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artnet Magazine Home News Reviews Features Books People Horoscope Newsletter NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS Thomas Moran Untitled (Fishing boat on storm-tossed sea; after Harry Chase) 1890 Parrish Art Museum First Impressions: American Etchings from the Parrish Art Museum UBS Art Gallery, Manhattan June 1-Aug. 11, 2006 80 etchings by more than 40 19th-century artists, including William Merritt Chase, Thomas Moran, Mary Nimmo Moran, Henry Farrer and R. Swain Gifford, all members of the New York Etching Club Curator: Alicia Longwell Frederic Church Coast Scene, Mount Desert 1863 Wadsworth Atheneum American Splendor: Hudson River School Masterworks from the Wadsworth Atheneum Collection Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art June 2-Dec. 31, 2006 More than 60 major paintings by Thomas Cole, Frederic Church, Albert Bierstadt, Sanford Gifford, John Kensett and others -- the world’s best Hudson River School collection -- go back on view at the Wadsworth Atheneum after a 30-month national tour Curator: Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser Catalogue: Yale, $45 Zaha Hadid Exhibition design for "The Great Utopia" at the Guggenheim Museum 1992 Zaha Hadid Guggenheim Museum June 3-Oct. 25, 2006 A comprehensive look at the visionary architect’s theoretical and academic work, as well as her portfolio of built projects that "shift the geometry of buildings," including the recently completed Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg Curators: Germano Celant, Monica Ramírez-Montagut Catalogue: Guggenheim/D.A.P., $50 Funding: Oldcastle Glass, Deutsche Bank Edgar Degas Auguste de Gas (detail) ca. 1859 Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master through Modern Art Institute of Chicago June 3-July 30, 2006 166 works from the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection Curator: Suzanne McCullagh Funding: anonymous, Rhoades Foundation/Julius Lewis exhibition Endowment, Kemper Educational and Charitable Trust Also on view: "Douglas Garofalo," June 17-Oct. 8, 2006; "Jose Guadalupe Posada and the Mexican Broadside," June 24, 2006-Jan. 17, 2007; "Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work," June 24-Sept. 24, 2006 Pierre-Auguste Renoir Sleeping Girl with a Cat 1880 Clark Art Institute The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute June 4-Sept. 4, 2006 Almost 70 paintings -- including van Gogh’s The Night Café (1888), Renoir’s At the Concert (1881), Homer’s Undertow (1886) and Eakins’ Dr. Agnew (1889) -- in a show exploring the rivalry of the two brothers who were heirs to the Singer Sewing fortune: Robert Sterling Clark, founder of the namesake museum in Williamstown, Mass., and Stephen Carlton Clark, who served as a trustee of the Museum of Modern Art and established the Fenimore Art Museum and the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown Curator: Richard Rand Catalogue: Yale, 384 pp., $65 Tour: Metropolitan Museum, May 22-Aug. 19, 2007 Ellsworth Kelly Grape Leaves III 1973-74 Drawn from Nature: The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly AXA Gallery, New York June 7-Aug. 14, 2006 The first public presentation of the artist’s complete plant lithographs, in a traveling show organized by the Grand Rapids Art Museum Catalogue: Yale, 124 pp., $35 Tour: Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Sept. 21, 2006-Jan. 1, 2007 Frontispiece of the Déscription de L’Égypte, second edition, 1821-29 Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists and the Rediscovery of Egypt Dahesh Museum of Art June 8-Sept. 3, 2006 Europe’s visual imaginings of Egypt between Napoleon’s ill-fated invasion in 1798 and the start of World War I, via over 70 plates from the multivolume illustrated compendium, Déscription de L’Égypte, plus paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, photographs, decorative arts, illustrated books, letters and medals Curator: Lisa Small Funding: Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Grand Marnier Foundation Atta Kim ON-AIR Project, Sacheonwangsang, 8 Buddhas 2003 © Atta Kim Atta Kim: On-Air International Center of Photography June 9-Aug. 27, 2006 Large-scale, visually spectacular color photographs focusing on such subjects as parliamentary sessions, soccer gamers, outdoor military exercises and erotic unions, as part of an examination of time and perception Curator: Christopher Phillips Also on view: "Tempo, Tempo! The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt," "Paris: Eugene Atget and Christopher Rauschenberg" and "Unknown Weegee," all June 9-Aug. 27, 2006 Douglas Gordon Between Darkness and Light (after William Blake) 1997 Museum of Modern Art Douglas Gordon: Timeline Museum of Modern Art June 11-Sept. 4, 2006 Film-related work by the Scottish conceptual artist who first presented Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho frame-by-frame over a 24-hour period Curator: Klaus Biesenbach Catalogue: MoMA, 304 pp., $60 Funding: Jerry I. Speyer and Katherine O. Farley Jean-Étienne Liotard Trompe l’Oeil 1771 Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702-1789): Swiss Master Frick Collection June 13-Sept. 17, 2006 More than 50 paintings, drawings, miniatures and engravings from the Musées d’art et d’histoire in Geneva, in the first monographic exhibition in North America devoted to the prolific pastelist, painter and miniaturist who traveled throughout Europe and the Near East Curators: Colin B. Bailey, Kristel Smentek Catalogue: Éditions d’Art Somogy, $45 Funding: Margot and Jerry Bogert, Melvin R. Seiden, others Lords of Creation, the catalogue for "Treasures of Sacred Maya Kings" at the Metropolitan Museum Treasures of Sacred Maya Kings Metropolitan Museum June 13-Sept. 10, 2006 Some 150 objects, dating from 900 BC to 550 AD and lent primarily by public collections in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, display the grandiose ambitions of the god-kings of pre-Columbian America, in a show organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Curators: Virginia Fields, Dorie Reents-Buder, Julie Jones Catalogue: Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship, Scala, 287 pp., $60 Funding: Televisa, National Endowment for the Humanities Also on view: "On Photography: A Tribute to Susan Sontag," June 6-Sept. 4, 2006 Eliot Porter White Flowers in Black Ash Cliff, Iceland 1972 J. Paul Getty Museum Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature Getty Center June 13-Sept. 17, 2006 Over 75 photos dating from the 1930s to the 1980s by the pioneering American color photographer, in a show inspired by Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser’s gift to the museum of 68 Porter photos Curator: Paul Martineau Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery New-York Historical Society June 16, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007 Works by Willie Birch, Mel Edwards, Whitfield Lovell, Kerry James Marshall, Lorenzo Pace, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems, Fred Wilson and others that "capture the tension between the reprehensible past and emotions of the present" Curators: Lowery Stokes Sims, Kathleen Hulser, Cynthia Copeland Lee Miller Mrs. Donald Friede ca. 1930-32 Philadelphia Museum of Art Dreaming in Black and White: Photography at the Julien Levy Gallery Philadelphia Museum of Art June 17-Sept. 17, 2006 More than 200 works from the collection acquired in 2001, celebrating the centenary of the birth of pioneering Surrealist art dealer Julien Levy (1906-1981) Curators: Katherine Ware, Peter Barberie Funding: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Furthermore, Andrew W. Mellon Fund Paul Klee Actor’s Mask 1924 Museum of Modern Art Klee and America Phillips Collection June 17-Sept. 10, 2006 80 works by the pioneering German modernist, in an exhibition organized by the Menil Collection Curator: Josef Helfenstein Catalogue: Hatje Cantz, 320 pp., $55 Tour: Menil Collection, Oct. 6, 2006-Jan. 14, 2007 Sophie Taeuber Untitled (Dada Head) 1920 Centre Pompidou Dada Museum of Modern Art June 18-Sept. 11, 2006 The first major U.S. exhibition to focus exclusively on Dada, in an exhibition co-organized with the Pompidou Center in Paris and the National Gallery of Art, where it has previously appeared Curator: Anne Umland Catalogue: Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hanover, Cologne, New York, Paris, DAP, 519 pp., $65 Funding: Dana Foundation, Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron, Sue & Edgar Wachenheim Foundation, Pro Helvetia, BNP Paribas Giorgione Three Philosophers ca. 1506 Kunsthistorisches Museum Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting National Gallery of Art June 18-Sept. 17, 2006 Approximately 60 paintings -- pastoral landscapes, female nudes and romantic portraits -- done while the older Giovanni Bellini (d. 1516) and Giorgione (d. 1510) were working side-by-side with the younger Titian (1485-1576), in a show organized with the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Curators: David Alan Brown, Sylvia Ferino-Pagden Catalogue: Yale, 288 pp., $75 Tour: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Oct. 17, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007 Funding: Bracco Raphael Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints ca. 1504 Metropolitan Museum J.P. Morgan and the Last Raphael Metropolitan Museum June 20-Sept. 3, 2006 Reuniting the Colonna Altarpiece, donated to the Met in 1916 by J.P. Morgan, with scenes from its predella and a group of drawings and paintings Curators: Keith Christiansen, Linda Wolk-Simon Catalogue: The show is accompanied by a special edition of the museum bulletin Funding: Homeland Foundation, Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund Anselm Kiefer Resurrexit 1973 Private Collection Sanders, Amsterdam Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden June 22-Sept. 10, 2006 40 paintings, watercolors, books and sculptures from 1969-2005, in the touring exhibition that originated at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, supplemented by two recent paintings from Kiefer’s studio in Barjac, France, that have never been seen in public before Organizing curator: Michael Auping Catalogue: Prestel, 186 pp., $65 hardcover Tour: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oct. 15, 2006-Jan. 14, 2007 Funding: UBS Matthew Barney still from Drawing Restraint 9 2005 Matthew Barney: Drawing Restraint San Francisco MOMA June 23-Sept. 19, 2006 A site-specific installation designed by the artist surveys his work on the "drawing restraint" theme, dating from his student days at Yale University in the late 1980s to the present Curator: Benjamin Weil Catalogue: Uplink, 163 pp., $75 The exhibition catalogue for "Searching for Shakespeare" at the Yale Center for British Art Searching for Shakespeare Yale Center for British Art June 23-Sept. 17, 2006 Nearly 150 objects revealing Shakespeare as his contemporaries knew him, including the Chandos portrait -- the first painting presented to the National Portrait Gallery in London, in 1856 -- and several other portraits of the poet and playwright, in a show organized by the National Portrait Gallery, London Curators: Yarnya Cooper, Elisabeth Fairman Catalogue: Yale, 239 pp., $60 Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle Iceberg Number r11i01, June 21, 2004 2004 Photo by Dan Johnson Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle: Blinking Out of Existence Rochester (Minn.) Art Center June 23-Sept. 3, 2006 13 new and recent works in video, sound, photography and sculpture, including Cloud Prototype No. 1 and Iceberg r11i01,  Curator: Kris Douglas Catalogue: 72 pp., $30 Mary Cassatt Little Girl in a Blue Armchair 1878 National Gallery of Art Americans in Paris, 1860-1900 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston June 25-Sept. 24, 2006 Approximately 100 paintings, including John Singer Sargent’s Madame X (1884), James McNeill Whistler’s Portrait of the Artist’s Mother (1871) and Mary Cassatt’s Little Girl in a Blue Armchair (1878), in a show co-organized with the National Gallery in London (where it has already appeared) and the Metropolitan Museum Curators: Erica E. Hirshler, Kathleen Adler, H. Barbara Weinberg Catalogue: 320 pp., $65 Tour: Metropolitan Museum, Oct. 17, 2006-Jan. 28, 2007 Funding: Bank of America, WCVB-TV Ron Gorchov Ulysses 1979 Courtesy Julian Schnabel Ron Gorchov: Double Trouble P.S.1 Art Center June 25-Sept. 18, 2006 New and recent works by the 1970s abstract painter known for his uniquely saddle-shaped canvases Curator: Alanna Heiss Richard Pousette-Dart Bird in the Spring 1992 Transparent Reflections: Richard Pousette-Dart, Works on Paper, 1940-1992 Los Angeles County Museum of Art June 29-Sept. 17, 2006 Over 50 works on paper by the New York School artist celebrated for his trippy, pointillist paintings, in a show co-organized with the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Cincinnati Art Museum Curator: Robert Flynn Johnson, Leslie Jones Catalogue: $19.95 Tour: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Oct. 14, 2006-Jan. 14, 2007; Cincinnati Art Museum, Feb. 3-May 3, 2007 Also on view: "David Hockney Portraits," June 11-Sept. 4, 2006 Man Ray La Fortune 1938 Whitney Museum Full House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75 Whitney Museum June 29-Sept. 3, 2006 Three floors of Ab Ex, Pop and Minimalist works from the museum collection, plus a focus on Edward Hopper on the fifth floor (which opens earlier, on June 7), celebrating the museum’s 75th birthday Funding: Henry Luce Foundation, Jack Rudin in honor of Beth Rudin DeWoody Also on view: "Trace," June 30-Nov. 12, 2006 Peter Hujar Two Drag Queens Mugging 1978 Peter Hujar Archive Subterranean Monuments: Burckhardt, Johnson, Hujar and the Changing Life of Bohemia in Post-war Manhattan Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College June 30-Sept. 17, 2006 Upwards of 60 works by three New York artists from three generations -- Rudy Burckhardt, Ray Johnson and Peter Hujar -- displayed in adjoining galleries Curators: Mary-Kay Lombino, Joel Smith Funding: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation

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