After the group show Relative Positions dedicated to the photographic practice of Amy Adler, Liza May Post, and Francesca Woodman, the Contemporary Art Museum is hosting The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art, through February 17, curated by Lynn M. Herbert. The exhibition revolves around art’s capacity to transport the viewer into another dimension. The exhibition program carries on with the solo shows of William Lundberg (through March 3), William Kentridge (March 2– May 5), Christine Borland (May 3– June 23), Alighiero Boetti (May 18– August 4), and Roxy Paine (August 17– October 13).
Contemporary Arts Museum, 5216 Montrose Boulevard, Main Street, Houston, tel. +1.713.284.8250, http://camh.org

From March 23 to May 26, the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto is hosting a multimedia installation by Bruce Mau entitled Stress: An Inventory of Effects, commissioned from the Canadian designer and the theoretician André Lepecki of the Austrian museum of applied arts MAK and the Vienna Festival. Twenty-six episodes showing various life experiences will be projected onto eight monumental screens. Simultaneously on show is a series of recent sculptural and photographic portraits by the Canadian artist Evan Penny, entitled “L. Faux.”
The Power Plant, Contemporary Art Gallery, 231 Queens Quay West, Toronto, Ontario, www.thepowerplant.org

From March 24 through July 7, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is hosting the first important retrospective of Barnett Newman, curated by Ann Temkin, since the legendary show at MoMA New York thirty years ago. The exhibition will group over one hundred works that haven’t been shown since that event and will cover the entire oeuvre of the artist from his early surrealist period through the vertical stripes and zip paintings, up to the canvases completed in the final years his life. These include masterpieces such as Onement I (1948), the “Stations of the Cross” series (1958-1966), and his monumental sculpture Broken Obelisk (1967).
The Philadelphia Museum of the Art, 26th Street and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, www.philamuseum.org

From January 23 through May 3, the ICA in Boston is showing Chic Clicks: Creativity and Commerce in Contemporary Fashion Photography. Forty of the world’s most famous photographers will be showing work executed either for fashion magazines or advertising campaigns. The concept is to open up the debate between the fields of aesthetics and contemporary art against the commercial pressure from the worlds of fashion and publicity. Some of the invited artists include Fred Aufray, Koto Bolofo, Alex Cayley, Corinne Day, Takashi Homma, Marcelo Krasilcic, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Richard Prince, Terry Richardson, Cindy Sherman, Larry Sultan, Iké Udé, Jonathan de Villiers, and Erwin Wurm. The ICA’s exhibition program will continue with the group show Artists Imagine Architecture (May 22– September 2) with the work of fifteen contemporary artists working with the rapport between sculpture and architectural models. Jeff Ono, Vincent Fecteau, Sam Durant, Rita McBride, Isa Genzken, Manfred Pernice, Bodys Isek Kingelez, Shirley Tse, Carlos Garaiocca, Axel Lieber, Matthew Ronay, Torbjorn Vejvi, Ian Kiaer, Alan Wexler, Tamara Zahaykevich, and Thomas Kiesewetter are all artists who will be involved.
ICA, 955 Boylston Street, Boston, tel. +617.266.5152, www.icaboston.org

From February through April, the MIT List Visual Arts Center is hosting a show dedicated to AA Bronson, curated by Bill Arning. Recent works will be on display by the only surviving member of General Idea (AA Bronson, Felix Partz, and Jorge Zontal), along with other works created by the trio before the AIDS-related deaths of Partz and Zontal, as well as installations from the early years before their collaboration.
MIT List Visual Arts Center, 20 Ames Street Cambridge, Massachusetts tel. +1.617.253.4680

The Gwangju Biennale 2002, entitled P_A_U_S_E, for a new start, will open on March 29 and will be on show through June 29. The event is curated by Wan-Kyung Sung, the artistic director of the Gwangju Biennale; Charles Esche, director of the Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö; and Hou Hanru, artistic director of the Shanghai Biennale 2000. Invited artists are, among others, Artis Pro Active (Malaysia), Big Sky Mind(Malaysia), Cemeti Art House (Indonesia), Casco (NL), De Geuzen (NL), Digital Arts Lab (Israel), Foksal Foundation (PL), Glassbox (F), IT Park (Taiwan), Loft (China), Mowelfund (The Philippines), Oda Projesi (Turkey), Para-Site (Hong Kong), Plastique Kinetic Worms (Singapore), Project 304 (Thailand), Protoacademy (UK), Ruangrupa (Indonesia), Superflex (DK), University Bangsar Utama (Malaysia), Uggabat (Thailand), Videotage (Hong Kong), ForumA (Korea), Loop (Korea), Andar Manik/Marintan Sirait (Indonesia), Blent Sangar (Turkey), Carsten Nicolai (D), Geng Jianyi (China), Gu Dexin (China), Lin Michael (Taiwan), Mark Lewis (Canada), On Kawara (Japan), Olaf Nicolai (D), Sean Snyder (USA), Wilhelm Sasnal (PL), Zhang Peili (China), Arahmaiani (Indonesia), Antonio Gallego (F), Esra Ersen (Turkey), Halil Altindere (Turkey), Hilary Lloyd (UK), Jens Haaning (DK), Johanna Billing (S), Joseph Grigely (USA), Judy Freya Sybanyan (The Philippines), Liew Kung Yu (Malaysia), Lin Yilin(China), Lyn Lowenstein (UK), Matthew Ngui (Singapore), Nedko Solakov (Bulgaria), Nina Fischer Maraon el sani (D), Otto Berchem (USA), Post8 (Taiwan), Sislej Xhafa (Kosovo), Tsuyoshi Ozawa (Japan), Veronique Boudier (F), Jea-whan Joo (Korea), Yeon-doo Jung (Korea), Joo-kyung Yoon (Korea), Heung-soon Im (Korea), Young-hae Chang (Korea), Sang-gil Kim (Korea), Soon-gi Kim (Korea), Seung-ho Yoo (Korea), Bul-dong Park (Korea), Neung-kyung Sung (Korea), Jin Ham (Korea), Jeong-a Koo (Korea), Sora Kim (Korea), and Gimhongsok (Korea). Artists representing the National Pavilions are AES (Russia), Atelier Bow Wow (Japan), Claude Leveque (France), Eko Prawoto (Indonesia), Lim Tzay Chuen (Singapore), Marko Peljhan (Slovenia), Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset (Denmark), Shinichi Ogawa/Alan Johnston (Japan/UK), Yan Lei/Fujie (Hong Kong), Yang Jiechang and Yin Xiuzhen (China). Various other exhibition projects have been organized to coincide with the event. Yong-soon Min, Soo-young Chin, and Paul Yi are curating THERE: Sites of Korean Diaspora including works by Byung Ok Koh, Lina Kim, Eun Kyu Ryu, Jennifer Moon, Joseph Park, Sang Won Sung, Yoshiko Shimada, Hwangbo Kangja, Miline Women Group, Jin Lee, and Wonju Lim. Also, in Liberty Park on May 18, Wan-kyung Sung is presenting the show Light Breath with the participation of over fifty artists from all over the world.
www.gwangju-biennale.org

The new gallery müllerdechiara, a joint venture between Sonke Magnus Müller from Berlin and Laurie De Chiara from the De Chiara Gallery in New York, will be inaugurated in Berlin, at number 10 Weydinger Strasse in Berlin-Mitte. The opening date for the new space has been set for February 1 with a Warren Neidich show, entitled Remapping.
müllerdechiara, Weydinger Strasse 10, Berlin, tel. +49.30.39032040 www.mullerdechiara.com

In collaboration with La Cinquième, Dora Productions, and France 3 Alsace, Terra Luna Films has produced the film 20 ans de commande publique en France, conceived by Jean Paul Fargier and written Philippe Piguet. The piece bears witness to twenty years of public art commissions in French squares, churches, town halls, hospitals, and parks. These include works by Joseph Kosuth in Figeac, Christophe Cuzin in Lognes, and Ettore Spalletti’s morgue in Garches, near Paris.

In December the ten finalists were named for the third edition of the Beck’s Futures prize (£65,000), which is awarded to an artist resident in Great Britain. They were David Cotterrell, Kirsten Glass, Paul Hosking, Rachel Lowe, Oliver Payne & Nick Relph, Toby Paterson, Dan Perfect, Neil Rumming, Hideyuki Sawayanagi, and Tom Wood. Mark Francis will be presiding over his fellow jury members for this year, Marianne Faithfull, Julian Opie, Saskia Bos, and Harland Miller. The winner of last year’s edition was Tim Stoner who will show his recent paintings at the Stedelijk Museum Bureau in Amsterdam in the fall of 2002. The Scot Roddy Buchanan won the first edition.
ICA, Istitute for Contemporary Arts, The Mall, London, www.becksfutures.co.uk

From January 23 through April 7, Scandinavia House is hosting the show Strictly Swedish: an Exhibition of Contemporary Design curated by Félix Angel. Objects and works by twenty Swedish designers like Åke Axelsson, Johan Celsing, Ingegerd Råman, Anna von Schewen, and Mats Theselius will be on display.
The American-Scandinavian Foundation @ Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, New York, www.amscan.org