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Articles in June-July 2008 issue of Art in America

• Boris Lurie remembered
  by Gertrude Stein
• The art of suffering
  by David Ebony
• Destroy, they said: in what was billed as an attempt to "de-Hellenize" contemporary Greek culture and relieve it of its classical past, the 1st Athens Biennial sprang into being
  by Lilly Wei
• Piotr Uklanski at Gagosian
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Muntadas at Kent
  by Eleanor Heartney
• Sigalit Landau at the Museum of Modern Art
  by Marcia E. Vetrocq
• "Claiming Space" at the Katzen Center, American University
  by J.W. Mahoney
• Dean Sameshima at Peres Projects
  by Ana Finel Honigman
• Exit Art has announced the winner of its first biennial Ida Applebroog Award, established by the artist along with collector and board member Richard Massey to support artists at critical points in their careers
• National Gallery of Art
• 2008 Ad
  by Lisa Movius
• Art in Denver: no contest
• Activist esthetics
  by Tom McDonough
• Primary colors: an artist takes aim at the never ending presidential campaign
  by Cathy Lebowitz
• Subodh Gupta at Jack Shainman
  by Susan Harris
• Robin Lowe at Lennon, Weinberg
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Andre Butzer at Metro Pictures
  by Brian Boucher
• Otabenga Jones and Associates at the Menil Collection
  by Charles Dee Mitchell
• Cay Sophie Rabinowitz has resigned as artistic director of Art Basel and Art Basel Miami Beach after four months in the post, citing personal reasons
• The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., unveils its new Stone Hill Center on June 22
• Asia Society
• Louise Bourgeois on the big screen
  by David Ebony
• Abstract expressionism and the Cold War: did New York really steal the idea of modern art? Were the artists tools of U.S. policy? 25 years on, Serge Guilbaut's j'accuse can still prompt a fiery response
  by Irving Sandler
• In times of trouble: several recent videos and films reflect the growing cultural response, often indirect but nonetheless penetrating, to the political conditions of our day
  by Nancy Princenthal
• Ai Weiwei at Mary Boone
  by Brian Broucher
• Robert Rauschenberg at PaceWildenstein and Jacobson Howard
  by David Ebony
• Hans van Meeuwen at Cristinerose
  by Janet Koplos
• Wesley Harvey at WaterSpace South
  by Matthew Kangas
• Omer Fast is the winner of the 2008 Bucksbaum Award, given to an artist in the Whitney Biennial
• Las Vegas's Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, located in the Venetian casino and resort, closed its doors on May 11
• Patrick Ireland, R.I.P
• Oppenheim "Church" uprooted again
• Cold war and hot art: a wide-ranging and politically alert exhibition revealed new aspects of that durable topic of 20th-century art history: the postwar cultural rivalry between France and the U.S
  by Jonathan D. Katz
• Collateral damage: Siah Armajani's Fallujah employs some of his signature architectural vocabulary in a new, darkly pessimistic tone
  by Kim Bradley
• Coco Fusco at The Project
  by Nancy Princenthal
• Dennis Rudolph at Perry Rubenstein
  by Casey Ruble
• David Maeh at Forum
  by Jonathan Goodman
• Matthew Moore at Lisa Sette
  by Deborah Sussman Susser
• The New Museum and Altoids mint company recently presented the first Altoids Awards to Ei Arakawa, Michael Patterson-Carver, Lauren Kelley and Michael Stickrod
• Obituaries
• Contemporary Jewish Museum opens
• Provocation art: where to draw the line?
  by Stephanie Cash
• Making it real: the amateur photography of war brings new content and esthetics to documentary and fictional filmmaking
  by Faye Hirsch
• Global warnings
  by Suzaan Boettger
• Tseng Kwong Chi at Paul Kasmin
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Luc Tuymans at David Zwirner
  by David Coggins
• John Baldessari and Alejandro Cesarco at Murray Guy
  by David Coggins
• Danica Phelps at Sister
  by Leah Ollman
• Peter Doig recently won the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, worth about $155,000, from the Society for Modern Art
• Lesley Dill creates an opera
  by Janet Koplos
• Whitney's plans for downtown
• The way we were, the way we are: China's most outspoken artist reflects on the ongoing struggle for expressive freedom in the People's Republic
  by Richard Vine
• Talking politics 2008: six artists who have taken on controversial public issues in their work assess the current status of political art
  by Eleanor Heartney
• Los Carpinteros at Sean Kelly
  by Brian Boucher
• Subhankar Banerjee at Sundaram Tagore
  by Debora Kuan
• Stephen Dean at Sara Meltzer
  by David Ebony
• Eric Beltz at Acuna-Hansen
  by Michael Duncan
• The Clark Art Institute has selected Peter Schjeldahl as the winner of the 2008 Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing
• Drilling near Spiral Jetty postponed
  by Stephanie Cash
• Mindful artists
  by Geoffrey Koetsch
• Future home for still museum
• The revolution will be visualized: the compelling graphic designs of Emory Douglas, "Revolutionary Artist" of the Black Panther Party, helped shape the group's public image and reflected its evolution from politically militant to socially mitiga
  by Sarah Valdez
• Rules of Engagement: with photographic truthfulness no longer taken on faith, some photographers are working out a new set of protocols for making pictures that are seriously real
  by Marcia E. Vetrocq
• Yinka Shonibare at James Cohan
  by Faye Hirsch
• Adrian Piper at Elizabeth Dee
  by Kirsten Swenson
• Heather Cox at Knoedler
  by Edward Leffingwell
• Patrick Heron at Hackett-Freedman
  by Melissa E. Feldman
• The National Arts Club recently honored Matthew Barney with its Medal of Honor
• Artist's "bioterror" charges dropped
• Counting the Fallen
  by Jane Hammond
• Summer preview
  by Sarah S. King
• NY galleries
• Written in Stone: built of blocks from Israel and Palestine and assembled by masons from throughout the region, Michal Rovner's massive stone structures rely on delicate networks of understanding
  by Nancy Princenthal
• Luis Camnitzer at Alexander Gray
  by Sarah Valdez
• Adel Abdessemed at P.S.1
  by Claudia Calirman
• George Condo at Luhring Augustine
  by Stephen Mueller
• Hung Liu at Rena Bransten
  by Peter Selz
• The Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative, which pairs established figures with emerging artists in various fields, has announced the new round of participants in its biennial program
• Guggenheim fellows for 2008
• Rating Ramirez
  by Christy Bergland