Calendar

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

California

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "A Masterpiece Reconstructed: The Hours of Louis XII"; October 18 to January 8, 2006. [??] "Painted Prayers: Books of Hours from the Morgan Library [New York City]"; October 18 to January 8, 2006. [??] "Paper Art: Collecting Drawings in Holland, 1600-1800"; to November 20. [??] "Titian and the Commander: A Renaissance Artist and His Patron"; October 4 to February 5, 2006.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Japan Goes to the World's Fairs: Japanese Art at the Great Expositions"; to October 10.* [??] "Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship"; to January 2, 2006.* [??] "Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro 1865-1885"; October 20 to January 16, 2006.*

OAKLAND Oakland Museum of California: "Plant Portraits: The California Legacy of A. R. Valentien"; to December 4.*

SACRAMENTO Crocker Art Museum: "White Gold: The Kathy and Ron Gillmeister Collection of Meissen Porcelain"; ongoing.

SAN DIEGO San Diego Museum of Art: "Domains of Wonder: Selected Masterworks of Indian Painting"; October 22 to January 22, 2006.* [??] "Tastes in Asian Art"; to November 6.

SAN FRANCISCO de Young Museum: Newly opened building [??] "Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh"; October 15 to February 5, 2006.*

Legion of Honor: American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California lecture: "Benjamin Franklin at Home," by Page Talbott, October 11. For information call 415-249-9234.

Fort Mason Center: San Francisco Fall, Antiques Show: October 27-30. Lectures. Loan exhibition: "Eat, Drink and Be Merry: Decorative Arts Inspired by Food and Wine."*

Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: "Heaven and Home: Chinese Art of the Han Dynasty from the Sze Hong Collection"; through 2005.

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Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "American Impressionism: The Beauty of Work"; to January 8, 2006.*

HARTFORD Connecticut Historical Society Museum: "Connecticut Valley Furniture by Eliphalet Chapin and His Contemporaries, 1750-1800"; to October 30.*

NEW HAVEN Yale Center for British Art: "Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's 'Cottage Door'"; October 6 to December 31.* [??] "The Worlds of Francis Wheatley"; to December 31.

Yale University Art Gallery: "Historical Fictions: Edward Lamson Henry's Paintings of Past and Present"; to December 30.* [??] "Private Faces of Public People: 1750-1900"; through 2006.

OLD LYME Florence Griswold Museum: "The Allen Sisters: Pictorial Photographs of New England, 1885-1920"; to January 8, 2006.*

Delaware

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum: "Making Fancy: Materials and Methods in Pennsylvania German Fraktur"; to January 8, 2006.* [??] "Needles and Haystacks: Pastoral Imagery in American Needlework"; October 8 to January 22, 2006. [??] "Paths to Impressionism: French and American Landscape Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum [Massachusetts]"; to January 15, 2006.*

District of Columbia

American Institute of Architects Headquarters Gallery: "Landmarks of New York"; to October 14.*

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: "Gold--The Asian Touch"; to February 19, 2006.

Folger Shakespeare Library: "Consuming Splendor: Luxury Goods in England, 1580-1680"; to December 31.*

Freer Gallery of Art: "Games, Contests, and Artful Play in Japan"; to October 23. [??] "Rusticity Refined: Kyoto Ceramics by Ninsei"; to October 23.

National Gallery of Art: "Audubon's Dream Realized: Selections from "The Birds of America'"; to April 16, 2006. [??] "Masterpieces in Miniature: Italian Manuscript Illumination from the J. Paul Getty Museum [Los Angeles]"; to January 2, 2006.* [??] "Monumental Sculpture in Florence: Ghiberti, Nanni di Banco, and Verrocchio at Orsanmichele"; to December 31. [??] "Origins of European Printmaking: Fifteenth-Century Woodcuts and Their Public"; to November 27.* [??] "Pieter Claesz: Master of Haarlem Still Life"; to December 31.* [??] "Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art"; to February 20, 2006.

Octagon Museum: "The Initiated Eye: Secrets, Symbols, Freemasonry, and the Architecture of Washington, D. C."; to December 31.

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Renwick Gallery: "Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design"; January 22, 2006. [??] "Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum [Washington, D. C.]"; to October 23.*

Textile Museum: "Gods and Empire: Huari Ceremonial Textiles"; to January 15, 2006. [??] "Silk & Leather: Splendid Attire of 19th-Century Central Asia"; to February 26, 2006.*

Florida

GAINESVILLE Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida: "Toulouse-Lautrec: Artist of Montmartre"; to October 30.