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Art in America, August, 2005

Pieter Claesz

This career-spanning exhibition highlights the 17th-century Dutch painter's naturalistic still lifes. Co-organized by three museums, it debuted at the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, and is on view at the Kunsthaus, Zttrich, to Aug. 22, 2005; it makes its sole U.S. appearance at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Sept. 18-Dec. 31, 2005.

Lyonel Feininger

The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State University has recently secured a loan of more than 100 works by the German-trained American modernist Lyonel Feininger, which it will exhibit in installments. The series begins with a display of 20 watercolors from 1924-54 at the Palmer, in University Park, Pa., Sept. 20, 2005-Jan. 22, 2006.

Paul Chan

Hong Kong-born, New York-based Paul Chart combines elements from video games, art history, politics and literature to create visually rich digital animations that address contemporary social issues. A new work created for the Boston ICA is on view Sept. 21, 2005-Jan. 16 2006.

Thomas Hirschhorn

Known for his roughly constructed installations made from cardboard, foil and packing tape, Hirschhorn here employs traditional museum elements such as dioramas and timelines to examine the adaptation of military camouflage for street fashion. "Utopia, Utopia = One World, One War, One Army, One Dress" is co-organized by the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, and the Boston ICA, where it appears Sept. 21, 2005-Jan. 16, 2006, before traveling to San Francisco, Mar. 15-May 13, 2006.

Charles Long

Some 35 of Long's distinctive organic-looking sculptures made of found materials are featured in this exhibition organized by SITE Santa Fe, where it appears Sept. 23-Dec. 31, 2005.

Dana Schutz

Organized by SITE Santa Fe, this show is an overview of quirky, quasi-expressionistic works by the Michigan-born New York painter whose complex figurative compositions are at once comic and poignant. The exhibition appears in Santa Fe, Sept. 23-Dec. 26, 2005.

Anselm Kiefer

"Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth" contains mum than 50 major pieces from 1969 until the present. The show is organized by Michael Auping of the Modern Art Museum, Ft. Worth, where it debuts Sept. 25, 2005-Jan. 8, 2006. Subsequent itinerary: Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Feb. 12-May 7, 2006; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., June 26-Sept. 10, 2006; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Oct. 15, 2006-Jan. 14, 2007.

Thornton Dial

"Thornton Dial in the 21st Century" presents work produced since 2000 by the outsider artist known for using such diverse materials as steel, plastic flowers, glass bottles and carpet in pieces that often comment on African-American experience in the South. Examples of his assemblages, sculptures and works on paper are on view at the Houston MFA, Sept. 25, 2005-Jan. 1, 2006.

Photography and the Occult

"The Perfect Medium" features more than 100 works from the 19th century, when photography was often used to "document" such phenomena as auras, emanations, hallucinations, dreams or ghosts. It is organized by the Maison EuropGenne de la Photographie, Paris, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where it is on view Sept. 27-Dec. 31, 2005.