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	Anonymous Detail of Cairo Police Academy 1927		Mapping Sitting: On Portraiture and Photography Grey Art Gallery, NYU Jan. 11-Apr. 2, 2005 20th-century portrait photography from Lebanon, Egypt and Iraq selected from the archives of Arab Image Foundation in Beirut by contemporary artists Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari Funding: Islamic World Arts Initiative, Abby Weed Grey Trust Catalogue: 284 pp., Mind the Gap/Arab Image Foundation

	Ruth Duckworth Untitled 2002		Ruth Duckworth, Modernist Sculptor Museum of Arts & Design, New York Jan. 13- Apr. 3, 2005 Approximately 90 vessels, figurative works and sculptures in the first major retrospective of the 85-year-old Chicago ceramist Curators Thea Burger, Jo Lauria Catalogue: 160 pp., Lund Humphries Publishers, $60 Funding: Target

	Thomas Moran A Midsummer Day, East Hampton, Long Island 1903		Guild Hall: An Adventure in the Arts UBS Art Gallery Jan. 13-Mar. 25, 2005 More than 80 works dating from 1878 to 1994 by artists who lived on the East End of Long Island, ranging from Thomas Moran to David Salle, all from the collection of Guild Hall in East Hampton

	Berthe Morisot Eugene Manet and his Daughter in the Garden at Bougival 1881		Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and her Circle National Museum of Women in the Arts Jan. 14-May 8, 2005 More than 75 paintings and drawings from the Denis and Annie Rouart Collection at the Musée Marmottan in Paris, many on view in the U.S. for the first time Curator: Jordana Pomeroy Catalogue: 123 pp., $40 Tour: Speed Art Museum, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Funding: General Dynamics, Mary Ross Taylor

	Mark Sheinkman 9.5.2004 2004		New Works by Mark Sheinkman Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Jan. 14-Apr. 10, 2005 Six large abstractions by the New York painter, a "visiting artist" at the Kansas City museum Catalogue: Essay by Robert Edelman Funding: Muriel McBrien Kauffman Foundation, Richard J. Stern Foundation for the Arts, Commerce Bank

	Peter Paul Rubens Centaur Tormented by Cupid ca. 1606-08		Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640): The Drawings Metropolitan Museum of Art Jan. 15-Apr. 3, 2005 The first major retrospective of drawings by the Flemish artist includes 115 works, including many of exceptionally large size, in a show co-organized with the Albertina in Vienna Curators: Anne-Marie Logan, Michiel C. Plomp Catalogue: 400 pp., Yale, $75 Funding: Government of Flanders, Fortis Bank, Schiff Foundation

	Stuart Davis Swing Landscape 1938		Stuart Davis and American Abstraction: A Masterpiece in Focus Philadelphia Museum of Art Jan. 15-Apr. 17, 2005 Davis' 1938 mural, Swing Landscape, which represents the Gloucester harborfront but has been housed at the Indiana University Art Museum in Bloomington since 1941, is presented along with 15 accompanying works by Davis (a Philadelphia native), plus works by his contemporaries, from the Philadelphia Museum collection Curators: Kathleen Foster, Michael Taylor

	Barry Le Va On Center Shatter - or - Shatterscatter (within the Series of Layered Pattern Acts) 1968-71		Accumulated Vision, Barry Le Va Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Jan. 15-Apr. 3, 2005 100 works in a survey of four decades of art-making by the New York Postminimalist Curator: Ingrid Schaffner Catalogue: 256 pp., $45 Funding: Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, others

	Eugene Delacroix Tiger Drinking 1835		Intimate Visions: Small-scale European Paintings of the 15th to 19th Centuries Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Jan. 15-Sept. 11, 2005 70 works from the permanent collection, ranging from an Annunciation by Caracciolo to Barbizon landscapes by Camille Corot Curators: Eric M. Zafran, Rena Hoisington

	Jane and Louise Wilson The New Brutalism II 2004		Jane and Louise Wilson: Erewhon Blaffer Gallery, Houston Jan. 15-Mar. 5, 2005 A new video installation (showing projections of film shot in vacated hospital buildings and in a dilapidated miner's town juxtaposed with footage of archival photos of women's exercise classes from the 1910s and 20s), plus related photos, developed during a residency in New Zealand Also on view: "Ant Farm 1968-78" and "J.D. Okhai Ojeikere: Hairstyles"

	Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty 1970		Robert Smithson Dallas Museum of Art Jan. 16-Apr. 3, 2005 130 works made between 1955 and 1973 in the traveling retrospective organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Curators Eugenie Tsai, Connie Butler Tour: Whitney Museum, June 23-Oct. 16, 2005 Catalogue: 228 pp., $34.95 Funding: Ahmanson Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, Altria Also on view: "Daniel Roth, Zones of Dissolution," Jan. 21-Apr. 10, 2005

	Deborah Kass Cindy Sherman 1994		Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Jan. 19-May 1, 2005 Over 50 works made during the past three decades by artists from the U.S. and Europe, ranging from Matthew Antezzo, Roy Arden and David Armstrong to Wolfgang Tillmans, James Welling and Neil Winokur Curator: Matthew Higgs Catalogue: 72 pp., $22.95 Tour: Co-organized with the CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, and Independent Curators International Also on view: "Momentum 3: Kanishak Raja"

	Romuald Hazoumé Zanzibrrrrace 2003		Deep Wells and Reflecting Pools Menil Collection Jan. 21-Apr. 17, 2005 Houston artist David McGee selects works from the museum's little-seen trove of art and artifacts chronicling racial bigotry and African American identity, called "The Image of the Black in Western Art," for a show mounted in conjunction with "Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970" at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston Funding: City of Houston Also on view: "Romuald Hazoume: La Bouche du Roi," Jan. 29-May 8, 2005

			Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art since 1970 Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Jan. 22-Apr. 17, 2005 Curator: Valerie Cassel Oliver Catalogue: 112 pp., $24.95 Also on view: "Perspectives 145: Bodys Isek Kingelez," Jan. 28-May 1, 2005

	Gustave Courbet Bonjour Monsieur Courbet 1854		Bonjour Monsieur Courbet! The Bruyas Collection from the Musée Fabre, Montpellier Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Jan. 22-Apr. 3, 2004 40 paintings, 20 drawings and six sculptures by Courbet, Delacroix, Ingres, Millet, Cabanel, Barye and others, in the final stop of a four-city U.S. tour Catalogue: 256 pp., $60

	Cy Twombly Nicola's Iris 1990		Cy Twombly: 50 Years of Works on Paper Whitney Museum Jan. 27-May 8, 2005 Works in paint, crayon and collage, dating from the "chalkboard" period of the early 1970s to the present, in a show that was organized by the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg and that has already appeared in Munich, Paris and London Curator: Julie Sylvester Catalogue: Cover designed by the artist, essay by Simon Schama, reprint of Roland Barthes' Non Multa Sed Multum (1976) U.S. tour: Menil Collection, May 27-Sept. 4, 2005, other venues to be announced Funding: Neil G. Bluhm, Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Frances and John Bowes Also on view: "Ellen Gallagher: deluxe," Jan. 27-May 15, 2005

	William Hodges Tomb and Distant View of the Rajmahal Hills 1781		William Hodges, 1744-1797: The Art of Exploration Yale Center for British Art Jan. 27-Apr. 24, 2005 The first retrospective of the globetrotting landscape painter, whose career took him to India with the East India Company and to Polynesia, Antarctica, New Zealand and the South Pacific with Captain James Cook, includes nearly 50 paintings, in a show that was organized by the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, where it appeared last summer Curator: Geoff Quilley Catalogue: 212 pp., Yale, $60 Also on view: "Nobleness and Grandeur: Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760-1850," Jan. 27-Apr. 24, 2005

	Calixte Dakpogan Parrot 2002		African Art Now: Masterpieces from the Jean Pigozzi Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Jan. 29-May 8, 2005 33 artists from 15 countries, assembled by Swiss entrepreneur and photographer Jean Pigozzi with the collaboration of Paris-based curator André Magnin Funding: Continental Airlines, Fulbright & Jaworski, Luther King Capital Management, the Boeing Company, others

	Alberto Korda Guerilla Heroica 1960		Revolution & Commerce: The Legacy of Korda's Portrait of Che Guevara UCR/California Museum of Photography Jan. 29-May 28, 2005 Alberto Korda's iconic photograph of Che, taken in 1960 and titled Guerilla Heroica, via over 40 photographs (by Vic Muniz, Rubén Ortiz Torres, Annie Lebowitz, Martin Parr and others), 30 historic posters from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics in Los Angeles, and 50 banners, memorabilia and other artifacts relating to in a show organized with the Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, and www.zonezero.com Curator: Trisha Ziff Also on view: "Observaciones: Enrique Méndez de Hoyos"

			Landscape Confection Wexner Center for the Arts Jan. 29-May 1, 2005 40 contemporary works by 13 artists specializing in unconventional, idealized and imaginary landscapes, including Rowena Dring, Pia Fries, Michael Raedecker, Lisa Sanditz and Amy Sillman Curator: Helen Molesworth Catalogue: 100 pp., $24.95 Funding: Univar USA, Scotts Company, Nancy and David Gill, others

	Rembrandt van Rijn Self-Portrait as the Apostle Paul 1658		Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits National Gallery of Art Jan. 30-May 1, 2005 17 dramatic portraits of apostles, evangelists, saints, monks, Christ and the Virgin Mother, shown together for the first time Tour: J. Paul Getty Museum, June 7-Aug. 28, 2005