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 Jenny Hearn Stars on Rocks 1998 |
Six Continents of Quilts: The American Craft Museum Collection UBS PaineWebber Art Gallery July 3-Sept. 13, 2002 More than 50 quilts from around the world focusing on work by contemporary artists Curator: Ursula Newman, American Craft Museum |
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| Warm Up 2002: Playa Urbana/Urban Beach P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center July 6-Aug. 31, 2002 Reflecting pools, showers, and works of interactive architecture by William E. Massie are installed in the courtyard of the museum to play host to live Saturday performances by acts including Antibalas, Fischerspooner, Kid Koala, DJ Spooky, Los Amigos Invisibles and the Anti Pop Consortium |
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 Gustave Le Gray The Great Wave, Sète 1857 |
Gustave Le Gray, Photographer J. Paul Getty Museum July 9-Sept. 29, 2002 The largest exhibition ever of Le Gray works consists of more than 100 rare photographs, dating from 1850-67 and depicting atmospheric landscapes, Egyptian temples, Mediterranean seascapes and portraits of the Parisienne elite Curator: Gordon Baldwin, Getty Catalogue: Gustave Le Gray, 1820-1884, 416 pp. with 237 color illustrations and 113 black-and-white illustrations, by Sylvie Aubenas, hardcover $100, softcover $50 Also on view: "Songs of Praise: Illuminated Choir Books," opening July 23 |
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 Beauford Delaney Portrait of James Baldwin 1963 |
Beauford Delaney: Color Yellow Studio Museum in Harlem July 10-Sept. 22, 2002 30 abstract and figurative works dating from the1940s into the early 70s and using thecolor yellow as a symbolic device Curator: Richard J. Powell, Duke University Also on view: "Ironic/Iconic," "Edgar Arceneaux : Drawings of Removal," opening July 10 |
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 Michal Rovner Still from Overhanging 1999 |
Michal Rovner Whitney Museum of American Art July 11-Oct. 13, 2002 Over 60 photographic works, 11 monoprints and three video installations in the Israeli-born artist's mid-career survey Curator: Sylvia Wolf Catalogue: 220 pp. with 95 color illustrations, a transcript of a conversation between Rovner and Leon Golub and essays by Sylvia Wolf and Michael Rush Also on view at the Philip Morris branch: "Paul Henry Ramirez: Space Addiction," and "Outer City, Inner Space: Teresita Fernandez, Stephen Hendee and Ester Partegas," opening July 18 |
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 Flag Gate Jefferson County, New York ca. 1876 |
American Anthem Part II: Masterworks from the American Folk Art Museum American Folk Art Museum July 11-Jan. 5, 2002 225 objects, a third of which were made by self-taught 20th-century artists, in the second of three inaugural exhibitions celebrating the museum's new building Curators: Stacy C. Hollander and Brooke Davis Anderson Catalogue: 432 pp., foreword by museum director Gerard C. Wetkin, essays by the curators and others, published in association with Harry N. Abrams Funding: Philip Morris Also on view: "Painted Saws/Jacob Kass," opening July 20 |
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 Leah Gilliam Agenda for a Landscape 2002 |
Leah Gilliam: Agenda for a Landscape New Museum of Contemporary Art July 11-Sept. 22, 2002 The Zenith Media Lounge is transformed into an abandoned NASA command center complete with Martian footage Funding: Creative Capital |
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 Jeff Koons Mountains 2000 |
Jeff Koons: Easyfun -- Ethereal Guggenheim Museum, New York July 12-Sept. 3, 2002 Seven large-scale pop art paintings commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin Curators: Lisa Dennison and Robert Rosenblum, Guggenheim Catalogue: 80 pp. with essays by David Sylvester and Robert Rosenblum, hardcover $45 |
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 John Singer Sargent Mrs. Henry White 1883 |
The Gilded Cage: Views of American Women, 1873-1921 Corcoran Gallery of Art July 13-Aug. 27, 2002 Turn-of-the-century art featuring images of women by Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent and Edmund Tarbell Curator: Sarah Cash, Corcoran Also on view: "Peripheral Vision: The Art of William Newman" and "Stanley Tretick: The Kennedy Years," opening July 1 |
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 W. Eugene Smith Untitled (Sixth Street Bridge over Allegheny River) ca. 1955 |
Dream Street: W. Eugene Smith's Pittsburgh Photographs Center for Creative Photography, Tucson July 13-Sept. 29, 2002 195 photographs from Smith's unfinished 1955-57 documentation of Pittsburgh Curator: Sam Stephenson, Duke University, and Linda Batis, Carnegie Museum Catalogue: 176 pp. edited by Sam Stephenson, $39.95 |
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 Kinderchuldigung (children's hommage to Kaiser) May 21, 1908 |
Prelude to a Nightmare: Art, Politics and Hitler's Early Years in Vienna 1906-1913 Williams College Museum of Art July 13-Sept. 29, 2002 150 paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, posters, photographs, books and ephemera exploring four centuries of Viennese art and culture in the context of Nazi politics and esthetics. The exhibition is part of the "Vienna Project," a collaboration of 11 arts and cultural institutuions in the Berkshires Curator: Deborah Rothschild, WCMA Catalogue: A gallery guide will be available at the exhibition, as will be Brigitte Hamann's Hitler's Vienna, the book that inspired the show |
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 Roberto Matta A Grave Situation 1946 |
Matta in America Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago July 13-Oct. 20, 2002 The Chilean-born Surrealist's New York decade of exile (from World War II), via 40 paintings and drawings in a show co-organized with MCA, Los Angeles Curators: Elizabeth Smith and Colette Datnall Catalogue: 88 pp., MCA Chicago, $25, with texts by Elizabeth A.T. Smith, James W. Alsdorf and Colette Cartnall, with additional text by MoMA curator emeritus William Rubin |
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 Ellsworth Kelly Spectrum Colors Arranged by Chance VII 1951 |
Ellsworth Kelly San Francisco Museum of Modern Art July 13, 2002-Jan. 5, 2003 58 works spanning the artist's 50-year career, featuring 22 works recently acquired by the museum from the artist Curator: Madeline Grynsztejn, SFMOMA Catalogue: 100 pp., $29.95 Also on view: "Taken by Design: Photographs form the Institute of Design, 1937-1971," opening July 20 |
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| Traditional Arts of Mexico: Beauty from the Hand Seattle Art Museum July 13, 2002-Apr. 27, 2003 Folk art with displays of textiles and dance masks and special section of works drawn from the collection of Leslie Grace |
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 Weegee with his Speed Graphic camera 1944 |
Weegee's World:
Life, Death and the Human Drama Cincinatti Art Museum July 14-Sept. 15, 2002 Over 100 photographs by the cutting-edge New York photojournalist in a show organized by the International Center of Photography Curator: Ellen Handy, ICP Catalogue: 264 pp., essays by Ellen Handy and Alain Bergala, $75 hardcover Funding: Ashland |
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 Bartolomé Esteban Murillo Saint Susta ca. 1665 |
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) Los Angeles County Museum of Art July 14-Oct. 6, 2002 34 portraits and paintings of everyday life by the 17th-century Spanish master, in a show organized with the Kimbell Art Museum Curator: Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt Catalogue: Abrams, $60, with essays on Murillo's life and works by Claire Barry, Jonathan Brown, Peter Cherry, William B. Jordan, Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt |
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 The Grafters Sisters with Bee Keeping Helmet |
The Grafter's Shack Wave Hill, the Bronx July 14-Oct. 29, 2002 An outdoor installation about bee keeping by artist J. Morgan Puett Curator: Jennifer McGregor |
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 Tiffany déor cup and saucer 1898-99 |
Hungarian Ceramics from the Zsolnay Manufactory, 1853-2001 Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture, New York July 17-Oct. 13, 2002 More than 200 objects as well as a selection of archival material that showcases ceramic arts and design Catalogue: Historical introduction with 19 essays and a glossary of ceramics production techniques |
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 Furoshiki early Shôwa period ca. 1926-35 |
Fukusa and Furoshiki: A Gift of Splendid Japanese Gift Covers and Wrapping Cloths Art Institute of Chicago July 17-Oct. 13, 2002 Gift cloths (fukusa) and wrapping cloths (furoshik) from the Ralph and Mary Hays Collection of Japanese textiles Curator: Christa C. Thurman |
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 Ron Mueck Untitled (Big Man) 2000 |
Directions: Ron Mueck Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden July 18-Oct. 27, 2002 Four sculptures -- a man's head, a baby, an old woman and an old man -- are featured in the first solo U.S. museum show of work by the yBa celebrated for an uncanny realism Curator: Sidney Lawrence, Hirshhorn |
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 William Kentridge Film still from Shadow Procession 1999 |
William Kentridge Los Angeles County Museum of Art July 21-Oct. 6, 2002 11 animated films, over 60 drawings, two sculptural installations and more in a show that originated at the New Museum in New York Curator: Stephanie Barron, LACMA Catalogue: 176 pp., produced by the New Museum and MCA, $45 Funding: Philip Morris |
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| Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art from the Collection of Fomento Cultural Banamex National Museum of the American Indian, New York July 21, 2002-Mar. 15, 2003 181 artists from all 31 states of Mexico, including 21 indigenous cultures from 19 of those states, on display with pre-Columbian objects Curator: Candida Fernadez de Calderon, Fomento Funding: Banamexciti, Fomento Cultural, Corona, Conaculta, Tequila Harradura and Aeromexico |
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 Munakata Shiko Kintaro from the two-panel screen Kintaro;Momotaro 1953 |
Munakata Shiko: Japanese Master of the Modern Print Philadelphia Museum of Art July 27-Nov. 10, 2002 More than 100 prints from all phases of the artist's career, along with a selection of his paintings, calligraphy, and ceramics Curators: Dr. Felice Fischer and John Ittmann, Philadelphia Catalogue: Bilingual, co-authored by Dr. Felice Fischer, Robert T. Singer, Hollis Goodall and Kawai Masatomo |
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