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	Jennifer Steinkamp SWELL in collaboration with Bryan Brown 1995		Wonderland Saint Louis Art Museum July 1-Sept. 24, 2000 Sensurround spectacles by ten contemporary artists, including Ernesto Neto and Pipilotti Rist, via video projection, audio recordings, computer-generated effects and super graphics. Curator: Rochelle Steiner, Saint Louis Art Museum. Funding: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., Enterprise Rent-A-Car Foundation.

	Tobias Rehberger Matrix 180/Sunny-side up 1999		Tobias Rehberger: Landscape Garden Sculpture Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago July 1 to the first frost of the year A large abstraction on the MCA plaza and steps made with plants -- herbs, spices, pumpkins, watermelon, broccoli, sunflowers, more.

	Mikhail Icon: The Entry into Jerusalem late 16th-early 17th century		Stroganoff: The Palace and Collections of a Russian Noble Family Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth July 2-Oct. 1, 2000 More than 200 works, most of which have never been shown out of Russia, including paintings by Sandro Boticelli, Anthony van Dyck, Bernardo Strozzi, Nicolas Poussin, Claude Lorrain, Luca Giordano, Antoine Watteau, Jean-Baptiste Greuze and a selection of Russian icons from the Stroganoff School. Coordinating Curator: Penelope Hunter-Stiebel, formerly of the Metropolitan Museum.

	Vincent van Gogh The Zouave 1888		Van Gogh: Face to Face Museum of Fine Arts, Boston July 2-Sept. 24, 2000 More than 70 of the artist's portraits, culled from collections around the world. Curators: Georges Keyes, Detroit Institute of Arts; George T. M. Shackelford, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Joseph J. Rishel, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Catalogue: 272 pages; published by the Detroit Institute of Arts and Thames & Hudson; $50. Tour: The show opened at the Detroit Institute in March Final stop: Philadelphia Museum (Oct. 22, 2000-Jan. 14, 2001). Funding: DaimlerChrysler.

	Ludovico Carracci The Lamentation ca. 1582		The Birth of Baroque: Caracci at the Metropolitan Metropolitan Museum of Art July 7-Sept. 17, 2000 The foundation of Baroque art, via 4 paintings, 19 drawings and 25 prints by the Carracci -- Annibale, Agostino and their cousin Ludovico -- dating from 1580 to 1610. Curator: Keith Christiansen, Metropolitan.

	Sam Doyle Brother Hood ca. 1979		Local Heroes: Paintings and Sculpture by Sam Doyle High Museum of Art, Atlanta July 8-Oct. 14, 2000 70 portraits with subjects ranging from Miss Luckie Food Stamp and Onk Sam to Martin Luther King and Ray Charles, done in house paint on old roofing tin by Sam Doyle (1906-1985), who lived his entire life near the small community of Frogmore on St. Helena Island, S. C. Tour: The show originated at the Portland (Ore.) Art Museum; following its appearance in Fort Worth, it travels to the Mus�e des Arts D�coratif, Paris, and the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Funding: American Airlines.

	Tom Friedman Hot Balls 1992		Tom Friedman Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago July 8-Sept. 24, 2000 More than 30 extraordinary and humorous objects made by the "prolific tinkerer," (Jerry Saltz). Curator: Ron Platt, Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, N. C. Tour: After opening at the MCA, the show appears at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Nov. 4-Jan. 28, 2001; the Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Feb. 16, 2001- Apr. 15, 2001; SECCA, Winston-Salem, N. C., July 14-Sept. 24, 2001; and the New Museum, New York, Oct. 11, 2001- Jan. 17, 2002.

	Edward Steichen Rodin-Le Penseur, Paris 1902		The Public Portrait: Photographs by Edward Steichen, Richard Avedon and Irving Penn Museum of Fine Arts, Houston July 9-Oct. 22, 2000 Portraits of eminent personalities from Greta Garbo to Auguste Rodin, from H. L. Mencken to Winston Churchill.

	John Singer Sargent Ena and Betty, Daughters of Asher and Mrs. Wertheimer 1901		John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the Wertheimer Family Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond July 11-Oct. 29, 2000 12 portraits of the prominent British Jewish art dealer and his family, painted between 1898 and 1908. Curators: Norman L. Kleeblatt and Michelle Lapine, Jewish Museum. Tour: The show originated at the Jewish Museum, New York; its final stop is at the Seattle Art Museum, Dec. 14-Mar. 18, 2001. Catalogue: essays by Norman L. Kleeblatt, Kathleen Adler, Trevor Fairbrother, and Michelle Lapine, and a selection from the novella The Practical Heart by Allan Gurganus.

	After Albrecht Dürer, Workshop of Veit Hirsvogel the Elder The Annunciation ca. 1504-5		Painted on Light: Drawings and Stained Glass in the Age of Dürer and Holbein J. Paul Getty Museum July 11-Sept. 24, 2000 More than 60 stained-glass panels and their preparatory drawings dating from the late Gothic and Renaissance periods in Germany and Switzerland (from 1480 to 1530). Curators: Lee Hendrix, Getty; Barbara Butts, Saint Louis Art Museum. Tour: Co-organized with the Saint Louis Art Museum, where the show appears, Nov. 4, 2000-Jan. 7, 2001.

	Mongolian ceremonial mask		Dancing Demons: Ceremonial Masks of Mongolia Asia Society, New York July 12-Sept. 17, 2000 More than 60 masks depicting deities or fantastic animal heads, decorated with silk and gilt bronze ornaments, that were used to drive away evil spirits and conjure good luck during the traditional Lamaist Buddhist dance ceremonies of Mongolia in the 19th to early 20th century. Curator: Jan Fontein, former director of the Museum of Fine Art in Boston.

	Barbara Kruger Untitled 1994		Barbara Kruger Whitney Museum of American Art July 13-Oct. 22, 2000 Power, sexuality and representation addressed via photographic prints, etched metal plates, audio and video installations, and billboards. New work specially made for the exhibition is also included. Tour: A larger version of the show debuted at MOCA in Los Angeles last fall. Catalogue: Essays by Rosalyn Deutsche, Katherine Dickman, Ann Goldstein, Steven Heller, Gary Indiana and Carol Squiers.

	Tony Oursler The Darkest Color Infinitely Amplified 2000		The Darkest Color Infinitely Amplified Whitney Museum of American Art July 13-Oct. 31, 2000 A new commission from video magician Tony Oursler, billed as the first major artwork to make use of a new technology that allows three-dimensional projections to appear in free space, liberated from the screen and floating in mid-air. Curator: Maxwell L. Anderson, Whitney Museum director.

	Cathy de Monchaux Sovereign 1999		Directions -- Cathy de Monchaux Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. July 13-Oct. 22, 2000 Funding: Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, the British Council, the Henry Moore Foundation.

	Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher Voodoo Dancer Whirling into Possession		Passages: Photographs in Africa by Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher Brooklyn Museum of Art July 14-Sept. 24, 2000 95 large-scale color photographs by two photographers who spent 30 years in Africa, with special focus on customs, rites of passages, and aspects of ceremonial life. Curators: William Siegmann, curator of the arts of Africa at the BMA, with Barbara Head Millstein, curator of photography.

			Max Beckmann Prints Metropolitan Museum of Art July 14, 2000-Jan. 7, 2001 New acquisitions dating from between 1914 and 1922 by the German master. Curator: Sabine Rewald.

	New Balance Cushioning 1999		Design Afoot: Athletic Shoes 1995-2000 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art July 15-Oct. 17, 2000 150 pairs from Adidas, Converse, Nike, Oakley, Polo, Prada, etc. Curator: Aaron Betsky, SFMOMA and Steven Skov Holt, frogdesign.

	Henri Matisse Self-Portrait 1937		Matisse from the Baltimore Museum of Art Birmingham (Ala.) Museum of Art July 16-Sept. 10, 2000 The exhibition marks the largest U.S. tour of Matisse works from the Cone Collection at the Baltimore Museum of Art in more than 20 years. Curator: Dr. David Moos, Birmingham Museum; Jay Fisher Baltimore Museum.

	Head of Nefertiti Egypt, Amarna		Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamen Art Institute of Chicago July 17-Sept. 24, 2000 200 objects plus a 20-foot 3-D model of Akhenaten's capital of Amarna. Curator: Rita Freed, Boston MFA. Tour: The exhibition premiered last fall at the Boston MFA. Future stops: LACMA, Mar. 19-June 4, 2000; Rijksmuseum Leiden, The Netherlands, Nov. 23, 2000-Feb. 18, 2001. Catalogue: 320 pages, 400 color photos, 14 essays.

			New Work: William Wegman -- Fashion Photographs Miami Art Museum July 21-Oct. 8, 2000 50 large-scale color Polaroids of Wegman's Weimaraners in evening wear. Catalogue: Published by Harry N. Abrams with a foreword by William Wegman and Ingrid Sischy.

	Sol LeWitt Five-Pointed Star with Bands of Color 1991		Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago July 22-Oct. 29, 2000 200 works by the conceptual art pioneer. Curator: Gary Garrels, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Catalogue: Essays by Martin Friedman, Gary Garrels, Andrea Miller-Keller, Brenda Richardson, Anne Rorimer, John Weber, Adam Weinberg. Tour: Whitney Museum, Nov. 30, 2000-Feb. 25, 2001; Castello Di Rivoli, Turin, dates to be announced.

	Tressmanes & Vogt. Limoges, France Plate from the Harrison White House service 1892		From Tabletop to TV Tray: China and Glass in America, 1880-1980 Dallas Museum of Art July 23-January 7, 2001 More than 500 objects, from pressed glass and refrigerator ware to fine china and crystal, trace the cultural history of the United States. Curators: Charles Venable and Stephen Harrison, Dallas Museum.

	Maurice Prendergast Central Park ca. 1908-10		Parks and Promenade: Maurice Prendergast in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art July 25-Oct. 22, 2000 The Met's entire collection of Prendergast's work, from cursory pencil drawings of incidental Parisian life to oil paintings of recreational activities on the Massachusetts shore and in New York's Central Park. Funding: Robert Lehman Foundation, Inc.

			Van Gogh to Mondrian: Dutch Works on Paper Museum of Fine Arts, Boston July 25-Nov. 5, 2000 100 works on paper by more than 40 Dutch artists.

	Georgia O'Keeffe Blue Shapes 1919		O'Keeffe on Paper Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe July 29-Oct. 29, 2000 55 watercolors, pastels and charcoals celebrating the publication of the two-volume O'Keeffe catalogue raisonn�. Curator: Barbara Buhler Lynes, Emily Fisher Director of the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center.

			The Arts of Hon'ami K�etsu, Japanese Renaissance Master Philadelphia Museum of Art July 29-Oct. 29, 2000 Works of the celebrated early 17th-century Japanese artist drawn from collections throughout Japan, Europe and the United States. Curator: Felice Fischer.