King Tut is on the move again. And
speaking of traveling, one New York venue is unveiling an exhibit
that explores the impact of art on the tourism industry.
Domestic
Atlanta
-- The High Museum of Art is
the last stop for the touring exhibition, American Drawings and
Watercolors From the Princeton University Art Museum, which runs
through July 23.
Charleston, S.C. -- The
Spoleto Festival USA celebrates its 30th season from May 26 to June
11 with an eclectic array of performances in opera, dance, theater
and music, including a work by the Paul Taylor Dance Company and
the world premiere of Geisha, a theater piece produced by Spoleto
in collaboration with TheatreWorks of Singapore.
Chicago -- The
Field Museum plays host to the exhibition that is setting
attendance records on its tour of U.S. museums. Tutankhamun and the
Golden Age of the Pharaohs, from May 26 to Jan. 1, includes more
than 130 treasures from Egypts royal tombs.
Cleveland
-- A collaborative festival of
theater, opera, dance, art and music by Cleveland-area performing
arts groups is on tap at the Cleveland Play Houses first FusionFest
from May 2 to 21.
Cooperstown, N.Y. -- Anna May Robertson Moses, one of Americas most beloved folk
artists, 
is back with us again. The
retrospective exhibition, Grandma Moses: Grandmother to the Nation,
is the attraction at the Fenimore Art Museum from May 27 to Dec.
31. Shown here is Grandma Moses Sugaring Off.
Meanwhile,
Heartbeat and Harmony: The Art of the American Indian Women
continues at the museum through Dec. 31.
The nearby
Farmers Museum has a nostalgic treat in store with the opening of
the Empire State Carousel, a handcrafted merry-go-round based on
the themes of New York states history and culture.
Davenport, Iowa -- Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the
Thirties, at the Figge Art Museum from May 6 to Aug. 30, includes
50 of the American writer and artists photos along with 100 works
of art by her contemporaries.
Fort
Worth, Texas -- Blockbuster
touring exhibitions command the headlines, but whats often in a
major museums permanent collection can be equally interesting. The
Kimbell Art Museum employs all of its galleries for Masterpiece: A
New Look at the Kimbell Collection, on exhibit through July 16 when
the Asian art installation closes, to be followed by other
installation closings through Oct. 22.
Cape
Canaveral, Fla. -- The visitor
complex at the Kennedy Space Center is featuring a virtual tour
with astronaut Virgil Grissom in The Lost Spacecraft: Liberty Bell
7 Recovered from May 26 to Sept. 10. Grissom takes visitors 118
miles into space and then three miles deep into the sea to witness
events surrounding the spacecrafts recovery in 1991, 38 years after
it plunged into the Atlantic Ocean and was lost.
Las Vegas
-- The Bellagio Gallery of Fine
Arts features the work of one of the nations most noted
photographers in Ansel Adams: America, which opens on May 3 and
runs for more than a year, through May 6, 2007.
Los
Angeles -- If you missed the
exhibition Robert Rauschenberg: Combines at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, you can see it now at the Museum of Contemporary Art, where
it was conceived and created. It will be on view from May 21 to
Sept. 4.
New York
-- The first U.S. retrospective
of the work of French romantic painter Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson,
Girodet: Romantic Rebel, is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of
Art from May 24 to Aug. 27. From May 4 to Aug. 29 the museum will
present AngloMania, an exhibition focusing on British fashion from
1976 to 2006.
The Museum of
Modern Art will display 100 works from a private collection given
as a gift in Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R.
Broida Collection, May 3 to July 10.
Frederic Church,
Winslow Homer and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape,
at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum from May 19 to Oct. 22,
explores the impact of the works of three 19th-century American
artists on the tourism industry. In addition to more than 100
landscapes, the exhibition features hotel and railroad brochures,
maps and tourist guide books. Feeding Desire: Design and Tools of
the Table, 1500-2006 at the museum from May 5 to Oct. 29 offers a
look at the evolution of dining utensils.
Veroneses
Allegories: Virtue, Love, and Exploration in Renaissance Venice, on
view at the Frick Collection through July 16, features only five
works, but each of the large-scale allegory paintings, brought
together for the first time, is a masterpiece.
An exhibition
focusing on the work of a noted 20th century sculptor, Eva Hesse,
at the Jewish Museum from May 12 to Sept. 17 also includes diaries
and photographs.
Stepping outdoors
at the Rockefeller Center plaza from May 9 to 21 gives passersby
the opportunity to see Art Rock, a public art exhibition of new and
challenging works.
Oakland,
Calif. -- More than 40
three-dimensional models, drawings and art works are featured in
the three-part exhibition, Behind the Magic: 50 Years of
Disneyland, from May 6 to Aug. 20 at the Oakland Museum of
California.
Pittsburgh -- The
relationship between humans and animals is the focus of an
exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Fierce Friends: Artists
and Animals runs through Aug. 27.
Tacoma,
Wash. -- Roy Lichtenstein:
American Indian Encounters at the Tacoma Art Museum May 13 to Sept.
4 shows how the artist returned to the theme of Native Americans at
different stages of his career.
Washington -- A
collection of European drawings spanning more than five centuries
and donated to the National Gallery of Art is featured in Master
Drawings From the Woodner Collection through Oct. 1.
International
Amsterdam
-- Anne Frank: Her Life in
Letters, through Sept. 3 at the Amsterdam Historical Museum,
displays correspondence to friends and relatives not included in
the writers diary and other memorabilia.
Travelers passing
through Schiphol Airport through May 30 have the opportunity to see
Rembrandts Pupils at the Rijksmuseums airport branch.
Brussels
-- Its Jazz Marathon Weekend
May 19 to 21, with more than 350 performances in bars and clubs
throughout the city.
Dresden,
Germany -- The Dresden
International Dixieland Festival, May 10 to 14, is billed as one of
the worlds largest jazz festivals. It features 40 bands performing
throughout the city.
Paris
-- Visitors have until May 15
to see the eye-catching exhibit at the Louvre, Ingres
1780-1867.
Through May 28
the Musee dOrsay features the exhibit that attracted huge crowds at
New Yorks Museum of Modern Art, Cezanne and Pissarro
1865-1885.
Stuttgart, Germany -- Car lovers will want to visit the new Mercedes-Benz Museum
when it opens its doors on May 19 with an exhibit on the history of
the brand and a collection of vehicles.
Vienna
-- The Vienna Festival, May 12
to June 18, featuring several Mozart operas, opens with a giant,
free, open-air spectacle on Rathausplatz.
Long-time
arts and tourism writer Alvin H. Reiss is editor of Arts Management
and author of eight books including his latest, The ReissSource
Directory of the Arts (AEBMedia, Chicago).