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	Lubov Popova Futurist Portrait 1915		Painting Revolution: Kandinsky, Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde Portland Art Museum, Oregon Nov. 1, 2000-Jan. 7, 2001 86 avant-garde paintings that went underground during the communist regime and only reemerged with glasnost in 1988. Works by Vasilii Kandinsky, Kazimir Malevich, Luibov Popova, Alexander Rodchenko, more. Curator: John Bowlt, USC; organized at PAM by Bruce Guenther. Tour: The show appeared at the Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis (Jan. 1-Mar. 31, 2000); Phoenix Art Museum (April 1-June 30, 2000); Chicago Cultural Center (July 22-Oct. 8, 2000). Catalogue: 215 pp., $30 (softcover). Edited by John Bowlt; text by Ezgeniia Petrova, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg and Andrei Sarabianov. Funding: Keybank; Fox 49 KPDX.

	Milton Glaser Dante's Purgatorio 1999		Art is Work: Milton Glaser Retrospective American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York Nov. 1-Dec. 27, 2000 Posters, editorial designs, interior designs, corporate logos, record albums, magazine illustrations and typography, as well as watercolors, drawings, prints and illustrated books, toys, textiles, jewelry, home furnishings and erotic drawings by "the Picasso of the graphic arts." Curator: Milton Glaser. Catalogue: 272 pp., $85. Features the collected writings of the artist.

	Francisco Goya Asta su Abuelo (As Far Back as His Grandfather plate 39 from Los Caprichos 1799		Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process AXA Gallery, New York Nov. 3, 2000-Jan. 13, 2001 Launches the exhibition program of International Print Center New York (IPCNY) with 150 works by Albrecht Dürer, Giulio Campagnola, Rembrandt van Rijn, William Blake, Francisco Goya, Emil Nolde, Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Louise Bourgeois, Lesley Dill, Damien Hirst, more. Curators: Elizabeth Wycoff, the New York Public Library; David Platzker, director of Printed Matter in Manhattan. Catalogue: 126 pp., $45 (hardcover) and $25 (softcover). Foreword by Anne Coffin, IPCNY; introduction and essays by co-curators Wycoff and Platzker. Funding: AXA Financial, Inc. and its subsidiary the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.

	Annie Liebovitz Hillary Clinton, First Lady on Truman Terrace, the White House, Washington, D.C. 2000		Annie Leibovitz: Women International Center of Photography, New York Nov. 3-Dec. 31, 2000 A panorama of contemporary American women -- from Hillary Rodham Clinton and Gloria Steinem to farmer Trini Campbell and Las Vegas showgirl Akke Alma. The debut program of ICP's renovated midtown facility also features "Reflections in a Glass Eye: Works from the International Center of Photography Collection" and "Collected Visions: An Installation by Laurie Novack." Curator: Organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the show was coordinated at ICP by Brian Wallis. Tour: The show appeared at the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Oct. 27-Feb. 28, 2000). Catalogue: 240 pp., $75 (hardcover). Essay by Susan Sontag. Funding: Vogue; Mercedes-Benz.

	Panpiper vessel North Coast, Chimü ca. 14th-15th century		Rain of the Moon: Silver in Ancient Peru Metropolitan Museum of Art Nov. 3, 2000-Apr. 22, 2001 More than 100 examples -- small personal adornments (earflares, necklace beads and nose rings), drinking vessels, art objects, more -- dating from the early part of the first millennium to the 16th century. Curator: Heidi King, Metropolitan Museum. Catalogue: $19.95 (softcover). Funding: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

	Tom Friedman Untitled 1995		Tom Friedman Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Nov. 4, 2000-Jan. 28, 2001 34 of the artist's quirky works from 1989-2000 -- a star made of toothpicks, a life sized model of a fly, a sculptural self-portrait as a dead man, more. Runs simultaneous with the Center's art's festival "Juvenilia: Checking Out Youth and Art." Curator: Ron Platt, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, N.C. Tour: The show had its debut at the Chicago MCA (July 8-Oct. 1, 2000). After Yerba Buena, it moves to the Aspen Art Museum (Feb.16-April 15, 2001), the Southeastern Center (July 14-Sept. 24, 2001) and the New Museum, New York (Oct. 11, 2001-Jan. 17, 2002). Catalogue: 88 pp., $19.95 (softcover). Essays by Platt and Michele Rowe-Shields, former director of the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art. Funding: San Francisco Bay Guardian; SF Gate; National Endowment for the Arts; California Arts Council; Evelyn & Walter Haas, Jr. Fund; Bank of America Foundation; Novellus Systems; LEF Foundation; Levi Strauss Foundation; Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Charles Schwab Corporation Foundation; Chevron; Hitachi America, Ltd.; J.P. Morgan and Co.; Hedberg Foundation, Inc.; Cow Hollow Foundation; and the Members of Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

	Bernese glass painter (Hans Funk?) after Niklaus Manuel Deutsch Christ and The Women Taken in Adultery 1527		Painting on Light: Drawings and Stained Glass in the Age of Dürer and Holbein St. Louis Art Museum Nov. 4, 2000-Jan. 7, 2001 More than 60 stained-glass panels and their preparatory drawings dating from the late Gothic and Renaissance periods in Germany and Switzerland (from 1480 to 1530). Curators: Barbara Butts (formerly of the St. Louis Museum) and Lee Hendrix, the Getty Museum. Tour: The show first appeared at the Getty (July 11-Sept. 24, 2000). Catalogue: 330 pp., $125 (hardcover) and $50 (softcover). With essays by stained-glass specialists Barbara Giesicke, Mylène Ruoss, Hartmut Scholz and Peter van Treeck and catalogue entries by Butts, Hendrix and Timothy B. Husband. Funding: May Department Stores Company; Lord & Taylor; David's Bridal divisions; National Endowment for the Arts.

	Man Ray Noire et Blanche, Paris 1926		Chorus of Light: Photographs from the Sir Elton John Collection High Museum of Art (Midtown), Atlanta Nov. 4, 2000-Jan. 28, 2001 380 works from the encyclopedic photography collection of the sometimes-Atlanta-based pop musician -- Berenice Abbott and Henri-Cartier Bresson to Adam Fuss and Robert Mapplethorpe. At the High Museum of Folk Art -- "Celebrity Portraits from the Sir Elton John Collection." Curators: Ned Rifkin, director of the de Menil Collection, Houston (and former director of the High); Tom Southall, High Museum; Jane Jackson, president of Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta. Catalogue: Features an interview with Sir Elton John by Ingrid Sischy, an introduction by Rifkin and essays by co-curators Jackson and Southall. Funding: J.P. Morgan; Equity Office.

	Jud Yalkut The Astrolabe of God 1972		Dream Reels: VideoFilms and Environments by Jud Yalkut Whitney Museum of American Art Nov. 4-Dec. 3, 2000 A survey of the artist's multi-screen psychedelic film environments from the 1960s, video experiments from the 1970s and collaborations with John Cage, Trisha Brown, Nam June Paik, Yayoi Kusama, others.

			DB-OF-TH-AP Laguna Art Museum Nov. 5, 2000-Jan. 7, 2001 Four artists from the permanent collection: Deborah Brown's sculptures of mismatched doll parts; Oskar Fischinger's abstract paintings; Tom Holland's experiments with fiberglass; Astrid Preston's monkey paintings. Also on view: "Margaret Keane & Keanabilia" (Nov. 5-Dec. 31, 2000) and the experimental media arts celebration "L.A. Freewaves" (Nov. 5-Dec. 31, 2000). Curator: Janet Blake, LAM.

	Jean Cocteau Self-portrait 1954		Jean Cocteau Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh Nov. 5, 2000-Jan. 28, 2001 In collaboration with the Museé Jean Cocteau in France, more than 200 art works as well as films, performance documentation and publications outline Cocteau's influence on Andy Warhol. Curator: Margery King, Andy Warhol Museum. Funding: agnés b.; Cultural Services of the Embassy of France; Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; US Airways; Pittsburgh Chapter of the French-American Chamber of Commerce; Alliance Française de Pittsburgh.

	Harp guitar designed by the American Harmony Company ca. 1920s		Dangerous Curves: Art of the Guitar Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Nov. 5, 2000-Feb. 25, 2001 More than 130 guitars made during the last 400 years. Curator: Darcy Kuronen, MFA Boston. Catalogue: 223 pp., $45 (hardcover), $24.95 (softcover). Essays by Kuronen and music historian and guitarist Lenny Kaye, and commentary by modern guitarists Bonnie Raitt, Pete Townshend, Andrien Belew and Ani DiFranco. Funding: John Hancock Financial Services; WBZ-TV 4; the Boston Phoenix; 100.7 WZLX.

	Uta Barth Untitled (98.2) 1998		Uta Barth Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Nov. 9, 2000-Jan. 21, 2001 The first museum survey of the German-born, L.A.-based photographer known for her out-of-focus images of interiors and landscapes -- nearly 70 large-scale, color photographs from the past 10 years as well as a site-specific installation. Curator: Sheryl Conkelton, Henry Art Gallery. Tour: A smaller version of the show travels to the Houston CAM (May 12-July 1, 2001). Catalogue: 176 pp., $49.95. Features a complete bibliography and an interview with the artist. Essayists include Conkelton; Russell Ferguson, associate curator at MoCA, Los Angeles; and Timothy Martin, an artist and writer who teaches at Art Center College of Art and Design, Los Angeles. Funding: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Lannan Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; Jodi Green and Michael Halperin; Rebecca and Alexander Stewart.

	Hiroshi Sugimoto Chrysler Building (William Van Allen) 1997		Hiroshi Sugimoto San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Nov. 10, 2000-Mar. 4, 2001 The artist's long-exposure photos of empty movie theaters, seascapes and museum dioramas, plus 15 works from a series of landmarks of modern architecture, such as the Empire State Building and Tadeo Ando's chapel in Osaka. Curator: Aaron Betsky, SFMOMA.

	Antoni Tàpies Esfera i cadena 1999		Antoni Tàpies: Secret Scribbles Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Nov. 11, 2000-Jan. 14, 2001 20 of the Spanish artist's most recent sculptures and mixed-medium paintings. Curator: Sue Spaid, CAC. Funding: Lynne Meyers Gordon; Fine Arts Fund; members of the CAC; City of Cincinnati.

	Gillian Wearing Drunk 1999		Scopophilia: Pleasure in Looking Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Nov. 11, 2000- March 25, 2001 A festival of work from 10 of the most provocative contemporary video artists -- Gillian Wearing, Jeremy Blake, Pipilotti Rist, Sam Taylor-Wood, Jane & Louise Wilson, Janet Biggs, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Pierre Huyghe and Phillipe Parreno. Curator: Sue Spaid, CAC. Funding: Lightborne Communications.

	Paul McCarthy Gardenman 1991-92		Paul McCarthy MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles Nov. 12, 2000-Jan. 21, 2001 The first U.S. retrospective of the provocative L.A. artist -- approximately 100 works (drawings, videos, sculptures and installations) explore the American id. Curators: Organized by Lisa Phillips and Dan Cameron, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Tour: Following its presentation at MOCA, the exhibition will be on view at the New Museum (Feb. 22-May 13, 2001). Catalogue: 264 pp. Includes essays by Anthony Vidler, Cameron, and an introduction by Phillips. Funding: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Norman and Rosita Wilson Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts; Producers Council of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York.

	Douglas Aitken Blow Debris 2000		Flight Patterns Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Nov. 12, 2000-Feb. 11, 2001 Landscape, urbanism and the relationship of cities to the land explored by 23 artists working in the Pacific Rim -- Laurence Aberhardt, Doug Aitken, Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), Miles Coolidge, Rodney Graham, Tracey Moffat, Paul Outerbridge, Allan Sekula, Glen Wilson, more. Curator: Connie Butler, MOCA. Catalogue: Essays by Butler, Lee Weng Choy and Francis Pound. Funding: Fellows of Contemporary Art; Audrey M. Irmas; Creative New Zealand; MOCA Projects Council; New Media Project; Erik and Heidi Murkoff; KLON-FM 88.1.

	William Baziotes Beach Shadows 1947		William Baziotes: The Poetic Spirit Butler Institute of American Art, Howland, Ohio Nov. 12, 2000-Jan. 7, 2001 26 major works by the first-generation Ab Ex painter. Curator: Joseph Helman, Butler Institute. Catalogue: Entries by the artist's widow, Ethel Baziotes, Robert Reed Cole, Barbara Cavaliere and by Butler director Louis Zona.

	Stanislav Szukalski Kopernik 1940		Struggle: The Art of Szukalski Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, Calif. Nov. 12, 2000-Feb. 4, 2001 46 bronze sculptures and 50 drawings by the Polish expat Stanislav Szukalski (d. 1987) -- a prominent member of Chicago's cultural society in the 1920s who spent his last years living in obscurity in suburban Los Angeles. Curator: Tyler Stallings, Laguna Art Museum. Catalogue: 200 pp., $24.95. Written by Eva Kirsch, curator and professor of art history at Cal State-San Bernardino. Funding: Leonardo DiCaprio; Sam and Ellen Rose; Tom Rainone.

			Victor Schreckengost and 20th Century Design Cleveland Museum of Art Nov. 12, 2000-Feb. 4, 2001 More than 150 works by the American modernist -- from sculptures and drawings to industrial designs. Curator: Henry Adams and Henry Hawley, Cleveland Museum. Catalogue: 234 pp. Funding: Hahn Loeser & Parks, LLP; John P. Murphy Foundation; the Richard Florsheim Art Fund; Northern Trust Company; Nottingham-Spirk Design Associates; Betty and Joe Oros; Mr. and Mrs. Viktor Schreckengost; National Endowment for the Arts.

	Bruce Oldfield Cocktail Dress 1989 (detail)		British Designers: From Anarchy to Monarchy Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Nov. 12, 2000-Feb. 4, 2001 An overview of 20th-century British fashion drawn from the museum's textiles and costumes collection -- from Edward Molyneux and Liberty & Co. to Mary Quant, Ossie Clark and Vivienne Westwood, plus Bruce Oldfield, Dai Rees, Lulu Guinness and Alexander McQueen. Curator: Tina M. Llorente, MFAH. Funding: Mr. And Mrs. Harry H. Cullen; Daniel Dror, Sr. and Daniel Dror II; Julia and Russell Frankel; Roberta Franzheim and Ambassador Kenneth Franzheim; Sabrina Franzheim and Mrs. Barbara Franzheim Dror; Molly O'Connor Kemp; Mrs. William S. Kilroy; Mr. And Mrs. Jess R. Moore; Stephanie Kemp Loefler.

	Felix Vallotton Laziness 1896		Post-Impressionism in Prints: A Promised Gift from the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Nov. 12, 2000-Feb. 4, 2001 More than 80 prints from 1890 to 1910, primarily French, and concentrating on color lithography, with works by the Nabi brotherhood -- Maurice Denis, Henri-Gabriel Ibels, Ker-Xavier Roussel, Felix Vallotton, Edouard Vuillard -- and Paul Gauguin, Henri-Edmond Cross, Paul Signac and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Curator: Barry Walker, MFAH.

	Clementine Hunter Picking Cotton Near African House ca. late 1940s		Clementine Hunter Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis Nov. 13, 2000-Jan. 28, 2001 A survey of work by Louisiana's best-known self-taught artist, who made her first painting at age 57. Curator: Minneapolis artist Arlene Burke Morgan; Judi Petkau, Weisman Art Museum (WAM); Patricia McDonnell, WAM. Funding: WK Kellogg Foundation; the Minneapolis-St. Paul chapter of the Links, Inc.

	Georgia O'Keeffe Street, New York I 1926		Views of the City: 1910-1949 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe Nov. 14, 2000-March 14, 2001 A selection of O'Keeffe's New York City paintings with approximately 55 photographs, works on paper and paintings of the city by 28 of her contemporaries -- painters Charles Sheeler, Joseph Stella, Edward Hopper, Samuel Halpert, Elsie Driggs and photographers Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, Paul Grotz, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz, Walker Evans, more. Curator: Barbara Buhler Lynes, O'Keeffe Museum.

	Ben Shahn Greenwich Village (New York City) 1932-39		Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times Grey Art Gallery, New York University Nov. 14, 2000-Jan. 27, 2001 Approximately 100 photos of the 1930s Lower East Side and Greenwich Village, where the celebrated American Social Realist lived. Curators: Deborah Martin Kao, Fogg Art Museum; Laura Katzman, Randolph-Macon Woman's College; Jenna Webster, Fogg Art Museum. Tour: The exhibition first appeared at the Phillips Collection (June 10-Aug. 27, 2000) and will travel to the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago (tba). Catalogue: 350 pp., with essays by co-curators Kao, Katzman and Webster. Funding: The National Endowment for the Humanities; Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; Abby Weed Grey Trust.

	Milton Glaser Bob Dylan 1966		Milton Glaser Graphic Design: Design, Influence and Process Philadelphia Museum of Art Nov. 15, 2000-Jan. 21, 2001 Another showcase for work by the popular graphic designer (most famously of the I Love NY logo) -- celebrating him as the recipient of this year's Design Excellence Award from COLLAB, a group of design professionals who support the museum's contemporary design collections. Curator: Kathryn B. Hiesinger, Philadelphia Museum.

	Jill Shurtleff Sensor for Women razor 1992		Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, New York Nov. 15, 2000-Feb. 25, 2001 Approximately 200 items designed for and by women. Curator: Pat Kirkham, BGC. Catalogue: 462 pp., $80 (hardcover). Essays by Kirkham; Penny Sparke, University of Kingston, England; Judith B. Gura, Pratt Institute, and freelance journalist; Leslie R. Close, independent landscape historian; Cheryl Buckley, University of Northumbria and author of Potters and Paintresses: Women Designers in the Pottery Industry, 1870-1955; Ellen Lupton, Maryland Institute College of Art, and adjunct curator at the Cooper-Hewitt National Museum of Design, Smithsonian Institution. Funding: Barbara and Richard Debs; Barbara Goldsmith; Judith Leiber; Grace and Shepard Morgan; Tiffany & Co.; Charles Engelhard Foundation; CAP Foundation; Daniel and Joanna S. Rose; Linda Van Kooy; TIMEX; and an anonymous donor.

	Page of a book Abeceda (A-B-C-D) written in 1922 by Viteslau Nezval, designs by Karel Teige		Dreams and Disillusion: Karel Teige and the Czech Avant-Garde Wolfsonian Florida International University, Miami Beach Nov. 15, 2000-April 1, 2001 The first U.S. exhibition to showcase the work of the radical Modernist and leader of the 20th-century Czech avant-garde includes a full-scale model of his landmark minimalist dwelling, Surrealist collages, typographic experiments and graphic design. Curator: Eric Dluhosch, MIT. Funding: State of Florida; Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, Florida Arts Council; Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs through the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners; the Mayor and City Commission of the City of Miami Beach and the Miami Beach Cultural Arts Council; American Express Company; Continental Airlines; Arthur F. and Alice E. Adams Foundation.

			Julie Taymor: Playing with Fire National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. Nov. 16, 2000-Feb. 4, 2001 The traveling multimedia exhibition exploring the oeuvre of the director, co-composer, costume designer and co-designer of masks and puppets of Disney's The Lion King. Curators: Sherri Geldin and Charles Helm, Wexner Center. Organized at NMWA by Susan Fisher Sterling, NMWA. Tour: Field Museum, Chicago (May 15-Oct. 14, 2001). Catalogue: 240 pp., $49.50 (hardcover), $35.95 (softcover). Funding: General Dynamics; Ford Motor Company; Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro; John S. and James L. Knight Foundation; PricewaterhouseCoopers; Columbus Foundation; Greater Columbus Arts Council; Ohio Arts Council; Wexner Center Foundation; NBBJ; Express; Marshall Field's; Historic Costume and Textiles Collection and Department of Theatre at the Ohio State University.

	Nardo di Cione Madonna and Child Entrhoned with Saints		Nardo di Cione: The Reuniting of an Altarpiece Brooklyn Museum of Art Nov. 17, 2000-Feb. 18, 2001 The reunion of the early Renaissance painter's Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints with its uppermost panel, Christ Blessing. The two pictures were last seen together in 1851. Related works by Nardo di Cione will also be on view. Curator: Elizabeth Easton, BMA. Funding: Frank and Katherine Martucci.

	Evaristo Baschenis Accademia Musicale with a Self-Portrait of Evaristo Baschenis and a Portrait of Ottavio Agliardi ca. 1665		The Still Lifes of Evaristo Baschenis: The Music of Silence Metropolitan Museum Nov. 17, 2000-Mar. 4, 2001 15 paintings by the 17th-century Italian artist, on loan from private and public collections throughout northern Italy. Curator: Andrea Bayer and Laurence B. Kanter, Metropolitan museum. Funding: Banco Popolare di Bergamo.

	Raoul De Keyser Templeuve 1994		Raoul De Keyser Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia Nov. 17, 2000-Jan. 21, 2001 30 paintings, from 1980 to the present, by the Belgian abstract artist. Curator: Gregory Salzman, guest curator. Funding: Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Belgium; Pennsylvania Council on the Arts; Philadelphia Cultural Fund; Friends of the Galleries at Moore.

	Liza Lou Richard Nixon 1996		Star-Spangled Presidents: Portraits by Liza Lou Renwick Gallery, Washington, D.C. Nov. 17, 2000-Feb. 19, 2001 Beaded likenesses of each of the 42 American presidents. Curator: Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonian Art Museum.

	Edward Ruscha The Mountain 1998		Ed Ruscha Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Nov. 18, 2000-Feb. 4, 2001 More than 80 of the L.A.-based Pop artist's paintings, drawings and photo-narrative books from 1960 to the present. Curators: Kerry Brougher, Hirshhorn Museum.; Neal Benezra, Art Institute of Chicago (and formerly of the Hirshhorn). Tour: The exhibition first appeared at the Hirshhorn (June 29-Sept. 17, 2000) and travels to the Miami Art Museum (March 22-June 3, 2001); the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (July 1-Sept. 30, 2001); and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England (Oct. 28-Jan. 3, 2002). Catalogue: 196 pp., $39.95 (hardcover). With essays by Benezra, Brougher and Phyllis Rosenzweig, the Hirshhorn Museum. Funding: Henry Luce Foundation; J. Tomilson and Janine Hill; Broad Art Foundation; Melva Bucksbaum; Emily Fisher Landau; State of Illinois.

	Catherine Opie Melissa and Lake, Durnham, North Carolina 1998		Catherine Opie Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Nov. 18, 2000-Feb. 4, 2001 The lesbian tribe, via the New York-based photographer's "Portraits," "Houses and Landscapes," "Freeways," "Mini-malls" and "Domestic" series. Curator: Organized by the Photographer's Gallery in London, the MCA presentation of the show is coordinated by Sylvia Chivaratanond. Catalogue: 60 pp., $40 (hardcover). With an introduction by Kate Bush, the Photographer's Gallery, London; an interview by Russell Ferguson, L.A. MoCA; and an essay by critic and independent curator Joshua Decter. Funding: Curt Alan Conklin; C. Bradford Smith; Donald L. Davis.

			Voyage of Discovery: The Landscape Photographs of Ray K. Metzker Philadelphia Museum of Art Nov. 18, 2000-Feb. 11, 2001 Photos of Italy, Turkey, France, Colorado, Wisconsin and Utah by an artist best known for his bold, urban images -- more than 100 prints created over the past 15 years, many of which have never before been exhibited. Curators: Evan H. Turner, retired director of the Cleveland Museum of Art (and director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1964 to 1977); Katherine Ware, Philadelphia Museum. Catalogue: 168 pp., $50 (hardcover). With an essay and chronology by Turner.

	Andy Warhol Sixteen Jackies 1965		Andy Warhol: Social Observer Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Nov. 18, 2000-Feb. 19, 2001 More than 86 paintings, prints, photographs and one film. Curator: Jonathan Binstock, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Organized at the Corcoran by Jackie Serwer and Laura Coyle. Tour: The exhibition first appeared at PAFA (June 17-Sept. 21, 2000). Funding: Exxon Mobil; Mercedes Benz.

	Jake and Dinos Chapman "What the Hell, I-X" (detail from series) 2000		Disasters of War: Francisco de Goya, Henry Darger, Jake and Dinos Chapman P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City Nov. 19, 2000-Feb. 25, 2001 Dinos and Jake Chapman do Goya and Darger does Bosch. Curator: Klaus Biesenbach, P.S.1.

	Georges Adéagbo "La Colonisation Belge en Afrique Noir" 2000		Georges Adéagbo: Abraham - L'ami de Dieu P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City Nov. 19, 2000-March 2001 The African artist's site-specific installation designed to 'celebrate the essential moments of P.S.1's history.' Curator: Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, P.S.1. Funding: Services Culturels de L'Ambassade Francaise: www.frenchculture.org, Air Afrique and CTL-Presse.de.

	Graciela Iturbide México, D.F. (Mexico City) 1972		Images of the Spirit: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide Parrish Art Museum, Southampton Nov. 19, 2000-Jan. 7, 2001 A retrospective of the Latin American artist -- more than 100 gelatin silver prints documenting the hardscrabble lives of Mexican women. Curator: Organized by the Alfred Stieglitz Center at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Tour: The exhibition first appeared at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (June 1-Sept. 24, 2000). Catalogue: $40; With a preface by the poet and critic Roberto Tejada and an epilogue by the anthropologist Alfredo Lopez Austin, professor at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Funding: U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture; Bancomer Cultural Foundation; Rockefeller Foundation; Pew Charitable Trusts.

			Chant Avedissian: A Contemporary Artist of Egypt Smithsonian National Museum of African Art Nov. 19, 2000-Feb.19, 2001 A series of painted and stenciled panels cover the history of Egyptian iconography -- from the hieroglyphs and monuments of dynastic Egypt to King Farouk, President Nassar and modern diva Om Kalsoum. Curator: Elizabeth Harney, NMAFA.

			The Art of Giving in the Middle Ages J. Paul Getty Museum Nov. 21, 2000-Feb. 4, 2001 Twenty illuminated manuscripts dating from the 11th to 16th century that focus on three themes: the models for giving found in the scripture and lives of the saints, the culture of giving in medieval society, the gift of the book in the Middle Ages and beyond. Curator: Thomas Kren, Getty Museum.

	Dorothea Tanning Birthday 1942		Dorothea Tanning: Birthday and Beyond Philadelphia Museum of Art Nov. 24, 2000-Jan. 7, 2001 Celebrates the museum's 1999 acquisition of Birthday (1942), a self-portrait painted by the artist when she was 32 years old. The 90-year-old artist helped select the 18 works, which accompany -- including paintings, sculpture and works on paper. Curators: Anne Temkin and Michael Taylor, Philadelphia Museum.

	Timo Sarpaneva Lancet Vase 1953		A Century of Design, Part III: 1950-1975 Metropolitan Museum Nov. 28, 2000-April 1, 2001 More than 50 objects that characterize European and American design from the post-war years to the post-modern, by leading designers Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Wharton Esherick, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglione, more. Curator: Jared Goss, Metropolitan Museum.