From January 10 through June 16, the Dia center for the arts in New York is showing Bruce Nauman’s most recent video installation. Entitled Mapping the studio I (Fat Change John Cage), it is made up of seven different projections. The work comprises tapes of the artist’s studio that record the nocturnal activities of his cat during a mouse infestation in the summer 2000.
Dia center for the arts, 542 West 22nd Street, New York, tel. +1.212.989.5566, www.diacenter.org

From February 3 through May 26, the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio is presenting the exhibition Mood River, curated by Jeffrey Kipnis and Annetta Massie and dedicated to art and design. More than two thousand objects from contemporary life are on show, ranging from toothbrushes to lamps, from cars to chairs, all displayed in particular set designed by Jose Oubrerie that evokes a wide array of moods, as reflected in the title, whether within the gallery spaces or in outside areas. Inspired by the famous exhibition Machine Art that was held at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1934, Mood River is organized by the architect Philip Johnson and focuses on the practice of almost two hundred artists and designers. Coming from twelve different nations around the globe, including Australia, France, Japan, and the United States, these include Hussein Chalayan, Greg Lynn, Ross Lovegrove, Issey Miyake, Elsa Perretti, and Philippe Starck.
Wexner Center for the Arts, 1871 North High Street, Columbus, Ohio, tel. +1.614.292.0330, www.wexarts.org

Museion, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Bolzano, is presenting the project Guida. Iniziative in successione, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, from February 22 through May. The initiative consists of having exhibits placed out beyond the museums walls, encroaching on other places not usually associated with contemporary art. The first projected phase involves four young artists to be shown in other city museums: Sislej Xhafa (at the Museo Mercantile), Diego Perrone (Museo delle Scienze Naturali), Thierry Fontaine (Museo Archeologico), and Alexandra Ranner (Museo Civico). Following this, at the beginning of the summer, Joseph Kosuth will work with the Museo della macchina da scrivere in Parcines, Hamish Fulton at the Castello Juval di Reinhold Messner, Sylvie Fleury at the Museo della donna in Merano, Mimmo Paladino at the Museo Diocesano in Bressanone, and Wim Delvoye at the Museo provinciale Etnografico in Tendone.
Museion, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bolzano, Via Ospedale 2/b, Bolzano, www.museion.it

From January 19 through March 24, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, in collaboration with the Prada Foundation in Milan, is presenting Mariko Mori’s first solo show in Japan. A large number of the artist’s work will be exhibited, starting from her first photographs taken in1994 up to more recent works, such as Miracle.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Temporary Exhibit Space 1F&B2F, Tokyo, tel. +81.3.52454111

After Officina Italia in 1997 and Officina Europa in 1999, it’s time for Officina America, curated by Renato Barilli, which is being held from January 25 through March 31. The concept behind the officine, literally “workshops,” is to give up-to-date overviews of the current art scene in each specified area. The participating exhibition spaces are Villa delle Rose in Bologna, the Museo di San Domenico in Imola, the former fish market in Cesena, and the Palazzo dell’Arengario in Rimini, which will collectively show the work of over sixty artists. Following its geographical schema and biannual time frame, over the next few years we can look forward to Officina Asia, Officina Africa, and Officina Oceania. There are works by Polly Apfelbaum, Ingrid Calame, Bonnie Collura, Jim Isermann, Marina Kappos, Stacey Lancaster, Jean Lowe, Larry Pitman, Monica Prieto, Ellen Berkenblit, Michael Bevilacqua, Ginny Bishton, Andy Collins, Lydia Dona, Angelo Filomeno, Naomi Fisher, Luis Gispert, Arturo Herrera, Jay Isaac, Brad Kahlamer and Karen Kilimnik.
Villa delle Rose, Via Saragozza 228/230, tel. +39.051.502.859-436.818, www.galleriadartemoderna.bo.it

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, already a senior curator at P.S.1 in New York, has been named chief curator at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Turin. Starting in January 2002, she replaces Giorgio Verzotti, who has been named senior curator of contemporary art at the Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Trento. Verzotti will stay on at the Castello to see through projects that he initiated, including solo shows of Shirin Neshat and Wolfgang Tillmans (January 30 – May 5). During the same period, a solo show by Francesco Vezzoli is on view, curated by Marcella Beccaria. Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Piazza Mafalda di Savoia, Rivoli, Turin, tel. +39.011.9565222/280, www.castellodirivoli.it

Through February 24 the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam is hosting the group exhibition Unpacking Europe. The invited artists are Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Heri Dono, Coco Fusco, Ni Haifeng, Fiona Hall, Isaac Julien, Rachid Koraichi, Ken Lum, Nalini Malani, Johannes Phokela, Keith Piper, Anri Sala, Yinka Shonibare, Vivan Sundaram, Nasrin Tabatabai, Fred Wilson, and Shi Yong.
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Museumpark 18-20, Rotterdam, tel. +31.10.44.19.400, www.boijmans.rotterdam.nl

The Armory Show has commissioned American artist Karen Kilimnik to create a series of drawings for the 2002 event, scheduled to run from February 21 through 25. This assignment inaugurates a new initiative in which a different artist will be invited to create a project for each edition of the annual international art fair.
www.thearmoryshow.com

This December saw the reopening of Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie after three years of restoration. The project was part of the vast renovation plan for all the museum structures standing in the so-called museum island on the Spree River, in the center of the eastern section of the formerly divided city. The Alte Nationalgalerie is a neoclassical building that houses over five hundred nineteenth-century artworks, including masterpieces by Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, and Auguste Rodin.
Alte Nationalgalerie, Bodestrasse 1-3, Berlin, www.smb.spk-berlin.de

On December 2 the five finalists for the third Premio Querini Stampalia-Furla per l’Arte were announced: Marcello Maloberti, Ottonella Mocellin, Adrian Paci, Daniele Puppi, and Sissi. A national jury— Dede Aureoli, Chiara Bertola, Emanuela De Cecco, Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, Francesca Pasini, Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, and Angela Vettese—selected the artists from a pool of fifty chosen by Marcella Beccarla, Costantino D’Orazio, Maria Luisa Frisa, Agnes Kohlmeyer, Gianfranco Maraniello, Paola Nicita, Chiara Parisi, Gabriele Perretta, Alessandro Rabottini, and Gabi Scardi.
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Castello 5252, Venice, tel. +39.041.2711411