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The article presents a calendar of events related to exhibitions in the U.S. The "Pissarro: Creating the Impressionist Landscape" will be held at the Baltimore Museum of Art in Baltimore, Maryland from February 11 to May 13, 2007. The "Transparent Reflections: Richard Pousette-Dart, Works on Paper, 1940-1992" will be held at the Cincinnati Art Museum in Ohio from February 3 to April 29, 2007. The"Matisse: Painter as Sculptor" will be held at the Dallas Art Museum in Texas through April 29, 2007.

The article presents information on "Petra: Lost City of Stone," an exhibition of more than 200 items, including works that have never before left Jordan, monumental paintings by Western masters, virtual-reality and video displays and even a special display of Jordanian clothing and jewelry from the collection of Calvin College's own artist Sally de Vries, who spent more than 30 years traveling and working in the country. The exhibit, nearly 10 years in preparation, is only making five stops in North America. When a larger venue dropped out, Calvin College alumnus Neal Bierling, who had excavated at Petra, swooped in, helping secure the exhibit for his alma mater.

This article presents information related to various forthcoming arts exhibitions. The exhibition "Presence: Paintings and Works on Paper by Richard Pousette-Dart," is being held on June 12, 2004 in Chicago, Illinois. The exhibition "Constable's Skies," is being held in New York City on June 25, 2004. One Point Gallery presents abstract expressionist Jane DeDecker in a solo show in Denver, Colorado, on July 4, 2004. Scottish born artist Stuart Luke Gatherer brings his rich figurative paintings to the Eleanor Ettinger Gallery in "One-Man Exhibition," in New York City On July 10-11, 2004.

The article presents news items related to the art world. Paul du Toit, a South African artist whose first solo New York show opened as of April 20, 2004 at 49 Greene Street, doesn't waste anything. He explained that if he doesn't like one of his canvases, he simply chops it up and reassembles its parts into another painting. On a weekend day when most New Yorkers would rather be picnicking in Central Park, hundreds of people were instead taking in an exhibition of Corot landscapes and Constable cloud paintings at Salander-O' Reilly or looking at picnic scenes by Léger and Picasso at Michelle Rosenfeld. The other participating galleries were Cook Fine Art, Leo Castelli, Gerald Peters, Helly Nahmad, Jacobson Howard, Shepherd& Derom and Winston Wachter Mayer. The black Town Cars were lined up on Sixth Avenue, dropping off guests arriving for an exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the New York City sub-way system— even though the F, V, N, Q, R, W, B, D, 1, 2, 3, and 9 lines were within blocks of the UBS Art Gallery. Colin Thomson, director of the UBS gallery, Gabrielle Shubert, director of the New York Transit Museum, and curators Carissa Amash and Charles Sachs had assembled more than 200 subway-related objects.

No exhibition season in New York nowadays would be complete without at least one example of The Media Event, a blitz of attention in the news that succeeds, if only for a week or two, in elevating some tawdry assault on respectable taste to the status of a major art sensation, as of February 01, 2004. Many of these media events have lately been imported from London, where a well-organized gang of Young British Artists has made such media-savvy assaults a specialty. But New York has not been laggard, either, in providing domestic varieties of the kind of art in which deliberately offensive imagery can be expected to command journalistic acclaim. John Currin, an American painter, specializes in vividly realistic paintings of naked, young women with oversized breasts in a manner commonly associated with girlie magazines and porno movies.

Asian art is a hot topic this month, as of February 01, 2004 and beckons museum-goers from New York City to Columbia, Ohio, to Honolulu. From February 22, at Berkley, California, the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum in "Awakening: Buddhist Paintings from Tibet, China and Japan," offers lessons in life and death in Asian paintings. From February 29, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, is depicting Philadelphia baseball history from the 1880s to the 1980s, these paintings provide a visual evolution of the players, game, uniforms, equipment, ballparks and fans.

The article presents a list of dates of art galleries exhibitions, as of February 01, 2004. On February 2, Santa FE, New Mexico, Thirteen Moons Gallery features works by Carol Shinn, who photographs reflections in windows of cars and buildings, then replicates the images with thread on cloth. On February 7, New York City "Joe Zucker: Unhinged," at Paul Kasmin Gallery, will be the first New York exhibition of the artist's box paintings of sailboats, houses and interiors. From March 16-21, Texas Art Gallery hosts an exhibition of Kent R. Wallis's paintings, which depict gardens, mission archways, rural cottages and ponds.

Expressive figurative painting is back again— full of energy and emotion. If one has missed this summer's Christophe Rukhäberle exhibition at LFL Gallery or if one liked it enough to see more, there's another opportunity this month at Marianne Boesky Gallery, just around the corner in Chelsea. Across Rukhäberle's paintings, East German bars are crowded with dancing women and guitar strumming men. Ruckhäberle also plants little homage's to masters of the 20th century in his paintings— a Lichtenstein pitcher with pop polka dots.