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Carrie Mae Weems Installation view	Who What When Where: An Installation by Carrie Mae Weems Whitney Museum at Philip Morris, New York May 1-July 10, 1998 Portland (Ore.) multimedia artist Carrie Mae Weems draws upon work by Malevich and Lissitzky in an installation that incorporates neon signs, etc. Organizer: Whitney curator Eugenie Tsai. Sponsors: Philip Morris.

	Whistler: Impressions of an American Abroad -- Etchings and Lithographs from the Carnegie Museum of Art National Academy Museum, New York May 1-June 26, 1998 50 etchings and 31 lithographs spanning Whistler's entire printmaking career. Curators: Linda Batis and David Dearinger. Organizers: Carnegie Museum and the American Federation of Arts. Stops: Musée du Québec (July 25-Sept. 20, 1998); Cummer Museum, Jacksonville, Fla. (Oct. 16-Dec. 11, 1998); Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, Ca. (Jan. 15-Mar. 15, 1999). Sponsor: Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund.

Late Roman cosmetic flask with applied thread decoration from Castra 3rd-4th centuries CE	Ancient Glass from the Holy Land M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco May 2-Aug. 16, 1998 250 recently excavated ancient objects made from glass, dating from the 2nd millenium BCE to the 7th century CE. Co-organizer: Israel Antiquities Authority. Catalogue essay: IAA specialist Yael Gorin-Rosin.

Jean de Warvin Henry IV Triumphs Over Richard II from Chroniques d'Angleterre Belgium, late 1600s	Mything Persons: Historic Figures in Legends of East and West Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore May 2-Aug. 9, 1998 Legendary figures depicted over the ages in ancient manuscripts -- including Moses, Alexander the Great, Nero, Joan of Arc and others.

Large plate Iran or Afghanistan 10th century	Arts of the Islamic World Freer Gallery, Washington, D.C. May 3, 1998-continuing indefinitely More than 60 Islam-influenced works from the 9th to the 17th century, including Koran pages, metalwork, ceramics, glass vessels, paintings and calligraphy. Organizer: Freer curator Massumeh Farhad.

Thracian silver gilt appliqué in the form of a lion attacking a stag 4th century B.C.	Ancient Gold: The Wealth of the Thracians Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth May 3-July 19, 1998 200 gold and silver vessels excavated in Bulgaria from 15 royal tombs of Ancient Thrace -- a vast Roman-conquered empire that covered most of central Europe in the 5th millennium B.C. The exhibition premiered at the St. Louis Art Museum. Curator: Former Bulgarian minister Ivan Marazov Organizer: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Trust for Museum Exhibitions. Catalogue essays: Ivan Marazov, Alexander Fol, Margarita Tacheva and Ivan Venedikov.

Mark Rothko No. 1 (White and Red) 1962	Mark Rothko National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. May 3-Aug. 16, 1998 Rothko's first retrospective in 20 years offers 115 works drawn from the Gallery's extensive MR Foundation collection. Organizers: NGA curator Jeffrey Weiss, Guggenheim curator Mark Rosenthal and Rothko catalogue raisonné author David Anfam. Catalogue contributors: John Gage, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Barbara Novak, Brian O'Doherty, Mark Rosenthal, Jessica Stewart and Jeffrey Weiss. Stops: Whitney Museum (Sept. 10-Nov. 29, 1998) and the Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris (winter 1998/1999).

Arthur G. Rider The Spanish Boat ca. 1921	All Things Bright and Beautiful: California Impressionist Paintings from The Irvine Museum National Academy Museum, New York May 7-July 5, 1998 Surfer Impressionism lives! 58 works in the first comprehensive East Coast exhibition of California Plein Air painting. Organizers: CUNY professor William H. Gerdts and NA curator David Dearinger. Catalogue essays: William Gerdts, David Dearinger, Irvine Museum director Jean Stern and Oakland Museum director Harvey L. Jones. Stops: Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago (July 25-Sept. 27, 1998); Dixon Gallery, Memphis (Oct. 18, 1998-Jan. 24, 1999); Oakland Museum, Ca. (Mar. 20-May 30, 1999); Irvine Museum, Ca. (Oct. 2, 1999-Jan. 22, 2000). Sponsors: Paul Bagley and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Stiles.

Frank Jay Haynes Liberty Cap & Hotel, Yellowstone ca. late 1880's	The Paving of Paradise: A Century of Photographs of the Western Landscape Seattle Art Museum May 7, 1998-Jan. 24, 1999 Pioneering photography, in more ways than one. Images of the American West captured by the new innovation of photography, including works by Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, William Henry Jackson and others. Jackson's photos of Yellowstone in 1871 persuaded Congress to create a National Parks system the following year. Sponsor: Kreielsheimer Exhibition Endowment Fund.

Keith Haring Bill T. Jones 1983	Keith Haring San Francisco Museum of Modern Art May 8-Sept. 6, 1998 Some 130 works in the penultimate stop of the touring retrospective. The exhibition premiered at the Whitney (and makes its final stop at the Montreal MFA, Nov. 5, 1998-Jan. 10, 1999). Organizer: Whitney curator Elisabeth Sussman. Catalogue contributors: Elisabeth Sussman, Jeffrey Deitch, Ann Magnuson, Robert Pincus-Witten, Robert Faris Thompson, DJs Jelly Bean Benitez and Junior Vasquez, Fred Schneider of the B52s and Fred Brathwaite of Fab Five Freddy. Final stop: MFA, Mont (Nov. 5-Jan. 10, 1998). Sponsor: Swatch.

Jacob Lawrence Funeral Sermon 1946	Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent and the American Watercolor Movement Brooklyn Museum May 8-Aug. 23, 1998 A historical survey of the "American medium," via 141 works by Hopper, Burchfield, Rothko, La Farge and others. Curators: Linda S. Ferber and Barbara Dayer Gallati. Sponsor: Aetna.

Jim Isermann Untitled (Rug) 1996	Jim Isermann: 15 Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee May 8-Aug. 2, 1998 Shag paintings, upholstered Minimalist sculpture, hard-edge floral abstraction and more by L.A. artist Jim Isermann. Curator: David Pagel. Sponsors: Robert and Mary Looker-Carpinteria and the Peter Norton Family Foundation.

Barbara Bloom Stamp design	The Collections of Barbara Bloom Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio May 9-Aug. 8, 1998 The first major museum project by the New York gender conceptualist, partly inspired by the Jackie O. auction, features a "portrait" drawn by earthly possessions. Curator: Donna De Salvo. Sponsor: NEA.

Sol LeWitt Wall Drawing #716 (detail) 1993	The Serial Attitude Wexner Center, Columbus, Oh. May 9-Aug. 8, 1998 A survey of the '60s penchant for applying logic and mathematical concepts to art, including works by Bochner, Flavin, Ryman, Hesse, Martin and others. Curator: Annetta Massie. Organizer: Addison Gallery, Andover, Ma.

Rodney Graham Vexation Island 1997	Rodney Graham Wexner Center May 9-Aug. 8, 1998 A 1904 U.S. mail carriage that projects film and a desert island movie by Vancouver-based conceptual artist Rodney Graham. Curator: Annetta Massie.

Richard Diebenkorn Seated Figure with Hat 1967	Richard Diebenkorn Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. May 9-Aug. 16, 1998 150 paintings and works on paper by the Bay Area abstract painter, en route from the Whitney. Curator: Independent author Jane Livingston. Catalogue essays: Jane Livingston, NGA curator Ruth E. Fine and MoMA curator John Elderfeld. Stop: San Francisco MoMA (Oct. 9, 1998-Jan. 19, 1999). Sponsor: Philip Morris.

Perfume Jar in the form of the God Bes ca. 664-550 BC	Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience Cleveland Museum of Art May 10-July 5, 1998 Over 200 faience works (sculpted quartz objects whose brilliance symbolized rebirth and immortality to the Egyptians) drawn from the Louvre, the Metropolitan and the British Museum among others. The exhibition includes a reconstructed panel of 36,000 green faience tiles that lined the subterranean corridors of the 4,600-year-old Step Pyramid of King Djoser at Saqqara. Curator: Florence Dunn Friedman (RISD). Organizer: RISD Museum. Stops: RISD Museum, Providence, R.I.; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX. Dates to be announced. Sponsor: Ameritech.

Mary Ellen Mark Street Acrobats, Bombay 1981	India: A Celebration of Independence, 1947-1997 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond May 12-July 26, 1998 More than 230 works by native and Western photographers commemorating India and Pakistan's liberation from colonial rule, including images of Ghandi's funeral in New Delhi and film stars in Bombay. A historical introduction to the exhibition includes works by political activist Sunil Janah and Henri Cartier-Bresson. Organizer: The Alfred Stieglitz Center of the Philadelphia Museum. Stops: Indianapolis Museum (Sept. 4-Nov. 15, 1998); Knoxville Museum (Dec. 18, 1998-Feb. 28, 1999); Montreal Museum (April 1-June 13, 1999); Chicago Cultural Center (Oct. 30-Dec. 30, 1999). An identical exhibition is simultaneously being shown in India. Sponsor: Ford Motor Company.

Rene Lalique Diadem, Cattleya Orchid ca. 1903-04	The Jewels of Lalique Smithsonian's International Gallery, Washington, D.C. May 15-Aug. 15, 1998 Flowers, reptiles and insects meet mysterious women in 200 pieces by Art Nouveau jeweler René Lalique. Curator: Former Musée des Arts Décoratifs director Yvonne Brunhammer Organizer: Exhibitions International Final stop: Dallas Museum of Art (Sept. 13, 1998-Jan. 10, 1999). Sponsor: Lalique North America

Stacy Levy from Cornerstones 1997	Stacy Levy Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia May 16-July 3, 1998 A vacant lot built with more than 3,500 vertical rods to plot the terrain by Philadelphia installation artist Stacy Levy.

Pierre Le Gros St. Francis Xavier 1701-02	From the Sculptor's Studio: Italian Baroque Terracottas from the Hermitage Philadelphia Museum of Art May 16-Aug. 2, 1998 35 Roman Baroque sculptures by Bernini, Algardi and others drawn from Tsar Paul I's collection. The exhibition premiered at the Art Institute of Chicago. Catalogue essays: Dean Walker, Ian Wardropper and Russian curators Sergei Androsov and Nina Kosareva. Sponsors: Pew Charitable Trusts, the Aretè and the Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation.

Jacques Linard Still Life of Shells 1640	A Collector's Cabinet National Gallery, Washington, D.C. May 17-Aug. 9, 1998 The encyclopedic Kunstkamer, or collector's cabinet, of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish liefhebbers (art lovers) recreated via 180 paintings, sculptures, decorative and exotic objects that reflect the roots of science & the museum. Organizer: NGA curator Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. Sponsor: Shell Oil.

Tibet Figure of Mahakala 15th or 16th century	Himalayan Gilt Bronzes from Nepal and Tibet Dallas Museum of Art May 17-Sept. 13, 1998 Serene figures comingling with violent imagery, via 14 bronze sculptures detailing the rites of Tantric Buddhism, dating from the 13th through the 19th centuries. The works were assembled by New York collector John McKesson. Curator: Ann Bromberg.

W. Sirois Man Who Defied Death by Walking Forty Feet with Five Bullet Wounds 1940	Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence Grey Art Gallery, New York May 21-July 18, 1998 Mug shots, wanted posters, evidence pictures and surveillance images in the first historical exhibition of police work photography. The show, presenting more than 100 works, includes mid-19th century attempts to identify the "typical" criminal's physical characteristics and the infamous bloody footprint photo from the O.J. Simpson trial. The show originated at the SFMoMA. Curator: Sandra S. Phillips (SFMOMA). Catalogue essays: Sandra S. Phillips, American Photographer editor Carol Squiers and V&A Museum curator Mark Haworth-Booth. Sponsors: NEA et al.

Anonymous Untitled 1930	Snapshots: The Photography of Everyday Life San Francisco Museum of Modern Art May 22-Sept. 8, 1998 The average person with the power to arrest time, via some 260 early amateur photographs placed for the first time in a museum context. Organizer: SFMoMA curator Douglas R. Nickel. Sponsor: Jon and Linda Gruber.

Stuart Davis Memo 1956	Stuart Davis National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C. May 22-Sept. 7, 1998 55 works by the jazz Modernist. The National Museum is the only U.S. venue. Organizer: Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Sponsors: Pearson Art Foundation et al.

Sir John Tenniel The Mad Tea Party ca. 1889	a. k. a. Lewis Carroll Pierpont Morgan Library, New York May 22-Aug. 30, 1998 Marking the centenary of the author's death, the exhibition presents works highlighting his diverse artistic pursuits, including original albumen photographs of Alice, poems, pamphlets on mathematics, and Alice editions illustrated by Max Ernst, Marie Laurencin, Arthur Rackham and others. Curator: Anna Lou Ashby. Sponsor: Disney Enterprises, Inc.

	Lewis Baltz Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles May 24-July 19, 1998 Power through surveillance and technology's influence on the body, in three series of large-format photographs by California conceptual artist Lewis Baltz. Curator: Connie Butler. Sponsors: Pasadena Art Alliance and David Hockney.

Moshe Kupferman Painting 1996	Moshe Kupferman: Paintings, Works on Paper and Scrolls Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College, Philadelphia May 27-July 31, 1998 The silence of memories and restrained emotions revealed, via 24 abstract works by the Polish artist who spent WWII in Russian internment camps before emigrating to Israel to found the Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetot (Ghetto Fighters' Kibbutz). Curators: Goldie Paley director Elsa Longhauser and former Tel Aviv and Israel Museums curator Yona Fischer.

Andrew Wyeth Buttonwood 1943	Unknown Terrain: The Landscapes of Andrew Wyeth Whitney Museum May 28-Aug. 30, 1998 The Whitney makes its bid for a mass public with some 120 landscapes by the American realist who's never been "in" with the art crowd. Curators: Adam D. Weinberg and Beth Venn. Catalogue essay: Cornell professor Michael Kammen. Sponsors: Robert W. Wilson and the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation.

Brian Addison Elliot Sherwood Communicator 1996	Minor Appliances: The Sculpture of Brian Addison Elliot Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Ore. May 28-June 21, 1998 Portraits in robotic sculpture, in the first major exhibition of the Northwest artist who created a walking, two-legged television. Curator: Kristy Edmunds (PICA). Sponsors: Mark and Kathy Parker et al.

Francesco Clemente Early Morning Raga	Francesco Clemente: Indian Watercolors Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth May 31-Aug. 2, 1998 Cosmic and mythological symbols illustrating Clemente's absorption of Indian culture, detailed in an unbound 18-page picture book by the Italian neo-Expressionist. Curator: Holliday T. Day (Indianapolis Museum). Sponsor: Lannan Foundation.

David Bradley (Ojibwa) Monopoly 1984	Indian Humor George Gustav Heye Center, National Museum of the American Indian, New York City May 31-Aug. 2, 1998 Indian "stoicism" uprooted, via 87 multimedia works by 38 contemporary Native American artists. Curator: Sarah Bates (Cherokee).

Louis-Leopold Boilly The Electric Spark ca. 1791	Intimate Encounters: Love and Domesticity in 18th-Century France Museum of Fine Arts, Houston May 31-Aug. 23, 1998 Oh, the salacious Rococo! Love and courtship in 18th-century France in 75 works by Watteau, Chardin, Boucher, Gerard and others. Organizer: Former Hood Museum curator Richard Rand. Sponsor: NEA, NEH.