Volume 29, No. 1, Mar 2006
Shows Not to Miss
Anselm Kiefer, Heaven and Earth, including more than 60 paintings, books and sculptures dating from 1969 to the present. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 25 September - 8 January. Travels through January 2007.
Dada at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC from 19 February - 14 May 2005.
Thomas Hirschhorn: Utopia, Utopia = One World, One War, One Army, One Dress at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 22 September through December. Travels to C.C.A Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, 15 March - 13 May.
Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth. 60 paintings, books and sculptures. Modern Art Museum, Ft. Worth, TX travels to the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, 11 February - 30 April; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, 26 June - 10 September; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 15 October 2006 - 14 January 2007.
Robert Rauschenberg: Combines with 65 works made between 1954 and 1964 at the Metropolitan Museum, 20 December - 2 April.
Facets of Cubism at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through 16 April.
Dutch Treats: Contemporary Illustration from the Netherlands, an exhibition of about 80 works by 14 children’s book illustrators at the UBS Art Gallery, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, through 24 February before moving to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art in Amherst, MA from 28 March - 9 July.
Klee and America from 9 March - 22 May at the Neue Galerie New York with 60 paintings and drawings by Klee. Going to Phillips Collection in Washington and the Menil Collection in Houston.
Agitated Images: John Heartfield and German Photomontage, 1920-1938 at the Getty Center, Research Institute, Los Angeles through 25 June.
Life in Shadows: Hidden Children and the Holocaust at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, Battery Park, New York City through 26 June.
Courbet and the Modern Landscapes, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles through 14 May.
Goya’s Last Works at the Frick Collection, through 14 May.
Symphonic Poem: The Art of Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson at the Brooklyn Museum through 14 August.
1906 Earthquake: A Disaster in Pictures at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through 30 May.
After the Ruins, 1906 and 2006: Rephotographing the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire: Mark Klett at the Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco through 4 June.
Ettore Sottsass at Los Angeles County Museum of Art through 11 June.
Klee and America at Neue Galerie, New York through 22 May.
Samuel Palmer (1805-1881): Vision and Landscape at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City through 29 May.
David Hockney: Portraits at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston through 14 May; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 11 June through 4 September; and National Portrait Gallery in London (12 October - 21 January 2007).
Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography through 28 May at International Center of Photography, New York City.
Crescent Moon: Islamic Art and Civilization in Southeast Asia at National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Letters to Sala: A Young Woman’s Life in Nazi Labor Camps at the New York Public Library through 17 June.
Dennis Hopper: A Survey at ACE Gallery, Los Angeles through 1 July.
Huang Yong Ping, a retrospective, at Mass MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts from 19 February - 8 January 2007. (He was the ringleader of China’s radical Xiamen Dada collective in the mid-1980s and now lives in Paris).
Ingres 1780-1867 at the Louvre in Paris through 15 May. www.louvre.fr
