Diary: July 2003

Apollo, July, 2003 by Susannah Woolmer

BOSTON Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, The making of the museum: Isabella Stewart Gardner as collector, architect and designer. Until 21 August. Madam i'm adam. Online at www.gardnermuseum.org/madamimadam. Until August

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Fantastic! Until spring 2004

McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Abyssinia, 1867-1868: Artists on campaign. Ancient microworlds. Common ground: Photographers on the street. All until 7 September

Museum of Fine Arts, A singular vision: The Melvin Blake and Frank Purnell legacy. Until 24 August. Visions and revisions: Art on paper since 1960. Until 21 September

CAMBRIDGE, MA Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Buddhist art: The later tradition. Until 7 September. Where traditions meet: Painting in India from the 14th through the 17th century. Until 7 December

Busch-Reisinger Museum, Kandinsky in 1914. Until 13 July. Le coq d'or: Natalia Goncharova's designs for the Ballets Russes. Until 24 August. Extra ordinary every day: The Bauhaus at the Busch-Reisinger. Online at www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/sites/eoed. Until 31 December 2005

Fogg Art Museum, Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish drawings from the Maida and George Abrams Collection. Until 6 July. Jean Fautrier 1898-1964. Until 20 July. George Bellows: The tragedies of war. Until 26 October

Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Romancing the Wreck. Looking away. Both Until 3 August

CHICAGO Art Institute, Himalayas: An aesthetic adventure. Until 17 August. Focus: Yoshihiro Suda. Poetics of scale: Small-sized works from the permanent collection of modern and contemporary art. Both until 24 August. Exploring the world with Peter Sis. Until 7 September. Unknown maker: The art of the American daguerreotype. Until 28 September. The wilds of the west. Window on the west: Chicago and the art of the New Frontier. Both until 13 October. New to view: Recent acquisitions in photography. Until 19 October. On or off the wall: An international selection of tapestries and carpets, 1920s-1970s. Until 8 February 2004

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, The furtive gaze. Until 12 July

Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, Shaping history: Chicago Jewish

women in the twentieth century. Until 31 October

CINCINNATI Art Museum, Extraordinary gifts: Selected paintings from the Procter & Gamble Company. Until 12 September

EL PASO Museum of Art, James Drake: The hummingbird's equation. Until 13 July

FORT WORTH Kimbell Art Museum, The quest for immortality: Treasures of Ancient Egypt. Until 14 September

GAINESVILLE Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Art and UF: 150 years of highlights. Until 27 July. The land through a lens: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Until 10 August. Jack Nichelson. Until 30 August. Sebastiao Salgado: Global convulsion. Until 14 September. Janet Fish. Until 12 October. The Pearsall Collection of American Indian art: 40th anniversary selections. Until March 2005

GREENWICH Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Unearthing the allure of gems. Until 7 September. Avian amulets: Bird imagery and symbolism of native Americans. Until 19 October