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artnet Magazine Home News Reviews Features Books People Art Education Horoscope Newsletter TWENTY TOP SHOWS Duke Riley Morituri Te Salutant 2009 Queens Museum of Art Duke Riley: Those About To Die Salute You Queens Museum of Art Nov. 2, 2009-Mar. 13, 2010 Duke Riley presents a diorama revisiting his recent, spectacular fake naval battle at the QMA, highlighting the detritus of battle -- armor, elements of the coliseum backdrop, battle-scarred vessels -- alongside multi-channel video and a collection of prints dedicated to the event Funding: Andy Warhol Foundation Milton Rogovin Cuba 1989 © Milton Rogovin In Focus: The Worker Getty Center Nov. 3, 2009-Mar. 21, 2010 A "photographic history of working people across many cultures," via 40+ prints, from early daguerreotypes to gelatin silver prints Curator: Paul Martineau Attributed to Michelangelo Young Archer 1491/92 Credit: French Republic, Foreign & European Affairs The Young Archer Attributed to Michelangelo Metropolitan Museum of Art Nov. 3, 2009-ongoing A special, 10-year loan from the French Republic, to be installed in the Met’s Vélez Blanco Patio, of a sculpture thought to be by Michelangelo (text panels will explain debates around the attribution) Krzysztof Wodiczko War Veteran Vehicle 2009 Krzysztof Wodiczko: The Veterans Project Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Nov. 4, 2009-Mar. 28, 2010 Projection-based work by Polish political artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, featuring images relating to the Iraq War Funding: National Endowment for the Arts, others Isabel Bishop Scene from Pride and Prejudice: "The examination of all the letters which Jane had written to her." 20th century Morgan Library & Museum A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy Morgan Library & Museum Nov. 6, 2009-Mar. 14, 2010 The celebrated British novelist, via 100 manuscripts, personal letters and related materials, plus early illustrated editions of Austen's novels as well as drawings and prints depicting people, places and events of biographical significance Curators: Declan Kiely, Clara Drummond Funding: Laurence Levine Charitable Fund, Inc., Sir Thomas R. Moore Roni Horn You are the Weather (detail) 1994-1995 © Roni Horn Roni Horn aka Roni Horn Whitney Museum of American Art Nov. 6, 2009-Jan. 24, 2010 Ca. 70 sculptures, photographs, installations, drawings and books, spanning three decades, by the artist known for her explorations of androgyny and cold weather Curators: Donna De Salvo, Carter E. Foster, Mark Godfrey Catalogue: 432 pp. Funding: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, others Tour: This show has already appeared at the Tate Modern Frank Lloyd Wright Spindle Cube Chair 1902/06 Art Institute of Chicago Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago Art Institute of Chicago Nov. 7, 2009-Jan. 31, 2010 The history of the "Arts and Crafts" movement, from its early roots in Britain, through the development of American Arts and Crafts style, and "Chicago’s early acceptance of the British model" Curator: Judith Barter Catalogue: 208 pp., $45 Funding: Terra Foundation for American Art Geoffrey Beene Shrug and Jumpsuit 1993 Lent by Patsy Tarr Model: Holley Farmer of Merce Cunningham Dance Company Geoffrey Beene: Trapeze Phoenix Art Museum Nov. 7, 2009-Mar. 7, 2010 30 garments by fashion designer Geoffrey Beene (1927-2004), custom-made for New York dance patron Patsy Tarr, hung on specially designed mannequins in a circus-inspired installation, in what is described as a "whimsical exhibition that goes beyond the study of dressmaking into the world of conceptual art" Funding: JCT Foundation, Robert Burg Design, Council of Fashion Designers of America Jeppe Hein 360° Illusion II 2007 Courtesy of Johann König and 303 Gallery Jeppe Hein: 360° Illusion II Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington Nov. 7, 2009–Jan. 10, 2010 Rotating fun-house mirror installation by Danish artist Jeppe Hein Curators: Elizabeth Brown, Misa Jeffereis Funding: Patrons of the Henry Art Gallery, others William Kentridge Drawing for II Sole 24 Ore [World Walking] 2007 Collection of Doris and Donald Fisher © 2008 William Kentridge Photo courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery William Kentridge: Five Themes Norton Museum of Art Nov. 7, 2009-Jan. 17, 2010 Ca. 75 animated films, drawings, prints, theater models, sculptures and books by the celebrated South-African artist Curator: Mark Rosenthal Catalogue: $50, 264 pp. Funding: Koret Foundation, others Tour: This show has already appeared at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Oskar Schlemmer Bauhaus Stairway 1932 Museum of Modern Art 2009 Estate of Oskar Schlemmer Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity Museum of Modern Art Nov. 8, 2009-Jan. 25, 2010 400 works of industrial design, furniture, architecture, graphics, photography, textiles, ceramics, theater design, painting and sculpture, by Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marianne Brandt, Marcel Breuer, Lyonel Feininger, Walter Gropius, Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, László Moholy-Nagy, Lucia Moholy, Lilly Reich, Oskar Schlemmer, Gunta Stölzl and others Curators: Barry Bergdoll, Leah Dickerman Catalogue: 328 pp., $75 Funding: HyundaiCard Company, others Clifford Owens Text Piece (video stills) 2008 Courtesy the artist and On Stellar Rays Gallery 30 Seconds Off an Inch Studio Museum Harlem Nov. 12, 2009-Mar. 14, 2010 Ca. 100 works by 42 artists, working in all media, including Adel Abdessemed, Edgar Arceneaux, Sanford Biggers, Rashawn Griffin, David Hammons, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, My Barbarian, Kori Newkirk, Chris Ofili, William Pope.L, Robin Rhode, Gary Simmons, Shinique Smith and Soda_Jerk Curator: Naomi Beckwith Catalogue: essay by Naomi Beckwith Funding: Jacques and Natasha Gelman Trust, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Polaroid by Andy Warhol, featured in "Big Shots" Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University Nov. 12, 2009-Feb. 21, 2010 Ca. 250 Polaroids and 75 silver gelatin black-and-white prints taken by Warhol from 1969 to 1986 Tour: Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, N.C., June 6-Sept. 19, 2010; Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, N.C., Oct. 2, 2010-Jan. 2, 2011 Quilt from "Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown" Amish Abstractions: Quilts from the Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown De Young Museum Nov. 14, 2009-June 6, 2010 Ca. 48 full-size and crib quilts dating from the 1880s to the 1940s made by girls and women of Amish communities in Pennsylvania and the Midwest Curator: Jill D’Alessandro Catalogue: 128 pp., $29.95 Funding: Brown Foundation, Inc., others Michelangelo Pistoletto Le trombe del giudizio 1968 Collezione Cittadellarte- Fondazione Pistoletto Collection, Biella Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Nov. 14, 2009-Feb. 14, 2010 Italian art and creativity from the late 1960s to the present, via 75 artists Curator: Francesco Bonami Catalogue: 311 pp., $97.50 Tour: This show has already appeared at the Palazzo Grassi, Venice Laura Owens Untitled 2000 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Collection: MoCA’s First Thirty Years Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Nov. 15, 2009-May 3, 2010 A chronological installation of works from MoCA’s permanent collection, providing "a comprehensive history of the last 70 years of contemporary art and touching on every significant movement and development during this period" Curator: Paul Schimmel Catalogue: This Is Not To Be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, $59.95 Funding: Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, others Probably by Nikolaos Tzafouris or his circle Pietà Early 16th century State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg Photo by Leonard Kheifets, Daria Bobrova The Origins of El Greco: Icon Painting in Venetian Crete Onassis Cultural Center Nov. 17, 2009-Feb. 27, 2010 46 works by the legendary Mannerist, including icons from the Collection of Ecclesiastical Art, Saint Catherine of the Sinaites, two wings of the triptych Baptism of Christ, and El Greco’s early The Dormition of the Virgin Curator: Anastasia Drandaki Catalogue: 132 pp. Funding: Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Visitors interacting with Bruce Nauman’s Days (2009) at Università Iuav di Venezia Notations/Bruce Nauman: Days and Giorni Philadelphia Museum of Art Nov. 21, 2009-Apr. 4, 2010 Victory lap for Days and Giori, two new works by Bruce Nauman commissioned for the Golden Lion-winning Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, at the organizing institution Curator: Carlos Basualdo, Erica F. Battle Designed by Marcel Wanders "Knotted" Chair 1996 Philadelphia Museum of Art Marcel Wanders: Daydreams Philadelphia Museum of Art Nov. 22, 2009-June 13, 2010 A "dreamlike, multimedia installation of objects," including videos, lighting and soundscapes, documenting the career of the Dutch-born design artist Curator: Kathryn Hiesinger Funding: Lisa S. Roberts and David W. Seltzer, Target, others Tim Burton Untitled (The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories) 1982–84 Private collection © 2009 Tim Burton Tim Burton Museum of Modern Art Nov. 22, 2009-Apr. 26, 2010 Artwork generated during the conception and production of Burton opuses such as Edward Scissorhands and Batman, alongside unrealized projects, never-before-seen works, student art, early non-professional films and examples of Burton’s work as a storyteller and graphic artist for non-film projects Curators: Ron Magliozzi, Jenny He, Rajendra Roy Catalogue: 64 pp., $19.95 Sponsor: Syfy

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