NEW THIS MONTH IN U.S. MUSEUMS1 by Aarenbrowns
Paris through the Window: Marc Chagall and his Circle
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Mar. 1-July 10, 2011
40 works from the museum collection by Chagall and other early-20th-century Eastern European émigrés to Paris (Amedeo Modigliani, Jules Pascin, Chaim Soutine), featuring the titular work by Chagall, Paris through the Window (1913), on loan from the Guggenheim Museum
Curator: Michael R. Taylor
Catalogue: 26 pp., $16.95
Funding: Pew Charitable Trusts, Bruce and Robbi Toll, Ovation and Comcast Xfinity
Also on view: “Roberto Capucci: Art into Fashion,” Mar. 16-June 5, 2011
Note: The exhibition is part of the citywide Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.
Apollo from Pompeii: Investigating an Ancient Bronze
J. Paul Getty Villa Museum
Mar. 2-Sept. 12, 2011
After 18 months of study and conservation, the bronze statue of Apollo Saettante (Apollo as an Archer) — discovered in fragments in Pompeii in the early 19th century — goes on view for the first time in the United States, alongside other bronze sculptures, including the Apollo’s sister piece, a statue of Artemis, in an exhibition co-organized with the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples
Curators: Erik Risser, David Saunders
Also on view: “In Search of Biblical Lands: From Jerusalem to Jordan in 19th-Century Photography,” Mar. 2-Sept. 12, 2011.
William Leavitt: Theater Objects
Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Mar. 4-June 5, 2011
The first retrospective of the L.A.-based conceptual artist occupies 10,000 square feet of exhibition space with sculptural tableaux, paintings, works on paper, photographs and installations created since the late ’60s, and includes stagings of two of his performances, Spectral Analysis (1977) and Pyramid, Lens, Delta (2003)
Curators: Bennett Simpson, Ann Goldstein
Catalogue: MOCA, 144 pp., $40
Also on view: “Rodarte: States of Matter,” Mar. 4-June 5, 2011
Funding: Amy Adelson and Dean Valentine, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, others
Heinrich Kühn: The Perfect Photograph
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Mar. 6-May 30, 2011
Four decades of work by the Austrian photographer and scientist — an early figure, along with Edward Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, in the Pictorialist movement of the 1900s — via more than 100 photographs organized by subject: studio shots, portraits, still-lifes, plein-air studies, and experiments with sunlight exposures
Curators: Monika Faber, Anne Wilkes Tucker
Catalogue: Hatje Cantz, 280 pp., $75
Tour: The show premiered at the Albertina in Vienna and has also appeared at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris
Funding: Mr. James Edward Maloney and Mr. Carey Chambers Maloney, The Margaret Cooke Skidmore Endowed Exhibition Fund, others
Sung Hwan Kim: From the Commanding Heights
