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	Johannes Cornelisz Verspronk Andries Stilte as a Standard Bearer 1640		Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Oct. 1-Feb. 4, 2001 140 acquisitions from the last decade, with particular emphasis on Renaissance art, 17th century Dutch art and 19th century painting -- Botticelli, D�rer, Raphael, Rubens, van Dyck, Rembrandt, Degas, Homer, Monet, van Gogh, Calder, Dubuffet, Johns, more. Curator: Alan Shestack, National Gallery. Catalogue: $50 (soft cover). Funding: Verizon Foundation.

	Female dancer China, Western Han dynasty 2nd-1st BC		The Year One: Art of the Ancient World East and West Metropolitan Museum of Art Oct. 3-Jan. 14, 2001 From the museum's collection, nearly 150 works of art produced around the world in the period just before and after the Year One. Curators: Elizabeth J. Milleker, Met; with the assistance of Christopher Lightfoot, Marsha Hill, Joan Aruz, Melanie Holcomb, and Julie Jones. Catalogue: $45 (hardcover).

	Simon Ungers with Thomas Kinslow T-House 1992		The Un-Private House Hammer Museum at UCLA Oct. 4-Jan. 7, 2001 Models, computer generated images and digitally enhanced photos by a roster of international architects -- including Shigeru Ban, Francois de Menil, Hariri & Hariri, Rem Koolhaas and MVRDV -- whose designs reflect the transformation of the home in response to social phenomena such as changing demographic patterns, shifting definitions of privacy and new concepts of work and leisure. Also on view are: "Three New Hammer Projects" (works commissioned for the museum by British filmmaker Simon Henwood, yBa painter Paul Morrison and L.A.-based sculptor Pentti Mokkonen) and "Live Dangerously" (designs for life in the 21st century by UCLA faculty members in collaboration with graduate students in the department of Architecture and Urban Design). Curator: Terence Riley, MoMA (where the show first appeared). Catalogue: 151 pp., $29.95. Funding: J.P. Morgan; Lily Auchincloss Fund for Contemporary Architecture.

	Edward Steichen Norma Shearer standing beside antique commode from Vogue 1935		Edward Steichen Whitney Museum Oct. 5-Feb. 4, 2001 Almost 200 vintage prints by the American photographer -- portraits, fashion, landscapes, advertising, combat -- as well as rarely seen examples of Steichen's work as painter, designer of textiles and curator of exhibitions (46 shows as director of photography at MoMA). Curator: Barbara Haskell, Whitney Museum. Catalogue: 127 pp., available in hardcover. Funding: HSBC Bank USA; Henry Luce Foundation; National Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art; New York Community Trust; Wallace Reader's Digest Special Projects Fund; Aaron and Betty Lee Stern Foundation.

	Set of six chairs, NH; 1830-50		Creating Perfection: Shaker Objects and their Affinities Seattle Art Museum Oct. 5-April 29, 2001 19th century Shaker art juxtaposed with post-1950s Minimalism -- 100 objects, primarily furniture, textiles and about 40 works on paper. Curators: John T. Kirk, art historian, lecturer, cabinetmaker and author; Trevor Fairbrother, SAM; Rock Hushka, formerly of SAM. Catalogue: $60. Written by co-curator John T. Kirk. Funding: Ruth and Bill True; King County Arts Commission; Charles Simonyi Exhibition Endowment; SAM Annual Fund.

	John Frederick Kensett Berkeley Rock, Newport 1856		Humanizing Landscapes: Geography, Culture and the Magoon Collection Vassar College, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Oct. 5-Dec. 20, 2000 From the Old World to the Hudson Valley -- 70 oil paintings, watercolors, prints and drawings by 55 artists -- Frederic Edwin Church, Sanford Robinson Glifford, Asher B. Durand, more -- purchased directly or commissioned by Elias Magoon before he sold them to Matthew Vassar in 1864 in the benevolent interest of art education. Curators: David Lowenthal, University College, London; Karen Lucic, Vassar College; Harvey Flad, Vassar College. Catalogue: 108 pp., available in soft cover for $25. Funding: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

	Lee Krasner Mysteries 1972		Lee Krasner Brooklyn Museum of Art Oct. 6-Jan. 7, 2001 60 paintings, collages and drawings on loan from major collections around the world in the first major retrospective of this American painter's work since her death in 1984. Curators: Robert Hobbs, Virginia Commonwealth University; Charlotta Kotik, BMA. Organized by Independent Curators International (ICI). Tour: Began at Los Angeles County Museum of Art in October 1999, traveled to Des Moines Art Center and then the Akron Art Museum, where it has been on view since June 2000. BMA will be the final stop in its national tour. Catalogue: Includes an essay by Hobbs and an introduction by B.H. Friedman, an early champion of the artist, that features previously unpublished excerpts from his diaries. Funding: Phillip Morris Companies Inc.

	Joan Liftin Daughter of one of the dancers for the Haitian Flag Day ceremonies on May 18th, 1999		Indivisible: Stories of American Community Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago Oct. 6-Nov. 26, 2000 A documentary project featuring the work of 22 photographers that explores grassroots community action throughout the U.S. Curators: Tom Rankin, Duke University; Trudy Wilner Stack, Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. Catalogue: $29.95. Tour: After its premiere at the Terra Museum, the exhibition travels to Akron Art Museum (Dec.16- Feb. 25, 2001); Center for Creative Photography, Tucson (July 14 -Sept. 30, 2001); North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh (Oct. 21-Jan. 6, 2002); Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla (Jan. 27-April 21, 2002); John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota; (May 11-July 13, 2002); Philadelphia Museum of Art (Aug. 10 -Oct. 6, 2002); Anchorage Museum of History and Art (Oct. 28-Dec. 31, 2002). Funding: The Pew Charitable Trusts.

	Eugène Atget Rue Galande, Paris, April 15, 1899		Eug�ne Atget: The Pioneer International Center of Photography, 1130 Fifth Avenue, New York City Oct. 7-Jan. 21, 2001 Over 160 images by the turn-of-the-century Parisian photographer and the artists whose work he influenced -- Walker Evans, Bill Brandt, Marcel Duchamp, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Paul Strand and August Sander. On loan from the collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, the Musee Carnavalet and the Bibliotheque Historique de la Ville de Paris -- institutions that rarely lend materials for foreign exhibitions -- this is a rare opportunity to view the documentarian's views of Paris in the first three decades of the 20th century. Curators: Jean-Claude Lemagny, with the collaboration of Pierre Bohomme and Yannick Vigouroux. Funding: Andrew and Marina Lewin; Lepercq, de Neuflize & Co., Inc.

	Eugéne Gaillard Cabinet from dining room of the pavillion L'Art Nouveau Bing 1900		Art Nouveau, 1890-1914 National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Oct. 8-Jan. 28, 2001 A comprehensive overview of the turn-of-the-century art movement, featuring more than 350 masterpieces in art and design. Among the highlights are a Glasgow luncheon room designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and a Paris Metropolitan entrance (ca. 1898) by Hector Guimard. Curator: Paul Greenhalgh, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Tour: The show premiered at the Victoria and Albert, April 6-July 30, 2000 and subsequently appears at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum, April 12-July 8, 2001. Catalogue: 464 pp.; $35 (softcover) and $75 (hardcover). Funding: DaimlerChrysler Corporation Fund; Terra Foundation of the Arts; Robert P. and Arlene R. Kogod; Eleanor and Donald Taffner.

	Bruce Conner Sound of Two Hand Angel 1974		2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Oct. 8-Jan. 14, 2001 A survey of the San Francisco-based artist's films and works in assemblage, painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, printmaking and photography. Among the approximately 150 works on view are early Beat assemblages and films from the 1950s that have been newly restored or are being shown publicly for the first time in decades. Curators: Peter Boswell (former Walker Art Center curator and currently senior curator/assistant director for programs at the Miami Art Museum), Bruce Jenkins (former Walker film/video curator and currently curator, Harvard Film Archives); Joan Rothfuss, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Coordinated at MOCA by Colette Darnell. Tour: Prior to its presentation at MOCA, the exhibition was on view at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (Oct. 9-Jan. 2, 2000), Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Feb. 6-April 23, 2000) and the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco (May 21-July 30, 2000). Catalogue: 280 pp. Funding: Ann Hatch; Lannan Foundation; Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Ann and Barrie Birks; Rene and Veronica di Rosa Foundation; Audrey M. Irmas.

	Ansel Adams The Tetons and Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming 1942		In Praise of Nature: Ansel Adams and Photographers of the American West North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Oct. 8-Jan. 7, 2001 Nearly 130 images by some of America's most important photographers working between 1860 and 1960 -- more than 60 of them by Adams -- also includes Carleton Watkins, Eadweard Muybridge, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham. Curators: John Coffey, NCMA; Alexander Lee Nyerges, Dayton Art Institute. Tour: Before Raleigh, the show was installed at the Dayton Art Institute (Oct. 30-Jan. 2, 2000), the Portland Museum (Jan. 20-March 19, 2000) and the Orlando Museum of Art (June 2-Aug. 11, 2000). Catalogue: 250 pp., $60. Essays by Nyerges and James R. Guthrie, Wright State University. Funding: Time Warner Cable; Midway Airlines; North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation.

	Radcliffe Bailey Untitled 1999		Radcliffe Bailey: The Magic City Birmingham (Ala.) Museum of Art Oct. 8-Dec. 31, 2000 The Atlanta based African-American artist has made eight paintings, five large-scale works on paper and one room sized installation, from combining photographs of the museum's African art collection, his own ancestral photographs and other referential imagery. Two concurrent exhibitions on view at the BMA are "Girlfriend! The Barbie Sessions" by David Levinthal and "Soir�e in Bamako: Studio Photography in Mali." Curator: David Moos, BMA. Tour: Additional venues are Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis (March 23-May 12, 2001) and the Art Museum of the University of Houston (June 2-Sept. 2000). Catalogue: 96 pp.; With essays by Moos, BMA; Shanon Fitzgerald, Forum for Contemporary Art in St. Louis; Dr. Manuel Jord�n, BMA; Terrie Sultan, Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Texas.

	Diego Rivera Portrait of Mrs. Natasha Gelman 1943		Modern Masters of Mexico: Frida Kahlo � Diego Rivera � The Gelman Collection Dallas Museum of Art Oct. 8-Jan. 28, 2001 110 paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper from the icons of Mexican modernism. Curator: Robert Littman, former director of the Centro del Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico. Coordinated at the DMA by Eleanor Jones Harvey. Tour: After leaving Dallas, the exhibition will be presented at the Phoenix Museum (April 7-July 1, 2001). Catalogue: 200 pp., softcover. Essays by art historian and critic Pierre Schneider and art critic Sylvia Navarette. Artist entries by Mexican art writer/novelist Olivier Debroise. Funding: Aetna.

	George Nelson Marshmallow 1956		Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum: Furnishing the Modern Era Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York Oct. 10-Feb. 4, 2001 The special role of the chair in everyday modern life. Features designs by Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Charlotte Perriand, Charles and Ray Eames, Gilbert Rohde, Eero Saarinen and others. Curators: Peter Dunas and Mathias Schwartz-Clauss, Vitra Design Museum. Tour: TBA. Catalogue: 270 pp., written and edited by Dunas and Schwartz-Clauss with Alexander von Vegesack. Additional essays by Matthias Kries, Petra Rohde and Christopher Wilk. Funding: IKEA; Vitra; Elise Jaffe and Jeffrey Brown; Artur Walther; the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany.

	Star Trails around the South Celestial Pole		Night Skies: The Art of Deep Space Newark Museum Oct. 11-Feb. 25, 2001 40 large-scale photographs of star clusters, nebulae and galaxies taken by astronomical photographer David Malin. Project Director: Juliann Muller, Alice Leonard Dreyfuss Planetarium. Funding: Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation; Qantas.

	Devidasa, Punjab Hills, Jammu-Napur, worked at Bashoi Shiva, ever solicitous 1695		Power and Desire: South Asian Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art: Edward Binney 3rd Collection Asia Society at Midtown, New York City Oct. 12-Jan. 7, 2001 More than 70 examples of Indian court painting created between the 16th and 19th centuries from the late Edward Binney 3rd's -- heir to the Crayola fortune -- extensive collection of more than 1, 450 South Asian paintings. Curators: Caron Smith, SDMA; Vishakha N. Desai, Asia Society; independent scholar Kavita Singh. Tour: The exhibition will travel to Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, April 6-June 3, 2001. Funding: Dr. and Mrs. Purnendu Chatterjee; Mr. And Mrs. Rohit M. Desai; Mr. & Mrs. Laurence F. Whittemore; The Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky Fund; Mr. And Mrs. Robert M. Beningson; Arvind Raghunathan and Sribala Subramanian; Mary Wallach.

	Raymond Loewy Airliner of the Future from "Focal Exhibit on Transportation for New York's World's Fair" 1938		Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World The New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street Oct. 14-Jan. 27, 2001 From the biblical Garden of Eden to metaworlds in cyberspace -- 550 objects encompassing literature, art, architecture, design and cartography. A collaboration between the New York Public Library and the Biblioth�que nationale de France. Curator: Roland Schaer, Rouen. Coordinated at the NYPL by Holland Goss. Catalogue: 400 pp., $49.95 for the clothbound edition, $27.50 for softcover. Funding: Florence Gould Foundation; Pinewood Foundation; Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III; Delta Airlines; Andreas C. Dracopolous; Grand Mariner Foundation; the cultural Services of the French Embassy; the Nash family Foundation, Inc.; New York Council for the Humanities.

	Find a Fifth Pig 1929		The Art of the Puzzle: Astounding and Confounding Katonah (N.Y.) Museum of Art Oct. 15-Jan. 7, 2001 The jigsaw puzzle since its invention in the mid 1700s and the centuries' old mechanical puzzle. In all, 342 puzzles from around the world -- selected for their historical importance, ingenuity of design, beauty, craftsmanship and mathematical and scientific interest. The mechanical puzzles are hands on, but be wary of the Victorian trick lock (ca. 1880). On view in the Sculpture Garden are David Colbert's puzzling pieces made of stainless steel. Curators: Anne Douglas Williams, Bates College; Jerry Slocum, independent curator and author. Funding: New York Council for the Humanities; Association of Game and Puzzle Collectors; Westchester Arts Council; Exhibition Patrons of Katonah Art Museum.

	Valerii Gerlovin and Rimma Gerlovina a² + b²=c² 1989		Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College Oct. 15-Dec. 10, 2000 More than 70 "unofficial" paintings, sculptures, photographs and works on paper from the private collection of Russian �migr� Yuri Traisman -- from the Stalin era to the time before glasnost. Includes work from Grisha Bruskin, Eric Bulatov, Ilya Kabakov, Mikhail Chemiakin, Oleg Vassiliev and many others. Curator: Robin Berg, Curatorial Assistance. Tour: The exhibition has been on display in two museums in Russia; it has also been shown in California and Ohio. Catalogue: $65 hardcover; $40 for paperback.

	Eugene Delacroix Hilly Landscape		Romanticism and the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B. Cohen Collection Metropolitan Museum of Art Oct. 17-Jan. 21, 2001 More than 100 paintings, drawings and oil sketches -- from Prud'hon, Seurat, Couture, Gericault, Dabigny, Rousseau, Delacroix, Courbet, Constable and more -- on loan from the New York collector. Curator: Colta Ives, Met. Catalogue: $45, hardcover.

	Giorgio Armani Woman's Pantsuit Spring/Summer 1996 (detail)		Giorgio Armani Guggenheim Museum Oct. 20-Jan. 17, 2001 25 years worth of streamlined fashion, 250 ensembles -- with special emphasis on the pivotal impact of the "modern, androgynous look." Curators: Germano Celant, Guggenheim; Harold Koda, Metropolitan Museum. Tour: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, March 13-Aug. 26, 2001. Catalogue: 400 pp., $75 hardcover and $49.95 softcover. Two special editions will be covered with four types of Armani fabric, $175 with a box, $150 without. Contributors include Suzy Menkes, Martin Scorcese and Ingrid Sischy. Funding: In Style Magazine.

	Frederic Remington Turn Him Loose, Bill! ca. 1893		Painters and the American West Denver Art Museum Oct. 21-Jan. 21, 2001 A collection of more than 100 privately held works -- Frederic Remington, Charles Marion Russell, Thomas Moran, Albert Bierstadt and more. Curators: Joan Carpenter Troccoli, Denver Art Museum. Catalogue: 218 pp.; $45 hardcover. Essays by Joan Carpenter Troccoli and Sarah Anschutz Hunt. Tour: The exhibition travels to Cocoran Museum of Art (May 9-July 30, 2001), the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha (Nov. 3-Jan. 13, 2002) and the Chicago Art Institute, Summer 2003.

	Isaac Julien The Long Road to Mazatlan 1999		Isaac Julien Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Oct. 21-Jan. 7, 2001 The British independent filmmaker's most recent video installation "The Long Road to Mazatlan" (1999), made in collaboration with London-based dancer and choreographer Javier de Frutos during Julien's residency at ArtPace, San Antonio. Also on view, a suite of his photographs that probe issues of masculinity and desire in relation to the mythologies of the West -- including the iconic figure of the cowboy and the American landscape. Curator: Organized by Sylvia Chivaratanond, MCA. Catalogue: $24.95.

	Magdalena Abanakowicz Infantes 1992		To The Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Oct. 21-Dec. 3, 2000 Magdelena Abakanowicz, Alan Berliner, Wendy Ewald, Leon Golub, Pepon Osorio, Gilles Peress, Fred Wilson and Terry Wilson create new works in response to the archives of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). Curators: Marvin Heiferman, Lookout; Carole Kismaric, Lookout. Catalogue: 96 pp., $20. Funding: Estate of Emil Lang; Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; The Skirball Foundation; the Friends of the JDC: Andrea and Charles Bronfman; the Samuel Bronfman Foundation; Judy and Nick Bunzl; Rita and Fred Richman; Elizabeth and Michael Varet; Marshall M. Weinberg; Jane and Weitzman; MJM Creative Services, Inc. For the exhibition at Houston: Mindy and Stephen Brown; Beverly and Howard Robinson; Leslie and Russ Robinson; Minette and Jerome Robinson; the Contemporary Arts Museum's Exhibition Fund.

	Democratic Republic of the Congo, Shoowa Subgroup Double panel of a cut-pile and stem-stitch embroidery 20th century		Designing in Raffia: Kuba Embroideries from the Democratic Republic of the Congo North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Oct. 21-Jan. 7, 2001 Showcases the museum's collection -- 24 objects, including five cut-pile embroidery panels, men's and women's skirts, hats and hat pins, belts and belt ornaments, beaded accessories and two decorated bars of tukula powder. Curator: Rebecca Martin Nagy, NCMA. Funding: North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation.

	Catherine Opie Self-Portrait 1993		Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000 Los Angeles County Museum of Art Oct. 22-Feb. 25, 2001 After five years in the making, more than 800 works of art from the past 100 years -- arranged in five chronological sections spanning approximately 20 years each. Presented in tandem with relevant (regional) ephemera and multimedia stations featuring film footage, music selections and California murals. Curators: Stephanie Barron, LACMA; Sheri Bernstein, LACMA; Ilene Susan Fort, LACMA. Catalogue: 344 pp., $34.95 paperback, $65 hardcover. Essays by Stephanie Barron, Sheri Bernstein, Michael Dear, Howard N. Fox, and Richard Rodriguez. Also available is an anthology of 400 pp., $24.95 paperback, $50 hardcover. Contributors are Blake Allmendinger, John P. Bowles, Margaret Crawford, Ilene Susan Fort, Howard N. Fox, Karin Higa, Paul J. Karlstrom, Norman M. Klein, Anthony W. Lee, Gerge Lipsitz, Chon A. Noriega, John Ott, Carolyn Peter, Dana Polan, Sarah Schrank, Peter Selz, Kevin Starr, Sally Stein, Tim B. Wride and Lynn Zelevansky. Funding: S. Mark Taper Foundation; Donald Bren Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; Bank of America; Helen and Peter Bing; Peter Norton Family Foundation; See's Candies; the Brotman Foundation of California; Farmers Insurance; FrameStore; KLON 88.1 FM; Gardner Lithograph; Appleton Coated LLC.

	Vincent van Gogh Portrait of Camille Roulin 1888-89		Van Gogh: Face to Face Philadelphia Museum of Art Oct. 22-Jan. 14, 2001 The first comprehensive exhibition of his portraiture -- more than 70 gathered from private collections and museums around the world. The museum also has the only version of van Gogh's Sunflowers in North America. Curators: George Keyes, Detroit Institute of the Arts; George T.M. Shackelford, MFA, Boston; Joseph J. Rishel, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Tour: Premiered at the Detroit Institute of Arts (March 12-June 4, 2000), then traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (July 2-Sept. 24, 2000), its final stop is Philadelphia. Catalogue: 272 pp.; in hardcover for $50 and in softcover for $29.95. Funding: Aetna; First Union; Pew Charitable trusts; Amtrak; Greater Philadelphia Tourism Marketing Corporation; NBC 10 WCAU; The Philadelphia Inquirer; Philadelphia Daily News.

	Joseph Anton Koch Schmadribach Waterfall in the Lauterbrunnen Valley 1811		Romantics, Realists, Revolutionaries: 19th Century German Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Oct. 22-Jan. 28, 2001 Works by Caspar David Friedrich, Arnold B�cklin, Max Klinger and others. Curator: Edgar Peters Bowron. Catalogue: $65 hardcover, $39.95 softcover. Funding: Houston Endowment Inc.; Caroline Wiess Law; E.J. Hudson, Jr., and Lynne James; Tassie and Constantine Nicandros Foundation; Mr. Fayez Sarofim; Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Mr. And Mrs. Peter R. Coneway; Mr. And Mrs. Robert B. Tudor III.

	Carol Conde and Karl Beveridge ...It's Still Priviledged Art 1976		Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Mass. Oct. 24-Dec. 17, 2000 A survey of several generations of conceptual art. Features more than 200 works by over 130 international artists -- Mike Parr and Peter Kennedy (Australia), Lygia Clark (Brazil), Xu Bing (Mainland China), Yoko Ono (Japan), Peter Bartos (Slovak Republic), Art & Language (UK), Americans Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Mary Kelly and many others. Curators: Jane Farver, MIT LVAC; Luis Camnitzer, artist, critic and independent curator; Rachel Weiss, independent curator and professor at the Art Institute of Chicago. Tour: The exhibition debuted at the Queens Museum of Art in April 1999, traveled to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis in Fall 1999, and the Miami Art Museum in Summer 2000. Following its presentation at MIT LVAC, the show will travel to the Vancouver Museum of Art, dates TBA. Catalogue: 280 pp., available in softcover for $35. Features essays by cultural historian Stephen Bann and art critic Apinan Poshyananda. Funding: AT&T; Lannan Foundation; Rockefeller Foundation; Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Peter Norton Family Foundation; South Korea Foundation; Trust for Mutual Understanding; Japan Foundation; Asian Cultural Council; Institut f�r Auslandbezeihungenm, Shisheido Co., Ltd.; the British Council; National Endowment for the Arts; New York State Council on the Arts; New York Council for the Humanities.

	Thomas Moran The Grand Canyon 1909		Changing Visions of the North American Landscape Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio Oct. 24-Jan. 28, 2001 Over 60 paintings, photographs and works on paper spanning from the late 17th century to now, explore the diversity of representation of a place -- including works by Thomas Moran, Ansel Adams, Edward Hopper, Alexander Calder, Robert Smithson, Jeff Wall, Christo, Gregory Crewsdon, more. Curator: Marjorie E. Wieseman, the Allen. Funding: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; WCPN-FM, Cleveland.

	Wolfgang Laib Somewhere else - la chambre des certitudes 1997		Wolfgang Laib: A Retrospective Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Oct. 26-Jan. 22, 2001 24 sculptures and installations -- from the "milkstones," pollen pieces and other early signature works to his recent large-scale installations in beeswax. Also features 26 rarely exhibited drawings. Curator: Klauss Ottmann, American Federation of Arts. Tour: After its premiere at Hirshhorn, the show travels to Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, Feb. 13-May 6, 2001; Dallas Museum of Art, May. 29-Sept. 2, 2001; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Oct. 5-Dec. 30, 2001; and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego/La Jolla, Jan. 25-April 21, 2002. The final presentation will be in Haus der Kunst, Munich, Oct. 8-Jan. 5, 2003. Catalogue: 120 pp., hardcover. Price TBA. Includes essays by Ottman; Margit Rowell, formerly chief curator of the department of drawings at MoMA; and a conversation between the artist and Harald Szeemann. Funding: American Federation of Arts; Parmalat.

	Warren Sonbert in the '60s		Friendly Witnesses: The Worlds of Warren Sonbert San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Oct. 26-Dec. 17, 2000 A retrospective of the work of the late avant-garde filmmaker -- featuring a selection of newly restored, rarely seen films, such as Amphetamine (1966) to Whiplash (1997), completed according to his instructions after his death from AIDS in 1995. Screenings of works by some of his contemporaries -- including Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga, Stan Brakhage, Abigail Child and Douglas Sirk -- place Sonbert's ouvre in a larger social and creative context. Curator: Jon Gartenberg, guest curator. Tour: Originally premiered at the Guggenheim in New York City. Funding: organized by Gartenberg Media Enterprises in conjunction with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The preservation and exhibition of Sonbert's work was originally organized in cooperation with the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, the Academy Film Archive, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

	Gorytos (bow and arrow) case 4th century BC		Gold of the Nomads: Scythian Treasures from Ancient Ukraine Brooklyn Museum of Art Oct. 27-Jan. 21, 2001 The first exhibition to come to the U.S. since Ukraine achieved independence in 1991 features more than 170 pieces -- many of them excavated in the last decade -- such as articles of personal adornment, ceremony and battle created by Scythian artists and Greek goldsmiths. Curators: Ellen Reeder, BMA; Gerry Scott III, San Antonio Museum of Art. Tour: Opened at the San Antonio Museum of Art (Nov. 7-Jan. 30, 2000), then traveled to the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (Mar. 7-May 28, 2000) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (July 2-Sept. 24, 2000). After the BMA, the exhibition travels to Royal Ontario Museum (Feb. 18-April 29, 2001), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (May 27-Aug. 11, 2001) and Grand Palais, Paris (Sept. 25-Dec. 31, 2001). Catalogue: Written and edited by Reeder. Other contributors include Esther Jacobson, University of Oregon and Michael Treister, former curator of Moscow's Pushkin Museum.

	Adrian Piper The Mythic Being, I Embody Everything You Most Hate and Fear 1975		Adrian Piper: A Retrospective, 1965-2000 New Museum of Contemporary Art Oct. 27-Jan. 21, 2001 Also on exhibit, "MEDI(t)Ations: Adrian Piper's Videos, Installations, Performances, and Soundworks 1968-1992" -- two separate shows bring all of the conceptual, political artist's work together under one roof for a comprehensive survey of her 35-year career. Curators: Maurice Berger, Fine Arts Gallery, Baltimore ("Adrian Piper: A Retrospective") and Dara Myers-Kingsley, independent curator ("MEDI(t)Ations"). Catalogue: 218 pp., $25. Includes critical essays by Berger, Piper and critic Laura Cottingham. Funding: "Adrian Piper: A Retrospective" is made possible by Peter Norton Family Foundation; Lannan Foundation; Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Maryland State Council. "MEDI(t)Ations" is distributed by Video Data Bank, Chicago.

	Gary Hill Remembering Parlinguay (with Paulina Wallenberg-Olsson) 2000		Double Feature: New Works by Nick Crowe and Gary Hill San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Oct. 28-Jan. 15, 2001 Spotlights Crowe's installation The New Medium (2000), in which the web becomes a medium through which to speak with the dead and Hill's video piece, Remembering Paralinguay (2000), which explores the artist's more corporeal concerns. Curator: Benjamin Weil, SFMOMA.

	Herbert Bayer, designer Das ferdende Aluminum-Môbel (springy aluminum furniture) 1933		Aluminum by Design: Jewelry to Jets Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh Oct. 28-Feb. 11, 2001 All that aluminum has been and can be. Curator: Sarah Nichols, Carnegie Museum of Art. Tour: Following its Pittsburgh presentation, the exhibition will be seen at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York; Mus�e des Beaux-Arts de Montr�al; The Wolfsonian-Florida International University, Miami; Cranbrook Art Museum, Detroit; and the Design Museum, London, England. Catalogue: 304 pp., $75 (hardcover). With Essays by Sarah Nichols, Robert Friedel, Dennis Dorrdan, Penny Sparke, Eric Schatzberg, Craig Vogel and Paola Antonelli. Funding: Alcoa Foundation; the Roy A. Hunt Foundation; the Arthur Vining Davis Foundation; the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

	Cindy Sherman Untitled #112 (MP#12)		Snap! Photography from the Collections Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Conn. Oct. 28-Oct. 7, 2001 A selection of approximately 70 photographs from the museum's collection explores photography from the 1930s to the present day. With John Coplans, Hans Haacke, Ana Mendieta, Andy Warhol, James Wellling and more. Curator: Judy Kim, Wadsworth Atheneum. Funding: Larsen Photographic Fund.

			Raphael and His Circle: Drawings from Windsor Castle J. Paul Getty Museum Oct. 31, 2000-Jan. 7, 2001 Features 66 drawings on loan from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's Royal Library. A contemporary exhibition, "Raphael and His Influence Across the Centuries" (Oct. 31-Jan. 7, 2001), will feature drawings from the Getty's collection of 17th-19th-century works -- including Peter Paul Rubens, Nicholas Poussin and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres -- that have been influenced by this master. Curator: Allegra Pesenti, Getty Museum. Tour: The show first appeared at the Queen's Gallery, London (May 21-Oct. 10, 1999), traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (May 14-July 23, 2000) and the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (Aug. 6-Sept. 15, 2000). Catalogue: 224 pp.; $60 for the cloth-covered edition or $35 for paperback.