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	Giovanni Zuccarelli Jadmone's Quarters: Set design for the ballet Rodope 1892		Staging the Orient: Visions of the East at La Scala and The Metropolitan Opera Dahesh Museum, New York Mar. 2-May 30, 2004 20 costumes, architectural models and over 200 works on paper from the Oriental-themed operas performed at Teatro alla Scala in Milan Curators: Stephen R. Edidin, Vittoria Crespi Morbio Funding: Italian Cultural Institute of New York Catalogue: 40 pp., $24.99

	Iona Rozeal Brown blackface #37 2002		Iona Rozeal Brown/MATRIX 152 Wadsworth Atheneum Museum Mar. 4-June 13, 2004 15 paintings of the ganguro -- geishas, kabuki actors and samurai in blackface and bling-bling Curator: Joanna Marsh Funding: Matrix Coalition, Janice and Mickey Cartin, Howard and Sandra Fromson, Robinson and Nancy Grover, Carol and Sol LeWitt, Ritter Foundation, Robin and Philip Schonberger, Walter Wick and Linda Cheverton Wick

	Rachel Whiteread Untitled (One Hundred Spaces) 1995		Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Mar. 5-May 19, 2004 The third in the Gugg's series of exhibitions highlighting its holdings begins with Robert Rauschenberg's epochal White Painting (1951) and ranges through Minimalism and Postmodernism Curators: Lisa Dennison, Nancy Spector Catalogue: essays by the curators and six other scholars, 250 pp., $45 hardcover Also on view: "Seeing Double: Emulation in Theory and Practice," Mar. 18-May 16, 2004

	Jean-Honor Fragonard Study After Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: Immaculate Conception (from the Aracoeli) 1760-61		An Artist's Education: Fragonard and the Old Masters Norton Simon Museum Mar. 5-June 7, 2004 20 black chalk drawings of Old Master works by the Rococo genius Curator: Gloria Williams

	Franois-Marie Banier I am only an eye 2001		Franois-Marie Banier Bass Museum of Art, Miami Mar. 5-May 30, 2004 Photographs and sketches ranging from banal scenes of urban life to celebrity portraits of Kate Moss, Johnny Depp and Samuel Beckett by the French poet, novelist and New Yorker contributor Also on view: "The Salon: 18th and 19th Century Portraits from the Collection," Mar. 19-Sept. 19, 2004

	Russell Crotty Summer Triangle over Knolltop Estates 2002		Russell Crotty: Global Drawings Miami Art Museum Mar. 5-Jun. 27, 2004 The first solo museum exhibition by the California-based artist and amateur astronomer includes ten drawings on massive globes Curator: Lori Mertes Funding: Funding Arts Network

	Frida Kahlo Self-Portrait with Cropped Hair 1940		MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art El Museo del Barrio Mar. 5-July 25, 2004 150 drawings, sculptures and prints dating from the 1930s to the present, including work by Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Cildo Meireles, Vik Muniz and the "destructivist" installation artist Rafael Montanez Ortiz Curators: Miriam Basilio, Fatima Bercht, Deborah Cullen, Gary Garrels, Luis Enrique, Prez, Oramas Funding: Bloomberg, Altria, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation Catalogue: 185 pp., $35 cloth

	Joseph H. Greenwood Clearing-November 1911		An American Impressionist: Joseph H. Greenwood Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum Mar. 6-Aug. 8, 2004 25 rural scenes of the central New England and Massachusetts coastline by the Worcester County-based painter Curator: Nicole Nicas Funding: UnumProvident Corporation, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, others

	Muriel Hasbun Triptych I (Mes enfants/Photographe Sanitas, 1943) 1996-2003		Memento: Muriel Hasbun Photographs Corcoran Museum of Art Mar. 6-June 7, 2004 The Salvadoran artist explores, through photocollage, her heritage as a woman of mixed Jewish and Palestinian decent Curator: Paul Roth

	Tamara de Lempicka Jeune Fille en Vert ca. 1927		Art Deco 1910-1939 Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Mar. 6-July 4, 2004 300 examples of Art Deco objects and artworks, from Cartier jewelry to paintings by Tamara de Lempicka, Sonia Delaunay and Joseph Stella Curator: Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton, Ghislaine Wood Catalogue: 416 pp., $65 cloth Tour: This show was organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and travels to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

	Takizawa Shigenobu Courtesan in Robes with Calligraphic Motifs ca. 1720		An Enduring Vision: 17th to 20th Century Japanese Painting from the Gitter-Yelen Collection Japan Society Mar. 9-June 20, 2004 76 paintings from the Edo to Meiji periods (17th-early 20th century) in a show organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art Curator: Tadashi Kobayashi Funding: E. Rhodes & Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Nomura Holding America, Mary Livingston Griggs, Mary Griggs Burke Foundation Catalogue: 320 pp., $45 cloth

	Amy Cutler Campsite 2002		2004 Whitney Biennial Exhibition Whitney Museum of American Art Mar. 11-May 30, 2004 Youth meets age and the new Goth meets psychedelia via works by 108 artists in the season's most anxiously awaited exhibition Curators: Chrissie Iles, Debra Singer, Shamim M. Momin Funding: Altria, Banc of American Securities, Melva Bucksbaum, Emily Fisher Landau, Leonard A. Lauder Catalogue: 272 pp., $50 cloth

	Christopher Morris Charlie Company Pass A Secondary Explosion en Route to Baghdad, Iraq, April 2003		War in Iraq: The Coordinates of Conflict Photographs by VII International Center of Photography, New York Mar. 12-May 30, 2004 Over 50 images of war, from the 9/11 to Baghdad, by renowned photojournalists James Nachtwey, Christopher Anderson, Alexandra Boulet, Lauren Greenfield and other members of the VII agency Curators: Peter Howe, Ed Earle Catalogue: War: US-Afghanistan-Iraq, 416 pp., $96 hardcover Funding: Canon USA Also on view: "Gustav Klutsis and Valentina Kulagina: Photography and Montage after Constructivism," and "Expanding Vision: Lszl Moholy-Nagy's Experiments of the 1920s," and "The Art of Science Imaging the Future," Mar. 12-June 30, 2004

	Dieter Roth Literaturwurst (Martin Walser: Halbzeit) (Literature sausage [Martin Walser: Halftime]) 1961		Roth Time: A Dieter Roth Retrospective Museum of Modern Art, Queens, and P.S.1 Mar.12-June 7, 2004 375 artworks, including five large-scale installations, made over five decades in the first comprehensive survey of the Swiss Fluxus artist for an American museum since 1984 Curator: Klaus Biesenbach, Gary Garrels Funding: Schaulager Basel, Laurenz Foundation, Kathleen and Richard Fuld, Novartis, others Catalogue: Roth Time: The Art of Dieter Roth, 290 pp., $45 paper Tour: MoMA organized this show in cooperation with Schaulager Basel and the Museum Ludwig in Cologne; MOMA QNS is its final venue

	Art of the Osage Moccasins ca. 1950		Art of the Osage Saint Louis Art Museum Mar. 12-Aug.8, 2004 The first museum show devoted to the art of this Louisiana-based Native American tribe Curator: John Nunley Funding: Henry Luce, Edward L. Bakewell Jr., Aileen and Lyle Woodcock Fund Catalogue: 221 pp., $30 cloth

	Barry McGee Untitled Installation 2004		Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati Mar. 13-May 30, 2004 Art inspired by "street" subcultures of skateboarding, graffiti, punk and hip-hop, including the multi-media work of Shepard Fairey, Barry McGee, Ryan McGinness and Stephen Powers (ESPO) Curators : Aaron Rose and Christian Strike

	Elin Wikstrm What Does a Human Being Do When There is Nothing to Be Done? 1996		Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres & Inflatable Structures Boise Art Museum Mar. 13-June 23, 2004 20 international artists including Pipilotti Rist, Tom Friedman and Ernesto Neto working with malleable, inflatable materials, in a show organized by Indepedent Curators International Curators: Barbara Clausen, Carin Kuoni Funding: Beaux Arts Socit

	James McNeill Whistler Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter's Mother (a.k.a. "Whistler's Mother") 1871		American Attitude: Whistler and his Followers Detroit Institute of Arts Mar. 14-June 6, 2004 63 paintings by John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Henry Ossawa Tanner and 14 paintings by Whistler, including Arrangement in Grey and Black, No 1: Portrait of the Artist's Mother, which is owned by the Louvre and which was last seen in the United States in 1995 Curator: Jim Tottis Funding: Comerica, Kenwal Steel, Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs Catalogue: 272 pp., $60 cloth Tour: This exhibition was organized by the High Museum, Atlanta

	Eva Hesse Metronomic Irregularity III 1966		A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Mar. 14-July 3, 2004 150 works of Minimalist sculpture and painting from 1958-1968 by 40 artists, including Carl Andre, Richard Artschwager, Judy Chicago, Dan Flavin, Dan Graham, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin and Frank Stella Curator: Ann Goldstein Funding: Sydney Irmas Exhibition Endowment, Audrey M. Irmas, Henry Luce Foundation, Maria Hummer and Bob Tuttle, others Catalogue: 400 pp., $50 cloth

	Edward Weston Nude, Santa Monica 1936		Photographers of Genius at the Getty J. Paul Getty Museum Mar. 16-July 25, 2004 Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Getty's photography collection are 151 images by 38 photographers, including Diane Arbus, Eugne Atget, Margaret Cameron, Walker Evans, Man Ray and Alfred Stieglitz Curator: Weston Naef Catalogue: $60 cloth

	Todd Hido House Hunting 1997		Terrain Vague: Photography, Architecture and the Post-Industrial Landscape Carnegie Museum of Art Mar. 20-June 20, 2004 Work by nine artists, including Martha Rosler, Catherine Opie and Philip-Lorca diCorcia, contemplating the marginal, neglected spaces in the American urban landscape, in a show organized by the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center Curator: Ruth Dusseault, Chris Jarrett Funding: Drue Heinz Trust

			Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557) Metropolitan Museum of Art Mar. 23-July 4, 2004 Byzantium's 300-year-long artistic flowering, via 350 works from 30 nations, many of them cherished art treasures rarely seen outside churches and monasteries, in the first major museum exhibition to focus solely on the Palaiologan period Curator: Helen C. Evans (Met) Catalogue: Yale, $50 paper, $75 hardcover Funding: Alpha Bank, J.F. Costopoulos Foundation, A.G. Leventis Foundation, Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation, others

	Anna Atkins Ulva latissima, from Photographs of British Algae ca. 1850		Ocean Flowers: Impressions from Nature Drawing Center, New York Mar. 25-May 22, 2004 Victorian prints and "photogenic drawings" including work by Anna Atkins, whose photograms inspired contemporary artist Margaret Honda. An installation by Honda is concurrently showing in the drawing room Curators: Carol Armstrong, Catherine de Zegher Catalogue: 272 pp., $50 cloth Tour: Yale Center for British Art Also on view: "Margaret Honda," Mar. 25-May 22, 2004

	Elie Nadelman Dancer ca. 1920-22		My America: Art from the Jewish Museum Collection, 1900-1955 Jewish Museum Mar. 26-July 25, 2004 70 works by 46 Jewish artists who were influential in the development of American art, including Robert Motherwell, Larry Rivers, Max Weber and Weegee Curator: Karen Levitov Funding: Eugene M. and Emily Grant Foundation, Joseph Alexander Foundation, Diane, Daniel and Matthew Wolf

	Gustave Courbet Bonjour Monsieur Courbet 1854		Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet! The Bruyas Collection from the Muse Fabre, Montpellier Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Mar. 26-June 13, 2004 The first U.S. venue for this exhibition consisting of nine paintings by Courbet, and others by Delacroix, Millet, Corot, Cabanel and Glaize Curators: Kathleen M. Morris, Michael Brand Tour: Organized by the Muse Fabre in Montpellier, France, the exhibition next appears at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, June 27-Sept. 6, 2004; the Dallas Museum of Art, Oct. 17, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005; and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Jan. 22-Apr. 3, 2005