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	Andy Warhol's bedroom photo: Ken Hayman courtesy of Sotheby's		Possession Obsession: Objects from Andy Warhol's Personal Collection Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh Mar. 2-May. 19, 2002 300 objects from Warhol's personal collection of furniture, sculpture, jewelry and folk art, selected to provide insight to the famed Pop artist's "ideas about history, nostalgia, popular culture and consumerism." Curator: John W. Smith (Warhol). Catalogue: Possession Obsession: Andy Warhol and Collecting, 152 pp., $39.95 (pub date July 15, 2002), with essays by Kenneth Ames, Frederick Brandt, Ted Coe. Also on view: "Silent Spring: Warhol's Endangered Species and Vanishing Animals," Mar. 24-June 23, 2002. Search Artnet galleries: Andy Warhol

	Rembrandt Portrait of Man in Red Doublet 1633		Art and Home: Dutch Interiors In the Age of Rembrandt Denver Art Museum Mar. 2-May. 19, 2002 The Dutch invent the domestic sphere as a site of virtue and family life, via 50 paintings by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Steen, Terborch, others, plus 70 decorative objects, in a show organized jointly with the Newark Museum of Art. Curator: Mariët Westermann (Newark), Timothy J. Standring (Denver). Catalogue: 256 pp., 100 color and 180 black and white photographs. Search Artnet galleries: Rembrandt

	Peter Eisenman House VI ca. 1976		Perfect Acts of Architecture Mar. 2-Jun. 30, 2002 130 two-dimensional works from 1977-87 by architects Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman, Daniel Libeskind, Thom Mayne and Bernard Tschumi, in a show organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts. Curator: Jeffrey Kipnis. Catalogue: 180 pp., $45. Also on view: "Edward Weston," Mar. 2-Jul. 9, 2002.

	William Kentridge still from the film Shadow Procession 1999		William Kentridge Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Mar. 2-Jun. 2, 2002 The New Museum traveling show features 11 animated films, over 60 drawings, two sculptural installations and video documentation of theater and opera productions designed by the artist. Funding: Philip Morris. Search Artnet galleries: William Kentridge

	Daniel Froeschl Sunflower Seen from the Back from Codice Casabona illuminated manuscript date unknown		The Flowering of Florence: Botanical Art for the Medici National Gallery of Art Mar. 3-May 27, 2002 68 examples of botanical art in a show focusing on work by the Florentine artists Jocopo Ligozzi (1547-1626), Giovanna Garzoni (1600-1670) and Bartolomeo Bimbi (1648-1729). Curators: Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi (University of Pisa, Italy), Gretchen A. Hirschhauer (NGA). Catalogue: 144 pp., $65.

	Alfred Stieglitz The Hand of Man 1902		Railroad Vision J. Paul Getty Museum Mar. 5-Jun. 23, 2002 Two parallel inventions of the 1830s, photography and the railroad, are examined via 80 photographs, ranging from Edouard Baldus images of French railroads in 1860 to Winston O. Link's photos of steam-powered trains in the 1950s. Curator: Anne Lyndon (Getty). Search Artnet galleries: Alfred Stieglitz

	Hiroshi Senju forest 2001		The New Way of Tea Japan Society, Asia Society Mar. 6-May 19, 2002 Contemporary practice of the highly esthetized traditional Japanese tea ceremony, which can encompass garden design and ritual performance as well as notions of art and connoisseurship, via a joint, two-part exhibition at the two museums, featuring seven teahouses by traditional and contemporary designers from Japan, China and Korea and over 100 utensils. Curator: Masakazu Izumi, second son of Soshitsu Sen, the 15th grand master of the Urasenke School of Tea and director of International Chado Culture Foundation, with utensils selected by art-of-tea scholar Seizo Hayashiya. Funding: Ito En.

	Figure on Pedestal Late Shang period ca. 1200 B.C.		Treasures from a Lost Civilization: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan Metropolitan Museum of Art Mar. 6-Jun. 16, 2002 A selection of 128 bronze deities, figurines, vessels, ceramics and jades uncovered in the last 15 years, many seen in the U.S. for the first time, in a show organized by the Seattle Art Museum in cooperation with the Bureau of Cultural Relics, Sichuan Province of the People's Republic of China. Curator: Jason Sun, Met. Catalogue: 360 pp., Princeton University Press, $60 ($42 on Amazon). Funding: Boeing.

	Ken Feingold If/Then 2001		Whitney Biennial Whitney Museum of American Art Mar. 7-May 26, 2002 The most diverse biennial yet features works by 113 artists from 20 states and Puerto Rico, ranging in age from 24 to 71. Curators: Lawrence Rinder, Chrissie Iles, Christiane Paul, Debra Singer. Catalogue: Abrams, $39.95. Includes CD inset on the cover, which reproduces a score by Meredith Monk. Funding: Phillip Morris.

	Rachel Whiteread Untitled (Basement) 2001		Rachel Whiteread: Transient Spaces Guggenheim Museum Mar. 7-Jun. 5, 2002 Two new sculptures, Untitled (Basement) and Untitled (Apartment), cast from the artist's new home and studio, originally commissioned by and exhibited at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin . Curator: Lisa Dennison (Guggenheim). Catalogue: 170 pp., Abrams, $60 ($42 on Amazon), with essays by Lisa Dennison, Vassar art historian Molly Nesbit and Princeton prof Beatriz Colomina, with fictional text by A.M. Holmes and an interview with the artist by Craig Houser. Funding: Deutsche Bank. Search Artnet galleries: Rachel Whiteread

	José Clemente Orozco Queensboro Bridge 1928		José Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934 San Diego Museum of Art Mar. 9-May 19, 2002 Mexico's radical meets U.S. modernism, in the first-ever show devoted to Orozco's work from this period, via 120 paintings, prints and drawings. Curators: Renato González Mello (National Autonomous University of Mexico), Diane Miliotes (Hood). Catalogue: 384 pp., W.W. Norton, $50 ($35 on Amazon; pub. date Apr. 2002), with essays by Dawn Ades, Alicia Azuela, Rita Ede, others. Tour: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Jun. 8-Dec. 15, 2002.; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Jan. 25-Apr. 13, 2003. Search Artnet galleries: José Clemente Orozco

	Ansel Adams Evening Clouds and Pool, East Side of the Sierra Nevada, from the Owens Valley, California 1962		The Ansel Adams Centennial: Classic Images and A Portrait of Ansel Adams Center for Creative Photography, Tucson Mar. 9-Jul. 7, 2002 A pair of exhibitions drawn from the Adams archive at CCP, featuring the photographer's own favorite pictures and a selection of unique objects from the archive, including cameras, letters and photographs of Ansel by his contemporaries. Curator: Leslie Calmes (CCP). Catalogue: Ansel Adams: Classic Images, 111 pp., New York Graphic Society, 1986, $40 ($28 on Amazon). Search Artnet galleries: Ansel Adams

			Michel Auder: A Retrospective Renaissance Society, Chicago Mar. 10-Apr. 21, 2002 Continuous screenings of over 18 works in the first U.S. retrospective devoted to the work of the single-channel video pioneer who married Viva Superstar.

	Josef Sima Hot Air Balloon 1926		Central European Avant Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930 Los Angeles County Museum of Art Mar. 10-Jun. 2, 2002 Over 300 examples of painting, sculpture, works on paper, photographs and applied art objects by art movements that include Czech Cubism, International Constructivism, Kineticism, Artificialism and Poetism. Curator: Timothy O. Benson (LACMA) with Monika Król. Catalogue: 464 pp., MIT press, $59.95 ($41.96 on Amazon; pub. date May 1, 2002). Plus, Between Worlds: A Sourcebook on the Central European Avant-Gardes, 1920-1930, forthcoming. Tour: Haus der Kunst, Munich; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin.

	Francisco Goya y Lucientes Naked Maja (Maja Desnuda) ca. 1797-1800		Goya: Images of Women National Gallery of Art Mar. 10-Jun. 2, 2002 Maya naked and clothed, plus other representations of women, via 115 paintings, drawings, prints, tapestry cartoons and tapestries in seven thematic categories, drawn from the collections of the Prado, where the show first appeared. Curator: Janis A. Tomlinson, freelance Goya scholar. Catalogue: 368 pp., Yale, $65 ($45,50 on Amazon, pub. date Mar. 1, 2002). Funding: Catherine B. Reynolds Foundation; General Dynamics. Search Artnet galleries: Francisco Goya

	Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Saint Susta ca. 1665		Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682): Paintings from American Collections Kimbell Art Museum Mar. 10-Jun. 16, 2002 34 paintings of everyday life and portraits by the 17th-century Spanish master, organized by the Kimbell and the Los Angeles County Museum. Curator: Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt. Catalogue: Abrams, $60 ($42 on Amazon), with essays on Murillo's life and works by Claire Barry, Jonathan Brown, Peter Cherry, William B. Jordan, Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt. Tour: LACMA, July 14-Oct. 6, 2002.

	Issa Ibrahim Superman on the Rocks		Slowdive: Sculpture and Performance in Real Time Queens Museum of Art Mar. 10-Jul. 7, 2002 Works by residents of the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens Village Living Museum. Curator: Valerie Smith (QMA).

	Photo by Martha Cooper		Missing: Streetscape of a City in Mourning New-York Historical Society Mar. 12-Jun. 9, 2002 Documentation of the City after the World Trade Center presented in collaboration with City Lore: The New York Center for Urban Folk Culture.

	The Miraculous Draft of the Fishes from a nine-piece set of the Acts of the Apostles designed by Raphael 1516 woven ca. 1545-57		Tapestry in the Renaissance: Art and Magnificence Metropolitan Museum of Art Mar. 12-Jun. 19, 2002 The first major survey of tapestry production between 1460 and 1560, the exhibition features 45 tapestries as well as 20 preparatory drawings and cartoon fragments drawn from 30 collections in 13 countries. Curator: Thomas P. Campbell (Met). Catalogue: 600 pp., Yale, $75 ($52.50 on Amazon, pub. date Apr. 11, 2002).

	Francis Hoffman Union Planters Bank, Miami 1958 Photo Robin Hill		Beyond the Box: Mid-Century Modern Architecture in Miami and New York Municipal Art Society, New York Mar. 13-May 10, 2002 Cast concrete boomerangs, accordion fin walls and cheese-hole masonry, from the Fontainebleau Hilton in Miami Beach to Lincoln Center in New York, in an exhibition designed to spur preservation of the form. Sponsors: Urban Arts Committee of Miami Beach.

	Sven Wingquist Skf ball bearing 1907 photo Moderna Museet		Utopia and Reality: Modernity in Sweden , 1900-1960 Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York City Mar. 14-Jun. 16, 2002 200 works, including fine art, furniture, film, glass, industrial designs, textiles and architectural studies, by Bruno Mathsson, Josef Frank, others. Curator: Cecilia Widenheim (Moderna Museet, Stockholm).

	Jack Pierson The Call Back 1990		Jack Pierson, Regrets Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami Mar. 15-June 30, 2002 First major U.S. mid-career survey of artist known for lush, sexually charged color photographs as well as furniture tableaux and sculptures made from sign fragments. Curator: Bonnie Clearwater. Funding: Dr. Jules Oaklander. Also on view: "Salvador Dali: Dream of Venus" and "Hernan Bas: It's Super Natural." Search Artnet galleries: Jack Pierson

	Giles Gilson Sunset 1989		Wood Turning since 1930 Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery Mar. 15-Jul. 14, 2002 130 examples, ranging from hobby production and studio rosewood bowls in the '30s to contemporary art by Michael Hosaluk and Craig Nutt, in a show organized by the Wood Turning Center, Philadelphia, and Yale University Art Gallery. Funding: Barra Foundation; others.

	Head of King Menkaure (Mycerinus) Alabaster Egypt, Giza Dynasty 4 ca. 2532-2510 B.C.		Egypt in the Age of the Pyramids Cincinnati Art Museum Mar. 17-Jun. 2, 2002 Subtitled "Highlights from the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Expedition," this show features over 125 objects from excavations conducted at Giza from 1905 through the 1930s under the leadership of pioneering archeologist George Reisner (1867-1942). Curator: Rita Freed, Yvonne Markowitz and Joyce Haynes (MFA Boston). Catalogue: 144 pp., paper, $29.95 ($20.96 on Amazon, pub. date Mar. 15, 2002). Funding: Cinergy.

	Zbigniew Libera Lego Concentration Camp		Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art Jewish Museum, New York Mar. 17-June 30, 2002 Works by 13 artists in a show that has already provoked more than its share of right-wing tabloid controversy, notably for parody gas canisters by Tom Sachs and an ersatz Lego concentration camp by Zbigniew Libera. Other artists in the show include Boaz Arad, Christine Borland, Mat Collishaw, Rudolf Herz, Elke Krystufek, Mischa Kuball, Roee Rosen, Alan Schechner, Alain Séchas, Maciej Toporowicz and Piotr Uklanski. Curator: Norman L. Kleeblatt (Jewish Museum). Catalogue: 164 pp., Rutgers University Press, $30. Funding: Animating Democracy Initiative, a program of Americans for the Arts. Also on view: "An Artist’s Response to Evil: 'We Are Not the Last' by Zoran Music," paintings and watercolors by the European painter based on memories of his two-year internment at Dachau, Mar. 17-June 30, 2002.

			Matta in America: Paintings and Drawings of the 1940s Miami Art Museum Mar. 20-Jun. 2, 2002 The Chilean-born Surrealist's New York decade of exile (from World War II), via 40 paintings and drawings in a show co-organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Curator: Lorie Mertes (MAM). Catalogue: 88 pp., CAM Chicago, $25 ($17.50 on Amazon), with texts by co-curators Elizabeth A.T. Smith, James W. Alsdorf and Colette Cartnall, with additional text by MoMA curator emeritus William Rubin. Tour: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, July 13-Oct. 20, 2002. Search Artnet galleries: Matta

	Ernesto Neto Walking in Venus Blue Cave 2001		Directions -- Ernesto Neto Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Mar. 21-Jun. 23, 2002 A new site-specific installation by the Brazilian artist. Curator: Olga Viso (Hirshhorn). Search Artnet galleries: Ernesto Neto

	Igor Terentev Zdanevich Fakt (fact) 1919		The Russian Avant-Garde Book, 1910-1934 Museum of Modern Art Mar. 21-May. 21, 2002 300 books organized around three major themes: "A Slap in the Face of Public Taste," "Transform the World," and "Building Socialism: Agitation Art." Curators: Deborah Wye (MoMA), Margit Rowell. Catalogue: 600 illustrations and essays by show curators as well as Jared Ash, Nina Gurianova and Gerald Janecek.

	Vito Acconci Convertible Clam Shelter 1990		Vito Acconci: Acts of Architecture Milwaukee Art Museum Mar. 22-Jun. 16, 2002 Traveling survey of the artist's work since 1980 through 20 works emphasizing audience interaction. Curator: Dean Sobel, Aspen Art Museum. Search Artnet galleries: Vito Acconci

	Barnett Newman Ulysses 1952 (detail)		Barnett Newman Philadelphia Museum of Art Mar. 24-Jun. 23, 2002 The first comprehensive retrospective in 30 years includes 65 paintings, six sculptures and 65 works on paper. Curator: Ann Temkin (Philadelphia). Catalogue: 354 pp., Yale, $65 ($45 on Amazon). Tour: Tate Modern, Sept. 19, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003. Funding: Ace INA. Also on view: "Out of the Box: 20th-century Print Portfolios," Mar. 30-June 23, 2002. Search Artnet galleries: Barnett Newman

	Hanging (detail) linen with silk Chechaoven ca. mid-1800s		The Fabric of Moroccan Life Indianapolis Museum of Art Mar. 24-Jun. 23, 2002 150 rare embroideries, hangings and rugs from the 18th-20th centuries, drawn from the museum collection and under the High Patronage of His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco. Curator: Niloo Imami-Paydar (IMA). Catalogue: 300 pp. Tour: Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art. Jun. 15-Aug. 30, 2003.

	Miguel de Herrera Portrait of a Lady 1782		The Grandeur of Viceregal Mexico: Treasures from the Museo Franz Meyer Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Mar. 24-June 23, 2002 Mexican art from 1521-1821, including paintings, sculpture, furniture, metalwork, porcelain and earthenware from the collection of Franz Mayer. Curator: David Warren (MFAH). Catalogue: 384 pp., U. of Texas Press. Also on view: "Questioning the Line: Gego, A Selection, 1955-1990," Mar. 17-May, 2002; "Dancer: 1999 Nudes by Irving Penn," Mar. 17-June 16, 2002; "2002 Core Artists in Residence Exhibition," Mar. 22-Apr. 21, 2002; and "Cultural Exchange: The Linking of Houston and Mexico City," Mar. 24-Aug. 4, 2002.