From the time an object is made until the day it enters a museum's collection, it may be displayed, used, and perceived in different ways. The Life of Art takes selected objects from the Getty Museum's galleries and encourages visitors to sit down and spend time with them, offering the opportunity to examine them closely to understand how they were made and functioned, why they were collected, and how they have been displayed.

The J. Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive

Los Angeles, CA

Learn how Americans personally experienced the Civil War through photographs of the era. Stereo-view photographs, viewing devices, and 3-D images created from the photos (glasses provided) are on view to explore this new and innovative technology of 150 years ago. A camera, glass-slide negatives, and a video reveal how the photographs were created.

Schermer Hall
Smithsonian Castle
1000 Jefferson Dr., SW

Washington, DC

In concert with the nation’s Civil War Sesquicentennial events and the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, “Your True Friend and Enemy”: Princeton and the Civil War, engages the history and legacy of the Civil War by emphasizing its impact on Princeton University and the town of Princeton. The exhibition provides a history of the Civil War as it was experienced by Princeton’s students and faculty, and its townspeople—including men and women and both its African American and white communities. The exhibit will open on September 17, 2012 to commemorate the Battle of Antietam, which occurred on this date in 1862; after the Union victory President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.

Weiss Lounge
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library
Rare & Special Collections
Firestone Library
Princeton University
One Washington Road

Princeton, NJ

Unforgettably Told.
An Exhibition: Soldiers’ Stories, Then and Now

From the American Revolution to Operation Enduring Freedom, troops have served on many fronts during U.S. history. Yet even people well versed in the names, places, and dates associated with a war might not know much about the day-to-day experiences of being a soldier. What was it like? How did they cope with the many challenges? How did their families handle them being so far away?

Rosenbach Museum & Library
2008-2010 Delancey Place

Philadelphia, PA

Picturing Poetry features dynamic interpretations of verse by picture book artists Carin Berger, R. Gregory Christie, Brian Pinkney, James Rumford, Peter Sís, and Ed Young. Conjuring enchanting images to illustrate poems that range from ancient epics like Beowulf and The Conference of the Birds to modern works by writers such as Langston Hughes and Robert Frost, all of these award-winning artists offer new ways of seeing the unique power of poetry.

Open daily 10:30 am – 5:00 pm
Thursday until 8:00 pm

Admission to the Art Institute of Chicago is free to Illinois residents the first and second Wednesday of every month.

Ryan Education Center, Picture Book Gallery
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue

Chicago, IL

Charlotte's Web, by acclaimed author E. B. White and illustrated by Garth Williams, is one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century children’s literature. White’s elegant prose and Williams’s exquisite drawings form a spirited dialogue that constitutes a conversation of substance and style. And to this day it is a book beloved by young and old. The sale of the Charlotte’s Web drawings last October caused quite a stir. Everyone connected with the world of children’s book art was thrilled by the strong prices. Thus, to celebrate our purchase, Williams’s 100th birthday, the 60th anniversary of Charlotte’s Web, and the Museum’s 10th year, the Carle is assembling a key group of the drawings from the book dispersed in the sale to be on view in its central gallery from December 11, 2012 until April 22, 2013. The exhibition, Some Book! Some Art!: Selected Drawings by Garth Williams for Charlotte’s Web, will comprise approximately 30 finished drawings, as well as a selection of preliminary sketches to help articulate the artist’s working process. Consequently, the exhibition will offer a wonderful celebration of a book that has touched innumerable readers since its publication.

In The Central Gallery
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
125 West Bay Road

Amherst, MA

The Festive City brings together rarely seen festival prints and books, among our only traces of these staggeringly expensive but fleeting events.

Drawn from the collections of the RISD Museum, the John Hay Library at Brown University, and local collector Vincent J. Buonanno, these works are among the most impressive feats of printmaking in the early-modern period, with multi-plate, fold-out pages documenting processions and huge crowds, dramatic firework scenes, and more.

Museum of Art
Rhode Island School of Design
224 Benefit Street

Providence, RI

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is proud to announce an exhibition and events in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Caldecott Award. The greatly coveted Caldecott, named in honor of nineteenth-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott, is awarded annually by the American Library Association to the artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children.
Through a special show and programs, the Museum plans to give an historical perspective on the award, make the full collection available for reading, and invite guests to predict the winners for 2013. Specifics include:
Reading Library Exhibition
The Caldecott Medal: 75 Years of Distinguished Illustration, a special exhibition in the Reading Library, is beingorganized by former Book Links editor Barbara Elleman. The display of reproductions, on view from January 8, 2013 through the end of June, will give viewers a wide spectrum of the various illustrators, their techniques and mediums, and the stylistic changes that have occurred over the 75 years of the Medal’s existence. The exhibition, divided into five groupings, will:
· Provide the history of the Medal, highlighting the first 1938 winner, and introducing the 2013 Medalist, which will be announced in January;
· Showcase the variety of styles and media of five Medal winners who chose the theme of Snow;
· Highlight husband and wife teams who worked side by side to produce award-winning words and texts;
· Honor common folk tales transformed into “distinguished pieces of picture book art”;
· Feature a group of “long-loved” Caldecott books from the past 75 years

The exhibition will also invite visitors to cast a vote for their favorite Caldecott winner.
The Caldecott Bookcase
A generous 2012 gift by Edgar and Rosalind Schilder, given in memory of their daughter Lori Schilder, enabled the Museum to create a Caldecott bookcase in The Museum’s Reading Library completing the Museum’s book collection to include a copy of each Caldecott Award-winning book. The new bookcase will hold the Caldecott medalists from 1938 on and invite visitors to read them, much in the same way Rosalind shared these beloved books at home with her daughter.
Workshops and Classes
- A 2-session workshop, “So You Want to Choose the 2013 Caldecott?” which began on October 21st and continues on December 9th will review criteria for the award, discuss possible winners, and ultimately cast a vote for the 2013 Caldecott winner. The sessions’ and on-line work are being facilitated by Simmons College faculty members: Instructor Megan Lambert, who served on the 2011 Caldecott Committee taught the first session, and Professor Cathryn Mercier, who served on the 1994 and 2012 Caldecott Committees, will teach the second.
- From Cover to Cover: A Critical Look at Selected Caldecott Winners and Their Cultural and Historical Influence will be offered at the Museum on November 8, 2012 and taught by Carle educator Emily Prabhaker. With a focus on the books that are often recognized as the “most distinguished” winners, participants will look closely at how these books have influenced the culture and history of children’s literature and have brought new perspectives to the field. (Please note that both programs require registration. Visit http://www.carlemuseum.org/Register for more information.)
- With the official announcement a little more than a month away, on December 15, The Carle will host The Best of the Best in 2012 with Susan Bloom. Each year since 2001 Bloom, Simmons College Professor Emeritus and reviewer for The Horn Book, has shared her favorite picture books of the year in anticipation of the Caldecott Award announcements. With insightful and often funny explanations about what makes these books stand out from the rest, she has never failed to include the actual winner among her choices. This event is free with Museum Admission.

Museum hours are Tuesday through Friday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday 12 noon to 5 p.m. Open Mondays in July and August and during MA school vacation weeks. Admission is $9 for adults, $6 for children under 18, and $22.50 for a family of four.

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
125 West Bay Road

Amherst, PA

An exhibition from the Cadbury Research Library at the University of Birmingham, showcasing fine examples of the exquisitely produced Kelmscott Press books. Among those on display are the The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, 1896, alongside examples of early medieval manuscripts that were an inspiration for William Morris in setting up his private printing press.

Times: 9am – 6pm weekdays
Admission: Free, open to all

Muirhead Atrium
Cadbury Research Library
University of Birmingham

Edgbaston, Birmingham, UNITED KINGDOM

The Morgan Library & Museum is home to some of the world’s greatest collections of medieval manuscripts, printed books, literary manuscripts, private letters and correspondence, and original music. Now, visitors have the opportunity to view a changing selection of works drawn from these collections in Treasures from the Vault, an ongoing exhibition series displayed in the sumptuous setting of Pierpont Morgan’s 1906 Library. This season’s selection, which includes everything from Machiavelli’s warnings of a mercenary revolt to the first complete edition of Alexander Pope’s The Rape of the Lock, will be on view January 15–May 5, 2013.

Pierpont Library
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue

New York, NY

Classic locked-room mysteries, tales of murder and mayhem in quaint villages or gritty adventures on mean city streets.

Crime fiction, which currently accounts for over a third of all fiction published in English, holds millions of people enthralled. Murder in the Library will take you on a fascinating journey through the development of crime and detective fiction, from its origins in the early 19th century through to contemporary Nordic Noir, taking in the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the first appearance of Miss Marple and the fiendish plots of Dr Fu Manchu along the way.

Free admission

Folio Society Gallery
The British Library
96 Euston Road

London, UNITED KINGDOM

Focusing mainly on the Irish upper-class, their cultural exchange with England, and their struggle for power during a time of great change, Nobility and Newcomers underscores why Irish cultural identity is challenging to define: the early-modern Irish were a profoundly international people, with roots in England, Scotland, Wales, and cities across the European continent from which their Viking ancestors had originated.

Despite being united under the British crown, many Irish felt separate from their English neighbors, and with good reason: Three ethnically and culturally distinct groups (native islanders, descendants of twelfth century Anglo-Norman conquests, and new settlers) found themselves jockeying for power, cultural status, land ownership, and approval from the British crown.

Many Old English and Gaelic families declined or died out, while others found ways to survive and even thrive during a time of political upheaval. Writers of the period such as William Shakespeare, Edmund Spenser, and John Milton addressed the turmoil on the island; lesser-known Irish writers penned poetry and treatises about affairs of state and the rapidly changing nobility.

Along with scuffles and outright battles came more peaceful interactions, including intermarriages between the social groups and a merging of culture that shifted the language and influenced art, architecture, and letters.

Nobility and Newcomers in Renaissance Ireland examines the cultural history of early-modern Ireland’s social groups, and sheds light on the process of change that led to an intermingling of cultures and gave rise to the Ireland still familiar today.

Free admission

Folger Shakespeare Library
Folger Great Hall
201 East Capitol Street, SE

Washington, DC

The Rare Book Collection at the New York Society Library was built largely by its readers. This exhibition celebrates our members and their gifts, exploring relationships between books and people at the Library since its founding in 1754.

HOURS:
Mon 9 am - 5 pm
Tue 9 am - 7 pm
Wed 9 am - 5 pm
Thu 9 am - 7 pm
Fri 9 am - 5 pm
Sat 9 am - 5 pm
Sun 1 pm - 5 pm

New York Society Library
53 E. 79th Street

New York, NY

This exhibition of fifty Bibles examines the historical context, artistic development, and cultural impact of printed Bible illustrations of the fifteenth through nineteenth centuries.

Elizabeth Perkins Prothro Galleries
Bridwell Library
Perkins School of Theology
Southern Methodist University
6005 Bishop Blvd.

Dallas, TX

Planned to coincide with the Art Institute’s major exhibition Picasso and Chicago, this presentation from the Department of Prints and Drawings is inspired by the modern master's love of poetry—Picasso was close friends with poets, including Max Jacob, Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton, and Paul Éluard, and collaborated with them from his earliest days in Paris. Taking Picasso's passion as a jumping-off point, this collection of works on paper surveys the myriad ways visual artists have been inspired by or collaborated with poets in the 20th century.

Open daily 10:30 am – 5:00 pm
Thursday until 8:00 pm

Admission to the Art Institute of Chicago is free to Illinois residents the first and second Wednesday of every month.

Galleries 124–127
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue

Chicago, IL

Detailed and delicate multi-media prints (etching, drypoint, etc.) from the late San Francisco Bay area artist and expert print maker Beth Van Hoesen. Subjects will feature portraits, animals, and flower still lifes.

Hours:
Mon Closed
Tue Closed
Wed - Sat 11am - 5pm
Sun 1pm - 4pm

Monterey Museum of Art-Pacific Street
559 Pacific Street

Monterey, CA

Prints from the Jazz Portfolio from the Collection of the Monterey Museum of Art.

Hours:
Mon Closed
Tue Closed
Wed - Sat 11am - 5pm
Sun 1pm - 4pm

Monterey Museum of Art-Pacific Street
559 Pacific Street

Monterey, CA

This special exhibition showcases some 150 works from the Norma Jean Calderwood Collection of Islamic Art. Largely unpublished and little known, the collection includes important objects from the Persian cultural sphere, such as luxury glazed ceramics of the early Islamic era, illustrated manuscripts of medieval epic poems, and lacquerware of the early modern era. Among the manuscripts are folios of the Shahnama, by Firdawsi, and the Khamsa, by Nizami. The accompanying catalogue, published by the Harvard Art Museums and distributed by Yale University Press, offers illustrated entries and nine essays written by distinguished scholars and conservation scientists from a broad range of specialties. Curated by Mary McWilliams, Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums.

Tue – Sat 10am – 5pm

Arthur M. Sackler Museum
32 Quincy Street

Cambridge, MA

Although Virginia's College of William & Mary began offering law lectures in 1779, the Litchfield Law School in northwest Connecticut was the first school to provide a focused curriculum of legal training, beginning in 1782. The school's success inspired the establishment of a law school in New Haven in about 1800, which eventually evolved into today's Yale Law School. Two other law schools operated for several years in Hebron and Windham. In the early 19th century Connecticut had more law schools than any other state in the union.

On display are student notebooks, textbooks, letters and other documents of the schools and their instructors. Included are items on loan from the Litchfield Historical Society and from Manuscripts & Archives, Yale University Library.

9am - 10pm daily

Lillian Goldman Law Library
Yale Law School
127 Wall Street

New Haven, CT

This winter the AGO offers a glimpse into the world of legendary musician and artist Patti Smith through an intimate exhibition featuring photographs, personal objects, and a short film. Patti Smith: Camera Solo provides a rare opportunity to experience a different side of this rock icon – best known for her profound influence on the nascent punk rock scene in the late 1970s and 80s – through her poetic expression in the visual arts.

The first presentation of Smith's works in Canada, this exhibition highlights the continual connections between Smith's photography and her interest in poetry and literature. For more than four decades, she has documented sights and spaces infused with personal significance. Her visual work possesses the same unfiltered, emotional quality prevalent in her poetry and music lyrics: their allure lies in their often dreamlike imagery; their modest scale belies their depth and power.

Curated by Susan Talbott, director and CEO of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, the exhibition features approximately 70 black and white photographs taken with Smith's vintage Polaroid camera, presented here as gelatin silver prints, alongside personal objects. The exhibition also features Equation Daumal, a film directed by Patti Smith and shot by Jem Cohen on 16mm and super 8 film.

Art Gallery of Ontario
Musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario
317 Dundas Street West

Toronto, ON, CANADA

This exhibition celebrates the historic partnership between the Boston Athenæum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) in the years surrounding the museum’s founding in 1870. The closest ally to the early MFA, the Athenæum housed the nascent museum’s early exhibitions and placed a major portion of its art collection at the MFA’s new building in 1876. The Athenæum remained an indispensable partner to the younger institution well into the 1880s, offering material, logistical, and moral support with abundant goodwill.
This exhibition showcases diverse artifacts that remain in the Athenæum’s collection from this erstwhile alliance—paintings, sculptures, watercolors, drawings, photographs, decorative arts, and archival materials—and places them in their historical contexts.

The exhibition is organized by the Boston Athenæum and curated by Hina Hirayama, Associate Curator of Paintings & Sculpture. The exhibition is accompanied by a book, “With Éclat”: The Boston Athenæum and the Origin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston Athenæum, 2013), written by the curator.

Opening Reception: Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Norma Jean Calderwood Gallery
The Athenaeum
10½ Beacon Street

Boston, MA

For over 100 years, glamour and celebrity have been used to promote film in countless fan magazines around the world. Singular among them was Pour Vous, published weekly in France from the arrival of sound film in 1928 to the start of the Second World War. An offshoot of the conservative daily newspaper L’Intransigeant (1880–1940), its tabloid size, bold use of photography, and broad-ranging editorial content significantly distinguished it from counterparts in the United States. While Pour Vous aggressively embraced the American star system, it also offered alternative images of race and gender, glimpses of a developing world cinema, and considerations of film history and aesthetics that anticipated ways of thinking about the moving image that later blossomed in postwar France of the 1940s and 1950s. This exhibition includes over 100 star-studded Pour Vous covers and spreads, all drawn from the Department of Film collection, that document an overlooked chapter of cinema history.

Theater 2 Gallery
Theater 1 Gallery
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Sreet

New York, NY

The exhibition explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the twentieth century. The exhibition consists of fifty-one paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O’Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered “modern” from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum’s permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

Sun Noon – 5 pm
Tue Noon – 5 pm
Wed Noon – 5 pm
Thu Noon – 5 pm
Fri Noon – 5 pm
Sat 10 am – 5 pm
On the third Thursday of every month 5:00-8:00 pm

General admission is $5 per person, suggested donation.

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison Street

Syracuse, NY

The exhibition brings together Degas’s painting, on loan from the National Gallery in London, and a rich array of related material, including preparatory drawings, pastels, an oil sketch, and a print by the artist. Also on view will be three works by other painters of the period depicting scenes at the Cirque Fernando, as well as books, lithographs, photographs, prints, and circus programs that provide a more complete picture of Miss La La and her troupe.

"Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando remains as arresting today as it was when the artist created it over a hundred years ago,” said William M. Griswold, director of The Morgan Library & Museum. “The subject is unique among Degas’s paintings. This exhibition tells the story of the genesis of the work and its captivating theme with a fascinating display of drawings and prints, as well as literary, historical, and photographic material of the period.”

LECTURE
Degas, Miss La La, and the Cirque Fernando
Tuesday, February 19, 6:30 pm

Film
The Show Must Go On
Friday, February 22, 7 pm

The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue

New York, NY

The first major survey of the art of the Pre-Raphaelites to be shown in the United States features some 130 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and decorative art objects. The young members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, formed in 1848, shook the art world of mid-19th-century Britain by rejecting traditional approaches to painting. Combining scientific precision, an innovative approach to subject matter, and brilliant, clear colors, Pre-Raphaelitism was Britain's first avant-garde art movement.

Free admission

West Building, Main Floor
National Gallery of Art
4th & Constitution Avenue NW

Washington, DC

Many artists of the Pre-Raphaelite circle not only involved themselves in book design and illustration but were also highly regarded poets in their own right. Organized to complement Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900, this installation includes books of poetry by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Morris, wood-engraved illustrations by several Pre-Raphaelite artists, and material related to the Kelmscott Press (established by Morris in 1891). Beautifully illustrated books from this press are displayed alongside Morris' elaborate ornament designs and his own manuscript illumination inspired by medieval tomes. Featured works are from the National Gallery of Art Library and the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, on loan to the University of Delaware Library.

Free admission

West Building, Gallery G-21
National Gallery of Art
4th & Constitution Avenue NW

Washington, DC

This is the first major exhibition devoted to the history of manipulated photography before the digital age. This exhibition demonstrates that today's digitally manipulated images are part of a continuum that extends back to photography's first decades. Through visually captivating pictures created in the service of art, politics, news, entertainment, and commerce, Faking It not only traces the medium's complex and changing relationship to visual truth, but also significantly revises our understanding of photographic history.

Free admission

West Building's Ground Floor galleries
National Gallery of Art
4th & Constitution Avenue NW

Washington, DC

With a rare group of paintings, decorative arts, and sculptures from the collection of Roberta and Richard Huber, Journeys to New Worlds explores the artistic exchanges between Spain and Portugal and their colonies in the Americas and Asia during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This unique combination of rich visual traditions offers viewers a glimpse into the fascinating history and global influence of Iberian colonial art.
The exhibition includes paintings by Melchor Pérez Holguín (c. 1665–after 1724) and Gaspar Miguel de Berrío (1706–after 1764), two prolific artists from the city of Potosí, Bolivia. Berrío’s Our Lady of Mount Carmel with Bishop Saints of 1764 displays the artist’s ability to present European imagery in a new regional style, emphasizing sumptuous textiles and lush colors. Other paintings on view feature objects of popular devotion, among them the anonymously painted Our Lady of Pomata, which depicts a dressed sculpture of the Virgin Mary housed in a sanctuary on the shores of Lake Titicaca, Peru.

Exhibition Gallery, first floor
Perelman Building
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2525 Pennsylvania Avenue

Philadelphia, PA

American Moderns, 1910-1960: From O’Keeffe to Rockwell, explores a wide variety of American art from the first half of the twentieth century. The exhibition consists of 53 paintings and four sculptures by such prominent artists as Georgia O’Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Milton Avery, Stuart Davis and Arthur Dove. Drastic social, political and economical changes during this time period challenged artists to define what could be considered “modern” from a wide variety of definitions. From abstraction and cityscapes to realism and nature, these works selected from the Brooklyn Museum’s permanent collection offer a new perspective on American modern art.

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison Street

Syracuse, NY

The exhibition features prints and artist’s books dating from the early twentieth century to the present day, including selections from Wisconsin and New York-based artists working in the 1930s with the Works Projects Administration (WPA). While color adds tone, and sometimes content, a palette primarily relegated to black and white emphasizes line and proportion, drawing attention to how those qualities that contribute to the overall effect of a work.

Tue - Sat 10am - 5pm
Sun 12 - 5pm
Closed Mondays, Federal Holidays and Easter. The Museum Store closes at 4:45 pm each day.

Racine Art Museum
441 Main Street

Racine, WI

Reaching Out traces American Bible Society’s relationship with the African American community built through Bible publication and distribution. Beginning shortly after 1816 and through the following decades, the Society was quick to respond to requests for Bibles mainly in the Northern States. During the Civil War, ABS provided with Bibles both Union and Confederate soldiers and escaped slaves who came North. The Reconstruction era allowed the Society to intensify its work among freedmen and African Americans living freely in the North. At the turn of the century ABS created a special “Agency for the Colored People of the South” to satisfy the African American community’s need for Scripture and hired local distributors who also brought relief in times of natural disasters. In the 1960s, with the advent of the Civil Rights Movement, ABS reached out to its African American constituency through pamphlets and special imprints. ABS’ activity reached new milestones with the publication of the African American Jubilee Edition of the Bible in 1999 and the release of the first New Testament translated into Gullah or Sea Islands Creole in 2005.

Mon Closed
Tue & Wed 10am – 6pm
Thu 10am – 8pm
Fri, Sat & Sun 10am – 6pm

Free admission

Museum of Biblical Art
1865 Broadway at 61st Street

New York, NY

The Art Institute of Chicago is pleased to present a major exhibition that will celebrate its exceptional holdings of works by artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). Over 250 of the finest examples of the Art Institute’s extraordinary collection of Picasso’s paintings, sculpture, prints, and drawings as well as major loans from private collections in the city will be on display. The exhibition will coincide with the centennial of the Armory Show at the Art Institute, the first major exhibition of avant-garde European art presented in the United States and the first time Picasso’s works were displayed in an American museum. The exhibition will be the first major Picasso exhibition organized by the Art Institute in almost 30 years.

Member Preview: February 16 – 19

Open daily 10:30 am – 5:00 pm
Thursday until 8:00 pm

Admission to the Art Institute of Chicago is free to Illinois residents the first and second Wednesday of every month.

Regenstein Hall
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue

Chicago, IL

This exhibition revolves around a sumptuous and important Renaissance manuscript—an illuminated missal, the service book for the priest at the altar—made for the Franciscan community in the hillside town of Montone, near Perugia, in 1469. Acquired by the museum in 2006, the missal showcases the work of two artist brothers, Bartolomeo and Giapeco Caporali, who were active in Perugia during the second half of the 15th century and responsible for the missal's decoration. This small focus exhibition celebrates this important acquisition and presents it to the museum's audience for the first time. By bringing together additional panel paintings and manuscripts by these artists, the exhibition documents their careers and explores their relationship with the Franciscans of Montone. Liturgical objects such as vestments, a chalice, and a processional cross will place the manuscript in liturgical, cultural, and art historical contexts. Many of these works, lent by museums and churches in Umbria, are displayed in the U.S. for the first time.

Mon Closed
Tue, Thu, Sat, & Sun 10am – 5pm
Wed, & Fri 10am – 9pm

Free admission

Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Exhibition Gallery
11150 East Blvd.

Cleveland, OH

This exhibition will trace American history and politics from 1607 to 1865 against a changing physical environment. The items displayed will focus on early settlement and Native American contact, the Revolutionary War, the formation of political union, and westward expansion and indigenous contraction, culminating in an extended treatment of the Civil War to commemorate the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Main Gallery
Rare & Special Collections
Firestone Library
Princeton University
One Washington Road

Princeton, NJ

The pomp and pageantry of imperial coronations were documented and promoted in lavish albums that became almost as important as the extravagant events themselves. To mark the 400th anniversary of the founding of the Romanov dynasty in 1613, Hillwood presents a special exhibition of the albums created over the course of the family’s reign.

Over the course of their reign, the Romanovs celebrated coronations with elaborate celebrations, which included their grand entry into Moscow, fireworks, and the ruler symbolically crowning himself. Fully illustrating the grand celebration and all its details, sumptuous albums were created to spread word of the event and all its symbolism.

In the year of the 400th anniversary of the crowning of the first Romanov tsar, the most complete presentation ever of these coronation albums, including two copies of the monumental Alexander II album of 1856 with one in its original binding, will be on display at Hillwood. Beginning with Catherine I, Peter the Great’s wife, there were a total of seven coronation albums created by the Russian tsars—each published within a few years of the event. The exhibition will feature five albums from Hillwood’s collection, plus supplemental material on loan from the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, and the University of Texas at Austin, bringing together six of the seven coronation albums for the first time in an exhibition in the United States. Additions loans to the exhibition from the Boston Public Library; the Foundation of Russian History; the Morgan Library and Museum; the National Gallery of Art Library; the Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center; the U.S. Geological Survey Libraries; and the Wolfsonian, Flordia International University; and two private collectors are on display.

SYMPOSIUM:
Pageant of the Tsars Symposium
Saturday 2 March - 11:00am to 4:00pm. Tickets $20-65. Visitor Center Theater.

Dacha
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
4155 Linnean Avenue NW

Washington, DC

Exhibition Explores the Fascinating History and Global Adventures of Manuscripts through the Ages

Untold Stories: Collecting and Transforming Medieval Manuscripts

For hundreds of years, medieval manuscripts have been bought and sold, gifted and stolen, preserved and rearranged, loved and forgotten, hidden and displayed, cut into pieces, hung on walls, and glued into albums. They have survived wars, fires, floods, religious conflict, political tumult, the invention of printing, and changes in taste. They have at times been valued for their beauty, for their spiritual significance, or simply for the strength of their parchment pages. Featuring works from the Getty Museum’s permanent collection, the Getty Research Institute, Hearst Castle, and other outside loans, Untold Stories: Collecting and Transforming Medieval Manuscripts, on view February 26–May 12, 2013 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center includes medieval books, leaves, and cuttings with a variety of rich stories to be told.

Getty Center
J. Paul Getty Museum
1200 Getty Center Drive

Los Angeles, CA

This two person exhibition starts with that idea of a life's work, a project that an artist continually goes back to and that becomes both a trace of that work and a career. Both projects in this exhibition span decades and generations, and also function as re-inventions of existing texts. For the last 40 years British artist Tom Phillips has been working on A Humument, a series of collages based on A Human Document, the Victorian novel by W.H. Mallock. Phillips has altered the individual pages of the original book four times, each edition creating a new concrete text poem. For Life’s Work MASS MoCA will show Mallock’s unaltered book along with Phillips’ first edition of A Humument completed in 1973 as well as his most recent 5th edition completed in 2012. This amounts to a total of over 1000 individual book pages.

MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
1040 MASS MoCA WAY

North Adams, MA

Xu Bing has become one of China's best known and critically acclaimed artists, exhibiting in solo exhibitions and winning awards around the world. Landscape Landscript will be the first exhibition devoted to his landscapes.

Tue – Sun 10am – 6pm
Monday 10am – 6pm

Free admission

Special exhibition galleries 58, 59, 60 & 61
The Ashmolean Museum of Art & Archaeology
University of Oxford
Beaumont Street

Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM

Love Me Tender is an exhibition of extraordinary artworks made from ordinary currency. Attracted by money's symbolism and power, the artists featured in Love Me Tender scrutinize the systems of value celebrated on and embodied by currency. Bills and coins are transformed into tapestries, paintings, photographs, and sculptures that tap into the glamorous, seductive allure of money and society's notions of value and 'values.'

Featured artists include: Banksy, Barton Lidice Benes, JSG Boggs, Kathy Buszkiewicz, Scott Campbell, Daniel Carr, Enrique Chagoya, Jake & Dinos Chapmanm, James Charles, Robin Clark, Jack Daws, Sebastian Errazuriz & Thomas McDonell, Maximo Gonzalez, Wang Jin, Yasumasa Morimura, Tim O'Neill, Tahiti Pehrson, Justine Smith, Oriane Stender, Susan Stockwell, Johnny Swing, Dan Tague, Mark Wagner, Stacey Lee Webber, and Christopher Wilde.

Bellevue Arts Museum
510 Bellevue Way NE

Bellevue, WA

In The East Gallery
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
125 West Bay Road

Amherst, MA

Works from the Wertheim-Frary Collection

An exhibition of rare books, letters, printed ephemera and other materials related to the writing life of Stephen Crane, from the Wertheim-Frary Collection of Stephen Crane at Johns Hopkins.

George Peabody Library
17 East Mount Vernon Place

Baltimore, MD

In celebration of the release of the lavish book Audubon’s Aviary: The Original Watercolors for “The Birds of America”―to be published by the New-York Historical Society and Rizzoli—the New-York Historical Society will showcase masterpieces from its collection of John James Audubon’s preparatory watercolors for the sumptuous double-elephant-folio print edition of The Birds of America (1827-38). New-York Historical holds all 435 watercolor models for its 435 plates, engraved by Robert Havell Jr., plus an additional thirty-nine avian watercolors by Audubon.

Tuesday-Thursday, Saturday - 10am-6pm
Friday - 10am-8pm
Sunday - 11am-5pm
Monday - CLOSED

New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West - at Richard Gilder Way (77th Street)

New York, NY

In 1875, after being rejected by the official Paris Salon, where she had been exhibiting her paintings, American artist Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) accepted Edgar Degas’s (1834–1917) invitation to join the Impressionist group. Cassatt created her earliest surviving prints in 1878, a year before she first showed with the Impressionists. While she favored traditional subjects—women with children and female figures in repose predominate—her approach to printmaking was audacious. Cassatt experimented with a variety of print media, resolutely pursuing the effects she desired. She frequently repeated compositions with only minor changes, or continuously reworked her copper printing plates. At other times, she abandoned her project after pulling just a few impressions. On rare occasions, she aggressively burnished the metal surface on which she was busy in an effort to erase her mistakes, or printed from plates that reveal signs of prior use.

Spanning twenty years of Cassatt’s career as a printmaker, from 1878 to 1898, this exhibition documents her first tentative steps in the medium and culminates with her highly accomplished and technically dazzling color prints. The arrangement unfolds chronologically, allowing the viewer to follow how the artist grappled with subjects, compositions, and an array of printing methods. All the pieces on exhibition are drawn from the Print Collection, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs.

Print Gallery
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building:
Mon, Thu, Fri, & Sat 10am - 6pm
Tue & Wed 10am - 8pm
Sun 1pm - 5pm

Stokes Gallery
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building:
Mon, Thu, Fri, & Sat 10am - 6pm
Tue & Wed 10am - 8:30pm
Sun CLOSED

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street

New York, NY

An exhibition with richly-painted depictions of daily life created during the transformative years prior to the American Civil War. During a tragically short career, the Baltimore-born and European-trained Woodville (1825–55) engaged with issues that dominated American society, including war, intergenerational communication, and new technologies such as the telegraph and penny press. Woodville was born of a prominent Baltimore family, living blocks from the Walters, and trained in Düsseldorf, Germany, where he conducted his professional career. This is the first monographic Woodville exhibition since 1967.

Wed - Sun 10 am -5 pm
Thu 10 am - 9 pm

The Walters Art Museum
600 N. Charles Street

Baltimore, MD

Exploration 2013, the 27th annual exhibition of the Chicago Calligraphy Collective at the Newberry Library, Chicago, is a juried show that represents the best work by calligraphers in our guild.

The Newberry Library
60 West Walton Street

Chicago, IL

Fine Lines: American Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum presents a selection of over 100 of the finest, rarely seen drawings and sketchbooks from the Museum’s world-renowned collection of American art. Produced between 1768 and 1945 in a wide range of media (including graphite, pen and ink, crayon, charcoal, and pastel), the featured objects represent a variety of iconographies, styles, and practices in the history of American graphic arts. More than seventy artists are represented, including Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, Edward Hopper, and Marsden Hartley.

The exhibition is organized into six thematic sections, examining portraiture, nudes, the clothed figure, narrative subjects, and natural and urban environments. It is accompanied by a scholarly catalogue including interpretive essays, illustrated catalogue entries, and a selected bibliography.

Wed 11am – 6pm
Thu 11am – 10pm
Fri – Sun 11am – 6pm

Robert E. Blum Gallery, 1st Floor
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway

Brooklyn, NY

An exhibition of Paulette Tavormina's still lifes - lush photographs of food and flora, reminiscent of 17th century Old Master paintings.

Tavormina's dramatic images reflect the sumptuous detail of 17th century Old Master paintings. Using a contemporary medium and a modern approach, her vibrant photographs of food and flora are reminiscent of Dutch, Spanish, and Italian still-lifes of the Golden Age. To create these luscious compositions, Tavormina collects “props”—such as butterflies, shells, dried flowers and ceramics—which evoke the still-life vernacular and imbue each tableau with allegorical meaning. There is a wonderful disorientation as Tavormina’s contemporary pieces evoke the trompe l’oeil effect of Old Master still-lifes.

Mon - Sat 10am - 6pm

MARCH (Kitchen/Hearth/Dining/Home)
3075 Sancramento Street

San Francisco, CA

Since the early 20th century, abstraction has been associated with so many artistic movements, from Suprematism and Constructivism to Abstract Expressionism and Op art, that it can no longer be defined by any one style or tradition. Indeed, abstraction exists now as a rich and varied trove of formal languages and ideas—an open source of inspiration that extends well beyond the boundaries of art. This exhibition focuses on the print medium, highlighting ways in which abstraction has played a generative role in works of the past decade. Featuring prints, artists’ books, and multiples from the Museum’s collection—by artists such as Cory Arcangel, Tauba Auerbach, Philippe Decrauzat, Liam Gillick, Wade Guyton, Nadia Kaabi-Linke, R. H. Quaytman, and Haegue Yang—Abstract Generation examines contemporary notions of abstraction through a range of contemporary practices.

The Paul J. Sachs Prints and Illustrated Books Galleries, second floor
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street

New York, NY

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection of Manuscripts, donated to the University of Pennsylvania Libraries by Penn Libraries Board members Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg and Lawrence J. Schoenberg (C53, WG56), embodies the great scientific and philosophical traditions of the ancient and medieval world. The manuscripts in this exhibition document the extraordinary achievements of European, Arabic, and Jewish scholars, philosophers, and the practitioners of science, medicine, and law. Often illustrated with complex diagrams and stunning imagery, these manuscripts bring to the present the intellectual legacy of the medieval past.

Mon - Fri 10am - 5pm
Wed 10am - 8pm

Goldstein Family Gallery, Special Collection Center
Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, sixth floor
3420 Walnut Street

Philadelphia, PA

Exhibition includes materials from Charles F. Cummings New Jersey Information Center at the Newark Public Library, and is comprised of photographs from Roth's personal collections, most never before seen by the public. Selected and captioned by Roth himself, the photographs tell the story of his life; from his youth in Newark to contemporary times; with images of his family, his friends from the Weequahic community, and his writer colleagues. Rosemary Steinbaum carefully selected passages from Roth's books that complement the photographs and captions.

The exhibit is presented in celebration of Philip Roth's 80th birthday, March 19, 2013.

Main Library, Second Floor Gallery
The Newark Public Library
5 Washington Street

Newark, NJ

“Forms of Life” Art Exhibition by the 5300 Group

The first Natural History of North America was published in 1731 by an Englishman, Mark Catesby (white heron by Catesby at left). Since that time, there has been a steady stream of works on that subject, an attempt to identify what new and amazing life was here. These early naturalist explorers used words and images to describe an as yet little known continent and its natural inhabitants.

Come to the Lloyd Library and Museum to see these early works and find out what the Ohio Valley and other parts of North America were really like in the days before it was settled by European immigrants. Rare and fascinating books from the 18th and 19th centuries in black and white and full color will be on display for your viewing pleasure.


The 5300 Group is a collection of local artists and kindred spirits who have been together since 2008, working in a variety of media and exploring a wide assortment of subjects. Individual members have shown their work locally, regionally, and nationally in juried exhibitions. As a group they have held shows at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center, The Barn in Mariemont, and Betts House. This is their first appearance at the Lloyd Library.

Opening: March 23, 4-7 p.m., with a brief lecture at 4:30 by Devere Burt (formerly of the Cincinnati Natural History Museum) on the early Ohio Valley and John James Audubon. Reception follows.

Lloyd Library and Museum
917 Plum Street

Cincinnati, OH

Folk tale literature throughout the world encompasses both magic and symbolism, comprised in stories of saints, gods, myths, and legends. The motifs, characters and plots are often ancient in origin and initially passed by word of mouth. These repeated and recorded stories transcend various national and cultural boundaries. Multiple influences that reach back through the centuries can be discovered in the stories and art in this exhibition.

Tue - Fri 10am - 4pm
Sat 10am - 5pm
Sun 12 - 5pm

Open Mondays in July & August and during MA school vacation weeks.

Admission is $9 for adults, $6 for children under 18, and $22.50 for a family of four.

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
125 West Bay Road

Amherst, MA

Bindings on display will change throughout the exhibition period.

Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm

Richard Minsky Presentation on the art and commerce of 19th and 20th century American trade bindings, will be held in the Hodges Reading Room (on the second floor of Jackson Library) on April 16 at 4pm - 5pm. The talk and reception following are both free and open to the public.

Hodges Reading Room
Walter Clinton Jackson Library, 2nd Floor
UNCG
320 College Avenue

Greensboro, NC

Mathematician, Journalist, Patriot, Historian of Science, Paleographer,
Book Collector, Bibliographer, Antiquarian Bookseller, Forger and Book Thief.

Mon - Sat 10am - 5m

Open to the public free of charge

The Grolier Club
47 East 60th Street (between Park & Madison Avenues)

New York, NY

A solo exhibition of recent works by artist Todd Norsten; opening reception for the artist will be held on March 30th, 6 – 8pm.

When he’s not hunting or fishing on edge of the Great American Plains, Todd Norsten spends “a lot of time making paintings that look like they were done in three seconds.” This quote neatly packages Norsten’s insubordinate attitude towards high culture, as well as his shameless devotion to the act of painting.

The 25 works in this exhibition, dating from 2010–2013, range from deceivingly minimalist abstraction to text-based non-sequiturs. The more formal paintings on view are compositionally seductive, but it is the meticulous trompe-l’oeil depiction of mundane materials like Scotch and blue painter’s tape that truly intrigue. Bastardizing their minimalist arrangements, the tape paintings are rendered complete with bits of dust, fingerprints, and ragged edges. Norsten plays this realism/illusion modern/postmodern game again in a number of thickly painted works, their belabored surfaces stamped, incised with graffiti, or peeled away to reveal another painting beneath.

Friday to Monday, 11am – 5pm
And by Appointment

East Hampton Gallery
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller
87 Newtown Lane

East Hampton, NY

As part of the Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts in 2013, the Athenaeum collaborated with the Philadelphia Center for the Book to produce an exhibition which combines select items from the Curry/Sherk Centennial Collection with the work of contemporary book artists who responded to a Call for Entries.

Opening Reception. April 5, 5 - 7pm

Free Admission

The Athenaeum of Philadelphia
219 S. 6th Street

Philadelphia, PA

More than 200 of the finest and most poignant photographs of the American Civil War have been brought together for the landmark exhibition Photography and the American Civil War, opening April 2 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Through examples drawn from the Metropolitan’s celebrated holdings of this material, complemented by exceptional loans from public and private collections, the exhibition will examine the evolving role of the camera during the nation’s bloodiest war. The “War between the States” was the great test of the young Republic’s commitment to its founding precepts; it was also a watershed in photographic history. The camera recorded from beginning to end the heartbreaking narrative of the epic four-year war (1861–1865) in which 750,000 lives were lost. This traveling exhibition will explore, through photography, the full pathos of the brutal conflict that, after 150 years, still looms large in the American public’s imagination.

Press Preview: Monday, April 1, 10:00 a.m.–noon

Special Exhibition Gallery, first floor
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue (at 82nd Street)

New York, NY

Exhibition focuses on reform in the history of the Medieval and Early Modern Church, and includes manuscripts that illustrate important texts from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries. About thirty-five manuscripts and a few printed books begin with texts and manuscripts associated with the religious orders of the Middle Ages -- Bernard of Clairvaux and the Cistercians, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Bridget of Sweden, and St. Francis de Paola -- and then explores in greater detail texts associated with the Devotio Moderna, and parallel movements in France and Italy, leading up to manuscripts associated with the Protestant Reformation.”

Mon - Sat 10am - 6pm

Opening Reception, April 4th 6 - 9pm (RSVP necessary)

Les Enluminures is publishing a full-color “Paths to Reform” catalogue to accompany the exhibition written by Sandra Hindman and Laura Light, with an introduction by David Lyle Jeffrey, Distinguished Professor of Literature and the Humanities, Honors College, and Distinguished Senior Fellow and Director of Manuscript Research in Scripture and Tradition, Institute for Studies in Religion, Baylor University.

Les Enluminures – New York
23 East 73 Street – 7th floor

New York, NY

This joint CODEXMEXICO / Stanford University Library / CODEXAustralia event includes an exhibition, book fair, & symposium.

EXHIBITION:
The exhibition showcases both Mexico's enormous heritage in the arts of printing, and the Mexicans currently working to renew and enrich such an important legacy. Come explore Codex Mexico, a unique, exciting exposition of artisanal books and printed art at the Mexican Cultural Institute!

These exceptional books reveal a world of rich potential for these new generations of printers, graphic artists, and writers, one inextricably tied to their unique cultural past. Harnessing a printing tradition that thrived even in Pre-Colombian times, twenty-two Mexican artists push the boundaries of bookmaking convention, providing distinctive housing for some of Mexico's most celebrated poets and writers.

In Codex Mexico, Francisco Toledo's somber, articulated slave ships exist alongside the striking, polemic works of California-based Enrique Chagoya. These artists join Arnaldo Coen, Raymundo Sesma, El Nacho, Ninja Press, Peter Koch, among others, bringing a range of artistic techniques and styles to the bookmaking format to create works as distinctive as the colors and materials that compose them.

Artisanal books from Californian and Australian printing presses appear alongside Mexican works, inviting contemplation of parallels and divergences between the cultures, artists, and printers of the exhibition. Inheritors of vastly different traditions, these artists' singular visions reflect a seemingly endless array of possibilities in the art of printmaking.

Free Admission

Mon - Fri 10am - 6pm
Sat 12-4pm

SYMPOSIUM: April 19th
An accompanying two days of free public programming at the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington D.C.

ARTIST BOOK FAIR & EXHIBITION: April 20th
Five California artists and local printers will display additional pieces of their work.

MEXICAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON, DC
2829 16th Street NW

Washington, DC

Conservators at the University of Chicago Library keep collections safe and intact for future scholars by combining traditional craft with a knowledge of current research on processes of deterioration. Under Covers: The Art and Science of Book Conservation reveals the techniques conservators use to preserve and repair materials in the state-of-the-art Conservation Laboratory in the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library. The exhibit explores issues affecting modern and older library materials and shows conservators employing the newest scientific research in their work.

This exhibit coincides with the American Library Association's Preservation Week (April 21-27, 2013).

Mon - Sat 9am - 4:30pm

Free admission

Location: The John Crerar Library
Atrium, 5730 South Ellis Avenue

Chicago, IL

In June 1929, at a time when young writers and painters dreamed of living in Paris, Federico García Lorca (1898–1936), Spain’s greatest modern poet and playwright, broke boldly with tradition and sailed for New York. His nine months here, followed by three months in Havana, changed his vision of poetry, the theater, and the social role of the artist.

Lorca came to New York to study English but devoted himself instead to writing Poet in New York, a howl of protest against racial bigotry, mindless consumption, and the adoration of technology. “What we call civilization, he called slime and wire,” the critic V. S. Pritchett once wrote. But Lorca’s book reaches beyond New York—“this maddening, boisterous Babel”—into the depths of the psyche, in a search for wholeness and redemption.

In 1936, the poet left the manuscript of Poet in New York on the desk of his Madrid publisher with a note saying he would be “back tomorrow,” probably to discuss final details. He never returned. Weeks later, at the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, he was brutally murdered by fascist elements in Granada, his body thrown into an unmarked mass grave. The book was published posthumously in 1940, but the manuscript mysteriously disappeared, lost to scholars for decades. The Fundación Federico García Lorca in Madrid and The New York Public Library exhibit it now for the first time, together with drawings, photographs, letters, and mementos—traces of a Poet in New York . . . and of New York in a poet.

Mon, Thu-Sat 10am - 6pm
Tue & Thu 10am - 7:30pm
Sun 1 - 5pm

Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III Gallery
5th Avenue at 42nd Street

New York, NY

Like thousands of young men, twenty-three year- old John Edwin Forbes went to war in 1862—but he did not shoulder a rifle or carry a saber. The classically trained Forbes joined a group of artists and reporters, known collectively as the Bohemian Brigade, sent south by northern newspapers to feed a home front population hungry for information about the war and the men engaged in it. For two and a half years Forbes documented the Union and Confederate armies—in camp, on the march and in battle. Accompanied by Forbes’s own descriptions, this exhibition features original pen-and-ink drawings based on his wartime sketches and used to illustrate his memoir, Thirty Years After: An Artist’s Story of the Great War (1890). All of these images are part of a collection of 156 drawings donated to the Virginia Historical Society in 2008 by the William R. Berkley family. This traveling exhibition was organized by the Virginia Historical Society.

Wed - Sat 10am - 4pm
Sun noon - 4pm

Free admission

Museum
National Sporting Library and Museum
102 The Plains Road

Middleburg, VA

Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century is the first survey in more than a generation of the full extent, breadth, and depth of the visual arts in Britain during the reign of King Edward VII (1901–10). Among other themes, the exhibition explores the pan-imperial, international, and transatlantic character of British art in that complex period, and considers the impact of new technologies—such as electrification, the motor car, recorded sound, and cinema—on painting, sculpture, photography, and the decorative arts. Many of the objects in the exhibition have been chosen to reveal the full and often startling magnificence of elite consumption during that turbulent decade. The emphasis on the theme of opulence serves to illuminate a social and artistic dreamscape that was shattered by World War I.

Tue - Sat 10am - 5pm
Sun noon - 5pm

Free admission

Yale Center of British Art
1080 Chapel Street

New Haven, CT

The BMA presents the first exhibition to extensively explore American artist Max Weber's formative years in Paris from fall 1905 to December 1908, when he transformed his painting style from classical representations of figures to bold interpretations of cubism and futurism. More than 30 paintings, prints, and drawings-many of them loaned by the Estate of Max Weber and other public and private collections-showcase the artist as one of the most important American modernist painters. The exhibition features several Weber paintings from 1909 to 1915 from the BMA's collection, as well as works from Weber's personal collection by his teacher Henri Matisse and his friends Pablo Picasso and Henri Rousseau.

Free admission

The Baltimore Museum of Art
10 Art Museum Drive

Baltimore, MD

The figurative painter R. B. Kitaj (1932–2007) frequently took a literary approach to his subject matter, portraying friends and heroes—political, artistic, and philosophical—in intimate scenes both real and imagined. Often he playfully borrowed settings from other works of art, as well as from films and news photographs. The deep literary and conceptual underpinnings of his art are in evidence in the 1969 suite In Our Time, a highly unusual body of work, even an anomaly, within his oeuvre.

The series is composed of fifty screenprints based on enlarged photographs of the bindings or jackets of books in his personal library. Stains, tears, and discolorations attest to each volume’s history and to its physical—and by implication intellectual—fragility. The range of texts and typographies conveys Kitaj’s eclectic interests and tastes. Most are prewar editions, conveying a slightly nostalgic tone.

Sun - Tue, Fri & Sat 11am - 5:45pm
Wed - Closed
Thu 11pm - 8pm

ADMISSION
Adults $12
Seniors (65 and over with ID) $10
Students (full-time with valid ID) $7.50
Children (under 12) Free
Members Free
Saturdays Free
Thursdays from 5:00-8:00pm Pay What You Wish

The Jewish Museum
1109 5th Avenue at 92nd Street

New York, NY

For Water & Polaroid, Matthew Brandt presents three bodies of work based on the manipulation of photographic emulsion. To create the works in the exhibition that involve Water, inspired by early landscape photography of the American West, Brandt incorporates the subject of the image into its manipulation. At its most elaborate, Brandt’s process involves using water from an actual waterfall he has photographed to rig an artificial waterfall that pours over the printed image, creating streaks of color that drip from the emulsion. At its most direct, he soaks prints in water drawn from their subject lakes.

Tue - Sat 11am - 6pm and by appointment

Highlight Gallery
17 Kearny Street

San Francisco, CA

Woodblock-printed illustrated books became key sources of knowledge and entertainment in Japan during the Edo period (1615–1868). Working with renowned artists and authors, enterprising publishers produced compact, inexpensive paperbound volumes that were sold and circulated throughout Japan. With beautiful, intriguing, and entertaining subjects, books brought reading of words and images to the masses, creating a communication revolution similar to electronic media today. Highlights from the Gerhard Pulverer Collection now in the Freer Gallery of Art, including rare private editions and bestsellers such as Hokusai’s Manga sketchbooks, are shown together for the first time since the museum purchased the collection in 2007.

10am - 5pm

Free admission

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
National Mall
1050 Independence Avenue SW

Washington, DC

James Boswell, an ambitious and jovial twenty-two-year-old Scotsman, traveled south from Edinburgh to London in the autumn of 1762 to seek his fortune in the capital. London in the 1760s was a thrilling place, full of pleasures and dangers, wisdom and folly, high life and low life. This exhibition evokes young Boswell’s experience “in the midst of the jovial crowd.” A selection of prints by William Hogarth, Thomas Rowlandson, and others, as well as rare books, ballads, and manuscripts, capture a sense of the current events, everyday social life, and personalities celebrated in Boswell’s London Journal.

On view Wednesdays, 2-4:30 pm, and by appointment.

The Lewis Walpole Library
154 Main Street

Farmington, CT

Surveying four decades of Polaroid’s influence in fine art photography

To the public, it’s a reminder of a bygone era of instant color snapshots at millions of family gatherings. For historians, it’s an obvious precursor to today’s ubiquitous instant photos. But from the time Polaroid’s famed SX-70 camera was released in 1972, there were those who saw its ability to instantly produce color photos as an exciting new medium for fine art.

A groundbreaking survey exhibition organized by the museum that will bring together Polaroid pictures by 39 artists and collectives from 1972 through the present. Artists represented include such pioneers of instant photography as Ansel Adams, Ellen Carey, Chuck Close, Walker Evans, David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Joyce Neimanas, Andy Warhol, and William Wegman as well as a new generation of artists including Anne Collier, Bryan Graf, Catherine Opie, Lisa Oppenheim, Dash Snow, Mungo Thomson, and Grant Worth.

Several related events will be held, including an exhibition opening lecture by New York magazine senior editor Christopher Bonanos, author of the 2012 book Instant: The Story of Polaroid; a gallery talk by the curator; a campus series screening films about Polaroid photography or where it plays an important role; a program of child-friendly activities in the galleries; and the curator discussing the exhibition catalogue at the main branch of the New York Public Library.

Free admission

Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat 10am – 5pm
Thu 10am – 9pm
Sun 1 – 5pm

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Vassar Campus
124 Raymond Avenue

Poughkeepsie , NY

When you hear the word herbarium, you might think herb garden. Not so.

Instead, think of an herbarium as a kind of library of preserved plants. But instead of shelves upon shelves of books, an herbarium contains cabinets upon cabinets of dried and labeled plant specimens. Unlike most books in a library, which can be repurchased or duplicated, each herbarium specimen is truly unique. It is a representative of plant biodiversity at a particular place and time in the history of life on earth.

A new exhibit in Perkins Library explores the beauty and importance of herbaria in furthering our understanding of the natural world and highlights our own “hidden library” of plants right here on campus—the Duke Herbarium.

Exhibit Reception and Lecture: April 29 4pm
Alfred Russel Wallace in the Amazon: The Making of a Naturalist
Speaker: Sandra Knapp, Research Botanist at the Natural History Museum in London
Location: Perkins Library, Room 217, Duke West Campus
Exhibit reception to follow in the Perkins Library Gallery. Light refreshments will be served.

Mon - Fri 8am – 7pm
Sat 9am – 7pm
Sun 10am – 7pm
Hours may vary during the summer months.

Perkins Library Gallery
Duke West Campus
Duke University
411 Chapel Drive

Durham, NC

Today maps are known primarily as tools to help us reach our destination, but in the 18th and 19th centuries they were key to the American experience and became the social glue that bound strangers into a community.

During that time, maps evolved from rare collectibles to ubiquitous objects that were central to men's and women's senses of self. This exhibition takes you on a journey into the importance of maps in everyday life and material culture and features selections from Winterthur's fascinating collection of traditional maps on paper as well as map-related objects, such as ceramics, geographic playing cards, and printed handkerchiefs.

Mon – Fri 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
Closed holiday Mondays

Winterthur Museum and Garden
5105 Kennett Pike (Route 52)

Winterthur, DE

Alice Aycock: Drawings is the first major survey of works on paper by leading American sculptor Alice Aycock (born 1946), who is best known for her room-scale installations and outdoor sculptures that span the divide between art, architecture, and science. The exhibition focuses on Aycock’s preparatory studies on paper, which she employs as laboratories for developing the multi-layered complexities of her three-dimensional works. Combining pragmatic information with imaginative fantasy, her drawings serve as engaging aesthetic entities in their own right. Alice Aycock: Drawings will be on view at both the Grey Art Gallery and the Parrish Art Museum (April 21–July 14).

Grey Art Gallery
New York University
100 Washington Square East

New York, NY

Lynd Ward (1905-1985), a gifted artist-storyteller, illustrated more than 100 books for children and young adults, several in collaboration with his wife May McNeer. Selected from the Zimmerli’s collection, this exhibition features 37 captivating original and printed illustrations from six books for young people: The Biggest Bear (1952), for which Ward received the prestigious Caldecott Medal; The Mexican Story (1953; text by May McNeer); America’s Mark Twain (1962); Nic of the Woods (1965); Early Thunder (1967); and Go Tim Go! (1967). Twenty-three drawings, watercolors, and lithographic proofs for The Mexican Story—a sweeping history from the Aztec civilization to the modern era—provide insight into Ward’s creative process. Ward pioneered the American graphic novel without text, which he called a “novel in woodcuts” for adults. His earliest books, Gods' Man (1929) and Mad Man’s Drum (1930), are also on view.

The exhibition is open to the public on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays, but special tours can be arranged. To reserve a class or group tour Tuesday through Sunday, please contact the Education Department, 732.932.7237, ext. 615, at least two weeks in advance.

Duvoisin Gallery
Zimmerli Art Museum
71 Hamilton Street

New Brunswick, NJ

In the 1890s Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944) created the “Gibson Girl,” a vibrant, new feminine ideal who was the visual embodiment of what writers of the period described as the “New Woman.” From the 1890s until World War I, the glamorous Gibson Girl set the standard for beauty, fashion, and manners, bringing her creator unrivaled professional and popular success. This exhibition, selected from the exceptional collection of Gibson’s work at the Library of Congress, traces the arc of the artist’s career, highlighting the rise of the Gibson Girl from the 1890s through the first two decades of the twentieth century.

The exhibition is made possible by the Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon.

The Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave, SE

Washington, DC

FOUR BYZANTINE MANUSCRIPTS offer a glimpse into the world of handwritten illuminated texts of the New Testament. While book production flourished in the Early Byzantine period (4th to 6th centuries), it waned during Iconoclasm (726-784) when it became controversial to depict Christ and the saints. When holy images were reinstated in the early 9th century, manuscript production quickly and steadily increased.

Manuscripts were laborious and costly investments. Written in ink and illuminated with natural pigments and gold, they were commissioned for private use or given to churches and monasteries by wealthy patrons. Displayed on the altar, read to the congregation, carried in processions, and venerated in churches or libraries, the manuscripts were already rare and precious at the time of their making. Ultimately, they were produced to confirm, conserve, and spread the word.

Dumbarton Oaks
Research Library and Collection
1703 32nd Street, NW

Washington, DC

This exhibition focuses on Duncan Phillips’s relationship with New York collections in the 1910s and 1920s. The 1913 Armory Show—the first major modern art exhibition in the U.S.—had a powerful impact on Phillips, as it did on collectors A. E. Gallatin and John Quinn. Though initially shocked and dismayed by the exhibition, Phillips eventually embraced modern art and collected some of the very artists he had criticized. In the early 1920s, Phillips considered establishing a branch of the Phillips Memorial Gallery in Manhattan but ultimately decided against it, likely because of his purchase of major works such as Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Luncheon of the Boating Party.

Quinn created one of the finest collections of modern art in the world. Following his death in 1924, it was dispersed by auction. Quinn’s executors sought Phillips’s advice on the disposition of the collection, though Phillips was unable to purchase works from the collection himself. The dispersal of Quinn’s collection inspired Gallatin to open his Gallery of Living Art at New York University in 1927, the first collection on public view in the United States devoted exclusively to modern art. The loss of Quinn’s collection was also a catalyst for the founding of the Museum of Modern Art. Alfred H. Barr, Jr., the museum’s first director, corresponded with Phillips when he was teaching America’s first class on contemporary art at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.

Phillips’s relationship with the Armory Show, John Quinn, A. E. Gallatin, and Alfred Barr is explored through selected correspondence, books, and photographs from the Phillips archives and the Archives of American Art, as well as the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

TUE ‒ SAT 10am ‒ 5pm
SUN 11am ‒ 6pm
THU extended hours 5 ‒ 8:30pm
MON CLOSED

THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION
1600 21ST STREET NW

Washington, DC

Carl Purington Rollins was Yale's first University Printer. In the course of four decades, he designed more than two thousand books for Yale University Press as well as most of the University's ephemeral materials, and he introduced the craft letterpress tradition to students with his Bibliographical Press (now -- as originally -- housed in Sterling Memorial Library). Upon his death in 1960 at age 80, Rollins left a rich intellectual legacy of printing and design scholarship and an enormous archive of printed works that feature his distinctive typographic style.

Despite having received the highest distinction in his field -- the American Institute of Graphic Arts medal -- and the accolades of his peers, Rollins is virtually unknown today. This exhibition explores his life and works from his early days as printer for a utopian community in Massachusetts to his later work for Yale and numerous academic and graphic societies. It also traces the influence of William Morris on Rollins's early work and explores how Rollins's approach to design continues to influence both the University's visual "brand" and the teaching of design at Yale today.

Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library (Lower Level)
Yale University
180 York Street

New Haven, CT

The period following the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was a time of change and discovery in North America. In this display of charts, views, and maritime objects, we look at the decade following the war, when Britain set out to accurately chart the coast and survey the inland areas of their new resource-rich empire in Atlantic Canada, as well as the eastern seaboard extending from New England to the West Indies. The resulting charts were published collectively by Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres in The Atlantic Neptune, a maritime atlas which set the standard for nautical charting for nearly half a century.
Using nearly 30 items, including nautical charts, navigational instruments and ship models, dating from the 18th century to the present, this exhibition examines the importance of accurate charting of the new empire, defines how Britain put her mark on the land, and explores the complex processes of marine surveying and nautical chart production.

Part I: Atlantic Canada (May 1 to July 28, 2013)

Part II: Eastern Seaboard from New England to the West Indies (August 1 to November 3, 2013)

Central Library, Copley Square (Norman B. Leventhal Map Center)
The Boston Public Library
700 Boylston Street

Boston, MA

The human desire to assemble and organize the world’s information is the inspiration for The Encyclopedic Impulse.

The exhibition marks the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Denis Diderot, editor and principal author of the great eighteenth-century Encyclopédie, which sought to bring together and disseminate the world’s knowledge. Visitors to the exhibition can see multiple volumes of the Encyclopédie from the Rare Book Collection.

Other materials will explore the process of defining and compiling knowledge and the literal translation of “encyclopedia” from the Greek as a “circle of learning.” Publications on view will include an early printed edition of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, the ancient text often identified as the first encyclopedic work; writings on knowledge by scientist, philosopher, and statesman Francis Bacon, a contemporary of Shakespeare; Athanasius Kircher’s Turris Babel (1679); and Pierre Bayle’s Projet et fragmens d’un dictionaire critique (1692), a forerunner of the Encyclopédie.

The exhibition will also probe how encyclopedias relate to other reference works, such as Samuel Johnson’s 1755 Dictionary of the English Language, and to one another. The famous 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica will be on view, as well as encyclopedias from Germany, China, and Spain.

Twentieth-century works including H. G. Wells’s The Idea of a World Encyclopedia (1936); Jorge Luis Borges’s Library of Babel (1943); and Luigi Serafini’s Codex Seraphinianus (1981) will reflect on the concept of the encyclopedia.

Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm
Sat 9am - 1pm
Sun 1pm - 5pm

Melba Remig Saltarelli Exhibit Room
Wilson Special Collections Library
UNC University Library
University of North Carolina
200 South Road

Chapel Hill, NC

The Grand Tour was a journey, usually beginning in Paris and continuing through Italy, undertaken by young aristocrats of northern Europe. It began as a way for privileged youth, especially in Britain, to complete their education by learning manners and languages, and to gain knowledge about the geography, culture, and politics of the continent. The term was first coined by Richard Lassel in his 1670 work Voyage of Italy. By the end of the seventeenth century, such a journey included an appreciation of classical Roman ruins and the collection of art and antiquities. The practice flourished throughout the eighteenth century, and by the middle of the nineteenth century, even the middle classes were embarking on such travel. A variety of literature and bibliographic material accompanied and evolved with the Grand Tour. The selections here are drawn from the National Gallery of Art Library’s rare books collection and image collections. They record, describe, and distill the experiences of travelers in a variety of ways, and afford us unique views of the Grand Tour.

Free admission

National Gallery of Art
East Building Ground Level, Library

Washington, DC

Along with American comics and Japanese manga, bande dessinée ("drawn strip") is one of the great comics traditions. Th­is exhibition presents key moments in the evolution of bande dessinée volumes, from their initial standardization to contemporary explorations into the possibilities offered by the book as three-dimensional object, explorations that have led, in Europe as elsewhere, to a blurring of the distinction between comic books and artist's books.
Featuring work by: Andreas, Nava Atlas, Lars Arrhenius, Adolpho Avril & Olivier Deprez, Rémy Pierlot & Vincent Fortemps, Jean-Jacques Oost & Gipi, Richard Bawin & ­Thierry Van Hasselt, Dominique ­Théâte & Dominique Goblet, Pome Bernos, Paz Boïra, Claire Bretécher, Julie Chen and Lois Morrison, with Elizabeth McDevitt, Frédéric Coché, David B., Martin tom Dieck, and Jens Balzer, Will Dinski, Vincent Fortemps, André Franquin,Dominique Goblet and Guy Marc Hinant, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Enrique Chagoya, and Felicia Rice, René Goscinny and Albert Uderzo, Emmanuel Guibert, Didier Lefèvre and Frédéric Lemercier, Hergé, Mamiko Ikeda, Edgar P. Jacobs, Eric Lambé, Marc-Antoine Mathieu, Michael Matthys, Emily Martin, Max, Miles O'Shea and Olivier Deprez, Omar F. Olivera, OuBaPo, Philippe Petit-Roulet, Peyo, John Porcellino, Nicolas Robel, Marjane Satrapi, Francois Schuiten and Benoît Peeters, Joann Sfar and Jean-Christophe Menu, Stefan J.H. Van Dinther, Th­ierry Van Hasselt and Karine Ponties, Chris Ware, Toña Wilson, and Melinda Yale.

Mon - Fri 10am - 6pm
Sat 10am - 4pm

Free Admission

The Center for Book Arts
28 W. 27th Street, 3rd Floor

New York, NY

Chernobyl on Tour seeks to challenge the cartographic representation of the Contaminated Zone: a territory wiped off the maps of the world. A catastrophe erases itself from the people's memory because its traces are barely visible, and sometimes, the very nature of the catastrophe wipes out its evidence. This project deals with the impossibility of representing of a catastrophe, mainly due to its very characteristics and nature; in this case, the phenomenon of radioactivity invisible to the naked eye. How to represent something that in its very character escapes description, escapes our senses, and therefore our regular points of reference? This book is composed of a series of drawings based on U.S. Army archival maps, as well as those from the former U.S.S.R. Army, dating to before the catastrophe. This represents a sort of re-reading of the territory through the object of the map. How do we read and re-read maps? What are the codes of this reading?

Chernobyl on Tour - Artist Talk May 10th - 6:30pm
Chernobyl on Tour seeks to challenge the cartographic representation of the Contaminated Zone:a territory wiped off of the maps of the world.

The Center for Book Arts
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor

New York, NY

The Morgan Celebrates the 2011 completion of the monumental Saint John's Bible with the display of a volume from the Apostles Edition.

The fully illuminated manuscript, commissioned by St. John's University, was created using traditional materials and techniques along with modern technology.

Tue – Thu 10:30am - 5pm
Fri 10:30 am - 9pm
Sat 10am - 6pm
Sun 11am - 6pm
Mon CLOSED

Admission:
$15 Adults
$10 Students, seniors & children (under 16)
Free Members & children 12
Free Fridays 7 - 9pm

1928 Annex Building
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue (at 36th Street)

New York, NY

the exhibition features some 40 works by Garcia alongside seven Alice in Wonderland concept paintings by Disney artist Mary Blair from the Museum’s collection. Organized by guest curator Tere Romo, the exhibition celebrates not only Garcia and Blair’s artistry across decades and artistic styles, but also the power of art to draw us into magical worlds that spark engagement and inspiration.

Since its publication in 1865, Lewis Carroll’s Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been re-interpreted visually in a wide-range of artistic styles and media, including as an animated Walt Disney film in 1951. Over half a century later, Garcia has updated the enduring classic with her distinctive illustrations that capture a young girl’s surreal adventures after following a rabbit down a hole. In this exhibition of Garcia’s book illustrations, Alice’s encounters with the March Rabbit, Mad Hatter and Red Queen are quirky renditions of the main characters set against colorful backdrops. With her conscious disregard for perspective or scale in her compositions, Garcia creates a fresh and contemporary depiction of the dreamlike story. Her illustrations not only draw from a Goth sensibility, but also the thriving “low-brow art” movement in Los Angeles and its references to classic cartoons, 60’s TV sitcoms, rock music, and comic books. However, in keeping with Lewis’s intended audience, the illustrations retain the animation quality of the Disney film that continues to appeal to all generations.

Credited with introducing modern art to the Disney studio, Mary Blair’s work was very adventuresome for the time period (1940s and 50s) in her use of asymmetrical shapes to illustrating animals that created more dynamism and visually compelling scenes. Of the many films she contributed to, it was Alice in Wonderland that bears her influence as an artist in its bright colors and ability to create imagery that was all-encompassing, with the ability to visually entice audiences into entering magical worlds.

The Walt Disney Family Museum
104 Montgomery Street

The Presidio of San Francisco, CA

The artist Matthew Barney (b. 1967) is best known for his sculptures and films, but drawing also plays a critical role in his work. The exhibition is the first devoted entirely to his drawings. The show ranges from Barney’s earliest drawings, made while he was a student at Yale in the late 1980s, to works related to his most recent project, RIVER OF FUNDAMENT. They trace his investigation of drawing as an activity both independent from and linked to his sculptural and performative practice.

Press Preview: Thu, May 9th 10–11:30am

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ARTIST TALK

A Conversation with Matthew Barney
Wednesday, May 15, 7 pm

Matthew Barney talks with Christian Scheidemann, Contemporary Conservation, Ltd., about works in Subliming Vessel, the relationship between drawing and other media, and the use of non-traditional materials in creating artworks. The exhibition will be open at 6 pm especially for program attendees.

Tickets
$15; $10 for Members
www.themorgan.org/programs; 212-685-0008 x560

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FILMS ON MATTHEW BARNEY
Matthew Barney: No Restraint
Friday, May 10, 7 pm
Friday, June 7, 5 pm
Free admission

(2006, 72 minutes)
Director: Alison Chernick

This voluptuous documentary follows Matthew Barney as he embarks off the coast of Nagasaki to film Drawing Restraint 9, a “narrative sculpture” telling a fantastical romance that transforms two characters from land mammals into whales. Also featuring Björk.

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The Cremaster Cycle
A Conversation with Matthew Barney
Friday, June 21, 7pm
Free admission

(2007, 58 minutes)
Director: Michael Blackwood

This absorbing documentary provides insight into Matthew Barney’s work and his mythic CREMASTER cycle, as the artist guides the camera through this remarkable creation at the Guggenheim Museum, while being questioned by Michael Kimmelman, senior architecture critic for The New York Times.

The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue (at 36th Street)

New York, NY

Starting from Scratch showcases more than seventy of the Museum's finest etchings, demonstrating the ways in which some of history's most famous artists have embraced the medium to create original and dynamic works of art. Since its inception, many artists—especially painters—have been drawn to etching for the variety of aesthetic effects that could be achieved, as well as the medium's ability to capture the essence of an artist's hand in printed form.
Etching's development in German metal workshops is represented through a handful of prints, including works by Daniel Hopfer (German, c. 1470–1536), a craftsman who etched armor decoration and inventively applied the technique to printmaking in the early sixteenth century. Examples by Hopfer's contemporary Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528), the first artist of international acclaim to experiment with the process, are also on view.
Expressive line work underscores the drama of Rembrandt van Rijn's (Dutch, 1606–1669) crucifixion scene, The Three Crosses (1653–55), one of his most ambitious prints. This masterpiece, with its deep shadows and rich velvety lines, conveys the despairing tenor of the biblical narrative. Jacques Callot's (French, 1592–1635) sweeping curves brought the etched line to new levels of virtuosity, as seen in The Siege of Breda (1627), a grand battle map on display at the Museum for the first time. Examples from Giovanni Battista Piranesi's (Italian, 1720–1778) portfolio Imaginary Prisons (c. 1749) demonstrate his combination of several etching techniques to generate areas of smoky gray tone. The rare first edition impressions of the series on view are filled with pentimenti (visible alterations), which underscore Piranesi's creative process and augment the mysteriousness of his prison architecture. Francisco Goya's (Spanish, 1746–1828) Los Disparates (The Disparates) (c. 1813–20) similarly exploits etching to expressive effect. His innovative manipulation of broad areas of continuous tone using aquatint adds texture and flattens space, heightening the sense of disorientation and absurdity in his subjects.
Artists have long experimented with characteristics unique to etching, exploiting the medium's tonal potential to evoke qualities of light and atmosphere, visible in James McNeill Whistler's (American, 1834–1903) Venetian scene, Nocturne (1878), and Camille Pissarro's (French, 1830–1903) Rain Effect (1879). The use of etching to explore thematic variations played a major role in Pablo Picasso's (Spanish, 1881–1973) artistic expression. In his most ambitious series, the Vollard Suite (1930–37), Picasso uses a spontaneous and poetic interplay of line and tone to rephrase themes of attraction, voyeurism, art making, and allegories such as the mythical Minotaur—a figure Picasso introduced as a surrogate for himself. Similarly interested in variations on a theme, John Marin (American, 1870–1953) expressed his fascination with modern architecture in New York City by repeatedly recreating abstract studies of the Woolworth Building (1913–17), which was the world's tallest building at the time it was completed in 1913. Several versions of the famous skyscraper are on view, selected from Museum's master set of nearly 200 prints and 70 plates that comprise the most complete collection of Marin prints anywhere.

Berman Gallery, ground floor
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway

Philadelphia, PA

Sole Us Venue
The Ballets Russes—the most innovative dance company of the 20th century—propelled the performing arts to new heights through groundbreaking collaborations between artists, composers, choreographers, dancers, and fashion designers, with such familiar names as Picasso, Stravinsky, Balanchine, Nijinsky, and Chanel, among many others. Russian impresario Serge Diaghilev (1872–1929) founded the Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909.

The exhibition showcases some 135 original costumes, set designs, paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, photographs, posters, and film clips in a theatrical multimedia installation in the East Building.

Monday - Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 6pm

National Gallery of Art
National Mall (between 3rd & 9th Streets at Constitution Avenue NW)

Washington, DC

Manipulated Works of Paper. Featuring artwork by Michael Buscemi, Amy Genser, Don Morris, Wayne Zebzda.

Fri/Sat 10am – 6pm and by Appointment

We will be having an opening and closing reception for this Exhibit:
Opening Reception, Saturday, May 18 from 5-7pm
Closing Reception; Thursday, August 8 from 6-8pm

Elisa Contemporary Art
5622 Mosholu Avenue (near 256th Street)

Riverdale, NY

Comprising 37 works on paper and a new film, the exhibition continues Heitzler's excavation of history through a re-appropriation and re-interpretation of the past that finds, event by event, full circle connections between seemingly disparate sources.

Tue - Sat 10am-6pm and by appointment

Marlborough Chelsea
545 West 25th Street

New York, NY

Since its founding in 1913, The Garden Club of America has maintained for its members a significant library of garden books. To mark its centenary, the exhibition will present this little-known but remarkable collection rich in botanical and gardening literature dating from the early 17th century that reflects the study of horticulture, garden and landscape design, botanical illustration, photography and the history of the book. On view are 19th and 20th century gardening magazines, 18th to 20th century books on landscape design and flower arranging, horticultural dictionaries, botanical books and manuals, garden books by Garden Club of America authors of the 20th and 21st centuries, letters and manuscripts from Gertrude Jekyll, and first editions of Rachel Carson’s books, including Silent Spring. One of the oldest books is the 17th century "Johnson" Herball by Gerade; one of the more recent acquisitions is a bound set of early 20th century South African journals with hand-colored botanical plates.

Mon – Sat 10 am - 5 pm

Free admission

Main Floor Gallery
Grolier Club
47 East 60th Street

New York, NY

An Exhibition in Honor of The Cloisters 75th Anniversary

Given by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in time for the opening of The Cloisters in 1938, the Unicorn Tapestries are its best-known masterpieces; yet, seventy-five years later, their history and meaning remain elusive. They have been seen both as complicated metaphors for Christ and as emblems of matrimony, and they are beloved as quaint indications of medieval notions about the natural world. This exhibition of some forty works of art drawn from the collections of the Metropolitan, sister institutions, and private collections will invite audiences to see the Unicorn Tapestries anew, as the finest expression of a subject widely treated across cultures, and in both European art and science, from the Middle Ages, through the Renaissance.

Tue – Thu 9:30am – 5:30pm*
Fri & Sat 9:30am – 9:00pm*
Sun 9:30am – 5:30pm*
Closed Monday (except Met Holiday Mondays), Thanksgiving Day, December 25, & January 1

Saturday evenings are made possible by the William H. Kearns Foundation.

*Galleries are cleared fifteen minutes before closing.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY

A special selection of Books of Hours, the Medieval “bestseller”, with examples dating from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century. These small, personal and intimate objects “illuminate” centuries of history through their textual and iconographic programs allowing you, the viewer, to discover and understand the Middle-Ages.

Preview:
Thu 16th 6pm
Tue - Fri 21st - 24th 2:30pm - 6pm
Sat 25th 11am - 1pm & 2:30pm - 7pm

Galerie Meyer Oceanic Art
Les Enluminures
17, rue des Beaux-Arts

Paris, FRANCE

Featuring nearly sixty-five exquisitely illuminated manuscripts from France, Italy, and the Netherlands in the Morgan’s collections, this exhibition will illustrate the Eucharist’s powerful and sometimes cult-like hold on medieval life and medieval imagination. The bread and wine of Communion were understood to be the transubstantiated body and blood of Christ and were central to the culture of the Middle Ages. The exhibition begins with the institution of the Eucharist by Jesus at the Last Supper and continues to the arresting phenomena of miraculously bleeding wafers.

The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue

New York, NY

What have the Olympics, Chairman Mao and matchboxes got in common? Who portrayed Margaret Thatcher as Napoleon, and why? Is propaganda public information or misinformation, and do we need it?

From safe sex to dictatorships, from the iconic to the everyday, Propaganda: Power and Persuasion is the first exhibition to explore how different states have used propaganda during the 20th and 21st centuries, in peace-time and in war. Posters, films, cartoons and textbooks reveal the many ways by which the state tries to influence its citizens.

Exploring a surprising range of exhibits from around the world, you will be challenged to look critically at messages, methods, and media, discovering more about the use of propaganda through time and across cultures.

Special event: Tue 19 Mar 2013

Noam Chomsky in conversation with Jonathan Freedland

The British Library
96 Euston Road

London, UNITED KINGDOM

Collections in the Beinecke Library reveal the many ways that printing influenced the modern world. On view will be some of the earliest printed items at Yale from Asia; a survey of books that made America in word and image; and alternative forms of printing: on metal and on textiles; along with a selection of evocative broadsides and posters.

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street

New Haven, CT

The National Gallery of Art marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Edvard Munch, Norway’s most famed painter and printmaker, with an exhibition of more than 20 renowned works from the Gallery’s collection, including Geschrei (The Scream) (1895), The Madonna (1895), and a unique series of six variant impressions, Two Women on the Shore (1898).

Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm
Sun 11am - 6pm

Ground Floor of the West Building
The National Gallery of Art
4th and Constitution Avenue NW

Washington, DC

The exhibition features 50 works by the legendary author and illustrator, accompanied by 50 statements from celebrities, authors, and noted personalities on the influence of Sendak’s work, all in celebration the 50th anniversary of his universally revered book, Where the Wild Things Are.

The exhibition includes 50 original works from Where the Wild Things Are in a variety of mediums including sketches, illustrations, and works on paper, and showcases highlights from Sendak’s career and the diverse art forms in which he was renowned. Many of the works are from private collections and friends of the artist, offering a survey of his range as an artist and author. It is widely known that Sendak decided to become an illustrator at the young age of 12 after watching Disney’s film Fantasia (1940). He also amassed a collection of Mickey Mouse and other Disney memorabilia throughout his lifetime.

From children’s literature, animated films, and textbooks to Broadway and opera, Sendak garnered worldwide acclaim for his genius and insight. Among the contributing commentators to the exhibition are playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner, comedian Stephan Colbert, artist Robert Crumb, director Spike Jonze, President Barack Obama, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, actor/director Tom Hanks, and author Lemony Snicket.

The Walt Disney Family Museum
104 Montgomery Street

The Presidio of San Francisco, CA

The Bodleian's summer exhibition takes as its theme the work of some of the foremost modern exponents of children's fantasy literature, members of the group of writers informally known as the 'Oxford School': C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Susan Cooper, Alan Garner and Philip Pullman. From its unique holdings of these authors' papers, the Library will display a selection of Tolkien's original artwork for The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings; C.S. Lewis’s 'Lefay notebook' and his map of Narnia, and manuscripts of novels and poems by Alan Garner, Philip Pullman and Susan Cooper. Also featured in the exhibition will be some of the books and manuscripts that contain the myths, legends, and magical practices on which these Oxford-educated authors freely drew for inspiration. This historic material is housed in the Bodleian where the Library scenes in the Harry Potter films were shot.

Mon - Fri 9am – 5pm
Sat 9am – 4.30pm
Sun 11am – 5pm

Free admission

Lunchtime Lectures (accompanying the exhibition):

LECTURE: Once and Future Arthurs - Arthurian Literature for Children
29 May 2013

LECTURE: Books of Magic
12 June 2013

LECTURE: King Arthur Joins the Boy Scouts: Children and Arthurianism 1860-1918
18 June 2013

Exhibition Room
Bodleian Library
Broad Street

Oxford, UNITED KINGDOM

Opening Reception: Fri, May 24 6-8pm

San Francisco Center for the Book
375 Rhode Island Street

San Francisco, CA

England & Co will also be exhibiting at PINTA - The Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art Show Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London 4 - 7 June 2013.

Cecilia Vicuña (born in 1948 in Santiago, Chile) is a poet, visual artist and filmmaker, who exhibits and performs widely in Europe, Latin America and the USA. In the early 1970s, she lived in London before moving to Bogota, Colombia, in 1975, where she stayed until moving to New York in 1980. Since then, she has moved between Chile and New York for over two decades.

Her multi-dimensional works begin as a poem, image, object, or line, that evolve into a film, a song, a sculpture or a collective performance. Vicuña’s impermanent, participatory works are transformative acts that bridge the gap between art and life, the ancestral and the avant-garde.

This first solo exhibition in London since 1974 spans Vicuña's career, including works that document her performances,
interventions and actions over three decades. In many of her performances, films, and sculptural installations, Vicuña utilizes natural and traditional materials to symbolize political and social struggles in her home country and beyond: her ‘Precarios’ are an ongoing series of small installations begun in 1966, composed of feathers, stones, sticks, and other found materials; and her 'Quipus', using un-spun wool, are contemporary interpretations of the ancient quipus, or knotted cords used by the Incas for communication and to record their history.

The exhibition begins with a group of Vicuña's paintings from the early 1970s that narrate her own history, interwoven with that of Chile and Salvator Allende. These use a painting technique Vicuña learned in the late 1960s from the
Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington; and were initially inspired by the naive and subtly subversive images made by 16th Century indigenous artists in Latin America after the Spanish conquest when they were forced to paint angels and saints for the Catholic Church. In Vicuña's paintings, religious icons are replaced by personal, political and literary figures, and some were previously exhibited in her 1973 exhibition (Pain Things & Explanations) at London’s ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts).

Vicuña had arrived in London in 1972 on a British Council Scholarship to study art at the Slade School of Fine Art. Her time in London (1972-75) is represented by paintings, collages, and in particular a group of fragile objects (Precarios) from her 1974 installation, A Journal of Objects for the Chilean Resistance - a work that bore witness to what was happening in Chile. The following year Vicuña was the co-founder (with John Dugger, David Medalla and Guy Brett) of Artists for Democracy, an artists’ organization formed in London in solidarity with Chile.

Vicuña's visual work has been exhibited at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago; The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and The Whitechapel Art Gallery in London; and at The Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), in New York.

Cecilia Vicuña is also taking part in the exhibition opening in June at the David Roberts Art Foundation, London: Curators’ Series #6. Friends of London. Artists from Latin America in London from 196X – 197X.

England & Co
90-92 Great Portland Street

London, UNITED KINGDOM

England & Co will also be exhibiting at PINTA - The Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art Show Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London 4 - 7 June 2013.

Cecilia Vicuña (born in 1948 in Santiago, Chile) is a poet, visual artist and filmmaker, who exhibits and performs widely in Europe, Latin America and the USA. In the early 1970s, she lived in London before moving to Bogota, Colombia, in 1975, where she stayed until moving to New York in 1980. Since then, she has moved between Chile and New York for over two decades.

Her multi-dimensional works begin as a poem, image, object, or line, that evolve into a film, a song, a sculpture or a collective performance. Vicuña’s impermanent, participatory works are transformative acts that bridge the gap between art and life, the ancestral and the avant-garde.

This first solo exhibition in London since 1974 spans Vicuña's career, including works that document her performances,
interventions and actions over three decades. In many of her performances, films, and sculptural installations, Vicuña utilizes natural and traditional materials to symbolize political and social struggles in her home country and beyond: her ‘Precarios’ are an ongoing series of small installations begun in 1966, composed of feathers, stones, sticks, and other found materials; and her 'Quipus', using un-spun wool, are contemporary interpretations of the ancient quipus, or knotted cords used by the Incas for communication and to record their history.

The exhibition begins with a group of Vicuña's paintings from the early 1970s that narrate her own history, interwoven with that of Chile and Salvator Allende. These use a painting technique Vicuña learned in the late 1960s from the
Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington; and were initially inspired by the naive and subtly subversive images made by 16th Century indigenous artists in Latin America after the Spanish conquest when they were forced to paint angels and saints for the Catholic Church. In Vicuña's paintings, religious icons are replaced by personal, political and literary figures, and some were previously exhibited in her 1973 exhibition (Pain Things & Explanations) at London’s ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts).

Vicuña had arrived in London in 1972 on a British Council Scholarship to study art at the Slade School of Fine Art. Her time in London (1972-75) is represented by paintings, collages, and in particular a group of fragile objects (Precarios) from her 1974 installation, A Journal of Objects for the Chilean Resistance - a work that bore witness to what was happening in Chile. The following year Vicuña was the co-founder (with John Dugger, David Medalla and Guy Brett) of Artists for Democracy, an artists’ organization formed in London in solidarity with Chile.

Vicuña's visual work has been exhibited at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Santiago; The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) and The Whitechapel Art Gallery in London; and at The Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), in New York.

Cecilia Vicuña is also taking part in the exhibition opening in June at the David Roberts Art Foundation, London: Curators’ Series #6. Friends of London. Artists from Latin America in London from 196X – 197X.

Reception for the Artist
Thursday, May 23 6 - 8:30pm

England & Co
90-92 Great Portland Street

London, UNITED KINGDOM

Paintings and works on paper by Jonas Wood
Ceramics by Shio Kusaka

In this exhibition, Kusaka’s ceramic vessels function both as object and subject. Jonas Wood faithfully depicts the ceramics in a number of still life drawings and paintings whose minimal compositions underscore both artists’ use of pattern and decoration. He articulates the multi-dimensional qualities of his wife’s pots by focusing on their silhouettes, open mouths, and shifting surface decorations, simultaneously presenting them as voluminous sculptures and compressed mosaics.

Fri - Mon 11am - 5pm and by appointment

Opening Reception:
Sat 25th 6 - 8pm

Glenn Horowitz Bookseller
87 Newtown Lane

East Hampton, NY

Cowards die many times before their deaths:
The valiant never taste of death but once.

Nelson Mandela signed his name next to this passage from Julius Caesar in a copy of Shakespeare’s Complete Works on December 16, 1977.

Mandela served eighteen years of his time as a political prisoner at Robben Island, off the coast of Cape Town, South Africa. Thirty-three of Mandela’s fellow prisoners also signed their names next to passages in the Robben Island Shakespeare, documenting some small part of their experience through their shared knowledge of Shakespeare.

Accompanying the Robben Island Shakespeare—which is on exhibit for the first time in the United States—is a series of sketches Mandela made in the early 2000s, reflecting on his prison life.

Free admission

Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street SE

Washington, DC

During renovation of the Folger Great Hall, we offer a special exhibition in the Founders’ Room, celebrating the collecting history of our founders, Henry and Emily Folger. The Shakespeare First Folio was central to the Folgers’ collecting interests, but the Folgers also collected art and manuscripts related to Shakespeare’s period of history. Discover some of the treasures that constitute the core of the Folger collection, and which set the tone for future collection policies and acquisitions.

Mon - Sat 10am - 5pm
Sun NOON - 5pm

Free admission

Folger Founders Room
Folger Shakespeare Library
201 East Capitol Street, SE

Washington, DC