Fall 2005 art
previews

September

Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art, Sept. 4-Jan. 8. Four major 20th-century artists, two of them gay: Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg form half of this aesthetic discourse.

Warhol Legacy: Selections From the Andy Warhol Museum Washington, D.C.: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Sept. 24-Feb. 19. More than 150 paintings, sculptures, films, and other pieces by the queer high priest of pop art.

October

John Waters: Change of Life Newport Beach, Calif.: Orange County Museum of Art, Oct. 30-Jan. 15. Some 80 recent photographs and sculptures, including Waters's "little movies," which reduce a whole film to a single still.

November

Beauford Delaney: From New York to Paris Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Nov. 13-Jan. 29. Now in Greenville, S.C., this traveling show takes the out African-American painter from New York realism to Paris abstracts.

December

Robert Rauschenberg: Combines New York City: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Dec. 20-April 2. Rauschenberg is back with this exhibit devoted to his signature "combines"--mixed-media pieces in which painting, sculpture, found objects, photographs, and attitude come together in style.

--Angie J. Han