Paris through the Window: Marc Chagall and his CirclePhiladelphia Museum of Art
Mar. 1-July 10, 2011
40 works from the museum collection by Chagall and other early-20th-century Eastern European émigrés to Paris (Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Chaim Soutine),
featuring the titular work by Chagall, Paris through the Window (1913), on loan from the Guggenheim MuseumCurator: Michael R. Taylor
Catalogue: 26 pp., $16.95
Funding: Pew Charitable Trusts, Bruce and Robbi Toll, Ovation and Comcast Xfinity
Also on view: "Roberto Capucci: Art into Fashion," Mar. 16-June 5, 2011
Note: The exhibition is part of the citywide Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.
Apollo from Pompeii: Investigating an Ancient Bronze
J. Paul Getty Villa MuseumMar. 2-Sept. 12, 2011
After 18 months of study and conservation, the bronze statue of Apollo Saettante (Apollo as an Archer) -- discovered in fragments in Pompeii in the early 19th century
-- goes on view for the first time in the United States, alongside other bronze sculptures, including the Apollo's sister piece, a statue of Artemis, in an exhibition co-organized with the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples
Curators: Erik Risser, David Saunders
Also on view: "In Search of Biblical Lands: From Jerusalem to Jordan in 19th-Century Photography," Mar. 2-Sept. 12, 2011.
William Leavitt: Theater Objects
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary ArtMar. 4-June 5, 2011
The first retrospective of the L.A.-based conceptual artist occupies 10,000 square feet of exhibition space with sculptural tableaux, paintings, works on paper,
photographs and installations created since the late '60s, and includes stagings of two of his performances, Spectral Analysis (1977) and Pyramid, Lens, Delta (2003)
Curators: Bennett Simpson, Ann Goldstein
Catalogue: MOCA, 144 pp., $40
Also on view: "Rodarte: States of Matter," Mar. 4-June 5, 2011
Funding: Amy Adelson and Dean Valentine, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, others
Heinrich Kühn: The Perfect Photograph
Museum of Fine Arts, HoustonMar. 6-May 30, 2011
Four decades of work by the Austrian photographer and scientist -- an early figure, along with Edward Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, in the Pictorialist movement of the 1900s -- via more than 100 photographs organized by subject: studio shots, portraits, still-lifes, plein-air studies, and experiments with sunlight exposures
Curators: Monika Faber, Anne Wilkes Tucker
Catalogue: Hatje Cantz, 280 pp., $75
Tour: The show premiered at the Albertina in Vienna and has also appeared at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris
Funding: Mr. James Edward Maloney and Mr. Carey Chambers Maloney, The Margaret Cooke Skidmore Endowed Exhibition Fund, others
Sung Hwan Kim: From the Commanding Heights…
Queens Museum of ArtMar. 6-Aug. 14, 2011
Lyrical video and film works by the New York-based Korean artist, typically put to electronic soundtracks by dogr (David Michael DiGregorio), explore feelings of yearning and isolation in a global society
Curator: Larissa Harris
Funding: Lily Auchinchloss Foundation, Greenwall Foundation, New York State Council on the Arts, others
Reconfiguring an African Icon: Odes to the Mask by Modern and Contemporary Artists from Three Continents
Metropolitan Museum of ArtMar. 8-Aug. 21, 2011
An unusual intermixture of 20 works from the museum's Arts of Africa and modern and contemporary departments, including works by Lynda Benglis and Man Ray, by the contemporary New York artist Willie Cole, and by contemporary Benin sculptors Romuald Hazoumé and Calixte Dakpogan
Also on view: "The Andean Tunic, 400 BCE-1800 CE," Mar. 8-Sept. 18, 2011
Glenn Ligon: America
Whitney Museum of American ArtMar. 10-June 5, 2011
100 paintings, prints, photographs, drawings, sculptural installations and recent neon reliefs -- including one commissioned for the Whitney's Madison Avenue windows -- in the first mid-career retrospective of the gay, black, Brooklyn-based artist whose work explores themes of sexual and racial identity
Curator: Scott Rothkopf
Catalogue: Yale University Press, 208 pp., $24.95
Tour: LACMA, fall 2011; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, early 2012
Funding: National Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World)Jewish Museum
Mar. 11-July 31, 2011
The first major museum survey of the witty, Israeli-born illustrator and author presents 100 original paintings, embroideries and other objects, including her famous covers for The New Yorker, within an installation of "source materials," from ladders to bobby pins to moss
Curator: Ingrid Schaffner
Catalogue: Prestel, 144 pp., $34.95
Tour: The show was organized at the Philadelphia ICA and has appeared in San Francisco and Los Angeles
Funding: WNET New York Public Media, Leonard and Louise Riggio, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Barbara B. & Theodore R. Aronson, others
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