J. Paul Getty Museum
Aug. 1, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007
Manuscripts, drawings, rare books and journals highlighting the Italian Futurists’ various experiments with "parole in libertà" (words-in-freedom), including BIF&ZF+18 by Ardengo Soffici, "Fabbrica + Treno" by Angelo Rognoni and Zang Tumb Tumb by F.T. Marinetti
Also on view: "Landscape in the Renaissance," Aug. 1-Oct. 15, 2006

Fogg Art Museum
Aug. 1-Oct. 22, 2006
A selection of important artist’s sketchbooks from the Fogg’s collection by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Jacques-Louis David, Sanford Gifford, Edward Burne-Jones, John Singer Sargent, Reginald Marsh, George Grosz and Christopher Wilmarth, along with sketchbook pages by John Constable, Edouard Manet, Henry Moore, Brice Marden, others
Curator: Miriam Stewart

Des Moines Art Center
Aug. 4-Oct. 1, 2006
Lush, sensual and semi-abstract canvases from the New York painter
Curator: Jeff Fleming
Catalogue: contributions from Jeff Fleming, Linda Nochlin, Linda Norden
Funding: National Endowment for the Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation, David Kruidenier.
Tour: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Oct. 18, 2006-Jan. 15, 2007

National Gallery of Art
Aug. 6, 2006-Jan. 28, 2007
Works in bronze, silver, pewter, embossed leather and paper, terracotta, plaster and pâte de verre (molded glass) by one of the preeminent relief sculptors and medalists of the late 19th century, including the artist’s self-portrait bust, intimate miniature portraits of children and medals of public figures such as novelist Émile Zola

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Aug. 6-Oct. 23, 2006
150 of Hesse’s works on paper, including sketches and working notes for many of her important sculptures, along with reliefs and test pieces
Curators: Catherine de Zegher, Elisabeth Sussman
Catalogue: 288 pp., $50, essays by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Catherine de Zegher, Bracha L. Ettinger, Briony Fer, Mignon Nixon, Elisabeth Sussman, Kathryn A. Tuma, Anne M. Wagner
Funding: Robert Lehman Foundation, others
Tour: This show has already appeared at the Menil Collection, Houston, and the Drawing Center, New York; it continues to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Nov. 12, 2006-Feb. 18, 2007
Also on view: "MOCA Focus: Lecia Dole-Recio," Aug. 3-Oct. 23, 2006

Walker Art Center
Aug. 11-Nov. 19, 2006
Three emerging artists from Minneapolis, New York and Los Angeles employ the strategies of field sociologists and anthropologists to produce artworks that question the idea of "ordinary culture"
Curator: Doryun Chong
Also on view: "Portraits of Peace," Aug. 4-10, 2006

Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach
Aug. 11-Oct. 8, 2006
Woven works by Braque, Chagall, Dufy, Ernst, Kandinsky, Miró and Vasarely, alongside tapestries with designs after Arp, Calder, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Léger, Le Corbusier, Matisse and Picasso
Also on view: "From Canvas to Textiles: Mira Lehr for Odegard," Aug. 11-Oct. 8, 2006

Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Aug. 12-Nov. 12, 2006
Six paintings, by Liu Guosong, Li Huayi, Liu Dan and Li Junyi, along with one sculpture by Zhan Wang, created between 1966 and 2006 and offering new approaches to traditional Chinese subject matter
Curator:  Robert D. Mowry
Funding: Kaikodo, Conor Mahony, Christophe Mao, Chambers Fine Art.
Also on view: "Sharon Lockhart: Pine Flat," Aug. 26-Nov. 19, 2006

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles/Pacific Design Center
Aug. 13-Oct. 15, 2006
A portfolio of black-and-white photographs from Owens’ classic 1973 book Suburbia, along with six recently issued color images from the same project, capturing the spirit of the ‘70s
Catalogue: "Suburbia," 120 pp., $29.95

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Aug. 19, 2006-July 6, 2007
20th-century art basketry from Japan, including work by Iizuka Hosai, Iizuka Rokansai and Shono Shounsai
Also on view: "Recent Acquisitions: African Printed Textiles," Aug. 1-Nov. 12, 2006; "Tsutsugaki Textiles from the Collection of David and Marita Paly," Aug. 19, 2006-July 6, 2007

Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
Aug. 19-Oct. 29, 2006
Nine works on paper in pastel, pencil, and watercolor by Cassatt, illustrating the American Impressionist’s sensitive depictions of women and children

Yale University Art Gallery
Aug. 22, 2006–Jan. 14, 2007
19th- and 20th-century American artists such as Robert Adams, Ralph Albert Blakelock, Oscar Bluemner, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper and Yvonne Jacquette explore the night
Curators: Helen A. Cooper, Robin Jaffee Frank
Funding: Friends of American Arts at Yale, Eugénie Prendergast Fund for American Art, others

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Aug. 23, 2006-Feb. 25, 2007
Contemporary artworks exploring the relevance of Native American culture to contemporary art practice, by Matthew Buckingham, Lewis deSoto, Peter Edlund, Nicholas Galanin, Jeffrey Gibson, Rigo 23, Duane Slick, Marie Watt, Yoram Wolberger and Edie Winograde, including a major new installation by Watt titled Dwelling that incorporates over 400 blankets that will be donated to homeless shelters upon the show’s completion
Curator: Richard Klein
Catalogue: contributions from Paul Chaat Smith, Fergus M. Bordewich
Funding: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, LEF Foundation

UBS Art Gallery
Aug. 24-Nov. 17, 2006
Ca. 88 photos from 1935-36, including a selection of vintage gelatin silver prints, shown alongside large-scale ink-jet photo reproductions that reveal details hidden in the originals
Curators: John T. Hill, Sven Martson

Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Aug. 26, 2006-Apr. 8, 2007
The largest ever exhibition of Bronze Age Chinese ceremonial bells, with 20 instruments, alongside ceramic versions used for burials of less important subjects

Kimbell Art Museum
Aug. 27-Dec. 31, 2006
Ca. 300 objects telling the story of the reign of the Egyptian queen, including royal statuary and reliefs, monumental sculptures representing members of the royal court, a wide variety of ceremonial and decorative objects, gold jewelry and other personal items
Curator: Renée Dreyfus, Catharine H. Roehrig, Cathleen A. Keller
Catalogue: 356 pp., $65 cloth, $45 paper
Funding: Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
Tour: This show has already appeared at the de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Brooklyn Museum
Aug. 30, 2006-Jan. 7, 2007
Paintings, photographs, prints and drawings of the Lower Manhattan area around the World Trade Center site before and after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, including a late 18th-century print of the southern tip of Manhattan island, a number of photographs of the area in the 1930s by Berenice Abbott, a large-scale photograph by Gerard Maynard, Christoph Draeger’s WTC September 17 and a number of photographs of the disaster site by G.N. Miller
Curators: Marilyn Kushner, Deirdre E. Lawrence
Funding: Independence Community Foundation, others

Museum of Modern Art
Aug. 30, 2006-Apr. 9, 2007
Works in a variety of media that investigate the experience of time, including newly acquired work by Cady Noland, Cai Guo-Qiang, Rineke Dijkstra, Mona Hatoum, Luc Tuymans, Bill Viola and others
Curators: Joachim Pissarro, Eva Respini