Through July 28, the Art Institute has organized an exhibition entitled Modern Trains and Splendid Stations: Architecture and Design for the 21st Century, in the Kisho Kurokawa Gallery of Architecture. On display are forty-five models and designs that incorporate diverse fields and interests such as architectonic research, design, engineering, new technologies, city planning, and contemporary problems with train transportation. The exhibition includes works such as the Euro-Liegi Station in Belgium by Santiago Calatrava, the Yufuin Railway Station in Japan by Arata Isozaki, the Hung Hom Station in China by Foster and Partner, and the San Francisco Transport Interchange in California by Richard Rogers and Partners.
The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, ph.1+312.443.3600, www.artic.edu

The Moderna Museet, directed by Lars Nittve, who left Tate Modern last year to assume this post, will close for remodeling. In the meantime, all the scheduled exhibitions of the Swedish museum will be hosted at the Klara Post Office in the center of Stockholm. The official opening of the Moderna Museet’s temporary space has been scheduled for this summer. The museum continues to plan an interesting series of international itinerant exhibitions, one of which is a huge event dedicated to contemporary Nordic art that will travel around Asia during 2002 and 2003. The show, entitled Beyond Paradise. Nordic Artists Travel East and curated by Apinan Poshyananda, will be presented by the National Art Gallery of Bankok, Thailand, and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Jouko Lehtola, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Salla Tykkä, Elina Brotherus, Esko Männikkö, Heli Rekula, Helena Hietanen, Henrik Håkansson, Peter Johansson, Anneè Olofsson, Annika von Hausswolff, CM von Hausswolff, Maria Friberg, Magnus Wallin, Kjell Bjørgeengen, Torbjørn Rødland, Vibeke Tandberg, Mette Tronvoll, Iver Jåks, Per Maning, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset, Mads Gamdrup, Peter Land, and Olafur Eliasson are some of the artists who will represent their nations.
www.modernamuseet.se

Through March 24 the De Appel Center for Contemporary Art in Amsterdam offers the group show Amsterdam Revisted: Adam & Eve—on sex, tolerance, and other dependencies, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Tobias Berger, and Annie Fletcher. The show presents the work of over thirty artists who have lived and worked in the city of Amsterdam from the ’70s to the present day. Invited artists include Abramovic/Ulay, Otto Berchem, Anna Beeke, Anthon Beeke, André van Bergen, Maura Biava, Jan Blankestein, Jan Cremer, Martha Colburn, Elspeth Diederix, Marlene Dumas, Ed van der Elsken, David Haines, Peter Klashorst, Micha Klein, A. P. Komen & Karen Murphy, Jaap Kroneman, Bas Meerman, Begoña Muñoz, Shahryar Nashat, Erwin Olaf, Maria Pask, Willem de Ridder, Julika Rudelius, Sanne Sannes, Henk Schiffmacher, Gregg Smith, Annie Sprinkle, Lily van der Stokker, Yuk Lin Tang, Mascha de Vries & Lars Eijssen, Erik Weeda, and Lawrence Weiner.
De Appel, Nieuwe Spiegelstraat 10, Amsterdam, tel. +31.20.6255651, www.deappel.nl

Through March 31, the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius is hosting the exhibition Moscow Time. Contemporary Russian Art curated by Leonid Bazhanov. The idea is to present the contemporary art scene in Moscow through the works of both established and emerging artists. Invited artists include AES+F (T. Arzamasova & L. Evzovich & E. Svyatsky & V. Fridkes), Alexander Brodsky, Vladimir Dubosarsky & Alexander Vinogradov, Lyudmila Gorlova, Vladislav Efimov & Aristarkh Chernyshev, Vadim Zakharov, Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid, Vladimir Kupryanov, Francisco Infante, Valery Koshlyakov, Igor Makarevich, Rauf Mamedov, Vyacheslav Mizin & Alexander Shaburov, Irina Nakhova, Anton Olshvang, Alexander Ponomarev, Olga Chernysheva, Sergei Shutov, Gor Chakhal, Dmitry Gutov & “Radek, and Alexander Konstantinov.
Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vokieciu 2, Vilnius, Lithuania, tel. +370.2.221954, www.cac.lt

The Afro-american artist Kara Walker has been nominated as the representative of the United States for the twenty-fifth edition of the São Paulo Biennale in Brazil, which is being held from March 23 through June 2. The American commissioner is the curator Robert Hobbs, who occupies the Rhoda Thalhimer Endowed Chair of Art History at Virginia Commonwealth University. Walker is presenting Slavery! Slavery!, a twenty-six-meter cyclorama involving her famous black silhouette figures at life-size, which illustrates episodes from the Battle of Atlanta during the civil war. Other artists representing their countries are: Anri Sala (Albania), Dino Bruzzone (Argentina), Azat Sargsyan, (Armenia), Robert McPherson (Australia), Georg P. Thomann (Austria), Richard Venlet (Belgium), Raquel Schwartz (Bolivia), Marran Gosov (Bulgaria), Pascale Marthine Tayou (Cameroon), Stan Douglas (Canada), Pablo Rivera (Chile), Wang Jian Wei (China), Luis Fernando Peláez (Colombia), Chéri Samba (Congo), Andres Carranza (Costa Rica), Ivan Faktor (Croatia), Yioula Hadjigeorghiou (Cyprus), Ingar Dragset/Michael Elmgreen (Denmark), Abdel Salam Eid (Egypt), Rodolfo Molina (El Salvador), Manuel Cholango (Equador), Seppo Renvall (Finland), Jean-Luc Moulène (France), Rupprecht Geiger (Germany), Willie Doherty (Great Britain), Maria Papadimitriou (Greece), Melanie Rios (Guatemala), Johanna Montero Matamoros (Honduras), Tamás Komoróczky (Hungary), Arahmajani (Indonesia), Clare Langan (Ireland), Gal Weinstein (Israel), Margherita Manzelli (Italia), Kimio Tsuchiya (Japan), Seokjung Kim (Korea), Famous Five (F5) (Latria), Nabil Nahas (Lebanon), Abraham Cruzvillegas (Mexico), Atelier van Lieshout (Holland), Gavin Hipkins (New Zealand), Raul Quintanilla Armino (Nicaragua), Ole Jorgen Ness (Norway), Gustavo Araujo (Panama), Sliman Mansour (Palestine), Jesús Ruiz Nestosa (Paraguay), Philippe Gruenberg/Pablo Hare (Peru), Katarzyna Kozyra (Poland), João Tabarra (Portugal), Charles Juhaz-Alvarado (Porto Rico), Sergey Bratkov (Russia), Sek Chern Hong (Singapore), Art Center Metelkova Mesto (Slovenia), Pitso Chinzima (South Africa), Rogelio López Cuenca (Spain), Annika Eriksson (Sweden), Fabrice Gygi (Switzerland), Edward Bowen (Trinidad), Chien-Chi Chang (Taipei), Canan Beykal (Turkey), Carlos Cruz-Diez (Venezuela), Taras Polataiko (Ucraina), Marco Maggi (Uruguay), Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba (Vietnam), Mrdan Bajic (Yugoslavia), Goddy Leye (Cameroon), Mawuli Afatsiawo (Ghana), Ingrid Mwangi (Kenya), Papisthione (Senegal), Moshekwa Langa (South Africa) e Zwelethu Mthethwa (South Africa)

Through April 7 the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo presents the group show DesignNow.Austria, curated by Gregor Eichinger and Christian Knechtl. Dedicated to historical and current trends in Austrian design, the show offers a representative selection of over thirty famous projects, ranging from the International Style to Liberty, from the sophisticated industrial design of Porsche to the high-fashion clothing of Helmut Lang.
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, 4-7-25 Kitashinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo tel. +81.03.3445.0651, www.haramuseum.or.jp

The Sydney Biennale opens for business on May 15 and will be in course through mid-July. Fifty-eight artists from various countries have been invited to display their works in various sites throughout the Australian city, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Artspace, the Object Galleries & City Exhibition Space at Customs House, and the Sydney Opera House. The presence of Australian artists is understandably significant; they include James Angus, David Haines, Peter Hill, Joyce Hinterding, Patricia Piccinini. Robert MacPherson, Pope Alice/Luke Roberts, Darren Siwes, Suzanne Treister, and Harry Wedge. Michael Parekowhai and Mike Stevenson are representing New Zealand. From the US, are the artists Vito Acconci, Chris Burden, Paul Etienne Lincoln, Jeffrey Vallance, and Jim Shaw, while from the UK are Glenn Brown, Dexter Dalwood, Paul Noble, Simon Patterson, Susan Hiller, Emma Kay, and Mike Nelson. Other invited artists include Patrick Corillon and Panamarenko (Belgium), Veli Granö (Finland) Gilles Barbier (France), Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani and Olaf Nicolai (Germany), Cang Xin and Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba (China), Yutaka Sone and Miwa Yanagi (Japan), Shirley Tse (Hong Kong), Do-Ho Suh (Korea), Miguel Angel Rios (Mexico), Aleksandra Mir and Ann-Sofi Sidén (Sweden), Katarzyna Jozefowicz (Poland), Joao Penalva and Vasco Araújo (Portugal), Salon de Fleurus (Slovenia), and Vibeke Tandberg (Norway).
www.biennaleofsydney.com.au

The fifteenth edition of the Winter Film Festival was held in Stuttgart. The jury staffed by Brigitta Burger-Utzer (Vienna), Claus Löser (Thun), and Chantal Michel (Berlin) awarded the Video and Film Prize to the American Steve Matheson for his work entitled Apple Grown in the Wind Tunnel. For her film Das schalafende Mädchen (The Sleeping Girl), the German artist Corinna Schnitt won the Normann 2002 (€1,500), a prize sponsored by Deutsche Bahn AG (German Railway Association). Chosen by a jury composed of Gerard H. Hovagimyan (New York), Branko Karabatic (Split), and Peter Redlin (Stuttgart), the New Media section of the Stuttgart Prize, CD-ROM category (€2,000), was won by the German Gunnar Peter for the work entitled Bürger Omega 57. The prize for the Internet category went to the Canadian Eric Deis for his work entitled Symposium. Matthias Fitz won the Milla & Partners Prize for Media Installation (€2,500).
www.filmwinter.de

In December the winners were announced for the 2001 edition of the Penny McCall Award for Visual Art, sponsored by the eponymous American foundation. In the visual arts section, awards went to Ellen Berkenblit, Anne Chu, María Elena González, Janet Henry, and Julie Mehretu, while for the new media section John Wilson and Stephen Vitiello were the lucky recipients. Finally, Robert Atkins won the Independent Critic/Curator Award.
Penny McCall Foundation, 163 E. 81st Street, New York, tel. +1.212.988.9714

Through April 28 an exhibition entitled Rendez-vous 3 appears at the Fondation Lambert, established by Marie-Josée Roig and Yvon Lambert, two of the most prominent French art collectors, and housed in the beautiful Hôtel de Caumont. Curated by Éric Mézil, director of the collection, the show is presents some of the foundation’s most important works, including projects by Robert Barry, Christian Boltanski, Elina Brotherus, Daniel Buren, Christo, Bonnie Collura, Robert Combas, François-Xavier Courrèges, Christine Davis, Marcel Dzama, Hamish Fulton, Nan Goldin, Jenny Holzer, Anselm Kiefer, Delphine Kreuter, Barbara Kruger, Koo Jeong-a, Joseph Kosuth, Joey Kötting, David Lamelas, Jo Lansley, Hélène Bendon, Bertrand Lavier, Claude Lévêque, Sol LeWitt, Gordon Matta-Clark, Jonathan Monk, Rika Noguchi, Cady Noland, Dennis Oppenheim, Tsuyoshi Ozawa, David Rosenfeld, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Shimabuku, David Shrigley, Ross Sinclair, Sarah Stevenson, Vibeke Tandberg, Niele Toroni, James Turell, Cy Twombly, Sergio Vega, and Lawrence Weiner.
Collection Lambert, Musée d’Art Contemporain, 5 Rue Violette, Avignon, tel.+33.4.90.16.56.20, www.collectionlambert.com