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recent exhibitions
After Nature, New Museum, New York City  

Marie Antoinette and the Petit Trianon at Versailles
Legion of Honor

San Francisco
Matisse, Painter As Sculptor
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco
Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History
Guggenheim Museum
New York
Diane Arbus Revelations Minneapolis

The Surreal Calder

Minneapolis
Chihuly at the de Young San Francisco
Drama and Desire: Japanese Paintings from te Floating World, 1690-1850 San Francisco
Gilbert and George, Two People, 1 Artist SF, Milwaukee, Brooklyn
Glass: Material Matters                        Los Angeles
Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh  Fort Worth
Rebecca Horn: Bodylandscapes Berlin, October 5
Annie Leibovitz: A Life in Photographs San Francisco
Monet in Normandy San Francisco
On Tour with Renzo Piano and Building Workshop:
        Selected Projects
Dallas
Shomei Tomatsu: Skin of the Nation Winterthur
Richard Serra: MOMA NYC New York
John Szarkowski: Photographs Houston

Taisho Chic: Japanese Modernity, Nostalgia and Deco

Japan, 2007
The Art of Richard Tuttle    Dallas
Vidya Gastaldon: Stop Believing, Start Knowing, Swiss Institute of Contemporary Art     New York
Women Impressionists San Francisco
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery; Mixed Signals, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts     New York
Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005, Whitney Museum of American Art     New York
Alex Paints Ada, Jewish Gallery New York New York
museums and galleries
American Folk Art Museum New York
De Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco   San Francisco
Gemaldegallerie Berlin
TheGetty Center Los Angeles
Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Bilbao
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum fur Gegenwart Berlin
Musee Jacquemart-Andre  Paris
Judisches Museum Berlin /Jewish Museum Berlin.. Berlin
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires - Coleccion Costantini Buenos Aires
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Museum of Fine Arts) Buenos Aires
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sophia  Madrid
National Gallery of Ireland Dublin
Die Neue Nationalgallerie  (New National Gallery) Berlin
Museo Nacional del Prado Madrid
The Saatchi Gallery London
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid
Trinity College Library -
   The Book of Kells and the Long Room
Dublin
Galleria degli Uffizi Florence 

architecture archives


Nicole Williams' review of Stephen E. Weil'sMaking Museums Matter

Emma French's review of Sidra Stich's
Britain & Ireland: Contemporary Art and Architecture Handbook

Arthur Lazere's review of Sister Wendy's American Collection

Emma French's review of Rachel Kaplan's
Little-Known Museums In and Around London


Art/architecture fans might be interested in films about
Louis I. Kahn: My Architect
Jackson Pollock:  Pollock
George Condo: Condo Painting
Francis Bacon: Love is the Devil
The Line King: Al Hirschfeld
Frank Lloyd Wright

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