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	Jasper Johns Ten Numbers (detail) 1960-71		Jasper Johns: Numbers Los Angeles County Museum of Art Feb. 1-Apr. 18, 2004 The artist's classic work via lithographs and etchings from LACMA's permanent collection Curator: Jennifer Spears Brown Tour: This show was organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art; LACMA is its final venue Also on view: "Diane Arbus Revelations," Feb. 29-May 31, 2004

	Bartolomeo Coriolano Sleeping Cupid mid-17th c.		Poets, Lovers and Heroes in Italian Mythological Prints Metropolitan Museum of Art Feb. 3-May 2, 2004 More than 100 woodcuts, engravings and etchings by artists ranging from Mantegna to Tiepolo, depicting the bawdy adventures of Cupid, Hercules and the rest of the Gods, in an exploration of the revival of antiquity during the Italian Renaissance Curator: Wendy Thompson Funding: Schiff Foundation Also on view: "Echoing Images: Couples in African Sculpture," Feb.10-Sept. 5, 2004; "Chocolate, Coffee, Tea," Feb. 3-July 11, 2004

	Umberto Boccioni Materia 1912		*Boccioni's Materia: A Futurist Masterpiece and the Avant-garde in Milan and Paris* Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Feb. 6-May 9, 2004 Juxtaposing Materia, a masterpiece of Italian Futurism, with Cubist works by Georges Braque, Robert Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Albert Gleizes, Juan Gris, Fernand Lger and Pablo Picasso Curator: Laura Mattioli Rossi Funding: City of Milan and Tenaris, Leadership Committee for Materia, Maurice Kanbar, Italian Cultural Institute Catalogue: 158 pp., $55 cloth

	Paul Kos Pawn (detail) 1991		Everything Matters: Paul Kos: A Retrospective Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Feb. 5-May 2, 2004 Playful new work by the Bay Area conceptual video art pioneer Curator: Constance M. Lewallen Tour: The show was organized by the University of California, Berkeley

	James Wyeth Portrait of John F. Kennedy 1967		JFK and Art Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach Feb. 6-May 2, 2004 Camelot as envisioned by Hans Hofmann, Marisol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and others Curator: Jonathan Stuhlam, Bruce Museum Catalogue: 45 pp., $24 softcover Funding: Priscilla and John Richman Endowment for American Art

	Kerry James Marshall 7 a.m. Sunday Morning 2003		Kerry James Marshall: One Thing, Mediations on Black Aesthetics Miami Art Museum Feb. 6-Apr. 15, 2004 Mid-career retrospective of videos, paintings, sculptures and photographs inspired by the Civil Rights movement and the Alabama-born African-American artist's personal experience Curator: Lorie Mertes Funding: Joyce Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Peter Norton Family Foundation, Boeing Company

	Lotte Jacobi Lotte Lenya 1928		Focus on the Soul: The Photographs of Lotte Jacobi Jewish Museum, New York Feb. 6-Apr. 11, 2004 Over 90 vintage photographs, including celebrity portraits of Marc Chagall, Peter Lorre, Lotte Lenya and the elusive J.D. Salinger, taken by the German-American photographer Curator: Kurt Sundstrom Funding: Bank of New Hampshire, Ernst & Young, New Hampshire State Council on the Arts Tour: This show was organized by the Currier Museum of Art, New Hampshire. Its next stop is the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., June 18-Sept. 5, 2004

	Altoon Sultan Tractor and Disc Harrow, Pawlet, VT 1987		The Artist's Eye: Wolf Kahn as Curator National Academy of Design, New York Feb. 6-Apr. 18, 2004 Contemporary, modern and 19th-century works selected by the celebrated New York colorist Also on view: "Wolf Kahn: Nature and Color" and "Bold Strokes: California Watercolors," Feb. 6-Apr. 18, 2004

	John Waters Farrah (detail) 2000		John Waters: Change Of Life New Museum of Contemporary Art Feb. 7-Apr. 15, 2004 80 photographs, sculptures and three previously unscreened films by the "Pope of Trash" Curators: Marvin Heiferman and Lisa Phillips Funding: New Line Cinema, Harvey S. Shipley Miller Also on view: "Point of View: A Contemporary Anthology of the Moving Image," Feb. 27-Apr. 11, 2004

	Romare Bearden Profile/Part II, the Thirties: Artist with Painting and Model 1981		The Art of Romare Bearden San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Feb. 7-May 16, 2004 140 collages, photomontages, watercolors and monotypes dating from the 1940s to the '80s, in a show that originated at the National Gallery of Art, Washington Curator: Ruth Fine Catalogue: 352 pp., Abrams, $50 cloth Tour: Dallas Museum, June 20-Sept. 12, 2004; Whitney Museum, Oct. 14, 2004-Jan. 9, 2005; High Museum, Jan. 29-April 24, 2005 Funding: AT&T, Koret Foundation, Catholic Healthcare West

	William Wegman Reading Two Books 1971		The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982 UCLA Hammer Museum Feb. 8-May 9, 2004 Approximately 150 works by 57 artists, including Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, Gilbert and George, Adrian Piper and Cindy Sherman Curator: Douglas Fogle Catalogue: 304 pp., $44.95 cloth Funding: Karen and Ken Heithoff, La Coleccin Jumex, Matthew O. Fitzmaurice, Carol and Judson Bemis, Jr., Harry M. Drake Tour: The show was organized by the Walker Art Center and is scheduled to travel to the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Spain, June 4-Sept. 19, and the Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland, Nov. 26, 2004-Feb. 13, 2005

	Richard Hamilton Adonis in Y Fonts 1963		Richard Hamilton: Prints and Multiples, 1934-2004 Yale Center for British Art Feb. 12-May 24, 2004 The first major print retrospective of the 81-year-old British Pop pioneer features over 200 works Tour: Organized by the Kunstmuseum, Winterthur in Switzerland, this show appears in the U.S. only at this venue Also on view: "Just what is it that makes British Pop Art so different, so appealing?" Feb. 12-May 9, 2004

	Bruce Bemis Bipolar Radiance 2003		Son et Lumiere MIT List Visual Arts Center Feb. 12-Apr. 4, 2004 Six large sound and light installations by seven artists, including two artist-teams, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla and Michael Mittelman & Jessica Rylan Curator: Bill Arning Funding: David Bermant Foundation, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Council for the Arts at MIT

	Douglas Gordon Monster 1996-97		Douglas Gordon Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Feb. 12-May 9, 2004 The first survey of the Scottish video installation artist includes large-scale projected video installations, text pieces, still photographs, and filmed images on video monitors Curator: Russell Ferguson Catalogue: 128 pp., $42 cloth Tour: The exhibition was organized for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, where it debuted in 2001 Funding: Susan Bay-Nimoy and Leonard Nimoy, Catharine and Jeffrey Soros, Thorton S. Glide Jr. and Katrina D. Glide Foundation, Peter Norton Family Foundation, others

	Andrea del Verrocchio David with the head of slain Goliath outside his right foot ca. 1465		Verrocchio's "David" Restored: A Renaissance Bronze from the National Museum of the Bargello, Florence National Gallery of Art Feb. 13-Mar. 21, 2004 The masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture on view in its original form for the first time in 527 years Funding: Worldspan, L.P.

	Ed Ruscha Level as a Level 2002		Ed Ruscha: Mountain Paintings Aspen Art Museum Feb. 13-Apr. 11, 2004 Approximately 12 large-scale palindrome paintings using imagery of snow-topped mountain peaks Curator: Dean Sobel Funding: Aspen Art Museum National Council

	Milton Avery Girl Writing (detail) 1941		Discovering Milton Avery: Two Devoted Collectors, Louis Kaufman and Duncan Phillips Phillips Collection Feb. 14-May 16, 2004 Paintings and works on paper from the collections of two of Avery's friends and early supporters Curator: Eliza Rathbone Funding: Riva Yares Foundation, Wachovia Wealth Management, Wachovia Foundation

	David Opdyke The Grid (detail) 2003		American Paradigms: David Opdyke and Lane Twitchell Corcoran Gallery Feb. 14-Apr. 5, 2004 25 sculptures and cut-paper drawings by the Brooklyn-based artists, commenting on contemporary consumerist society Curator: Stacey Schmidt Also on view: "Quilts of Gee's Bend," Feb. 14-May 17, 2004

	Rembrandt van Rijn An Allegory: the Phoenix 1658		Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher Art Institute of Chicago Feb. 14-May 9, 2004 Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the 200 works on view include approximately 20 paintings, 30 drawings and 150 prints Curators: Clifford S. Ackley, Suzanne McCullagh, Anne Vogt Fuller, Marion Titus Searle Funding: Merrill Lynch, Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, Rhoades Foundation/Julius Lewis Exhibition Fund, Abbott Laboratories Fund

	Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Jane Avril 1899		Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge Baltimore Museum of Art Feb. 15-May 3, 2004 More than 100 rarely seen posters of the scandalous Parisian dance-hall Curator: Susan Dackerman Funding: Wilmington Trust

	Edouard Manet The Port at Calais ca. 1868		Manet and the Sea Philadelphia Museum of Art Feb. 15-May 31, 2004 Martine paintings by Manet and his contemporaries including Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Berthe Morisot Curators: Douglas Druick, Gloria Groom, John Leighton, Joe Rishel, John Zarobell Funding: Lincoln Financial Group, Delaware River Port Authority, Pew Charitable Trusts, Annenberg Foundation, others Catalogue: 228 pp., $68 (cloth) Tour: This show was organized by Art Institute of Chicago. Its next stop is Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, June 18-Sept. 26, 2004

			Turner and Venice Kimbell Art Museum Feb. 15-May 30, 2004 The only U.S. showing of the paintings, watercolors and drawings made by J.M.W. Turner during or after his three trips to Venice, in a show assembled by Tate Britain Curator: Ian Warrell

	Sofia Tekela-Smith Savage Island Man with Pure 2003		Paradise Now? Contemporary Art from the Pacific Asia Society Feb. 18-May 9, 2004 45 paintings, drawings, photographs and videos by 15 leading contemporary artists from New Zealand, New Caledonia, Torres Strait Islands, Hawaii, Samoa, Fiji and Niue Curator: Melissa Chiu Funding: Creative New Zealand, W.L.S. Spencer Foundation, Lion Foundation, Christensen Fund, Investment New Zealand, New Zealand Trade and Enterprise, Tourism New Zealand, Jenny Gibbs, Harriet Friedlander Also on view: "Paradise Lost: Art from the Pacific," Feb. 10-May 2, 2004

	Lauren Greenfield Sheena tries on clothes with her friend Amber, 14, in a department store dressing room in San Jose, California 1999		Lauren Greenfield: Girl Culture Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, N.Y. Feb. 21-May 16, 2004 57 photos of young girls in a touring exhibition that debuted in 2002 Curator: Trudy Wilner Stack Also on view: "Double Takes: Transformations through the Lens," Mar. 20-July 11, 2004, and "The Allen Sisters: Pictorialist Photographs 1885-1920," Mar. 20 to May 30

	George Bellows The Picnic 1924		Leaving for the Country: George Bellows at Woodstock Georgia Museum of Art, Athens Feb. 21-May 16, 2004 Paintings of the American artist's country home made between 1920-1924 Curator: Marjorie Seal Funding: W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation

	Sol LeWitt Marquette for Brick Structure, Two Domes, Vertical 2003		Sol Lewitt: Recent Work Katonah (New York) Museum of Art Feb. 22-May 2, 2004 A new site-specific drawing, a selection of gouaches and prints, plus maquettes and designs for a new domed sculpture Curator: Gary Garrells

			Tools of her Ministry: The Art of Sister Gertude Morgan American Folk Art Museum Feb. 25-Sept. 26, 2004 Over 100 biblical paintings and decorated objects by the self-taught Alabama missionary Curator: William Fagaly Funding: NEA, New York State Council on Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Judith Rothschild Foundation, Robert A. Roth and Cleo F. Wilson Tour: New Orleans Museum of Art, Nov. 12, 2004-Jan. 16, 2005

	Il Cavaliere d'Arpino Judith with the Head of Holofernes 1603-1606		Turning Corners Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive Feb. 26-Aug. 31, 2004 Nayland Blake's 1987 untitled installation of paintboxes and whips, set in a room of old master paintings from the Berkeley Art Museum collections, including Cavaliere d'Arpino's Judith with the Head of Holofernes (1603-1606) and Giovanni Battista Caracciolo's The Young Saint John in the Wilderness (1610-1620) Curator: Lucinda Barnes Also on view: "Time's Shadow: Photographs from the Jan Leonard and Jerrold Peil Collection," Feb. 5-May 9, 2004

	Paul Gauguin Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? 1897-98		Gauguin Tahiti Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Feb. 29-June 27, 2004 Organized on the centenary of Gauguin's death, this show presents 150 works, including paintings, wooden sculptures, prints and drawings, along with the MFA's own 1897 allegorical masterpiece, Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Catalogue: 380 pp., $65 cloth Funding: Fleet Tour: This exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Runion des Muses Nationaux and the Muse d'Orsay, Paris. This is its final stop