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Exhibition roundup: March/April
(CNN) -- Expect to view art that may make you question what you see -- and what you think -- at museums around the United States in the next couple of months.
Some exhibits focus on optical illusions, such as the Salvador Dali exhibit in Hartford, Connecticut. Others present works by contemporary artists that comment on racism, sexism and other social problems. And a couple may show historians and anthropologists things they've never seen before.
Here's a smattering of exhibits for March and April, including a few you don't even have to leave your seat to visit.
Baltimore | Chicago | Hartford | Houston | New York | Pittsburgh | Santa Fe | OnlineBaltimore Museum of Art "Joyce J. Scott: Kickin' It With the Old Masters" Through May 21
Contemporary artist Joyce J. Scott is presenting a retrospective of her 30-year career, at the very museum she visited as a child. She gained international acclaim for her works in a variety of media, including fiber arts, jewelry, beaded sculpture, prints, site-specific installations, and performance art. Her pieces provide commentary racism, violence, sexism, stereotypes and other issues. They're meant to create a bridge between the Old Master paintings visitors expect to see at art museums and contemporary American society.
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This exhibition explores masks as works of art and icons of culture. More than 100 artifacts from all over the world are on display, dating from Paleolithic times (750,000 years ago) to contemporary Hollywood. Some finds include a 230-year-old Siberian shaman's costume and mask used to ward off evil and danger; an ancient Egyptian mummy mask with glass eyes and braided wig; and a devil mask worn by the Mestizo people of Guanajuato, Mexico, that looks like a hand with goat horns for fingernails.
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Play tricks on your eyes studying the illusionary work of Salvador Dali at the Wadsworth Atheneum, an institution with a special connection to the Spanish surrealist. It claims to be the first museum to purchase a Dali painting, and it was there, in 1934, when Dali first uttered his famous motto: "The only difference between me and a madman is that I am not mad."
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston "The Golden Age of Chinese Archaeology" Through May 7
China is lending some of its prized archaeological finds to Houston's Museum of Fine Arts. They date from the Neolithic era to the Liang Dynasty (5000 B.C. to 923 A.D.) Among the 200 objects are life-size earthenware warriors, funerary sculpture, musical instruments, paintings and calligraphy. Curators say the exhibit is historically significant because it shows the origin of Chinese civilization did not occur solely in the Yellow River valley in northern China but took place, instead, in various regions throughout country.
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The first in a four-part series, this exhibit showcases objects from the Arts & Crafts, Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements. It displays furniture, metalwork, glass, ceramics, textiles, jewelry, and drawings made between 1900 and 1925, by the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Comfort Tiffany.
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh "Andy Warhol Drawings, 1942-1987" Through April 30
Starting with a self-portrait drawn at age 14, the museum is presenting the first in-depth survey of more than 200 rarely exhibited -- and never published -- drawings by Andy Warhol. The collection shows how the artist developed stylistically, fusing the academic approach he learned at Carnegie Tech with his experience as a commercial illustrator on Madison Avenue.
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum and Santa Fe's Museum of Fine Arts "Arthur Wesley Dow and American Arts & Crafts" March 10-June 8
As a teacher, Arthur Wesley Dow had a profound impact on artists in America during the first half of the 20th century. He promoted the notion, revolutionary at the time, that art needn't imitate nature. Dow also emphasized function and beauty, a tenet of the Arts & Crafts movement. The exhibit showcases several of his drawings and photographs as well as those of his proteges, such as Georgia O'Keeffe and Max Weber. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum will house the exhibition's two-dimensional works, while its three-dimensional pieces will be shown at Santa Fe's Museum of Fine Arts.
Guild.com "The MTV Canvas" Through March 22
The art Web site Guild.com is showing several Internet-only exhibitions, including "The MTV Canvas." The works come from emerging young artists who use imagery from cyberspace and electronic media to show how our visual environment is changing. Another online exhibit, "Site Paintings," runs through March 29. It boasts artwork that questions ideas we've been socialized into thinking.
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