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	Belt Plaque with Bactrian Camel North China 2nd-1st century BC		Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw and Other New York Collections Metropolitan Museum of Art Oct. 1, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003 More than 200 objects of metalwork and crafts dating from the first millenium Curator: James C. Y. Watt, Met Catalogue: Essays by Emma C. Bunker and Zhixin Jason Sun Also on view: "Arts of the Spanish Americas, 1550-1850: Works from the Museum's Collection," Oct. 11, 2002-Apr. 6, 2003, and "The Prints of Vija Celmins," Oct. 15-Dec. 29, 2002

	Harriet Beecher Stowe		Reading Uncle Tom's Image: A Reconsideration of Harriet Beecher Stowe's 150 Year-old Character and his Legacy New-York Historical Society Oct. 1, 2002-Feb. 9, 2003 25 different early editions of the novel, abolitionist pamphlets, proslavery books, plus works by John Rogers and Kara Walker in honor of the 150th anniversary of Uncle Tom's Cabin Curator: Kathleen Hulser, N-YHS Also on view: "Degrees of Latitude: Maps of America from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection," Oct. 1, 2002-Feb. 2, 2003

	Daigu Ryokan Poem about a crazy monk (detail) Edo Period		The Written Image: Japanese Calligraphy and Painting from the Sylvan Barnet and William Burto Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art Oct. 1, 2002-Mar. 2, 2003 60 works from the Nara (710-784) through the Edo (16115-1868) period are shown alongside calligraphy and paintings from the Met's holdings Curator: Miyeko Murase and Masako Watanabe, Met Funding: Toshiba International Foundation Catalogue: 256 pp., 90 color and 50 black-and-white illustrations, published by the Met and Yale University Press, $55

	Hyman Bloom Harpies ca. 1947		Color and Ecstasy: The Art of Hyman Bloom National Academy of Design Oct. 2-Dec.29, 2002 A retrospective of 60 paintings and drawings by the expressionist artist Curator: Isabelle Dervaux Catalogue: Fully illustrated, includes essays by John Updike, Matthew Baigell and artist Sigmund Abeles, chronology and complete bibliography

			Lawrence Weiner Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus Oct. 3, 2002-2004 Site-specific text embedded in a walkway in Mirror Lake Hollow on the Ohio State Campus Catalogue: Artist's book

	Imogen Cunningham Calla ca. 1925		Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe Oct. 3, 2002-Jan. 14, 2003 Celebrating the museum's fifth anniversary, 54 works by 33 artists, including Imogen Cunningham, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, Joseph Stella, Edward Weston and, of course, O'Keeffe, who became known as"The Lady of the Lily" in the 1920s Catalogue: Yale, softcover, $30 Tour: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Feb. 23-May 4, 2003; Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Va., May 31-Aug. 10, 2003 Funding: Burnett Foundation, others.

	Patty Chang Fountain		Mirror Mirror Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Oct. 5, 2002-tba Nine works using mirrors, by Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Jeff Koons, Christian Marclay, others Curator: Jane Simon, Williams/Clark Also on view: "Mark Taylor's Grave Matters," opening Oct. 31, 2002

	Lauren Greenfield Sheena tries on clothes with Amber, 15, in a department store dressing room, San Jose, California 2002		Lauren Greenfield's Girl Culture Center for Creative Photography, Tucson Oct. 5-Dec. 8, 2002 57 photographs of young girls, dealing mainly with body image and accompanied by audio interviews Curator: Trudy Wilner Stack with assistance from Cass Fey, CCP Catalogue: 156 pp., 100 photographs, ten interviews, $40 Tour: Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, Davenport Museum of Art at Cornell University, dates tba

	Jacob Lawrence "The Migration series" panel no. 57 1940-41		Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Oct. 6, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003 The final stop for 200 works spanning Lawrence's entire career gathered from over 80 lenders Curator: Alvia Wardlaw, MFAH Catalogue: 336 pp., eight essays, $50 Funding: ExxonMobil Also on view: "French Impressionism: Masterpieces form Copenhagen's Ordrupgaard Collection," and "Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown," Oct. 6, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003

	Albrecht Dürer Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I ca. 1519		Painted Prints: The Revelation of Color Baltimore Museum of Art Oct. 6, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003 100 hand-colored prints from the 16th and 17th centuries, including 27 pairings of colored Albrecht D�rer prints next to their uncolored counterparts, on loan from American and European museums and private collections Curators: Dr. Susan Dackerman and Thomas Primeau, BMA Catalogue: 320 pp., new research on artists who specialized in hand coloring with social and economical studies on Renaissance and Baroque printmaking, clothbound $50, paperback $29.95 Funding: Brown Investment Advisory

	Dave Muller Night Music 2000		Catherine Sullivan, Dave Muller, Tomoko Takahashi UCLA Hammer Museum Oct. 6, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003 Three shows of work by Los Angeles-based artists Curator: Amanda Cruz

			Gary Simmons Studio Museum in Harlem Oct. 9, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003 Last venue for a 35-piece survey of the artist's work from the past two years, including two new works -- a sculpture and a large-scale, site-specific wall drawing Curator: Thelma Golden Catalogue: First monograph on Simmons, essays by Thelma Golden and Maurice Berger, interview by Franklin Sirmans, $25

	Ah Xian China, China -- Bust 35 1999		China Refigured: The Art of Ah Xian Asia Society Oct. 9, 2002-Feb. 9, 2003 U.S. debut of an award-winning Chinese artist who creates individually cast, life-size portrait busts-in porcelain, lacquer and cloisonné -- 37 busts are featured with 20 porcelain works from the Rockefeller Collection Curator: Melissa Chiu, Asia Society

	Judy Chicago Hypatia test plate from The Dinner Party 1979		Judy Chicago National Museum of Women in the Arts Oct. 11, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003 Over 90 works from the 1960s to the present by the feminist pioneer Curators: John Bullard, New Orleans Museum of Art, Viki Wylder, FSU, and Susan Fisher Sterling, NMWA Catalogue: 100 color illustrations, interview with the artist by Lucy R. Lippard

	Lorna Simpson 31 2002		Lorna Simpson Whitney Museum of American Art Oct. 11, 2002-Jan. 26, 2003 Two concurrent exhibitions of the artist's latest film and photographic work Curator: Sylvia Wolf, Whitney

	Mark Catesby Bullfrog 1771		Urban Neighbors: Images of New York City Wildlife New York Public Library Oct. 11, 2002-Feb. 3, 2003 More that 220 items from the mid-17th century to the present, by zoological artists of the variety of fauna in the city Curator: Miriam T. Gross

	Dagobert Peche ca. 1920		Dagobert Peche and the Wiener Werkst�tte Neue Galerie, New York Oct. 11, 2002-Feb. 10, 2003 The museum's first major loan exhibition is devoted to the decorative arts and consists of over 400 drawings and objects, including furniture, jewelry, ceramics, fabrics and wallpaper that places Peche's design work in the context of the Austrian design collective Curator: Dr. Witt-D�rring

	Adolph Gottlieb Mariner's Incantation 1945		Adolph Gottlieb Jewish Museum Oct. 11, 2002-Mar. 2, 2003 31 works datingfrom 1934 to 1973 Curator: Gottlieb Foundation head Sanford Hirsch Catalogue: 137 pp., published by IVAM Centre Julio Gonz�lez, 39 color illustrations, $25

	Nixons greeted in Ecuador 1958		The Tumultuous Fifties: A View from the New York Times Photo Archives Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Oct. 12-Dec. 16, 2002 Over 200 black-and-white vintage photographs documenting McCarthyism, Cold War politics, Abstract Expressionism, more. Curators: Douglas Dreishpoon, Albright-Knox, Alan Trachtenberg, Yale Catalogue: Yale, 272 pp., 200 illustrations, essays by Luc Sante, Dreishpoon, Trachtenberg Also on view: "Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations 1979-200," Oct. 26- Dec. 31, 2002

	Andrew Gursky 99 Cent 1999		Embracing the Present: The UBS PaineWebber Collection Portland Art Museum Oct. 12, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003 National touring exhibition of 57 paintings, sculptures and photographs by a range of artists including Alighiero e Boetti, Gregory Crewdson, Cy Twombly, David Salle, Cindy Sherman and Gerhard Richter Curators: Bruce Guenther, PAM, and Matthew Armstrong, UBS PaineWebber Catalogue: Brochure

	Gerhard Richter Wiesental 1985		Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Oct. 12, 2002-Jan. 14, 2003 140 paintings in the full-scale U.S. survey of the German pop artist Curator: Robert Storr, MoMA, with Madeleine Grynsztejn, SFMoMA Catalogue: 336 pp., MoMA/D.A.P., $75 Tour: Hirshhorn Museum, Feb. 20-May 18, 2003

			Anne Vallayer-Coster: Painter to the Court of Marie Antoinette Dallas Museum of Art Oct. 13, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003 60 paintings, miniatures and works on paper by one of only four women admitted to the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture Curator: Dr. Eik Kahng, Walters Catalogue: 245 pp., fully illustrated, hardcover Tour: Frick Collection, Jan. 21-March 23, 2003

			Art in the Age of Rubens and Rembrandt North Carolina Museum of Art Oct. 13, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003 Five exhibitions in one -- "Jan Miense Molanaer: Painter of the Dutch Golden Age," "Virginia Camp Smith Seventeeth Century Flemish Kunstkamer," "Dutch Seventeeth-Century Biblical Paintings," "Rembrandt's Etchings of the Bible" and a conservation exhibition Curator: Dennis P. Weller

	Edgar Degas Dancer Looking at the Sole of her Right Foot (detail) ca. 1895-1910		Edgar Degas: Figures in Motion Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester Oct. 13, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003 The two-part exhibition is comprised of 73 sculptures, one of only four complete sets of the artist's bronzes in existence, in a show organized by International Arts, Memphis, Tenn., plus paintings, pastels, prints and photographs culled from Memorial's collection Curator: Joseph S. Czestochowski, Memphis Catalogue: Reproductions of all 73 bronzes and introduction by the late J. Carter Brown, former director of the National Gallery of Art Funding: Verizon Wireless Tour: Meseo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico City, and the San Diego Museum of Art, dates tba

	Sam Durant Quaternary Field/Associative Diagram 1998		Sam Durant Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art at California Plaza Oct. 13, 2002-Jan. 19, 2003 Four installations dating back to 1994 plus the debut of a new installation -- an upside-down forest Curator: Michael Darling, MoCA Catalogue: 120 pp., available in English and German, $24.95 Also on view: "Erratum Errata by Paul D. Miller"

	De Scott Evans Homage to a Parrot ca. 1890		Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l'Oeil Painting National Gallery of Art Oct. 13, 2002-March 2, 2003 Trompe l'oeil from its origins in classical antiquity to its impact on 20th-century artists, via 115 works by Samuel van Hoogstraten, Cornelis Gijsbrechts, Charles Willson Peale, others Curator: Sybille Ebert-Schisserer Catalogue: Edited by Sybille Ebert-Schisserer, essays by Wolf Singer, Paul Staiti, Alberto Veca and Arthur Wheelock Jr Funding: Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk

	Katsukawa Shun'ei The Actor Ichikawa Danjuro V in a "Shibaraku" Role 1790		Masterful Illusions: Japanese Prints from the Anne van Biema Collection Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington, D.C. Sept. 15, 2002-Jan. 19, 2003 138 prints depicting actors, courtesans, warriors, landscapes and natural and supernatural subjects from the Edo period (1615-1868), selected from a promised gift to the Sackler Gallery Catalogue: fully illustrated, 362 pp., Sackler/U. of Washington

			Louis Comfort Tiffany Metropolitan Museum of Art Opening Oct. 15, 2002 A new permanent exhibition space for Tiffany opens In the recently named Deedee Wigmore Galleries, with a collection of 70 glass, pottery, furniture and jewelry work alongside a selection of design drawings from the collection tthat will be displayed on a rotating schedule

	Andrew Zittel Prototype for A-Z Pit Bed 1995		Touch: Relational Art from the '90s to Now San Francisco Art Institute Oct. 17-Dec. 14, 2002 Features sculptural, installation and performance-based art that encourages viewer interaction or creates a social space -- artists include Jorge Pardo, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Liam Gillick Curator: Nicolas Bourriaud Funding: French Embassy

	Large dish with Chinese poem Edo period		Kazari: Decoration and Display in Japan, 15th-19th Centuries Japan Society Oct. 17-Dec. 31, 2002 200 decorative works in all major media erranged in six chronological and thematic sections -- Chinese Taste and the Shogun's Court, Swagger of the New Military Elites, Styles of the Wealthy Merchants, Samurai Women's Kazari, The Floating World on Display and Spectacular Festivals Curators: Dr. Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere and Professor Tsuji Nobuo Catalogue: 250 pp., fully illustrated, published by Japan Society and the British Museum Press Funding: Fidelity Investments

	Rosemarie Trockel Beyond the Valley of the Dolls 2000		Rosemarie Trockel: Spleen Dia Center for the Arts Oct. 17, 2002-June 15, 2003 New suite of video projections connected by cantilevered aluminum walls in warm ambient light

			C�zanne in Focus: Watercolors from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection Princeton University Art Museum Oct. 19, 2002-Jan. 12, 2003 16 watercolors, rarely shown due to their sensitivity to light Curator: Laura M. Giles, Princeton Catalogue: Some essays provided by graduate students at Princeton University

	Roxy Paine Psilcybe Cubens in field 1997		Roxy Paine/Second Nature Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Oct. 19, 2002-Jan. 12, 2003 Large-scale art-making machines and nature installations of mushrooms and plants organized in conjunction with the Rose Art Museum, where the show had its debut Curators: Joseph D. Ketner, Rose, and Lynn M. Herbert, CAMH Also on view: "See America First: The Prints of H.C. Westermann," Oct. 4-Nov. 17, 2002

	Gillian Wearing Self-Portrait 1997		Gillian Wearing: Mass Observation Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Oct. 19, 2002-Jan. 19, 2003 First solo museum exhibition by the Turner Prize winner Also on view: "Archigram: Experimental Architecture 1961-1974," Oct. 19, 2002-Jan. 19, 2003, and "Franz Ackermann: The Waterfall," Oct. 19, 2002-Sept. 28, 2003

	Edgar Degas Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen 1878-81		Degas and the Dance Detroit Institute of the Arts Oct. 20, 2002-Jan. 12, 2003 144 paintings, works on paper and sculptures focused on the ballet Curators: Richard Kendall and Jill DeVonyar Catalogue: 304 pp., 190 colorplates and 125 black-and-white illustrations, text by Richard Kendall and Jill DeVonyar, hardcover $49.95, paperback $35 Funding: Atofina Chemicals, DaimlerChrysler, PNC Tour: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Feb. 16-May 11, 2003

	Amadeo Modigliani Servant Girl 1918		Modigliani and Montparnesse Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Oct. 22, 2002-Jan. 12, 2003 Debut of the first major Modigliani show in the U.S. in 40 years features 60 Modigliani paintings, sculptures and works on paper with 22 works by his Montparnesse contemporaries such as Matisse, Brancusi and Picasso Curator: Kenneth Wayne Catalogue: 224 pp., 200 color and black-and-white images with interview with one of Modigliani's last models, Paulette Jourdain Tour: Kimbell Art Museum, Feb. 9-May 25, 2003, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 29-Sept. 28, 2003

	Théodore Chassériau The Toilet of Esther 1841		Théodore Chassériau Metropolitan Museum of Art Oct. 22, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003 The first retrospective of the 19th-century French painter and the pupil of Ingres features 54 paintings and 82 works on paper, fresh from a European tour of Paris and Strasbourg Curator: Vincent Pomar�de, Mus�e des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Louis-Antoine Prat, Louvre, and Gary Tinterow, Met, with assistance from Kathryn Calley Galitz, Met Catalogue: Published by the Met and distributed by Yale University Press Funding: Isaacson-Draper Foundation

	Charles Sheeler Wheels 1939		Charles Sheeler Photographs Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Oct. 23, 2002-Jan. 2, 2003 120 rare vintage prints drawn from the Lane Collection Curator: Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Harvard Also on view: "Sargent's Seven Sisters," Oct. 5, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003, and "French Royal Furniture" opening Oct. 9, 2002

	Jasper Johns Savarin 1982		An American Legacy: A Gift to New York Whitney Museum of American Art Oct. 24, 2002-Jan. 26, 2003 The Whitney showcases its recent acquisition of formative works by Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Rauschenberg and other artists who achieved national acclaim during the 1950s and 1960s

	Gaetano Pesce		The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection Museum of Modern Art, Queens Oct. 24, 2002-Jan. 6, 2003 173 architectural drawings, focusing on radical projects from the 1960s and 1970s, including work by Rem Koolhaas, Aldo Rossi and Archigram Curator: Terence Riley, MoMA Catalogue: Includes entire Howard Gilman Collection with an interview with Gilman Collection curator Pierre Apraxine by Paola Antonelli Also on view: "Drawing Now: Eight Propositions," Oct. 17, 2002-Jan. 6, 2003

	Giovanni Anselmo Cato Destro 1970		Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Oct. 24, 2002-Jan. 20, 2003 140 works by 14 pivotal Italian artists of the 1960s -- Giovanni Anselmo, Giulio Paolini, Luciano Fabro, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, more -- in the final stop of the tour that debuted at the Tate Modern Curator: Curators: Frances Morris, Tate, Richard Flood, Walker Art Center Catalogue: 304 pp., with artists' writings, essays by Francesco Bonami, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, others

	Edward S. Curtis Haida of Massett 1915		The Master Prints of Edward S. Curtis: Portraits of Native America Amon Carter Museum Oct. 26, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003 65 prints of Native Americans photographed by Curtis between 1901 and 1930

	Emmet Gowin Aration Pond, Toxic Water Treatment Facility, Pine Bluff, Arkansas 1989		Emmet Gowin Corcoran Gallery of Art Oct. 26, 2002-Jan. 6, 2003 92 aerial photographs of nuclear facilities, vast irrigation systems, mines, coal pits, battlefields, missile silos and more Curator: Jock Reynolds Catalogue: Fully illustrated, with essays and an interview with the artist Tour: Utah Museum of Fine Arts, April 18-July 13, 2003, Yellowstone Art Museum, Aug. 23-Nov. 20, 2003, James A. Michener Art Museum, Jan. 10-April 4, 2004, El Paso Museum of Art, May 2-July 18, 2004, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Aug. 7-Nov. 7, 2004, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (dates tba) Also on view: "Fashioning Art: Handbags by Judith Leiber," Oct. 12-Dec. 30, 2002

	Hydria ca. 530-520 BC		Magna Graecia: Greek Art from South Italy and Sicily Cleveland Museum of Art Oct. 27, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003 81 works from ancient Greek colonies many from the 6th and 5th centuries BC Curators: Michael Bennett, CMA, and Aaron J. Paul, TMA, in collaboration with Mario Iozzo Catalogue: The first English-language sourcebook for Magna Graecia, $50 Tour: Tampa Museum of Art, Feb. 2-Apr. 20, 2003

	Margaret Courtney-Clarke Zahra Belarbi Morocco		The Art of African Women: Empowering Traditions Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Oct. 28, 2002-Mar. 30, 2003 75 photographs by photojournalist Margaret Courtney-Clarke documenting women's artistic traditions in Africa from 20 years of research are shown alongside native arts and crafts, many of which appear in the photographs.

	El Greco The Agony in the Garden 1590-95		Masterpieces of European Painting from the Toledo Museum of Art Frick Collection Oct. 29, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003 Twelve paintings, by Piero di Cosimo, Jacopo Bassano, Francesco Primaticcio, El Greco, Thomas de Keyser, Fran�ois Boucher, Thomas Gainsborough, Antoine-Jean Gros, Gustave Courbet, Camille Pissarro, James-Jacques-Joseph Tissot and Paul C�zanne Curator: Colin B. Bailey, Frick, and Lawrence W. Nichols, Toledo Catalogue: 20 pp., illustrated booklet, $10

	Love Hotels, Japan Registration desk 2001 photo Peter Marlow		New Hotels for Global Nomads Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum Oct. 29, 2002-Mar. 2, 2003 The hotel as both design laboratory and fantasy via more than 35 examples, with full hotel-room installations by artists Tom Sachs, Joel Sanders, others. The show is organized into five themes -- urban hotels, hotels as global business, hotels on the move, natural hotels and fantasy hotels Curator: Donald Albrecht, Cooper-Hewitt Catalogue: Fully illustrated, designed by Alicia Cheng, $39.95

	Carroll Dunham Demon Tower 1997		Carroll Dunham New Museum of Contemporary Art Oct. 31, 2002-Feb. 2, 2003 40 paintings and drawings spanning a 20-year period Curators: Lisa Phillips and Dan Cameron, New Museum Also on view: "Videodrome II" and "Rhizome.org 2002 Net Art Commissions," Oct. 2-Nov. 3, 2002