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Vanity Fair Portraits:
Photographs 1913–2008
October 26, 2008 – March 1, 2009
Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, CA
323/857-6000,
www.lacma.org
The history of celebrity portraiture through photographs from Vanity Fair magazine by acclaimed photographers such as Edward Steichen, Man Ray, George Hurrell, Irving Penn and Annie Leibovitz.
Louise Bourgeois
October 26, 2008 – January 25, 2009
Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, CA
213/621-1745, www.moca-la-org
A retrospective of the artist, born in Paris in 1911, from her surrealist works to her conceptual art, with seldom seen works like the large-scale “Cell” installations.
The Art of War: American Posters from
World War I and World War II
Through January 26, 2009
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
626/449-6840,
www.nortonsimon.org
An overview of government-sponsored recruitment art from some of America’s best-known commercial and popular artists.
The Ceramics of Gertrud and Otto Natzler
Through January 25, 2009
Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR
503/223-2654,
www.museumofcontemporarycraft.org
The work of the celebrated husband-and-wife team: Gertrud’s graceful porcelain forms enlivened by Otto’s astounding and varied glazes.
Robert Sperry: Bright Abyss
Through November 8
American Museum of Ceramic Arts,
Pomona, CA
909/865-3146,
www.ceramicmuseum.org
A retrospective of ceramist Robert Sperry (1927–98), a leading figure in the postwar American studio ceramics movement in the Pacific Northwest, known for his monumental works.
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910–1917
November 18, 2008 – March 22, 2009
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
310/440-7330,
www.getty.edu
Modernist illustrated books created by Russian artists and poets just before the revolution.
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Warhol Live
September 25, 2008 – January 18, 2009
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montréal, Québec, Canada
514/285-2000,
www.mmfa.qc.ca
Hundreds of Andy Warhol’s works, including paintings, prints, album covers and films in an installation evoking his Silver Factory, with appropriate music by the Velvet Underground and David Tudor.
Rothko
September 26, 2008 – February 1, 2009
Tate Modern, London, U.K.
+44 20 7887 8888,
www.tate.org.uk
A survey of painter Mark Rothko, including seldom-seen works like the murals commissioned for the Four Seasons restaurant in Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building in New York.
Design Cities
Through January 4, 2009
Design Museum, London, U.K.
+44 870 833 9955,
www.designmuseum.org
Contemporary objects, furniture, industrial design and prints from London, Vienna, Dessau, Paris, Los Angeles, Milan and Tokyo during their greatest years of design creativity.
Le Corbusier – Exhibition in Liverpool
October 2, 2008 – January 18, 2009
Royal Institute of British Architects, London, U.K.
+44 207 580 5533,
www.architecture.com
Drawings, models, furniture, prints and paintings by the architect on view in
The Crypt, Roman Catholic Cathedral, Liverpool.
Isamu Noguchi at Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Through February 2, 2009
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, Wakefield, U.K.
+44 1924 832631,
www.ysp.co.uk
This outdoor exhibit presents the artist’s monumental sculptures to European audiences for the first time.
Arabia
October 17, 2008 – January 18, 2009
Design Museum, Helsinki, Finland
+3589 622 0540,
www.designmuseum.fi
The exhibit focuses on designers and artists who produced the most popular
and respected modernist lines for the Arabia ceramics company of Finland.
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