Museum
of Contemporary Art, North Miami

Dec. 1,
2009-Feb. 14, 2010

Artists "exploring the
artistic traditions of Realism in an age of
digital manipulation and staged reality": Uta
Barth, Olaf Breuning, Tom Burr, Talia Chetrit,
Anetta Mona Chisa & Lucia Tkacova, Phil
Collins, Thomas Demand, Alex Hubbard, Matt Keegan,
Ragnar Kjartansson, Elad Lassry, Lars Laumann,
Adam McEwen, Wilhelm Sasnal, Xaviera Simmons,
Martin Soto Climent, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sara
VanDerBeek, Emily Wardill, Gillian Wearing, Judi
Werthein and Artur Zmijewski

Curator: Ruba
Katrib

Funding: John S. and James L. Knight
Foundation, Starbucks Coffee Company,
others

Miami Art
Museum

Dec. 3-6, 2009

One-weekend-only
public art project by the ubiquitous Shepard
Fairey during Art Basel Miami Beach, presenting a
variation on his often-reproduced work Arab
Woman, produced by MAM with Country Club
gallery and the Fountainhead
Residency

Bass Museum of
Art

Dec. 3, 2009-Mar. 14, 2010

Star
contemporary artists from the Mexico City-based
Jumex Collection: Stephan Bruggeman, Minerva
Cuevas, Jenny Holzer, Louise Lawler, On Kawara,
Gabriel Orozco, Damian Ortega, Paul McCarthy, Ugo
Rondinone, Rudolf Stingel, Kelly Walker and Andy
Warhol

Curators: Silvia Karman Cubiña, Raphaela
Platow, Victor Zamudio Taylor

Tour: Cincinnati
Art Center

Minneapolis
Institute of Arts

Dec. 5, 2009-Mar.7,
2010

Objects attributed to the peoples of Fort
Belknap Indian Reservation and the Northern
Plains, exploring the arts of the A'aninin (Gros
Ventre) and Nakoda (Assiniboine)
peoples

Dallas
Museum of Art

Dec. 6, 2009–May 23,

2010

Jacob Lawrence’s silkscreen prints
dedicated to the life of Haitian revolutionary
Toussaint L’Ouverture, alongside the painting The Visitors, and a photographic portrait
of Lawrence by Arnold Newman

Curators: Roslyn
A. Walker,
Charles Wylie

Getty
Center

Dec. 8, 2009-Feb. 28, 2010

Drawings
by 15 of Rembrandt's pupils in close comparison to
drawings by the master himself

Curator: Lee
Hendrix

Henry Art
Gallery, Seattle

Dec. 10, 2009-Mar. 28,
2010

Selection of black-and-white photos
depicting people at work, from the celebrated
social documentarian Milton Rogovin (b.
1909)

Curator: Misa
Jeffereis

Whitney
Museum of American Art

Dec. 10, 2009-Feb. 14,
2010

Recent work by the artist who received the
Whitney’s 2008 Bucksbaum Award for his
contribution to the 2008 Whitney
Biennial

Philadelphia
Museum of Art

Dec. 11, 2009-Mar. 21, 2010

A series of gunpowder drawings titled Light
Passage by Cai Guo-Qiang, as well as "an
explosion event," Fallen Blossoms: Explosion
Project, to be staged on December 11 (video
of Fallen Blossoms goes on display at the
Fabric Workshop and Museum, which is collaborating
with the PMA on the Cai show)

Curators: Carlos
Basualdo, Adelina
Vlas

Amon Carter
Museum, Fort Worth

Dec. 12, 2009-May 16,
2010

Selections from the famous portfolio by
Edward S. Curtis, recently acquired by the
museum

MASS MoCA

Dec.
12, 2009-Oct. 31, 2010

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
reconstructs Mies van der Rohe's uncompleted
project, the 50x50 House (1951), only at
approximately half scale and
inverted

Museum of Modern Art

Dec. 13, 2009-Mar. 1, 2010

Iconic works by the Mexican artist known for his poetic conceptual art, including La DS (1993)
and Black Kites (1997), alongside smaller
objects, paintings and works on paper

Curator:
Ann Temkin, Paulina Pobocha

Catalogue: 256 pp.,
$55

Funding: National Council for Culture and
the Arts (CONACULTA), Fundación Televisa

Tour:
Kunstmuseum Basel, Apr. 18-Aug. 10, 2010; Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris, Sept. 15, 2010-Jan. 3,
2011; Tate Modern, London, Jan. 19-Apr. 25,
2011

Metropolitan
Museum of Art

Dec. 17, 2009-June 6,
2010

Archaeological artifacts, Buddhist
iconographic scrolls, ceramics, screen paintings
and sculptures, acquired by the Met in 1975 from
the collection of Japanese art collector Harry G.
C. Packard
(1914-1991)

Walker Art Center

Dec. 17, 2009-Mar. 14, 2010

Immersive
video environment reflecting on the conditions of
laborers in China, from Beijing-based artist Zhao
Liang

Curator: Sheryl Mousley

Legion of
Honor, San Francisco

Dec. 19, 2009-Apr. 18,
2010

200+ objects including jewelry of the
Gilded Age and Art Deco periods, as well as
freestanding works of art such as the famous Mystery Clocks, tracing the history of
the House of Cartier

Curator: Martin
Chapman

Catalogue: 176 pp., $34.95

Funding:
Lonna Wais, others

Art
Institute of Chicago

Dec. 19, 2009-Feb. 28,
2010

Showcasing C. D. Arnold’s photos of the
1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, a.k.a. the
Chicago World’s Fair

Carnegie
Museum of Art

Dec. 19-ongoing

Masterworks by
Albrecht Dürer, Andrea Mantegna, others, in an
exhibition that coincides with the recent
reopening of the Carnegie’s decorative art and
design galleries

Funding: The Fellows of
Carnegie Museum of Art,
others

San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Dec. 19,
2009-Jan. 16, 2011

400+ works from the SFMoMA’s
permanent collection, with a specific focus on
artists the museum was early to collect, including
Bruce Conner, Jay DeFeo, Frida Kahlo, Jeff Koons,
Sherrie Levine, Mike Mandel, Larry Sultan, Barry
McGee, Jackson Pollock and Leslie
Shows

Curator: Janet Bishop, Corey Keller,
Sarah Roberts

Catalogue: San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art: 75 Years of Looking
Forward, 448 pp., $65 cloth, $40
paper

San Jose Museum of Art

Dec. 22, 2009-June 6, 2010

Exploring the
physicality of paint, via works from Elmer
Bischoff, Joan Brown, James Hayward, Paul Jenkins,
Karl Kasten, Jeffrey Keith, Gordon Onslow-Ford,
Sam Tchakalian and Phe
Ruiz

Museum of
Modern Art

Dec. 23, 2009-July 12,
2010

Posters and numerous small-scale works
representing Soviet Russian, German, Dutch and
Czechoslovakian graphics, some from the collection
of designer Jan Tschichold, author of the landmark Die Neue Typographie (1928)

Curator:
Juliet
Kinchin