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			New This Month in U.S. Museums

	Andy Warhol Shadows 1979 (installation view)		Shadows Dia Center for the Arts, New York Dec. 4, 1998-June 13, 1999 Andy Warhol's most mysterious and beautiful work, on view in Dia's annex space across the street from its main facility.

	Bruce Davidson from the series "The Brooklyn Gang"		Bruce Davidson: The Brooklyn Gang, 1959 International Center of Photography, New York, N.Y. Dec. 5, 1998-Mar. 7, 1999 The Magnum photographer's documentary portrait of a gang of street-smart Brooklyn teenagers called "the Jokers."

	Caspar David Friedrich Moonrise over the Sea 1822		Guests of Honor: Masterpieces by Caspar David Friedrich from the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, and the Museum Folkwang, Essen Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth Dec. 5, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999 The German Romantic landscape artist's only painting in an American collection, Mountain Peak with Drifting Clouds, will be joined by three works on loan from Berlin and Essen. Curator: Charles F. Stuckey.

	Marie-Gabrielle Capet Self-Portrait		Mastery and Elegance: Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge Dec. 5, 1998-Jan. 31, 1999 115 examples of early French draftsmanship from the collection of Cleveland investor Jeffrey E. Horvitz, including works by Poussin, Watteau, Lorrain and Fragonard. Organizers: Fogg Art Museum. Curators: Alvin J. Clark, Jr. and William W. Robinson. Catalogue: Essays by Marianne Roland Michel, Alain Mérot and Sophie Raux-Carpentier with additional material written by a team of 35 international scholars. Tour: Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (Feb. 20-Apr. 18, 1999); Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris (May 1-June 25, 1999); National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (July 9-Sept. 5, 1999); National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts, New York, (Oct. 8-Dec. 12, 1999); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Jan. 30-Mar. 25, 2000).

	Jessica Bronson The Polar Night and the Return of the Sun 1997		Jessica Bronson: World Picture Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Dec. 6, 1998-Feb. 28, 1999 T.V. programming interrupted by real-time helicopter pursuit footage, via an installation by L.A. video artist, second winner of MOCA's Emerging Artist Award. Sponsor: Mitsui Fudosan (USA), Inc.

	Brassaï Balloon Seller, Montsouris Park, Paris 1931-34		Brassaï: The Eye of Paris Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Dec. 6, 1998-Feb. 28, 1999 140 photographs, drawings, sculptures and books by the Hungarian-turned-Parisian "street photographer" Brassaï, including the "Paris at Night" series. Curator: Anne Wilkes Tucker. Catalogue essays: Anne Wilkes Tucker, Richard Howard. Tour: J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (Apr. 13-July 1999); National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Sept. 4-Nov. 28, 1999).

	Madeleine Vionnet Wedding gown 1929		Cubism and Fashion Metropolitan Museum Dec. 10, 1998-Mar. 14, 1999 Cubist ideas of geometry, collage and rotation through space transformed into elegant dresses by Madeleine Vionnet, Callot Soeurs, Gabrielle Chanel and others. Curator: Richard Martin. Sponsor: Prada.

			Currents 76: Gabriel Orozco St. Louis Art Museum Dec. 11, 1998-Feb. 7, 1999 Photographs from the past decade of patterns found in nature, including images from a recent trip to India. Curator: Rochelle Steiner.

	Adolph Wolfli Untitled (Angel) 1916		Private Worlds: Classic Outsider Art from Europe Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, N.Y. Dec. 13, 1998-Feb. 28, 1999 100 works by 19 artists, including Madge Gill, August Klett, Heinrich Muller and Adolf Wolfli. Curators: University of Kent professor Roger Cardinal and John Beardsley.

	Carle Vernet (1758-1836) Two Harnessed Horses in a Storm		Fiery Steeds: French Romantic Studies by Carle Vernet from the Ritzenberg Collection Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Dec. 15, 1998-Mar. 14, 1999 The manifold roles of the horse -- on farms, on the battlefield and in urban settings -- via 82 sketches by the 18th-19th-century realist painter. Curator: Malcolm Cormack.

	Anselm Kiefer Winter Landscape (Winterlandschaft) 1970		Anselm Kiefer: Works on Paper, 1969-1993 Metropolitan Museum of Art Dec. 15, 1998-Mar. 21, 1999 54 works, including woodcuts, painted photographs, lead collage works and watercolors, that relate German intellectual history to Nazi ideology and WWII. Albrecht Dürer's The Triumphal Arch of Maximilian (1515) was lent by the National Gallery to complement Kiefer's woodcuts. Curator: Nan Rosenthal. Sponsors: Reba and Dave Williams.

			Two Centuries of Drawings from Bologna J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Dec. 15, 1998-Feb. 28, 1999 Live model drawings and nature studies from the Caracci's academy, formed by the brothers Annibale, Agostino and Ludovico in the 16th century and continued into the 17th century by Guido Reni and Guercino, among others. Curator: Krista Brugnara.

	George Segal Cinema, 1963		George Segal, a Retrospective: Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings Miami Art Museum Dec. 17, 1998-Mar. 7, 1999 The artist's trademark plaster casts of human figures, as well as early figurative paintings, reliefs of the human body, pastels and portrait drawings from the 1960s to '90s. Organizer: Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Curator: Marco Livingstone. Tour: Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. (Feb. 19-May 17, 1998); Jewish Museum, New York (Jun. 14-Oct. 4, 1998). Funding: BellSouth et al.

	Jean Blackburn Cornered		Working in Brooklyn: Domestic Transformations Brooklyn Museum of Art Dec. 17, 1998-Mar. 14, 1999 The mercurial role of the home and family in contemporary life, via work by Brooklyn-based artists Ann Agee, Ron Baron, Jean Blackburn and Andy Yoder. Curator: Charlotta Kotik.

	Pieter de Hooch The Courtyard of a House in Delft, with a Woman and Child 1658		Pieter de Hooch, 1629-1684 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Ct. Dec. 17, 1998-Feb. 28, 1999 37 domestic and urban images by the Dutch naturalist. The exhibition premiered at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. Curator: Peter C. Sutton. Sponsor: United Technologies Corporation et al.

	Duane Hanson Man on a Lawn Mower 1995		Duane Hanson: A Survey of His Work from the 30s to the 90s Whitney Museum of American Art Dec. 17, 1998-Mar. 21, 1999 35 lifelike, narrative sculptures spanning the career of the late Photo-Realist sculptor, including the fatigued Traveler, the alarming, political Abortion and Man on a Lawn Mower. Organizer: Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale. Curator: Laurence Pamer (MAFL). Catalogue essays: Laurence Pamer, independent curator Marco Livingstone. Tour: The exhibition premiered at the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale (Jan. 17-Aug. 2, 1998) and traveled to the Flint Institute of Art, Michigan, before arriving at the Whitney. Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Tennessee is the final stop.

	Lewis Wickes Hine Child Labor in Tobacco Field 1916		Lewis Wickes Hine: The Final Years Brooklyn Museum of Art Dec. 18, 1998-Feb. 28, 1999 106 images of Ellis Island immigrants, factory workers and decaying tenements by realist photographer Lewis Wickes Hine (1874-1940), including a series documenting the construction of the Empire State Building. Curator: Barbara Head Millstein.

	Bell (didu) Kongo peoples, Democratic Republic of the Congo		New Acquistions: Gifts from the Lawrence Gussman Collection National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C. Dec. 18, 1998-April, 1999 Gussman, a collector of African art since 1965, has donated part of his collection from Gabon and the Congo to the museum.

	Frans van Mieris the Elder An Allegory of Painting (Pittura) 1661		Copper as Canvas: Two Centuries of Masterpiece Paintings on Copper, 1575-1775 Phoenix Art Museum Dec. 19, 1998-Feb. 28, 1999 80 works on copper by 70 artists including Rembrandt, El Greco, Brueghel and Chardin. Curator: Michael Komanecky. Tour: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City (Mar. 28-Jun. 13, 1999); Royal Cabinet of Paintings Mauritshuis, The Hague (Jun. 26-Aug. 22, 1999).

	Arnold Genthe The Street of Gamblers (Ross Alley) 1898		San Francisco's old Chinatown: Photographs by Arnold Genthe M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco Dec. 19, 1998-Mar. 28, 1999 30 images depicting San Francisco's thriving old Chinatown by the German-born photographer. The exhibition will travel to San Francisco's Chinese Culture Center in January 2000. Curators: Karin Breuer (FAMSF) and San Francisco Sate University professor Rodger Birt.

	Jalisco, El Arenal Brown Standing Warrior 200 B.C.-500 A.D.		Ancient West Mexico: Art of the Unknown Past Los Angeles County Museum of Art Dec. 20, 1998-Mar. 29, 1999 225 entombed spiritual offerings from Ancient West Mexico (200 B.C.-800 A.D.), including earthenware sculptures, ceramic vessels, jade figures and shell jewelry. Curator: Virginia Fields. Organizer: Art Institute of Chicago. Sponsor: NBD Corporation.