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Articles in May 2007 issue of Art in America

• Reflections in a Chinese mirror: the blend of art and commercialism surrounding the most recent Shanghai Biennale exposed the current state of visual culture in both East and West
  by Richard Vine
• Collateral damage: in audacious assemblages recently shown in Vienna and New York, Isa Genzken reflects on the casualties of war. Related works by the German artist will appear this summer in Venice and Munster
  by Stephen Maine
• Toba Khedoori at David Zwirner
  by Casey Ruble
• David Shaw at feature
  by David Ebony
• Yoshiki Araki at the Asian American Arts Centre
  by Elisa Decker
• Paulette Phillips at Diaz Contemporary
  by Dan Adler
• The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture recently awarded its 2007 Skowhegan Medals to Mary Lucier , the late Jules Olitski and Fred Wilson
• Moore College of Art & Design Galleries
• Albright-Knox sells to buy
  by Faye Hirsch
• Museum Roulette: as glitzy new facilities, both public and private, continue to emerge, Shanghai's existing art museums struggle with funding shortfalls and random censorship
  by Lisa Movius
• The art of influence: exhibitions in Santa Monica and Los Angeles—one comparing Guston and de Chirico, the other showing the impact of Magritte on recent artists—demonstrated a range of creative responses to previously under-appreciated forebear
  by Michael Duncan
• Philip Taaffe at Gagosian
  by Nancy Princenthal
• Mindy Shapero at CRG
  by Matthew Guy Nichols
• T.L. Solien at Luise Ross
  by Leigh Anne Miller
• Hannah Starkey at Maureen Paley
  by Ana Finel Honigman
• The Samuel Newhouse Foundation recently selected Chicago artist Riva Lehrer as the first winner of the annual $50,000 Wynn Newhouse Award
• Detroit Institute of Arts
• Film examines art-world provocateur
  by David Ebony
• Trading places: with abundant, irreverent humor, the designers included in a recent Shanghai exhibition defied boundaries between form and function
  by Peter Plagens
• Dogged persistence: a traveling retrospective combines William Wegman's standbys—quirky performance videos and photographs of humanoid dogs—with formally innovative new works and a body of paintings made since 1985
  by Roni Feinstein
• Robert Morris at Leo Castelli
  by Eleonor Heartney
• James O. Clark at Elizabeth Harris
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Ming Fay and Chihung Yang at 2 x 13
  by Jonathan Goodman
• Sascha Weidner at Filiale
  by Matthias Harder
• Obituaries
• Mass MoCA
• Sharing the wealth in Dallas
  by Marcia E. Vetrocq
• Art schools: a group crit: a range of issues confront today's booming art schools and university art departments: What skills should young artists acquire? Should they be shielded from the art market or connected to it? Who needs a studio PhD degree? Here
  by Raphael Rubinstein
• Frankenthaler's nerves of steel: anomalous in her career, the welded steel sculptures Helen Frankenthaler made at Anthony Caro's studio in 1972 were recently brought together for a revelatory reunion
  by Karen Wilkin
• Lawrence Gipe at Alexander Gray
  by Ann Compton
• Huang Yong Ping at Gladstone
  by Michael Harvey
• Deb Todd Wheeler at Green Street
  by Ann Wilson Lloyd
• vedovamazzei at the Museo d'Arte Donnaregina
  by Cornelia Lauf
• Lady justice goes to Tampa
  by Leigh Anne Miller
• Brooklyn Museum
• Altoids award at the New Museum
• When video was young: an exhibition at the Reina Sofia in Madrid looked back at the years 1963-86, when experimental use of moving pictures by avant-gardists of all kinds evolved into room-size installations by artists devoted to video alone
  by Joseph Jacobs
• Southern exposure: a current career survey of works in diverse mediums by William Christenberry shows him continually revisiting sites in his native Alabama, a lifelong artistic obsession
  by Jean Dykstra
• Richard Kalina at Lennon, Weinberg
  by Gerard McCarthy
• Gary Webb at Bortolami Dayan
  by Gerard McCarthy
• Christian Bastian at Pierre Menard
  by Adrian Dannatt
• Philippe de Montebello, the French-born director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, received the medal of officer in the Legion of Honor from the French Ministry of Culture
• Smithsonian head steps down
  by Stephanie Cash
• Seattle's art windfall
• Artist Pension Trust update
  by Stephanie Cash
• Nam June on the Mississippi: near the start of his career, and again a decade later, Nam June Paik participated in major shows at the Walker Art Center. Here, the museum's then director recalls both the personal pleasures and high-tech perils of working t
  by Martin Friedman
• Gary Hill at Barbara Gladstone
  by Kirsten Swenson
• Eve Aschheim at Lori Bookstein
  by Stephen Maine
• John Wesley at Fredericks & Freiser
  by Stephen Maine
• Zhan Wang at the Williams College Museum of Art
  by Carol Diehl
• Franklin Sirmans, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Menil Collection in Houston, is the winner of the $25,000 David C. Driskell Prize
• Ghiberti's Gates tour the U.S
• French Island enterprise
• Private dealers
• Giulio Paolini at Marian Goodman and Yvon Lambert
  by Marcia E. Vetrocq
• Peter Piller at Andrew Kreps
  by Stephen Maine
• Tony Conrad at Greene Naftali
  by David Coggins
• Rhonda Gates at Perimeter
  by Victor M. Cassidy
• P.S.1 founder and executive director Alanna Heiss is the winner of the 2007 award for curatorial excellence given by the Center for Curatorial Studies
• Exiting museum directors
• 2007 Ad
• NY galleries
• Ted Victoria at Schroeder Romero
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Edgar Martins at Betty Cuningham
  by Andrea Aversa
• Bill Albertini at Holiday
  by Saul Ostrow
• Jason Villegas at Plush
  by Charles Dee Mitchell
• Dennis Oppenheim was recently presented with the lifetime achievement award for artistic merit in public art
• New York magazine
• Art-world wrongs and rights
  by Robert Atkins
• The industrious line: from her years at Black Mountain College in the late 1940s to the present, Ruth Asawa has implemented the lessons of that great experiment in artistic resourcefulness. A current retrospective of the Bay Area sculptor invites afresh c
  by Leah Ollman
• Tunga at Luhring Augustine
  by Claudia Calirman
• Mayumi Terada at Robert Miller
  by Michael Harvey
• John Currin at Gagosian Gallery
  by Eleanor Heartney
• Mary Jones at Jancar
  by Constance Mallinson
• Nan Goldin is the winner of the 2007 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography
• The Drawing Center
• When ethics fail
  by Peter Plagens
• Slow time: a traveling survey provides welcome exposure for the work of Craigie Horsfield, whose photographs and videos are as visually absorbing as they are conceptually ambitious
  by Nancy Princenthal
• Sigmar Polke at Michael Werner
  by Michael Amy
• Andrew Moore at Yancey Richardson
  by Michael Amy