Art in America
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Articles in Jan 2007 issue of Art in America
- Maki designs art complex in St. Louis
by Mel Watkin - Anton Henning at Zach Feuer
by Brian Boucher - Carlo Nangeroni at Esso
by Edward Leffingwell - Margaret Evangeline at the Hilliard Art Museum and at Heriard-Cimino
by Lilly Wei - Giuseppe Pietroniro at Fondazione Olivetti
by Cornelia Lauf - J. Paul Getty Trust
- Tacita Dean is the winner of the $50,000 Hugo Boss Prize, given biennially by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
- Liotard fingers Durer
by Ruth Paesch - The death of an Emperor: Manet's sustained artistic response to Napoleon the Third's ill-considered attempt to impose a monarchist regime on Mexico is the subject of an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art
by Raphael Rubinstein - Philemona Williamson at June Kelly
by Jonathan Goodman - Adventures in hyperspace
by David Ebony - Matthew Ritchie at Andrea Rosen
by Kirsten Swenson - Lorser Feitelson at Washburn
by Edward Leffingwell - Kathryn Refi at Solomon Projects
by Cathy Byrd - Saskia Leek at Jonathan Smart
by Roger Boyce - Harvard University Art Museums
- German artist Tomma Abts has won the approximately $50,000 Turner Prize, given by the Tate Britain in London
- Clemente's Kalighat "crimes," part II
by William Flintoff - Fontana's visible cities: in an exhibition of newly assembled paintings named for Venice and New York, the artist best known for his transgressive gestures and Spatialist manifestos is shown to have had a taste for the decorative, sensuous and kitsch
by Marcia E. Vetrocq - Makoto Aida at Andrew Roth
by Ryan Holmberg - The voices of geezerdom
by Raphael Rubinstein - Yayoi Kusama at Robert Miller
by Edward Leffingwell - Julian Hatton at Elizabeth Harris
by Faye Hirsch - Matthew Girson at Sonnenschein Gallery, Lake Forest College
by Susan Snodgrass - Art schools
- Contemporary Arts Museum
- The new participants in the biannual Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative have been announced
- Armory redo under way
- Dowell's drive-by abstraction: California artist Roy Dowell is best known for hybrid compositions that mix collage and painting. A recent gallery survey of 25 years of his art, which draws frequently on billboard ads and textile design, highlighted his po
by Michael Duncan - Adam McEwen at Nicole Klagsbrun
by Michael Amy - NY galleries
- Greg Bogin at Leo Koenig
by Stephen Maine - Isabelle Champion Metadier at the Chelsea Art Museum
by Michael Amy - Joanne Lefrak at the Center for Contemporary Arts
by Sarah S. King - Art services
- San Antonio Museum of Art
- The French Ministry of Culture has conferred its medals of the Order of Arts and Letters
- Getty to Italy: basta!
by Stephanie Cash - Antoni Tapies at PaceWildenstein
by Vincent Katz - Lin Yan at China 2000
by Edward Leffingwell - Sins of omission: Korea's sixth Gwangju Biennale defined Asian identity—and redefined political cant—via selective cultural blindness
by Richard Vine - Barnaby Furnas at Marianne Boesky
by David Humphrey - Ceal Floyer at the Swiss Institute
by Brian Boucher - Michael Gonzalez at Solo Projects
by Michael Duncan - 2006 Ad
- American Federation of Arts
- Paula Cooper was also recently awarded the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art Medal for her work with contemporary artists
- Detroit gets a contemporary art museum
by Raphael Rubinstein - Gary Stephan at Cynthia Broan
by Brian Boucher - Robert Feintuch at CRG
by Susan Harris - Window of opportunity: the recent opening of the Hyde Park Art Center in new quarters provides Chicago with a chance, rare in any art community, to rethink the overall ecology of its art institutions and their missions
by Susan Snodgrass - Nanette Carter at G.R. N'Namdi
by Jonathan Goodman - Elizabeth Cooper at Thrust Projects
by Stephen Maine - Peter Voulkos at Braunstein Quay
by Mark Van Proyen - 2006 Ad
- United States Artists has announced the winners of its first round of fellowships, totaling $2.5 million
- Collector's museum for Rome
by Stephanie Cash - Gudjon Bjarnason at Snug Harbor Cultural Center
by Dominique Nahas - Mose Tolliver, ca. 1919-2006
by David Ebony - Bartlett shows her colors: a conceptualist by origin, a painter at heart, and, increasingly, a rollicking storyteller, Jennifer Bartlett has recently received wide attention for work both old and new
by Vincent Katz - Judy Glantzman at Betty Cuningham
by Michael Duncan - Amanda Church at Michael Steinberg
by David Humphrey - Marita Dingus at Francine Seders
by Matthew Kangas - 2006 Ad
- The Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation has announced the recipients of its annual $25,000 grants, given to women artists over age 35
- Vienna museum loses a Munch
by Raphael Rubinstein - Anita Steckel at Mitchell Algus
by Edward Leffingwell - Whitney closer to downtown deal
- Living in a Devil Town: long an underground cult hero to musicians, Daniel Johnston has more recently captured the attention of the art world in colorful, cartoonish drawings that relate the struggle between good and evil
by Faye Hirsch - John Salvest at Morgan Lehman
by Michael Amy - Elizabeth Peyton at Guild Hall
by Faye Hirsch - Jun Kaneko at the Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center
by Marcia Morse - The International Center of Photography in New York recently presented its annual Infinity Awards
- Torkwase Dyson, Suzanne McClelland and Stephen Westfall are the recipients of $25,000 grants from the Nancy Graves Foundation
- MOMA opens education center
- Mary Henderson at Lyons WierOrtt
by Michael Amy - Bill seeks to keep Barnes in place
- Light masonry: since 1998, Sean Scully has been laboring on an ambitious series, now numbering some 200 works, devoted to the phenomenology of walls. In a selection installed in sky-lit galleries at the Met, these paintings, watercolors and prints take on
by Lilly Wei - Margarita Cabrera at Sara Meltzer
by Anastasia Aukeman - Colin Cochran at Joyce Goldstein
by Edward M. Gomez