Calendar - art shows

Magazine Antiques, Jan, 2002 by Kathleen Luhrs

The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures

Arizona

PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Ideas of Beauty: Traditions of the Chinese Court"; to April 21.

* "Secret World of the Forbidden City: Splendors from China's Imperial Palace"; to April 7.*

California

BERKELEY Berkeley Art Museum: "The Subject Is Art: 1400-1800"; to July 7.

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen"; to February 3.*

* "Naples and Vesuvius on the Grand Tour"; to March 24.

* "Posing for Posterity: Portrait Drawings from the Collection"; to January 20.

* "Rome on the Grand Tour"; January 8 to August 11.

* "A Royal Menagerie: Porcelain Animals from Dresden"; to January 22.*

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Dress Codes: Abstraction in Wan Textiles of Peru"; ongoing.

* "The Kindness of Friends: A Selection of Gifts of Drawings and Prints, 1919-2001"; to April 7.

OAKLAND Oakland Museum of California: "California's Native Grandeur: Preserving Vanishing Landscapes"; to April 14.*

SAN DIEGO San Diego Museum of Art: "The Frame in America: 1860-1960"; to February 3.*

SAN FRANCISCO California Palace of the Legion of Honor: American Decorative Arts Forum lecture: "Off the Wall: A New Look at Color and Pattern in 18th and 19th Century Interiors," by Margaret Beck Pritichard, January 8. For information call 415-249-9234.

Hackett-Freedman Gallery: "Gaston Lachaise Sculpture: Woman, Goddess and Idol, 1918-1935"; January 10 to March 2.*

SAN MARINO Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: "Eye of the Storm: The Civil War Drawings of Robert Knox Sneden"; to January 27.*

Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: "The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore"; to January 20.*

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum of Arts and Science: "Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Khalili Collection"; to January 27.*

* "Fantastic Flora of Art Nouveau Tiles"; to February 10.

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "Hairitage"; January 26 to May 26.

NEW HAVEN Yale Center for British Art: "Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles fl, 1660-1685"; January 25 to March 17.*

* Symposium: "On the Ladies of the Court: Women, Politics. Art, and Power at the Court of Charles II"; January 26. For information call 203-432-2850.

Yale University Art Gallery: "John Singer Sargent: The Painter as Sculptor"; to April 21.*

Delaware

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum: "Life at Winterthur: An American Country Estate"; to May 5.*

District of Columbia

Corcoran Gallery of Art: "Antiquities to Impressionism: The William A. Clark Collection"; to February 4.*

Freer Gallery of Art: "Three Friends of Winter: Pine, Bamboo, and Plum in Chinese Painting"; to February 3.

* "Whistler in Venice: The First Set of Etchings"; to March 31.

National Building Museum: "A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era"; to February 18.*

National Gallery of Art: "Aelbert Cuyp"; to January 13.

* "A Century of Drawing"; to April 7.

* "Henry Moore"; to January 27.*

Phillips Collection: "Impressionist Still Life"; to January 13.*

Textile Museum: "From the Amu Darya to the Potomac: Central Asian Bags from Area Collections"; to February 24.

Florida

JUPITER Florida History Center and Museum: "Potters in Paradise: Old Florida Pottery, 1859-1966"; to January 13.*

PALM BEACH International Pavilion of the Palm Beaches: Palm Beach International Art and Antique Fair; January 31 to February 10.* For information call 561-220-2690.

WEST PALM BEACH Norton Museum of Art: "American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum [Washington, D. C.]" to January 20.*

Georgia

ATHENS Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia: The First Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts: "Savannah River Valley to 1865: Fine Arts, Architecture, Decorative Arts," January 25-26. For information call 706-542-0463.

Illinois

CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago: "Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South"; to January 13.*

Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago: "A Well-Fashioned Image: Clothing and Costume in European Art, 1500-1850"; to April 28.*

Terra Museum of American Art: "Frederick Carl Frieseke: The Evolution of an American Impressionist"; to February 3.*

Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis Museum of Art: "Flowers from the Silk Road: Central Asian Textiles and Jewelry"; to September 1.*

* "Gifts to the Tsars, 1500-1700: Treasures from the Kremlin"; to January 13.*

Kentucky

LOUISVILLE Speed Art Museum: "A Brush with History: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery [Washington, D. C.]"; to January 27.*

* "Making Faces: Portraits from Louisville Collections"; to February 17.

Louisiana

NEW ORLEANS New Orleans Museum of Art: "Magnificent, Marvelous Martele: American Art Nouveau Silver, The Jolie and Robert Shelton Collection"; to January 13.

Maine

PORTLAND Portland Museum of Art: "A Ceramic Circus: Staffordshire Animals from the Collection"; to February 20.

Maryland

BALTIMORE Baltimore Museum of Art: "Picasso: Cubism to Classicism"; to February 3.