Calendar: the arts here and abroad—a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures - Calendar

Magazine Antiques, Jan, 2004 by Kathleen Luhrs

Arizona

PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "American Beauty: Painting and Sculpture from the Detroit Institute of Arts 1770-1920"; to March 14. * "Beauty and Style in 19th Century American Fashion"; to April 11.

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California

LONG BEACH Long Beach Museum of Art: "Clay Bodies: Staffordshire Figurative Ceramics from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Leslie Dornfeld"; to April 4.

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Casting Characters: Portraits and Studies of Heads"; to February 1. "The Glory of the Gothic Page"; to March 7. "Images in Light: Newly Acquired Stained Glass"; to April 4. "Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741-1828): Sculptor of the Enlightenment"; to January 25. *

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Erte/Opera & Ballets Russes/Dance: Theater Costume in LACMA's Collection"; to April 4. "Luxury Textiles East and West: Dress and Identity"; to July 5.

SAN DIEGO Mingei International Museum: "George Nakashima Wood-worker--A Retrospective"; to May 30. *

San Diego Museum of Art: "George Inness and the Visionary Landscape"; January 24 to April 18. * "The Later Mughals: Theaters of Power"; to January 25. "Sculpture in Silk: Costumes from Japan's Noh Theater"; to January 25.

Timken Museum of Art: "Portraiture in Paris around 1800: Cooper Penrose by Jacques-Louis David"; to February 15. *

SAN FRANCISCO Legion of Honor: "Degas Sculptures"; to January 18. * "Reverie and Reality: Nineteenth-Century Photographs of India from the Ehrenfeld Collection"; to February 15.

North Point Gallery: "Gilbert Munger: Quest for Distinction"; January 14 to March 6. *

SAN MARINO Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: "The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design"; to April 4. *

SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara Museum of Art: "Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston: A Passionate Collaboration"; to January 19. * "Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits"; to February 15. *

STANFORD Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: "Hudson River School: Master-works from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art [Hartford, Connecticut]"; to January 18. *

Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: "Frederic Remington: The Color of Night"; to March 14.

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "The Jewels of Louis Comfort Tiffany"; to February 1. "Love Letters: Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer"; January 31 to May 2. * "Shadows and Strings: Puppetry around the Globe"; to February 29. *

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "Fashion and Fantasy: 1898-1908"; to March 7. "Reflections and Shadows: Impressionism and 19th-Century Style"; ongoing.

NEW HAVEN Yale Center for British Art: "Company Culture: British Artists and the East India Company, 1770-1830"; to January 11. "Traces of India: Photography, Architecture, and the Politics of Representation"; to January 11. *

Delaware

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum: "American Accents, 1670-1945: Masterworks from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Featuring the Rockefeller Collection"; to February 1. * "Naive Charm: English Pottery Figures from the Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Norton Bernard Collection"; to January 11.

District of Columbia

Corcoran Gallery of Art: "The Impressionist Tradition in America"; to April.

Freer Gallery of Art: "Guardians of the Law: Chinese Luohan Painting"; to May 23. "Mr. Whistler's Galleries: Avant-Garde in Victorian London"; to April 4. * "Whistler's Greatest Etchings: The 1889 Amsterdam Set"; to February 1.

National Gallery of Art: "The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting"; to January 11. * "Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France"; to February 16. *

Phillips Collection: "Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art [Hartford, Connecticut]"; to January 18. *

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: "Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure"; to January 11. *

Textile Museum: "Navajo Blankets of the 19th Century: Selections from The Textile Museum Collections"; to February 29. *

Florida

WEST PALM BEACH Crowne Plaza: Annual Palm Beach Winter Antiques Show; January 9-11. Lectures. For information call 561-832-4164.

Palm Beach County Convention Center: Palm Beach Classic: The International Fine Art and Antique Fair; January 30 to February 8. * Lectures. For information call 561-209-1338.

Society of the Four Arts: "Becoming a Nation: Americana from the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U. S. Department of State"; January 2 to February 8. *

WINTER PARK Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art: "The Illuminated Vision: Tiffany Lamps and Lighting"; to December.

Georgia

ATHENS Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia: Henry D. Green Symposium: "Georgia Inside and Out: Architecture, Landscape, and Decorative Arts"; January 30-31. Lecture by Wendell Garrett, January 29. For information call 706-542-4662.

ATLANTA High Museum of Art: "Verrochio's David Restored: A Renaissance Bronze from the National Museum of the Bargello, Florence"; to February 8. *

Illinois

CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago: "Intimate Encounters: Paul Gauguin and the South Pacific--The Edward McCormick Blair Collection"; to January 11. "Manet and the Sea"; to January 19. *