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	Gottfried Helwein Mickey 1995		The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Sept. 1-Jan. 2, 2001 Over 30 playful but nightmare-inducing works (including a mutilated Rug Rat by Heidi Zumbrum and a monstrous Mickey by Gottfried Helnwein) drawn from the collection of L.A. contemporary art patrons Kent and Vicki Logan. Other artists are David Levinthal, Laurie Simmons, Yoshitomo Nara and Hung Tung-Lu. Curator: Heather Whitmore Jain, SFMOMA. Catalogue: 44 pp., with essay by Jain and an interview of the Logans by Janet Bishop, SFMOMA.

	Robert Colescott Les Demoiselles d'Alabama vestidas 1985		The Lighter Side of Bay Area Figuration San Jose Museum of Art Sept. 3-Nov. 26, 2000 70 works by 16 artists -- including Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Wayne Thiebaud, Robert Colescott, M. Louise Stanley and James Albertson. Curator: Susan Landauer, SJMA. Catalogue: 70 pp., with artists' biographies and an essay by Landauer. Tour: The show premiered at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City. Funding: Deborah and Andy Rappaport; Adaptec.

	Frederick Arthur Bridgman Cleopatra on the Terraces of Philae 1896		A Distant Muse: Orientalist Works from the Dahesh Museum of Art Dahesh Museum, New York Sept. 5-Dec. 30, 2000 The Far East in 19th-century European Orientalist paintings, via work by Jean-L�on G�r�me, Charles-Th�odore Fr�re, Ernst Koerner, Edwin Longsden Long, Frederick Arthur Bridgeman, George Clairin and Gustav Bauernfeind. Curator: Stephen Edidin, Dahesh Museum. Catalogue: 50 pp. Tour: Flagler Museum, Palm Beach, Jan.-April, 2001.

	Claude Lorrain Apollo Watching the Herds of Admetus 1663		Claude and the Ideal Landscape Morgan Library Sept. 5-Oct. 29, 2000 Drawings of Rome by the Neo-Classicist avatar, marking the 400th anniversary of his birth. Curator: Cara Dufour Denison, Morgan Library.

	Frederic Church Twilight, "Short Arbiter Twixt Day and Night" 1850		Treasures of 19th Century American Art Newark Museum Sept. 6-Dec. 3, 2000 A small exhibition of works from the museum collection, including Frederic Church's Twilight, "Short Arbiter Twixt Day and Night," Winslow Homer's Near Andersonville, Fitz Hugh Lane's The Fort and Ten Pound Island, Gloucester and paintings by the Hudson River School on view while the ground floor galleries undergo renovation. Curators: Joseph Jacobs and Holly Pyne Connor, Newark Museum.

			Amazons of the Avant-Garde Guggenheim Museum Sept. 8-Jan. 7, 2000 More than 70 paintings and works on paper by six women who were key figures in the development of Russian modernism -- Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Varvara Stepanova and Nadezhda Udaltsova. Curators: Matthew Drutt, Guggenheim; John E. Bowlt, University of Southern California; Zelfira Tregulova, independent curator, Moscow. Tour: The show opened at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin in July 1999 and is the first project to have traveled to every Guggenheim venue. It was also shown at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Catalogue: Available in German, English, Italian, Russian and Spanish editions. Funding: Deutsche Bank.

	Allen Kaprow hitting a punching bag that releases animated sounds in his installation "No Rules Except" created with his son Bram Crane-Kaprow		Made in California: NOW Los Angeles County Museum of Art Sept. 7, 2000-Sept. 9, 2001 Experimental, interactive installations designed by 11 artists -- including Eleanor Antin, Jim Isermann and Allan Kaprow -- specifically to engage children and their families. The show anticipates the grand museum-wide exhibition "Made in California: Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000, " due to open Oct. 22, 2000. Curators: Robert L. Sain, LACMALab; Lynn Zelevansky, LACMA. Funding: Boeing Company Charitable Trust; Fox Consumer Products; Panasonic Disc Services Corporation. Catalogue.

	Albrecht Dürer The Lamentation of Christ		D�rer's Passions Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Sept. 9-Dec. 3, 2000 Scenes from the Passion of Christ -- the artist's lifetime obsession -- as drawn and printed in six series throughout his career. The Fogg's extensive collection is enhanced by loans from the British Museum, Boston MFA and collections in Frankfurt, Berlin and Bremen. Curator: Jordan Kantor, Harvard. Catalogue: Several scholarly essays.

	James Welling Stoughten House, Cambridge, MA, 1882-83 1988		James Welling: Photographs 1974-1999 Baltimore Museum of Art Sept. 10-Dec. 10, 2000 Formalist inquiries into light, subject and surface by the recondite Postmodernist. Curator: Sarah J. Rogers, former director of exhibitions at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Catalogue: Essay by Michael Fried, art critic and Johns Hopkins professor. Tour: The exhibition is organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Ohio State University, and travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, Apr. 6-Aug. 26, 2001. Funding: Ohio Arts Council; John S. Kobacker and Catherine Chapin Kobacker; Elizabeth M. Ross; Wexner Center Foundation.

	Cass Gilbert The Woolworth Building from City Hall Park early presentation drawing ca. 1910		Inventing the Skyline: The Architecture of Cass Gilbert New-York Historical Society Sept. 12-Jan. 21, 2000 Conceptual sketches, architectural drawings and models of Gilbert's most celebrated structures -- the Woolworth Building, the U.S. Custom House at Bowling Green and the U.S. Army Supply Base in Brooklyn. Catalogue: 312 pp., with essays by Margaret Heibrun, Betsy Gotbaum and Hugh Hardy. Funding: Arthur Ross Foundation; Furthermore; New York State Council for the Humanities; New York State Council on the Arts.

	Frederic Baron Leighton of Stretton The Villa Malta, Rome ca. 1860s		A Brush with Nature: The Gere Collection of Landscape Oil Sketches Frick Collection Sept. 12-Nov. 12, 2000 Approximately 60 plein-air oil sketches of Italy's landscape by Eduoard Bertin, Giovanni Boldini, Baptiste-Camille Corot, Edgar Degas, Simon Denis and others. Coordinating Curator: Susan Grace, Frick Collection. Catalogue: Features the memoir of art historian Charlotte Gere and an essay by Christopher Riopelle, curator of 19th century painting at the National Gallery. Tour: The first stop in its three-stop venue was London's National Gallery, 1999; after the Frick it goes to another U.S. venue, dates and location TBA. Funding: Fellows of The Frick Collection.

			The OPulent Eye of Alexander Girard Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Sept. 12-Mar. 18, 2001 The first major retrospective of the postwar American designer, most famous for his innovations in textiles. Organizers: This exhibition was developed with the cooperation of the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Funding: HauteDecor.com; Herman Miller Inc.; Maharam; Mr. and Mrs. J. Irwin Miller; Hallmark; Claire Weiss. Catalogue.

	Jorge Pardo "Project" (detail)		Jorge Pardo: "Project" Dia Center for the Arts Sept. 13-June 17, 2000 A reconfiguration of Dia's first floor -- including a revamped bookstore with comfortable seating and enhanced selection of titles -- by the Los Angeles-based artist. Curator: Lynne Cooke, Dia. Catalogue: Yes. Funding: Lannan Foundation; Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Peter Norton Family Foundation; Lily Auchincloss Foundation; Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; members of the Dia Art Council.

	Benvenuto Barovier Mosaico (Flowered Vase) 1913		Venetian Glass: 20th Century Italian Glass from the Olnick Spanu Collection American Craft Museum Sept. 13-Jan. 7, 2001 More than 250 glass objects, including Carlo Scarpa's architecture and design work, Paolo Venini's "handkerchief" vases, the Vistosi company's abstract glass birds from the 1960s. Also showing, "Memories of Murano: American Glass Artists in Venice," the works of American artists who studied in Venice after WWII. Curators: David McFadden, AMC (for the "Venetian Glass" exhibition); Ursula Ilse-Neuman, AMC (for the "Murano" exhibition). Catalogue: Designed by N.Y.-based Italian designers Lella and Massimo Vignelli. Essays by David Revere McFadden, Suzanne Franz and Marino Barovier and statements by artists in the exhibition, including Tobia Scarpa, Yoichi Ohira and Christian Bianchin.

	Horace Pippin Holy Mountain III 1945		The Collection in Context: Horace Pippin's "Holy Mountain III" Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Sept. 14-Mar. 5, 2001 An interpretive analysis of the symbolically potent 1945 painting by the self-taught African American artist -- plus archival materials, photographs and other works by the artist. Curator: Judith Zilczer, Hirshhorn Museum.

	Pierre et Gilles Dans Le Port du Havre 1998		Pierre et Gilles The New Museum Sept. 15-Jan. 7, 2001 The first museum survey of the French collaborative team's campy, strange, hand-painted photographs. Curator: Dan Cameron, New Museum. Tour: The exhibition travels to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, Feb.10-May 6, 2001. Catalogue: $35, 120 pp. Includes new, unpublished work and portraits of pop culture icons Yves Saint-Laurent, Iggy Pop, Catherine Deneuve and others. Funding: Etants donn�s, the French-American Fund for Contemporary Art; Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York; Empire magazine (media sponsor).

	Makoto Nakamura Art Director/DesignerKyobeni (rouge) 1976		Face to Face: Shiseido and the Manufacture of Beauty, 1900-2000 Grey Art Gallery, New York University Sept. 15-Oct. 28, 2000 Makeup in Japan and the West -- 250 prints, posters, photographs, product designs, print and TV ads and more from the collection of the Japanese cosmetics corporation. Curator: Lynn Gumpert, Grey Art Gallery. Catalogue: Essays by Japanese and American scholars. Funding: Shiseido Co., Ltd.

	Joseph Maruska Untitled (doll face as portrait of collectors) 1999		East of the River: Chicano Art Collectors Anonymous Santa Monica Museum of Art Sept. 15-Nov. 18, 2000 Community-based art collecting in Los Angeles, on view at Bergamont Station Arts Center. Curator: Chon A. Noriega, UCLA professor. Catalogue: Essays by Noriega, KarenMary Davalos, Rita Gonz�lez, Jennifer Gonzàles and photographs by Harry Gamboa, Jr. Funding: Rockefeller Foundation; ARCO; California Community Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; Pasadena Arts Alliance; City of Santa Monica Community Arts Program.

	Roni Horn Still Water (The River Thames, for Example) 1999 (detail)		Roni Horn: Still Water (The River Thames, for Example) Whitney Museum of American Art Sept. 16-Jan. 14, 2001 15 large photographs of the Thames' surface combined with various texts -- song lyrics, excerpts from police reports, literary quotes, her own thoughts -- about water and its metaphoric relationship to human nature. Curator: Sylvia Wolf, Whitney Museum. Catalogue.

	Shirin Neshat Fervor 2000		Shirin Neshat: Two Installations Wexner Center, Columbus, Oh. Sept. 16-Dec. 31, 2000 The Iranian artist's evocative and beautiful large-scale, two-screen video projections Rapture (1999) and Fervor (2000) -- the latter originally commissioned by the Wexner and premiering at this year's Whitney Biennial. Curator: Bill Horrigan, Wexner Center. Catalogue: 56 pp., with an artist statement and essays by Horrigan and Sherri Geldin, director of the Wexner Center. Funding: Wexner Center Foundation; Peter Norton Family Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts.

	Ray Johnson Elvis Presley 2 1955		Ray Johnson: Correspondences Wexner Center, Columbus, Oh. Sept. 16-Dec. 31, 2000 Five decades of work from the legendary collage and mail artist. Also on view at the Wexner are collage paintings by young Thai artist Udomsak Krisanimis. Curator: Donna De Salvo, Tate Modern (and former curator-at-large at the Wexner). Tour: The show premiered at the Whitney Museum in 1999. Catalogue: 224 pp., $50 (hardcover) and $39.95 (softcover). Essays by Mason Klein, Lucy R. Lippard, Henry Martin and other art critics and historians who were friends (and correspondents) of Johnson. Funding: The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation; Judith Rothschild Foundation; Ohio Arts Council; Chuck and Joyce Shenk; Fifth Floor Foundation; Wexner Center Foundation.

	Otto Baumberger PKZ 1923		Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill Berman Collection Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Sept. 16-Feb. 18, 2001 A selection of over 200 works produced between WWI and WWII, most never before shown or reproduced in the U.S., from artists such as Kurt Schwitters, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Aleksander Rodchenko, Man Ray and others. Curators: Deborah Rothschild, Williams College Museum of Art; Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt; Darra Goldstein, Williams College professor. Catalogue: $55, 206 pp. Funding: Mead Corporation; Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Henry Art Gallery Special Exhibitions Initiative donors; University of Washington's Center for the Humanities.

	Page Laughlin Untitled (Mirror, Mirror) 2000 (detail)		Interiors North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Sept. 17-Dec. 3, 2000 12 contemporary artists -- including painters Andrea Mai Lekberg and Page H. Laughlin, photographers Elizabeth Matheson, Stephen Aubuchon and Alex Harris and installation artist Brad Thomas -- explore the notion of the interior. Curator: Huston Paschal, North Carolina Museum of Art. Catalogue: Features an essay by Paschal. Funding: Litho Industries; North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation.

	A mirror from the Carter Collection		Chinese Bronze Mirrors from the Carter Collection Cleveland Museum of Art Sept. 17-Nov. 26, 2000 100 examples spanning two millennia. Curator: Ju-hsi Chou, Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue: Includes metallurgical analyses by chief conservator D. Bruce Christman.

	Duane Michals René Magritte 1995		The Masters Series: Duane Michals "What Not All" School of Visual Arts Museum Sept. 18-Oct. 21, 2000 A retrospective exhibition celebrating the photographer as the 14th recipient of the Master Series Award of the School of Visual Arts.

	Pierre-Louis Pierson A Game of Madness ca. 1863-66		"La Divine Comtesse": Photographs of the Countess de Castiglione Sept. 19-Dec. 31, 2000 Metropolitan Museum Over 90 photographic portraits documenting the "public life and private fantasies" of the famed 19th c. cult figure and mistress of Napoleon. Curators: Pierre Apraxine, Gilman Paper Company Collection; Malcolm Daniel, Metropolitan Museum. Tour: "La Divine Comtesse" is a smaller version of the exhibition "La Comtesse de Castiglione par elle-m�me," which was presented at the Mus�e d'Orsay in Paris from Oct. 12, 1999-Jan. 23, 2000. Catalogue: By Pierre Apraxine and Xavier Demange. Essays by Fran�oise Heilbrun, Michael Falzone de Barbar�.

	Pierre-Auguste Renoir Woman with a Parasol and a Small Child on a Sunlit Hillside 1874-76		Monet, Renoir and the Impressionist Landscape Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Sept. 19-Dec. 10, 2000 More than 65 works, ranging in date from the 1830s to about 1905. Exhibition Coordinator: Malcolm Cormack, VMFA. Tour: The exhibition has appeared at Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan (Apr. 17-Sept. 26 1999) and National Gallery of Ottowa (June 1-Aug. 27, 2000). Its final stop is Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Jan. 21-Apr. 15, 2001). Catalogue: 208 pp.; Written by George Shackleford, chair of the department of the art of Europe at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

	Thomas Sully Queen Victoria 1838		Queen Victoria and Thomas Sully Metropolitan Museum Sept. 19-Dec. 31, 2000 Approximately 35 works documenting the creation of Sully's 1838 portrait of the Queen. Also on view in the Henry R. Luce Center is "Thomas Sully in the Metropolitan," (Sept. 19-Jan. 7, 2001), a selection of approximately 30 paintings and drawings by the influential 19th-century portraitist. Curator: Carrie Rebora Barrat, Metropolitan Museum. Catalogue: Written by Carrie Rebora Barrat and includes an edited version of Sully's London journal. Funding: Crown Equipment Corporation.

	Gina Pankowski Vertebrae Necklace #5 1996		Under the Influence: Northwest Jewelry and Ethnographic Objects Tacoma Art Museum Sept. 19-Jan. 1, 2001 Spinal cord necklaces and porcupinal brooches -- 17 contemporary Northwest jewelry artists whose work reflects an influence of one or more cultural traditions. Including Flora Book, Ron Ho and Ramona Solberg. Curator: Mia McEldowney.

	William Sidney-Mount Farmer's Nooning 1836		Rave Reviews: American Art and its Critics (1826-1925) National Academy of Design, New York Sept. 20-Dec. 31, 2000 Critical successes and failures at the National Academy of Design's annual exhibitions of contemporary art. Features the works of Thomas Cole, Winslow Homer, John Singer Sargent, Thomas Eakins, and John Sloan, among others. Curator: David Dearinger, National Academy of Design. Catalogue: 304 pp.; essays by William Gertz, CUNY professor; Kenneth Meyer, Freer curator; Avis Berman, art historian. Funding: Henry Luce; the catalogue was made possible by the Lucelia Foundation.

	Cy Twombly Winter's Passage: Luxor, Porto Ecole 1985		Cy Twombly: The Sculpture The Menil Collection, Houston Sept. 20-Jan. 7, 2001 65 of the artist's three-dimensional works, including many sculptures never before publicly shown. Curators: Katharina Schmidt, Kunstmuseum Basel; Paul Winkler, former director of the Menil Collection. Tour: Following Houston, the exhibition travels to its only other U.S. venue, the National Gallery, Washington D.C., before appearing at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Catalogue: $55. Published in German and English with essays by Christian Klemm, Kunsthaus Zurich and Schmidt.

	Bridget Riley Cataract 3 1967		Bridget Riley: Reconnaissance Dia Center for the Arts Sept. 21-June 17, 2001 Paintings from the 1960s and 70s by the British Op artist. Her work will also be on view at PaceWildenstein in "Paintings 1982-2000 and Early Works on Paper" from Sept. 22-Oct. 21, 2000. Curator: Lynne Cooke, Dia Center. Catalogue: Essays by John Elderfield, Cooke. Funding: Lannan Foundation; the British Council; members of the Dia Art Council.

	Beastie Boys "Intergalactic Costume"		Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhymes, and Rage Brooklyn Museum of Art Sept. 22-Dec. 31, 2000 A multimedia exhibition celebrating Brooklyn hip-hop -- includes clothing and accessories worn by artists such as Puff Daddy, Run-DMC, the Beastie Boys, Salt N' Pepa and Tupac Shakur, manuscripts of lyrics, audio components used by Grandmaster Flash, photographs, interactive DJ stations and video installations. Curator: Kevin Powell, guest curator. The show is organized by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland. Funding: Levis; National Endowment for the Arts; Rolling Stone; 360 hip-hop.com; Hot 97 Radio.

			Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Masterworks from the Broad Collections Los Angeles County Museum of Art Sept. 23-Jan. 7, 2001 Formed largely in the 1980s, the collection of super-patron Eli Broad boasts 21 artists who exemplify important trends from the second half of the 20th-century -- such as Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, Cindy Sherman, Hans Haacke, and L.A. artists John Baldessari, Edward Ruscha, Robert Therrien, Charles Ray and Sharon Lockhart. Curators: Stephanie Barron and Lynn Zelevansky, both of LACMA. Tour: The show will travel to venues in Europe and Asia.

	Louise Dahl-Wolfe In Sarasota 1947		Louise Dahl-Wolfe: The American Image Center for Creative Photography (CCP), Tucson Sept. 23-Nov. 26, 2000 Black & white fashion and portrait work of the American photographer supplemented by personal and professional memorabilia. Curator: Trudy Wilner Stack, CCP. Catalogue: 196 pp., with an introduction by Dorothy Twining Globus, essays by Vicky Goldberg and Nan Richardson and interviews with Richard Avedon, Suzy Parker, Eileen Ford, Lauren Bacall and others.

	Mariana Cook Willem and Elaine de Kooning 1983		Couples: Photographs by Mariana Cook Center for Creative Photography, Tucson Sept. 23-Nov. 26, 2000 Portraits of famous couples, including Elaine and Willem de Kooning, architect Philip Johnson and curator David Whitney, artist Maya Lin and art dealer Daniel Wolf. Curator: organized by the photographer. Catalogue: 132 pp., with an introduction by Paul Ricoeur. Funding: Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund.

	Henri Matisse Coffee 1916		Degas to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts Phillips Collection Sept. 23-Jan. 21, 2001 The collection of Detroit Institute patron Robert Tannahill (1893-1967) is juxtaposed with that of his contemporary, Duncan Phillips. Curator: Stephen Bennett Phillips, Phillips Collection. Catalogue: Essays by critic Karen Wilkin and Charles Sawyer, a former museum director and friend of Tannahill. Funding: Ford Motor Company.

	Isaac Julien The Attendant 1993		The Film Art of Isaac Julien Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College Sept. 24-Dec. 15, 2000 Britain's preeminent black independent filmmaker's first solo museum exhibition. Curator: Amada Cruz, Center for Curatorial Studies. Catalogue: Essays by David Deitcher and David Frankel plus Julien's critical writings. Funding: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Rockefeller Foundation; Peter Norton Family Foundation; British Council of the Arts.

	Claire Corey Untitled Painting #9b10e6 2000		Ink Jet Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Conn. Sept. 24-Jan. 7, 2001 3 artists -- Matt Chansky, Claire Corey and Tom Moody -- use workplace technology to make art. Curator: Richard Klein, Aldrich Museum.

	Ingrid Calame ...hnggnh-hnggnh-hnggnh... 2000		Glee: Painting Now Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Conn. Sept. 24-Jan. 7, 2001 Young artists -- including painters Pedro Barbeito, Alex Brown, Ingrid Calame, Carl Fudge, Peter Halley and Yek -- whose work is influenced by, and flourishing in the face of new visual technologies. Curators: Amy Cappellazzo, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art; Jessica Hough, Aldrich Museum. Tour: Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Feb. 3-April 15, 2001.

	Lia Menna Barreto Sleeping Doll 1990		UltraBaroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art Sept. 24-Jan. 7, 2000 16 young Latin artists explore the influence and impact of the Baroque. Curators: Victor Zamudio-Taylor, independent art scholar and critic; Elizabeth Armstrong, MCA. Catalogue: 212 pp., bilingual essays by Paulo Herkenhof, director of the XXIV Bienal de S�o Paulo and adjunct curator at MoMA; Serge Gruzinski, research director at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Paris; and Zamudio-Taylor and Armstrong. Funding: Rockefeller Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes.

	Pueblo pottery		From Earth, Fire and Spirit: Historic Pueblo Pottery from the Southwest Museum Southwest Museum at Mt. Washington, Los Angeles Sept. 24-June 17, 2001 400 years of ceramics crafted by the Pueblo Indians of Arizona and New Mexico. Curator: Kathleen Whitaker, Ph.D., Southwest Museum.

	Pectoral ornament Middle Kingdom, 12th dynasty, probably reign of Senwosret II or III, 1897-1841 B.C. probably from Dahshur		Egyptian Art at Eton College: Selections from the Myers Museum Metropolitan Museum Sept. 26-Jan. 21, 2001 150 works from the extensive collection of ancient Egyptian decorative arts -- including Egyptian faience, for which the collection is especially renowned -- bequeathed to Eton by alumnus Major William Joseph Myers. Curator: Catherine H. Roehrig, Metropolitan. Tour: The exhibition was on view at Eton College, Windsor, until June 30, 2000. Catalogue: Essays by Steven Spurr, Nicholas Reeves and Stephen Quirke. Funding: Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman.

	Initiation Mask Matupa, Lunda, Angola		In the Presence of Spirits: Selections from the National Museum of Ethnology, Lisbon Museum for African Art, New York Sept. 27-Dec. 31, 2000 140 objects -- masks, combs, pipes and staffs used during initiation rituals, funerary figures and the seats of tribal chiefs -- endowed with spiritual or secular power. Curator: Frank Herreman, Museum for African Art. Tour: The exhibition travels to the Flint Institute of Arts in Flint Michigan; National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama. Catalogue: 192 pp., $68 (hardcover) and $38 (softcover) with essays by Frederick Lamp, Baltimore Museum of Art and Mary Nooter Roberts.

	Aaron Shikler Study for Official (post-humous) Portrait of President John F. Kennedy 1969		Power, Politics & Style: Art for the Presidents Baltimore Museum of Art Sept. 24-Jan. 7, 2001 The furnishings and fashions of American presidents. Curator: James Abbott, BMA. Funding: The Richard C. von Hess Foundation.

	Pipilotti Rist Ever is Over All 1997		Open Ends Museum of Modern Art Sept. 28-Jan. 2, 2001 Museum-wide exhibition of the last four decades of MoMA's holdings -- from the classics (Warhol, Johns) to the most contemporary (Rachel Whiteread, Pipilotti Rist) -- arranged into approximately 12 thematic exhibitions. The third and final cycle of "MoMA 2000." Curators: Kirk Varnedoe, MoMA; Paola Antonelli, MoMA; Joshua Siegel, MoMA. Catalogue: Yes. Funding: Starr Foundation; Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro; Contemporary Exhibition Fund of the Museum of Modern Art; National Endowment for the Arts; Contemporary Arts Council; Junior Associates of MoMA; Rockefeller Brothers Fund; International Council of MoMA.

	John Ruskin Self-Portrait 1861		Ruskin's Italy, Ruskin's England Morgan Library Sept. 28-Jan. 7, 2001 The English critic's impact on the Victorian age -- explored through drawings, sketchbooks, photographs, diaries, letters and other objects. Curator: Robert Parks, Morgan Library. Funding: Fay Elliott Foundation.

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