Art in America
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Articles in March 2007 issue of Art in America
- China's "Art in America"
- Reading images
by Andy Grundberg - The persistence of suffering: in his painterly, often multi-paneled paintings, Jerome Witkin takes a long, hard look at human vulnerability and the cruelty, both private the historical, that it repeatedly summons into being
by Peter Selz - Tal R at Zach Feuer
by David Humphrey - Abelardo Morell at Bonni Benrubi
by Edward Leffingwell - William Anastasi and Lucio Pozzi at White Box
by Brian Boucher - Ronald Hall at the University of Puget Sound
by Matthew Kangas - The Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, Calif., opened its new Dorothy and Donald Kennedy Wing on Feb. 18
- Elizabeth Thomas, independent curator and former associate curator at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, has been appointed curator of the MATRIX program for contemporary art at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
- Best Shows of 2005-06
- Money talks Mandarin: China has suddenly become the world's hottest contemporary art market. What are the effects on artists of this massive influx of cash? In a candid roundtable, three seasoned observers give their views
by Richard Vine - Morris's eye language: a recent retrospective highlighted the evocative, abstract sculptures and sumi-ink drawings of Portland modernist Hilda Morris—a body of work influenced by the art of East Asia and the indigenous forms of the Pacific Northwest
by Sue Taylor - Susan Rothenberg at Sperone Westwater
by Nancy Princenthal - "Contested Spaces" at Baruch College and "Into the Future" at Plus Ultra
by Thomas McEvilley - Joan Jonas at Dia: Beacon
by Gregory Volk - Franziska Furter at Schleicher + Lange
by David Coggins - The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland recently selected the London-based firm Foreign Office Architects to plan a new home for the museum
- Storefront for Art and Architecture
- Abu Dhabi: arts hot spot
by Stephanie Cash - Remapping the art world: the most recent Sydney Biennale focused on the shifting encounters—cultural, political, economic, symbolic—that increasingly characterize our globalist century
by Lilly Wei - Ellsworth Kelly at Matthew Marks
by Nancy Princethal - Brian Block and Noah Khoshbin at Participant
by Brian Boucher - Leo Velledor and Mario Yrisarry at Mitchell Algus
by Michael Amy - Bill Sullivan at the Albany Institute of History & Art
by Alfred Corn - Carole Benzaken at Nathalie Obadia
by Paul B. Franklin - The Baltimore Museum of Art recently announced a $10-million promised gift from museum trustee Dorothy McIlvain Scott, the largest individual donation in the museum's history
- Foundation of Self-Taught American Artists
- CAA awards for 20007
- Katrina Journal: six months after catastrophe hit the city, the artist revisited sites in New Orleans that he had drawn several years earlier; destruction had rendered many locales unrecognizable
by Wolf Kahn - Serge Spitzer at Nyehaus
by Saul Ostrow - Sean Paul at Elizabeth Dee
by Marcia E. Vetrocq - Lindsay Brant at Haswellediger
by Edward Leffingwell - Sharon Booma at Arden
by Colin Fleming - Ricarda Roggan at Eigen+Art
by Matthias Harder - Obituaries
- Paul Master-Karnik, director for more than 22 years of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Mass., has announced his resignation
- Tours of Judd facilities
- Education of the senses: Diller Scofidio + Renfro's splendid new home for the Boston ICA explores the relationship between culture and sight
by Tom McDonough - John Baldessari at Marian Goodman
by Stephen Maine - Damien Hirst at Gagosian
by Eleanor Heartney - Jim Long at CUE Art Foundation
by Melissa Kunz - Josh Garber at Zolla/Lieberman
by Victor M. Cassidy - Architect and urban planner Denise Scott Brown was recently honored with a 2007 Vilcek Foundation Prize
- NYC arts groups get a breather
- L.A. artist Edgar Arceneaux has won the 2006 William H. Johnson Prize
- Artist residency in Maine
- Brightness falls: a traveling survey of Jennifer Steinkamp's mesmerizing video projections reveals that even her most abstract work involves both sophisticated illusionism and, often, implicit political and cultural references
by Christopher Miles - Rebecca Purdum at Jack Tilton
by Nancy Princenthal - Ariana Page Russell at Magnan Projects
by Joanna Frueh - Cleve Gray at Ameringer Yohe
by Alfred Corn - Larry Krone at the Contemporary Art Museum
by Mel Watkin - The 2006 Mitchell Prize for the best art history book for 2005-06 went to British Museum curator Mark P. McDonald for The Print Collection of Ferdinand Columbus
- Palm Springs Art Museum
- The New York chapter of the American Institute of Architects has posthumously awarded its 2007 Gold Medal to Edward Larrabee Barnes
- San Diego MCA expands
by Leah Ollman - Beauty and desecration: Marilyn Minter's photo-realist enamel paintings and large-scale photographs combine the brash energy of popular culture with an understated awareness of art history
by Barry Schwabsky - Pat Lipsky at Elizabeth Harris
by Karen Wilkin - Esko Mannikko at Yancey Richardson
by Edward Leffingwell - Laurie Fendrich at Katharina Rich Perlow
by Nancy Princenthal - Andy Moses at McClain
by Frances Colpitt - Doug Dubois is the winner of the Gutmann Photography Fellowship, given by the San Francisco Foundation
- Denver Art Museum
- Floodwall's originality challenged
- The Foundation for Contemporary Arts has awarded 10 grants, worth $25,000 each, to individuals in various fields
- The year in feminist art
by Leigh Anne Miller - New Orleans, lost & found: in a recent exhibition and book, Robert Polidori, known for making startling images of architecture around the world, turns his camera on post-Katrina desolation
by Marcia E. Vetrocq - Trevor Paglen at Bellwether
by Brian Boucher - Kate Gilmore at Pierogi
by David Coggins - David Driskell at DC Moore
by Eleanor Heartney - Nancy Evans at Dangerous Curve
by Michael Duncan - Ambreen Butt recently won the 2006 Maud Morgan Prize, given annually to a female Massachusetts-based artist by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Brooklyn Museum
- Netherlands Architecture Institute
- Feminism's future explored at MOMA
by Nancy Princenthal - Inventing Finland: along with a group of other progressive young Finns at the turn of the 20th century—composers, architects, industrialists, activists and fellow artists—the multi-skilled Akseli Gallen-Kallela helped to shape a cultural identit
by Joe Martin Hill - Steve Mumford at Postmasters
by Cathy Lebowitz - Chris Twomey at Tribes
by Carey Lovelace - Judith Murray at Sundaram Tagore
by Jonathan Goodman - Steve Hurd at Rosamund Felsen.
by Michael Duncan - The George Sugarman Foundation recently announced 23 grants totaling $33,095 for 2006