Bonnard Denver Art Museum
Mar. 1-May 25, 2003
110 paintings, prints, photos, books, folding screens and sculptures, in a traveling show organized by the Phillips Collection
Curator: Elizabeth Turner
Catalogue: 256 pp., Philip Wilson Pub., $45.
Scanning: The Aberrant Architectures of Diller and Scofidio
Whitney Museum of American Art
Mar. 1-June 1, 2003
Retrospective of works by the husband and wife architectural team who designed the new Boston ICA and the cloudlike Blur Building on the Swiss lake
Curators: Aaron Betsky (Netherlands Architecture Institute) and K. Michael Hays (Whitney)
Catalogue: 244 pp., includes interview with the architects by Laurie Anderson
A Passion for Paul Klee: The Djerassi Collection
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Mar. 1-June 8, 2003
145 watercolors, drawings, etchings and lithographs including 85 works given to the museum by Dr. Carl Djerassi, inventor of the birth control pill
Curator: Janet Bishop (SfMoMA)
Catalogue: 100 illustrations, $59.95
Also on view: "2002 SECA Art Award," Mar. 20-July 27, 2003, and "Earthly Bodies: Irving Penn's Nudes, 1940-50" Mar. 22-July 27, 2003
One Ground 4 Palestinian & 4 Israeli Filmmakers
UCR/California Museum of Photography
Mar. 1-June 14, 2003
Metaphors of exile, belonging and home from eight artists: Michal Rovner, B.Z. Goldberg, Ori Gersht, Mona Hatoum, Avi Mograbi, Emily Jacir, Rashid Masharawi, Elia Suleiman
The Darkening Garden
San Jose Museum of Art
Mar. 1-June 14, 2003
The first solo museum show of work by the San Francisco artist Tino Rodriguez includes 40 hyper-realistic, dreamlike paintings
Curator: Susan Landauer (SJMA)
The History of Japanese Photography
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Mar. 2-Apr. 27, 2003
The first-ever comprehensive survey of 150 years of Japanese photography features more than 200 photos, books, scrolls and albums by 110 artists
Curators: Anne Tucker (MFAH), Dana Friis-Hansen (Austin Museum), Joe Takeba (Nagoya City Art Museum) and Ryuichi Kaneko (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography)
Catalogue: 432 pp., Yale University Press, $65
Funding: Continental Airlines
Tour: Cleveland Museum of Art, May 25-July 20, 2003
Also on view: "American Modern: 1920s and 30s Design," Mar. 15-July 20, 2003, and "Strange Messenger: The Work of Patti Smith" Mar. 28-June 15, 2003
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938
National Gallery of Art
Mar. 2-June 1, 2003
The first major exhibition of Kirchner's art in 30 years features 140 paintings, sculptures and works on paper organized with the Royal Academy of Arts, London
Curator: Andrew Robison (NGA), Jill Lloyd, Magdalena Moeller (Brucke-Museum, Berlin), Norman Rosenthal (RA)
Catalogue: 254 pp., $39.95
Funding: Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation, Porsche Cars North America
Tours: Royal Academy of Arts, London, June 28-Sept. 21, 2003
Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mar. 4-June 8, 2003
Nearly 240 paintings and works on paper by El Greco, Velázquez, Ribera and other Spanish artists alongside French works by artists such as Delacroix, Courbet, Millet, Degas and Manet
Curator: Gary Tinterow (Met)
Catalogue: 600 pp., Yale University Press, hardcover, $75
Funding: Accenture
Also on view: "Great Waves: Chinese Themes in the Arts of Korea," Mar. 1-Aug. 17, 2003
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Mar. 6-Apr. 6, 2003
Over 80 works by 31 artists, including Chris Burden, R. Crumb, Donald Moffett, Richard Tuttle and Tom Otterness, chosen by academy members
Robert Whitman: Playback
Dia Center for the Arts
Mar. 6-June 15, 2003
The first retrospective for the performance artist includes sculptures, drawings, a laser installation and video screenings
Curator: Lynne Cook
Catalogue: Essays David Joselit, George Baker and Ben Portis plus a DVD produced by Artpix, hardcover $45
Tour: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, fall 2004, and Museum of Contemporary Art at the Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal, summer 2004
The Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Mar. 7-June 15, 2003
More than 200 works made by prisoners in the concentration camp, in an exhibition that was organized by the Mary and Leigh Block Gallery at Northwestern University
Curators: David Mickenberg and Corinne Granof (Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art)
Catalogue: 300 pp., Northwestern U. Press, $55
Fantastic
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Mar. 8, 2003-Spring 2004
Works by Miguel Calderón, Gregory Crewdson, Alicia Framis, Nils Norman and artist collective Temporary Services explore utopia and the paranormal
Curator: Nato Thompson (MASSMoCA)
Catalogue: Tabloid-style with essay by philosopher Peter Lamborn Wilson
Exit Biennial: The Reconstruction
Exit Art
Mar. 8-May 4, 2003
The non-profit inaugurates its new space with 34 site-specific installations by 45 emerging artists including Robert Chambers, Orly Genger, Christoph Draeger and Jenny Polak
Curators: Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman
The Art of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy Princeton University Art Museum
Mar. 8-June 15, 2003
Drawings, photographs, paintings, models and design objects by Robert Maillart, Othmar Ammann, Heinz Isler and others
Curators: David P. Billington (Princeton) and Susan Taylor
Catalogue: 200 illustrations, hardcover $55, softcover $35
The Drama of Pictures: Aaron Siskind's Photography
Center For Creative Photography, Tucson
Mar. 8-July 6, 2003
From early modern landscape details from the 1930s to minimalist lava and tar photographs from the 1980s, culled from the CCP Siskind archive of over 900 prints
Curator: Sheryl Conkelton
The World of Buddhism Asia Society
Mar. 11-Oct. 19, 2003
Works from the permanent collection covering many schools of thought and a meditation room hung with Buddhist paintings
Curators: Colin Mackenzie (Asia Society) and Kathryn Selig Brown
Christian Schad and the Neue Sachlichkeit Neue Galerie
Mar. 14-June 9, 2003
More than 100 paintings, drawings and photo-based works by the German-born artist who was part of the 1920s New Objectivity movement
Curators: Jill Lloyd and Michael Peppiatt
Light Screens: The Leaded Glass of Frank Lloyd Wright Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Mar. 14-July 20, 2003
Almost 50 windows and 30 drawings, both original plans and back-lit transparencies, plus 30 original plates from the Wasmuth portfolio and 60 photographs will be on view
Curator: Julie L. Sloan
Funding: Steelcase
The People Work: American Perspectives 1840-1940 Terra Museum of American Art
Mar. 15-May 25, 2003
70 selected works from the 1840s through the 1940s demonstrating the industrialization of America
Curator: Elizabeth Kennedy (Terra)
Tour: Musée d'Art Américain, Giverny, France, June 8-Aug. 17, 2003
Also on view: "Sargent to Motherwell: Masterworks from the New Britain Museum of American Art," Mar. 1-May 4, 2003
Secret Games: Wendy Ewald Collaborative Works with Children Queens Museum of Art
Mar. 16-May, 2003
13 bodies of Multicultural Photographic work, organized in conjunction with the Addison Gallery, Andover, Mass.
Catalogue: 350 pp., Scalo Books, $49.95
The Medici, Michelangelo and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence Detroit Institute of the Arts
Mar. 16-June 8, 2003
180 works including sculptures and drawings by Michelangelo and paintings by Bronzino, Pontormo and others
Curators: Alan P. Darr (DIA), Marco Chiarini (Art Institute of Chicago)
Catalogue: 381 pp., Yale University Press, hardcover $60, soft cover $39.95
Laura Owens Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Mar. 16-June 22, 2003
New large-scale paintings
Curator: Paul Schimmel (MOCA)
Also on view: "Roy McMakin: A Door Meant as Adornment," Mar. 23-June 29, 2003
Shirin Neshat Miami Art Museum
Mar. 20-June 1, 2003
Six video and sound installations and 12 large-scale photographs by the Iranian-born artist
Curator: Lorie Mertes
Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Mar. 22-July 6, 2003
More than 100 drawings from the 17th century, including Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jacob van Ruisdael and Jacques de Gheyn II
Curator: William W. Robinson
Catalogue: 300 pp., with an essay by George Abrams, Yale University Press, softcover $40, hardcover $55
Also on view: "George Bellows and the Tragedies of War," Mar. 1-May 11, 2003
Quiet Beauty: Fifty Centuries of Japanese Folk Ceramics form the Montgomery Collection Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts
Mar. 27-June 15, 2003
Over 100 ceramics dating from 3000 BC to 1985 drawn from the Montgomery Collection in Switzerland
Curator: Robert Moes
Catalogue: 244 pp., includes an essay by Rupert Faulkner, published by Art Services International
