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	Peter Vandenberge Couple Watching Saturday Night Movie 1969		Tales from the Kiln: Contemporary Ceramics San Jose Museum of Art Sept. 1, 2005-July 9, 2006 California art ceramics, including a giant-sized hand-built clay column by Stephen De Staebler and Peter VandenBerges anthropomorphic pair of carrots chilling out in an easy chair.

	Neil Welliver Ospreys Nest 1979-1980		Neil Welliver: Water and Sky Portland (Me.) Museum of Art Sept. 3-Nov. 27, 2005 20 works by the quintessential Maine artist, who died on Apr. 5, 2005, featuring paintings, watercolors and prints of the rugged scenery near his home in Lincolnville.

	Robert Rauschenberg Autobiography 1968 Dallas Museum of Art, Mary Margaret Munson Wilcox Fund		Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg Dallas Museum of Art Sept. 4, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006 Large exhibition (40+ works) focusing on the relationships between the four seminal figures, taking as its starting point Duchamps Green Box (1934), and tracing its motifs in the work of the other three men through various juxtapositions. Curator: Dorothy Kosinski Catalogue: 75 pp., $24.95 Also on view: "Peter Doig: Works on Paper," Sept. 18Nov. 20, 2005; "Variations on a Theme: Three Olumeye by Olowe of Ise," Sept. 18Jan. 15, 2006

	Austrian (?) Saint Jerome Removing a Thorn from the Lion's Paw ca. 1430 Albertina, Vienna		Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public National Gallery of Art Sept. 4-Nov. 27, 2005 The advent of the "single-leaf" woodcut in Europe, via ca. 140 woodcuts, books, printed textiles and other related objects from the National Gallery of Art, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum and public and private collections throughout Europe and America. Curator: Peter Parshall Catalogue: 372 pp., $65 Tour: Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Dec. 14, 2005-Mar. 19, 2006

	Félix-Hilaire Buhot L'Hiver à Paris (Winter in Paris) 1879 Helena Gunnarsson Buhot Collection		The Prints of Félix Buhot: Impressions of City and Sea National Gallery of Art Sept. 4, 2005-Feb. 20, 2006 Opening alongside the NGAs "Origins of European Printmaking" comes this look at the 19^th century printmaker Buhot, celebrated as a master of atmospheric effects, featuring 65+ of his drawings and prints. Curator: Gregory Jecmen

	Double-folio from a Koran Iran, probably Shiraz; Safavid period, ca. 15501575		Gold: The Asian Touch Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Sept. 10, 2005Feb. 19, 2006 47 objects employing gold from Asian cultures, including such flashy items as a scepter made for a Chinese emperor, gold inlaid and overlaid weapons from Mughal India and a Japanese silk gauze theater costume featuring patterns worked in gold.

	Eugène Atget Versailles - Bassin du Sud 1904		Looking at Atget Philadelphia Museum of Art Sept. 10-Nov. 27, 2005 120 works by Atget acquired from the estate of dealer Julien Levy, in a show contrasting the different approaches taken to Atgets complex oeuvre by Levy, who saw Atget as a proto-Surrealist, and photographer Berenice Abbott, who rediscovered him and considered him to be a great humanist documentarian. Curators: Peter Barberie, Katherine Ware Catalogue: 136 pp., $45 cloth; $25 paper Funding: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation

	Carved Bowl Depicting Kinich Ajaw Guatemala, San Augustn Acasaguastlan AD 400-600		Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship Los Angeles County Museum of Art Sept. 10, 2005Jan. 2, 2006 150 objects from the national museums of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and Costa Rica, exploring the role of divine kings in ancient Mesoamerica. Curators: Virginia Fields, Dorie Reents-Budet Catalogue: 288 pp., $60 Funding: Televisa, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Arvey Foundation, Ethnic Arts Council of Los Angeles Tour: Dallas Museum of Art, Feb. 12May 7, 2006; Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 11Sept. 10, 2006

	Henry Inman David Vann (Family-Iroquoian-Tribe Cherokee) Gerald Peters Gallery		Indian Gallery of Henry Inman High Museum of Art Sept 10, 2005March 12, 2006 Inman's powerful portraits of Native American tribal leaders, painted at the height of the Jacksonian era. Curator: Sylvia Young

	Video still from Rodney Grahams Vexation Island		Rodney Graham: A Little Thought Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Sept. 10Dec. 23, 2005 The first U.S. retrospective of the respected Canadian conceptualist centers on his trilogy of "genre" films: the Robinson-Crusoe adventure Vexation Island, the western How I Became a Ramblin' Man, and the costume drama City Self/Country Self, all accompanied by sculptural props, masks, wigs, costumes and storyboards. Catalogue: 200 pp., $39.99 Funding: Altria Group, Inc., Toby D. Lewis and Patsy and Karl Rugart, Government of Canada Cultural Affairs Office

	William B. Post Untitled ca. 1900		The Quiet Landscapes of William B. Post Minneapolis Institute of Arts Sept. 10, 2005-Jan. 22, 2006 60 landscape photographs by William B. Post, an associate of Alfred Stieglitz and frequent contributor to Stieglitzs Camera Work, drawn from the MIAs permanent collection. Curator: Christian A. Peterson Catalogue: 100 pp., $29.95 Tour: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Feb. 17-May 21, 2006; Portland Museum of Art, June 3-Aug. 27, 2006; Columbus Museum of Art, Sept. 16, 2006-Jan. 14, 2007; Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Feb. 3-June 4, 2007; Tacoma Art Museum, June 23-Sept. 16, 2007

	Video stills from a 1975 video by Jaime Davidovick with Gordon Matta-Clark shot on site during Matta-Clark's Reality Properties: Fake Estates project		Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clarks Fake Estates Queens Museum of Art Sept. 11, 2005Jan. 22, 2006 Held in conjunction with a show at White Columns (Sept. 9-Oct. 15, 2005), the QMA show focuses on materials connected with Matta-Clarks "Fake Estates," and also features the work of 19 artists inspired by the project, including Francis Als, Mark Dion, Maximilian Goldfarb and Dennis Oppenheim Curators: Jeffrey Kastner, Sina Najafi, Frances Richard Catalogue: 96 pp., $24.95

	Ludolph Büsinck (after Georges Lallemand) The Flute Player 1630 Smart Museum of Art		Paper Museums: The Reproductive Print in Europe, 1500-1800 Grey Art Gallery Sept. 13-Dec. 3, 2005 100+ prints reflecting the mass appeal of images by Drer, Lorraine, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rubens, Turner, Watteau and others. Curators: Rebecca Zorach, Elizabeth Rondini Catalogue: 150 pp., $24 Funding: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Rhoades Foundation, Adelyn Russell Bogert Endowment Fund of the Franke Institute for the Humanities, Abby Weed Grey Trust

	Dinh Q. Lê Untitled from the series From Vietnam to Hollywood (MGM logo) 2004		Vietnam: Destination for the New MillenniumThe Art of Dinh Q. Lê Asia Society Sept. 13, 2005-Jan. 15, 2006 "Woven photographs" and a new installation of small-scale mirrored satellites by Vietnamese artist Dinh Q. L. Curator: Melissa Chiu Funding: Nimoy Foundation, W.L.S. Spencer Foundation Also on view: "Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3^rd Collection in Focus: Jizo Bosatsu," Sept. 13, 2005-Jan. 15, 2006

	Chris Hipkiss A Lucy for the Threes II 2005		Obsessive Drawing American Folk Art Museum Sept. 14, 2005-Mar. 19, 2006 Ca. 40 works by five young self-taught artists -- Eugene Andolsek, Charles Benefiel, Hiroyuki Doi, Chris Hipkiss and Martin Thompson -- accompanied by a selection of drawings art artists from the Art Brut canon. Curator: Brooke Davis Anderson Funding: Gerard C. Wertkin Exhibition Fund Also on view: "Surface Attraction: Painted Furniture from the Collection," Sept. 20, 2005-Mar. 26, 2006

	Ryoko Aoki Cross Sight Puzzle (detail) 2003		Ryoko Aoki Armand Hammer Museum of Art Sept. 14, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006 New drawings and a video highlight an obsession with the delicate and the hand-crafted. Curator: James Elaine Funding: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Annenberg Foundation, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, members of the Hammer Circle

	André Kertész Géza Blattner 1925		André Kertész International Center of Photography Sept. 16-Nov. 27, 2005 One of three important photography shows opening at the ICP on the same day (see below for the others), this major retrospective brings together 100+ images by the Hungary-born avant garde photographer, from his early images of Budapest and his studies of 1920s and 30s Paris to the New York pictures made later in his life. Curator: Sarah Greenough Catalogue: 316 pp., $60 Funding: André and Elizabeth Kertész Foundation Tour: This show has already appeared at National Gallery of Art, Feb. 6-May 15, 2005, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, June 12, 2005-Sept. 5, 2005 Also on view: "El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers," Sept. 16-Nov. 27, 2005, and "Modernist Photography: Selections from the Daniel Cowin Collection," Sept. 16-Nov. 27, 2005

	Petah Coyne Untitled #1103 (Daphne) 200203		Petah Coyne: Above and Beneath the Skin Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City Sept. 16Nov. 27, 2005 20+ delicate, interlaced wax sculptures be the New York artist, complemented by six of her black-and-white photos. Curator: Douglas Dreishpoon Catalogue: $29.99 Funding: Bank of America Tour: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Jan. 21-May 7, 2006, Albright-Knox Art Museum, June 9-Sept. 17, 2006

	Oleg Kulik Cosmonaut (from the Installation Museum series) 2003		Russia! Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Sept. 16, 2005-Jan. 11, 2006 The largest collection of Russian art outside of Russia since the Cold War features 250 works ranging from 15th century monastery panels and parts of Peter the Greats art collection to Socialist Realism and contemporary Russian art. Curator: Thomas Krens, Robert Rosenblum, Evgenia Petrova, Lidia Iovleva, Pavel Khoroshilov, Anna Kolupaeva, Zelfira Tregulova, Georgii Vilinbakhov, Valerie Hillings Catalogue: 450 pp., $75 hardcover; $50 softcover Funding: Vladimir Potanin Charity Fund, Alcoa Foundation, Sintez

	Richard Avedon Sandra Bennett, Twelve Year Old, Rocky Ford, Colorado, 8/23/80 1980		In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon Amon Carter Museum, Forth Worth Sept. 17, 2005Jan. 8, 2006 78 of Avedons celebrated portraits of Westerners, originally presented at the Carter in 1985, featuring all the best known images from the series, such as his tattered oil field workers and sad-eyed factory workers. Curator: John Rohrbach Funding: Katrine M. Deakins and Crystelle Waggoner Charitable Trusts, Bank of America Tour: Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art; Center for Creative Photography in Tucson; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, Stanford, Ca.

	James Surls Cut Hand Hurt Eyes 1984-1988		James Surls: The Splendora Years, 1977-1997 Blaffer Gallery, Houston Sept. 17-Nov. 12, 2005 35 works made in Splendora, Texas, by the influential Lone Star sculptor. Catalogue: 156 pp., $40 Funding: anonymous donor, Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation, Marilyn Oshman, Carey C. Shuart, others

	Bruce Nauman still from Clown Torture 1987		Pay Attention: Bruce Nauman Videos from the Collection of Barbara Balkin Cottle and Robert Cottle Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art Sept. 17, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006 Five key videos, including Good Boy Bad Boy (1985), Violent Incident (Man/Women Segment) (1986), Clown Torture (1987), Setting a Good Corner (Allegory and Metaphor) (1999), and Office Edit 1 11/11/00, 11/9/00, 11/16/00, 11/19/00 [Mapping the Studio (Fat Chance John Cage)] (2001). Curator: Marilu Knode Funding: Nargess and Ali Salass, SmoCA Salon Also on View: "southwestNET: Monique Prieto," Sept. 3, 2005-Dec. 4, 2005; "Tea and Coffee Towers," Sept. 3, 2005-Dec. 31, 2005; "Private Pictures: Photography from Arizona Collections," Sept. 24, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006

	Drawing for Robert Smithsons Floating Island project		Robert Smithson's Floating Island to Travel around Manhattan Whitney Museum of American Art Sept. 17-25, 2005 A 30 x 90 ft. landscaped barge towed around Manhattan by a tugboat, a project conceived by the artist in 1970 but only now realized by the Whitney and the New York-based arts organization Minetta Brook Funding: James Cohan Gallery, Peter Kellner, David S. Howe Foundation, others Also on view (at the Whitney): "Building and Breaking the Grid, 1952-2002," Sept. 1, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006; "Still Life: A Vital Theme," Sept. 28, 2005-Jan. 15, 2006; and "The New City: Sub/Urbia in Recent Photography," Sept. 30, 2005-Jan. 15, 2006

	Wallace Berman Jay DeFeo, 707 Scott Street, San Francisco 1959		Semina Culture: Wallace Berman & His Circle Santa Monica Museum of Art Sept. 17-Nov. 26, 2005 The first major museum exhibition to focus on the charismatic artist (1926-1976) -- dubbed "Mr. Really Cool" by the late curator Walter Hopps -- includes the complete run of Semina, Berman's loose-leaf art and poetry journal; over 50 photographs by Berman himself; and works by 48 members of his circle, including John Altoon, Joan Brown, Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Llyn Foulkes, Jess and Edmund Teske. Curators: Michael Duncan, Kristine McKenna Catalogue: D.A.P. Tour: Harrison Museum of Art, Logan, Utah, Jan. 10-Mar. 15, 2005; Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Apr. 21-July 9, 2006; Berkeley Art Museum, Oct. 17-Dec. 10, 2006; Grey Art Gallery, Jan. 16-Mar. 31, 2007 Also on view: "Exene Cervenka: America the Beautiful," Sept. 17-Nov. 26, 2005

	Zhang Huan Seeds of Hamburg 2002		Zhang Huan: Seeds of Hamburg Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Sept. 17, 2005-Jan. 16, 2006 Photos documenting a 2002 performance in which 28 doves ate seed off of the artists body.

	Jim Dine TOOL DRAWING II 1983		Jim Dine, some drawings Neuberger Museum of Art Sept. 18, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006 85 works, many from the artist's own collection and others from the holdings of Arne Glimcher, the artist's long-time dealer, plus a selection of heliogravure prints made in 2001 in California, in a show that originated at the Allen Memorial Art Museum Curator: Stephanie Wiles Also on view: "Acting Out: The Invented Melodrama in Contemporary Photography, Sept. 4-Dec. 31, 2005

	Pieter Claesz Still Life with Books and Burning Candle 1627		Pieter Claesz: Master of Haarlem Still Life National Gallery of Art Sept. 18-Dec. 31, 2005 25 works by the pioneer of Dutch tabletop still lifes via mincemeat pies, breads, lemons, olives, nuts, fruits and wine. Funding: Greg and Candy Fazakerley Tour: Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Nov. 27, 2004-April 4, 2005; Kunsthaus, Zürich, April 22-Aug. 22, 2005 Also on view: "Monumental Sculpture from Renaissance Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni di Banco, and Verrocchio at Orsanmichele," Sept. 18-Dec. 31, 2005; "Masterpieces in Miniature: Italian Manuscript Illumination from the J. Paul Getty Museum," Sept. 25, 2005-Jan. 2, 2006; "Audubon's Dream Realized: Selections from The Birds of America," Sept. 25, 2005-Apr. 16, 2006

	Master Theodoric St. Luke, from the Holy Cross Chapel, Karltejn Castle 1360-65		Prague, The Crown of Bohemia, 13471437 Metropolitan Museum of Art Sept. 20, 2005Jan. 3, 2006 160 splendid works produced under Bohemias Charles IV (1316-1378) and his successors, including the icon known as the "Ara Coeli Virgin," a gem-encrusted rock crystal ewer reliquary for a fragment of the tablecloth from the Last Supper, and a gilded silver tabernacle in the shape of a superbly detailed miniature Gothic cathedral. Curator: Barbara Drake Boehm Catalogue: 394 pp., $65 Funding: Carl B. and Ludmila Schwarzenberg Hess, William Randolph Hearst Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts

	Weegee at the Getty		Scene of the Crime: Photo by Weegee Getty Museum Sept. 20, 2005-Jan. 22, 2006 Ca. 70 photographs spanning Weegee's freelance career documenting the police beat and Manhattan nightlife during the 1930s, '40s and '50s Also on view: "Pictures for the Press," Sept. 20, 2005-Jan. 22, 2006, photojournalism from the 1940s through the '70s

	Thomas Hirschhorn Utopia, Utopia = One World, One War, One Army, One Dress diagram extract from Swiss-Swiss Democracy Journal 2005		Thomas Hirschhorn Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Sept. 21, 2005Jan. 16, 2006 Natural History Museum-style dioramas, displays, text panels and timelines on the use of camouflage in fashion and on the battlefield as a metaphor for our contemporary political predicament. Tour: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, March 15-May 13, 2006

	Pierre-Auguste Renoir The Piano Lesson ca. 1889		Renoirs Women Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art Sept. 23, 2005-Jan. 1, 2006 Maternity, children, domestic settings and nudes via ca. 25 works. Curator: Ann Dumas Funding: Huntington, Limited Brands Also on View: "Xan Palay: As Wishing Still Helped," Sept. 2-Nov. 6, 2005 and "Sid Chaffetz," Sept. 2-Oct. 9, 2005

	Flautist Paula Robison will perform with Sol LeWitt at the Gardner		Variations on a Theme by Sol LeWitt & Paula Robison Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Sept. 23Nov. 13, 2005 A special contemporary installation in the Belle Epoque house museum features daily recitals by flautist Paula Robison, in response to a large-scale, wave-like LeWitt wall drawing.

	Childe Hassam The Mill Pond, Cos Cob 1902		American Impressionism: The Beauty of Work Bruce Museum of Art and Science, Greenwich, Conn. Sept. 24, 2005Jan. 8, 2006 Ca. 45 paintings by American Impressionists, organized into categories investigating the different places of work such as the city, the countryside, the waterfront, factories and the home. Artists include William Merritt Chase, Daniel Garber, Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Theodore Robinson, John Singer Sargent, Robert Spencer and J. Alden Weir. Curator: Susan G. Larkin

	Edvard Munch Mermaid 1896		Edvard Munch's Mermaid Philadelphia Museum of Art Sept. 24-Dec. 31, 2005 The first exhibition to explore the origins and meaning of the mermaid in Munch's art focuses on the museum's own recent (and beguiling) acquisition, Munch's Mermaid (1896), but includes 25 paintings, drawings and prints in all, assembled from collections in Norway and the United States Catalogue: Penn State U, 56 pp., $21.95

	Andy Warhol Knives ca. 1981 - 82		Warhol Legacy: Selections from the Andy Warhol Museum Corcoran Gallery of Art Sept. 24, 2005-Feb. 20, 2006 150+ works, including the iconic soup cans, Lizs and Marilyns, also Mao Zedong wallpaper and Warhol memorabilia. Curator: Stacey Schmidt, John Smith Funding: PNC Financial Services

	Linda Butler Village Destruction, Xiang Xi 2001		Yangtze Remembered: The River Beneath the Lake Phoenix Art Museum Sept. 24, 2005Jan. 1, 2006 55 photographs by Linda Butler made between 2000 and 2003 and documenting the Yangtze River area before and during construction of the Three Gorges Dam.

	Anselm Kiefer Resurrexit 1973		Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Sept. 25, 2005Jan. 8, 2006 The first American survey of Anselm Kiefer's work in almost two decades, includes 60+ major paintings, watercolors, books and sculptures created from 1969 to 2005. Curator: Michael Auping Catalogue: 184 pp. $65 Funding: UBS Tour: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Sept. 25, 2005Jan. 8, 2006; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Feb. 12, 2006Apr. 30, 2006; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, June 18Sept. 10, 2006; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oct. 15, 2006Jan. 14, 2007 Also on view: "Picasso: The Vollard Suite," Sept. 2, 2005Jan. 15, 2006

	Frank Lloyd Wright dining room from "International Arts and Crafts"		International Arts & Crafts Indianapolis Museum of Art Sept. 25, 2005-Jan. 22, 2006 Ca. 300 objects that constitute a determinately international look at the Arts and Crafts movement in a show that originated at the Victoria and Albert. Curators: Karen Livingston, Linda Parry Catalogue: 368 pp., $75 Also on view: "E Chen: String of Time," Sept. 15, 2005-Dec. 31, 2005, "Kelmscott Press Book Display," Sept. 25, 2005-Jan. 22, 2006

	Thornton Dial, Sr. Ground Zero: Nighttime All Over the World 2002		Thornton Dial in the 21st Century Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Sept. 25, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006 Drawings, watercolors and monumental assemblages, all done since 2000, by the Alabama-born artist who merges the traditions of African-American storytelling and European modernism. Curator: Jane Livingston Funding: Continental Airlines, Marilyn Oshman, Stephanie Smither, Texas Commission on the Arts Also on view: "Restless," Sept. 23-Nov. 27, 2005

	"The Perfect Medium" at the Met		The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult Metropolitan Museum of Art Sept. 27Dec. 31, 2005 120 photographs from the 1860s to World War II that purport to document paranormal events, using the magic of the camera to conjure ghosts and all kinds of spiritual manifestations. Curator: Mia Fineman, Pierre Apraxine, Sophie Schmit, Andreas Fischer, Clément Chéroux, Denis Canguilhem Catalogue: 288 pp., $65 Funding: Francesca Ronnie Primus Foundation, Inc. Also on view: "Secular and Sacred: Scholars, Deities, and Immortals in Chinese Art," Sept. 10, 2005Jan. 8, 2006, "The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt," Sept. 13, 2005Jan. 15, 2006, "Rara Avis: Selections from the Iris Barrel Apfel Collection," Sept. 13, 2005Jan. 22, 2006

	Brian Jungen Cetology 2002		Brian Jungen New Museum of Contemporary Art Sept. 29-Dec. 31, 2005 Survey of work by the Canadian artist, known for works that investigate his aboriginal roots through the use of consumer items, including tribal masks made out of Nike shoes. Curators: Daina Augaitis, Trevor Smith Catalogue: 176 pp., $50, essays by Daina Augaitis and Trevor Smith, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Ralph Rugoff, Kitty Scott, interview between Jungen and Simon Starling Funding: Bob Rennie and Carey Fouks Also on view: "Seventh Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection," Sept. 29-Oct. 29, 2005

	Michael Asher's installation of a bronze cast of Jean Antoine Houdon's statue of George Washington (1788/1917)		Focus: Michael Asher Art Institute of Chicago Sept. 29, 2005Jan. 1, 2006 New work by the Conceptual Art guru, conceived of as a revisiting of a previous intervention at the AIC in 1979, for which he relocated a sculpture of George Washington by Jean Antoine Houdon Curator: James Rondeau

	John Szarkowski Sarah Lake 1962		John Szarkowski: Photographs Milwaukee Art Museum Sept. 29, 2005-Jan. 1, 2006 70 black-and-white images by Szarkowski, the Wisconsin native and legendary first curator of the MoMAs photo department, but also an accomplished artist himself, as he shows in these snaps of skyscrapers, desertscapes and vernacular architecture Curator: Lisa Hostetler Catalogue: 156 pp. $60 Tour: This show has already appeared at SFMOMA and the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson; it will go on to Museum of Modern Art, New York, Feb. 1-April 30, 2006 and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 18-Sept. 10, 2006 Funding: Randi and Bob Fisher, Charlotte and David Winton, Mr. and Mrs. John and Kathy MacDonough

	Robert Adams Sitka Spruce, Cape Blanco State Park, Curry County, Oregon 1999-2003		Robert Adams: Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Sep. 29, 2005- Jan. 3, 2006 A photo series retracing the path of the Lewis and Clark expedition, laying bear the environmental devastation that has come in their wake. Curator: Sandra S. Phillips Catalogue: 234 pp., $65

	Vilhelm Hammershøi Interior, Strandgade 30		Danish Paintings of the Nineteenth Century From the Collection of Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College Sept. 30-Dec. 18, 2005 Ca. 40 paintings amassed by Loeb, Reagans ambassador to Denmark, including many paintings by artists not often seen in the U.S., such as Vilhelm Hammershøi, Peder Krøyer, Johan Laurentz Jensen and Jens Juel. Curator: Nancy Hall-Duncan Catalogue: $15

	Alexander Calder Un effet du japonais 1940		The Surreal Calder Menil Collection Sept. 30, 2005Jan. 15, 2006 Ca. 60 objects, ranging from works on paper to sculpture, made between 1932 and 1947 and focusing on Calders surreal side in his cosmic imagery, biomorphic and metamorphic forms. Curator: Mark Rosenthal Catalogue: 156 pp., $45