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Magazine Antiques, May, 2004 by Kathleen Luhrs

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

Alabama

BIRMINGHAM Birmingham Museum of Art: "Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa Master--Father of Modern Japanese Design"; May 23 to August 1.*

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HUNTSVILLE Huntsville Museum of Art: "Becoming a Nation: Americana from the Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U. S. Department of State"; May 21 to July 18.*

Arizona

PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "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"; 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: "Saint Peter and the Vatican: The Legacy of the Popes"; May 15 to September 6.*

SAN FRANCISCO Legion of Honor: "Art Deco: 1910-1939"; to July 4.*

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. [??] "Sugaring Off: The Maple Sugar Paintings of Eastman Johnson"; May 8 to August 1.*

Colorado

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

Connecticut

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

NEW HAVEN Yale University Art Gallery: "American Miniatures of Children 1770-1950"; to fall. [??] "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.

WINDSOR Windsor Historical Society: '"The Woodworkers of Windsor: A Community of Craftsmen, 1635-1715"; to August 14.*

Delaware

DOVER Biggs Museum of American Art: "Janvier Family Tree: Delaware Craft"; ongoing.*

District of Columbia

Corcoran Gallery of Art: "Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms: Paintings That Inspired a Nation"; May 15 to September 6.*

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"; to July 25.* [??] "The Cubist Paintings of Diego Rivera: Memory, Politics, Place"; 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"; to August 1.

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: "Caliphs and Kings: The Art and Influence of Islamic Spain"; May 8 to October 17. [??] "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

ATHENS Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia: "That Triumphant Air! Selections of Realism, Impressionism, and Modernism in France, 1850-1950"; to June 6.

Illinois

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

Field Museum: "Splendors of China's Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong"; to September 12.*

Navy Pier. Antiques Chicago; May 8-11. For information call 312-491-1112.

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

Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS Indiana Museum of Art: "A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era"; May 23 to October 11.

Iowa

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

DECORAH Vesterheim Norwegian American Museum: "First Flowering: Rosemaling by Early Masters"; to April 17, 2005.

Louisiana

NEW ORLEANS New Orleans Museum of Art: "The Collector's Eye: The Louis S. Harris Collection"; to September 12. [??] "Consonance and Resonance: Late 19th- and Early 20th- Century Japanese Painting in EdoPeriod Styles"; to June 15.