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			New This Month in U.S. Museums

	Gustave Moreau Orpheus 1865		Gustave Moreau: Between Epic and Dream Metropolitan Museum of Art June 1-Aug. 22, 1999 Nearly 175 paintings, drawings and watercolors lent by the Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris. Curators: Geneviève Lacambre, Musée d'Orsay; Douglas W. Druick and Larry J. Feinberg, Art Institute of Chicago; Susan Alyson Stein and Rebecca A Rabinow, Metropolitan Museum; Marie-Laure de Conenson, Musée Gustave Moreau, Paris. Catalogue essays: Lacambre, Feinberg, de Contenson and Druick. Tour: The exhibition premiered at the Grand Palais, Paris and traveled to the Art Institute of Chicago. Funding: Isaacson-Draper Foundation.

	Catherine Opie Angela Scheirl 1993		Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the 20th Century UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Grunwald Center, Los Angeles June 2-Aug. 22, 1999 Photographs by over 80 artists, including Diane Arbus, Tina Modotti and Carrie Mae Weems. Curator: Olivia Lahs-Gonzales, Saint Louis Art Museum. Catalogue essays: Lucy Lippard; Olivia Lahs-Gonzales; Martha Sandweiss.

	Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg The Eleventh ca. 1928		Stenberg Brothers: Constructing a Revolution in Soviet Design UCLA Hammer Museum of Art and Grunwald Center June 2-Aug. 22, 1999 Over 100 works by the Russian avant-garde designers, including movie and propaganda posters, magazines and journals, designs for theatrical sets and costumes, and early Constructivist paintings, drawings and sculptures. Curator: Christopher Mount, assistant curator, Museum of Modern Art. Catalogue essays: Christopher Mount, Peter Kenez. Tour: Originated at MoMA. Funding: Laboratory All Fashion Art Co., Ltd.

	Nellie Mae Rowe Cow Jump Over the Mone 1978		The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe: Ninety-Nine and a Half Won't Do National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. June 3-Sept. 12, 1999 The self-taught African American artist's chewing gum sculptures, dolls, found object installations, photo-collages and works on paper. Curator: Lee Kogan. Catalogue essays: Lee Kogan; Kinshasha Conwill. Tour: The show originated at the Museum of American Folk Art and is scheduled to appeared at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, (Nov. 20, 1999-Feb. 26, 2000) and the African American Museum in Dallas, (Mar. 18-May 14, 2000). Funding: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Judith Rothschild Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts; LEF Foundation.

	Roy Lichtenstein Expressionist Head 1980		Roy Lichtenstein: Sculpture and Drawings Corcoran Gallery of Art June 4-Sept. 30, 1999 Over 200 works by the American Pop artist, including the Lichtenstein Art Car from the 1977 Le Mans race. Curator: Outgoing Corcoran chief curator Jack Cowart. Catalogue essays: Jack Cowart, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Cassandra Lozano, Naomi Spector and Agustin Arteaga. Funding: BMW, et. al.

	René Magritte La race blanche 1937		Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, The Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi Collections Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum June 4-Sept. 12, 1999 Almost 700 objects from one of the largest private holdings of Surrealist art. Curators: Thomas Krens, Tracey Bashkoff, Karole P.B. Vail and Lisa Dennison, all of the Guggenheim. Catalogue essays: Jacques Baron, Timothy Baum, Rosalind Krauss, José Pierre, Werner Spies and Jean Toulet. Funding: Lagardère Group.

			Land of the Winged Horsemen: Art in Poland, 1572-1764 Art Institute of Chicago June 5-Sept. 6, 1999 Nearly 150 works of fine and decorative art drawn from over 35 public collections throughout Poland. Curators: Ellen Reeder, Walters Art Gallery; Jan Ostrowski, Wawel Royal Castle, Cracow; Andrzej Rottermund, Royal Castle, Warsaw. Tour: The exhibition originated at the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. Funding: Polish National Alliance.

	Mary Cassatt The Boating Party 1894		Mary Cassatt National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. June 6-Sept. 6, 1999 50 paintings and 10 prints by the only American to exhibit with the Impressionists. The show includes several key works from the National Gallery's collection, which are only on view at this venue. Tour: The exhibition premiered at the Art Institute of Chicago and traveled to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Catalogue essays: Judith A. Barter, Erica E. Hirshler and George T.M. Shackelford. Funding: Aetna.

	Laura Aguilar Clothed/Unclothed Series No. 16		The Nude in Contemporary Art The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn. June 6-Sept. 12, 1999 Paintings, photography, drawings and sculpture by Karen Finley, Paul Cadmus, Chuck Close, Jenny Saville, Spencer Tunick, Lisa Yuskavage and more, in a show originally slated to appear at the Whitney Museum as part of "The American Century."

			20 x 24: Recent Photographs by Lyle Ashton Harris The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art June 6-July 11, 1999 Large-format Polaroids by the African American artist.

	John Twatchman Waterfall, Blue Brook ca. 1895-1900		John Twachtman: An American Impressionist Cincinnati Art Museum June 6-Sept. 4, 1999 More than 50 paintings and pastels by the Cincinnati native. Organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Curator: John D. Wilson, Cincinnati Art Museum curator of paintings. Tour: The exhibition travels to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Oct. 9, 1999-Jan. 2, 2000) and the High Museum of Art, Atlanta (Feb. 26-May 21, 2000). Funding: Henry Luce Foundation; Otto M. Budig Family Foundation.

	Frank Mason Good Jerusalem, Group of Female Figures ca. 1875		Revealing the Holy Land: The Photographic Exploration of Palestine Dahesh Museum, New York June 8-Aug. 28, 1999 Vintage prints of the Middle East, ca.1850-1880, by European photographers and writers. Curator: Karen Sinsheimer, Santa Barbara Museum of Art. Catalogue essays: Karen Sinsheimer, Kathleen Stewart Howe, Nitza Rosovsky. Funding: Ralph M. Parsons Foundation; Albert R. Broccoli Charitable Foundation.

	Kali India, West Bengal, Calcutta, Kalighat ca. 1850-1900		Images from a Changing World: Kalighat Paintings of Calcutta Los Angeles County Museum of Art June 10-Aug. 30, 1999 Approximately 125 paintings from 19th- and early 20th-century India. Curator: Stephen Markel, LACMA.

	Cornelius and Company or Cornelius and Baker Candelabrum ca. 1853		Art & Enterprise: The Virginia Carroll Crawford Collection of American Decorative Art, 1825-1917 High Museum of Art, Atlanta June 12-Sept. 26, 1998 The impact of industrialism on 19th-century design via 230 pieces of furniture, porcelain, glassware and pottery. Curator: High Museum curator Donald C. Pierce. Catalogue essay: Pierce. Funding: Corporate Environments, the John Williams Family Foundation and the Glover Family Foundation.

	John Walker Rejection 1986-1996		Myth, Dreams and Realities in Contemporary Argentine Photography International Center of Photography, New York June 12-Sept. 26, 1999 Mostly black and white allegorical, social documentary, street and landscape photos by 11 photographers. Curator: Anne Wilkes Tucker, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, for the Pan American Cultural Exchange.

	Deer 5th century B.C.		Ringing Thunder: Tomb Treasures from Ancient China San Diego Museum of Art June 12-Aug. 29, 1999 An examination of aristocratic life in feudal China via 2,400-year-old objects excavated in the Hubei province over the last 20 years, and a model of the Marquis Yi of Zeng's elaborate tomb. Curators: San Diego Museum of Art curators Caron Smith and Sung Yu.

	Edward Ruscha 51% Angel/49% Devil 1984		Ed Ruscha: Editions 1958-1999 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis June 12-Sept. 5, 1999 Print projects including books, art magazines, album covers, posters and a screenprint installation. Curator: Siri Engberg. Catalogue essay: Engberg. Funding: Lannan Foundation, et al.

	Liz Deschenes Color Study #11 1994-95		Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography International Center of Photography, New York June 12-Sept. 26, 1999 65 works by 19 photographers.

	Standing Chief Figure Chokwe People, Angola 19th century		Chokwe! Art and Initiation Among Chokwe and Related Peoples Baltimore Museum of Art June 13-Sept. 5, 1999 Figures, scepters, masks, pottery, basketry and more from the Chokwe peoples of Central Africa. Curator: Manuel Jordán. Tour: The exhbition originated at the Birmingham (Ala.) Museum of Art.

	Carlos Molina Black 1994		Hands & Minds: The Art and Writing of Young People in 20th Century America Levy Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia June 13-July 30, 1999 A look at the preoccupations of America's youth, in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Curator: Maurice Berger, critic and senior fellow at the New School for Social Research.

			An Artist's Life in Renaissance Rome: Federico Zuccaro's Tribute to His Brother Taddeo J. Paul Getty Museum June 15-Aug. 29, 1999 A series of 20 drawings narrating Taddeo's early artistic struggles at the hands of his Roman masters.

	Larry Clark from "Tulsa" 1980		Larry Clark's "Tulsa" The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va. June 15-Aug 22, 1999 50 photos of drug addicts, slackers and sociopaths in Oklahoma from 1963-71, taken by the gritty American photographer/filmmaker.

			Earthworks: Land Reclamation as Sculpture Seattle Art Museum June 17, 1999-May 2000 Models, plans, drawings and photos from a 1979 competition to rehabilitate gravel pits, surface mines and landfills, including works by artists Herbert Bayer, Iain Baxter, Richard Fleischner, Lawrence Hanson, Mary Miss, Dennis Oppenheim and Beverly Pepper.

	Maxfield Parrish Princess Parizade Bringing Home the Singing Tree 1906		Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966 Pennsylvania Academy of the Arts, Philadelphia June 19-Sept. 25, 1999 Over 100 paintings, drawings, prints, models, photos and ephemera by the American artist, famed for his fantastical, semi-erotic book, magazine and poster illustrations. Curator: Pennsylvania Academy of Arts chief curator Sylvia Yount. Catalogue essays: Sylvia Yount and Mark F. Bockrath. Tour: Currier Gallery of Art (Nov. 6, 1999-Jan. 23, 2000); Memorial Art Gallery (Feb. 19-Apr. 30, 2000); Brooklyn Museum of Art (May 26-Aug. 6, 2000). Funding: Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.

	Reiko Sudo Shutter 1997		Structure and Surface in Contemporary Japanese Textiles St. Louis Art Museum June 19-August 15, 1999 25 of the most influential textile designers, fashion designers and fiber artists working in Japan today interpret the ancient Japanese art of textile making. Curators: Matilda McQuaid, Museum of Modern Art and Cara McCarty, Saint Louis Art Museum. Catalogue essays: McQuaid and McCarty. Tour: The exhibition premiered at the Museum of Modern Art. Sponsors: the AT&T Foundation and Dorothy and Lewis B.Cullman.

	Model of the Château de la Belleau Bois dormant, Fantasyland, Disneyland, Paris, Marne-le-Vallée, France 1990		The Architecture of Reassurance: Designing the Disney Theme Parks Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh June 20-Oct. 10,1999 More than 350 objects from the archives of Walt Disney Imagineering, including plans, drawings, models, posters, photos and ads. Curator: University of Minnesota professor, Karal Ann Marling. Tour: The exhibition originated at the Canadian Centre for Architecture and traveled to the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York. Funding: Target Stores.

	Elizabeth Catlett Webbed Woman 1995		Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists Museum of Fine Arts, Houston June 20-Aug. 15, 1999 25 artists from four generations explore issues of gender, ethnicity, religion and history through photography, mixed media installations, prints, drawings and sculpture. Tour: The exhibition originated at the Museum of Fine Art in the Camille Hanks Cosby Academic Center at Spelman College in Atlanta, and wraps up at Washington State University in Pullman, Washington in Sept. 1999.

	Willie Bester The Notorious Green Car 1995		Claiming Art/Reclaiming Space: Post-Apartheid Art from South Africa National Museum of African Art, Washington, D.C. June 20-Sept. 26, 1999 Politically charged paintings, prints, collages, video, interactive books and multimedia assemblages by 17 artists. Curator: Lydia Puccinelli, National Museum of African Art.

			Facing West: Jews of Central Asia and the Caucasus Jewish Museum, New York June 20-Oct. 17, 1999 Over 300 objects drawn from the collection of the Russian Ethnographic Museum in St. Petersburg, including jewelry, costumes, ceremonial art and domestic artifacts accompanied by historical photos. Organized by the Russian Ethnographic Museum in St. Petersburg with the Jewish Historical Museum in Amsterdam.

			Summer Season at P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center, Long Island City, N.Y. June 20-Sept. 23, 1999 The summer season kicks off with the exhibitions "0044," "Animal.Anima.Animus," "Anna Oppermann: Being different (Why is she so different?) 1970-1986," "David Reed: Motion Pictures" and a project by Claude Leveque; an outdoor DJ showcase every Saturday from 4 to 9 starting July 10; and a film and performance series alternating Thursdays beginning July 23.

			Abby Aldrich Rockefeller and Print Collecting: An Early Mission for MoMA Museum of Modern Art June 22-Sept. 21, 1999 100 of the nearly 1,600 prints Mrs. Rockefeller donated to the museum from her private collection, in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Print Room.

	John Walker For Hannah (Juggernaut Series) 1975		John Walker: A Theater of Recollection and the Anthony and Madeleine Carter Gift Yale Center for British Art, New Haven June 22-Sept. 26, 1999 The British artist's series of paintings based on his father's memories of World War I, in conjunction with 14 of his drawings and three of his paintings recently donated to the museum. Complementing this exhibition is "'Doomed Youth': The Poetry and the Pity of the First World War," an assembly of first editions, poetry manuscripts and memoirs related to the war.

	Bill Viola The Crossing 1996		Bill Viola San Francisco Museum of Modern Art June 25-Sept. 12, 1999 40 works created by the media artist between 1972 and 1996, including large-scale installations, single-channel videos, video installations at San Francisco's Grace Cathedral (on June 20) and pages from Viola's notebooks. Curators: SFMoMA director David Ross. Installation designed by theater director Peter Sellars. Catalogue essays: David Ross, Bill Viola and Kira Perov. Tour: The exhibition originated at the Whitney Museum of American Art, traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and goes to the Art Institute of Chicago (Oct. 16, 1999-Jan. 9, 2000). Funding: VEBA.

	Takashi Murakami Installation view		Takashi Murakami Bard Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York June 27-Sept. 12, 1999 The Japanese artist's wry, cartoony paintings and large-scale, inflatable sculptures. Curators: Bard Curatorial Studies director Amanda Cruz and Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston curator Dana Friis-Hansen.

	John Singer Sargent The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit 1882		John Singer Sargent Museum of Fine Arts, Boston June 27-Sept. 26, 1999 180 of the artist's oil paintings, watercolors and drawings from his American and European careers. Organized in conjunction with the Tate Gallery, London, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Timed tickets available on the MFAB web site. Curator: Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr., senior curator of American and British paintings, National Gallery of Art. Tour: The exhibition premiered at the Tate Gallery, London, and stopped at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Catalogue essays: Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray. Funding: Ford Motor Company.

			Beyond Paris: Rural France, 1800-1900 St. Louis Museum of Art June 29-Sept. 19, 1999 Around 50 prints, drawings and photographs depicting the effects of the Industrial Revolution on the French countryside, including works by Paul Cézanne, Théodore Rousseau and Jean François Millet.

	Camilo José Vergara 4030 Townsend Ave by Verona St., East L.A.		El Nuevo Mundo: The Landscape of Latino Los Angeles Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York June 29-Sept. 5, 1999 100 photographs by sociologist Camilo José Vergara document the transformation of Los Angeles County as its ethnicity changes. Funding: Smithsonian Center for Latino Initiatives.