Musee #Art Contemporain de Montreal, 1 1February SHOWS NOT TO MISS 30 April; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC, 26 June - 10 September; and the San Francisco Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2003 at the Sari Museum of Modem Art, 15 October 2006 - 14 Francisco Museum of Modcm Art from 19November - January 2007. 28 February. Splendor of the Word: Medieval andRenaissance Ecstasy: In and About Altered States from 9 October Illuminated Manuscripts at the New York Public through 20 February including Ahtila, Eliasson, Library, New York City from 21 October - 12 Huyghe, Murakarni, Charles Ray and Pipilotti Rist.at February. MOCA, Los Angeles. www.rnoca.org Part Object Part Sculpture with nearly 100 pieces AnseIm Kiefer, Heaven and Earth, including more by Duchamp, Hesse, Johns, Broodthaers, Whiteread than 60 paintings, books and sculptures dating fi-om and Gober at the Wexner Center for the Arts, 1969 to the present. Modem Art Museum of Fort Columbus, OH &om 30 Oct. - 26 February 2006. Worth, 25 September - 8 January. Travels through January 2007. Ed Ruscha: Course of Empire at the Whitney Museum, 17 November - 29 January. The show seen Dada at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC at the Venice Biennale. from 19 February - 14 May 2005. Masters of 20ih-CenturyAmerican Comics at the The Imagery of Chess Revisited recreating "The Hammer Museum (fxst half of 20~c.), and MOCA, Imagery of Chess" which opened in 1944 at the Julien Los Angeles (second half of 20th c.) fiom 20 Levy Gallery. At the Nog~lchiMuseum, Long Island November - 13 March. www.hammer.ucla.edu and City, NY from 20 October - 6 March. www.moca.org

Part Object Part Sculpture at the newly renovated Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement at the San Wexner Center for the Arts, CoIumbus, Ohio fro111 3 0 Jose Museum of Art concentrating on political art of October - 26 February including Duchamp, Eva Hesse, the last 50 years with emphasis on art of the 60s and Jasper Johns, Marcel Broodthaers, Rachel Whiteread 70s. San Jose Museunl of Art, 20 November - 5 and Robert Gober. March. www.simusart.org

Masters of 20th-CenturyAmerican Comics covering Fashion in Colors with seIection of 60 contemporary the first half of the 20th century (Hammer Museum) and historic pieces from the Kyoto Costume while MOCA will concentrate on artists of the second Institute's collection of more than 11,000 Western- half. Hammer Museum and MOCA, Los Angeles, from style dresses. Cooper-Hewilt National Design 20 November - 13 March. Museum, New York &om 9 December - 26 March. hm:!/ndm. siiedu Obsessive Drawing at the American Folk Art Museum, New York City through 19 March. Robert Rauschenberg: Combines with 65 works made between 1954 and 1964 at the Metropolitan Thomas Hirschhorn: Utopia, Utopia = One World, Museum, 20 December - 2 April. One War, One Army, One Dress at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 22 September through The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, December. Travels to C.C.A Wattis Institute for 1974-1984, curated by Carlo McConnick, showing Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, 15 March 13 May. - 200 paintings, sculptures, drawings, graffiti works, videos and photographs at the Grey Art Gallery, New Hiroshi Sugirnoto, History of Bistory at the Japm York University fiom 10 January - 1 April 2006. society through 19 February 2006. w~vw.nvu.edu/,~eyart Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth. 60 paintings, The Imagery of Chess Revisited at the Noguchi books and sculptures. Modern Art Museum, Ft. Worth, Museum, Long Island City, Queens, through 5 TX from 25 September 8 January. Travels to the - March. Egon Schiele: The Ronald S. Lander and Serge RESOURCES Sabarsky CoIIections at the Neue Galeric, New York City through 220 Febniary 2006. WOMEN ARTISTS ARCHIVES NATIONAL DIRECTORY: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Sarah Bernhardt: TRe Art of High Drama at the AH organizations holding primaw sowce material Jewish Museum, New York City, through 2 April. about any woman visual artist active in the U.S akr 1945 are invited to be included in a new website Facets of Cubism at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston directory being developed by Rutgers University through 16 April. Libraries (RUL). The online survey fonn is set for release by summer 2005. The Kreutzer Sonata: Historical Work by Richard WAAND will be a comprehensive survey of U.S. Tuttle at Zwirner & Wirth, 32 E. 6gthSt,, New York archival coIIections holding primary source materials City through 18 February 2006. of women visual artists active in this country since 1945. WAAND is designed to serve scholars in art Being There at MOMA curated by Terence RiIey about historyJ visual arts, cultural and intellectual history, new architecture in Spain, opening on 12 February. American studies, and women's and gender studies, as well as artists, students, collecting institutions, and Willy Ronis at the Motel de Ville, Paris through 28 the general public. WAAND has been funded by the February 2006. A retsospective. Famed photographer Getty Foundation, a program of the 5. Paul Getfy with more than 30 books to his name. His images have Trust. become iconic of Paris. WMND's principal investigators are Dr. Ferris Olin, head of the Margery Somers Foster Center and African American Vernacular Photography: curator of thc Mary H. Dana Women Artist Series at Selections From the Daniel Cowin Collection at the Mabel Smjth Douglass Library, RRTTI, and Judith International Center of Photography, I 133 Avenue of K, Brodsky, Rutgers distinguished professor emerita the Americas, through 28 Febmaty. in the Dept. Of Visual Arts and founding director of the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper Roy deForest at George Adams Gallery, Chelsea, (KCIPP), Mason Gross Scfiool of the Arts . Grace through 28 January. Agnes, associate librarian for Digital Library Systems. and Jane D. Johnson, project manager for Dutch Treats: Contemporary IIInstraiion from the the Moving Image Collections and visit scholar at Netherlands, an exhibition of about 80 works by 14 Rutgers, are WAAND's digital architects. children's book illustrators at the UBS Art Gallery, To partner wit11 WAN,please send information 1285 Avenue of the ,hericas, through 24 February directly to Nicole Plett, at nplefi@,rci.rut~ers.eduor before moving to the Eric Carle Museum of Picture call 732-932-9407, ext. 27. Book Art in Amherst, MA from 28 March - 9 July. Canadian Ebookbinders mid 1Pook AmG3d (CBBAG) Contemporary African art from the Pigozzf Home Study Programme. Bookbinding I, collection at the Natonal Museum of A6ican Art, Bookbinding 11, Bookbinding 111, Endpapers, and W-ashington, DC though 26 February. Introduction to Leather now available. CRBAG,60 Atlantic Ave., Suite 112,Toronto, ON The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene,1974- M6R 1x9, Canada. .Please call 416.581.1071 1954, curated by Carlo McCormick at Chz New York Email: &b@,web.net .;n,ailto:[email protected] or University's Grey Art CaIlery and Fales Library from 10 click o n to: January - 1 April. http://w.web.netl-cbbafi/BulletinBoI Blast from the Past: Art of the 1960s at JCresge Art Tile home study program is available in video (either Museum, Michigan State University from 9 January - 19 VHS or PAL format) and also in DVD. March 2006 in East Lansing.

KIee and America from 9 March - 22 May at the Neue ~ww.skvscrawer,org;is the site of the Skyscraper Cderie New York with 60 paintings and drawings by Klee. Muscum, with more than 2,000 documents about Going to Phillips Collection in Washington and the historic New York buildings by connecting the Menil Collection in Houston. digitized images to an interactive map of Manhattan. Hand Bookbindings From Special Collections in the Santa Fe, New York, Miami San Francisco and Los Princeton University Library: Plain and Simple to Angeles, this engaging production takes viewers into Grand and Glorious includes more than 200books. the studio and life of a most distinctive artist, while online exhibition, visit exploring issues of commitment, communication and http://~.princeton.edu~rbsc/exhibitions/online.html controversy, the relationship between size and value, and click on the entry for "Hand Bookbindings from the language of materials and learning how to "see" Special Collections." art. *Incelebration of Pyramid Atlantic Art Center's Silver Featuring Richard Tuttle, Marcia Tucker, Anniversary and their traveling exhibition, Madeleine Grynsztejn, Roy Dowell, Connie Butler, Collaboration as a Medium: 25 Years of Pyramid Herb & Dorothy Vogel, Angela Westwater and Atlantic, they have published a beautiful 100-page, full- others .Music by Tom Waits, Piero Umiliani, Steve color catalog to coincide with this exhibit (which will Jaqua, Ted Greene .Produced by Chris Maybach & travel to Maryland Arts Place in early 2006).The Paul Gardner 32 mins. 02005 Co-produced by the catalog is available for sale for $42 plus $3.95 shipping San Francisco Museum of Modem Art (SFMoMA) and handling. For more information, go to: *Subtitles: English, Spanish, Italian, http://www.pyramidatlanticartcenter.org/studio/exhibi French,Gennan.*Release date: August 2005 t.htrn#cata *Institutional Price: $149 (PPR) *Distributor: Twelve Films, 1420 Taylor St., Ste Photornuse.org ,still a test site, but expected to include #2,San Francisco, CA 94 133.tel: 4 151922-1099 fax: almost 200,000 photographs when it is completed in the 4 151922-1203 fall of 2006, is a collaboration between George Eastman House and the International Center of Computer News Photography in Manhattan. Both institutions have to SwarmSketch.com, a kind of United Nations of work out agreements with estates and living weird-looking sketches or a world doodle. You can photographers, with the intention of adding tens of add to a drawing whenever you want-it's so popular thousands more pictures. now, that the drawing topic is changed whenever 1,000 lines have beenrecorded, rather than weekly as Anchorage Museum of History and Art seeking before. entries forjuried exhibition 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles: Transportation and Travel in Art,' which will open Word Pictures: Ray Johnson and Jess, Outsiders in the Museum's Discovery Art Gallery for Families on on the Inside. Catalog for $20.00 including shipping June 18, 2006 and run through May 15, 2007. The and tax to Hackett Freedman Gallery, 250 Sutter St., exhibition is open to professional artists working in all San Francisco, CA 94 108. media. For more information about this feature click the Libraries of artists: What they have read link below or copy and paste it into your browser window: In the Robert Smithson retrospective catalog, the httr,://www.ab~~Iutearts.corn appendix is a complete, posthumousIy compiled list of publications in Smithson's personal library. This New film from the producers of "ART exhaustive study of the artist's own bookshelves CITYn:Richard Tuttle's extraordinary work has exuded comes with an introduction of the seminal tome about vitality and energy for over four decades - a remarkable the dealer Seth Siegelaub, Conceptual art and the feat, particularly since his art is so modest, vulnerable politics ofpublicity. and daringly simplified. An elegant iconoclast who A somewhat similar publication by Fraenkel never hesitates to take risks, Tuttle uses fiail and Gallery in San Francisco entitled Diane Arbus: the transitory materials such as plywood, tissue, wire, cloth libraries, is a 33-page accordion-fold "visual record -even shadows-- to create entire worlds of thought, of books and other objects fiom the collection of the while challenging the 'super-size' aesthetic with his artist" which includes a 12-pagebooklet with detailed minor-scaled works. From his early years as assistant at bibliographic information on the photographer's the famed Betty Parsons Gallery in New York to his preferred reading material. $35.00 plus $6.00 major retrospective launched this Summer in San shipping from Fraenkel Gallery, 49 Geary St., San Francisco, Tuttle's commitment to the small, the anti- Francisco, CA 94 108. 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