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artnet Magazine Home News Reviews Features Books People Horoscope Newsletter NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS Jennifer Steinkamp A Sailor’s Life is a Life for Me 1998 Courtesy ACME., Los Angeles; Lehmann Maupin, New York; and greengrassi, London Jennifer Steinkamp San Jose Museum of Art July 1-Oct. 1, 2006 Major survey of the L.A.-based installation artist’s colorful, room-filling digital works Curator: JoAnne Northrup Catalogue: 60$, 192 pp., contributions by Dave Hickey, Dan Cameron, JoAnne Northrup Funding: NEC, others Tour: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Feb. 23-May 13, 2007; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Nov. 16, 2007-Feb. 24, 2008 Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay Audition Tape 2003 Idol Worship: Video by Ariela Plotkin and Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay Jewish Museum July 3-Oct. 26, 2006 Video works by two artists who use music video to explore themes of sexual and religious transgression William Stanley Haseltine Sunrise at Capri 1880-1900 Italia! Muse to American Artists, 1830-2005 National Academy Museum July 5-Dec. 31, 2006 Work by 51 American artists from the 19th century to today, exploring the legacy of art inspired by the "Grand Tour" of Italy Peter Paul Rubens and Jan Brueghel the Elder The Return from War: Mars Disarmed by Venus ca. 1910-1912 J. Paul Getty Museum Rubens and Brueghel: A Working Friendship Getty Center July 5-Sept. 24, 2006 12 large-scale paintings created jointly by the two Old Masters, including Battle of the Amazons, Allegory of Taste and Vision of St. Hupert Curators: Ariana van Suchtelen, Anne Woollett Catalogue: $65 (cloth), $40 (paper), 270 pp. Tour: This show has already appeared at the Hague, Mauritshuis Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation Production still from The Rape of the Sabine Women, Disintegration at Hydra 2005 Photo by Ricoh Gerbl The Rape of the Sabine Women Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University July 6–Sept. 24, 2006 Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation’s video-musical inspired by the French neoclassical painter Jacques-Louis David's masterpiece, The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1794-1799), with choreography by Claudia de Serpa Soares, costuming by Karen Young and an original score by Jonathan Bepler Funding: Hauptstadtkulturfonds-Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof-Berlin, JF Costopoulos Foundation-Athens, Roebling Hall Gallery-New York, Richard Massey, Ninah & Michael Lynne William Kentridge Drawing for the film "History of the Main Complaint" 1995-96 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Drawn into the World Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago July 8-Oct. 15, 2006 A selection of drawings from the MCA’s permanent collection, many employing unusual materials, including works by Matthew Barney, Henry Darger, William Kentridge, Sol LeWitt, Kerry James Marshall, Ana Mendieta, Max Neuhaus, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Paschke, Suellen Rocca, Dieter Roth, Ed Ruscha, Michelle Stuart, Nicola Tyson and Karl Wirsum Curator: Lynne Warren Funding: Sally and Wynn Kramarsky Jennifer Bartlett The Exact Spot 2004 Courtesy of the artist SITE Santa Fe: Still Points of the Turning World Santa Fe July 9, 2006–Jan. 7, 2006 13 one-person installations from Mirosław Bałka, Jennifer Bartlett, Patty Chang, Stephen Dean, Peter Doig, Robert Grosvenor, Cristina Iglesias, Wolfgang Laib, Jonathan Meese, Wangechi Mutu, Carsten Nicolai, Catherine Opie and Thorns Ltd. Curator: Klaus Ottmann Catalogue: $50, 2-volumes, 96 pp. each Funding: anonymous donor, Jeanne and Michael Klein, Linda and William Herrmann, UBS, Sotheby’s Louise Bourgeois Still from She Lost It 1992 Photo by Will Brown Louise Bourgeois Fabric Museum and Workshop, Philadelphia July 8-Sept. 16, 2006 Recent sculpture, fabric books and multiples, alongside the costumes and video documentation from Bourgeois' 1992 performance She Lost It at the Workshop Byron Kim Emmett at Twelve Months 1994 Collection of Delores and Byungseol An Threshold: Byron Kim 1990-2004 Henry Art Gallery, Seattle July 8–Sept. 17, 2006 The first museum survey for Kim, including a series based on Asian pottery, wall-sized landscapes inspired by William Wordsworth and studies of the sky Curator: Eugenie Tsai, Constance Lewallen Funding: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Peter Norton Family Foundation Also on view: "Akio Takamori: The Laughing Monks," July 8-Oct. 22, 2006 Maxfield Parrish Daybreak 1922 Daybreak National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, R.I. July 10-Aug. 25, 2006 Fresh from its record-setting auction at Christie’s on May 25, 2006, this is the public’s last chance to see Maxfield Parrish’s popular painting Daybreak -- on loan to the NMAI along with three other significant works, My Duty towards My Neighbor/My Duty towards God, Dream Garden and Presentation Piece for the Florentine Fete 'A Call To Joy' -- before it passes into private hands Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses 1653 Metropolitan Museum of Art Rembrandt and His Circle: Drawings and Prints Metropolitan Museum of Art July 11, 2006-Oct. 15, 2006 44 drawings and prints by Rembrandt, along with 14 more works by artists of his school, celebrating the 400th birthday of the quintessential Old Master Curators: Nadine M. Orenstein, Rachel Stern Gustav Klimt Bildnis Adele Bloch-Bauer 1907 Neue Galerie Gustav Klimt: Five Paintings from the Collection of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer Neue Galerie July 13-Sept. 18, 2006 The Neue Galerie’s recently acquired, $135 million Portrait of Adele Block-Bauer I, along with four other paintings by Klimt on loan to the institution: Birch Forest (1903), Adele Block-Bauer II (1912), Apple Tree I (1912) and Houses at Unterach on the Attersee (ca. 1916) Aquamanile griffin early 15th century Lions, Dragons, and Other Beasts: Aquamanilia of the Middle Ages, Vessels for Church and Table Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts July 12-Oct. 15, 2006 The entire collection of aquamanilia -- hollow-cast vessels produced to pour water for hand-washing before mass -- of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, featuring lavishly decorative ceremonial vessels from the 12th to the 15th centuries Curators: Peter Barnet, Pete Dandrige Catalogue: $50, 256 pp. Funding: Samuel H. Kress Foundation New York State Council on the Arts, David L. Klein Jr. Foundation Also on view: "Shiela Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor," July 12-Oct. 15, 2006 Betye Saar The Loss 1977 Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts July 15-Dec. 10, 2006 60 works from the ‘60s to today, employing assemblage and collage to comment on African-American life and culture Curator: Sean Ulmer Catalogue: $39.95, 176 pp. Funding: National Endowment for the Arts, Henry Luce Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Peter Norton Family Foundation, others Tour: This show has already appeared at the University of Michigan Museum of Art Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn Self-Portrait in a Cap, Open Mouthed Morgan Library Celebrating Rembrandt: Etchings from the Morgan Morgan Library July 15-Oct. 1, 2006 A selection of some of the most celebrated of the Library’s collection of over 300 classic Rembrandt etchings Curator: Anne Varick Lauder Also on view: "From Rembrandt to van Gogh: Dutch Drawings from the Morgan," July 15-Oct. 1, 2006 Doug Aitken new opposition II 2001 Cosmic Wonder Yerba Buena Center for the Arts July 15-Nov. 5, 2006 Works that explore trance, alternative realities and the psyche, from Doug Aitken, Jose Alvarez, Reed Anderson, Hanna Fushihara Aron and David Aron, Hisham Bharoocha, Mark Borthwick, Anna Sew Hoy, Sam Gordon, Yayoi Kusama, Terence Koh, Yukinori Maeda, Richard Misrach, Takeshi Murata, Paperrad, Mike Pare, Erik Parker, Ara Peterson and Jim Drain, Arik Roper, James Turrell, Banks Violette and Debora Warner Curator: Betty Nguyen Taryn Simon Alallamah Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanon 2004 Courtesy of the artist/Gagosian Gallery New Photography: Taryn Simon, Sze Tsung Leong, Ruth Dusseault and Angela West High Museum, Atlanta July 15-Oct. 1, 2006 93 large-scale works by four contemporary photographers, Taryn Simon, Sze Tsung Leong, Ruth Dusseault and Angela West Curator: Julian Cox Funding: Fujifilm Also on view: "Paper Trail: African American Works on Paper," July 1-Sept. 3, 2006 Cameron Jamie Study for the film BB 2000 Courtesy Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris Cameron Jamie Walker Art Center July 16-Oct. 14, 2006 The first major solo exhibition for Jamie, highlighting sculptural objects and films from the past 20 years that explore the artist’s obsession with fringe cultures, including his film trilogy BB, Spook House and Kranky Klaus Curator: Philippe Vergne Funding: Tim Nye Also on view: "Hot Art Injection IV," July 1-Aug. 13, 2006; "Diane Arbus Revelations," June 17-Sept. 10, 2006 Henri Rousseau Tropical Forest with Monkeys 1910 John Hay Whitney Collection Henri Rousseau: Jungles in Paris National Gallery of Art July 16-Oct. 15, 2006 Landscapes of Paris, allegories, portraits and the largest grouping ever assembled of jungle paintings by the proto-Surrealist painter, along with more than 100 documents, popular ephemera and other source materials giving context to his work Curators: Christopher Green, Frances Morris Catalogue: $50, 224 pp. Funding: Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities Tour: This show has already been seen at the Tate Modern and the Réunion des musées nationaux/Musée d'Orsay Richard Tuttle Drift III 1965 The Art of Richard Tuttle Dallas Museum of Art July 16–Oct. 8, 2006 The first full-scale retrospective of work by the whimsical Minimalist features 300+ works dating from the mid-1960s to the present Curator: Madeleine Grynsztejn Catalogue: $65 (hardcover), $35 (softcover), 388 pp. Tour: This show has already appeared at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum and the Des Moines Art Center; it continues to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Nov. 2006-Feb. 2007 Funding: Henry Luce Foundation, Mimi and Peter Haas, Edward E. Hills Fund, Helen and Charles Schwab, Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro Alex Katz Twilight 1977 Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture: 60 Years Colby College Museum of Art July 22-Oct. 29, 2006 Works by 27 artists and faculty associated with the famous Maine art academy, throwing light on the school’s history since 1947, including Roy Lichtenstein, David Smith, Agnes Martin, David Hockney, Richard Serra, Kara Walker and Kiki Smith Curator: Sharon Corwin Catalogue: essay by David Driskell Darya Preobrazhenskaya’s Soviet era textile pattern, Symbols of Industry Designing the Modern Utopia: Soviet Textiles from the Lloyd Cotsen Collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston July 26-Jan. 21, 2007 100+ textiles and drawings made between 1927 and 1933 in the former U.S.S.R. Also on view: "Understanding the Master: Dong Qichang and His Circle," July 8, 2006-Jan 2, 2007 Ways of Seeing: John Baldessari Explores the Collection Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park July 26-July 26, 2007 Four early works by Baldessari, along with an installation from the museum’s permanent collection selected by the artist, including artworks byMilton Avery, Thomas Eakins, Philip Guston and Emily Kaufman Curator: John Baldessari The Oregon Biennial 2006, at the Portland Art Museum Oregon Biennial 2006 Portland (Ore.) Art Museum July 29-Oct. 8, 2006 34 established and emerging artists, selected from nearly 800 entrants, offering a snapshot of the state’s current artistic influences and trends Curator: Jennifer Gately

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