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TWENTY TOP SHOWS
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Bruce Nauman
Waxing Hot, from the portfolio "Eleven Color Photographs"
1966-67/1970/2007
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
© 2010 Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS)
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Museum of Modern Art
Aug. 1-Nov. 1, 2010
Ah, the sculptor’s idea of a photograph, via ca. 300 photos of sculptures and photo-based artworks involving sculptural subjects, by artists ranging from Eugène Atget, Hans Bellmer and Constantin Brancusi to Gillian Wearing, Hannah Wilke and Iwao Yamawaki
Curator: Roxana Marcoci
Catalogue: $55, 242 pp.
Funding: William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund, David Teiger, Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation.
Tour: Kunsthaus Zürich, Feb. 25-May 15, 2011
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Selection from "The Bidoun Library Project"
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New Museum
Aug. 4-Sept. 26, 2010
A "highly partial account of five decades of printed matter in, near, about and around the Middle East," including 700 works of pulp fictions, propaganda, monographs and guidebooks, and much, much more
Curator: The show is organized by the magazine Bidoun: Arts and Culture From the Middle East
Funding: Abu Dhabi Art, Emirates Foundation, Bohen Foundation, Foundation for Arts Initiatives
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Sol LeWitt
2 Part Composite
1971
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
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Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Aug. 6-Nov. 8, 2010
Works on paper, books, ephemera and other materials by the late Minimalist, shown in conjunction with the permanent installation of a LeWitt graphite drawing on the museum’s staircase
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Superflex
Flooded McDonald’s
2009
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park
Aug. 9-Nov. 28, 2010
Spotlight on the work of the Danish art-provocateurs known as "Superflex" (a.k.a. Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen and Bjørnstjerne Reuter Christiansen)
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Scott Anderson
Portage
2008
Courtesy Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago/Berlin
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Parrish Art Museum
Aug. 15-Oct. 3, 2010
Thirty-five works by ten artists who share "a quirky and idiosyncratic take on the Pop tradition": Scott Anderson, Brian Bress, Cole Case, James Gobel, Glenn Goldberg, Leia Jervert, Michael Lazarus, Nathan Mabry, Kristen Morgin, Jeni Spota
Curator: David Pagel
Funding: Dorothy Lichtenstein, C.A.L. Foundation, Sandy and Stephen Perlbinder
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Illuminated Manuscripts of Belgium and the Netherlands in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty, 2010)
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Getty Center
Aug. 24, 2010-Feb. 6, 2011
The Getty Museum's holdings of medieval manuscripts from Bruges, Ghent, Antwerp and Utrecht, including works made for the dukes of Burgundy (Philip the Good and Charles the Bold) and the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II
Curator: Thomas Kren
Catalogue: Illuminated Manuscripts of Belgium and the Netherlands in the J. Paul Getty Museum, $19.95, 96 pp.
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Consuelo "Chelo" González Amézcua
Del Rio, Texas
1962
American Folk Art Museum
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American Folk Art Museum
Aug. 24-Aug. 2011
Looking at "depictions of people" in folk art, from 19th-century miniatures to a 20th-century circus banner
Curator: AFAM’s education dept.
Funding: Leir Charitable Foundations, Gerard C. Wertkin Exhibition Fund, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts
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Tom Marioni
Café Wednesday
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Hammer Museum, UCLA
Aug. 28-Oct. 3, 2010
A new presentation of a signature participatory artwork by Conceptual pioneer Tom Marioni, Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art, which involves a bar-like installation and the accumulation of detritus from four gatherings he will host in the museum as part of the piece, as well as a selection of drawings by the artist
Curator: Anne Ellegood
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Photo from Leonard Nimoy’s "Secret Selves" series![](javascript:view_large('ntm8-2-10-2.jpg', 'New This Month in U.S. Museums', '<strong>Bruce Nauman</strong><br /><em>Waxing Hot,</em> from the portfolio "Eleven Color Photographs<em>"</em><br />1966-67/1970/2007<br />Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago<br />© 2010 Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS)'))
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Selection from "The Bidoun Library Project")
Sol LeWitt)
Salvador Dalí<br />Philadelphia Museum of Art'))
Large Jar and Cover<br />1920<br />San Francisco Museum of Modern Art'))
Paul Klee</em><br />2005<br />Museum of Fine Arts, Houston<br />© Richard Misrach'))
Richard Misrach)
Superflex</em><br />1993<br />Walker Art Center'))
Peter Fischli and David Weiss![](javascript:view_large('ntm8-2-10-11.jpg', 'New This Month in U.S. Museums', '"The judges are super serious as they address the contestants")
"The judges are super serious as they address the contestants")
Scott Anderson</em><br />2004<br />Private collection'))
Marc Swanson'))
Illuminated Manuscripts of Belgium and the Netherlands in the J. Paul Getty Museum (Getty, 2010)![](javascript:view_large('ntm8-2-10-15.jpg', 'New This Month in U.S. Museums', 'Consuelo "Chelo" González Amézcua <br /><em>Del Rio, Texas </em><br />1962 <br />American Folk Art Museum'))
Consuelo "Chelo" González Amézcua )
Incense Burner Shaped as a Comic Actor Seated on an Altar )
John R. Gossage)
Tom Marioni
Frank O. Gehry
Kader Attia’s History of a Myth: The Small Dome of the Rock