Calendar

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

Arizona

PHOENIX Phoenix Art Museum: "Fierce Reality: Italian Masters from 17th Century Naples"; to March 4.* [??] "Rembrandt and the Golden Age of Dutch Art"; to May 6.

California

LONG BEACH Long Beach Museum of Art: "Painting with Fire: Masters of Enameling in America, 1930-1980"; to August 19.*

LOS ANGELES J. Paul Getty Museum: "Casting Nature: Francois-Thomas Germain's Machine d'Argent"; to March 25. [??] "French Manuscript Illumination of the Middle Ages"; to April 15. [??] "Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons from Sinai"; to March 4.* [??] "Made for Manufacture: Drawings for Sculpture and the Decorative Arts"; February 6 to May 20.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art: "Picasso's Greatest Print: The Minotauromachy in All Its States"; to February 25.

OAKLAND Oakland Museum of California: "California as Muse: The Art of Arthur and Lucia Mathews"; to March 25.*

SAN FRANCISCO Legion of Honor: "Masterpieces of French Jewelry"; February 10 to June 10.*

de Young Museum: "Charles Sheeler: Across Media"; February 10 to May 6.* [??] American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California lecture: "European Precedents for American Veneer and Inlay Work," by Ulrich Leben, February 27. For information call 415-249-9234.

SAN MARINO Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: "Constables Great Landscapes: The Six-Foot Paintings"; February 3 to April 29.*

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Colorado

DENVER Denver Art Museum: New building opened.

Connecticut

GREENWICH Bruce Museum: "Painterly Controversy: William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri"; to April 29.* [??] "Weaving a Collection: Native American Baskets from the Bruce Museum"; February 10 to June 10. [??] "Zip, Bop and Whir: Toys of the 20th Century"; to July 8.

HARTFORD Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: "Crewel World"; to February 25. [??] "Samuel Colt: Arms, Art, and Invention"; to March 4.*

NEW HAVEN Yale University Art Gallery: "Made for Love: Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana"; February 13 to August 27.* [??] Newly renovated Louis Kahn building reopened.

OLD LYME Florence Griswold Museum: "A Collective Endeavor: Three Decades of Acquisitions"; to March 25.

Delaware

DOVER Biggs Museum of American Art: "Delaware Clocks"; to February 25.*

District of Columbia

Archives of American Art: "Exquisite Surprise: The Papers of Joseph Cornell"; to February 23.

Federal Reserve Board: "Howard Pyle and Illustrators of the Brandywine School from the Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia"; to March 30.

Folger Shakespeare Library: "Technologies of Writing in the Age of Print"; to February 17.

Freer Gallery of Art: "Daoism in the Arts of China"; to June 10. [??] "Vietnamese Ceramics from the Red River Delta"; ongoing.

National Gallery of Art: "The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Britain"; to March 18. [??] "Paris in Transition: Photographs from the National Gallery of Art"; February 11 to May 6. [??] "Strokes of Genius: Rembrandt's Prints and Drawings"; to March 18.

Phillips Collection: "Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film"; February 17 to May 20.*

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery: "East of Eden: Gardens in Asian Art"; February 24 to May 13.

Smithsonian American Art Museum: "Eadweard Muy-bridge: The Central American Journey"; February 2 to April 29. [??] "Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination"; to February 19.

Textile Museum: "Mantles of Merit: Chin Textiles from Mandalay to Chittagong"; to February 25.* [??] "Red"; February 2 to July 8.

Florida

ORLANDO Mennello Museum of American Art: "Cassatt to Wyeth: American Masterworks from the Mitchell Museum [Mount Vernon, Illinois]"; to February 25.

SARASOTA John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art: "Bedazzled: 5000 Years of Jewelry from the Walters Art Museum [Baltimore]"; February 3 to April 29. [??] "Encouraging American Genius: Master Paintings from the Corcoran Gallery [Washington, D.C.]"; February 3 to April 29.

WEST PALM BEACH Palm Beach County Convention Center: Palm Beach: America's International Fine Art and Antique Fair; February 3-11. Loan exhibition from New Orleans Museum of Art. For information call 561-209-1300. [??] Palm Beach Jewelry, Art and Antiques Show; February 16-20. Lecture series. For information call 561-822-5440.

WINTER PARK Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art: "Dickens to Benton: Rare Books and Works on Paper from the Morse Collection"; to September 16.

Georgia

ATHENS Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia: "American Impressionism"; through March 25.