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Articles in Dec 2006 issue of Art in America

• World Monuments Fund honors Indian royal
  by David Ebony
• 2006 Ad
• Light industry: a retrospective profiling sculptor Forrest Myers, creator of "The Wall" in SoHo, displayed a vast range of works—from kinetic to minimalist, from political to musical
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Peter Agostini at Salander-O'Reilly
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Olafur Eliasson at Tanya Bonakdar
  by Carol Diehl
• James Harrison at Luise Ross
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Hank Willis Thomas at Lisa Dent
  by D.C.> Murray
• Lorna Simpson is the inaugural recipient of the $50,000 Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize
• The Hessel Museum of Art debuted on Nov. 12 on the campus of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y
• Yale revamps Kahn landmark
• The future, as it was: for 50 years, Isamu Noguchi and Buckminster Fuller shared dreams of a world improved by visionary technology, as seen in a recent exhibition
  by Nancy Princenthal
• Eye on the transcendent: New Mexico artist Florence Pierce, now in her late 80s, is best known for luminescent paintings made of pigmented resins on reflective surfaces. Her interest in abstraction began in the 1930s, when she was an associate of the Tran
  by Jan Ernst Adlmann
• Vik Muniz at Sikkema Jenkins
  by Nancy Princenthal
• Paul Etienne Lincoln at Christine Burgin
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Eva Struble at Lombard-Freid
  by Leigh Anne Miller
• Grayson Perry at Victoria Miro
  by Alfred Corn
• The Irish American Arts Awards, to be given annually to artists of Irish ancestry, were presented for the first time at a ceremony in New York
• New York University's Institute of Fine Arts
• Miami's new center for performing arts
  by Stephanie Cash
• Sculpture on the edge: "Sculpture Key West 2006" brought together 80 artists with widely divergent practices and backgrounds. But the town's insouciant character was felt throughout the show
  by Paula Harper
• Rereading Anastasi: working in an impressive variety of mediums, William Anastasi brings to bear on his Conceptual work a wide-ranging formal inventiveness and a Duchampian wit
  by Brian Boucher
• Stephen Posen at the Drawing Center
  by Edward Leffingwell
• William Earl Kofmehl III and Jacob Feige at Lombard-Freid
  by Carey Lovelace
• Bosco Sodi at Neuhoff
  by Jonathan Goodman
• Stephane Bordarier at Jean Fournier
  by Joe Fyfe
• Manuel Neri has received the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Sculpture Center
• Guggenheim Museum
• Another place for Another Place?
  by Stephanie Cash
• Inventing Tijuana: an ever-expanding cultural laboratory that thrives on unpredictability, Tijuana exudes raw energy. This hybrid vigor is on ample display in a current survey of art and design from the area
  by Leah Ollman
• History, a multiplicity: an exhibition currently at the Museum of Modern Art surveys the past 45 years of European art through prints, artist's books and multiples, revealing them often to have been the mediums of choice to convey the preoccupations of th
  by Faye Hirsch
• James Brown at Fisher Landau Center for Art
  by Vincent Katz
• B. Wurtz at Feature
  by Nancy Princenthal
• Susan Bee and Miriam Laufer at A.I.R
  by Jonathan Goodman
• Patrick Tuttofuoco at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
  by Raphael Rubinstein
• Gabriel Orozco, selected last February as the winner of the 2006 blueOrange Prize , has chosen French painter Emmanuel Van der Meulen as the emerging-artist winner of the blue-Orange
• Palais de Tokyo
• Iraq collection to be dispersed?
• NY galleries
• Ursula von Rydingsvard at Galerie Lelong
  by Michael Amy
• Hitoshi Nomura at McCaffrey Fine Art
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Kambui Olujimi at Gallery 138
  by Sarah Valdez
• Stephanie Rose at Nicole Fiacco
  by Carter Ratcliff
• Christine and Irene Hohenbuchler at Barbara Weiss
  by Cathy Lebowitz
• The Pew Charitable Trusts recently awarded Fellowships in the Arts to 14 Philadelphia-area poets, performance artists, and sculpture and installation artists, who each receive $50,000
• Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
• Revised plan for Queens Museum
• Compound pleasures: Robert Rauschenberg made more than 80 Combines during a singularly productive decade, starting in the mid-1950s. A traveling exhibition of this work shows him changing from an energetic provocateur to a self-aware, mature artist
  by Frances Colpitt
• Robert Watts at Leslie Tonkonow
  by Michael Duncan
• Monica Majoli at Gagosian
  by Michael Duncan
• Judith Joy Ross at Pace/MacGill
  by Jean Dykstra
• Annabeth Rosen at Fleischer Ollman
  by Janet Koplos
• Art services
• The American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York recently announced its awards
• 2006 Ad
• Boston's new ICA opens
• Lorna Simpson: echoes of the unspoken: currently the subject of a midcareer retrospective, Lorna Simpson uses photography, video and text to raise social questions in works whose power, carefully calibrated, is only amplified by what she keeps to herself
  by Sarah Valdez
• Rivane Neuenschwander at Tanya Bonakdar
  by Gregory Volk
• Christian Hellmich at Lehmann Maupin
  by Brian Boucher
• Gwenn Thomas at Yvon Lambert
  by Lilly Wei
• Gavin Perry and Mette Tommerup at Fredric Snitzer
  by Roni Feinstein
• Carnegie Museum of Art
• Correction
• Thomas Denenberg
• 2006 Ad
  by Roni Feinstein
• Biedermeier unbound: a traveling museum survey, currently on view in Milwaukee, highlights the courtly patronage and new bourgeois values behind the 19th century's "simple" but visually rich Biedermeier movement
  by Franz Schulze
• Dona Nelson at Thomas Erben
  by Stephen Maine
• Jackie Gendel at Jeff Bailey
  by Joe Fyfe
• J. Bennett Fitts at Julie Saul
  by Casey Ruble
• Kevan Smith at Stewart
  by Chris Schnoor
• The Miami-based Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation , established by Ella Fontanals Cisneros, has presented its inaugural grants to 10 emerging Latin American artists, whose works were on view at the CIFO Art Space Oct. 5-Nov. 12
• Marcia Tucker, 1940-2006
  by Faye Hirsch
• Pontus Hulten, 1924-2006
  by Raphael Rubinstein
• The art of politics
  by Robert Atkins
• Louise Lawler looks back; in conceptually and visually elegant work both old and new, installed at the Wexner Center with great sensitivity to its eccentric architecture, Lawler illuminates the business of showing and owning art
  by Kirsten Swenson
• Andrew Chin at Westwood
  by Raphael Rubinstein
• Irving Petlin at Kent
  by Eleanor Heartney
• Miki Lee at Lyons WierOrtt
  by Matthew Guy Nichols
• Janet Lippincott at Karan Ruhlen
  by Sarah S. King
• The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation recently announced the recipients of free studio space in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan
• Dia scraps move to the High Line; Whitney considers
  by Stephanie Cash