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

Magazine Antiques, May, 2002 by Kathleen Luhrs

Arizona

TUCSON Tucson Museum of Art: "American Spectrum: Paintings and Sculptures from the Smith College Museum of Art [Northampton, Massachusetts]"; to May 12. (*)

California

BERKELEY Berkeley Art Museum, University of California: "Master works of Chinese Painting: In Pursuit of Mists and Clouds"; to May 26.

LONG BEACH Long Beach Museum of Art: "From Tavern to Tabernacle: Decorated British and European Pewter, 1600-1800"; to September 8.

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Drawing Italy in the Age of the Grand Tour"; to May 12. "The Geometry of Seeing: Perspective and the Dawn of Virtual Space"; to July 7. (*) "Rome on the Grand Tour"; to August 11. "The Sacred Spaces of Pieter Saenredam"; to July 7. (*)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Central European Avant-Gardes: Exchange and Transformation, 1910-1930"; to June 2. (*)

UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History: "Japanese Fishermen's Coats from Awaji Island"; to July 28. (*)

SAN DIEGO San Diego Museum of Art: "Jose Clemente Orozco in the United States, 1927-1934"; to May 19. (*)

SAN FRANCISCO California Palace of the Legion of Honor: American Decorative Arts Forum lecture: "The Truth Lies Within: Furniture Fakes from the Chipstone Collection," by Luke Beckerdite; April 9. For information call 415-249-9234.

SAN MARINO Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: "Stumped with a National Character: Nineteenth-Century American Color Plate Books"; to May 26. (*) "William Morris: Creating the Useful and the Beautiful"; to September 22.

SANTA MONICA Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Air Center. Los Angeles Antiques Show; May 3-5. For information call 310-423-3667.

STANFORD Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University: "Uncommon Legacies: Native American Art from the Peabody Essex Museum [Salem Massachusetts]"; May 10 to August 4 (*)

Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: "Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt"; to May 26. (*) "Cultural Coatings"; to June 16. "Sunken Treasures: Ming Dynasty Ceramics from a Chinese Shipwreck"; to October 27. "West Point/Points West"; to May 12. (*)

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum of Arts and Science: "In Search of the Dream: The American West, 1700-2002"; to June 2.

GOSHEN Goshen Fair Grounds: Litchfield County Antiques Show; May 18-19. For information call 860-567-0300.

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "The Art of French Fashion"; to August 18. (*) "Hairitage"; to May 26.

LITCHFIELD Litchfield Historical Society: "Inspiring Fashion: Litchfield's Costumes in Context, 1770-1930"; to December 1. (*) Symposium: "Inspiring Fashion: American Costume and Household Textiles, 1770-1930"; May 6. For information call 860-567-4501.

NEW HAVEN Yale University Art Gallery: "Art for All Seasons: Asian Art at Yale"; to September 1.

OLD LYME Florence Griswold Museum: "The American Art Colony at Lyme"; to December 31.

Delaware

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum: "Life at Winterthur An American Country Estate"; to May 5. (*)

District of Columbia

Freer Gallery of Art: "The Potter's Brush: The Kenzan Style in Japanese Ceramics"; to October 27. (*) "Whistler's Nudes"; to January 25, 2003. (*) "Year of the Horse: Chinese Horse Paintings"; to September 2.

National Gallery of Art: "An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum"; May 5 to October 6. (*) "The Flowering of Florence: Botanical Art for the Medici"; to May 27. (*) "Goya: Images of Woman"; to June 2. (*)

Phillips Collection: "Corot to Picasso: European Masterworks from the Smith College Museum of Art [Northampton, Massachusetts]"; to May 12. (*)

Textile Museum: "Deceptively Simple: The Complexities of Plain Weave"; to June 2. "Hidden Threads of Peru: Q'ero Textiles"; to August 4. (*)

Tudor Place Historic House and Garden: "Asian Arts at Tudor Place: An American Passion to Collect"; to December 31. (*)

Florida

WINTER PARK Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art: "Art Nouveau in Europe and America: From the Morse Collection"; to January 5, 2003.

Georgia

ATHENS Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia: "From Fauvism to Impressionism: Albert Marquet, an Exhibition from the Center Pompidou in Paris"; to July 7. "Tracing America's History through the Decorative Arts: Perspectives from the Nineteenth Century"; May 25 to July 21.

ATLANTA Atlanta History Center: "Furniture of the American South, 1680-1830"; to August 11. Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University: "Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity"; to June 16. (*)

SAVANNAH Telfair Museum of Art: "The Lamps of Tiffany Highlights from the Neustadt Collection [Neustadt Museum of Tiffany Art, New York City]"; to June 9 (*) "'Tiffany Silver Flatware, 1845-1905: When Dining Was an Art"; to June 9. (*)

Hawaii

HONOLULU Honolulu Academy of Arts: "Treasures from an Unknown Reign: Shunzhi Porcelain"; May 2 to September 8. (*)

Illinois

CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago: "The Holy Cow and Other Animals: A Selection of Indian Paintings from The Art Institute of Chicago"; to June 1. (*) "The Magic of Lace"; to June 9.

 

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