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Magazine Antiques, Feb, 2004 by Kathleen Luhrs

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

Alabama

BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Figuring the Feminine: Selected Works by African-American Women Artists"; to April 4. * "An Impressionist Eye: Painting and Sculpture from the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation"; February 1 to April 11. *

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.

California

BERKELEY Berkeley Art Museum: "Awakening: Buddhist Painting from Tibet, China, and Japan"; to February 22. * "The Garden"; to July 3.

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

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LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Comic Art: The Paris Salon in Caricature"; to February 15. * "The Glory of the Gothic Page"; to March 7. * "Images in Light: Newly Acquired Stained Glass"; to April 4. * "Window onto Spain: Drawings and Prints from Ribera and Goya"; February 17 to May 16.

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 February 29.

SACRAMENTO Crocker Art Museum: "Early Wedgwood Ceramics"; February 21 to May 16. * "The Grandeur of Rome: Prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi"; February 21 to May 16.

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

San Diego Museum of Art: "George Inness and the Visionary Landscape"; to April 18. *

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

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

North Point Gallery: "Gilbert Munger: Quest for Distinction"; 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. * * "'The Noblest Conquest': The Sport of the Horse in Europe and America from the Edward Lasker Collection"; February 7 to May 16.

SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara Museum of Art: "Worshiping the Ancestors: Chinese Commemorative Portraits"; to February 15. *

Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: "Frederic Remington: The Color of Night"; to March 14. * * "Heaven and Home: Chinese Art of the Han Dynasty from the Sze Hong Collection"; February 7 to December 19.

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "Love Letters: Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer"; 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: Lectures by Marcia Pointon: "Jewelry and Transvaluation: On Shrines, Museums, and Protestant Painting," February 3; and "Slime, Diamonds, and Snow Jewels, Gender, and Morality in Ruskin and His Contemporaries," February 4. For information call 203-432-2800.

Yale University Art Gallery: "Stage-struck in America: Artists, Entertainers, and Audiences, 1906-1956"; February 10 to August 15.

Delaware

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum: "A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era"; February 14 to April 25.

District of Columbia

Corcoran Gallery of Art: "The Impressionist Tradition in America"; to April 30.

Federal Reserve Board: "The Photographs of Arthur Wesley Dow (1857-1922)"; to April 2.

Freer Gallery of Art: "Birds and Beasts in Japanese Art"; to July 18. * "Guardians of the Law: Chinese Luohan Painting"; to May 23. * "Mr. Whistler's Galleries: Avant-Garde in Victorian London"; to April 4. * * "The Tea Ceremony as Melting Pot"; to July 18. * "Whistler in Paris: Lithographs from the Belle Epoque, 1891-1896"; to August 15.

National Gallery of Art: "Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France"; to February 16. * * "Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, 1783-1853"; to February 29. * * "Verrocchio's David Restored: A Renaissance Bronze from the National Museum of the Bargello, Florence"; February 13 to March 21. *

Phillips Collection: "Discovering Milton Avery: Two Devoted Collectors, Louis Kaufman and Duncan Phillips"; February 14 to May 16. *

Textile Museum: "Draped, Wrapped, & Folded: Untailored Clothing"; to June 6. * "Navajo Blankets of the 19th Century: Selections from the Textile Museum Collections"; to February 29. *

Florida

WEST PALM BEACH Eaton Fine Art: "William Aiken Walker in Florida"; to March 20. *

Norton Museum of Art: "Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt: A Family Archive from the Nile Valley"; to April 4. *

Palm Beach County Convention Center: Palm Beach Classic: The International Fine Art and Antique Fair; January 29 to February 8. * Lectures. For information call 561-209-1338.