Taking a break Art museums are rain out alternative
by Kris M. Bergquist
Kansan staff writer
Museums may not be your destination for Spring Break, but what if the weather is bad and you can't get to the beach? What if you get an intellectual urge and you haven't a clue where to go? You could go to . . .
New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ingres, a French painter.
Costume Institute: From Queen to
Expert Victorian Dress 1837-1877
Empress Victorian Dress 1837-1877
*Frederic Remington, the first exhibit of his painted western scenes in New York City*
The Studio Museum in Harlem
Hale Woodruff Memorial Biennial. A show of emerging artists, Sponsored in part by the Ford Foundation Fellowship for Minorities in Visual Arts.
- Art as a Verb. The exhibit shows art as action. Some of the artists involved are Adrian Piper, Bettie Saar and Faith Ring- Giaini.
The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art
Andy Warhol: a retrospective show.
- Architectural exhibit. Emilio Ambasz and Steven Hall
Walker Evans, an American photographer.
Boston
Paul Revere House. The historic house museum from which he left to go on his famous ride.
Old South Meeting House. The Boston Tea Party meeting was conducted here, originally a Puritan church built in 1728. March 16; a mid-day program titled "A Spirit of the New Idea in Artistic Handicraft" and the Arts and Grass Movement."
Washington, D.C.
The Early Cezanne Exhibit.
National Gallery of Art.
The Early Cezanne Exhibit.
- Early Works of the Old Masters, 15th and 16th century work.
Early Netherlandish Painting's "Life
of a Dutch Sailor" in the Netherlands,
Holland and Belgium
Modern Paintings and 20th Century Art.
Sculpture by Roger Smith.
■ French Impressionists, a large selection
    The Corcoran Gallery of Art.
- I Dream a World: portraits of 75 black women who changed America.
**Lee Miller Photography Exhibit. Miller's surrealistic work in Paris during the 1920s**
■ Italian Renaissance Maiolica. Ceramic collection.
museum has exhibits on the numbers of FBI officials in the United States, weapons in the shape of ball point pens, fingerprints, a collection of firearms, a collection of deer heads, spy cameras and a live firearms demonstration by an FBI agent.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Institution
Oceanean Canvas
Museum of African Art
Sackler Gallery, Chinese and Oriental Art
Paul Manish, a 1920s Art Deco sculptor
Daytona Beach, Fla.
Museum of Arts and Sciences
Museum of Arts and Sciences
*Volusia* a comprehensive look at the works of art done from kindergarten to 12th grade at the Volusia County schools.
A 13-foot fossil of a giant ground sloth that is 130,000 years old. It was a vegetarian animal that lived in the Daytona area.
Planetarium, laser and star shows.
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Museum of Art Inc.
- Haitian Art Show, 40 years of Haitian Art.
- Trevor Bell Show, an English-born painter who lived in Florida.
Key West, Fla.
The Hemingway Home and Museum. Ernest Hemingway's home and the studio where he did about 75 percent of his writing.
New Orleans
New Orleans Museum of Art
New Orleans museum of ART
Frank Hayden Memorial Exhibition. A black sculpturist from New Orleans who died in 1988
Shape of Power; Beliefs and Celebration:
African Art from the New Orleans Colle-
lege
A 3,000-piece glass collection
Chicago
Jane Addams' Hull House. Two of the original 13 Hull House buildings are restored to look as they did in the 1880s. Addams was involved in social work and opened one of the first settlement houses in the Rock Creek Town is a few blocks from the house.
The Art Institute of Chicago.
The Human Figure in Early Greek Art. A traveling exhibition includes that more than 60 pieces of terra cotta, clayware and sculptures from museums in Greece
20th Century paintings
Adler Planetarium
Monsters in the Sky, a sky show.
A projection on the ceiling of astronomical
Kansas City, Mo.
■ Kansas City collects contemporary ceramics.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
- The Lure of Tahiti, Gauguin, his Predecessors and Followers.
- Benton and Contemporaries: Works on Paper
- Exhibition of contemporary ceramics by Indith Shea
Thomas Hart Benton: An American Origin.
Potters Choice II.
Dallas
Dallas Museum of Art
Daniel Starting/KANSAN
■ Donald Judd, a retrospective contemporary Texas artist.
- Patterns from the East, Japanese wall papers
papers.
If one can only think about going somewhere warm, the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., is displaying paintings and photographs from artists inspired by the South Pacific island of Tahiti. The exhibit, titled "The Lure of Tahiti; Gauguin, His Predecessors and Followers," will be shown through April 9th.
Denver
The Denver Art Museum
**Baldwin Collection. Art done by Toulisue-Lautrec, the crippled French artist (1844-1903) who painted the dark side of life, including the famous dancer Jane April.**
James Milmore, a photography display.
on the modern Art on the
promptly redced sixth floor.
Leo Tanguma, a Denver artist, is painting a mural in the gallery.
The Molly Brown House. Tours are given daily by a person in Victorian dress. The 1960s musical, "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," was based on her life.
Aspen, Colo.
Colorado Ski Museum — Ski Hall of Fame
Exhibition and photographs of the 1989 World Alpine Ski Championships and the Aspen 1950 United States Ski Championships. It traces the history of skiing and has won the annual Ski Hall of Fame award.
The name
Aspen Historical Society Museum. The
museum is located in the Jerome Wheeler house, built in the 1800s. Wheeler also built a hotel that is about eight blocks from the house. An opera house built by Wheeler is in
The Aspen Art Museum
Vital Signs, organic abstractions in America. The exhibit includes sculptures
Berkelev, Calif.
Berkeley Art Center
Berkeley Art Center
Paper dimensions: Sculptural paper by Bay Area Women Artists. One bowl on exhibit was made from a hairnet and has chips of gold and colored glass in it, but is essentially held together by paper.
Long Beach, Calif.
Queen Mary Maritime Museum and the Spruce Goose, Howard Hughes Flying Boat. There is a walking tour of the luxury liner that traveled from New York to England from 1936 to 1967. It also a 833-room hotel and has four restaurants. The Spruce Goose, the world's largest plane, sits across the street from the pier.
KANSAN Taking a break/March 1, 1989