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 Umar slings a stone at the giant ca. 1570 |
The Adventures of Hamza Brooklyn Museum of Art Nov. 1, 2002-Jan. 26, 2003 58 of the remaining 200 surviving Hamzanama paintings, an epic love story commissioned by Mughal emperor Akbar and painted between 1557 and 1572 Curators: Dr.John Seyller, Aimée Froom, and Amy Poster (BMA) Catalogue: Fully illustrated with essays by Dr. Seyller, Dr. Wheeler Thackson and Dr. Ebba Koch Tour: Royal Academy of Art, London, March 15-June 18, 2003 |
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 Rosemary Laing Flight Research #5 1999 |
Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight North Carolina Museum of Art Nov. 2, 2002-Feb. 22, 2003 Approximately 70 works created in the last 25 years, including "sonic architecture" by Bill and Mary Buchen, a camera obscura of the sky by Chris Drury and a full-size plane formed by thousands of fluttering butterflies by Ralph Helmick and Stuart Schechter Curator: Linda Johnson Dougherty |
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 Giorgio de Chirico The Soothsayer's Recompense 1913 |
Giorgio de Chirico and the Myth of the Ariadne Philadelphia Museum of Art Nov. 3, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003 50 paintings, including the artist's "Ariadne Series" (which symbolized for de Chirico intense loneliness and alienation), on view with related drawings and sculptures Curator: Michael Taylor (PMA) Catalogue: Essays by Michael Taylor and Matthew Gale, text by Max Ernst, interview with Gerard Tempest |
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 Shah Zav Enthroned Page from Shahnama Iran ca. 1330 |
The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Arts and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353 Metropolitan Museum of Art Nov. 5, 2002-Feb. 16, 2003 200 works of rare textiles, ceramics, jewelry, metalwork, stone and woodwork and books, including 30 pages from the Great Mongol Shahnama (Book of Kings), the luxuriously illustrated epic Curator: Stefano Carboni (Met), and Linda Komaroff (LACMA) Catalogue: Yale, 424 pp., 200 color plates, cloth $60 Tour: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Apr. 13-July 27, 2003 Also on view: "French Nineteenth-Century Drawings in the Robert Lehman Collection, " Nov. 13, 2002-Feb. 9, 2003; "A Very Private Collection: Janice H. Levin's Impressionist Pictures," Nov. 19, 2002-Feb. 9, 2003; and "Genesis: Ideas of Origin in African Sculpture," Nov. 19, 2002-April 13, 2003 |
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 Vincent van Gogh Portrait of Alexander Reid 1887 |
Millet to Matisse: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Painting from Kelingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky Nov. 6, 2002-Feb. 2, 2003 A thematic overview, with 64 paintings by Jules Breton, Gustave Courbet, Camille Pissarro, others, organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Glasgow Museums Curator: Vivien Hamilton (Glasgow) Funding: Humana Foundation Tour: Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pa., Feb. 26-May 25, 2003, and Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Ne., June 18-Sept. 14, 2003, additional venues to be announced |
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 Robert Venturi Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery, London 1985-91 |
Out of the Ordinary: The Architecture and Design of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates Carnegie Museum of Art Nov. 8, 2002-Feb. 2, 2003 Drawings, models, photographs, furniture, textiles and decorative arts showcasing Postmodern architecture and design by the eclectic firm Curators: Kathryn B. Hiesinger with Professors David B. Brownlee and David G. DeLong (Philadelphia Museum) Catalogue: 288 pp., 375 illustrations, paper $36, cloth $60 Funding: Sue K. and Dr. Charles C. Edwards |
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 Cristofano Allori Judith with the Head of Holofornes 1613 |
The Medici and the Art of Florence Art Institute of Chicago Nov. 9, 2002-Feb. 2, 2003 180 paintings, sculptures, graphics, porcelain, tapestries, costumes from 1537-1631 Florence, including works by Michelangelo, Bronzino, Pontormo and Salviati, in a show that bowed in Florence under the title "Magnificenza!" Curators: Larry Feinberg (AIC), Alan P. Darr, Walter B. Ford II (Detroit Institute) and Marco Chiarini (Palazzo Pitti, Florence) Catalogue: Yale, 416 pp., cloth $60 Tour: Detroit Institute of Arts, March 16-June 8, 2003 |
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 Deborah Oropallo Oversize 2001 |
Deborah Oropallo Museum of Glass, Tacoma, Wash. Nov. 10, 2002-Feb. 2, 2003 A mid-career survey of 23 paintings and three sculptures that highlight the work of the Bay Area artist, organized by the San Jose Museum of Art |
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 Karaori with snow-laden Camellias and Genji Clouds Edo period 18th century |
Miracles and Mischief: Noh and Kyogen Theater in Japan Los Angeles County Museum of Art Nov. 10, 2002-Feb. 2, 2003 More than 100 Noh objects dating back to the 14th century, including carved wooden masks, woven and embellished costumes, lacquered musical instruments and painted screens and hand scrolls Curator: Sharon Sadako Takeda (LACMA) with Monica Bethe (Otani University, Kyoto) Also on view: "George Washington: A National Treasure," Nov. 8-March 9, 2003, and "Contemporary Projects 7: Keith Edmier and Farrah Fawcett 2000," Nov. 21, 2002-Feb. 17, 2003 |
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 Shiva as Nataraja, Lord of the Dance |
The Sensuous and the Sacred: Chola Bronzes from South India Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Nov. 10, 2002-Mar. 9, 2003 59 sculptures of Hindu deities that were once worshipped as living divinities during the Chola period (9th to 13th centuries) Curator: Vidya Dehejia (Columbia University) Catalogue: 256 pp., 152 color plates, 25 black-and-white illustrations, published by the American Foundation of Arts with University of Washington Press, soft cover $35, clothbound $49.95 Tour: Dallas Museum of Art, Apr. 4-June 15, 2003, and Cleveland Museum of Art, July 6, Sept. 14, 2003 |
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 Cecily Brown Hoodlum 2000-01 |
Directions: Cecily Brown Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Nov. 14, 2002-Mar. 1, 2003 The first museum solo show for the painter features seven paintings Curator: Judith Zilczer |
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 Sigmar Polke Untitled 2002 |
Sigmar Polke: New Work Dallas Museum of Art Nov. 16, 2002-Mar. 1, 2003 50 works from the past four years, including a dozen monumental paintings Curator: Charles Wylie Catalogue: Fully-illustrated catalogue plus a second publication designed by Polke and featuring illustrations of his source imagery Also on view: "The Gilded Age: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," Nov. 3, 2002-Jan. 12, 2003 |
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 Jürgen Mayer H HeatSeat 2001-02 |
Body Design San Francisco Museum of Art Nov. 16, 2002-Mar. 23, 2003 More than a dozen prototypes and commercially available works from the fields of fashion, furniture, industrial design and architecture Curators: Joseph Rosa and Ruth Keffer (SFMoMA) Also on view: "Architecture + Water," Nov. 16, 2002-March 23, 2003; "August Sander," Nov. 29, 2002-Feb. 23, 2003 |
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| Mark Tobey and Friends Seattle Art Museum Nov. 16, 2002-Apr. 6, 2003 Paintings by the artist drawn from the museum's permanent collection shown alongside works by his contemporaries such as Lyonel Feininger, Morris Graves, Paul Horiuchi, Paul Klee, Jackson Pollock and George Tsutukawa Also on view: "Anthony Hernandez," Nov. 16, 2002-April 6, 2003 |
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 Larry Fink Cleveland School of the Arts 1998 |
A City Seen: Photographs from the George Gund Foundation Collection Cleveland Museum of Art Nov. 17, 2002-Jan. 26, 2003 148 black-and-white photographs of Cleveland by 12 artists, including Dawoud Bey, Larry Fink, Lee Friedlander and Linda Butler, slated to be given to the museum on occasion of the foundation's 50th anniversary Curator: Tom E. Hinson (CAM) and Mark Schwartz Catalogue: 188 pp., 146 reproductions, $40 Funding: George Gund Foundation |
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 Buddha Seated Afghanistan, Hadda 3rd-4th century |
Afghanistan: A Timeless History Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Nov. 17, 2002-Feb. 9, 2003 110 works of ancient Afghanistan art from the Musée des Arts Asiatiques (Guimet) collection |
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 J Mays Ford GT40 concept (side air intake detail) 2002 |
Retrofuturism: The Car Design of J Mays Museum of Contemporary Art at the Geffen Contemporary Nov. 17, 2002-Mar. 9, 2003 An overview of the automobile designer and current vice-president of the Ford Motor Company will debut a new concept vehicle for Ford called "Ma" Curator: Brooke Hodge (MoCA) |
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 Johnnie Lee Gray Matinee at the Ritz 1992 |
Rising Above Jim Crow: The Paintings of Johnnie Lee Gray The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library Nov. 20, 2002-Jan. 3, 2003 35 paintings about life during segregation and after in the artist's hometown of Spartanburg, S.C. Curator: Gwendolyn H. Everett |
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 Lucy T. Pettway "Drunkard Path" Variation (Snowball) ca. 1950 |
The Quilts of Gee's Band Whitney Museum of American Art Nov. 21, 2002-Mar. 2, 2003 Some 70 quilts made by four generations of artists in the isolated community of Gee's Bend in Southwest Alabama, drawn from the collection of Tinwood Alliance, a nonprofit foundation that supports African-American vernacular art Curators: Alvia Wardlaw (Houston MFA), John Beardsley (Harvard), Jane Livingston and William Arnett |
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| Sanford Biggers: Afrotemple Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston Nov. 22, 2002-Feb. 2, 2003 Site-specific installations made from everyday materials by the New York-based artist Curator: Valerie Cassel (CAMH) Catalogue: Essay by Cassel, reproductions of works on view and career survey |
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 Le Corbusier Matroil color samples for Marcel Levaillant's Geneva apartment 1956 |
Le Corbusier Before Le Corbusier: Applied Arts, Architecture, Painting and Photography The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture Nov. 22, 2002-Feb. 23, 2003 The first major exhibition to examine the formative years of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, as Le Corbu was called before he took on his pseudonym in 1920, consists of approximately 250 works on paper, architectural studies, photographs and models Curators: Stanislaus von Moos (University of Zurich) and Arthur Rüegg (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) Catalogue: Essays by Antonio Brucculeri, Françoise Ducros, Stanislaus von Moos, Francesco Passanti, Arthur Rüegg, Leo Schubert, and Pierre Vaisse with detailed writing on Corbusier's major works |
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 Victor Karl Hammer Mrs. Schermerhorn 1942 |
From Emperors to Hoi Polloi: Portraits of an Era, 1851-1945 Wolfsonian-Florida International University Nov. 22, 2002-May 11, 2003 Portrait exhibition of important figures such as J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, Josephine Baker and others culled from the Wolfsonian's collection |
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 Edgar Degas L'Absinthe 1876 |
Paris in the Age of Impressionism: Masterworks from the Musée d'Orsay High Museum Nov. 23, 2002-Mar. 16, 2003 Over 100 works arranged thematically into seven categories: Art Nouveau, the Dark Side, the Eiffel Tower, Grand Theatres, High Society, New Directions and Views of the City Curator: David Brenneman (High) Catalogue: 172 pp., 98 color plates, introduction by Mary G. Morton, cloth $35 Tour: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Apr. 6-June 29, 2002 Funding: GE Power Systems |
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 Karen Carson LA Post-Cool 2002 |
L.A. Post-Cool San Jose Museum of Art Nov. 23, 2002-Mar. 23, 2003 Approximately 70 works by 43 artists including Karen Carson, Nancy Jackson, Patty Wickman and Russell Crotty Curator: Michael Duncan |
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 Lucille Chabot Gabriel Weather Vane ca. 1939 |
Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism and the Index of American Design National Gallery of Art Nov. 27, 2002-Mar. 2, 2003 80 watercolor renderings of folk and decorative art along with 40 original objects they represent, on view for the 60th anniversary of the acquisition of the Index of American design, a "New Deal" program which offered employment to artists and documented America's cultural landscape during the Great Depression Curator: Virginia Tuttle Clayton (NGA) Catalogue: Fully illustrated, soft cover $25, hardcover $45 Funding: Henry Luce Foundation |
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