diversions museums exhibitions
asheville, nc
asheville art museum
Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats Along the Way, A
Retrospective of Paintings by John Baeder, through
Oct. 26. 2 South Pack Square, Asheville, NC 828 253 3227
ashevilleart.org
baltimore, md
baltimore museum of art
Franz West, to Build a House You Start with the Roof: Work,
1972-2008, Oct. 12-Jan. 4, 2009; 10 Art Museum Drive,
Baltimore, MD 443 573 1700 artbma.org
boston, ma
museum of fine arts
Kufic Korans: Calligraphy in the World of Islam, through Nov.
2; Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry, through Nov.
9; RSVP: Jim Lambie, through Dec. 31; Karsh 100: A Biography
in Images, through Jan. 19, 2009; Rachel Whiteread, Oct.
15-Jan. 25, 2009. 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 617 267
9300 mfa.org
chicago, il
art institute of chicago
Yokohama-e: 19th Century Prints of Americans in Japan,
through Oct. 25; Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Art and
Photography of Paris, through Jan. 4, 2009; Drawn to Italian
Drawings: the Goldman Collection, Oct. 18-Jan 18, 2009; The
Divine Art: Four Centuries of European Tapestries, Nov. 1-Jan.
4, 2009. 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 312 443
3600 artic.edu
chicago, il
museum of contemporary art
Jenny Holzer, Oct. 25-Feb. 1, 2009. 220 East Chicago Avenue,
Chicago, IL 312 280 2660 mcachicago.org
cleveland, oh
museum of contemporary art
Jorge Pardo: House, through Dec. 28; Sheila Pree Bright:
Surburbia, through Dec. 28. 8501 Carnegie Avenue,
Cleveland, OH 216 421 8671 mocacleveland.org
corning, ny
corning museum of glass
Masters of Studio Glass Series: Joel Philip Myers and Steven
I. Weinberg, through Oct. 19; Glass of the Alchemists: Lead
Crystal-Gold Ruby, 1650-1750, through Jan. 4, 2009; Masters
of Studio Glass: Frantisek Vízner, Nov. 1-Mar. 22, 2009. One
Museum Way, Corning, NY 800 732 6845 cmog.org
dallas, tx
dallas museum of art
Boston Museum of Fine Art
New York MOMA
Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, Nov. 9-Mar. 15, 2009;
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharoahs, Oct.
3-May 17, 2009. 1717 North Harwood, Dallas, TX 214 922 1200
dallasmuseumofart.org
frankfurt, germany
shirn kunsthalle
Peter Doig, Oct. 9-Jan. 4, 2009. Romerberg D-60311, Frankfurt,
kyoto, japan
kyoto national museum
Japan Makie: The Radiance of the Far East in European
Castles, Oct. 18-Dec. 7. 527 Chayamachi, Higashiyama-ku,
Kyoto, Japan + 81 075 541 1151 kyohaku.go.jp
london, england british museum
Conservation in Focus, through Oct. 26; Babylon, Nov. 13-
