at the Drawing Center, and the "Negress Notes" series of 24 watercolors from 1996 Curators: Ian Berry (Tang), Darby English (Clark Art Institute), Vivian Patterson (Williams College Museum), Mark Reinhardt (Williams) Tour: Williams College Museum of Art, Aug. 30-Dec. 5, 2003 Catalogue: 208 pp., MIT Press

	Mark Dion When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (Toys R U.S.) 1995		Mark Dion: Full House Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn. Jan. 19-Apr. 13, 2003 Seven installation works, 80 drawings, a collection of the artist's journals from 1990 to the present and Vivarium, a terrarium containing a 22-foot-long fallen tree Catalogue: Introduction by Richard Klein and interview with the artist by Bree Edwards Also on view: "Carl Ostendarp: 189 Drawings," Jan. 19-Mar. 23, 2003, and "Janice Caswell, " Jan. 19-Apr. 27, 2003

	Ellsworth Kelly Red Green Blue		Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Jan. 19-Apr. 13, 2003 14 paintings and 35 related drawings, collages and photos focus on the pivotal 1958-65 period in the artist's career Curator: Toby Kamps (MCASD) Catalogue: 128 pp., essays by Kamps, critic Dave Hickey, and scholars Roberta Bernstein and Sarah K. Rich Funding: ResMed Tour: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Apr. 27-July 27, 2003; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Aug. 10-Nov. 3, 2003

	Edouard Vuillard Woman in a Striped Dress 1895		Edouard Vuillard National Gallery of Art Jan. 19-Apr. 20, 2003 Approximately 230 paintings, drawings, prints, ceramics, theater programs and folding screens, including the reunion of the decorative panel series "The Public Gardens" that was dispersed at auction in 1929 Curator: Guy Cogeval (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts) with Kimberly Jones (NGA), Laurence des Cars (Musée d'Orsay) and MaryAnne Stevens (Royal Academy of Arts) Catalogue: 520 pp., essays by curators and others a catalogue raisonné by Cogeval is scheduled for publication in 2003 Funding: Airbus Tour: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, dates to be announced

			Challenge of the Modern: African-American Artists 1925-1945 Studio Museum in Harlem Jan. 23-Mar. 30, 2003 More than 100 works by Sargent Johnson, Jacob Lawrence, Bruce Nugent, Wilfredo Lam, James VanDerZee and others Curator: Lowery Stokes Sims (SMH) Catalogue: Two volumes with essays and a chronology of Modernism Also on view: "Veni Vidi Video," and "Harlem Postcards II" Han. 23-Mar. 30, 2003

	Leonardo da Vinci Study of the Human Skull		Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman Metropolitan Museum of Art Jan. 22-Mar. 30, 2003 120 works including quick sketches, anatomical, botanical and military engineering drawings and painting studies for Adoration of the Magi, The Last Supper and Virgin and Child with St Anne Curators: Carmen C. Bambach and George R. Goldner (Met) Catalogue: Written by Bambach and Alessandro Cecchi, Claire Farago, Varega Forcione, Martin Kemp, Anne-Marie Logan, Pietro C. Marani, Carlo Pedretti, Carlo Vecce, Fran�oise Viatte and Linda Wolk-Simon Funding: Morgan Stanley Also on view: "Chinese Export Porcelain at the Metropolitan Museum of Art," Jan. 14-July 13, 2003

	Carsten Höller Light Corner 2000		Carsten Höller Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Jan. 22-Apr. 27, 2003 The first U.S. solo show by the 41-year-old Belgian environmental artist, who lives and works in Cologne, showcases several light installations and a large-scale covered slide running through the ICA space Curator: Jessica Morgan

	Anne Vallayer-Coster Still Life: Flowers and Fruit (detail) 1787		Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie Antoinette The Frick Collection Jan. 22-Mar. 23, 2002 35 paintings are included in the first retrospective of the 18th-century still-life painter, organized by the Dallas Museum of Art Curators: Eik Kahng (Walters Art Museum) and Colin B Bailey (Frick)

	Thomas Phillips 6th Baron Byron 1835		Romantics and Revolutionaries: Regency Portraits from the National Portrait Gallery, London Yale Center for British Art Jan. 23-Mar. 30, 2003 Portraits of Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Admiral Lord Nelson and some 70 others Catalogue: By Richard Holmes with entries by David Crane, Stephen Hebron and Robert Woof

			Ellen Harvey: A Whitney for the Whitney at Philip Morris Whitney Museum of American Art Jan. 23-Mar. 30, 2003 394 scaled replica paintings based on the permanent collection plus newly acquired works by Jim Campbell, Luis Gisbert, Robert Lazzarini, Paul McCarthy, Paul Pfeifer, Hirsch Perlman and Jim Shaw Curator: Shamim M. Momin

	Marsden Hartley Abstraction with Flowers 1913		Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp and the New York Avant-Garde Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Jan. 24-Apr. 19, 2003 75 paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper by Marsden Hartley, Man Ray, Georgia O'Keeffe, Francis Picabia, Joseph Stella, Beatrice Wood and others Curator: Debra Bricker Balken Tour: Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, May 10-Aug. 3, 2003; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Aug. 29-Nov. 30, 2003

	Bill Viola Silent Mountain 2001		Bill Viola: The Passions J. Paul Getty Museum Jan. 24-Apr. 27, 2003 13 works, including large projection pieces and smaller LCD and plasma flat-panel displays that explore the range of human emotion Curator: John Walsh (Getty) Catalogue: Essays by Walsh, Peter Sellars Tour: National Gallery, London, Oct. 22, 2003-Jan. 4, 2004; Munich State Paintings Collection, spring 2004

	Pierre Hugyhe Les Grands Ensembles 2001		Hugo Boss Prize 2002: Pierre Huyghe Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Jan. 24-May 4, 2003 The award show -- which includes a $50,000 prize underwritten by the clothing manufacturer -- features the film installation Les Grands Ensembles (2002) and a sculpture, L'Expédition Scintillante: Act II: Untitled (Light Show) (2002) Catalogue: includes info on all six finalists for this year's prize

	Dale Chihuly Cadmium Yellow Macchia with Bright Red Lip Wrap 1992		Fire and Form: The Art of Contemporary Glass Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach Jan. 25-Mar. 23, 2003 100 works by 31 American glass artists, in a show honoring museum patron Nicki Harris Curator: William Warmus (Norton) Funding: The friends of Nicki Harris

	José Antonio Hernandez-Diez Marx 2002		José Antonio Hernandez-Diez SITE Santa Fe Jan. 25-Apr. 6, 2003 Eight large-scale installations created between 1991 and 2000 Curators: Dan Cameron and Gerardo Mosquera (New Museum) Also on view: "Nic Nicosia," Jan. 25-Apr. 6, 2003

	Charles Clough		Charles Clough: Newportfolio Newport Art Museum, Newport, R.I. Jan. 25-Apr. 13, 2003 Studio notes, drawings, sculptures and watercolors from a new series by the Postmodernist artist who became known for his abstract paintings in the 1980s Also on view: "Alexander Nesbitt: Entropy," Jan. 25-Apr. 13, 2003

	Andy Goldsworthy Three Cairns Des Moines, Iowa 2002		Andy Goldsworthy: Three Cairns Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, N.Y. Jan. 26-Apr. 13, 2003 Large-scale photos of the British environmental artist's hand-built stone Cairns, along with several works made from chestnut tree twigs, fern, bracken and other natural materials, in a show that is co-organized with the Des Moines Art Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Curators: Hugh M. Davies, David C. Copley (MCA, San Diego), Dede Young and Jacqueline Shilkoff (Neuberger) Also on view: "Hannelore Baron: Works from 1969 to 1987," Jan. 19-Mar. 23, 2003

	Peter Doig Girl in Tree 2001		Peter Doig Arts Club of Chicago Jan. 27-Apr. 12, 2003 Large-scale oil paintings of landscapes as well as works on paper created in the past ten years Curator: Kathy S. Cottong

	Edwin Dickinson Self-Portrait 1949		Edwin Dickinson: Dreams and Realities National Academy of Design, New York Jan. 31-Apr. 13, 2003 68 paintings and 26 drawings of small landscapes, large-scale allegorical works, and a small selection of self-portraits in a show that originated at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Curator: Douglas Dreishpoon (Albright-Knox) Catalogue: Essays by Elaine de Kooning, John Ashberry, Francis O'Connor, others

			Donald Judd: The Early Years, 1956-1968 Menil Collection, Houston Jan.31-May 4, 2003 The only American venue for this comprehensive exhibition of Judd's early works of lesser-known figurative and semi-abstract paintings and drawings Curator: Thomas Kellein (Kunsthalle Bieleveld)