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Anri Sala
No Barragan no cry
2002
Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Hauser and Wirth
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Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Dec. 3, 2008-Mar. 21, 2009
Seven films exploring music, sound and communication, including the new Answer Me (2008), by the Berlin-based Albanian artist, in a show co-organized with the Cincinnati CAC
Curator: Raphaela Platow
Funding: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, others
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Alexei Kostroma
Feathered Aggression
2008
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Bass Museum of Art
Dec. 4, 2008-Feb. 8, 2009
Showcasing Russian creativity via works from AES+F Group, Vladimir Dubossarsky and Alexander Vinogradov, Dmitri Gutov, Alexei Kostroma, Julia Milner, MishMash Project, Alexander Ponomarev, Rostan Tavasiev, Haim Sokol, others
Curator: Olga Sviblova
Funding: Government of Moscow, Department of Culture of Moscow, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, others
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Ulysses Davis
Jesus on the Cross
1946
High Museum of Art
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High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Dec. 6, 2008-Apr. 5, 2009
115 works by the self-taught Georgia artist (b. 1914) known for his fanciful wood-carvings, including portraits of U.S. and African leaders, religious images, patriotic works and carvings influenced by African forms
Funding: National Endowment for the Arts, Henry Luce Foundation, Judith Rothschild Foundation
Catalogue: 119 pp., $30
Tour: American Folk Art Museum, New York
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Alexander Calder
Bracelet
ca. 1948
Private Collection
© 2007 Calder Foundation, New York
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dec. 9, 2008-Mar. 1, 2009
Ca. 90 bracelets, necklaces, earrings, brooches and tiaras by the celebrated sculptor
Curator: Alexander S.C. Rower, Mark Rosenthal
Catalogue: 288 pp., $ 65
Tour: This show has already been seen at the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Fla. and the Philadelphia Museum of Art; it continues to the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Mar. 31-June 22, 2009
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Fateh Moudarres
Wada Al- Aliha Fi
1976
Courtesy of Art Space Gallery
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Chelsea Art Museum
Dec. 10, 2008-Feb. 7, 2009
Juxtaposing 80 paintings by mid-20th century Italian artists with works by Lebanese, Egyptian, Syrian and Iranian artists, illustrating the cultural interchange between the two regions
Curators: Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath
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Nina Katchadourian
Talking Popcorn
2001
Courtesy the artist and Sara Meltzer Gallery
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Dec. 12, 2008-Feb. 13, 2009
Nine artists explore the concept of "translation" in art: John Baldessari, Mel Bochner, Omer Fast, Spencer Finch, Nina Katchadourian, Sherrie Levine, Jonathan Monk, Anri Sala and Brooke Stroud
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Art collector Max Palevsky
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Dec. 12, 2008-Mar. 8, 2009
Eighteen works by designers and architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Greene and Greene, Henry Van de Velde and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, from the collection of the longtime LACMA patrons, venture capitalist Max Palevsky and his wife Jodie
Curator: Wendy Kaplan
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Raoul Dufy
Window on the Promenade des Anglais, Nice
1938
Samuel S. White 3rd and Vera White Collection
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
Dec. 13, 2008-Nov. 1, 2009
Investigating the Mediterranean’s impact on art, via ca. 35 works by Matisse, Pierre Bonnard, Raoul Dufy and Chaim Soutine
Curator: Michael R. Taylor
Also opening: "The Art of Japanese Craft: 1875 to the Present," Dec. 6, 2008-Sept. 2009; "Peaks of Faith: Buddhist Art of the Himalayas," Dec. 20, 2008-May 2009; "The Privilege of Paint: Portraits from the Courts of India," Dec. 20, 2008-May 2009
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Henri Gervex
Study for The Civil Marriage
1881
Collection of Yvonne and Gabriel P. Weisberg
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Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Dec. 13, 2008-Apr. 5, 2009
50 realist and naturalist works from the late-19th and early-20th centuries, by Adolphe Appian, François Bonvin, Jules Breton, Edgar Chahine, Louis Weldon Hawkins, Auguste Lepère, Léon Lhermitte, Charles Milcendeau and Thèodule Ribot
Catalogue: 96 pp., $ 29.95
Funding: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Exhibitions Endowment Fund
Also opening: "Sleeping in Style: Textiles for the Bedroom," Dec. 6, 2008-May 31, 2009; "Breaking with Convention: Avant-garde Artist's Books," Dec. 6, 2008-May 24, 2009; "From Rembrandt to Matisse: Selected Works on Paper," Dec. 20, 2008-June 14, 2009
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The Sampson Shoe Factory
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MASS MoCA
Dec. 13, 2008-Oct. 31, 2009
The Turner Prize-winning British artist presents two giant sculptures based on microscope images of metal particles taken from a photographic print depicting Chinese laborers who were brought to Massachusetts in 1870 to break a strike at the Sampson Shoe Company, once housed in the galleries where the works will be shown
Curator: Susan Cross
Catalogue: essays by Susan Cross, Anthony W. Lee
Funding: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Henry Moore Foundation, others
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Marlene Dumas
Moshekwa
2006
Courtesy the artist and Zeno X Gallery
© 2008 Marlene Dumas
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Museum of Modern Art
Dec. 14, 2008-Feb. 16, 2009
Ca. 60 paintings and 25 drawings, spanning the South African-born artist’s 30-year career
Curator: Connie Butler
Catalogue: 288 pp., $ 45
Funding: Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Mondriaan Foundation, others
Tour: This show has already been seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Also on view: "Focus: Sol LeWitt," Dec. 5, 2008-June 29, 2009; "Focus: Jasper Johns," Dec. 5, 2008-Feb. 16, 2009; "Artist's Choice: Vik Muniz, Rebus," Dec. 14, 2008-Feb. 23, 2009
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Harry Shearer
Larry King (video still from The Silent Echo Chamber)
2008
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Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Dec. 14, 2008-Feb. 8, 2009
An installation by Harry Shearer (the voice of Mr. Burns on the Simpsons) compiling found footage of James Carville, Larry King, Chris Matthews, John McCain, Barack Obama, Dr. Phil and others, caught in the moments before they "go live" on television
Also opening: "Kwang-Young Chun: The Soul -- Journey to America," Dec. 14, 2008-May 24, 2009
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Annibale Carracci
Madonna Enthroned with St. Matthew
1588
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Getty Center
Dec. 16, 2008-May 3, 2009
The legacy of Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619) and his two cousins, Agostino (1557-1602) and Annibale (1560-1609), in a show co-organized with the Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
Curators: Scott Schaefer, Andreas Henning
Catalogue: 124 pp., $ 34.95
Also opening: "Drawing the Classical Figure," Dec. 23, 2008-Mar. 8, 2009
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Duncan Grant
Virginia Woolf
1918
Courtesy of private collection
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Nasher Museum of Art
Dec. 18, 2008-Apr. 5, 2009
Exploring the art associated with England’s "Bloomsbury Group," via works produced between 1910 and the 1970s by the likes of Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant and Dora Carrington
Catalogue: 272 pp., $35
Funding: National Endowment for the Humanities, others
Tour: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, N.Y.; Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Ill.; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Mass.; Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, Pa.
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Work by Cameron Wittig from "Text/Messages"
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Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Dec. 18, 2008-Apr. 19, 2009
Books by Karen Finley, Mike Kelley, Ellsworth Kelly, Paul McCarthy, Robert Motherwell and Lawrence Weiner, alongside a rare edition of Salvador Dali’s Alice in Wonderland
Curators: Siri Engberg, Rosemary Furtak
Funding: Babe Davis
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Lawrence Weiner
A 36 x 36 removal to the lathing or support wall of a plaster or wallboard from a wall
1968
Photo by James Wagner
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Aspen Art Museum
Dec. 19, 2008-Feb. 1, 2009
Art exploring contemporary "visibility," from Walead Beshty, Alexandra Bircken, Ceal Floyer, Tom Friedman, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Wade Guyton, Wolfgang Laib, Robert Morris, William O’Brien, Mitzi Pederson, Dieter Roth, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, Anna Sew Hoy, Gedi Sibony, Rudolf Stingel, Lawrence Weiner, Jennifer West and Erwin Wurm
Curator: Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson
Funding: AAM National Council, Susan and Larry Marx
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