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	Rudolf Stingel Untitled 1994		Commodification of Buddhism Bronx Museum of the Arts Apr. 3-June 15, 2003 Works by Sanford Biggers, Nam June Paik, Ruben Ortiz-Torres and nine other artists exploring the commercial uses of Buddhism in Western pop culture Also on view: "Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982)," Apr. 3-June 15, 2003

	Elie Nadelman Dancer ca. 1918-19		Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life Whitney Museum of American Art Apr. 3-July 20, 2003 200 sculptures in bronze, marble, ceramic, wood and plaster, as well as works on paper and photographs Curator: Barbara Haskell (Whitney) Catalogue: 240 pp., $60 hardcover Also on view: "Dario Robleto: Say Goodbye to Substance," Apr. 17-July 3, 2003

			Hooking: Folk Art to Fiber Art Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Apr. 4-Oct. 5, 2003 21 rugs, including works from the Wallace Nutting collection, small mats produced by Grenfell Labrador Industries and works by nine contemporary artisans Curator: Carol Dean Krute

	Henri Matisse Goldfish 1912		Old Masters, Impressionists and Moderns: French Masterworks from the State Pushkin Museum, Moscow High Museum of Art Apr. 5-June 29, 2003 76 paintings, 52 in the United States for the first time, in a show that premiered at the Houston MFA Curator: David Brenneman (High) Catalogue: 272 pp., softcover $40, hardcover $60 Funding: Altria Tour: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, July 27-Oct. 13, 2003

	Atom Egoyan and Juliao Sarmento Close (detail) 2000-01		Reel Sculpture: Film Into Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Apr. 5-Aug. 3, 2003 Film installations by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Atom Eyogan and Abbas Kiarostami Curator: Benjamin Weil Funding: James Family Foundation

			The Stage of Drawing: Gesture and Act Selected from the Tate Collection The Drawing Center, New York Apr. 5-May 31, 2003 145 works on paper spanning three centuries Curators: Artist Avis Newman in collaboration with Drawing Center director Catherine de Zegher Also on view: "Street Selections," Apr. 12-May 31, 2003, public art projects by young artists installed on the street outside the gallery; and a solo show by Rza El-Hassan, June 14-July 26, 2003

	Edgar Degas L'Absinthe 1876		Paris in the Age of Impressionism: Masterworks from the Musée d'Orsay Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Apr. 6-June 29, 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), in a show organized by the High Museum of Art Curator: David Brenneman (High) Catalogue: 172 pp., 98 color plates, introduction by Mary G. Morton, cloth $35 Funding: GE Power Systems Also on view: "Ellsworth Kelly: Red Green Blue," Apr. 27-July 27, 2003

	Buddha Tria plaque from Anapchi, Kyongju, Korea Late 7th century		Transmitting the Forms of Divinity: Early Buddhist Art from Korea and Japan Japan Society Apr. 9-June 22, 2003 The path of Buddhism from Korea to Japan, via 92 works in an unusual artistic collaboration between two neighboring countries that have been long estranged Curators: Washizuka Hiromitsu (Nara National Museum), Park Youngbok (Gyeongju National Museum), Kang Woo-bang (Ewha Woman's University, Seoul) Catalogue: 384 pp., with essays by curators and 11 additional scholars from Korea, Japan and the United States

	Noguchi working on the bust of Mary Poore 1932		Noguchi: Contours UBS Paine Webber Art Gallery Apr. 9-June 22, 2003 27 Scroll drawings, portrait heads and abstract stone sculptures by Isamu Noguchi

	Micah Lexier Touch to Change (Micah from Baba Sarah) 1988		Contemporary Art/Recent Acquisitions Jewish Museum Apr. 11-July 27, 2003 Video, installation art and photography by artists such as Nan Goldin, William Kentridge, Nancy Spero, Omer Fast, AA Bronson and Fred Wilson, acquired by the museum in the past two years Curator: Karen Levitov

	Katarzyna Józefowicz Habitat 1999		Architectures of Gender: Contemporary Women's Art in Poland SculptureCenter, Long Island City, N.Y. Apr. 11-June 8, 2003 Installations by 16 artists, in a show co-presented with the Polish Cultural Institute of New York in association with Poland's National Museum in Warsaw Curator: Aneta Szylak

	Head of Queen Mid-Dynasty XII ca. 1876-1842 BC		Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity Brooklyn Museum of Art Apr. 12, 2003 More than 600 objects from the celebrated BMA collection in a new installation Curator: James F. Romano

	Aaron Draper Shattuck Crimson Vines Running Over a Gray Rock, Lake George 1858		Hudson River School Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College Apr. 12-June 15, 2003 40 19th-century drawings by John Frederick Kensett, Aaron Draper Shattuck, James D. Smillie and others, collected by artist Dan Flavin for the Dia Art Foundation

	Takashi Murakami DOB in the Strange Forest 1999		My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation Norton Museum of Art Apr. 12-June 15, 2003 30 works involving anime by 18 artists, from Mariko Mori and Takashi Murakami to Paul McCarthy, Tom Sachs and Charlie White, in a traveling show organized by the Des Moines Art Center and Independent Curators International Curator: Jeff Fleming and Susan Lubowsky Talbott (Des Moines) Catalogue: Essays by curators and Takashi Murakami, $22

	Winslow Homer Boy Fishing 1892		Casting a Spell: Winslow Homer, Artist And Angler Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth Apr. 12-June 22, 2003 65 works -- mostly watercolors -- featuring fly-fishing in a show that premiered at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Curators: Patricia Junker (Amon Carter), Sarah Burns (Indiana University) Catalogue: 240 pp., $45 hardcover, $24.95 paper

	Mel Ramos Captain Midnight 1962		Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Apr. 12-June 29, 2003 80 works of art by 35 international artists, including Laylah Ali, Roy Lichtenstein, Takashi Murakami, Elizabeth Murray, Chris Ofili, Peter Saul and Kenny Scharf Curator: Valerie Cassel (CAMH) Catalogue: Essays by Cassel, London-based journalist Roger Sabin and writer Bernard Weldt, with a timeline of the history of cartoons by James Coleville

	Frederic Remington The Scout: Friends or Foes? 1902-1905		Frederic Remington: The Color of Night National Gallery of Art Apr. 13-July 13, 2003 60 paintings made between 1901 and the artist's death in 1909 exploring the technical and esthetic aspects of paintings scenes set at night Tour: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Aug. 10-Nov. 9, 2003; Denver Art Museum, Dec. 13, 2003-Mar. 14, 2004 Funding: Target Stores

	Shah Zav Enthroned Page from Shahnama Iran ca. 1330		The Legacy of Genghis Khan: Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia 1256-1353 Los Angeles County Museum of Art Apr. 13-July 27, 2003 200 works, including textiles, ceramics, jewelry, metalwork, stone and woodwork and books, notably 30 pages from the luxuriously illustrated Great Mongol epic Shahnama (Book of Kings), in an exhibition that premiered at the Metropolitan Museum Curator: Stefano Carboni (Met), and Linda Komaroff (LACMA) Catalogue: Yale, 424 pp., 200 color plates, cloth $60

	Ugo Rondinone From the series "I Don't Live Here Anymore" 1997		Not Neutral: Contemporary Swiss Photography Grey Art Gallery Apr. 15-July 19, 2003 Works by eight contemporary photographers, on view as part of the "Swiss Peaks" festival Curator: Urs Stahel (Fotomuseum Winterthur)

	Bill Brandt Halifax 1937		Bill Brandt: A Retrospective Yale Center for British Art, New Haven Apr. 18-July 20, 2003 155 photographs, ranging from photojournalism to portraits and Surrealist experiments, organized by the Bill Brandt archive Curator: John-Paul Kernot

	James Abbott McNeil Whistler Symphony in Flesh Color and Pink: Portrait of Mrs. Frances Leyland 1871-73		Whistler, Women and Fashion Frick Collection Apr. 22-July 13, 2003 Eight full-length portraits of women and 63 prints, drawings, pastel studies, costume designs, etchings and watercolors as well as fashion plates and costumes of the period Curator: Susan Grace Galassi (Frick), Margaret F. MacDonald (University of Glasgow) Catalogue: 224 pp., 140 color and 40 black-and-white illustrations, $50 hardcover, $30 softcover

	Bob Sabiston (flat black films) Waking Life 2000		National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Apr. 22-Aug. 3, 2003 Work by over 80 designers and firms, including Asmyptote, Peter Eisenman, Gaetano Pesce, Paula Scher and Isabel Toledo Curators: Ellen Lupton, Donald Albrecht, Susna Yelavich, Mitchell Owens Catalogue: Inside Design Now (Cooper-Hewitt/Princeton U.) Funding: BP

	Fred Brown Romare Bearden 2001-02		Frederick J. Brown: Portraits in Jazz, Blues and Other Icons Studio Museum in Harlem Apr. 23-June 29, 2003 More than 30 paintings dating from 1970 to the present, in the first major retrospective of the expressionistic painter of the Jazz and Blues scene Curator: Lowery Stokes Sims (Studio Museum) Funding: Fleet, Herman Goldman Foundation

	Carolyn DeMeritt Mary Jones, Jena Choctaw Elder, Jena, La. 1997		As Long as the Waters Flow: Native Americans in the South and East Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Apr. 24-July 20, 2003 Selenium toned gelatin-silver prints of Native Americans by Carolyn DeMeritt, produced in collaboration with writer Frye Gaillard Catalogue: 242 pp., 79 black-and-white illustrations, $21.95

	Carrie Mae Weems I Beseech You 1996		Visual Poetics: Art and the Word Miami Art Museum Apr. 25-Nov. 16, 2003 50 works involving the interaction of words and image by Jenny Holzer, Ed Ruscha, Carrie Mae Weems, others Curator: Cheryl Hartup (MAM)

	Yin Xiu Zhen International Flight 2002		Time After Time: Asia and Our Moment Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Apr. 26-July 13, 2003 Painting, sculpture, photography and video by artists from Korea, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan and China Curator: Doryun Chong and Eungie Joo

			Single Channel: Collaborating with the Moving Image Blaffer Gallery, Houston Apr. 26-May 4, 2003 Films and videos by artists, including Yuri A., Michelle Beck and Jorge Calvo, J.D. Beltran, Julie Christine Fortier, Tina Gonsalves, Kasumi, Lev, Evan Mather, Baerbel Neubauer, Mark O'Connell, John Palmer and Larilyn Sanchez Curator: Patrick Kwiatkowski, founder of Microcinema International

	Andy Goldsworthy Three Cairns Des Moines, Iowa 2002		Andy Goldsworthy: Three Cairns Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Apr. 27-Aug. 26, 2003 Photographs, drawings and sculpture documenting temporary and permanent cairns at three museums, MCASD, Des Moines Art Center and the Neuberger Museum of Art Curators: Susan Lubowsky Talbott (Des Moines), Chris Gilbert, Stephanie Hanor (MCASD) and Dede Young (Neuberger)