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

Magazine Antiques, Sept, 2003 by Kathleen Luhrs

LOUISVILLE Speed Art Museum: "The Lithographs of James McNeill Whistler from the Collection of Steven Block"; to November 2. *

Louisiana

ALEXANDRIA Alexandria Museum of Art: "The Heart of Spain: A Rare Exhibition of Spain's Religious Art, Antiquities and Icons"; September 1 to November 30. *

NEW ORLEANS Historic New Orleans Collection: "Napoleon's Eyewitness: Pierre Clement Laussat in Louisiana, 1802-1804"; to September 13. *

New Orleans Museum of Art: "A Century of Splendor: A Gift of French Eighteenth-Century Furniture from the Kierr Family"; ongoing. ** "Journeys Real and Imagined in Edo-Period Painting"; to December 31. ** "Treasures for NOMA: Recent Acquisitions in the Decorative Arts"; to January 11, 2004.

Maine

PORTLAND Portland Museum of Art: "Charles Frederick Kimball"; to December 7. * ** "Edward Weston: Life Work"; to October 19. *

Maryland

BALTIMORE Baltimore Museum of Art: "William Morris: The Reactionary Revolutionary"; to September 14. "Whistler and Cassatt: Americans Abroad"; to October 12.

Homewood House Museum, Johns Hopkins University: "Taste and Table: Ceramics in Early Maryland"; September 5 to November 30. *

Waiters Art Museum: "Classical Drama Rediscovered: The No Prints of Tsukioka Kogyo"; to October 19.

HAGERSTOWN Washington County Museum of Fine Arts: "Pottery from the Shenandoah and Cumberland Valleys"; to September 14.

Massachusetts

BOSTON Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: "Callot and His World: Princes, Paupers, and Pageants"; to January 25, 2004. ** "Thomas Gainsborough, 1727-1788"; to September 14. *

CAMBRIDGE Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University: "Marcel Breuer: A Special Installation of 1930s Furniture"; to November 2.

CONCORD Concord Museum: "Degrees of Latitude: Maps from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection [Williamsburg, Virginia]"; to October 19. *

DEDHAM Dedham Museum: "The Glass Menagerie"; to October 31.

DEERFIELD Historic Deerfield: "Telltale Textiles: Quilts from The Historic Deerfield Collection"; to February 2004. ** "A Village, a Vision and a Mission: Henry and Helen Flynt in Deerfield"; to November 17. ** Symposium: "In Search of Origins: Quilting in the Old World, 1400-1800"; September 12-14. For information call 413-775-7201.

GLOUCESTER Cape Ann Historical Museum: "The Camera's Coast"; September 6 to January 31, 2004.

NEW BEDFORD New Bedford Whaling Museum: "William Bradford: Sailing Ships and Arctic Seas"; to October 26. *

PITTSFIELD Berkshire Museum: "Alexander Calder: An Artist at Play"; ongoing.

SALEM Peabody Essex Museum: Newly opened wing, including the reconstructed Yin Yu Tang house.

SPRINGFIELD George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum: "Ancient Egypt"; to January 6, 2004.

WILLIAMSTOWN Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute: "Sacred and Profane: 17th-Century European Art"; to October 31.

Michigan

ANN ARBOR University of Michigan Museum of Art: "The Romanovs Collect: European Art from the Hermitage"; September 21 to November 23. *

Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS Minneapolis Institute of Arts: "Household Names: The Designer in American Life"; to February 29, 2004. ** "Three Centuries of Tradition: The Renaissance of Custom Sporting Arms in America"; to October 5. *