2006 WINNERS:
Outstanding Catalogue Based on a Permanent Collection
Teresa A. Carbone
American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: Artists Born by 1876, Brooklyn Museum, NY
With contributions by Barbara Dayer Gallati and Linda Ferber
Technical entries by Ruth E. Seidler, with contributions by Kenneth Moser, Carolyn Tomkiewicz, and Richard Kowall
Outstanding Exhibition Catalogues (Co-Winners)
Leah Dickerman
Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hanover, Cologne, New York, Paris, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC
with essays by Dorothea Dietrich, Brigid Doherty, Sabine Kriebel, Janine Mileaf, Michael Taylor, Matthew Witkovsky
Deborah Wye and Wendy Weitman
Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Honorable Mentions for Outstanding Catalogue
Sarah D. Coffin, Darra Goldstein, Ellen Lupton
Feeding Desire, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York
Susan L. Stoops
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child (in context), Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Outstanding Essay Focusing on a Single Work of Art
Linda Wolk-Simon, Raphael at the Metropolitan: The Colonna Altarpiece, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Yale University Press, New Haven, CT and London
Outstanding Essay Focusing on a Group of Objects
Jay A. Clarke, "Originality and Repetition in Edvard Munch's The Sick Child," from Edvard Munch: An Anthology, Erik Morstad (ed.). Unipub forlag/Oslo Academic Press.
Outstanding Exhibition or Installation
In the Central Time Zone
"Eva Hesse Drawing" curated by Catherine de Zegher and Elisabeth Sussman and organized by The Drawing Center, New York and The Menil Collection, Houston. Installation at The Menil Collection coordinated by Josef Helfenstein, Director. Prize awarded for the installation at The Menil Collection.
In the Eastern Time Zone
"Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s" organized by Sabine Rewald for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
In the Pacific/ Mountain/ Far West Time Zones
"The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America" organized by Jennifer Gross with Susan Greenberg Fisher; installation at the UCLA Hammer Museum. This exhibition was organized by the Yale University Art Gallery and was on view at the UCLA Hammer Museum from April 23 - August 20, 2006. Prize awarded for the installation at UCLA Hammer Museum.
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2006 Nominations
Outstanding Article, Catalogue Essay, or Extended Catalogue entry by an AAMC Member
Article Title: "A New Kind of Worship Space: Eero Saarinen's Churches and Chapels"
Museum: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Author: Jennifer Komar Olivarez, Associate Curator, Architecture, Design, Decorative Arts, Craft, and Sculpture, Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Publication: Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year Published: 2006
Article Title: "Alternative Authorities and the Museum of Wonder"
Museum: Bates College Museum of Art, H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute.
Author: Mark H.C. Bessire
Publication: Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale
Publisher: JRP Ringier
Year Published: 2006
Article Title: "Enrique Martinez Celaya's Thing and Deception: The Artistic Practice of Belief"
Museum: Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery & Sculpture Garden, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Author: Daniel A. Siedell, Curator, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
Publication: Religion and the Arts
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Year Published: 2006
Article Title: "George Grosz The Wanderer"
Museum: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
Author: Nancy Norwood, Curator of European Art, Memorial Art Gallery
Publication: Seeing America: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
Publisher: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
Year Published: 2006
Article Title: William Bourguereau in America: A Roller-Coaster Reputation
Museum: Philbrook Museum of Art
Author: Eric M. Zafran, Susan Morse Hilles Curator of European Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Publication: In the Studios of Paris: William Bouguereau & His American Students
Publisher: Philbrook Museum of Art
Year Published: 2006
Article Title: "Originality and Repetition in Edvard Munch's The Sick Child"
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago
Author: Jay A. Clarke, Associate Curator of Prints & Drawings, Art Institute of Chicago
Publication: Edvard Munch. An Anthology
Publisher: Oslo Academic Press
Year Published: 2006
Article Title: Raphael at the Metropolitan The Colonna Altarpiece
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Linda Wolk-Simon, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings & Prints, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Publication: Raphael at the Metropolitan The colonna Altarpiece
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Year Published: 2006
Article Title: "Tiffany & Co.'s Buffalo Hunt Loving Cup", "Tiffany & Co.'s Tiger Hunt Loving Cup"
Museum: Cincinnati Art Museum
Author: Amy Miller Dehan, Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts, Cincinnati Art Museum
Publication: The Magazine Antiques,vol. CLXIX, nos. 1 & 3
Publisher: Brant Publications, Inc.
Year Published: 2006
2006 Nominations
Outstanding Collection or Exhibition Catalogue by an AAMC Member
Catalogue Title: A Letter from Japan: The Photographs of John Swope
Museum: Hammer Museum at UCLA
Authors: Carolyn Peter with an essay by John W. Dower and a letter by John Swope
Publishers: The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, Hammer Museum, and Steidl Verlag
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, Mexico and Modern Printmaking
Museum: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Authors: Edited by John Ittmann, with contributions by Innis Howe Shoemaker, James M. Wechsler, and Lyle W. Williams
Publishers: Philadelphia Museum of Art and the McNay Art Museum
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Acting the Part: Photography as Theatre
Museum: National Gallery of Canada
Authors: Lori Pauli, Assistant Curator of Photographs at the National Gallery of Canada; Marta Weiss, Chester Dale Fellow in the Department of Photographs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Ann Thomas, Curator of Photographs at the National Gallery of Canada; Karen Henry, independent curator, writer.
Publishers: National Gallery of Canada and Merrell Publishing
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: American Paintings in the Brooklyn Museum: Artists Born by 1876 2 vols.
Museum: Brooklyn Museum
Author: Teresa A. Carbone with contributions by Barbara Dayer Gallati and Linda S. Ferber
Publisher: Brooklyn Musuem in Association with D Giles Limited, London
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Born of Fire: The Valley of Work Industrial Scenes of Southwestern Pennsylvania
Museum: Westmoreland Museum of American Art
Authors: Barbara L. Jones with Edward K. Muller and Joel A. Tarr
Publishers: Westmoreland Museum of American Art; distributed by The University of Pittsburgh Press
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Boys in the Band: Geoffrey Chadsey Drawings 1998-2006
Museum: The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Authors: Georgianna Lagoria, Director; James Jensen, Associate Director/Chief Curator; David A.M. Goldberg; Geoffrey Chadsey
Publisher: The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Cezanne to Picasso Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Authors: Rebecca Rabinow, Editor; Douglas W. Druick; Ann Dumas; Gloria Groom; Anne Roquebert; Gary Tinterow
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale
Museum: Bates College Museum of Art
Authors: Raechell Smith, Mark Bessire, Loren Coleman
Publisher: JRP Ringier
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York and Paris
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York
Authors: Leah Dickerman with essays by Brigid Doherty, Dorothea Dietrich, Sabine T. Kriebel, Michael Taylor, Janine Mileaf and Matthew S. Witkovsky
Publishers: National Gallery of Art in association with D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Dark Metropolis: Irving Norman's Social Surrealism
Museum: Seattle Art Museum
Authors: Scott Shields and Ray Day, editors; essays by: Michael Duncan, Charles C. Eldredge, Patricia Junker, Scott A. Shields
Publishers: Heydey Books for the Crocker Art Museum and the Irving Norman Trust
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006
Museum: Cooper-Hewitt, NationalDesignMuseum, Smithsonian Institution
Authors: Matilda McQuaid, Acting Curatorial Director, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; Ellen Lupton, Curator of Contemporary Design, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; Barbara J. Bloemink (formerly Curatorial Director of Cooper-Hewitt), Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs & Programs, The Museum of Arts & Design Brooke Hodge, Curator of Architecture and Design, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Publisher: Cooper-Hewitt, NationalDesignMuseum, Smithsonian Institution
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Dreaming in Black and White Photography at the Julien Levy Gallery
Museum: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Authors: Katherine Ware and Peter Barberie
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westermann
Museum: The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Authors: Georgianna Lagoria, Director; Michael Rooks, Curator and Editor; Contributors: Dennis Adrian, David McCarthy, Mark Booth, Aaron Curry, Chris Johanson, Ryan Johnson, John Tanji Koga, Jason Meadows, Jim Nutt, Erik Parker, Ruth Root, Ed Ruscha
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Embroidery of the Greek Islands and Epirus Region: Harpies, Mermaids, and Tulips
Museum: The Textile Museum
Author: Sumru Belger Krody
Publisher: The Textile Museum, Washington and Scala Publishers, London
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Eva Hesse: Sculpture
Museum: The Jewish Museum
Authors: Elisabeth Sussman, Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art; Fred Wasserman, Henry J. Leir Curator, The Jewish Museum; essays by: Yve-Alain Bois, Professor, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study; Mark Godfrey, Lecturer, History and Theory of Art, University College London
Publisher: The Jewish Museum and Yale University Press
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Eye on Europe: Prints, Books, and Multiples/1960 to Now
Museum: The Museum of Modern Art
Authors: Deborah Wye and Wendy Weitman
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005
Museum: Cooper-Hewitt, NationalDesignMuseum, Smithsonian Institution
Authors: Sarah D. Coffin, Curator of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Decorative Arts, Cooper-Hewitt, NationalDesignMuseum; Ellen Lupton, Curator of Contemporary Design, Cooper-Hewitt, NationalDesignMuseum; Barbara J. Bloemink (formerly Curatorial Director of Cooper-Hewitt), Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs & Programs, The Museum of Arts & Design, Darra Goldstein, Professor of Russian, WilliamsCollege, and Founding Editor of Gastronomica magazine; Suzanne von Drachenfels, author of The Art of the Table, Philippa Glanville, Senior Research Fellow and former Chief Curator of Metalwork, Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Jennifer Goldsborough, Professor, Parsons the NewSchool of Design, the Corcoran College of Art + Design, and Sotheby's Institute of Art, Carolin Young, dining historian
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape
Museum: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Authors: Dr. Gail S. Davidson, Head of Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; Floramae McCarron-Cates, Associate Curator, Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum; Barbara J. Bloemink (formerly Curatorial Director of Cooper-Hewitt), Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs & Programs, The Museum of Arts & Design; Dr. Sarah Burns, Ruth N. Halls Professor of Art History, Indiana University; Dr. Karal Ann Marling, Professor of Art History and American Studies, the University of Minnesota
Publisher: Bulfinch Press
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Authors: Sabine Rewald, curator and organizer of the exhibition, with essays by Ian Buruma, journalist and cultural critic and Matthias Eberle, art- and cultural historian, and chronology by Catherine Heroy
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, with Yale University Press, New Haven and London
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work
Museum: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson
Authors: Britt Salvesen, with a preface by Douglas R. Nickel, foreword by John Szarkowski, and contribution by Amy Rule
Publisher: Center for Creative Photography in association with Yale University Press
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Herschel V. Jones: The Imprint of a Great Collector
Museum: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Authors: Lisa Dickinson Michaux, Marla J. Kinney, and Jane Immler Satkowski
Publisher: Minneapolis Institute of Arts and distributed by the University of Minnesota Press
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: In the Studios of Paris: William Bouguereau and His American Students
Museum: Philbrook Museum of Art
Authors: James F. Peck; Eric M. Zafran; Charles Pearo; Damien Bartoli; Syvlia Svec
Publisher: Philbrook Museum of Art; distributed by Yale University Press
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child (in context)
Museum: Worcester Art Museum
Author: Susan L. Stoops, Curator of Contemporary Art
Publisher: Worcester Art Museum
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Louise Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall-An Artist's Country Estate
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Authors: Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen; with contributions by: Elizabeth Hutchinson, Julia Meech, Jennifer Perry Thalheimer, Barbara Veith, and Richard Guy Wilson
Publishers: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Luminist Horizons: The Art and Collection of James A. Suydam (1819-1865)
Museum: National Academy Museum, New York
Authors: Katherine E. Manthorne and Mark D. Mitchell
Publisher: George Braziller, Inc., New York
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images
Museum: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Authors: Stephanie Barron, Michel Draguet, Roberta Bernstein, Sara Cochran, Thierry de Duve, Pepe Karmel, Theresa Papanikolas, Noellie Roussel, Dickran Tashjian, Lynn Zelevansky
Publishers: Los Angeles County Museum of Artand Ludion
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Manet and the Execution of Maximilian
Museum: The Museum of Modern Art
Author: John Elderfield
Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery
Museum: Yale University Art Gallery
Authors: Suzanne Boorsch and John Marciari, contributions by: Nicole Bensoussan, Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Susan Greenberg, Margaret E. Hadley, Elisabeth Hodermarksy, Rena Hoisington, Jan Leja, and Edgar Munhall
Publishers: Yale University Art Gallery in association with Yale University Press
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Seeing America: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
Museum: Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY
Authors: Majorie Searl, editor; Michael Kammen, Peter Ogden Brown, Susan Nurse, Jacquelyn Oak, Jessica Marten, Marlene Hamann-Whitmore, Elizabeth O'Leary, Caroline M. Welsh, Grant Holcomb, Kerry Anne Morgan, Susan Dodge-Peter Daiss, Diane P. Fischer, Kerry Schauber, Cynthia L. Culbert, Christopher Clarke, David Tatham, David Bjelajac, Henry J. Duffy, Brian W. Dippie, Gwendolyn Owens, Susan G. Larkin, Elizabeth Johns, Margaret Bullock, Ruth Rosenberg-Naparsteck, Susan Hobbs, Pamela W. Blanpied, Barbara Dayer Gallati, Ronald Netsky, Dierdre F. Cunningham, Marie Via, Grace Seiberling, Nancy Weekly, Rebecca Foster, Bruce Weber, Roberta K. Tarbell, Henry Adams, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Sarah Whitaker Peters, Karen Haas, Karen Wilkin, Kathleen Spies, Margaret MacDougal, Nancy Norwood, Karal Ann Marling, Betsy Fahlman, Lowery Stokes Sims, Joan Ludman, G. Peter Jemison, Gretchen Sullivan Sorin
Publisher: Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Set in Stone The Face in Medieval Sculpture
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author: Charles T. Little, curator in the Department of Medieval Art and The Cloisters, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, editor; introduction by: Willibald Sauerlander, former director of the Zentralinstitut fur Kunstgeschichte, Munich
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Skin and Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion & Architecture
Museum: The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Authors: Brook Hodge, editor; Lisa Gabrielle Mark, co-editor; contributors: Patricia Mears, Susan Sidlauskas
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Strange New World: Art and Design from Tijuana/Extrano Nuevo Mundo: Arte y diseno desde Tijuana
Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Authors: Rachel Teagle, essay and project curator; catalogue essays by: Jose Manuel Valenzuela Arce, Teddy Cruz, Rene Peralta, Norma V. Iglesias Prieto, ejival, Yvonne Venegas; catalogue entries by: Jacinto Astiazaran, Regina Guzman, Stephanie Hanor, Pedro Ochoa Palacio, Leah Ollman, Lucia Sanroman, Rachel Teagle; foreword by: Hugh M. Davies, The David C. Copley Director, MCASD; Carlos A. de Icaza, Ambassador of Mexico in the U.S.; Eugenio Elorduy Walther, Governor of the State of Baja California, Mexico; Jorge Hank Rhon, Mayor of Tijuana; Luis Cabrera, Consul General of Mexico in San Diego
Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: The Arts in Latin America, 1492-1820
Museum: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Authors: Joseph J. Rishel with Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt; essays by: Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Clara Bargellini, Dilys E. Blum, Elizabeth Hill Boone, Marcus Burke, Mitchell A. Codding; Thomas B.F. Cummins, Cristina Esteras Martin, M. Concepcion Garcia Saiz, Ilona Katzew, Adrian Locke, Gridley McKim-Smith, Alfonso Ortiz Crespo, Jorge F. Rivas P., Nuno Senos, Edward J. Sullivan, and Marjorie Trusted
Publisher: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: The Collectible Moment: Catalogue of Photographs in the NortonSimonMuseum
Museum: Norton Simon Museum
Author: Gloria Williams Sander, Therese Mulligan, Bill Arnold, Lewis Baltz, Thomas Barrow, Peter C. Bunnell, Darryl J. Curran, Judy Dater, Robert Fichter, Bart Parker, Fred R. Parker, Leland Rice, Jenna Siman, Lynn Sloan, Robert Sobieszek, Michael Stone, Charles H. Traub, William Wilson
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950
Museum: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Author: Emily Neff
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, 2006
Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Authors: Stephanie Hanor, essay and project curator; catalogue entries by: Spring deBoer, Miki Garcia, Monica Garza, Stephanie Hanor, Toby Kamps, Albert Park, Lauren Popp, Jillian Richesin, and Rachel Teagle; Preface by: Hugh M. Davies, The David C. Copley Director, MCASD
Publisher: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Transmission: The Art of Matta and Gordon Matta-Clark
Museum: San Diego Museum of Art
Authors: Briony Fer, Betti-Sue Hertz, Justo Pastor Mellado, Anthony Vidler
Publisher: San Diego Museum of Art
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Uneasy Nature
Museum: Weatherspoon Art Museum
Authors: Xandra Eden, Marina Warner, foreword by Nancy Doll
Publisher: Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Vermillion Editions Limited: A History and Catalogue, 1977-1992
Museum: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Authors: Dennis Michael Jon, Kristin Makholm, Marla J. Kinney
Publisher: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Year Published: 2006
Catalogue Title: Warriors of the Himalayas: Rediscovering the Arms and Armor of Tibet
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Authors: Donald J. LaRocca, Curator, Department of Arms and Armor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; with essays by: John Clarke, Curator, Department of Asian Art, Victoria and Albert Museum; Amy Heller, Tibetologist and art historian; Lozang Jamspal, Adjunct Professor, Department of Religion, Columbia University
Publishers: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press
Year Published: 2006
Nominations 2006
Outstanding Exhibition or Installation
Exhibition Title: Biedermeier: The Invention of Simplicity
Museum: Milwaukee Art Museum
Dates: September 16, 2006-January 1, 2007 (traveling to Albertina, Vienna; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin; Louvre, Paris)
Organizing Curator: Laurie Winters, Curator of Earlier European Art
Time Zone: Central
Exhibition Title: Casas Grandes and the Ceramic Art of the Ancient Southwest
Museum: The Art Institute of Chicago
Dates: April 22-August 13, 2006
Organizing Curator: Richard F. Townsend, Chairman, Department of African and Amerindian Art
Time Zone: Central
Exhibition Title: Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale
Museum: H & R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute
Dates: October 27-December 22, 2006
Organizing Curators: Raechell Smith, Director and Chief Curator, H & R Block Artspace; Mark H.C. Bessire, Director, Bates College Museum of Art (dates of exhibition at Bates College Museum of Art, June 23-October 8, 2006)
Time Zone: Central
Web: http://abacus.bates.edu/acad/museum/crypto/
Exhibition Title: Eva Hesse Drawing
Museum: Menil Collection
Dates: February 3-April 23, 2006
Organizing Curator: Catherine de Zegher, Elisabeth Sussman (exhibition also presented at the Drawing Center, May 6-July 15, 2006; and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, August 6-October 23, 2006)
Time Zone: Central
Exhibition Title: Focus: Mel Bochner-Language 1966-2006
Museum: The Art Institute of Chicago
Dates: October 5, 2006-January 7, 2007
Organizing Curators: James Rondeau, Frances and Thomas Dittmer Chairman, Department of Contemporary Art; Lisa Dorin, Assistant Curator, Department of Contemporary Art; Mark Pascale, Associate Curator, Department of Prints and Drawings
Time Zone: Central
Exhibition Title: Reinstallation of 11 Early European Galleries
Museum: Saint Louis Art Museum
Dates: June 9-September 15, 2006
Organizing Curator: Judith W. Mann, Curator for Early European Art
Time Zone: Central
Exhibition Title: The Modern West: American Landscapes, 1890-1950
Museum: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Dates: October 29, 2006-January 28, 2007
Organizing Curator: Emily Neff, Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture
Time Zone: Central
Exhibition Title: Americans in Paris, 1860-1900
Museum: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Dates: June 25-September 24, 2006
Organizing Curator: Erica E. Hirshler, the Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings at the MFA; Kathleen Adler, Director of Education at the National Gallery, London and a scholar of nineteenth-century French art; H. Barbara Weinberg, the Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. (exhibition presented at National Gallery, London, February 22-May 21, 2006; Metropolitan Museum of Art, October 24, 2006-January 28, 2007)
Time Zone: Eastern
Exhibition Title: Cézanne in Provence
Museum: National Gallery of Art
Dates: January 29- May 7, 2007
Organizing Curators: Philip Conisbee, senior curator of European paintings, National Gallery of Art, and Denis Coutagne, director of the Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence. Organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, the Musée Granet and the Communauté du Pays d'Aix, Aix-en-Provence, and the Réunion des muées nationaux, Paris.
Time Zone: Eastern
Exhibition Title: Cezanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Dates: September 13, 2006-January 7, 2007
Organizing Curators: The exhibition's curatorial team consisted of Gary Tinterow, Engelhard Curator-in-Charge, and Rebecca Rabinow, Associate Curator, both of the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art, as well as Douglas Druick and Gloria Groom of the Art Institute of Chicago, Anne Roquebert of the Musee d'Orsay, and Ann Dumas, an independent art historian based in London.
Time Zone: Eastern
Exhibition Title: Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Dates: October 24, 2006-September 2, 2007
Organizing Curator: Virginia-Lee Webb, Research Curator Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas
Time Zone: Eastern
Exhibition Title: Dada
Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington
Dates: February 19-May 14, 2006
Organizing Curators: Leah Dickerman, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Art; Laurent Le Bon, Musee national d'art moderne; Anne Umland, Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art (exhibition presented at the Centre Pompidou, Musee national d'art moderne, Paris, October 5, 2005-January 9, 2006; the Museum of Modern Art, June 18-September 11, 2006)
Time Zone: Eastern
Exhibition Title: Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006
Museum: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Dates: December 8, 2006-July 29, 2007
Organizing Curators: Ellen Lupton, Cooper-Hewitt; Matilda McQuaid, Cooper-Hewitt; Barbara J. Bloemink, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs & Programs, Museum of Arts & Design; Brooke Hodge, Museum of Contemporary Art, LA
Time Zone: Eastern
Exhibition Title: Eva Hesse: Sculpture
Museum: The Jewish Museum, New York
Dates: May 12-September 17, 2006
Organizing Curators: Elisabeth Sussman, Curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art; Fred Wasserman, Henry J. Leir Curator, The Jewish Museum
Time Zone: Eastern
Exhibition Title: Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Dates: October 15, 2006 - January 1, 2007
Organizing Curators: Organized by Deborah Wye, Chief Curator, and Wendy Weitman, formerly Curator, Department of Prints & Illustrated Books, The Museum of Modern Art
Time Zone: Eastern
Exhibition Title: Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005
Museum: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Dates: May 5-October 29, 2006
Organizing Curators: Sarah D. Coffin, Curator of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-century Decorative Arts, Cooper-Hewitt; Ellen Lupton, Curator of Contemporary Art, Cooper-Hewitt; Darra Goldstein, Professor of Russian, Williams College
Time Zone: Eastern
Exhibition Title: Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape
Museum: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Dates: May 19-October 22, 2006
Organizing Curators: Gail S. Davidson, Head of Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design, Cooper-Hewitt; Floramae McCarron-Cates, Associate Curator, Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design, Cooper-Hewitt
Time Zone: Eastern
Exhibition Title: Gilded Splendor: Treasure of China's Liao Empire (907-1125)
Museum: Asia Society Museum
Dates: October 5-December 31, 2006
Organizing Curators: Adriana Proser, John H. Foster Curator of Traditional Asian Art, Asia Society; Dr. Hsueh-man Shen, University of Edinburgh
Time Zone: Eastern
Exhibition Title: Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dates: November 14, 2006-February 19, 2007
Organizing Curator: Sabine Rewald, Jacques and Natasha Gelman Curator in the Department of Nineteenth-Century, Modern, and Contemporary Art
Time Zone: Eastern
Exhibition Title: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall: An Artist's Country Estate
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dates: November 20, 2006-May 20, 2007
Organizing Curator: Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts
Time Zone: Eastern
Exhibition Title: Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child (in context)
Museum: Worcester Art Museum
Dates: October 21, 2006-February 25, 2007
Organizing Curator: Susan L. Stoops, Curator of Contemporary Art
Time Zone: Eastern
Exhibition Title: Manet and the Execution of Maximilian
Museum: Museum of Modern Art
Dates: November 5-January 7, 2007
Organizing Curator: John Elderfield
Time Zone: Eastern
Exhibition Title: No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper
Museum: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Dates: May 26-September 29, 2006
Organizing Curator: Susan Davidson
Time Zone: Eastern
Exhibition Title: Set in Stone: The Face in Medieval Sculpture
Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dates: September 2, 2006-February 19, 2007
Organizing Curator: Charles T. Little, Curator, with the assistance of Wendy A. Stein, Research Associate
Time Zone: Eastern
Exhibition Title: Courbet and the Modern Landscape
Museum: J. Paul Getty Museum
Dates: November 5-January 7, 2007
Organizing Curators: Charlotte Eyerman, Mary Morton
Time Zone: Pacific/ Mountain/ Other
Exhibition Title: Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westermann
Museum: The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
Dates: August 25, 2006-November 19, 2006
Organizing Curator: Michael Rooks
Time Zone: Pacific/ Mountain/ Other
Exhibition Title: Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature
Museum: J. Paul Getty Museum
Dates: June 13-September 17, 2006
Organizing Curator: Paul Martineau, Assistant Curator, The J. Paul Getty Museum
Time Zone: Pacific/ Mountain/ Other
Exhibition Title: From Caspar David Friedrich to Gerhard Richter: German Paintings from Dresden
Museum: J. Paul Getty Museum
Dates: October 5, 2006-April 29, 2007
Organizing Curator: Jon L. Seydl with Ulrich Bischoff, Galerie Neue Meister
Time Zone: Pacific/ Mountain/ Other
Exhibition Title: Gustav Klimt: Five Paintings from the Collection of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer
Museum: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Dates: April 4-June 30, 2006
Organizing Curator: Stephanie Barron, Senior Curator of Modern Art
Time Zone: Pacific/ Mountain/ Other
Exhibition Title: Harry Callahan: The Photographer at Work
Museum: Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson
Dates: January 27-May 7, 2006
Organizing Curator: Britt Salvesen (exhibition traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, June 24-September 24, 2006; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, May 20-September 2, 2007)
Time Zone: Pacific/ Mountain/ Other
Exhibition Title: Holy Image, Hallowed Ground: Icons of Sinai
Museum: J. Paul Getty Museum
Dates: November 14, 2006-March 4, 2007
Organizing Curators: Kristen Collins, Assistant Curator, Department of Manuscripts; Professor Robert Nelson, Yale University
Time Zone: Pacific/ Mountain/ Other
Exhibition Title: Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images
Museum: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Dates: November 19, 2006-March 4, 2007
Organizing Curators: Stephanie Barron, Senior Curator of Modern Art; Co-curator Michel Draguet, Director Musee Royaux de Bruxelles, Additional assistance: Sara Cochran, Assistant Curator Modern Art
Time Zone: Pacific/ Mountain/ Other
Exhibition Title: Skin + Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture
Museum: Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
Dates: November 19, 2006-March 5, 2007
Organizing Curator: Brooke Hodge, Curator of Architecture & Design
Time Zone: Pacific/ Mountain/ Other
Exhibition Title: Strange New World: Art and Design from Tijuana/Extrano Nuevo Mundo: Arte y diseno desde Tijuana
Museum: Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Dates: May 20-September 3, 2006
Organizing Curator: Rachel Teagle, Curator; Contributing curators: Stephanie Hanor, Curator, Lucia Sanroman, Assistant Curator
Time Zone: Pacific/ Mountain/ Other
Exhibition Title: The Societe Anonyme: Modernism for America
Museum: Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Dates: April 23-August 20, 2006
Organizing Curators: Jennifer R. Gross, Seymour H. Knox Jr. Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery with Susan Greenberg Fisher, Horace W. Goldsmith Associate Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery (exhibition traveled to Phillips Collection, Washington D.C., October 14, 2006-January 21, 2007; Dallas Museum of Art, June 10-September 16, 2007; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, October 26, 2007-February 3, 2008; Yale University Art Gallery, 2010)
Time Zone: Pacific/ Mountain/ Other
Exhibition Title: Transmission: The Art of Matta and Gordon Matta-Clark
Museum: San Diego Museum of Art
Dates: August 19-November 12, 2006
Organizing Curator: Betti-Sue Kurtz
Time Zone: Pacific/ Mountain/ Other