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 Alexis Rockman Man Eating Plant 2000 |
The 177th Annual Exhibition National Academy of Design May 1-Jun. 9, 2002 Over 135 works by 95 U.S. artists, arranged into four disciplines (painting, sculpture, printmaking, architecture), in a contemporary survey designed to give the "2002 Whitney Biennial Exhibition" a run for its money. Participants include Emma Amos, Bruce Connor, John De Andrea, David Deutsch, Louise Fishman, Sam Messer, Dorothea Rockburne, Alexis Rockman, Susan Rothenberg and Terry Winters Catalogue: 120 pp., $10 Funding: Peter Jay Sharp Foundation |
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 Works by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggren on the Metropolitan Museum roof garden Photo Mark Morosse |
Oldenburg and van Bruggren on the Roof Metropolitan Museum of Art May 1-Nov. 17, 2002 Four recent, large-scale works in painted metal and fiberglass by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, installed in the B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden Also on view: "New York, New York: Photographs from the Collection" and "As It Happened: Photographs from the Gilman Paper Company Collection," opening May 7, 2002 |
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 Sebastian Diaz Morales Still from 15,000,000 Parachutes |
Tele-Journeys MIT List Visual Arts Center May 2-Jul. 7, 2002 Nine young performance and installation artists working in Western Europe, most alumni of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam, including Carlos Amorales, Runa Islam, Tomoko Take and Fiona Tan Curators: Jane Farver (List), Joan Jonas Catalogue: Jens Hoffman with introduction by Joan Jonas and Jane Farver |
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 Isaac Julien still from The Attendant 1993 |
The Film Art of Isaac Julien Yerba Buena Center for the Arts May 4-July 14, 2002 The West-coast debut of the artist's new body of film work with related photography Also on view: "The Cockettes," a new film on the gender-bending theater troupe; "Straight to Hell: 10 Years of Dyke Action Machine," collaborative work by Sue Schaffner and Carrie Moyer, the only specifically lesbian art project in existence; and "2000 Dragons: Don Ed Hardy," a 500-foot-long scroll by the celebrated tattooist, opening May 4, 2002 |
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 Donald Moffett Untitled (We the People #1) 2001 |
Donald Moffett: What Barbara Jordan Wore Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago May 4-Sept. 1, 2002 Nine new paintings along with an audio installation of speeches by the late Texas Senator, known for her stirring orations Curator: Elizabeth Smith (MCA) Catalogue: Essays by Elizabeth Smith and novelist Jim Lewis |
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 Edward Wislow Sugar Box Boston, Ma. 1702 |
An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum National Gallery of Art May 5-Oct. 6, 2002 300 works of furniture, textiles, paintings, prints and drawings, ceramics, glass and metal work from the Delaware museum opened by Henry du Pont in 1951 Curator: Wendy A. Cooper (Winterthur) Catalogue: hardcover, 242 pp., $60 list Funding: Louisa and Robert Duemling, DuPont |
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 Alfred Stieglitz Katherine 1905 |
Priceless Children: American Photographs 1890-1925/Child Labor and the Pictorialist Ideal Grey Art Gallery, NYU May 7-July 13, 2002 Idealistic portraits of childhood by six Pictorialists (F. Holland Day, Gertrude Käsebier, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Clarence White) juxtaposed with images of working-class kids by Lewis Hine, in a show organized by the Weatherspoon Art Museum Curator: George Dimock (UNC) Catalogue: Weatherspoon, 64 pp., $22.50 list |
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 Nixons Greeted in Ecuador 1958 |
The Tumultuous Fifties: A View from the New York Times Photo Archives New-York Historical Society May 7-Aug. 14, 2002 195 black-and-white photographs Curators: Douglas Dreishpoon (Albright-Knox), Alan Trachtenberg (Yale) Catalogue: Yale, 272 pp., 200 illustrations, essays by Luc Sante, Dreishpoon, Trachtenberg Also on view: "Me, Myself and Infrastructure: Public Works and Private Lives," opening May 21, 2002 |
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 Tripod jar Tang dynasty 8th century |
Art of the Tang Dynasty from the Sze Hong Collection Denver Art Museum May 11-Dec. 7, 2002 Tomb figures, metalwork, mirrors and sculptures from 618-907 AD Curator: Ronald Y. Otsuka (DAM) Also on view: "West Point/Points West," opening May 4, 2002; "Metamorphosis: Modernist Photographs by Herbert Bayer and Man Ray," opening May 21, 2002 |
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 Paul Perez Cruise Night Yuma, Az. |
Americanos: Latino Life in the United States Museum of Fine Arts, Houston May 12-Aug. 18, 2002 120 photographs taken by 30 award-winning photojournalists in a project sponsored by actor Edward James Olmos Curators: Olmos, Lea Ybarra Catalogue: 176 pp., with portraits, essays and commentary from the Latino community, hardcover, $39 list Tour: The show is in the midst of an extensive tour, sponsored by SITES Funding: AOL Time Warner, Qwest Also on view: "Jasper Johns: Variations on a Theme," opening May 18, 2002, and "Natural Wonders: works by John James Audubon from the Stark Museum of Art," opening May. 19, 2002 |
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 Thomas Struth Pantheon 1990 Rome |
Thomas Struth Dallas Museum of Art May 12-Aug. 18, 2002 100 photographs by the German artist known for his large-scale images of cities, art monuments and arcadian forests Curator: Charles Wylie (DMA) Catalogue: Thomas Struth: 1977-2002, Yale, 164 pp., $50 list. Essays by Wylie, Ann Goldstein (L.A. MoCA), Maria Morris Hambourg (Met), Douglas Eklund (Met) Tour: L.A. MoCA, Sept. 15, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003; Metropolitan Museum, Feb. 4-May 15, 2003; Chicago MCA, June 28-Sept. 28, 2003 |
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 Margi Geerlinks Gepettol 1999 |
Skin: Surface Substance and Design Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum May 14-July 22, 2002 Artists and designers such as Margi Geerlinks, Matthieu Manche and Teppo Asikainen explore biotechnology and textures in a show whose installation is designed by the Architecture Research Office Curator: Ellen Lupton Catalogue: Princeton Architectural Press, 240 pp., $35 list |
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 Jean-Baptiste Greuze The Ungrateful Son ca. 1777-78 |
Greuze the Draftsman Frick Collection May 14-Aug. 4, 2002 70 drawings by Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) culled from international collections Curator: Edgar Munhal (Frick) Catalogue: Merrell Publishers, 284 pp., hardcover $75 list, softcover $45 list Tour: J. Paul Getty Museum, Sept. 10-Dec. 1, 2002 |
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 Joan Crawford in an evening gown by Gilbert Adrian for the film Letty Lynton, 1932 |
Adrian: American Glamour Metropolitan Museum of Art May 14-Aug. 18, 2002 The Met's Costume Institute's spring show features more than 80 outfits and hats from Hollywood costumer Gilbert Adrian (born Adrian Adolph Greenburg), who dressed everyone from Greta Garbo and Katharine Hepburn to the cast of the Wizard of Oz. Curator: Jane Trapnell Marino |
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 Helen Frankenthaler Tales of Genji, 1 1998 |
Frankenthaler: The Woodcuts Yale University Art Gallery May 14-Sept. 9, 2002 23 woodcuts dating back to 1973 Tour: The show was organized by Judith Goldman for the Naples (Fla.) Museum of Art |
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| FOCUS: Steve McQueen Art Institute of Chicago May 15-Aug. 4, 2002 U.S. premiere of the Turner Prize winner's latest work, Nov. 7th (2001), a film projection of the scarred back of a man's head with an audio track of an accidental death. Curator: James Rondeau |
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| An American Sampler Seattle Art Museum May 18, 2002 Silver objects from early colonial America shown alongside furniture and decorative arts from the collection of Ruth J. Nutt Curators: Julie Emerson, Anne Wagner |
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 Larry Rivers A Vanished World: Garbo and Gilbert I 1994 |
Larry Rivers: Art and the Artists Corcoran Gallery of Art May 18-July 22, 2002 Five decades of work by the famed Pop figurationist who was born Yitzroch Grossberg in 1925 and started his career as a jazz saxophonist Curator: Jacquelyn Serwer (Corcoran) Catalogue: Bulfinch Press (pub. date 9/02), $60 list. With essays by Serwer, Barbara Rose, David C. Levy |
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 Ahmed Hilmi Calligraphic lion Ottoman, Turkey 1913 |
Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Khalili Collection North Carolina Museum of Art May 19-July 28, 2002 Approximately 200 objects, including copies of the Koran from every era of the Ottoman Empire, calligraphy, weapons, rugs and decorative objects Curator: John Coffey (NCMA) Catalogue: 302 pp., by J.M. Rogers, includes essays on Ottoman history and maps |
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 Louise Bourgeois Couple 2001 |
Family Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art May 19-July 28, 2002 Contemporary family life by 37 artists, including Louise Bourgeois, Sophie Calle, Nicole Eisenman, Nan Goldin and Mark Wallinger Curators: Jessica Hough, Richard Klein and Harry Philbrick, with the artists Claudia Matzko and Matthew McCaslin Catalogue: 96 pp., full color with a selection of poetry by ten contemporary poets |
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 Milton Avery Red Rock Falls 1947 |
Milton Avery: The Late Paintings UCLA Hammer Museum May 21-Sept. 8, 2002 45 paintings from private and public collections produced between 1947-63 Curator: Robert Hobbs (Virginia Commonwealth University) Catalogue: Abrams, 112 pp., $35 list, essays by Hobbs, Clement Greenberg Tour: The show premiered last year at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and is being circulated by the American Federation of the Arts |
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 Paul Cézanne Mont Saint-Victoire Seen from the Bibemus Quarry ca. 1897 |
Cézanne and the Transformed Landscape Baltimore Museum of Art May 22-Aug. 25, 2002 Four paintings, one from the collection and three landscapes on loan from the Museum of Modern Art Curator: Katy Rothkopf (BMA) |
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 Jeff Ono Fear Satan 1998 |
Artists Imagine Architecture Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston May 22-Sept. 2, 2002 Exploring the boundaries between sculpture and architecture, via works by 19 artists, including Sam Durant, Shirley Tse and Dan Graham Curator: Jessica Morgan (ICA) Catalogue: The full-color catalogue by Jessica Morgan covers the history of architectural models and provides biographical information on the artists Also on view: "Taylor Davis: 2001 ICA Artist Prize," opening May. 22, 2002 |
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 Andy Warhol Mao 1973 |
Andy Warhol Retrospective Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, and the Geffen Contemporary May 25-Aug. 18, 2002 The only American venue for this retrospective of 200 paintings, drawings and sculptures, organized by the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin Curator: Heiner Bastian Catalogue: 239 color plates, essays by Heiner Bastian, Kirk Varnedoe, Donna De Salvo, Peter Klaus Schuster and Antje Dallmann, $44.99 Funding: Merrill Lynch |
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 Michel Gerard In Between Memories 1996-98 |
Michel Gerard, The American Decade: 1989-1999 Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, N.Y. May 25-Aug. 18, 2002 17 works of conceptual sculpture Catalogue: Essays by Eleanor Heartney and Arthur Danto with foreword by Lucinda H. Gedeon Also on view: "Grace Knowlton," opening May 26, 2001 |
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