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	Agnes Denes Crystal FortNieuwe Hollandse Waterlini 2000		Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Spaces Chelsea Art Museum Sept. 2-Nov. 6, 2004 The first New York retrospective of this conceptual and environmental artist includes proposal drawings, sculpture, photographs, and documentation of the ambitious public projects she created from 1968 to the present Curator: Dan Mills Catalogue: 56 pp., essay by Eleanor Heartney, $30 softcover Tour: Organized in 2003 by the Samek Art Gallery at Bucknell University, the show subsequently appears at the Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Funding: Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, others.

	Robert Schwartz A Narrow Way 1999		Dream Games: The Art of Robert Schwartz San Jose Museum of Art Sept. 4, 2004-Jan. 23, 2005 Jewel-like paintings depicting mysterious narratives by the reclusive San Francisco-based painter, who died four years ago Curator: Susan Landauer Catalogue: 220 pp., with essays by Susan Landauer and Barry Schwabsky. Funding: Rudolph W. Driscoll Trust, Koret Foundation

	John Currin Dressing Up 1996		The Charged Image from the Collection of Douglas C. Cramer Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford Sept. 7-Oct. 17, 2004 Works by Ghada Amer, Louise Bourgeois, Cecily Brown, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Willem de Kooning, John Currin and many others, from the Hollywood producer who helped found L.A. MOCA and is credited with inventing the television miniseries Catalogue: essay by Robert Rosenblum

	Seaman Schepps Ruby and Diamond Fish 1930		Seaman Schepps: A Century of New York Jewelry Design 1904-2004 Museum of Arts and Design, New York Sept. 8, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005 Approximately 150 pieces of jewelry, design renderings, reproductions from fashion publications, and jewelry molds from one of Americas most innovative 20th century jewelry firms, whose clients included Marlene Dietrich, the Roosevelts and the Rockefellers and the British royal family. Catalogue: 204 pp., with essays by jewelry historian Janet Zapata and Seaman Scheppss granddaughter Amanda Vaill, Vendome Press, $65 hardcover

	Ignacio Iturria Jugando en la Pileta (Playing in the Pool) 2004		Ignacio Iturria: Everything Has a Face Boca Raton Museum of Art Sept. 8-Nov. 7, 2004 More than 50 paintings and mixed media constructions by one of Uruguays best-known contemporary painters Curator: Wayne Baerwaldt Catalogue: the cover is an original artwork by Iturria, $48.95 Tour: Power Plant, Toronto, March 2005 Funding: Praxis International Art

	Pepón Osorio Face to Face 2002		Trials and Turbulence: Pepn Osorio, an Artist in Residence at DHS Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Sept. 8-Dec. 12, 2004 In a project that caps a three-year-long artist-in-residence stint at the Philadelphia Department of Human Services (DHS), the Puerto-Rican born installation artist transforms the museums first floor galleries into a work of "social architecture" that reflects the life and lives of the welfare office Curators: Ingrid Schaffner, Johanna Plummer Funding: National Endowment for the Arts, University of Pennsylvania Diversity Fund, Kenneth Goldenberg - Goldenberg Realty, Philadelphia Department of Human Services, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, others Also on view: "Ant Farm: 1968-1978," "David Lamelas: Exhibiting Mediality" and "Ramp Project: Amy Sillman," all on view Sept. 8-Dec. 12, 2004

	Zoë Charlton Homeland Security 2004		Talespinning: Selections Fall 2004 Drawing Center Sept. 9-Oct. 23, 2004 Works on paper by 14 artists, selected from the centers viewing program, who create new allegories of the fantastical, the iconic, the uncanny and the mundane. Artists include Noriko Ambe, Alice Attie, Zo Charlton and Amy Wilson Catalogue: Drawing Papers 47, with statements by the artists, $10

	Donald Judd Armchair (b48) 1984		Design ≠ Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum Sept. 10, 2004-Feb. 20, 2005 Functional designs by 18 artists from the past 50 years, including furniture, lighting, rugs, table settings and more by the likes of Donald Judd, Scott Burton, Richard Tuttle, Sol Lewitt, Jorge Pardo, Tom Sachs, Rosemarie Trockel and Franz West. Curators: Barbara Bloemink, Joseph Cunningham Catalogue: 224 pp., with essays by Barbara Bloemink, Joseph Cunningham, Richard Tuttle, Donald Judd and Scott Burton, $49.95 hardcover, $39.95 softcover Funding: Barbara and Morton Mandel Also on view: "Josef and Anni Albers: Designs for Living," Oct. 1, 2004-Feb. 27, 2005

	Friedl Dicker-Brandeis Untitled (Anti Capitalist Poster) ca. 1931-35		Innovator, Activist, Healer: The Art of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis Jewish Museum Sept. 10, 2004-Jan. 16, 2005 The first full-scale exhibition of the work of Dicker-Brandeis (1898-1944), who taught at the Bauhaus, features 150 works -- furniture, textiles, oil paintings, drawings, stage and costume designs. Curator: Elena Makarova Catalogue: 240 pp., $64.95 hardcover, $35 softcover

	Ilya Kabakov Before the Exam (detail) 2002		The Teacher and the Student: Charles Rosenthal and Ilya Kabakov Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland Sept. 10, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005 Timed to coincide with Kabakovs 70th birthday, this show is a "total installation" of over 100 monumental paintings, sculpture fragments, drawings and didactic portfolios displayed throughout the museums main galleries, which the artist is transforming into a Beaux Arts-style museum ("Charles Rosenthal," a representational painter, is a fictional creation of Kabakovs). Curator: Jill Snyder Catalogue: designed by Ilya Kabakov.

	Albrecht Dörer Melancholia I 1514		Proof of Genius: The Prints of Albrecht Dürer UCLA Hammer Museum Sept. 11, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005 Approximately 30 woodcuts, engravings and etchings from UCLAs Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts Curator: Cynthia Burlingham

	Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty 1970		Robert Smithson Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Sept. 12-Dec. 3, 2004 The first comprehensive retrospective of earthwork artist Robert Smithson (1938-73) features over 150 works, including paintings, works on paper, essays, photographs, objects, and films from 1955 to 1973. Curators: Eugenie Tsai, Connie Butler Tour: Dallas Museum of Art, Jan. 14-April 3, 2005; Whitney Museum of American Art, summer 2005 Catalogue: 228 pp., with essays by Eugenie Tsai, Thomas Crow and Connie Butler, $34.95 Funding: Ahmanson Foundation, Henry Luce Foundation, Altria Group, Inc., The Barbara and Fred Kort Family Foundation in honor of Tom Unterman, Janet and Tom Unterman, Dwell, Fifth Floor Foundation, Emily Rauh Pulitzer.

	Julian Schnabel Owl 1980		Tear Down This Wall: Paintings from the 1980s Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Sept. 12, 2004-Jan. 3, 2005 Works by Julian Schnabel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Carroll Dunham, Eric Fischl and Jörg Immendorff from MOCAs own prodigious collection

	Robbert Flick SV66, at Solstice from "Sequential Views" 1984		Trajectories: The Photographic Work of Robbert Flick Los Angeles County Museum of Art Sept. 12, 2004-Jan. 9, 2005 The first major retrospective of this Los Angeles landscape photographer includes 80 works that follow Flicks progression from straight black-and-white photography in the late 1960s to the color digital pictures he is making today. Curator: Tim B. Wride Catalogue: 317 pp., with essays by Tim B. Wride, Michael Dear and David Ulin, $85 clothbound Funding: Ralph M. Parsons Foundation

	Atsuko Tanaka Electric Dress 1956		Electrifying Art: Atsuko Tanaka, 1954-1968 Grey Art Gallery, NYU Sept. 14-Dec. 11, 2004 The Japanese artists most famous work, Electric Dress (1956), is accompanied by 15 early abstract paintings and 40 drawings Curators: Ming Tiampo, Mizuho Katö Catalogue: 128 pp., with essays by Ming Tiampo and Mizuho Kato and a compilation of Tanakas writings, $30 hardcover Tour: Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Canada

	A black buck India (Mughal) ca. 1650		In the Realm of Gods and Kings: Arts of India Asia Society Sept. 14, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005 The more than 75 works on viewpaintings, decorative objects, sculpture and photography from the 2nd century B.C.E. to the early 20th centuryare selections from the Cynthia and Leon Polsky collection, rounded out by loans from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Cynthia Polsky either donated or provided the Met with funds to purchase these objects.) The exhibition is especially strong on Indian art from the 16th to 19th centuries, the focus of the Polskys collection Curator: Dr. Vishakha N. Desai Catalogue: 380 pp., essays by Dr. Vishakha N. Desai, John Falconer, Dr. Navina Haidar, Jeremiah Losty and Michael Spink, $60 hardcover Funding: Merrill Lynch Also on view: "When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection," Sept. 14, 2004-Jan. 23, 2005

	Byron Kim photographed in front of Grunion Run 2001		Threshold: Byron Kim 1990-2004 Berkeley Art Museum Sept. 15-Dec. 12, 2004 The first major museum retrospective of the Korean American artist Curator: Eugenie Tsai Catalogue: 100 pp., with essays by Eugenie Tsai, Constance Lewallen, Anoka Faruqee, and Byron Kim, $25 paper Tour: Samsung Museum, Seoul, Mar. 10-May 8, 2005; MCA San Diego, May 29-Sept. 4, 2005; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 23, 2005-Jan. 22, 2006; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, dates to be announced; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, summer 2006; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Oct. 14, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007 Funding: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Peter Norton Family Foundation, RBC Dain Rauscher, Consortium for the Arts at UC Berkeley.

	Lisa Larsen Jacqueline Kennedy dancing at her wedding reception September 14, 1953		Looking at LIFE International Center of Photography Sept. 17-Nov. 28, 2004 200 prints from the entire span of LIFE Magazine (1936-72), including works by Margaret Bourke-White, W. Eugene Smith, Gordon Parks, Larry Burrows and Robert Capa Curator: Carol Squiers, Vanessa Rocco Catalogue: a related publication, The Great LIFE Photographers, is available from Bulfinch Press Funding: LIFE Magazine, Time Inc. Also on view: "Ant Farm Presents Media Burn and The Eternal Frame," "JFK for President: Photographs by Cornell Capa," "Inconvenient Evidence: Iraqi Prison Photographs from Abu Ghraib," Sept. 17-Nov. 28, 2004

	Terry Winters Computational Architecture 1995		Terry Winters: Paintings, Drawings, Prints 1994-2004 Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass. Sept. 17, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005 A decades worth of Winters work, including his artists books, organized into seven chronological groups Curator: Adam D. Weinberg Catalogue: 176 pp., with essays by Richard Shiff and Adam D. Weinberg, $50 hardcover Tour: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Jan. 23-Apr. 17, 2005; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Apr. 30-July 10, 2005

	Kwabena P. Slaughter The Poetry of Facts 2003		Adaptive Behavior New Museum of Contemporary Art Sept. 18-Nov. 13, 2004 Works by Robin Rhode, Kerry Tribe, Robert Melee and eight other artists whose video and photos blur the boundaries between performance and normal behavior, in a show mounted at the museum's temporary outpost, The Chelsea Art Museum Curators: Trevor Smith, Yukie Kamiya, Dan Cameron Also on view: "Rules of Crime: Kayle Brandon & Heath Bunting," Sept. 18-Nov. 13, 2004

	Jessica Stockholder 2003		Jessica Stockholder: Kissing the Wall: Works, 1988-2003 Blaffer Gallery Sept. 18-Nov. 21, 2004 35 sculptures, wall works and drawings chart the assemblage artists career Curator: Terrie Sultan, Nancy Doll Catalogue: 96 pp., with essays by Elspeth Carruthers and Miwon Kwon Tour: Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Feb. 13-May 8, 2005 Sponsor: Altria Group, Inc. Also on view: A new installation by Stockholder, Sam Walked on Sand or Sand Walked on Sam, will be on view at the Rice University Art Gallery, Sept. 16-Oct. 31, 2004

	Alfred William Hunt Finchale Priory 1861		The Poetry of Truth: Alfred William Hunt and the Art of Landscape Yale Center for British Art Sept. 18-Dec. 12, 2004 65 watercolors, drawings, sketchbooks and oils by the 19th century, John Ruskin-inspired British landscape painter. Curator: Christopher Newall, Colin Harrison, Scott Wilcox Catalogue: 184 pp., with essays by Scott Wilcox, Christopher Newall Tour: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Jan. 26-Apr. 3, 2005

	Paul Swenbeck Specter of the Brocken (work in progress, detail) 2004		Paul Swenbeck: Specter of the Brocken Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Sept. 18-Nov. 21, 2004 A site specific installation by the Philadelphia artist uses cast resin creatures, Plexiglas ghosts, wall murals, mirrors and theatrical lighting to explore the myth of the Brocken, a demonic apparition once believed to inhabit the German Harz Mountains. Curator: Alex Baker Also on view: "Heartland: Paintings and Drawings by Bo Bartlett, 1978-2002," Sept. 18-Nov. 14, 2004

	Shahzia Sikander Production still from a work in progress 2004		Shahzia Sikander: Nemesis Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Sept. 19, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005 The latest works by the Pakistan-born artist, including animations, drawings and a site-specific installation Curators: Ian Berry, Jessica Hough Catalogue: 96 pp., with essay by Jessica Hough and short fiction by Mohsin Hamid

	Jan Matulka Boats and Houses - Gloucester ca. 1935		Jan Matulka: The Global Modernist Montclair Art Museum Sept. 19, 2004-Jan. 16, 2005 66 paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints made by the Czech-American modernist between 1916 and 1950. Curator: Patterson Sims with TMG Projects and the estate of Jan Matulka Catalogue: 72 pp., essay by Whitney Rugg, $25 Tour: Greenville (S.C.) County Museum of Art, Mar. 1-May 1, 2005; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, June 18-July 24, 2005; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Aug. 27- Nov.27, 2005; Avampato Discovery Museum, Charleston, W.V., Jan. 14-Mar. 19, 2006; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Apr. 19-June 11, 2006 Also on view: "Indian Space Works from the Montclair Art Museums Permanent Collection," Sept. 19, 2004-Jan. 16, 2005

	Lothar Baumgarten Memphis Bridge, St. Louis San Francisco Railway Harahan Bridge, Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Mississippi River, Memphis, Tennessee 1989		Lothar Baumgarten: Carbon Dallas Museum of Art Sept. 19-Dec. 5, 2004 Three large wall drawings, 116 photographs and other works form the most comprehensive presentation of the German artists "Carbon" project, a documentation of the six months he spent traveling Americas railroad tracks in 1989. Curator: John R. Lane

			Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art Museum for African Art, New York Sept. 21, 2004-Jan. 3, 2005 Commemorating the first decade of democracy in South Africa, this show consists of newly commissioned and recently produced works by 17 South African artists including Jane Alexander, Wim Botha, Steven Cohen, Churchill Madikida, Mustafa Maluka, Thando Mama, Samson Mudzunga, Jay Pather, Johannes Phokela, Robin Rhode, Claudette Schreuders, Berni Searle, Doreen Southwood, Clive van den Berg, Minnette Vári, Diane Victor and Sandile Zulu. An accompanying performing arts program is being held at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine. Curators: Laurie Ann Farrell, David Brodie, Churchill Madikida, Sophie Perryer, Liese van der Watt Catalogue: 176 pp., with essays by Okwui Enwezor, Tracy Murinik and Liese van der Watt, $40 paper Funding: Spier, International Marketing Council

	Louisa Matthíasdóttir Self-Portrait with Red Kerchief ca. 1980		Louisa Matthíasdóttir: A Retrospective Scandinavia House, New York Sept. 21-Nov. 13, 2004 About 75 works including oil paintings, miniatures, works on paper and rarely seen clothing patterns spanning the 60-year career of this Iceland-born artist, who died four years ago Catalogue: essays by Hilton Kramer and Nicholas Fox Weber

	Shomei Tomatsu Untitled (Iwakuni) from the series "Chewing Gum and Chocolate" 1960		Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation Japan Society Gallery Sept. 22, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005 Some 260 photographs drawing largely from Tomatsus own collection cover 50 years of the Japanese photographers depictions of the people, cities and rural landscapes of postwar Japan Curators: Sandra Phillips, Leo Rubinfien Catalogue: 208 pp., $45 (clothcover), with essays by Sandra Phillips, Leo Rubinfien, John W. Dower Tour: Corcoran Gallery of Art, May 21-Aug. 29, 2005; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oct. 15, 2005-Feb. 12, 2006; Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Sept. 1-Nov. 12, 2006 Funding: Canon U.S.A., Inc.

	Boris Mikhailov From the series "Red, USSR" 196875		Boris Mikhailov: A Retrospective Institute of Contemporary Art Boston Sept. 22, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005 500 photographs from 25 different series by the Ukrainian photographer known for his documentation of the Soviet Union at its height, decline and fall Curator: Emily Moore coordinated the Boston showing Catalogue: 176 pp., with essays by Urs Stahel, Ekaterina Dyogot, Anne von der Heiden, Michael Schischkin, Inka Schube, Helen Petrovsky and Margarita Tupitsyn, $45 cloth Tour: The show was organized by the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, where it appeared last year; the Boston ICA is its only U.S. stop Also on view: "Momentum 2/Lucy McKenzie," Sept. 22, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005

	Vincet Mazeau EVIL/EXIT- Theater 2003		Nothing Compared to This: ambient, incidental and new minimal tendencies in current art Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati Sept. 24-Nov. 28, 2004 Works by Ricci Albenda, Francis Cape, Martin Creed, Do Ho Suh, Brian Eno, Gaylen Gerber, Liam Gillick, Dominque Gonzalez-Foerster, Kara Hamilton, Vincent Mazeau, Jorge Pardo, Todd Pavlisko, Karin Sander, Tavares Strachan, Iran do Esprito Santo, Rikrit Tiranvanija and Andrea Zittel Curator: Charles Desmarais.

	Pavel Tchelitchew Costume design for Errante 1935		Ballets Russes to Balanchine: Dance at the Wadsworth Atheneum Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Sept. 25, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005 Celebrating the centennial of ballet choreographer George Balanchine, via 80 works of art, more than 25 costumes, and archival material and photographs, by artists Léon Bakst, Alexandre Benois, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Natalia Goncharova, André Derain, Giorgio de Chirico, Pavel Tchelitchew and others. The exhibition includes set and costume designs from the museums Serge Lifar Collection (a dancer, Lifar was Diaghilevs last protégé) Catalogue: 48 pp., with essays by Eric M. Zafran, Eugene R. Gaddis, and Susan Hood Funding: Katherine S. Hoffman and Dr. Anthony S. Krausen Fund, David T. Langrock Foundation, Linda and Edmund Sonnenblick, Sotheby's

	Yang Fudong An Estranged Paradise 1997 - 2002		Yang Fudong Renaissance Society, University of Chicago Sept. 26-Nov. 7, 2004 Among the five works on view by this young, Shanghai-based filmmaker are the second chapter of his five-part film Seven Chinese Intellectuals and his earlier film An Estranged Paradise

	Giambologna Mars		European Bronzes from the Quentin Collection Frick Collection Sept. 28, 2004-Jan. 2, 2005 Nearly 40 statuettes from the 15th-18th centuries in bronze, terracotta and precious metal, by such masters as Giambologna and Francesco Fanelli, from a little-known private collection Curator: Organized at the Frick by Denise Allen Catalogue: 360 pp., with essays by Dr. Manfred Leithe-Jasper and Patricia Wengraf, $125 cloth

	Incense Burner (sahumador) late 18th century		The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 15301830 Metropolitan Museum of Art Sept. 29-Dec. 12, 2004 The Mets most ambitious show of Latin American material in over a decade features more than 175 works, including Inca and colonial garments and tapestries, and ritual and domestic silverwork, drawn from museums, churches and private collections in South America Europe and the United States Curators: Johanna Hecht, Elena Phipps Catalogue: 400 pp., with essays by Elena Phipps and Johanna Hecht, $75 cloth Funding: Univision Communications Inc., Reed Foundation