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Portrait of Jacob Obrecht 1496 Flemish (or Franco-Flemish)	The Kimbell Collections Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth Oct. 1, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999 A new installation of some 150 international works, ranging from antiquity to the 20th-century.

Faith Ringgold Dancing at the Louvre 1991	Dancing at the Louvre: Faith Ringgold's French Collection and Other Story Quilts New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Oct. 1, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 The fictional adventures of an African American woman in Paris during the heyday of Picasso, Matisse and Gertrude Stein, via a series of quilt paintings. Curator: Dan Cameron. Funding: AT&T; John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; Richard Florsheim Art Fund; Andy Warhol Foundation.

Aaron Parazette Tournament 1998 (detail)	Abstract Painting, Once Removed Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Oct. 3-Dec. 6, 1998 Polly Apfelbaum, Kevin Appel, Uta Barth, Glenn Brown, Ingrid Calame, Fandra Chang, Mark D. Cole, Sally Elesby, Jeff Elrod, Tad Griffin, Jim Hodges, Callum Innes, Emil Lukas, Fabian Marcaccio, Beatriz Milhazes, Takashi Murakami, Aaron Parazette, Richard Patterson, Monique Prieto, Scott Richter, Pae White. Tour: Kemper Museum, Kansas City, Apr. 23-July 18, 1999. Curator: Dana Friis-Hansen. Funding: Brown Foundation; British Council. Publication: 112 color illustrated catalogue.

Joseph Cornell Untitled (Bébé Marie) early 1940s	Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp: In Resonance Philadelphia Museum of Art Oct. 3-Dec. 6, 1998 About 40 works by each artist, including Cornell's little-known Marcel Duchamp Dossier, a collection of 117 items made in the 1940s while Cornell was engaged as Duchamp's assistant in assembling deluxe editions of Duchamp's minature museum of his own work, the Boîte-en-valise. Curators: Ann Temkin (PMA), Walter Hopps (Menil), Ecke Bonk (independent); Susan Davidson (Menil); Linda Hartigan (NMAA). Tours to co-organizing institution, the Menil Collection in Houston, in 1999.

Nellie Mae Rowe Fish on Spools 1980	Collecting Folk Art at the High High Museum, Atlanta A two-part exhibition featuring folk art in "The Last 40 Years" (Oct. 3, 1998-Jan. 2, 1999) and decorative art in "Recent Acquisitions in Southern Decorative Art" (Oct. 3, 1998-Feb. 27, 1999).

Edgar Degas Little Dancer Aged Fourteen ca. 1921 or later (detail)	Degas and the Little Dancer Baltimore Museum of Art Oct. 4, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 45 works dealing with the world of ballet, focusing on Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, the only sculpture by Degas exhibited during his lifetime. Guest curator: Richard Kendall. Catalogue: Yale University Press. Organizer: Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha. Tour: Last stop of a three-city tour.

Vincent Van Gogh Self-Portrait with Felt Hat 1887-88	Van Gogh's Van Goghs: Masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Oct. 4, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 70 paintings from the Netherlands museum, which holds the works kept by the artist's brother Theo and his family. Passes are required. Curator: Philip Conisbee (NGA). Catalogue essays: Richard Kendall; John Leighton (Van Gogh Museum). Tour: L.A. County Museum. Funding: Andersen Consulting.

Richard Misrach Desert Canto XV: The Salt Flats... 1992	Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach San Jose Museum of Art Oct. 4, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 "Civilization" leaves its litter in the desert (animal dumps, nuclear test sites, space shuttle landings, art happenings) via Misrach's large-scale color photos. Curator: Anne Wilkes Tucker. On tour from the Houston MFA.

	Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet Metropolitan Museum Oct. 6, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999 Buddhism finds a permanent footing in Tibet, via 60 thankas and objects from the 11th to mid-15th centuries. Catalogue: Doris Duke Fund for Publications.

Juan Soriano	Juan Soriano: Imago Mundi Mexican Cultural Institute of New York Oct. 6-Nov. 30, 1998 Prints and sculptures by the Mexican artist.

Model of the Château de la Belle au Bois dormant, Fantasyland...	The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme Parks Cooper-Hewitt, New York Oct. 6, 1998-Jan. 10, 1999 More than 200 drawings, models, posters, photos, ads and other items. Curator: Karal Ann Marling. Tour: Originated at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Catalogue: 224 pages. Funding: Target Stores.

Filippo Negroli	Heroic Armor of the Italian Renaissance: Filippo Negroli and his Contemporaries Metropolitan Museum of Art Oct. 8, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999 Classically inspired armor by the Renaisssance craftsman and his workshop. Funding: Madeline and Kevin Brine Charitable Trust; Carl Otto von Kienbusch Memorial Fund; Grancsay Fund.

Marcel Odenbach It Turned My Head 1995-96	Marcel Odenbach New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Oct. 8, 1998-Jan. 5, 1999 Six video installations on social and political themes by the German artist. Curator: Dan Cameron. Catalogue essays: Dan Cameron; Kobena Mercer; Teodora Vischer.

Xu Bing Introduction to New English Calligraphy 1994-96	Xu Bing: Introduction to New English Calligraphy New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Oct. 8, 1998-Jan. 10, 1999 The Chinese artist's first solo exhibition in a New York museum presents a new kind of writing. Curator: Dan Cameron.

Ana Prada Untitled 1995	Ana Prada New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Oct. 8, 1998-Jan. 5, 1999 Sculpture by the Spanish artist, in her first North American exhibition. Curator: Dan Cameron.

Roni Horn You Are the Weather 1994-96 (detail)	Surrogate: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture and Photography Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Oct. 8, 1998-Feb. 7, 1999 Post-war works by Stephan Baikenhol, Anne Chu, John Coplans, Gary Hill, Roni Horn, Annette Messager, Mariko Mori, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Gerhard Richter, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Schütte. Curator: Sheryl Conkelton.

Richard Diebenkorn Cigar Box Lid No. 3 1976	Richard Diebenkorn San Francisco MoMA Oct. 9, 1999-Jan. 19, 1999 Ca. 150 works in the traveling retrospective. Curator: Jane Livingston, guest curator for the Whitney. Funding: J.P. Morgan & Co.; Modern Art Council (SFMOMA); Elaine McKeon.

Edgar Degas Daniel Halevy 1895	Edgar Degas, Photographer Metropolitan Museum of Art Oct. 9, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 The major surviving photos by Degas -- about 35 in all, most from 1895 -- plus a small number of paintings, pastels and monotypes that resulted. Tour: J. Paul Getty Museum; Bibliotheque National de France, Paris. Funding: Aetna.

	Beyond the Edges, An Insider's Look at Early Photographs Metropolitan Museum of Art Oct. 9, 1998-Feb. 14, 1999 Some 50 19th-century photos selected by Vik Muniz focusing on the "early evolution of our ability to cast and accept the world in the form of a copy." In the Howard Gilman Gallery.

Pablo Picasso Monument to the Spanish Who Died for France 1945-47	Picasso and the War Years: 1937-1945 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco Oct. 10, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 Ca. 40 paintings, 25 prints and drawings, plus other materials, ranging from the Spanish Civil War and Guernica through World War II and the Nazi Occupation of France. Curators: Steven A. Nash (Legion of Honor); Robert Rosenblum (Guggenheim). Tour: Guggenheim Museum.

	The Painted Sketch: American Impressions from Nature, 1830-1880 Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. Oct. 10, 1998-Jan. 10, 1999 90 jewel-like works by Bierstadt, Church, Cole, Durand and others. Curator: Eleanor Jones Harvey (Dallas Museum of Art). Funding: Henry Luce Foundation.

Mariko Mori Miko No Inori 1996	Mariko Mori Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Oct. 10, 1998-Mar. 14, 1999 Notions of Japanese femininity, via approximately 15 photos and video installation works. Curator: Dominic Molon.

Jana Sterbak Sisphys 1991	Jana Sterbak Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Oct. 10, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 New works characterized by startling hybrids of perishable and non-perishable materials (flank steak and furniture, for instance) by the Czech expatriate who lives and works in Montreal. Curator: Amada Cruz. Funding: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of Canada.

	Damien Hirst, Pharmaceutic Wall Painting, Five Blacks Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Oct. 10, 1998-May 1999 One of Hirst's spot paintings, done directly on the MCA lobby walls. Curator: Staci Boris.

Hans Holbein and studio Prince of Wales, later Edward VI ca. 1538	600 Years of British Painting: The Berger Collection Denver Art Museum Oct. 10, 1998-Mar. 28, 1999 Nearly 200 works from Denver collectors William and Bernadette Berger.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini David 1623	Bernini's Rome: Italian Baroque Terracottas from the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg National Gallery, Washington, D.C. Oct. 11, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 35 terra-cotta bozzetti by 14 artists, including Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Alessandro Algardi. On tour from the Art Institute of Chicago. Curator: Ian B. Wardropper (AIC). Catalogue essays: Sergei Androsov, Dean Walker, Ian B. Wardropper, Nina Kosareva. Tour: Final stop; previous appearances at the Philadelphia Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago. Funding: Republic National Bank of New York; Safra Republic Holdings S.A., Luxembourg; Banco Safra S.A. Brazil.

Keith Piper Message Carrier 1998	The Unmapped Body: Three Black British Artists Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art Oct. 13, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 Organizer: Daphne A. Deeds. Sonia Boyce, Sutapa Biswas and Keith Piper explore race, nationality and gender in post-colonial Britain.

Chuck Close Roy II 1994	Chuck Close Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Oct. 14, 1998-Jan. 10, 1999 The traveling retrospective. Tour: Orgranized by the Museum of Modern Art. Funding: Michael and Judy Ovitz; Banana Republic; Jon and Mary Shirley. In Washington: Holenia Exhibition Fund.

Sir Joseph Noël Paton The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania 1847	Victorian Fairy Painting Frick Collection, New York Oct. 14, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999 Some 34 works selected by Frick curator Edgar Munhall from the larger touring show, organized by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and the University of Iowa Museum of Art. Funding: NEA; United Airlines.

Robert Filliou Permanent Creation Tool Shed 1969-84	Premises: Invested Spaces in Visual Arts, Architecture and Design from France, 1958-98 Guggenheim Museum SoHo Oct. 14, 1998-Jan. 10, 1999 French theory, via works by Dubuffet, Klein, Buren, Boltanski, Messager and Le Courbusier, plus some less-well-known conemporaries. Three floors including the Gugg's previously unused basement space. Curators: Bernard Blistène (Pompidou), Alain Guilheux (Pompidou), Alison Gingeras (Guggenheim). Catalogue: 600 pages, plus essays by Denis Hollier, Sylvère Lotringer, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Cornelia Lauf, others. Funding: Hugo Boss; Air France.

Statue of a Scribe Dynasty 18	Gift of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania Museum Seattle Art Museum Oct. 15, 1998-Jan. 10, 1999 Some 140 works from Egypt and Nubia. Tour: The show has appeared at the Dallas MFA and the Denver Museum.

Rachel Harrison No Menus 1997	New Photography 14 Museum of Modern Art Oct. 15, 1998-Jan. 12, 1999 Work by Jeanne Dunning, Olafur Eliasson, Rachel Harrison and Sam Taylor-Wood. Curator: M. Darsie Alexander. Funding: Banana Republic.

	Rendezvous: Masterpieces from Centre Georges Pompidou and the Guggenheim Museum Guggenheim Museum Oct. 16, 1998-Jan. 24, 1999 A summary of modern art, via more than 350 works made between 1900 and 1945 by more than 150 artists. Curators: Bernard Blistène (Pompidou); Lisa Dennison (Gugg). Exhibition design is by Andrée Putman. Funding: Nokia; Air France; Florence Gould Foundation. Catalogue: 600 pages.

Roy DeCarava Graduation 1949	Roy DeCarava: A Retrospective Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. Oct. 17, 1998-Jan. 4, 1999 More than 190 black-and-white photographs made between 1949 and 1994 by the African American photographer. Curator: Peter Galassi (MoMA). Tour: Organized by the Museum of Modern Art. Funding: Metropolitan Life Foundation; Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro; NEA. At the Corcoran: President's Exhibition Fund; Willard Inter-Continental Hotel.

James Angus Neuschwansteins 1998	Unfinished History Walker Art Center Oct. 18, 1998-Jan. 10, 1999 The global art world enters the 21st century, via works by 23 international artists, from Alighiero e Boetti and William Kentridge to Gabriel Orozco and Shomas Struth. Curators: Francesco Bonami, Douglas Fogle. Funding: Rockefeller Foundation; Mondrian Foundation; IASPIS, Stockholm; Finnish Fund for Art Exchange.

Vivienne Westwood Bright blue punched leather "mock-croc" platform shoes 1993-94	A Grand Design: The Art of the Victoria and Albert Museum Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Oct. 18, 1998-Jan. 10, 1999 Some 250 works. Tour: Organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art. Funding: Visa U.S.A.; Lockhjeed Martin; Ryland; and many others.

Deborah Kass America's Most Wanted No. 1, Robert S. 1998	In Your Face Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh Oct. 18, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999 Mug shots, by Warhol, Deb Kass, Arne Svenson, Nancy Burson and Rineke Dijkstra.

Mary Cassatt Mother Feeding Child 1898 (detail)	Mary Cassatt: Drawings and Prints in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum Oct. 20, 1998-Jan. 24, 1999 The quintessential late-19th-century American artist in search of the European artistic experience. Funding: Jan and Warren Adelson.

Ludolph Büsinck (after Georges Lallemant) The Procuress 1620s	French Prints from the Age of the Musketeers Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Oct. 21, 1998-Jan. 10, 1999 More than 125 prints dating from 1610 to 1660.

Berenice Abbott Columbus Circle 1936	Berenice Abbott's "Changing New York," 1935-1939 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Oct. 22, 1998-Jan. 19, 1999 Abbott's Depression-era study of the city, done with funding from the Federal Arts Project. Features 126 of the 305 unique vintage prints from the collection of the Museum of the City of New York. Curator: Bonnie Yochelson (MCNY). Tour: Der Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Mar. 26-June 24, 1999; Musee Carnavalet, Paris, Oct. 11, 1999- Jan. 16, 2000; Stockhols Stadsmuseum, Feb.-May 2000. Funding: NEA; J.M. Kaplan Fund; Commerce Graphics, Ltd.

Tatyana Nazarenko Company 1990	Tatyana Nazarenko:Transition National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Oct. 22, 1998-Jan. 10, 1999 27 free-standing cut-out figures and 10 paintings by the contemporary Russian artist, portraying the transition from communism to capitalism. Tour: Organized by the Society for the Advancement of Understanding Post-Modern Russian Art, Inc. Catalogue essays: Alexandre Gertsman, Donald Kuspit, Judd Tully.

Attributed to Muhammad Woman with a Veil Iran ca. 1845	Royal Persian Paintings: The Qajar Epoch 1785-1925 Brooklyn Museum of Art Oct. 23, 1998-Jan. 24, 1999 105 paintings, manuscripts, laquer works and enamels from the Qajar dynasty, which ruled Iran from 1785 to 1925, and is characterized not by calligraphy but by monumental figural designs. Curator: Layla Diba. Funding: NEH; Massoume and Fereidoun Soudavar in memory of their sons Alireza and Mohammad; Hagop Kevorkian Fund; NEA; the Aryeh family; Hashem Khosrovani; Nasser D. Khalili, et al.

Shirin Neshat video still from Turbulent 1998	Shirin Neshat: Turbulent Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris Oct. 23, 1998-Jan. 15, 1999 Film installations that deal with gender in contemporary Iranian life. Coordinator: Eugenie Tsai.

Julia Scher video still from Predictive Engineering²	Julia Scher's Predictive Engineering² San Francisco MoMA Oct. 23, 1998-Jan. 12, 1999 A surveillance event. Curator: Robert R. Riley. Funding: Collectors Forum, SFMoMA.

George Segal The Bus Driver 1962	Pop Art: Selections from the Museum of Modern Art High Museum of Art, Atlanta Oct. 24, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999 Including Warhol's "Campbell Soup Cans" series (1962) and Rosenquist's F-111 (1964-65). Catalogue essay: Anne Umland (MoMA).

	Gifts to the Nation from Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney National Gallery, Washington, D.C. Oct. 25, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 16 works by Toulouse-Lautrec, Matisse, Braque and others from the bequest of John Hay Whitney and his wife, Betsey Cushing Whitney. Curator: Philip Conisbee. Funding: Circle of the NGA.

Donato Creti Allegory of Prudence 1713-21 (detail)	Donato Creti: Melancholy and Perfection Metropolitan Museum Oct. 27, 1998-Jan. 31, 1999 A series of 17 paintings by the "Italian Watteau," called "the last and most exquisite exponent of the tradition of classical-idealist painting" emanating from Bologna in the 18th century. Funding: Saima Servizi S.p.A.

John Singer Sargent Theodore Roosevelt 1903	Theodore Roosevelt: Icon of the American Century National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C. Oct. 27, 1998-Feb. 7, 1999 More than 100 paintings, sculptures, political cartoons and photos of the 26th president.

	A Practical Dreamer: The Photographs of Man Ray Getty Center, Los Angeles Oct. 27, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999 More than 100 works drawn entirely from the Getty Museum holdings.

Zhang Peili Eating 1997	Eating Museum of Modern Art Oct. 28, 1998-Feb. 2, 1999 Video sculpture by China's leading media artist, Zhang Peili.

Charles Nahl & Frederick Wenderroth Miners in the Sierra 1851	The Art of the Gold Rush National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Oct. 30, 1998-Mar. 7, 1999 70 paintings, watercolors and drawings from the California gold rush. A companion exhibition, "Silver and Gold: Photographs of the Gold Rush," features more than 140 daguerreotypes. Tour: Organized by the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento.

	A Laboratory of Modernity: Image and Society in the Weimar Republic Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Mass. Oct. 31, 1998-Jan. 10, 1999 Works by Moholy-Nagy, Hannah Hoch, Schwitters, Dix, Grosz, Sanders Heartfield, others. Curator: Tawney Becker.

Scott McCarney In Case of Emergency 1984	Artist/Author: Contemporary Artists' Books Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art Oct. 31, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 Approximately 130 fanzines, assemblies, catalogues, poetry books, sketchbooks, documentations and illustrated books. Tour: American Federation of Art.

Hopi Kachina Dolls ca. 1900	Inventing the Southwest: The Fred Harvey Company & Native American Art Denver Art Museum Oct. 31, 1998-Jan. 24, 1999 200 objects explore how modern advertising and marketing techniques created a mythic Southwest.