Orange County Museum of Art
Oct. 1-Dec. 31, 2006
31 California artists, via 150 new works organized into six categories: "Extreme Objectmakers," "Social Interactions," "Urban Ecologies," "Historical Consciousness," "Impulsive Surrealism" and "Refracted Identities"
Curators: Elizabeth Armstrong, Karen Moss, Rita Gonzalez
Catalogue: $29.95, with cover writing changes from white to pink with exposure to light
Funding: James B. Pick and Rosalyn M. Laudati, Deutsche Bank

National Gallery of Art
Oct. 1-Dec. 31, 2006
55 landscapes by Constable, including several six-foot paintings and the full-sized oil sketches upon which they are based
Curators: Anne Lyles, Franklin Kelly
Catalogue: $55 (cloth), $40 (paper), 224 pp.
Funding: General Dynamics, General Dynamics United Kingdom, Ltd.
Tour: This show has already appeared at the Tate Britain; it continues to the Huntington Library, Feb. 3-April 29, 2007

Frick Collection
Oct. 3-Dec. 31, 2006
Cimabue’s Flagellation of Christ from the Frick, displayed with its companion piece, The Virgin and Child Enthroned with Two Angels from London’s National Gallery, alongside panels, manuscripts and gilded glass
Curators: Holly Flora, Denise Allen
Catalogue: $15.95, 54 pp.
Funding: Jon and Barbara Landau, Council of the Frick Collection, Helen Clay Frick Foundation

American Folk Art Museum
Oct. 4, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007
Ca. 50 works by early American portraitist John Brewster Jr. (1766–1854)
Curator: Stacy C. Hollander
Catalogue: $35, 208 pp.
Funding: American Folk Art Society, Robert and Katharine Booth, Jon and Becky Zoler, others
Tour: This show has already appeared at the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y.

Whitney Museum of American Art
Oct. 4, 2006-15, 2006
Sound and video work focusing on three definitive historical moments: the 1937 Hindenburg crash, the nuclear bomb tests at the Bikini atoll in 1949 and the cloning of sheep "Dolly" in 1997

Chelsea Art Museum
Oct. 5-Dec. 9, 2006
A selection of work by Colombia-born Australian artist Maria Fernanda Cardoso, employing bones, dried insects, sea coral, starfish, feathers and natural fibres
Curators: Julia Draganovic, Manon Slome, Georgia Connolly

J. Paul Getty Center
Oct. 5, 2006-Apr. 29, 2007
Paintings from Dresden’s Galerie Neue Meister, including 12 works by Gerhard Richter from 2005 and several significant paintings by Caspar David Friedrich
Catalogue: 29.95, 96 pp., includes interview with Gerhard Richter
Also on view: Public Faces/Private Spaces: Recent Acquisitions," Oct. 10, 2006-Feb. 4, 2007; "Guercino: Mind to Paper," Oct. 17, 2006-Jan. 21, 2007; "Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection," Oct. 24, 2006-Feb. 25, 2007; "The Gospels in Medieval Manuscript Illumination," Oct. 31, 2006–Jan. 7, 2007

Asia Society
Oct. 5-Dec. 31, 2006
Over 200 recently excavated objects from Inner Mongolia, from the Liao Dynasty period (907–1125)
Curator: Hsueh-man Shen
Catalogue: $75, 391 pp., contributions by Hsueh-man Shen, Dieter Kuhn, Nicola di Cosmo, Nancy Steinhardt, Sun Jianhua, Ta La
Funding: Morgan Stanley, John H. J. Guth, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Oct. 6-Dec. 17, 2006
Artists’ books by Brian Belott, Jonathan Callan, Russell Crotty, Miriam Dym, Simon Evans, Francesca Gabbiani, Carlos Garaicoa, David Hammons, Beatriz Milhazes, Takashi Murakami, Paul Noble, Monique van Genderen and Martin Wilner
Curator: Mary-Kay Lombino
Catalogue: essay by Mary-Kay Lombino, poems by Michael Joyce, Joshua Beckman
Funding: Friends of the Frances Lehman Loeb Exhibition Fund

Bronx Museum of the Arts
Oct. 7, 2006-Jan. 28, 2007
The Brazilian Tropicália art movement, including a re-creation of the 1967 "New Brazilian Objectivity" exhibition, with works by Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape and Antônio Dias, films, excerpts from concerts and examples of advertising, fashion, television clips and artist-designed theater sets
Curators: Carlos Basualdo, Julie Rodrigues Widholm
Funding: Harris Family Foundation in memory of Bette and Neison Harris, Altria Group, Inc., Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Etant donnés: The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art
Tour: This show has already appeared at the Museum of Contemporary Arts, Chicago

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Mass.
Oct. 8-Dec. 31, 2006
26 paintings and sketches by Swiss landscape painter Alexandre Calame (1810-1864), alongside works by contemporaries like Caspar Wolf, François Diday and Johann Gottfried Steffan
Curator: Alberto de Andrés
Catalogue: $19.95, 88 pp.
Funding: Toblerone

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
Oct. 7-Dec. 31, 2006
140+ porcelains, jades and textiles, exploring the role of double meanings and symbolism in Chinese art
Curator: Terese Tse Bartholomew
Catalogue: 352 pp.
Funding: E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, Bei Shan Tang Foundation, Mrs. Elsie R. Carr, Fred M. and Nancy Livingston Levin, Shenson Fund, a gift in memory of Dr. K. S. Lo, Jade Circle

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass.
Oct. 8, 2006-Jan. 14, 2007
42 portraits, still-lifes, landscapes and genre scenes by Puerto Rican painters José Campeche (1751-1809), Francisco Oller (1833-1917) and Miguel Pou (1880-1968)
Curators: Marimar Benítez, Cheryl Hartup
Catalogue: 104 pp.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Oct. 10, 2006-Jan. 21, 2007
42 works, drawing from both Fontana’s series of Venice paintings and his New York metal works
Curator: Luca Massimo Barbero
Catalogue: contributions from Enrico Crispolti, Paolo Campiglio, Barbara Ferriani, Luca Massimo Barbero
Funding: Regione del Veneto, Italian Trade Commission, others

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Oct. 12, 2006–Jan. 7, 2007
Self-portraits by Cindy Sherman, Yasumasa Morimura, Pierre Molinier and 27 other artists from 1850 to the present
Curator: Deborah Irmas
Also on view: "Long Exposures: Contemporary Photo Essays from the Permanent Collection," Oct. 12, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007

Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Oct. 13, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007
6 of Nauman’s word play and identity signs, fluorescent light environments and figurative neons, from the 1960s through the mid-1980s
Curator: Joseph D. Ketner
Catalogue: $26.95, 96 pp.
Funding: Andy and Carlene Ziegler, others
Tour: This show has already appeared at the Milwaukee Art Museum; it continues to the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Musee d’art contemporain de Montreal, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Queensland Art Gallery

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Oct. 13, 2006-Jan. 28, 2007
26 rarely exhibited works, from the artist’s early years to the present
Curator: Alex Baker

Fogg Art Museum
Oct. 14, 2006-Feb. 11, 2007
Late 18th- to early 20th-century art and objects from the house of Revolutionary War commander Artemas Ward (1727–1800)
Curators: Ivan Gaskell, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Funding: Office of the Provost, Harvard University

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Oct. 14, 2006-Jan. 28, 2007
The first U.S. survey of Rist’s video works, including I’m Not the Girl Who Misses Much (1986), Sip My Ocean (1996) and Ever is Overall (1997)
Curator: Paola Morsiani
Catalogue: 150 pp., essays by Paola Morsiani and Rachel Teagle, interview between Linda Yablonsky and Pipilotti Rist
Tour: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Also on view: "Perspectives 153: Demetrius Oliver," Sept. 15-Nov. 26, 2006

Cleveland Museum of Art
300+ artworks explore the 71-year period (1868-1939) during which Barcelona rose to prominence as a center of modern art
Curator: William Robinson
Catalogue: $65, 528 pp.
Funding: Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, Institut Ramon Llull, Generalitat de Catalunya, National Endowment for the Arts, Getty Research Institute, others
Tour: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar.7-June 3, 2007ne

Museum of Modern Art
Oct. 15, 2006-Jan. 1, 2007
Prints, books and multiples by European artists including Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Marcel Broodthaers, Hanne Darboven, Olafur Eliasson, Richard Hamilton, Damien Hirst, Martin Kippenberger, Peter Kogler, Sarah Lucas, Mangelos, Dieter Roth and Franz West
Curators: Deborah Wye, Wendy Weitman
Catalogue: $65, 324 pp.
Funding: Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, David Teiger, others

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Conn.
Oct. 15, 2006-Feb. 25, 2007
Azzarella alters historical documents to produce alternate versions of past events
Also on view: "David Haislip: Artists at The Aldrich," Oct. 15, 2006- Jan. 21, 2007

Yale Center for British Art
Focusing on Canaletto’s time living and working in England (1746-1756), via 60 paintings and drawings
Curator: Charles Beddington
Catalogue: essays by Charles Beddington, Brian Allen, Francis Russell
Tour: Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, Jan. 24-Apr. 15, 2007
Also on view: "Art & Music in Britain: Four Encounters, 1730-1900," Oct. 5-Dec. 31, 2006

Brooklyn Museum
Oct. 20, 2006-Jan. 21, 2007
200+ photographs of figures as diverse as George W. Bush, William S. Burroughs, Demi Moore, Nelson Mandela, Agnes Martin and Jack Nicholson
Curator: Charlotta Kotik
Catalogue: "A Photographer’s Life: 1990-2005," $75, 472 pp.
Funding: American Express
Tour: San Diego Museum of Art, Feb. 10-Apr. 22, 2007; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, May 12-Sept. 9, 2007; Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., Oct. 13, 2007-Jan. 13, 2008; de Young Museum, San Francisco, Feb. 9-May 11, 2008; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, June-Sept., 2008; National Portrait Gallery, London, Oct., 2008-Jan. 2009

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Oct. 20, 2006-Jan. 21, 2007
40 paintings, watercolors, books and sculptures from 1969-2005
Organizing curator: Michael Auping
Catalogue:, $65, 186 pp.
Tour: This show has already appeared at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, Washington, D.C.
Funding: UBS
Also on view: "Charged Space: Jane and Louise Wilson/Fikret Atay," Oct. 20, 2006-Jan. 21, 2007

New York Public Library
Oct. 20, 2006-Feb. 4, 2007
Buddhist sutras, painted manuscripts, portraits, landscapes, calligraphic verse and photographic books, with related drawings and woodblock prints, covering 1,200 years of history
Curator: Roger S. Keyes
Catalogue: $50, 250 pp.
Funding: E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation, others

Walker Art Center
Oct. 21-Jan. 14, 2007
Three environments exploring darkness as a metaphor, by Kai Althoff, Ellen Gallagher and Edgar Cleijne, and Thomas Hirschhorn
Curator: Philippe Vergne, Yasmil Raymond
Catalogue: $27, 96 pp., essay by Philippe Vergne, interviews with Althoff, Gallagher & Cleijne, Hirschhorn

John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Fla.
Oct. 21, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007
85 drawings from the late 15th to the mid-19th centuries, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, François Boucher, Edgar Degas, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Guernico, Jacob Jordaens, Claude Loraine, Domenico Tiepolo and Jean-Antoine Wateau
Curators: Suzanne Boorsch, John Marciari
Funding: Florence B. Selden Fund, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, others
Tour: Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Tex., June 1-Aug. 12, 2007; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., Feb. 12-June 8, 2008

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Oct. 21, 2006-Jan. 14, 2007
125 prints and posters by 50 Mexican and foreign-born artists, including work by José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Rufino Tamayo
Curators: John Ittmann, Lyle Williams
Catalogue: $65, 300 pp.
Funding: National Endowment for the Arts
Tour: Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Feb. 1-Apr. 15, 2007; Phoenix Art Museum, June 29-Sept. 16, 2007; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Tex., Oct. 3, 2007-Jan. 6, 2008

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Oct. 22, 2006-Jan. 8, 2007
30 works by the late British artist Latham, spanning 50+ years, combining art, science and philosophy
Curator: David Thorp
Catalogue: contributions by Alanna Heiss, Stephen Foster, David Thorp, Noa Latham
Tour: This show has already been seen at the John Hansard Gallery, Southhampton, U.K.
Also on view: "Katrín Sigurdardóttir: High Plane V," Oct. 22-May 7, 2006; "Defamation of Character," Oct. 22, 2006-Jan. 8, 2007

Dallas Museum of Art
Oct. 22, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007
Paintings, drawings and personal letters from Van Gogh, focusing around the theme of wheat, along with paintings on similar themes by Émile Bernard, Jules Breton, Charles-François Daubigny, Julien Dupré, Paul Gauguin, Léon Augustin L’Hermitte, Jean-François Millet, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Félix Edouard Vallotton
Curator: Dorothy Kosinski
Catalogue: 119 pp.
Funding: Wachovia, others

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Oct. 24, 2006-Jan. 28, 2007
100 oil paintings by 37 American artists who worked in Paris in the late 19th century, including Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, James John Singer Sargent and McNeill Whistler
Curators: Kathleen Adler, Erica E. Hirshler, H. Barbara Weinbeg
Catalogue: $60 (cloth), $40 (paper)
Funding: Bank of America
Tour: This show has already appeared at the National Gallery, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Also on view: "Children’s Book Illustrations," Oct. 17, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007; "Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf," Oct. 24, 2006-Sept. 3, 2007

Frick Collection
Oct. 24, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007
60 drawings from Tiepolo’s New Testament cycle, illustrating the events of early Christianity through the foundation of the Church
Curator: Adelheid Gealt
Catalogue: $75, 888 pp., contributions by by Adelheid M. Gealt, George Knox
Funding: Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, Homeland Foundation, others

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Oct. 26, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007
Conceptual sculpture from Andrea Cohen, Björn Dahlem, Isa Genzken, Mark Handforth, Rachel Harrison, Evan Holloway, Charles Long, Mindy Shapero and Franz West
Curator: Anne Ellegood
Catalogue: contributions by Johanna Burton, Anne Ellegood
Funding: Hirshhorn Board of Trustees, Barbara and Aaron Levine
Also on view: "Collection In Context," Oct. 26, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007

Museum of Modern Art
Oct. 29, 2006-Jan. 15, 2007
100+ paintings and drawings, highlighting the development of Marden’s work over his entire career
Curator: Gary Garrels
Funding: Lehman Brothers, others
Tour: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Feb. 17, 2007-May 13, 2007
Also on view: "Eija-Liisa Ahtila: The Wind," Oct. 25, 2006-Jan. 29, 2007