The artist paints, sculpts, is exposed

"Cézanne & Giacometti," celebrating the painter and the sculptor, marked the 50th anniversary of the Louisiana Art Museum in Humlebaek, Denmark. (JENS NORGAARD LARSEN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES)

Cézanne & Giacometti

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

HUMLEBAEK, Denmark

Through June 29 They are two of the great lions of Modernism - a painter who made something solid and sculptural of color and volume, and a sculptor best known for his painterly, almost-precarious forms - yet who ever thinks of them together? To celebrate the 50th anniversary of its founding, Denmark's Louisiana Museum of Modern Art looks at each artist apart and together. The exhibit includes 50 paintings by Cézanne and almost 100 paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Giacometti.

Strandvej 13, 011-45-4919-0719, louisiana.dk.

TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945

Vancouver Art Gallery VANCOUVER, British Columbia

Through April 27 Much debate raged in the first several decades of photography's existence over whether it was art, science, or both. It was in response to that debate that the photographic school known as Pictorialism arose toward the end of the 19th century. Pictorialists were fervently of the photography-as-art school. They took ravishing, soft-focus images that these photographers felt were every bit the equal of painting. This exhibition includes more than 150 examples of Pictorialism and its predecessors by such artists as Julia Margaret Cameron, Baron Adolph de Meyer, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Josef Sudek.

750 Hornby St., 604-662-4719, vanart gallery.bc.ca.

Sicily: From Ulysses to Garibaldi

Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany BONN

Through May 25 Situated at the center of the Mediterranean, Sicily has been a cultural crossroads for several thousand years. This massive exhibition follows Italy's largest region (and the Mediterranean's largest island) from Paleothic origins to the Sicilian campaign of Giuseppe Garibaldi and his Redshirts, which led to the reunification of Italy. The varying influence on Sicily of Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Arabs, Normans, Spanish, Austrians, and French is shown through some 300 objects.

Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 4, 011-49-228-9171-0, kah-bonn.de/index_e.htm.

Ed Ruscha and Photography

Art Institute of Chicago CHICAGO

Through June 1 It's hard to think of Ed Ruscha as a grand old man of American art. But the vigorously rough-hewn Los Angeles pop and conceptual artist is 70 now. Although best-known for his paintings of such straightforward subjects as words, signs, and gas stations, he's also been taking photographs throughout his career. This show, which ran at New York's Whitney Museum of American Art last year, is the most comprehensive one devoted to this aspect of Ruscha's work. It displays more than 100 photographs, as well as several of his drawings and paintings.

111 South Michigan Ave., 312-443-3600, artic.edu.

Inaugural installation

Broad Contemporary Art Museum LOS ANGELES

Through September As part of a wide-ranging expansion and renovation of its 20-acre campus, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art last month opened the Broad Contemporary Art Museum. The building is named for real estate developer Eli Broad (pronounced brode), who has spent decades amassing one of the world's leading collections of contemporary art. In addition to displaying LACMA's holdings in contemporary art, BCAM (they really like acronyms in Southern California) will exhibit works on loan from Broad's own collection. The building, which cost $56 million and was designed by architect Renzo Piano, adds some 60,000 square feet of gallery space to LACMA.

5905 Wilshire Blvd., 323-857-6000, lacma.org.

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