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SOUTH

American Streamlined Design:
The World of Tomorrow
October 24, 2008 – May 17, 2009
Wolfsonian Museum, Florida International University, Miami, FL
305/531-1001, www.wolfsonian.fiu.edu
Streamlined furniture, ceramics, metalwork, plastics, graphic design and archival design books with a focus on the 1930s and 1940s, plus some present-day examples.

Promises of Paradise:
Staging Mid-Century Miami
October 11, 2008 – January 25, 2009
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL
352/392-9826, www.harn.fl.edu
Architectural designs, furniture, textiles and decorative arts by some of South Florida’s most famous designers, such as Alfred Browning Parker, Morris Lapidus, George Farkas, Frederick Rank and Kay Pancoast.

The Design Council 10-Year Anniversary Exhibition
Through January 4, 2009
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
713/639-7300, www.mfah.org
Furnishings and objects by architects and adesigners including Edgar Brandt, Cesare Casati, Donald Deskey, Hella Jongerius, Ingeborg Lundin, Verner Panton, Gilbert Rohde, Hiroshi Suzuki and Ettore Sottsass.


MIDWEST
Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art
and Photography of Paris
September 20, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
312/443-3600, www.artic.edu
Trained as a painter, Cartier-Bresson brought a surrealist quality to photojournalism. This exhibition of his photographs includes works by artists, such as Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Giorgio de Chirico and Henri Matisse, whose painting relates to Cartier-Bresson’s imagery and that of other photographers working in Paris between the wars, such as André Kertész and Brassaï.

Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976
October 19, 2008 – January 11, 2009
Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
314/721-0072, www.slam.org
Fifty works by Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Clyfford Still, David Smith, Helen Frankenthaler, Philip Guston and others.

Pablo Picasso: Livres d’Artistes
Through November 23

Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
Through January 4, 2009
Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
888/642-2787, www.artsmia.org
Artists’ books with prints by Picasso.
A retrospective of Finnish-American architect Eero Saarinen (1910–61), designer of modernist landmarks, such as the TWA Terminal Building in New York (1956–62) and the iconic Womb chair and “Pedestal” series for Knoll.

Birth of the Cool: California Art,
Design, and Culture at Midcentury
September 19, 2008 – January 5, 2009
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
314/935-4523, www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu
A multimedia exploration of the concept of “cool” in 1950s and ‘60s Southern California, through environments such as a jazz lounge, as well as objects representing Chet Baker, Charles and Ray Eames, John Lautner, Richard Neutra and others.


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