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			New This Month in U.S. Museums

	Catherine Chalmers Preying Mantis from "Food Chain"		Multiple Sensations: Series, Collections, Obsessions Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Aug. 5-Oct. 22, 2000 Nine projects exploring ideas of collecting and seriality, including "On the Edge of the Western World: Selections from the nvisible Museum," Catherine Chalmers' "Food Chain" and the Brooklyn-based gallery Pierogi 2000's "Flat Files." Curators: Ren� de Guzman and Natasha Boas, Yerba Buena Center. Funding: Lannan Foundation, Koret Foundation, AT&T, LEF, Hitachi American, Ltd., Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund, Bank of America, Columbia, and the members of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

	Chris Burden A Tale of Two Cities 1981		Chris Burden Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, Calif. Aug. 5-Feb.11, 2001 A Tale of Two Cities, a room size installation that incorporates over 5,000 war toys plus sand, rocks and houseplants. Funding: Ben C. Deane.

	Frederic Edwin Church The Iceberg 1875		Frederic Edwin Church Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago Aug. 5-Oct. 1, 2000 More than 50 works survey the artist's career -- from paintings of the Hudson Valley to scenes of the Arctic, Central and South America, Europe and the Middle East. Curators: Organized by Berry-Hill Galleries, N.Y. Tour: Portland [Ore.] Art Museum, Oct. 21-Jan. 10, 2001; Portland [Me.] Museum of Art, Jan. 18-Mar. 18, 2001.

	Barbara Bloom The Gaze 1985-1992		Barbara Bloom: The Gaze and The Nature of Seeing: Works from the Collection Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y. Aug. 5-Sept. 17, 2000 An installation, The Gaze (1986), which veils the museum's collection of 19th and 20th century art. Presented in conjunction with "Summer Sculpture: Peter Schlesinger" and a lecture series on visual perception and new ways of looking. Curator: Alicia Longwell, Parrish Art Museum. Funding: Helene and Whitney Stevens; William Rosenwald Family Fund, Inc.

	John Gutmann The Cry 1939		John Gutmann: Culture Shock Museum of Contemporary Art at California Plaza, Los Angeles Aug. 6-Nov. 5, 2000 More than 50 years of work, featuring 100 photographs selected by the artist shortly before his death in 1998. Curators: Joel Leivick and Bernard Barryte. Catalogue: 144 pp. Essay by Sandra S. Phillips, SF MOMA photo curator. Funding: Organized by the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University and made possible in part by a generous grant from Capital Group Companies, Inc. and Capital Group Foundation; Audrey M. Irmas.

	Adrian Piper Performance of Some Reflective Surfaces at the Whitney Museum		MEDI(t)Ations: Adrian Piper's Videos, Installations, Performances, and Soundworks 1968-1992 Museum of Contemporary Art at Calif. Plaza, Los Angeles Aug. 6-Nov. 5, 2000 The first major survey of the artist's characteristically political, conceptual and performative media and time-based work. Also includes video and audio interviews with the artist. Curators: Organized by independent curator Dara Meyers-Kingsley and coordinated at MOCA by associate curator Connie Butler. Catalogue: Includes critical essays by Berger, Piper and critic Laura Cottingham. Funding: Catherine and Jeffrey Soros; MOCA Contemporaries.

	Charlotte Solomon from Life? or Theatre? A Play with Music 1940-42		Charlotte Salomon: Life? Or Theatre? Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Aug. 9-Oct. 29, 2000 Includes more than 400 semi-autobiographical paintings from a series of over 780 small gouaches, made while the artist was in exile in the South of France between 1940 and 1942. She died in Auschwitz at age 26. Curator: Cheryl Brutvan, MFA. The exhibition is organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, London.

	Christian Boltanski Les Concessions 1996 (detail)		Christian Boltanski: Reflection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Aug. 9-Nov. 12, 2000 Hundreds of mirrors and the artist's own archive of second-hand photographs printed on fabric in an installation created specifically for the MFA. Curator: Cheryl Brutvan, MFA.

			The Queen of the Angels J. Paul Getty Museum Aug. 15-Nov. 5, 2000 The Virgin Mary, via 400 years of illuminated manuscripts. A related exhibition, "The Making of a Medieval Book" (Aug. 15-Nov. 5, 2000) explains the labor-intensive process by which illuminated manuscripts were made during the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

	A work from "Skyscrapers"		Skyscrapers: The New Millennium Art Institute of Chicago Aug. 19-Jan. 15, 2001 Drawings and models of more than 70 high-rise buildings that have been completed in the past five or six years, or are currently under construction. Includes the newly finished Jin Mao Building in Shanghai by Skidmore, Owings and Merrill, the newly opened SONY Center in Berlin, designed by Chicago's Helmut Jahn as well as environmentally conscious skyscrapers by Sir Norman Foster, Ken Yeang and others. Curators: John Zukowsky and Martha Thorne, Art Institute. Catalogue: 160 pp., Prestel Verlag, Munich. Tour: Museum of San Francisco International Airport and the Octagon Museum of the American Institute of Architects in Washington, D.C., dates TBA. Funding: Julien J. Studley, Inc.; Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

	Linda St. John Fifty Girls in Feed Sack Dresses (detail)		Back to School: Fifty Girls in Feed Sack Dresses Santa Monica Museum of Art Aug. 22-Sept. 12, 2000 An installation of 50 life-sized paper dolls made by N.Y. based artist and designer Linda St. John.

	Hale Woodruff Relics ca. 1931-46		Southern Exposure: Works by Winfred Rembert and Hale Woodruff Yale University Art Gallery Aug. 22-Nov. 26, 2000 Images of racially segregated rural Georgia in the mid-20th-century. Curators: Jock Reynolds, Yale University Art Gallery Director and Mary Kordack, Yale University Art Gallery.

	Dawoud Bey Man Looking at Pants in Fulton Street 1989		The Persistence of Photography in American Portraiture Yale University Art Gallery Aug. 22-Nov. 26, 2000 Portraits by everyone from Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Harry Callahan to Nathan Lyons, John Coplans and Tina Barney. Among the painters are Chuck Close, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg. Curator: Jock Reynolds, Yale University Art Gallery Director.

	Mask Western France ca. 1125		Before and After the End of Time: Architecture and the Year 1000 Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Aug. 26-Jan. 21, 2000 The dawn of Romanesque architecture, fantastical visions of the Heavenly Jerusalem, apocalyptic images by artists such as Odilon Redon, more. Curators: Christine Smith, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Marjorie B. Cohn, Fogg Art Museum.

			When Reason Dreams: Drawings Inspired by the Visionary, the Fantastic, and the Unreal Philadelphia Museum of Art Aug. 26-Oct. 29, 2000 Works on paper from the museum collection dating from the 1780s and 1790s (Sir Thomas Lawrence, William Blake) to the 1990s (Raymond Pettibon, Nicola Tyson). Curator: Ann Percy, Philadephia Museum.

			The Nightingale's Song: Nurses and Nursing Philadelphia Museum of Art Aug. 26-Oct. 29, 2000 Drawn entirely from the museum's Ars Medica Collection, 80 prints, drawings and photographs, tracing the history of the nursing profession over six centuries and across four continents. Curators: William H. Helfand and John Ittman, Philadelphia Museum. Funding: SmithKline Beecham and others.

			Peter Paul Rubens and the Art of Drawing in Flanders J. Paul Getty Museum Aug. 29-Oct. 22, 2000 Drawings by the Baroque master, with the newly acquired The Assumption of the Virgin (ca. 1624) as the focal point. Also included are works by Anthony van Dyck, Frans Snyders, Jan Cossiers and Jacob Jordaens. Curator: Lee Hendricks, Getty.

	Katherine Choy Pillow Vase with Abstract Design 1957		Katherine Choy: A Promise Unfulfilled Newark Museum Aug. 29-Jan. 21, 2001 Highlights the brief, remarkable career of this ceramic artist who died of pneumonia at the age of 29. Curator: Ronald Kuchta, director emeritus of the Everson Museum, Syracuse, N.Y., and editor of American Ceramics.

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