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	Mara Adamitz Scrope concept drawing for Back to Nature 2003		A River Half Empty: Artists Engage Connecticut's Environment Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art June 1-Aug. 31, 2003 10 contemporary artists reflect on nature with installations at the museum and Weir farm, in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Connecticut Fund for the Environment Curators: Jessica Hough, Richard Klein, Harry Philbrick (Aldrich) Also on view: "Nina Levy: Portrait Gallery" and "Elizabeth Demaray: 2003 Aldrich Emerging Artist Award Recipient," June 1-Aug. 31, 2003

	Christian Marclay Guitar Drag 2000		Christian Marclay UCLA Hammer Museum June 1-Aug. 31, 2003 Over 60 works, including installations, album-cover collages, sculptures and videos by the artist and experimental musician Curator: Russell Ferguson (Hammer) Catalogue: Essays by Ferguson, Miwon Kwon, Douglas Kahn, Alan Licht and Madeleine Schuppli Tour: Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Sept. 28-Dec.19, 2003, Seattle Art Museum, Feb. 5-Apr. 25, 2004, Kunstmuseum Thun, Switzerland, summer 2004

	Charles Sheeler Wheels 1939		The Photography of Charles Sheeler Metropolitan Museum of Art June 3-Aug. 17, 2003 120 rare vintage prints focusing on work from 1915-39, in a show organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Curator: Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. (Harvard University Art Museums), Gilles Mora and Karen Haas (MFA, Boston) Catalogue: Essays by curators, English edition published by Bulfinch Press, $75 Also on view: "Charles Sheeler's Contemporaries," June 3-Aug. 17, 2003; "Manet and the American Civil War: The Battle of U.S.S. 'Kearsarge' and C.S.S. 'Alabama'," June 3-Aug. 17, 2003; "Celebrating Saint Petersburg," June 11, 2003-Jan. 25, 2004; "A Notable Acquisition of Japanese Textiles of the Edo Period (1615-1868)," June 25-Sept. 21, 2003

	Zaha Hadid The Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Arts, Cincinnati		Zaha Hadid Artists Space June 4-July 26, 2003 A survey of 20 years of the architect's work, coinciding with the opening of Hadid's first built project in the U.S. -- the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Arts in Cincinnati Funding: Donna Karan, Karan-Weiss Foundation

	Virginia Beahan View toward mangrove swamp and Desembarco del Granna from Campisno popular (tourist cabins) Villa Las Coloradas 2002		Cuba on the Verge: An Island in Transition International Center of Photography June 6-Aug. 31, 2003 Over seventy works by 14 American, Cuban and Cuban-American photographers, including Carlos Garaicoa, Abelardo Morell, Manuel Pia, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others Curator: Terry McCoy Catalogue: Introduction by William Kennedy, an epilogue by Arthur Miller and essays about the contemporary Cuban experience by Russell Banks, Susan Orlean, Abilio Estvez and others Also on view: "Dreaming in Pictures: The Photography of Lewis Carroll" and "New Histories of Photography 5, Poetic Images: Literary Illustrations from the Richard and Ronay Menschel Library" June 6-Aug. 31, 2003

	Isaac Julien Baltimore 2003		Isaac Julien: Baltimore Aspen Art Museum June 6-July 27, 2003 A three-screen video homage to blaxploitation films by the celebrated British film artist, filmed on location at three museums in Baltimore -- the Walters Art Museum, the Peabody Museum and the Great Blacks in Wax Museum Curator: Dean Sobel

			Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe J. Paul Getty Museum June 6-July 27, 2003 130 objects, including manuscripts, drawings and paintings from 1467-1561 culled from 50 lenders from 14 countries, in a show that argues for a new importance for early Renaissance manuscript painting Curator: Thomas Kren (Getty) Catalogue: 640 pp., 232 color and 153 black-and-white illustrations, hardcover $125.00, softcover $50

	Wayne Thiebaud Cakes & Pies 1994-95		Wayne Thiebaud: Fifty Years of Painting Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art June 6-July 27, 2003 The only venue for a retrospective of more than 40 works from the past five decades by the artist, who is currently artist in residence at the museum Curator: Dana Self (Kemper) Catalogue: Illustrated with interview with Wayne Thiebaud, $25

	Childe Hassam Easthampton, Sidewalk 1926		Portraits of Places: The Prints of Childe Frederick Hassam, an American Impressionist Corcoran Gallery of Art June 7-Aug. 4, 2003 50 etchings and lithographs and 12 paintings, pastels and drawings Curator: Erik Denker (Corcoran) and Herbert L. Cooper

	Brooks Stevens Oscar Mayer Wienermobile 1958		Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World Milwaukee Art Museum June 7-Sept. 7, 2003 Works from 1930-70 by the designer who created the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile, the Miller Brewing logo and the wide-mouthed peanut butter jar Curator: Glenn Adamson

	Augustus Saint-Gaudens Sherma Monument, Victory 1897-02, reduction 1912		Augustus Saint-Gaudens: America Sculptor of the Gilded Age Parrish Art Museum June 8-Aug. 3, 2003 Approximately 100 sculptures and monuments, primarily depicting historical events and people, by America's leading 19th-century sculptor

	Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Amédée-David, The Marquis de Pastoret 1826		Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism Minneapolis Institute of Arts June 8-Sept. 7, 2003 More than 150 oil paintings and watercolors by artists such as Ingres, Constable, Delacroix, Turner, and Géricault Curator: Patrick Noon (MIA) Catalogue: Written by Patrick Noon with contributions by Stephen Bann, David Brown, Rachel Meredith, Christine Riding and Marie Watteau Tour: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oct. 7, 2003-Jan. 4, 2004

	Pierre-Auguste Renoir Mademoiselle Fleury in Algerian Costume 1882		Renoir and Algeria Dallas Museum of Art June 8-Aug. 31, 2003 15 works from Renoir's Orientalist period, in a show organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, supplemented at the DMA by 40 paintings, drawings and sculptures surveying the artist's career Curators: Dorothy Kosinski (DMA) Catalogue: 176 pp., Yale University Press, hardcover $45, softcover $29.95 Tour: Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, Oct. 6, 2003-Jan. 18, 2004

	Mu Xin Spring Brilliance at Kuaiji 1977-78		Landscape of Memory: The Art of Mu Xin Asia Society June 10-Sept. 7, 2003 Writings and landscape paintings created during two periods of imprisonment during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, drawn from the Rosenkranz Foundation and the artist's own collection Curator: Alexandra Munroe (Japan Society), Wu Hung (Smart Museum of Art) and Harrie A. Vanderstappen (University of Chicago) Catalogue: 152 pp., Yale, $55

	Mary Cassatt Maternal Caress 1891		Whistler and Cassatt: Americans Abroad Baltimore Museum of Art June 11-Oct. 12, 2003 100 prints and drawings from the museum's collection of works done abroad by James Abbott McNeill Whistler and Mary Cassatt Curator: Susan Dackerman (BMA)

	Louis Faurer "Happy," Cantrell St., South Philadelphia 1937		Louis Faurer: A Photographic Retrospective Philadelphia Museum of Art June 14-Sept. 7, 2003 More than 100 photographs of Philadelphia street life taken between 1947-51, in a show organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (this is the last stop) Curator: Anne Wilkes Tucker Catalogue: 208 pp., 140 images, Merrell Publishers Funding: Andrea Frank Foundation Also on view: "Warren Rohrer: Paintings 1972-1993," June 22-Aug. 17, 2002

	Louise Bourgeois The Insomnia Drawings (detail) 1994-95		Louise Bourgeois: The Insomnia Drawings Whitney Museum of American Art June 14-Sept. 21, 2003 220 individual, red, blue and white drawings made during an eight-month period (Nov. 1994-June 1995) of sleep deprivation Curator: Lawrence Rinder (Whitney)

	Thomas Gainsborough Self-Portrait ca. 1787		Thomas Gainsborough, 1727-1788 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston June 15-Sept. 14, 2003 The first major retrospective to tour the U.S. includes 100 paintings and drawings of English landscapes and portraits, organized by Tate Britain Curators: Michael Rosenthal and Martin Myrone Catalogue: 272 pp., hardcover $60, softcover $45

	Ralph Fasanella New York 1981		The Perfect Game: America Looks at Baseball Folk Art Museum June 17, 2003-Feb. 1 2004 Over 100 art objects dating back to the 1840s, including score cards, arcade games, weathervanes, portraits, a portion of the original Yankee Stadium frieze, carnival figures and other ephemera Curator: Elizabeth V. Welkin Catalogue: 150 pp., 175 illustrations, published by Harry N. Abrams $29.95

	Ali Tayar Plaza Screen 1999		USDesign 1975-2000 Museum of Arts and Design June 19-Sept. 28, 2003 Three generations of American designers, including Robert Venturi, Frank Gehry, Steven Holl and Karim Rashid, in a show organized by the Denver Art Museum Curator: R. Craig Miller Catalogue: 256 pp., 280 color illustrations, published by Prestel, $65 Funding: Target, JPMorgan Chase Tour: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tenn., and the National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

	James Van Der Zee Portrait of Mother and Two Children 1934		Generations: African-American Art in the VMFA Collection Virginia Museum of Fine Arts June 21-Nov. 30, 2003 60 20th-century works Curator: Tosha Grantham (VMFA)

	Donald Judd Untitled 1984		Artists' Gifts Museum of Contemporary Art at California Plaza June 22-Aug. 3, 2003 Gifts by artists such as Mike Kelley, Sam Francis and Robert Gober of their own work and works from their personal collections Curator: Ann Goldstein (MoCA) Also on view: "Mona Hatoum: Map," June 22-Aug. 3, 2003

	Willem de Tetrode Bacchus modeled 1562-65		Willem van Tetrode Frick Collection June 24-Sept. 7, 2003 Marbles and bronzes by the mid-16th-century Dutch sculptor Curator: Fritz Scholten, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Catalogue: 160 pp., 80 color and 70 black-and-white illustrations Willem van Tetrode

	Hendrik Goltzius after Cornelius Cornelisz van Haarlem Phaeton, from the series The Four Disgracers 1588		Hendrick Goltzius, Dutch Master (1558-1617): Drawings, Prints, and Paintings Metropolitan Museum of Art June 26-Sept. 7, 2003 The First major retrospective of the 17th century, Netherlandish mannerist contains 160 works in a variety of media, organized by the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Curators: Jan Piet Filedt Kok, Huigen Leeflang and Ger Luijten (Rijksmuseum), Nadine M. Orenstein and Michiel C. Plomp (Met) and Lawrence W. Nichols (Toledo Museum of Art) Catalogue: Essays by the curators, Waanders Publishers, $85

	Max Beckmann Self Portrait in Tuxedo 1927		Max Beckmann Museum of Modern Art, Queens June 26-Sept. 29, 2003 The only U.S. showing of the first comprehensive survey of the artist consists of 115 works, focusing primarily on Beckmann's paintings but including examples of sculptures, drawings and prints Curator: Robert Storr (NYU Institute of Fine Arts), Sean Rainbird (Tate Gallery), Didier Ottinger (Centre Pompidou)

	Russell Crotty The Leonid Meteor Shower 2002		Perspectives 138: Russell Crotty Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston June 27-Oct. 5, 2003 14 cosmic drawings made on spheres between 1996-2003 Curator: Lynn Herbert (CAMH) Funding: Altria Group

	Philip Guston Mother and Child 1930		Philip Guston San Francisco Museum of Modern Art June 28-Sept. 28, 2003 More than 100 paintings and drawings dating from the 1930s to 1980, organized by the Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth Curator: Michael Auping (Modern Art Museum) Catalogue: published by Thames and Hudson, hardcover $50, softcover $40

	Cecilia Beaux Self-Portrait 1892		Challenging Tradition: Women of the Academy, 1826-2003 National Academy of Design June 28, 2003-Jan. 4, 2004 Over 60 paintings, sculptures and works on paper, including self-portraits, by Louise Bourgeois, Miriam Schapiro and other women artists Curators: David Dearinger and Isabelle Dervaux

	Amadeo Modigliani Servant Girl 1918		Modigliani and the Artists of Montparnasse Los Angeles County Museum of Art June 29-Sept. 28, 2003 The first major Modigliani show in the U.S. in 40 years features 60 Modigliani paintings, sculptures and works on paper with 22 works by his Montparnesse contemporaries such as Matisse, Brancusi and Picasso Curators: Kenneth Wayne (Albright-Knox) and Carol S. Eliel (LACMA) Catalogue: 224 pp., 200 color and black-and-white images with an interview with one of Modigliani's last models, Paulette Jourdain