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Magazine Antiques, April, 2004 by Kathleen Luhrs

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

Arizona

PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Beauty and Style in 19th Century American Fashion"; to April 11. [??] "Degas in Bronze"; to May 30.*

California

BERKELEY Berkeley Art Museum: "The Garden"; to July 3.

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "The Business of Art: Evidence from the Art Market"; to June 13. [??] "Photographers of Genius at the Getty"; to July 25.* [??] "Seeking Illumination: Monastic Manuscripts, 800-1200"; to June 13. [??] "Window onto Spain: Drawings and Prints from Ribera and Goya"; to May 16.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Inventing Race: Casta Painting and Eighteenth-Century Mexico"; April 4 to August 8. [??] "Luxury Textiles East and West: Dress and Identity"; to July 5.

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

SAN FRANCISCO Legion of Honor: "Art Deco: 1910-1939"; to July 4.* [??] American Decorative Arts Forum lecture: "Samuel Gragg's Elastic Chair: A Prelude to the Aesthetic Movement" by Michael S. Podmaniczky; April 13. For information call 415-249-9234.

SAN MARINO Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: "'The Noblest Conquest': The Sport of the Horse in Europe and America from the Edward Lasker Collection"; to May 16.

SANTA MONICA Barker Hangar, Santa Monica Airport: Los Angeles Antiques Show; April 30 to May 2.* Lectures. For information call 310-423-3667.

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Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: "Heaven and Home: Chinese Art of the Han Dynasty from the Sze Hong Collection"; to December 19.

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "Love Letters: Dutch Genre Paintings in the Age of Vermeer"; to May 2.*

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "kid size: The Material World of Childhood"; April 1 to August 1.* [??] "Reflections and Shadows: Impressionism and 19th-Century Style"; ongoing.

NEW HAVEN Yale University Art Gallery: "Stagestruck in America: Artists, Entertainers, and Audiences, 1906-1956"; to August 15.

OLD LYME Florence Griswold Museum: "A Corner in an Etcher's Studio': American Etchings from the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection"; to May 30, [??] "A Haven for Painters: The Art Colony at Old Lyme"; to January 2, 2005. [??] "White, Green, and Gold: The Seasons in American Landscape Painting"; to June 6.

Delaware

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum: "A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era"; to April 25.* [??] Ceramics in America Conference: "Fables, Pharaohs, & Fancy; Sources and Inspirations for Ceramic Design"; April 23-24. For information call 800-448-3883.

District of Columbia

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

Freer Gallery of Art: "Birds and Beasts in Japanese Art"; to July 18. [??] "Guardians of the Law: Chinese Luohan Painting"; to May 23. [??] "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: "Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya"; April 4 to July 25.* [??] "The Cubist Paintings of Diego Rivera: Memory, Politics, Place"; April 4 to July 25.*

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

Textile Museum: "Draped, Wrapped, & Folded: Untailored Clothing"; to June 6. [??] "Timeless Connections: Exploring Tapestry Weave"; April 16 to August 1.

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: "Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries"; to August 8.*

Woodrow Wilson House: "Joel Barlow: The Sage of Kalorama"; to June 21.

Florida

WINTER PARK Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art: "Sculpting Nature: The Favrile Pottery of L. C. Tiffany"; to January 9, 2005.

Georgia

COLUMBUS Columbus Museum: "Tales from the Easel: Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century American Narrative Paintings from Southeastern Museums, circa 1800-1950"; to April 11.*

Illinois

CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago: "The James VanDerZee Studio"; to April 25.* [??] "On Paper: New Acquisitions of American Art"; to May 16. [??] "Rembrandt's Journey: Painter, Draftsman, Etcher"; to May 9.*

Chicago Botanic Garden: Chicago Botanic Garden Annual Antiques and Garden Fair; April 16-18. Lectures. For information call 847-835-5440.

Field Museum: "Splendors of China's Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong"; to September 12.* [??] Newly renovated Hall of Jade opened.

Merchandise Mart: Chicago Antiques Fair; April 23-26. For information call 800-677-6278.

Terra Museum of American Art: "A Transatlantic Avant-Garde: American Artists in Paris, 1918-1939"; April 17 to June 27.*

Iowa

CEDAR RAPIDS Cedar Rapids Museum of Art: "Art in Roman Life: Villa to Grave"; to August 25.