Diary: November 2003

Apollo, Nov, 2003 by Susannah Woolmer, Karen Vella-Zarb

NEW HAVEN Yale University Art Gallery, Curule: Ancient design in American federal furniture. Until 4 January 2004. Selections from the permanent collection. Until June 2005

NEW YORK Asia Society and Museum, tlunt for Paradise: Court arts of Iran, 1501-1576. Until 18 January 2004

Cooper-Hewirt National Design Museum, National design triennial: Inside design now. Until 25 January 2004

Dahesh Museum of Art, Refraining academic art: Masterworks of the Dahesh Museum of Art. Until 8 February 2003

Frick Collection, The drawings of Frangois Boucher. Until 14 December

Guggenheim Museum, James Rosenquist: A retrospective. Until 25 January 2004

Jewish Museum, Erwartung/ expectancy: A video installation by Dara Birnbaum. Frida Kahlo's intimate family picture. Songs from Berlin: A project by Stih and Schnock. All untiI 4 January 2004. Schoenberg, Kandinsky, and the Blue Rider. Until 12 February 2004. Camels and caravans: Daily life in ancient Israel. Until 1 June 2004

Metropolitan Museum of Art, Klee abstract. Small bronzes. Both until 7 December. The responsive eye: Ralph T. Coe and the collecting of American Indian art. Until 14 December. Crossing the Channel: British and French painting in the age of Romanticism. Until 4 January 2004 El Greco. Until 11 January 2004 Arms and armor: Notable acquisitions 1991-2002. Until 18 January 2004. Celebrating St Petersburg. Dreams of Yellow Mountain: Landscapes of survival in seventeenth-century China. Both until 25 January 2004. The dawn of photography: French daguerrotypes, 1839-1855. Treasures of a lost art: Italian manuscript painting of the middle ages and renaissance. Both until 1 February 2004. Significant objects from the modern design collection. Until 25 April 2OO4

Museum of Modern Art, Projects 80: I,ee Minqwei, the tourist. Until 24 November. Project 79: Liam Gillick, literally. Until 1 December. Pencil drawings from the collection. Until 8 March 2004

Neue Gallery, Viennese silver: Modern design, 1780-1918. Until 16 February 2004

Onassis Cultural Center, From Ishtar to Aphrodite: 3200 years of Cypriot Hellenism. Until 3 January 2004

Yeshiva University Museum, Silver linings: Cloisonn6 enamel Judaica by Marian Slepian. Until 4 January 2004. Homelands: Baghdad -Jerusalem--New York--Sculpture of Oded Halahmy, a retrospective. Until 15 January 2004. Jerusalem above all my joys: A reproduction of a 15th century Torah crown from Arles. Until 30 January 2004. Remembrance: Russian post-modern nostalgia. Until 1 February 2004. Traders on the sea routes: 12th century trade between East and West. Until August 2005

OMAHA Joslyn Art Museum, Stephen Mueller. Until 16 November. Recent acquisitions: Works on paper. Until 30 November. Magnum cinema: Photographs from 50 years of movie making. Until 4 January 2004. Art Quest: Learning to look. Until 11 April 2004

PHILADELPHIA Institute of Contemporary Art, Strange messenger: The work of Patti Smith. Until 7 December. Gillian Wearing: Mass observation. Ramp project: Virgil Marti, the flowers of romance. Traces of Friday. All until 14 December