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Maya Lin: Topologies Untitled (Topographical Landscape) (detail) and Avalanche 1997	Mayan Lin: Topologies Grey Art Gallery, New York Sept. 1-Oct. 31, 1998 15 works, including Rock Field (1997), a rocky river bed of 43 blown glass shapes, and Avalanche (1998), a site-specific installation of crushed glass. Plus some of her new furniture commissioned by Knoll. Organizer: Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, N.C., where the show has already appeared. Curator: Jeff Fleming (SECA). Catalogue essays: Michael Brenson, Jeff Fleming, Terri Dowell-Dennis (SECA). Sponsor: Henry Luce Foundation, et al.

Alexander Calder Blue Feather ca. 1948	Alexander Calder: 1898-1976 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Sept. 4-Dec. 1, 1998 Some 250 works celebrating the centenary of the artist's birth. Curator: Marla Prather (NGA), Gary Garrels (SFMoMA). Catalogue: 370 pp, w/chronology by Calder grandson Alexander S. C. Rower, essay by Arnauld Pierre. Tour: Final stop, after debut at the NGA. Sponsor: Banana Republic, Charles Schwab.

Pablo Picasso Girl Before a Mirror 1932	Picasso: Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art Los Angeles County Museum Sept. 6, 1998-Jan. 4, 1999 90 works on loan. Tour: Previously at the High Museum in Atlanta and at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

Benedetta Cappa Marinetti Lo spirito e l'arte 1930	La Furturista: Benedetta Cappa Marinetti (1917-1944) Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia Sept. 8-Oct. 25, 1998 40 drawings, paintings and literary works in the first-ever exhibition of Benedetta Cappa Marinetti, wife of Futurism founder Filippo Tommaso Marinetti. The show includes ink drawings -- "shorthand concepts" -- from her experimental novel, as well as works by Giacomo Balla, Frances Simpson Stevens and Francesco Cangiullo. Guest curators: Lisa Panzera (Guild Hall Museum) and Germano Celant (Guggenheim). Catalogue essays: University of Iowa professor Cinzia Blum, University of Pennsylvania professor Christine Poggi, Lisa Panzera and UCLA professor Lucia Re. Tour: After its premiere at Moore College, the show travels to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, (Nov. 15, 1998-Feb. 13, 1999).

Chanel by Karl Lagerfeld Redingote evening ensemble 1990-91	The Ceaseless Century: 300 Years of 18th-Century Fashion Metropolitan Museum Sept. 9-Nov. 29, 1998 The persistence of 18th-century style, via garments from 1700 to the present. Curator: Richard Martin.

Qur'an stand (Rahla) Probably Iran 1360	The Nature of Islamic Ornament, Part II: Vegetal Design Metropolitan Museum Sept. 10, 1998-Jan. 10, 1999 The classical arabesque -- the vinescroll, blossoms and palmettes and split leaves -- via about 25 objects from the Met collection. Curator: Daniel Walker. Sponsor: Hagop Kevorkian Fund.

	Let Freedom Ring Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Sept. 10-29, 1998 Temporary public works by Jim Hodges (1,000 wind chimes at Old North Church), Mildred Howard (at Old South Meeting House), Barbara Steinman (suspended fabric panels at Parkman Bandstand) and Krzysztof Wodiczko (a video projection on Bunker Hill Monument). Curator: Boston ICA director Jill Medvedow.

Joseph Beuys Aus Berlin: Neues vom Kojoten 1979	Joseph Beuys: Drawings after the Codices Madrid of Leonardo da Vinci, and Sculpture Dia Center Sept. 10, 1998-Jun. 13, 1999 96 drawings, plus several sculptures from 1979, from Dia's collection. Catalogue essays: Ann Temkin, Cornelia Lauf, Martin Kemp.

Sultan Mahmud II Levha 19th century	Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sakip Sabanci Collection, Istanbul Metropolitan Museum Sept. 11-Dec. 13, 1998 Angular "kufic" script to cursive "naskhi," via 70 works from Turkey's largest private collection of Ottoman calligraphy. Catalogue: M. Ugur Derman. Tour: L.A. County Museum. Sponsor: Sabanci Holding/Akbank, Istanbul

Kerry James Marshall Den Mother 1996	Mementos Brooklyn Museum Sept. 11-Nov. 29, 1998 Paintings and a video installation devoted to the civil rights movement by Chicago artist Kerry James Marshall. Organizer: Brooklyn curator Charlotta Kotik. Catalogue essay: Cultural historian Huston A. Baker, Jr. Sponsor: Sarah Lee Foundation, Susan and Lewis Manilow.

Henry Moore Woman on Steps (Figure on Steps) 1956	From Figure to Floor: Sculpture in the 20th Century Milwaukee Art Museum Sept. 11-Nov. 8, 1998 The first comprehensive display of the museum collection. Curator: Dean Sobel.

Rabbit mask	Baule: African Art/Western Eyes Museum of African Art, New York Sept. 11, 1998 through Jan. 1999 Art of the Baule people of the Ivory Coast, including figure sculptures made for personal shrines, molo and goli masks from ceremonial dances and monkey figures inhabited by bush spirits. Curator: Susan Vogel. Tour: The show debuted at the Yale University Art Gallery and appears at the Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C.

Andy Warhol Grace Kelly 1984	From Warhol to Mappelthorpe: Three Decades of Art at ICA Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Sept. 12-Nov. 1, 1998 A 35th-anniversary celebration, featuring works by Laurie Anderson, Peter Campus, Cindy Sherman and about 10 other artists (including Warhol and Mappelthorpe).

David Gelfman Lungfish 1998	Here: Artists' Interventions at the Aldrich Museum Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Conn. Sept. 13-Oct. 18, 1998 Site-specific works by Judy Fox, Justen Ladda, LIza Lou, and Brian Tolle, among others, in and around the Aldrich Museum. Curators: Harry Philbrick, Richard Klein. Sponsors: Performance Textiles, Kimberly Clark, Dryvit Corp.

Robert Irwin Part II: Excursus... installation view	Robert Irwin Excursus: Homage to the Square Dia Center Sept. 13, 1998-June 13, 1999 Part two of Irwin's scrim-and-light installation, this one with colors. Sponsor: Lannan Foundation, Ellen and Max Palevsky, Richard Florsheim Art Fund, Dia Art Council.

Juan Galdeano S/T (The Perfect Moment, IV Movimiento)	The Edge of Awareness P.S.1, Long Island City, New York Sept. 13-Oct. 18, 1998 Works by LeWitt, Rauschenberg, Jaar, Steir, Nari Ward and others done for the World Health Organization. Curator: Adelina von Fürstenberg.

Winslow Homer Kissing the Moon 1904	Sea Change Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y. Sept. 13-Nov. 15, 1998 The ocean, in works by Homer, Ryder, Marin, Pollock, de Kooning, Morley, etc. Curator: Klaus Kertess.

	After Rabin: New Art from Israel The Jewish Museum, New York Sept. 13, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 71 works by 35 artists, including Aya and Gal, Ido Bar-El, Barry Frydlender, Pessi Gersh and David Reeb, made since the 1995 death of Yitzhak Rabin. Sponsors: Judy and Michael Steinhardt Foundation, Marcia Riklis, Meshulam Riklis.

Cao Yong The Age, Women, and the Environment No. 1 1995	Inside Out: New Chinese Art Asia Society, New York, and P.S. 1, Long Island City Sept. 15, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 Advancing modernization clouts centuries-old tradition, via 80 works (including non-traditional forms such as installations, performance art and video) dating from 1985-1998. A second, silmultaneous presentation will be offered by SFMoMA and the Asia Art Museum in San Francisco (dates to be anounced) followed by a further tour. Co-organizer: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Curators: Gao Minglu (Harvard University), Colin Mackenzie (Asia Society) and Elise S. Haas (SFMoMA). Sponsor: Starr Foundation, et al.

Eugene Delacroix Arab Horseman Giving the Signal 1851	Delacroix: The Late Work Philadelphia Museum Sept. 15, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 70 paintings and 40 works on paper arranged by theme in six categories -- animals, allegory and mythology, flowers and landscapes, literary illustrations, scenes of North Africa and religion. Curators: Joseph Rishel (Philadelphia), Arlette Sèrullaz (director of the Musee Delacroix), Vincente Pomarède (Louvre). Tour: Only U.S. venue. Sponsor: Elf Atochem North America.

Figure pendant Costa Rica 1-500 A.D.	Jade in Ancient Costa Rica Metropolitan Museum Sept. 16, 1998-Feb. 28, 1999 120 objects, from mace heads to ear ornaments, largely on loan from Costa Rican collections.

Mark Rothko Self Portrait 1936	Mark Rothko Whitney Museum Sept. 17-Nov. 29, 1998 The 115-work retrospective debuted at the National Gallery of Art. Catalogue contributors: John Gage, Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Barbara Novak, Brian O'Doherty, Mark Rosenthal, Jessica Stewart and Jeffrey Weiss. Next stop: Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (winter 1998/1999). Sponsor: Glenstone Foundation, et al.

Chaim Soutine Red Stairs at Cagnes ca. 1923-24	Chaim Soutine Los Angeles County Museum of Art Sept. 17-Oct. 5, 1998 50 paintings by the Lithuanian-born Expressionist orignally seen at the Jewish Museum. Next stop: Cincinnati Art Museum, Feb. 14, 1999-May 2, 1999. Sponsor: Florence Gould Foundation, et al.

Winslow Homer Long Branch, New Jersey 1869	New Worlds from Old: 19th-Century Australian & American Landscapes Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn. Sept. 17-Oct. 11, 1998 From Australia, landscapes. Robert Hughes lectures on Oct. 23. Next (and last) stop: Corcoran Gallery, Jan. 26-Apr. 18, 1999. Sponsor: United Technologies.

Hand Puppets 19th century Cataluña, Spain	El Alma Del Pueblo: Spanish Folk Art and its Transformation in the Americas The Spanish Institute & The Americas Society, New York Sept. 18-Dec. 31, 1998 250 objects dating from the 16th century. Curator: Marion Oettinger, Jr., San Antonio Museum. Tour: Remaining stops on seven-city tour in Chicago, Sacramento and San Diego. Sponsor: Ford Motor Co.

Andy Warhol John F. Kennedy 1968	Andy Warhol's Flash- - - -November 22, 1963. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Sept. 18-Nov. 29, 1998 14 silkscreens based on photos chronicling the John F. Kennedy assassination -- Oswald's rifle, Jacqueline Kennedy, The School Book Depository. Curator: Ann Prentice Wagner.

Charles Jones Collerette Dahlia Pilot ca. 1900	Plant Kingdoms: The Photography of Charles Jones M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco Sept. 19-Dec. 6, 1998 59 gold-toned gelatin silver prints of flowers, fruit and vegetables by Charles Jones (1866-1959), a British gardener who carefully arranges each petal, rind, root and pod. Curator: Robert Flynn Johnson Catalogue: Essays by Johnson and Alice Waters, with 129 black-and-white photographs. Organizer: Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco.

Alan Rath Infoglut 1996	Body Méchanique: Artistic Explorations in Digital Realms Wexner Center, Columbus, Oh. Sept. 19, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 The techno-body, via works by Judith Barry and Brad Miskell, Chris Marker, Alan Rath, others. Catalogue essays: Heidi Gilpin, Brian Massumi, Sarah Rogers. Sponsors: Battelle, Lucent Technologies, NEA, Ohio Humanities Council.

	Julia Margaret Cameron's Women Art Institute of Chicago Sept. 19, 1998-Jan. 10, 1999 60 vintage prints by the Victorian photographer (1815-79). Curator: Sylvia Wolf. Tour: MoMA, SFMoMA. Sponsor: American Airlines.

Claude Monet The Magpie 1869	Impressionists in Winter: Effets de Neige Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Sept. 19, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 Snow effects by Monet, Sisley, Pissaro, Caillebotte, Renoir and Gauguin. Tour: Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco, Jan. 30-May 2, 1999. Sponsor: J. P. Morgan & Co.

(l. to r.) Gino Colombini, Giancarlo Piretti and Bertoli & Pajetta Umbrella Stand, Model 6000/51, Pluvium and Noe 1966, 1972, 1972	Pop Goes the Plastic: The Visual and Cultural Aesthetic of a New Technology, 1960-1975 Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, N.Y. Sept. 20-Nov. 29, 1998 Zany applications in plastic, including suspended inflatables, replicas of Neil Armstrong's helmet, TV lunar landing capsules and a recreation of a teenager's room, circa 1972. The show debuted at the Atlanta International Museum of Art and Design last winter. Curator: Independent collector Scott Reilly. Sponsor: Ampacet; Westchester Arts Council; exhibition patrons of the Katonah Museum.

Richard Serra Pickhan's Progress 1998	Richard Serra Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Sept. 20, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 8 large-scale recent works by the celebrated Minimalist. The artist's first solo L.A. exhibition will travel to the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spring 1999. Organizers: MOCA director Richard Koshalek and Guggenheim curator Julia Brown. Catalogue essay: Hal Foster. Sponsor: Eugenio Lopez, Eli and Edythe Broad, Ruth and Jake Bloom, Genevieve and Ivan Reitman, NEA, Gilbert B. Friesen, Peter B. Lewis, Donald G. and Doris Fisher, Emily Rauh Pulitzer, the Miriam and Peter Haas Fund, Douglas Cramer, Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo.

Claude Monet Weeping Willow 1918-9	Monet in the 20th Century Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Sept. 20-Dec. 27, 1998 75 works selected from the ca. 450 paintings Monet made between 1900 and 1926. The show premieres at the MFA, its only U.S. venue.

David Reed #212 (Vice) 1984-85 (detail)	David Reed Paintings: Motion Pictures Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Sept. 20, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 A retrospective of some 40 works, plus recent multimedia installations, by the master of the swirling brushstroke. Curator: Elizabeth Armstrong. Catalogue essays: Armstrong, Paul Auster, Mieke Bal, Dave Hickey. Tour: Wexner Center, Jan. 30-Apr. 18, 1999; P.S. 1, June 20-end of Aug., 1999.

Annibale Carracci Four Studies of Heads... ca. 1585	Fuseli to Menzel: Drawings and Watercolors in the Age of Goethe The Getty Center, Los Angeles Sept. 22-Nov. 29, 1998 80 drawings from the collection of Munich lawyer Alfred Winterstein (1895-1976), organized by the Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard, and previously on view at the Frick Collection in New York.

Rogier van der Weyden Francesco d'Este ca. 1460	From Van Eyck to Bruegel: Early Netherlandish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum Sept. 22, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 An epoch of oil painting, via 140 works spanning the years 1600-1560 by Hans Memling, Gerard David, Rogier van der Weyden, Hugo van der Goes and others. The paintings are amassed for the first time from four separate collections within the Met and the Cloisters. Curators: Keith Christiansen, Maryan Ainsworth.

Katsushika Hokusai Kajikazawa in Kai Province 1955	Hokusai Asian Art Museum of San Francisco Sept. 23-Nov. 21, 1998 100 works by the renowned landscape printmaker, including the entire series, Thirty-six Views of Mt. Fuji. A complementary print exhibition, Hiroshige, will be on view Nov. 21, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999. Curator: Yoko Woodson (Asian Art Museum). Catalogue essays: Yoko Woodson, Julia White and Reiko Mochinaga Brandon, (Honolulu Academy of Arts). Sponsor: Shaklee Corp., E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Henri & Tomoye Takahashi Foundation.

Thomas Schütte Piazza Due 1986	Thomas Schütte: Scenewright Dia Center Sept. 24, 1998-June 13, 1999 Theatrical figures, flags, watercolors, in a series of three shows, on view till Mar. 2000. Sponsors: Warhol Foundation, German Consulate, Dia Art Council.

Carlo Dalmazzo Carrà Composition with the Head of a Woman	Master Drawings from the Hermitage and Pushkin Museums Pierpont Morgan Library, New York Sept. 25, 1998-Jan. 10, 1999 120 drawings from Dürer to Matisse. Many works have never been on view in the United States. Curator: William M. Griswold Sponsor: J.P. Morgan & Co., Fay Elliot, NEA.

Bob Thompson Tree 1962	Bob Thompson Whitney Museum Sept. 25,1998-Jan. 3, 1999 Erotic and mystical figures framed with African patterns, in more than 100 works by expressionist painter Bob Thompson (1937-1966). Organizer: Whitney curator Thelma Golden. Catalogue essay: Yale University professor Judith Wilson. Sponsor: AT&T.

Todd Gray Untitled (Mouse) 1994	Mouse: An American Icon Alternative Museum, New York Sept. 25-Dec. 19, 1998 The expanding Disney empire, in a vast group show. Curator: Geno Rodriguez.

Joan Brown Model with Manuel's Sculpture 1961	Transformation: The Art of Joan Brown University of California, Berkeley Art Museum, and the Oakland Museum of California Sept. 26, 1998-Jan. 17, 1999 126 works at two museums. Curators: Karen Tsujimoto, Jacquelynn Baas. Sponsors: NEA, Henry Luce Foundation, Oakland Museum Women's Board, Andy Warhol Foundation, Sandler Family Supporting Foundation, Judith Rothschild Foundation, Northern California Council of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Kodai-ji Scroll Box with Lozenge and Crest Design Momoyama Period 1568-1615	Symbol and Substance: The Elaine Ehrenkranz Collection of Japanese Lacquer Boxes Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Ma. Sept. 26, 1998-Jan. 3, 1999 A marriage of technical mastery and esthetic sophistication, via 56 Japanese lacquer boxes detailing the maki-e pattern technique -- different-sized pieces of cut, flattened metal scattered onto wet lacquer. Organizer: Sackler curator Anne Rose Kitagawa. Sponsor: John M. Rosenfield Teaching Exhibition Fund.

Abraham Bloemaert & Workshop The Liberation of St. Peter ca. 1600	Sinners and Saints, Darkness and Light: Caravaggio and his Dutch and Flemish Followers North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh Sept. 27-Dec. 13, 1998 35 old Masters. Curator: Denis P. Weller. Tour: Milwaukee Art Museum, Jan. 29-Apr. 18, 1999; Dayton (Ohio) Art Institute, May 8-July 18, 1999.