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 A photo of a quantuum corral taken with a scanning tunneling microscope |
Beyond Appearances: Imagery in Science at the Millennium Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York Jan. 7-Mar. 31, 2000 Photographs made with scientific instruments such as the radio-telescope, transatmospheric telescope and electron microscope. |
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 Sean Scully 10.3.98 Barcelona 1998 |
Sean Scully Metropolitan Museum Jan. 11-Mar. 12, 2000 Recent watercolors, pastels and photographs by the American artist, including his etchings Pomes Penyeach, which accompany a suite of James Joyces' poems, and photos taken in Scotland in 1990. Curator: Lowery Stokes Sims, Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
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| Female Images, Female Lives in Asian Art Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. Jan. 11-Apr. 16, 2000 Chinese and Japanese paintings, ceramics, prints and calligraphy either depicting women, such as female deities, or by women. |
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 Vernon Fisher Nose Pressed Against the Glass 1994 |
Vernon Fisher's File 00 Houston Museum of Fine Arts Jan. 13-Mar. 5, 2000 Conceptual works interweaving image and text by the Texas artist. Curator: Valerie Loupe Olsen, Glassell School of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts. |
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| Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: Banks in Pink and Blue Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Jan. 14-Apr. 16, 2000 The post-minimalist artist addresses issues of genetics, ethics and esthetics via a sculptural installation composed of sperm banks, a liquid nitrogen tank, monitor and video player, framed contracts and abstract DNA portraits. |
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 Shakyamuni 17th century |
Worlds of Transformation: Tibetan Art of Wisdom and Compassion Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth Jan. 16-Mar. 26, 2000 60 paintings from the recently assembled collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin, premiere connoisseurs of Tibetan art. |
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 Milton Avery Three Friends 1944 |
Welcome Home Milton! Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York Jan. 16-April 23, 2000 28 of Milton Avery's figurative and landscape paintings dating 1929-61, from the collection of the museum's founding patron Roy R. Neuberger, who acquired more than 100 of the artist's works in the early 1940s. |
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 Sergei Eisenstein Snake Dancer, Harlem 1944 |
The Body of the Line: Eisenstein's Drawings The Drawing Center, New York Jan. 18-Mar. 1, 2000 100 drawings by Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein (1898-1948), who made such films as The Battleship Potemkin. Curator: Jean Gagnon, Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, Montreal. |
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 Valie Export Self-Portrait 1970 |
Valie Export: Ob/De + Con(Struction) Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia Jan. 18-Feb. 27, 2000 30 years of the Viennese feminist performance artist's work, via photography, drawing, installations and films. Catalogue essays: Robert Fleck, Chrissie Iles, Gary Indaina, Kristine Stiles. |
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 Rose-Marie Guillaume Portrait of Mlle. Breuil 1892 |
Overcoming All Obstacles: Women of the Académie Julian Dahesh Museum, New York Jan. 18-Mar. 12, 2000 Paintings by female artists of the Académie Julian, the 19th-century alternative to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, which did not admit women until 1897, including Cecilia Beaux, Elizabeth Gardner Bouguereau, Anna Klumpke, Marie Bashkirtseff, Käthe Kollwitz and Mary-Helen Carlisle. Curators: Gabriel Weisberg, guest curator; Jane Becker, formerly of the Dahesh; Catherine Fehrer, Académie Julian scholar. Catalogue essays: Jane Becker, Catherine Fehrer, Tamar Garb, Gabriel Weisberg. |
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| Poussin Landscapes by Leon Kossoff J. Paul Getty Museum Jan. 18-Apr. 16, 2000 The British artist's drawings and etchings on view with the source of their inspiration, Nicolas Poussin's paintings Landscape with a Calm (National Gallery, London) and Landscape with a Man Killed by a Snake (National Gallery, Washington, D.C.). On view in conjunction with "Drawn to Painting: Leon Kossoff's Drawings and Prints after Nicolas Poussin" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Curator: John Walsh, Getty Museum director. |
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 Leon Kossoff Bacchanal before a Herm #3 1997 |
Drawn to Painting: Leon Kossoff's Drawings and Prints after Nicolas Poussin Los Angeles County Museum of Art Jan. 20-Apr. 2, 2000 Kosoff's recent 40-drawing homage to the 17th-century French painter. A complementary exhibition of Kosoff's landscapes is currently on view at the Getty Museum. Curator: Victor Carlson, LACMA. |
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 Roy Lichtenstein Study for Vicki 1964 |
Seattle Collects Lichtenstein Seattle Art Museum Jan. 20-May 14, 2000 25 examples of the Pop artist's paintings, drawings, sculpture and prints. Curator: Trevor Fairbrother and Mary Shirley of SAM. |
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 Salvador Dalí Disappearing Bust of Voltaire 1940 |
Savador Dalí's Optical Illusions The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford Jan. 21-Mar. 26, 2000 The Wadsworth -- the first museum ever to purchase a painting by Dalí and the first to present a major exhibition of Surrealist work -- continues its tradition with a survey of the artist's trompe l'oeil work. Curator: Dawn Ades, Surrealism scholar. Funding: United Technologies Corporation. |
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 Douglas Gordon Confessions of a Justified Sinner 1996 |
Interventions: New Art in Unconventional Spaces Milwaukee Art Museum Jan. 21-Apr. 23, 2000 Works by contemporary artistes Rineke Dijkstra, Robert Gober, Douglas Gordon, Martin Honert, Ilya Kabakov, Cheonae Kim, Sharon Lockhart, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Cornelia Parker and Elizabeth Peyton "unconventionally" installed in the museum permanent collection galleries. |
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 William Gedney Untitled 1964 |
Short Distances and Definite Places: The Photographs of William Gedney San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Jan. 21-May 16, 2000 Images from the mid-1960s to early 1970s of coal miner's families in Kentucky, hippies in Haight-Ashbury, street scenes in Indian cities and the view from Gedney's Brooklyn apartment. Curator: Sandra S. Phillips, SFMoMA. Catalogue essays: Margaret Sartor, Geoff Dyer, Maria Friedlander. |
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| A Concrete Vision: Oshgobo Art in the 1960s National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C. Jan. 23-Oct. 22, 2000 The artistic renaissance in Oshgobo, Nigeria, via works by 10 Yoruba artists, including Adebisi Akanji, Rufus Ogundele, Twins Seven-Seven and Asiru Olatunde. Curator: David Binkley, National Museum of African Art. |
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 Thomas Hirschhorn Swissair Landing 1999 |
Thomas Hirschhorn The Art Institute of Chicago Jan. 23-Apr. 19, 2000 A new installation made of "found" refuse by the Swiss-born artist. Curator: James Rondeau, Art Institute of Chicago. |
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 Nils Norman Thompkins Square Park Monument to Civil Disobedience 1997 |
Small World: Dioramas in Contemporary Art San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art Jan. 23-Apr. 30, 2000 Models of real or imaginary environments by Michael Ashkin, Helen Cohen, Mat Collishaw, Liz Craft, Mark Dion, Bridget and Tina Marrin, Tony Matelli, Nils Norman, Alexis Rockman, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Clara Williams. Curator: Toby Kamps, MCA, San Diego. Funding: Lannan Foundation, Dr. Charles C. and Sue K. Edwards, et. al. |
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| Donald Sultan Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis Jan. 23-Apr. 9, 2000 20 large-scale still-life paintings by the contemporary American artist. Curator: Dana Holland-Beickert, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis. Tour: The exhibition travels to the Corcoran Gallery, Kemper Museum of Art, Polk Museum of Art and Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. Funding: Fed Ex. |
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 Joyce J. Scott Ghost of a Drag Queen Haunting Me 1999 (detail) |
Joyce J. Scott: Kickin' It with the Old Masters Baltimore Museum of Art and the Maryland Institute, College of Art Jan. 23-Apr. 9, 2000 100 socially critical works including prints, jewelry, installation pieces and performance art by Baltimore artist Joyce J. Scott. Curator: George Ciscle, Maryland Institute. Catalogue essays: Leslie King-Hammond, Mel Watkins, Keith Morrison and Mary Jane Jacob. Sponsor: AT&T et al. |
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 Elisabetta Gut Book in a Cage 1981 |
Book as Art XII: Artists' Books from the Permanent Collection National Museum of Women in the Arts Jan. 24-July 1, 2000 The 12th annual exhibition featuring more than 500 limited-edition mixed media works by American and international artists. Curator: Krystyna Wasserman, NMWA. Funding: Library Fellows. |
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 Rev. Ethan Acres Miracle at La Brea 1997 |
Faith: The Impact of Judeo-Christian Religion on Art at the Millennium Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Jan. 24-May 2000 Contemporary art by Barbara Broughel, Christof Klute, Andres Serrano, James Turrell, Allan Wexler and Jo Yarrington, among others. Curators: Artists Christian Eckart and Osvaldo Romberg; Aldrich Museum director Harry Philbrick. |
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 Armet with Mask Visor German or Austrian ca. 1520-25 |
European Helmets, 1450-1650 Metropolitan Museum of Art Jan. 25, 2000-Jan. 2001 The technology and fashion of European head protection via 70 helmets from the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. Curator: Stuart Pyhrr, Metropolitan Museum. |
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 Jasper Johns Untitled 1998 |
Jasper Johns: New Paintings and Works on Paper Yale University Art Gallery Jan. 25-Apr. 9, 2000 12 new works with empty, open fields of gray, suggestive of the artist's earlier impasto works. Curator: Elise S. Haas, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Catalogue essays: Richard S. Field and Joachim Pisarro. Tour: The exhibition originated at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and travels to the Dallas Museum of Art. |
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| Masterpieces of Korean Ceramics from the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka Metropolitan Museum of Art Jan. 25-Mar. 26, 2000 48 pieces dating from the 12th to 19th centuries, including celadon wares of the Koryo dynasty and punch'ong stoneware from the Choson dynasty. Curators: Ikutaro Itoh, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka; Judith Smith, Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
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 Basket 1735-36 |
The Alan and Simone Hartman Collection of English Silver 1680-1760: The Huguenot Legacy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Jan. 26, 2000- 111 pieces of silver made when Protestant immigrants including many skilled craftsmen, fled to England because of religious intolerance in France. Curator: Ellenor Alcorn, MFA, Boston. Funding: Alan and Simone Hartman and the Harriet J. Bradbury Fund. |
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 Willem de Kooning Untitled (Seated Woman on the Beach) 1966-67 |
Willem de Kooning: In Process The Menil Collection, Houston Jan. 27-Mar. 12, 2000 Tracings, photographs and drawings by the late Abstract Expressionist. Curator: Klaus Kertess, independent art writer and curator of the 1995 Whitney Biennial. |
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 Ernest C. Withers Issac Hayes 1970s |
Pictures Tell the Story: Ernest C. Withers Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va. Jan. 28-May 7, 2000 The first retrospective of the southern American photographer, renowned for his documentation of the Civil Rights Movement and the Memphis music scene. Curator: Brooks Johnson, Chrysler Museum. Catalogue essays: F. Jack Hurley, Brooks Johnson, Daniel Wolff. Tour: The exhibition travels to the International Center of Photography, New York. Funding: Metropolitan Life Foundation. |
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 Camille Pissarro Peasant Sitting in the Setting Sun 1892 |
Impressionism to the Present: Camille Pissarro and His Descendants Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale Jan. 29-April 30, 2000 156 works by the "Father of Impressionism" and his heirs, including his son Lucien. The exhibition is a variation of "Camille Pissarro and the Pissarro Family," which was organized by the Japanese Association of Art Museums and toured internationally in 1998. Curators: David S. Stern, Pisarro family specialist; Talma Zakai-Kanner, Impressionist and 20th-century art consultant. Catalogue essays: Christopher Lloyd, Richard R. Bretell, Anne Thorold. |
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| David Byrne Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Jan. 29-June 4, 2000 The musician-cum-artist's critique of mass media and pop culture with backlit photographs and Acoustiguides. |
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 Helen Levitt New York 1951 |
Crossing the Line: Photography Reconsidered Art Institute of Chicago Jan. 29-June 4, 2000 125 photographs from permanent collection that challenge the definitions of genre. Curator: David Travis, Art Institute of Chicago. |
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 Ray Johnson Untitled (James Dean in the Rain) ca. 1955-58 |
Ray Johnson: Correspondences Wexner Center for the Arts, Minneapolis Jan. 29-April 16, 2000 Collages, paintings, objects and silhouette portraits from the founder of the New York Correspondence School. Curator: Donna de Salvo, Wexner Center. Tour: The exhibition appeared at the Whitney Museum of American Art. |
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 Jim Dine Two in the Darkness 1993 |
End Papers: Drawings, 1890-1900 and 1990-2000 Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York Jan. 30-April 23, 2000 A comparison of the 19th- and 20th-century fin de siécle frame of mind via drawings from Pierre Bonnard and Käthe Kollwitz to Richard Artschwager and Sol Le Witt. Curator: Judy Collischan, Neuberger Museum. |
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