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NEW THIS MONTH IN
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JoAnn Verburg
Somewhere in Texas
1988
Walker Art Center
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Walker Art Center
Jan. 12-Apr. 20, 2008
70 photographs and videos from the 25-year career of American photographer Verburg, in an exhibition that originated at the Museum of Modern Art
Curator: Susan Kismaric
Catalogue: 184 pp. $50
Funding: UBS
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American Photographic Postcard collection
ca.1900-1920
Orange County Museum of Art
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Orange County Museum of Art
Jan. 17-Apr. 27, 2008
A collaborative installation by curator Margo Bistis, author Norman Klein and artist Andreas Kratky, described as a "historical science-fiction novel" and featuring a large-scale interactive projection of 2,200 images culled from different visual archives (the work also exists as a book and a DVD-ROM)
Curators: Margo Bistis, Norman Klein, Andreas Kratky
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Tacita Dean
Roh: Baby Lotion
2002
International Center of Photography
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International Center of Photography
Jan. 18-May 4, 2008
Subtitled "Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art," works by approximately 20 artists who turn to photography "to rethink the meaning of identity, history, memory and loss," including Christian Boltanski, Hans-Peter Feldman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Zoe Leonard, Robert Morris, Walid Raad, Lorna Simpson and Andy Warhol
Curator: Okwui Enwezor
Catalogue: 224 pp., ICP/Steidl
Also on view: "The Collections of Barbara Bloom," Jan. 18-May 4, 2008
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Irving Penn
Pablo Picasso
1957
Morgan Library & Museum
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Morgan Library & Museum
Jan. 18-Apr. 13, 2008 The Morgan shows off a major 2007 acquisition with an exhibition of almost 70 portraits by the legendary photographer Irving Penn (b. 1917), ranging from a 1944 photo of Giorgio de Chirico to a 2006 portrait of Jasper Johns
Curator: Peter Barberie
Funding: Richard and Ronay Menschel
Also on view: "Highlights from the Morgan’s Collections," featuring works by Penn’s subjects, and "Michelangelo, Vasari and their Contemporaries: Drawings from the Uffizi," Jan. 25-Apr. 20, 2008
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Dennis Oppenheim
Theme for a Major Hit
1974
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
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Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Jan. 18-Mar. 30, 2008
Puppets by 28 contemporary artists, ranging from a 1974 installation by Dennis Oppenheim to a new animation by Nathalie Djurberg
Curators: Ingrid Schaffner, Carin Kuoni
Catalogue: $35
Tour: Santa Monica Museum of Art, May 16-Aug. 9, 2008; Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Sept. 5-Nov. 23, 2008; Houston CAM, Jan. 17-Apr. 12, 2009; Frye Art Museum, Seattle, May 16-Sept. 13, 2009.
Funding: Barbara B. & Theodore R. Aronson, Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, Etant donnes, Susquehanna Foundation, others
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Chantal Akerman
Video still from South (Sud)
1999
Blaffer Gallery
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Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston
Jan. 19-Mar. 29, 2008
Five major film and video installations, including a new work made for the exhibition, by the Paris-based Belgian avant-garde feminist filmmaker, in an exhibition co-organized with the MIT List Visual Arts Center and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
Tour: After premiering at the Blaffer, the exhibition appears in Cambridge and St. Louis
Funding: Andy Warhol Foundation, CIFO, French Consulate of Houston, others
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Jacques-Louis David
Marat (Marat assassiné)
1793–94
Musée du Louvre
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Phoenix Art Museum
Jan. 20-May 4, 2008
Examining repeating motifs in 19th- and 20th-century French art, via works by David, Delacroix, Gérôme, Corot, Millet, Monet, Degas, Cézanne, Matisse and others, featuring 13 "case studies" that compare different versions of well-known images
Tour: This show has already been seen at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Also on view: "Richard Avedon: Photography," Jan. 12-Apr. 20, 2008
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Lee Friedlander
Central Park, New York City, New York
1992
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jan. 22-May 11, 2008
Ca. 40 photographs made in both public parks and private estates designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the 1858 design of Central Park, commonly considered Olmsted’s masterpiece
Curator: Jeff L. Rosenheim
Catalogue: Lee Friedlander Photographs: Frederick Law Olmsted Landscapes, $85
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Jan De Cock
Denkmal 25, Haus Konstruktiv, Selnaustrasse 25, Zurich, 2006, Fig. 3-038
2006
Museum of Modern Art
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Museum of Modern Art
Jan. 23-Apr. 14, 2008
In the museum’s third-floor photography galleries, an installation of photos of MoMA’s collection interspersed with plywood sculptural modules, in the 31-year-old Belgian artist’s first U.S. museum exhibition
Curator: Roxana Marcoci
Funding: Society of Friends of Belgium in America
Also on view: "Selections from the Richard Bellamy Papers," Jan. 9-Feb. 25, 2008
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Stephen Antonakos
White Hanging Neon
1966
Milwaukee Art Museum
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Milwaukee Art Museum
Jan. 24, 2008-ongoing
MAM’s contemporary galleries reopen with an installation tracking the development of Kinetic and Op art, including Stanley Landsman’s Infinity Chamber (1968) and Erwin Redl’s LED installation Matrix (2007)
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Richard Diebenkorn
Untitled (Albuquerque)
1951
Grey Art Gallery
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Grey Art Gallery, NYU
Jan. 25-Apr. 5, 2008
Ca. 40 early works by the celebrated California landscapist, made between 1950 and 1952 when he was a grad student at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque under the G.I. Bill, in an exhibition organized by the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos
Curators: Charles M. Lovell, Charles Strong
Catalogue: 154 pp.
Funding: Thaw Charitable Trust, Richard Diebenkorn Estate, Abby Weed Grey Trust, others
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Marsden Hartley
Pueblo Mountain
1918
Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
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Georgia O’Keeffe Museum
Jan. 25-May 11, 2008
The first exhibition bringing together the work of Marsden Hartley’s New Mexico period, 1918-24
Curator: Heather Hole
Catalogue: Yale, 208 pp., $50
Tour: Amon Carter Museum, San Jose Museum
Funding: Burnett Foundation, others
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Sam Taylor-Wood
Bram Stoker’s Chair II
2005
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
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Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
Jan. 25-May 11, 2008
The British artist’s first major U.S. solo museum show includes 29 works ranging from the 1990s to the present
Curator: Margo A. Crutchfield
Catalogue: D.A.P.
Tour: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Aug. 2-Oct. 5, 2008
Funding: National City, Donley’s, John P. Murphy Foundation, Forest City Enterprises, others
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An-My Lê
Small Wars: Explosion
1999-2002
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Jan. 26-May 4, 2008
50 large-format, black-and-white images by the Vietnamese-American artist capturing Vietnam War reenactors in the woods of Virginia and soldiers training for war at the 29 Palms military complex in California
Tour: This show has already appeared at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago
Also on view: "Gabriele Basilico," Jan. 26-June 15, 2008
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Jean-Luc Mylayne
No. 300, March April 2005
2005
Henry Art Gallery
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Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Jan 26-Apr. 27, 2008
23 large-scale color photographs taken over the course of two years’ work along migratory bird paths in the countryside surrounding Fort Davis, Texas
Funding: Lannan Foundation, others
Tour: This show has already appeared at the Blaffer Gallery, Houston; it continues to the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland and the Krannart Art Museum in Urbana-Champagne
Also on view: "Dawn Cerny: We’re All going to Die (except You)," Jan. 26-Apr. 27, 2008
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Michael Asher’s floorplan for the SMMoA
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Santa Monica Museum of Art
Jan. 26-Apr. 12, 2008
The legendary Los Angeles-based conceptual artist’s first major commissioned sculptural installation in decades constitutes the rebuilding with metal and wooden studs of every temporary wall constructed since the museum’s move to Bergamot Station in 1998, providing a "skeleton map of exhibition design" of some 40 exhibitions
Catalogue: essay by Miwon Kwon
Also on view: "Brody Condon," Jan. 26-Apr. 12, 2008
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Lee Miller
Self Portrait in Headband
1932
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
Jan. 26, 2008-Apr. 27, 2008
140 images, mainly vintage photographs, charting the career of Lee Miller (1907-1977), from her youth as a model for the Surrealists and others, through her work as a war correspondent and the relative tranquility of the post-war years at home in England
Curator: Mark Haworth-Booth
Catalogue: $60, 224 pp.
Tour: This show has already appeared at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; it continues to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, July 1-Sept. 21, 2008, and the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, Oct. 14, 2008-Jan. 11, 2009
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Lorenzo Ghiberti
Gates of Paradise: Jacob and Esau Panel
1425-52
Seattle Art Museum
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Seattle Art Museum
Jan. 26-Apr. 6, 2008 Three newly restored panels and four decorative pieces from Ghiberti’s "Gates of Paradise," on tour for the first time to the U.S. before being placed in a specially designed, hermetically sealed case in the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in Florence, never to travel again Curator: Gary M. Radke Funding: Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts Tour: This show has already appeared at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Suh Se-ok
Person
1996
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Jan. 27-Apr. 20, 2008
Work by Korean modernist Suh Se-ok (b. 1929), leader of the progressive "Mungnimhoe," or "Ink Forest Group"
Also on view: "Passionate Vision: Celebrating the Life and Photographic Work of Beaumont Newhall," Jan. 15-May 4, 2008
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Parmigianino
Antea
ca. 1531-34
Frick Collection
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Frick Collection
Jan. 29, 2008-Apr. 27, 2008
Parmigianino’s hauntingly contemporary 16th-century portrait of a young woman -- possibly Antea, a celebrated Roman courtesan and the artist’s mistress -- lent by the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples, in a show organized with the Foundation for Italian Art & Culture
Catalogue: essay by Christina Neilson
Funding: Alexander Bodini Foundation, Fiduciary Trust Company International, others
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Unidentified Workshop Peru, Cuzco
The Child Mary Spinning
18th century
Blanton Museum of Art
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Blanton Museum of Art
Jan. 29-Mar. 16, 2008
55 paintings from South America during the days of Spanish Colonialism in the Viceroyalty of Peru, which encompassed present-day Peru, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, parts of Chile and Argentina, and Panama
Curator: Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt
Catalogue: 288 pp., $55
Funding: Clumeck Fund, funds established by the late Drs. A. Jess and Ben Shenso
Tour: This show has already appeared at the Cantor Arts Center, Tucson Museum of Art, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico and the University of Toronto Art Center
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Jasper Johns
Three Flags
1958
Whitney Museum of American Art
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Whitney Museum of American Art
Jan. 30, 2008-June 1, 2009
The latest reinstallation of the Whitney’s permanent collection highlights four themes: fragmentation and abstraction of early modernism; realism; esthetics of industry, city and machine; and the convergence between mental state and bodily gesture
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