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SHOWS NOT to MISS of Arts, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston SHOWS NOT TO MISS of Arts, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Encounters with the Contemporary at the Uniform: Order and Disorder at P.S. 1 Smithsonian7sNational Museum of Aiiican Art in Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens, Washington, DC through December 2001. Includes NY through 3 September. 32 artists from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, South Afiica, Sudan and Tunisia World Treasures permanent gallery at the Library of born from 1913 to 1964. Show changes every four Congress in the Thomas Jefferson Building will have months. changingexhibits every few months. Opening show is "Beginnings," with a cuneiform tablet from 203 9 BC, Mies van der Rohe will be featured in a double the first book printed in the Western hemisphere (a museum show, coordinated by the Museum of Modem catechism in Spanish printed in Mexico in 1543) and Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art the earliest known movable type (Korean, 13th opening on 21 June 2001; the Modem closes on 11 century). September, and the Whitney on 23 September. Beatriz Mihazes, large scale paintings and Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bomard, screenprints by the Brazilian artists in her first solo Vuillard, Denis and Roussel, 1890-1930 includes 85 exhibition in an American museum, through 2 wall, door and ceiling paintings and folding screens, at September. Birmingham Museum of Art. the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 26 June through 9 September. Edward Weston: The Last Years in Camel at the Art Institute of Chicago, including 75 of Weston's last documents, Germany's four-yearly international photographs, taken from 1938 to 1948. Through 16 contemporary art jamboree, in its llthedition next September. year, is going global starting out in March in Vienna, in May it travels to New Delhi, in November to the Frank Gehry, Architect, a retrospective at the West Indies, and next year (2002) it will be in Lagos Guggenheim Museum, New York City through 26 and then, finally, in June 2002, in Kassel, Germany. August. manifests for 2002, the European biennale of Mies in Berlin at the Museum of Modem Art, New contemporary art, will be held in F- under the York City through 11 September. guidance of Kaspar Konig, currently the director of the Mies in America at the Whitney Museum of Ludwig Museum in Cologne. American Art through 23 September. Grandma Moses in the 21d Century at the National Ed Ruscha, the first full retrospective, at the Modem Museum of Women in the Arts 15 March - 10 June. Art Museum of Fort Worth through 30 September. Then travels to San Diego, Columbus, OH, Portland, OR and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in December. Louise Bourgeois' Marnan and two small Spiders are Major retrospective from the 1940s until her death in on view through Labor Day at Rockefeller Center and 1961with 87 works. then travel to the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia for a major retrospedive of Grand Intuitions: Calder9sMonumental Sculpture Bourgeois's work opening on 9 October. at Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, NY. Outside there are 19 enormous works, most unseen for Dancing on the Roof: Photography and the Bauhaus decades, and eight other works are within the museum (1923-1929) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New building, in addition to 24 preparatory models and York City, through 26 August. photographs telling of Calder's creative process. Through 15 November. David Hockney Retrospective: Photoworks at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles Over the Line: The Art and Lieof Jacob Lawrence through 21 October 2001. Only US venue and last at the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC through 19 venue since traveling began in 1997. August 2001. National Tour to the Whitney, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute @ 21llilrt in the Twmty-First Cmtury, a four part 30,000 Elvis item which touted the world for 14years series Wgon PBS stations nationwide at 9 p.m. on before being permanently installed in Cornelia. Gift 21 and 28 September. 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