Calendar

The arts here and abroad--a compendium of exhibitions, symposiums, and lectures

Arizona

PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Masterpiece Replayed: Monet, Matisse, and More"; to May 4.* [??] "Passport to Europe: Six Centuries of Treasures from Museo de Arte de Ponce [Puerto Rico]"; April 6 to June 15. [??] "When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L. Beningson Collection"; to May 11.*

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California

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Consuming Passion: Fragonard's Allegories of Love"; to May 4.* [??] "Rare Finds: Ten Years of Collecting Manuscripts"; to April 20. [??] "Ten Years of Drawing: What, How, and Why"; to May 4.

MALIBU Getty Villa: "The Color of Life: Polychromy in Sculpture from Antiquity to the Present"; to June 23.* [??] "The Hope Hygieia: Restoring a Statue's History"; April 10 to September 8.

SAN DIEGO San Diego Museum of Art: "Designs on Each Other: Indian Paintings and European Prints (16th-19th Centuries)"; to June 15. [??] "Kindred Spirits: Asher B. Durand and the American Landscape"; to April 27.* [??] "Rhythms of India: The Art of Nandalal Bose (1882-1966)"; to May 18.

San Diego Natural History Museum: "A Day in Pompeii"; to June 15.

SAN FRANCISCO de Young Museum: "For Tent and Trade: Masterpieces of Turkmen Weaving"; to September 7. [??] American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California lecture: "Sophistication in Central Massachusetts: The Inlaid Furniture of Nathan Lombard," by Clark Pearce, April 8. For information call 415-249-9234.

Legion of Honor: "Highlights from the Israel Antiquities Authority: The Dead Sea Scrolls and 5,000 Years of Treasures"; to August 10.

SAN MARINO Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: "La Rose Imperiale: The Development of Modern Roses"; to April 28.

STANFORD Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University: "Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape"; to May 4.*

Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: "Amish and Mennonite Quilts from the Big Valley and Beyond"; to July 13. [??] "Inspiring Impressionism"; to May 25.*

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "20th-Century American Prints from the Bruce Museum Collection"; to July 6. [??] Connecticut Ceramics Study Circle lecture: "Louis C. Tiffany and Favrile Pottery," by Lindsay Parrot, April 14. For information e-mail ceramiccircle@optononline.net.

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "Impressionists by the Sea: Monet, Courbet, Renoir, and Others"; to May 11.* [??] "Magic Facade: The Austin House"; to April 20.* [??] "Making a Splash: American Beach Fashions, 1850-1920"; to July 13.

NEW HAVEN Yale Center for British Art: "The Lure of the East: British Orientalist Painting, 1830-1925"; to April 28.* [??] "A New World: England's First View of America"; to June 1.* [??] "Pearls to Pyramids: British Visual Culture and the Levant, 1600-1830"; to April 28.

Yale University Art Gallery: "Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France"; to May 4. [??] "Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy"; to May 4.* [??] "Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery"; to June 8.*

OLD LYME Florence Griswold Museum: "The Artistic Heritage of Connecticut: Highlights from the Hartford Steam Boiler Collection"; to April 20. [??] "The Finishing Touch: Understanding the Techniques of American Impressionist and Tonalist Painters"; to April 27.

Delaware

DOVER Biggs Museum of American Art: "Delaware Silver"; to June 29.

WILMINGTON Historical Society of Delaware: "Spoons and Spectacles: Silver in Delaware Life"; to May 17.

WINTERTHUR Winterthur Museum and Country Estate: "Double Vision: 1930s Design at Winterthur"; to May 18. [??] "K is for Kids"; to July 13.

District of Columbia

Corcoran Gallery of Art: "The American Evolution: A History through Art"; to July 27.

Folger Shakespeare Library: "History in the Making: How Early Modern England Imagined Its Past"; to May 17.

Freer Gallery of Art: "Points of Contact: Whistler and Freer"; to December 2009.

National Gallery of Art: "Bronze and Boxwood: Renaissance Masterpieces from the Robert H. Smith Collection"; to May 4. [??] "Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860"; to May 4.* [??] "In the Forest of Fontainebleau: Painters and Photographers from Corot to Monet"; to June 8.*

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: "Patterned Feathers, Piercing Eyes: Edo Masters from the Price Collection"; to April 13.* [??] "Taking Shape: Ceramics in Southeast Asia"; ongoing. [??] "Tales of the Brush Continued: Chinese Paintings with Literary Themes"; to July 27.