ARIZONA
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM
1625 North Central Avenue
Phoenix, Arizona 85004
602-257-1222; www.phxart.org
Richard Avedon:
Photographer of Influence
Through April 20, 2008
Richard Avedon's prolific career as a fashion and portrait photographer spanned nearly seven decades, leaving an indelible impression on American culture. This exhibition includes both his early fashion photography as well as his powerful and revealing portraits of actors, politicians, artists, writers and intellectuals.
CALIFORNIA
ASIAN ART MUSEUM
200 Larkin Street
San Francisco, California 94102
415-581-3500; www.asianart.org
Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings From the Floating World 1690-1850
Through May 4, 2008
This exhibition highlights the re-nowned collection of floating world paintings from Japan's Edo period. Explore the iconography of courtesan and actor imagery through screens, scrolls and banners, many of which have not been on view for more than 100 years.
DE YOUNG MUSEUM
Golden Gate Park
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive
San Francisco, California 94118
415-750-3600 www.famsf.org/deyoung
Gilbert & George
Through May 18, 2008
Collaborators Gilbert and George began in London with a tabletop vaude-ville performance piece, The Singing Sculpture. Desiring a wider audience for their "living sculptures," they began using film and computer graphics. This landmark exhibition is the largest retrospective ever organized by the Tate Modern in London.
GETTY CENTER
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, California 90049
310- 440-7300; www.getty.edu
André Kertész: Seven Decades
Through April 13, 2008
Celebrating the quality and diversity of the long career of André Kertész, this exhibition includes over 55 photographs taken in Hungary, France and the United States, where the photographer lived for 40 years.
PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM
101 Museum Drive
Palm Springs, California 92262
760-325-7186; www.psmuseum.org
Picasso to Moore: Modern Sculpture From the Weiner Collection
Ongoing
Picasso to Moore provides a selective survey of one of the most exciting and revolutionary periods in sculpture. The exhibition celebrates the discerning taste of Ted Weiner and family and features exceptional pieces by masters such as Jean Arp, Alexander Calder, Amedeo Modigliani, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi and Pablo Picasso.
SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART
1450 El Prado
Balboa Park
San Diego, California 92101
619-232-7931; www.sdmart.org
Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape
Through April 27, 2008
Among the leaders of the Hudson River School, Asher Durand created some of the most beautiful American landscape paintings of the 19th cent-ury. This exhibition, organized by the Brooklyn Museum, surveys more than 50 of his paintings and includes the landmark work Kindred Spirits, which depicts Durand's close friend, artist Thomas Cole, with poet William Cullen Bryant.
COLORADO
DENVER ART MUSEUM
100 West 14th Avenue Parkway
Denver, Colorado 80204
720-865-5000 www.denverartmuseum.org
Inspiring Impressionism
Through May 25, 2008
Through side-by-side comparisons, this remarkable exhibition demon-strates that Impressionists such as Monet, Degas and Renoir, who are often seen as artistic revolutionaries, drew inspiration from van Ruisdael, Rubens, Raphael, Velázquez, El Greco, Watteau and others.
HAWAII
HONOLULU ACADEMY OF ARTS
900 South Beretania Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96814
808-532-8700 www.honoluluacademy.org
The Dragon's Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan
Through May 23, 2008
This groundbreaking show, which is the first comprehensive exhibition of Bhutanese Buddhist art in the United States, features rare Buddhist art as well as a special focus on ancient ritual dances. The exhibition is a culmination of the academy's unprecedented access to the sacred arts of Bhutan during a four-year research program.
IOWA
FIGGE ART MUSEUM
225 West 2nd Street
Davenport, Iowa 52801
563-326-7804; www.figgeartmuseum.org
Birds of America: John James Audubon
Through May 11, 2008
John James Audubon's portraits of the birds of America were revolutionary. Instead of drawing static portraits, he chose dramatic portrayals of life-size birds in their natural surroundings. This exhibition presents the Charles Deere collection of 98 folio prints, published by Julius Bien and overseen by John Woodhouse Audubon, the artist's son.
MINNESOTA
MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS
2400 Third Avenue South
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404
888-624-2487; www.artsmia.org
Arts of Japan: The John C. Weber Collection
Through May 25, 2008
Hanging scrolls, standing screens, ceramics, lacquerware and textiles are among the 75 works of art on display from the extraordinary John C. Weber Collection, one of the most important private collections of Japanese art in the United States.
NEBRASKA
JOSLYN ART MUSEUM
2200 Dodge Street
Omaha, Nebraska 68102
402-342-3300; www.joslyn.org
Elegance of the Qing Court:
Reflections of a Dynasty
Through Its Art
March 1-June 8, 2008
The rise and fall of China's Qing Dynasty is presented in this fascinating exhibition that includes more than 200 works of porcelain, metal, lacquer, textiles, ivory and jade. The objects, many created for the court, illustrate the magnificence of Qing creativity at its finest, contrasted with its decline as the dynasty drew to a close.
NEW MEXICO
GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM
217 Johnson Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501
505-946-1000; www.okeeffemuseum.org
Marsden Hartley and the West: The Search for an American Modernism
Through May 11, 2008
Organized by the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, this exhibition features nearly 50 works by Marsden Hartley, one of America's great modernists. The show focuses on his New Mexico period, from 1918 to 1924, perhaps the most overlooked years of his career.
OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA CITY MUSEUM OF ART
415 Couch Drive
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73102
800-579-9278; www.okcmoa.com
Brett Weston: Out of the Shadow
March 20-May 18, 2008
The epic career of photographer Brett Weston is presented in this first major retrospective in more than 30 years and includes over 140 landscape and nature photographs taken on the west and east coasts of the United States and in Mexico. The exhibition catalogues the evolution of his style and subject matter.
TEXAS
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART
1717 North Harwood
Dallas, Texas 75201
214-922-1200; www.dallasmuseumofart.org
J.M.W. Turner
Through May 18, 2008
J.M.W. Turner was one of the greatest landscape painters in the history of art. This retrospective, the largest and most comprehensive ever presented in the United States, includes seascapes, topographical views, historical events, mythology, modern life and scenes from Turner's own fertile imagination.
MENIL COLLECTION
1515 Sul Ross
Houston, Texas 77006
713-525-9400; www.menil.org
Vivid Vernacular: William Christenberry,
William Eggleston and Walker Evans
Through April 20, 2008
This exhibition highlights the American landscape through the images of William Christenberry, William Eggleston and Walker Evans, three pioneering photographers who transformed ordinary places into surprising and captiva-ting pictures.
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON
1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston, Texas 77005
713-639-7300; www.mfah.org
Pompeii: Tales From an Eruption
March 2-June 22, 2008
On August 24, A.D. 79, the world's most famous volcano, Vesuvius, erupted, burying Pompeii beneath a mountain of hardened ash. This extraordinary exhibition reveals the ancient world of Pompeii through nearly 350 objects excavated in the last decade, including marble statues, wall frescoes, gold jewelry, household items, coins and body casts of citizens unable to escape.
WASHINGTON
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM, DOWNTOWN
1300 First Avenue
Seattle, Washington 98101
206-654-3100 www.seattleartmuseum.org
The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti's Renaissance Masterpiece
Through April 6, 2008
Three panels from Lorenzo Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise are on view in this unprecedented tour of the United States. Recently restored, these doors from the Baptistery in Florence il-lustrate Ghiberti's consummate crafts-manship and innovative treatment of architectural space.
TACOMA ART MUSEUM
1701 Pacific Avenue
Tacoma, Washington 98402
253-272-4258 www.tacomaartmuseum.org
Renoir as Printmaker: The Complete Works, 1878-1912
Through June 29, 2008
Although recognized primarily for his Impressionist paintings, French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir also produced numerous etchings and lithographs. Drawn from a private collection, this exhibition presents his entire body of graphic works, supplemented by a small selection of the artist's paintings.
