museums exhibitions
london, england design museum
Design Cities, through Jan. 4; Alan Aldridge: The Man with
Kaleidoscope Eyes, Oct. 10-Jan. 25. Shad Thames, London
+ 44 (0) 20 7403 6933 designmuseum.org
london, england victoria and albert museum
Cold War Modern: Design 1945-70, through Jan. 11;
Magnificence of the Tsars, Dec. 10-Mar. 29. Cromwell Road,
London, England + 44 (0) 20 7942 2000 vam.ac.uk
los angeles, ca los angeles county museum of art
Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008, through Mar.
1; Hearst the Collector, through Feb. 1; The Arts and Crafts
Movement: Promised Gifts from the Collection of Max Palevsky
and Jodie Evans Dec. 12-Mar. 8. 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los
Angeles, CA 323 857 6000 lacma.org
portland, or portland art museum
Highlights from the Paul and Clara Gebauer Collection of
Cameroon Art, through Dec. 31; Making Merry: The Circus
and the Carnivalesque in Art, through Jan. 4; Backstage
Pass: Rock & Roll Photography Jan. 22-Mar. 22. 1219 SW Park
Avenue, Portland, OR 503 226 2811 pam.org
st. petersburg, russia state hermitage museum
World Museum Masterpieces at the State Hermitage
Museum: Menippus and Aesop by Velasquez, through Dec.
21; Alberto Giacometti, through Jan. 11; Comradeship of
Proletarian Art: The German Avant-garde in Soviet Russia,
through Jan. 11; From Friedrich to Dix: German Painting of
the 19th-20th Centuries from the Collection of the Dresden
Picture Gallery, through Mar. 29. Dvortsovaya Naberezhnaya,
34, St. Petersburg, Russia + 7 812 710 96 25
hermitagemuseum.org
madrid, spain museo nacional del prado
Rembrandt, History Painter, through Jan. 6; Among Gods and
Men, through Apr. 12. Calle Ruiz de Alarcón 23, Madrid, Spain
+ 34 91 330 2800 museodelprado.es
new york, ny new museum
Live Forever: Elizabeth Peyton, through Jan. 11; Mary
Heilmann: To Be Someone, through Jan. 26; Museum as Hub:
Six Degrees, through Jan. 11. 235 Bowery, New York, NY 212
219 1222 newmuseum.org
washington, dc national gallery of art
Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the
Bay of Naples, through Mar. 22; Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master
Rediscovered, through Jan. 11; Looking In: Robert Frank’s The
Americans Jan. 18-Apr. 26. 4th and Constitution Avenue, NW,
Washington, DC 202 737 4215 nga.gov
new york, ny cooper-hewitt national design museum
House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from
the Thaw Collection, through Jan. 25, Solos: Tulou/Affordable
Housing in China, through May 8. 2 East 91st Street, New York,
NY 212 849 8400 cooperhewitt.org
new york, ny metropolitan museum of art
The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three
Decades of Acquisitions, through Feb. 1; Beyond Babylon:
Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C.
through Mar. 15; Art and Love in Renaissance Italy, through
Feb. 16; Calder Jewelry Dec. 9-Mar.1; Pierre Bonnard: The
Late Interiors Jan. 27-Apr. 19. 1000 5th Avenue at 82nd Street,
New York, NY 212 535 7710 metmuseum.org
paris, france musee d’orsay
Masks, from Carpeaux to Picasso, through Feb 1; Mystery and
Glitter: Pastels in the Musee d’Orsay, through Feb. 1, 2009. 62
rue de Lille, Paris, France + 33 (0) 1 40 49 48 14 musee-orsay.fr
Philadelphia Museum of Art
paris, france centre pompidou
La Comedie Urbaine, through Jan. 5; Le Futurism a Paris: Une
Avant-Garde Explosive, through Jan. 26; Jacques Villegle:
Hommage a Ettoree Sottsass, through Mar. 31. Centre
Pompidou, Places Georges Pompidou, Paris, France + 33 (0)1
44 78 12 33 centrepompidou.fr
philadelphia, pa philadelphia museum of art
James Castle: A Retrospective, through Jan. 4; Frank O.
Gehry: Design Process and the Lewis House, through Apr. 5.
26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia,
PA 215 763 8100 philamuseum.org
