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Willie Birch
New Orleans Museum of Art and other venues
Nov. 1, 2008-Jan. 19, 2009
The first real biennial of contemporary art ever held in the United States includes 81 artists from around the world, with works on view at New Orleans museums, art centers, warehouses and other sites in the city’s 9th Ward, Warehouse District and elsewhere
Curator: Dan Cameron
Catalogue: 408 pp, $50
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Joan Miro: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927-1937)
Marina Schiano in an Yves Saint Laurent evening gown, fall-winter 1970)
Raqib Shaw)
Honore de Balzac’s Le Chef-d’oeuvre inconnu)
William Eggleston)
Johannes Vermeer)
Dan Peterman<br />1997<br />Photo by Kuzuyuki Matsumoto<br />© 2008 Artists Rights Society (ARS) / VBK, Vienna'))
Erwin Wurm![](javascript:view_large('ntm11-1-08-8.jpg', 'New This Month in U.S. Museums', 'Still from <em>Balancing Acts: a Jewish Theater in the Soviet Union</em>, a film by Sam Ball, Kate Stilley and William Susman in "Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949"'))
Still from Balancing Acts: a Jewish Theater in the Soviet Union, a film by Sam Ball, Kate Stilley and William Susman in "Chagall and the Artists of the Russian Jewish Theater, 1919-1949")
Edvard Munch<br />Milan, Italy <br />ca. 1600-1610<br />Metropolitan Museum of Art'))
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Olafur Eliasson)
Catherine D’Ignazio</em> <br />1975<br />Nasher Museum of Art<br />Courtesy the artist'))
Barkley L. Hendricks)
Edward Hopper)
Elihu Vedder)
Charles Mary Kubricht)
Leonardo da Vinci![](javascript:view_large('ntm11-1-08-18.jpg', 'New This Month in U.S. Museums', '"Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective" being installed at MASS MoCA'))
"Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective" being installed at MASS MoCA)
Catalogue for The First Emperor: China’s Terracotta Army)
Timothy Greenfield-Sanders)
Hiroshi Sugimoto)
Ben Weiner