Irving Penn: Metropolitan museum of art; whitney museum of American art. (New York).Throughout his career, Irving Penn has offset the flawless chic of his fashion photographs with work that focuses on decidedly unfashionable things: skulls, cigarette butts, dead flowers. In 1949 and '50 he shot artists' models in the nude, clearly reveling in the sight of their soft, voluptuous bodies after years of lean clotheshorses. The "Earthly Bodies" turn up this winter at the Met, where they'll face competition from new Penn nudes at the Whitney. Made in 1999, the "Dancer" series takes as its subject another fleshy fleshy (flesh´e) 1. pertaining to or resembling flesh. 2. characterized by abundant flesh. woman, this time in motion, so her solidity turns ethereal, almost spectral. "Earthly Bodies" Jan. 15- Apr. 21; Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago, museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building, designed in the Italian Renaissance style by , June 1-Oct. 6; SF MOMA Moma (mō`mä), town, E central Mozambique. It is important mainly as a harbor for the export of tropical produce. , May 22- July 27, 2003. "Dancer" Jan. 12-May 12; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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