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Helen Frankenthaler Casanova 1988	Frankenthaler: The Darker Palette Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. July 1-Sept. 14, 1998 Brooding tension via 10 darkly colored works from 1974 to 1995 by Helen Frankenthaler, best known for her luminous abstractions. Curator: New Criterion contributor Karen Wilkin. Tour: The show originated at the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Ga., and appears at the Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, N.J., Jan. 10-Feb. 28, 1999.

Tony Smith Louisenberg 1953-54	Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor Museum of Modern Art July 2-Sept. 22, 1998 A jubilee of geometry, proto-Minimalist Smith's first major museum exhibition since his death, including sculptures, models, paintings, drawings, and a complete survey of his architectural projects. Curator: Robert Storr. Catalogue: 200 pages, 190 illustrations, with essays by Robert Storr, John Keenen, Joan Pachner. Sponsor: Agnes Gund, Daniel Shapiro and Henry and Renée Segerstrom.

Tony Smith Light Up! 1953-54	Tony Smith in the City New York City July 1-Sept. 22, 1998 In conjuction with "Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor" at the Museum of Modern Art, July 2-Sept. 22, the Public Art Fund has sighted Light-Up! at Seagram's Plaza, Cigarette at Central Park and Smug by the New York Public Library.

Jacob Lawrence The Apartment, 1943	Jacob Lawrence: Painting Life Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle July 2-Sept. 27, 1998 Over 200 works spanning 1936 to 1998 by the 81-year-old Social Realist painter Jacob Lawrence, who now lives in Seattle and taught at the University of Washington. Guest curator: Beth Sellars. Tour: None planned. Sponsors: Loacker Family, Seafirst Bank, University Bookstore.

Tony Oursler Submerged (detail) 1995-96	Directions -- Tony Oursler: Video Dolls with Tracy Leipold Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. July 2-Sept. 7, 1998 Projected anger, hysteria and calm in six animated talking sculptures by video artist Tony Oursler and his star performer, Tracy Leipold. Curator: Sidney Lawrence.

Sigmar Polke The Russian Ministry of Defence... 1996	Sigmar Polke: Music of Unclarified Origin 1996 P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY July 5 - August 23, 1998 Naive characters bound in political reality, via 40 gouaches combining painting and collage by the artist Sigmar Polke as a self-portrait exhibition originally made in 1996 at the Institute of Foreign Relations in Stuttgart, Germany. Sponsors: Würth-Gruppe, Künzelsau, Germany; Lufthansa German Airlines; Zaleski Family Foundation.

Piero Steinle/Julian Rosenfeldt Detonation Deutschland 1996	Deep Storage P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY July 5 - August 30, 1998 Over 40 artists explore the concept of storage as it manifests in the storeroom/museum, archive/library, artist's studio, and the data-space. Curators: Ingrid Schaffner, Matthias Winzen, Hubertus Gaßner, Bernhart Schwenk and Stefan Iglhaut. Catalogue essays: Geoffrey Batchen, Benjamin Buchloh, Susan Buck-Morss, Sheryl Conkelton, Trevor Fairbrother, Justin Hoffman, Jon Ippolito, Elizabeth Linning, John Smith and Susan Stewart. Tour: The exhibition originated at Haus der Kunst in Munich, travelled to the Neue Nationalgalerie's Kulturforum, Berlin and the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf. It is to travel to the Henry Art Gallery, University of Seattle, Washington.

Yayoi Kusama Macaroni Handbag 1965	Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968 Museum of Modern Art July 9-Sept. 22, 1998 80 works by the Japanese cult figure best known for her everyday objects covered with phallus-like protusions. Curators: Lynn Zelevansky (LACMA) and Laura Hoptman (MoMA). Catalogue essays: Lynn Zelevansky, Laura Hoptman, Alexandra Munroe, Akira Tatehata. Stops: The show opened at the Los Angeles County Museum; it is to appear at the Walker Art Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo. Sponsor: Nippon Foundation.

Sarah Charlesworth Still Life with Camera 1995	Sarah Charlesworth The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. July 9-September 27, 1998 A mid-career survey of Charlesworth's post-modern explorations of photography as medium and subject, including more than 60 politically pointed photo-objects. Curators: Susan Fisher Sterling and Louis Grachos (SITE Santa Fe). Catalogue: The first major publication on the artist, 150-page fully illustrated. Tour: The exhibition started at SITE Santa Fe, followed by the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, and will continue on to the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art and the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University. Sponsors: MARPAT Foundation, Inc., The Freedom Forum, the NMWA National Advisory Board, and the NMWA Business and Professional Women's Council.

	Lisa Roberts: Blind Side Whitney Museum of American Art July 10-October 4, 1998 An installation in conjunction with the New American Film & Video Series, the work of this Documenta X artist employs film and sculpture to challenge notions of cinematic experience. Curator: Chrissie Iles. Tour: The installation will travel to the Miami Art Museum in Spring, 1999. Sponsors: Whitney Museum Film & Video Fellows, George S. Kaufman and the Kaufman Astoria Studios and public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts.

William Christenberry Head 1960	William Christenberry: The Early Years Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama July 12-September 6,1998 Best known for his photographs of the rural south, Christenberry diversifies his oeuvre with this collection of old paintings from his attic.

Grandma Moses Thunderstorm 1948	Self-Taught Artists of the 20th Century: An American Anthology High Museum, Atlanta July 14-Sept. 20, 1998 Extraterrestial and apocalyptic visions in 300 works by over 30 artists in a show organized by the Museum of American Folk Art, New York. Curators: Elsa Longhauser (Moore College of Art, Philadelphia) and Harald Szeemann (Kunsthaus Zurich). Catalogue essays: Maurice Berger, Arthur Danto, folklorist Gerald Davis. Stops: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and Amon Carter Museum (Oct. 31, 1998-Jan. 24, 1999); Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, N.Y. (Feb. 20-Apr. 18, 1999); Wexner Center, Columbus, Oh. (May 7-Aug. 15, 1999). Sponsors: Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund, Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.

David Goldblatt Dutch Reformed Church, Quelerina... 1986	David Goldblatt: Photographs from South Africa Museum of Modern Art July 16-Oct. 6, 1998 Quiet moments in unsettling contexts, in a 40-work photographic survey chronicling apartheid's influence by South African artist David Goldblatt. Curator: Susan Kismaric.

Peter Kuper Gentrification 1984	Urban Encounters New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York July 16-September 20, 1998 An interactive exhibition of appropriately in-your-face artists/activist collectives of 1980s Lower East Side eminence, including the Guerrilla Girls, ABC No Rio, Godzilla, REPOhistory, Bullet Space and World War III Illustrated. Curator: Greg Sholette

	So Quiet in Here: A Site-Specific Installation by Ruben Torres Llorca El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY July 16-October 25, 1998 A post-colonial cultural critique interweaving objects, images and texts, this exhibition/installation is part of the Contemporánea series, designed to introduce the work of emerging artists. Sponsors: the Greenwall Foundation and the Jerome Foundation.

Edward Hopper Ground Swell 1939	The 45th Biennial Exhibition: The Corcoran Collects, 1907-1998 Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C. July 17-Sept. 28, 1998 A tribute to American painting, via 135 works drawn from the Corcoran's past Biennials, by Mary Cassatt, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Joan Mitchell and others. Curators: Linda Simmons, Terrie Sultan and Jack Cowart. Sponsor: Anne E. Clark Biennial Fund.

Don Nakamura My Space 1996	Twenty Philadelphia Artists: Celebrating Fleisher Challenge at Twenty Philadelphia Museum of Art July 18-September 13, 1998 Celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial's Challenge Exhibition series, this show presents the work of nearly 200 Phillie-area artists spanning the past 20 years. Curators: John Ravenal and Kathleen Forde. Catalogue: Text by John Ravenal with an essay by Thora Jacobson. Sponsors: the Pew Charitable Trusts and the William Penn Foundation.

Otto Greis Untitled 1958	German Marks: Postwar Drawings and Prints Donated to the Busch-Reisinger Museum through the German Art Dealers Association Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma. July 18-Sept. 27, 1998 A search for esthetic clarity, via some 40 German postwar drawings and prints including works by Piene, Baumiester, Janssen and others. Curator: Emilie Norris. Catalogue: Some 200 pages on 72 artists, from realism and Informel to the GDR. Essays by Michael Werner Gallery (Cologne) director Erika Koeltzsch, art historian Yule Hiebel, Emilie Norris.

Hirsch Farm Project Now: Speculative environment photo Mitchell Kane	Hirsch Farm Project Now Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago July 18-Oct. 18, 1998 "An invitation to think," in a three-part exhibition devoted to the Hirsh Farm Project, a series of annual retreats organized by Chicago collector Howard Hirsch at his home in Hillsboro, Wisc. The show includes an installation at the MCA that lowers a gallery ceiling and raises its floor; a theme song by Mayo Thompson of Red Crayola playing in the MCA bookstore; and an open house at Hirsch Farms July 25-26. For open house hours and directions, call 847-600-2000. Organizers: MCA chief curator Amada Cruz and Hirsch Farm Project director Mitchell Kane.

Christopher Wool Blue Fool 1988	Christopher Wool Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles July 19-Oct. 18, 1998 The first U.S. solo exhibition of New York abstract artist Christopher Wool features 55 all-over pattern paintings, stenciled-word images and silkscreens dating from the mid-'80s to the present. Curator: Anne Goldstein (MOCA). Catalogue essays: Anne Goldstein, art historian Thomas Crow, Carnegie Museum curator Madeline Grynsztejn and novelists Jim Lewis and Gary Indiana. Stop: Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh (Nov. 21, 1998-Jan. 31, 1999). Sponsor: Lenore S. and Bernard A. Greenberg.

Louise Comfort Tiffany Magnolias and Irises 1908	Louise Comfort Tiffany Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York July 23-January 31, 1998 A celebration of decoration, this exhibition commemorates the 150th anniversary of the birth of the artist with a selection of painting, interior decoration, enamelwork, bronzes, furniture, textiles, architecture, jewelry, leaded-glass windows, lamps and chandeliers, all from the Met's permanent collection. Curator: Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen. Publication: Special Edition of the Met's 1998 Summer Bulletin, written by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen with 141 illustrations. Sponsor: Tiffany & Co.

Bill Bamberger Smitty and friend, break time	Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory: Photographs by Bill Bamberger North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh July 26-Oct. 18, 1998 The American laborer, in a series of 55 photographs detailing the 1993 closing of the "South's oldest maker of fine furniture," the 111-year-old White Furniture Co. Bamberger's images, taken during the last four months of the plant's operation, recall the work of Lewis Hine and August Sander. Curator: John Coffey. Catalogue essay: Duke University professor Ruth F. DeVarney. Stops: Light Factory Photographic Arts Center, Charlotte, N.C.; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. Dates to be announced.

Barry McGee Untitled 1996 (detail)	Barry McGee Walker Art Center, Minneapolis July 26-Oct. 18, 1998 Mad Magazine-style figures stricken with urban ills, via mural-scale works by San Francisco artist Barry McGee who paints directly on gallery walls, recycled steel trays and discarded bottles of Golden Gate Vodka. Curator: Eungie Joo.

Arthur J. Motley, Jr. Brown Girl After the Bath 1931	Rhapsodies in Black: Art of the Harlem Renaissance Los Angeles County Museum of Art July 26-October 19, 1998 An exhibition featuring painting, sculpture, graphics, photography, books, magazines, and stage design from hip, hot, happening Harlem in the 1920s and early 30s. Curators: Ilene Susan Fort and Howard N. Fox. Tour: The exhibit appeared at the Hayward Gallery in London, England, and at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. It will appear at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston in the Fall of 1998.

Walker Evans Faulkner Country: Plow in Newly Tilled Field 1948	Walker Evans: New York Getty Museum, Los Angeles July 28-Oct. 11, 1998 100 New York images by Depression-era photographer Walker Evans (1903-1975) drawn from the Getty's extensive collection. Includes early abstract compositions and pictures from his unpublished 1963 series on the "man in the street."

	The Artful Mailbox National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Opens July 30, 1998 Whimsical, unusual mailboxes from across the country. And you thought mailboxes were just for mail.

Arthur Dove Sunrise 1924	Arthur Dove Los Angeles County Museum of Art July 30-Oct. 5, 1998 Seventy peaceful works by the pioneer of American abstraction. Curator: Ilene Susan Fort (LACMA). Catalogue: 208 pages, 140 images, co-published by the Phillips Collection and the Addison Gallery of American Art. Tour: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, and the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Sponsors: Refco Group Ltd., J. Mark Rudkin, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Glen Eagles Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Henry Moore Three Piece Reclining Figure: Draped 1975	Henry Moore: A Centennial Salute; An Exhibition in Celebration of Philip I. Berman Philadelphia Museum 15 small sculptures and five works on paper commemorating Moore's 100th birthday, including three monumental bronzes borrowed from public-art patron Philip I. Berman. Co-organizer: Fairmount Park Association. Sponsors: Henry Moore Foundation; Mr. and Mrs. Raymond G. Perelman.