24 Paintings: Thomas Nozkowski
Corcoran Gallery
Sept. 1-Nov. 1, 1997
Intimately scaled abstractions from the last five years.
Curator: Jack Cowart.
Catalogue essay by Peter Schjeldahl.
Stops: Ulrich Museum, Wichita, Jan. 15-Mar. 1, 1998.
Sponsors: Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C.; Max Protetch
Gallery, New York.
Robert Gober Installation view
1997
Robert Gober
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Sept. 7-Dec. 14, 1997
At the Geffen Contemporary, an installation designed exclusively for
MOCA, including a life-size concrete sculpture of the Virgin Mary
standing on a sewer grate and a waterfall running down a staircase.
Curator: Paul Schimmel.
Catalogue essay by Hal Foster.
Funding: Audrey and Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation; Lannan
Foundation; Ruth and Jake Bloom; Douglas S. Cramer; Paul Randall
and Cormac O'Herlihy, Jon Douglas Company, Malibu.
Pablo Picasso The Blind Man's Meal
1903
Picasso: The Early Years 1892-1906
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Sept. 10, 1997-Jan. 4, 1998
"A comprehensive survey of the artist's formative years (11-25)."
The second and final stop of the National Gallery's spring blockbuster.
157 works.
Curators: Mark Rosenthal (NGA), George Shackelford (MFA) and
Robert Boardingham (MFA).
Sponsor: Bell Atlantic.
Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still
1979
Eye of the Beholder: Photographs from the Avon Collection
International Center of Photography, New York
Sept. 12-Nov. 13, 1997
90 photographs by women, from Berenice Abbott and Imogen
Cunningham to Laurie Simmons and Lorna Simpson.
"Diverse and changing concepts of beauty."
Avon Collection curators: Sandi Fellman and Shelly Rice.
Hendrick ter Brugghen A Man Playing a Lute
1624
Masters of Light: Dutch Painters in Utrecht during the Golden Age
California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Sept. 13-Nov. 30, 1997
80 17th-century paintings.
First major U.S. show.
Curators: Joaneath Spicer (Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore) and Lynn
Federle Orr (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco).
Subsequent itinerary: Walters Art Gallery, Jan. 11-Apr. 5, 1998;
National Gallery, London, May 6-Aug. 2, 1998.
Funding: NEA, NEH.
Lorna Simpson Still
1997
Lorna Simpson: Interior/Exterior, Full/Empty
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Oh.
Sept. 19-Jan. 4, 1998
Simpson's first installation using film.
Culminating her tenure as Wexner Center Resident.
Funding: Peter Norton Family Foundation; NEA; WBNS-TV.
Robert Rauschenberg Skyway
1964
Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective
Guggenheim Museum
Sept. 19, 1997-Jan. 7, 1998.
C. 400 works in both New York facilities.
Curators: Walter Hopps, Susan Davidson (Menil Collection, Houston).
Stops: Houston; Cologne; Bilbao; elsewhere.
Sponsors: Philip Morris; Hugo Boss.
Joseph Beuys Felt TV
1970
Joseph Beuys: Multiples
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Sept. 21-Jan. 4, 1998
300 multiples
English-language version of Jörg Schellmann's catalogue raisonné
copublished with Harvard University Museums.
Tree-planting project, inspired by Beuys' 7000 Oaks, to plant more
than 1,000 trees in Minneapolis area.
Curator: Joan Rothfuss.
Travels to Omaha, Neb., Dublin, two other European cities.
Funding: Ceridian Corp.
John Wesley Jarvis Portrait of Solomon Isaacs
(early 19th century)
Facing the New World: Jewish Portraits in Colonial and Federal America
Jewish Museum, New York
Sept. 21, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998
87 works dating from 1700 through the 1830's by Gilbert Stuart,
Thomas Sully, Charles Wilson Peale, others.
Curator: Richard Brilliant, Columbia U.
Tour: Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore, Feb. 19-May 24, 1998.
Sponsors: Skirball Foundation; Maurice Amado Foundation; Morris S.
and Florence H. Bender Foundation; Bank of New York; Erica Jesselson
and Family; Roy J. Zuckerberg Family Foundation; Carol and Arthur
Goldberg.
Richard Serra Double Torqued Ellipse
1997
Richard Serra, Torqued Ellipses
Dia Center, New York
Sept. 15, 1997-June 14, 1998
20 sculptures.
Marks debut of Dia's new space at 545 W. 22nd.
New work with "the delicacy of finely folded ribbon" done at Beth
Ship rolling mill at Sparrow's Point outside Baltimore.
Catalogue author: Mark Taylor.
Steve Wheeler The Oracle Visiting the Twentieth Century
1997
Steve Wheeler: The Oracle Visiting the 20th Century
Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, N.J.
Sept. 28, 1997-Jan. 4, 1998
First museum retrospective devoted to the paintings and works on
paper of Steve Wheeler (1912-92), a member of the Indian Space
Painters in New York in the late 1940s.
Curators: Gail Stavitsky and Twig Johnson.
Sponsors: NEA; Judith Rothschild Foundation.
Thomas Moran The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone(detail), 1872
Thomas Moran
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Sept. 28, 1997-Jan. 11, 1998.
100 watercolors and oils.
The first major retrospective of the artist whose image of
Yellowstone inspired Congress to establish the first national park.
Stops: Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Feb. 8-May 10, 1998; Seattle Art
Museum, June 11-Aug. 30, 1998.
Sponsor: Boeing Company.
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