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: 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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: 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
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
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
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
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
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)
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 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)
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