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Articles in April 2008 issue of Art in America
- Mind and matter: "Common Senses" brings together more than a dozen artists who have examined the mind-body problem using the insights—and imaging technology—of brain science
by Eleanor Heartney - Where words go: Lawrence Weiner's essentially nomadic oeuvre has paused for a time in a voluble retrospective that explores many aspects of his language-based career
by Faye Hirsch - Willem de Kooning at L&M and Gagosian
by David Humphrey - Ashley Hope at Tilton
by Casey Ruble - Lori Nix at Randall Scott
by Sidney Lawrence - Emerson Woelffer at Hackett-Freedman
by Mark Van Proyen - Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles and Hammer Museum curator James Elaine are the recipients of the 2008 Ordway Prize, given by Creative Link for the Arts and the New Museum of Contemporary Art
- Ullens Center of Contemporary Art in Beijing
- Art and science, on speaking terms
by Nancy Princenthal - Risks and rewards on the Bowery: in which the new New Museum of Contemporary Art is viewed as an urbanistic success with somewhat less happy consequences for the galleries inside
by Joseph Giovannini - Process, image and elegy: a number of exhibitions have lately turned the spotlight on Jack Whitten, whose 40-year career is a vital link between Ab-Ex painterliness and a more contemporary engagement with unorthodox processes and Internet inspirations
by Saul Ostrow - Willem de Kooning at Allan Stone
by Edward Leffingwell - Yishai Jusidman at Yvon Lambert
by Michael Harvey - Alec Soth at Martin Weinstein
by David Coggins - Jamie Vasta at Patricia Sweetow
by Melissa E. Feldman - Brooklyn-based artist Xaviera Simmons is the winner of the 2008 David C. Driskell Prize, worth $25,000
- James Gallery
- Eyes wide shut: in the film "The Science of Sleep" and a related installation, Michel Gondry played with scientific findings that have recently engaged other artists interested in dreams and unconscious behavior
by Nancy Princenthal - Make it new: with a four-part show inaugurating its sleek facility on the Bowery, the once-scrappy New Museum faces a tough question: can its cutting edge stay sharp?
by Eleanor Heartney - Line analysis: an artist of the accumulative, Diana Cooper uses craft materials to create simple geometric shapes whose wild proliferation, however playful, lends her work an Orwellian cast
by Lilly Wei - Steven Charles at Marlborough Chelsea
by Brian Boucher - Anne Harris at Alexandre
by Jonathan Goodman - Gary Justis at the Elmhurst Art Museum
by Victor M. Cassidy - Gabriel de la Mora at OMR
by Edward M. Gomez - The 2008 Skowhegan Awards will be presented this month
- Blaffer Gallery
- Double birth: the new Ullens Center for Contemporary Art opened with a survey of the '85 New Wave, China's first nationwide avant-garde movement
by Phyllis Tuchman - Pat Steir at Cheim & Read
by Matthew Guy Nichols - Jill Moser at Lennon, Weinberg
by Faye Hirsch - Guillermo Kuitca at Gallery Met
by Jonathan Gilmore - James Stephens at Oakland University Art Gallery
by Vince Carducci - Shezad Dawood at Paradise Row
by Ana Finel Honigman - The George Sugarman Foundation recently gave its 2007 grants, totaling $50,000, to 40 artists
- Wave Hill
- The geometry of sight: five major installations were commissioned for a survey of work by Robert Irwin, who pioneered the use of art as a tool for shaping the experience of space
by Leah Ollman - NY galleries
- Bridget Riley at PaceWildenstein
by Catherine Spaeth - Alfonso Ossorio at Michael Rosenfeld
by Saul Ostrow - John Himmelfarb at Luise Ross
by Jonathan Goodman - Michael Bise at Moody
by Charles Dee Mitchell - Martin Klimas at Cosar
by Matthias Harder - Obituaries
- Selling art to fund operations
by Stephanie Cash - Richard Tuttle at Sperone Westwater
by Stephen Maine - AICA Lifetime Achievement Award
- Multiple Indias: a traveling show of contemporary Indian art, now at Rutgers, addresses political, social and personal issues on the subcontinent
by Susan Snodgrass - Carl Ostendarp at Elizabeth Dee
by Saul Ostrow - Heather Rowe at D'Amelio Tetras and the Whitney at Altria
by Nancy Princenthal - Afi Nayo at Skoto
by Gerard McCarthy - Rebekah Bogard at the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, Univ. of Nevada
by Joanna Frueh - Cincinnati Art Museum
- Krens resigns from the Guggenheim
- Art Chicago comeback
by Susan Snodgrass - Fabiola, Queen of the Belgians?
by Michael Amy - Ernest A. Bryant III at Franklin Art Works
by Michael Fallon - The American Craft Council
- An unsettled eye: the most expansive exhibition ever of Lee Miller's photographs reveals little-known aspects of a career intensely lived
by Barry Schwabsky - Kristin Lucas at Postmasters
by Michael Rush - John Simon Jr. at Gering & Lopez
by Nancy Princenthal - Domenico Zindato at Phyllis Kind
by Edward M. Gomez - Stuart Arends at James Kelly Contemporary
by Sarah S. King - Art in General
- NEA funding whiplash
- AIDS Altarpiece tours U.S
by Steven C. Dubin - Mies: Nazi or not?
by Peter Selz - The breath of sculpture: current scholarship has restored to the Quattrocento master Desiderio da Settignano works long attributed to others. A small but significant exhibition revealed the striking modernity of his vision
by Brandt Junceau - Fassbinder: Berlin Alexanderplatz at P.S.1
by Brian Boucher - Mounir Fatmi at Lombard-Freid
by Michael Harvey - Hugo Bastidas at Nohra Haime
by Denise Carvalho - Reverse Trash Streams: The Junk Mail Project At L.A. Contemporary
by Kirsten Swenson - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
- Grants for arts writers
- Nazi loot show in France & Israel
- Corrections
- In memoriam: as long as American troops continue to be killed in Iraq, artist Jane Hammond will honor them in an open-ended installation
by Faye Hirsch - David Adamo at Fruit and Flower Deli
by Brian Boucher - Not Vital at Sperone Westwater
by Janet Koplos - Liz Craft at Marianne Boesky
by Janet Koplos - Thomas Woodruff at the California State University Art Museum
by Michael Duncan - Critics' faves of 2006-07