Calendar

Magazine Antiques, Dec, 2001 by Kathleen Luhrs

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

Arizona

PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Secret World of the Forbidden City: Splendors from China's Imperial Palace"; to April 7, 2002. (*)

California

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Devices of Wonder: From the World in a Box to Images on a Screen"; to February 3, 2002. (*) * "Posing for Posterity: Portrait Drawings from the Collection"; to January 20, 2002. * "A Royal Menagerie: Porcelain Animals from Dresden"; to April 14, 2002. (*)

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Dress Codes: Abstraction in Wan Textiles of Peru"; ongoing.

OAKLAND Oakland Museum of California: "California's Native Grandeur: Preserving Vanishing Landscapes"; to April 14, 2002. (*)

SAN DIEGO Mingei International Museum: "Venini -- Glass and Design in a World Perspective"; to January 6.2002.

SAN FRANCISCO California Palace of the Legion of Honor: "Artists" Books in the Modern Era 1870-2000"; to January 6, 2002. * "The Triumph of Prudence and The Triumph of Fortitude"; to December 31. * American Decorative Arts Forum lecture: "Gorham Silver," by Samuel Jones Hough, December 11. For information call 415-249-9234.

SAN MARINO Huntington Library Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: "Lure of the West: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum [Washington, D.C.]"; to December 16. (*) * Reinstalled Virginia Steele Scott Gallery opened.

Colorado

DENVER "The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore"; to January 20, 2002. (*)

Connecticut

COS COB: Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich: "Art and Ideas at the Holley House"; to December 30. * "The Cos Cob Art Colony at Bush-Holley Historic Site"; to December 30. (*)

GREENWICH Bruce Museum of Arts and Science: "Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art from the Khalili Collection"; to January 27. (*) * "Fantastic Flora of Art Nouveau Tiles"; to February 10, 2002.

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "Images from the World Between: The Circus in Twentieth-Century American Art"; to January 6, 2002. (*)

NEW HAVEN Yale Center for British Art: "Great British Paintings from American Collections"; to December 30. (*) * "'Wilde Americk': Discovery and Exploration of the New World 1500-1850"; to December 30.

Yale University Art Gallery: "John Singer Sargent: The Painter as Sculptor"; to April 21, 2002. (*) * "Myer Myers: Jewish Silversmith in Colonial New York"; to December 30. (*) * "Rediscovering Fra Angelico: A Fragmentary History"; to December 30. (*)

Delaware

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum: "Life at Winterthur: An American Country Estate"; to May 5, 2002.

District of Columbia

Freer Gallery of Art: "Three Friends of Winter: Pine, Bamboo, and Plum in Chinese Painting"; to February 3, 2002. * "Whistler in Venice: The First Set of Etchings"; to March 31, 2002.

Library of Congress: "The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadows, Dreams, and Substance"; to January 5, 2002. (*)

National Building Museum: "A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the Country Place Era"; to February 15, 2002. (*)

National Gallery of Art: "Aelbert Cuyp"; to January 13, 2002.(*) * "Henry Moore"; to January 27, 2002. (*) * "Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's Ginevra de' Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women"; to January 6, 2002. (*)

Phillips Collection: "Impressionist Still Life"; to January 13, 2002. (*)

Textile Museum: "From the Amu Darya to the Potomac: Central Asian Bags from Area Collections"; to February 24, 2002.

Florida

JUPITER Florida History Center and Museum: "Potters in Paradise: Old Florida Pottery, 1859-1966"; to January 13, 2002. (*)

WEST PALM BEACH Norton Museum of Art: "American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum"; to January 20, 2002. (*) * "Destinations: Artists' Favorite Places"; to December 9.

Georgia

ATHENS Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia: The First Henry D. Green Symposium of the Decorative Arts: "Savannah River Valley to 1865: Fine Arts, Architecture, Decorative Arts," January 25-26, 2002. For information call 706-542-0463.

ATLANTA Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University: "The Collector's Eye: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from the Thalassic Collection, Ltd."; to January 6,2002. (*)

High-Museum of Art; "Monet: A View from the River"; to January 6, 2002. * "Winslow Homer and the Critics: Forging a National Art in the 1870s", to January 6, 2002. (*)

Illinois

CHICAGO Art Institute of Chicago: "'The Magic of Lace"; to January 6, 2002. * "Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South"; to January 13, 2002. (*)

Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago: "A Well-Fashioned Image: Clothing and Costume in European Art, 1500-1850"; to April 28, 2002. (*)

Indiana

INDIANAPOLIS Indianapolis Museum of Art: "Flowers from the Silk Road: Central Asian Textiles and Jewely"; to September 1, 2002. (*) * "Gifts to the Tsars, 1500-1700: Treasures from the Kremlin"; to January 13, 2002. (*)

Kentucky

LEXINGTON Headley-Whitney Museum: "Traditions in Elegance: 100 Teapots from the Norwich Castle Museum"; to December 31.

LOUISVILLE Speed Art Museum: "A Brush with History: Paintings from the National Portrait Gallery [Washington, D. C.]"; to January 27, 2002." * "Clay Mania: European and American Art Pottery from Louisville Collections"; to December 9.