Art in America
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Articles in Oct 2006 issue of Art in America
- Art Cologne overhaul
- Tides and tidings: long known for large-scale wall drawings in which raucous crowds enact allegorical tales, Nicole Eisenman recently turned her muralist bent to canvas, devising a two-part epic in which art and lesbian motherhood are cast onto a remote y
by Faye Hirsch - Eric Mitchell at Mitchell Algus
by Carlo McCormick - Ruth Stanford at the Mattress Factory
by Leigh Anne Miller - Paolo Chiasera at Francesca Minini
by Angelo Capasso - Gelah Penn at Kentler and Darn, Stuhltrager
by Leigh Anne Miller - Glexis Novoa at the Lowe Art Museum
by Paula Harper - Christie's to sell restituted Klimts
- New Koolhaas Museum in Seoul
- Magical thinking: conjuring lavish visual environments from the most ordinary materials, and drawing outlandish tales from true stories, Saskia Olde Wolbers makes videos of hypnotic beauty
by Nancy Princenthal - Tejal Shah at Thomas Erben
by Carey Lovelace - Andrew Ross at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
by Rebecca Dimling Cochran - Tony Bevan at IVAM
by Lyle Rexer - Correction
- Li-lan at Jason McCoy
by Jonathan Goodman - Alison Saar at LA Louver
by Michael Duncan - The Barnes Foundation
- Luxembourg goes contemporary
- Barth ranges wide: luminous hues and disorienting scale still characterize Frances Barth's paintings, which now also feature exaggeratedly horizontal formats and hints of landscape. A recent survey traveled from Dartmouth to the New York Studio School
by Karen Wilkin - Su-en Wong at Danese
by Michael Amy - Scott Stack at Monique Meloche
by Susan Snodgrass - Julian Rosefeldt at Arndt & Partner
by Axel Lapp - One life to paint
by Peter Plagens - Siobhan Liddell at CRG
by Anna Blume - Gerard Garouste at Daniel Templon
by Paul B. Franklin - Cincinnati Art Museum
- Photographic flaneurs
by Andy Grundberg - Gary Simmons at the Bohen Foundation
by Eleanor Heartney - Nicola Tyson at Friedrich Petzel
by Faye Hirsch - Su-Mei Tse at Franklin Art Works
by Janet Koplos - The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York has announced the winners of the 2006 National Design Awards, to be presented on Oct. 18
- A museum of his own: the blue-chip art collection of French businessman Francois Pinault recently debuted at the revamped Palazzo Grassi
by Marcia E. Vetrocq - Jim Toia at Kim Foster
by Leigh Anne Miller - Art schools
- College Art Association
- Street life: the fourth Berlin Biennial drew on the complex history of a single street, and on art of the past 30 years, to provide a rich context for new work by an international roster of artists
by Richard Kalina - Joseph Marioni at Peter Blum
by Stephen Maine - Tracy Moffatt at Steven Kasher
by Lilly Wei - Kristen Morgin at Marc Selwyn
by Leah Ollman - The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Conn., has presented its 2006 Emerging Artist Award to Josh Azzarella
- Samuel Palmer's luminous garden: the subject of a recent survey at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, London-born Samuel Palmer produced intimate, hallucinatory landscapes that convey his reverence for nature during the 19th-century Industrial Revolution
by David Ebony - James Barsness at George Adams
by Cary Levine - Art services
- Newcomb Art Gallery
- A slow-motion biennial: in a striking departure from most such exhibitions, the current SITE Santa Fe Biennial focuses on a small number of artists, many of them in midcareer
by Frances Colpitt - Peter Rostovsky at The Project
by Edward Leffingwell - Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao at Julie Saul
by Michael Amy - Wangechi Mutu at SFMOMA
by D.C. Murray - Milan's Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro recently announced the winners of its first international competition for young sculptors
- The Colossus of Bolton Landing: a survey at the Guggenheim, on the centennial of David Smith's birth, served as a reminder of his formal originality and prodigious output
by Kenneth E. Silver - John Gibson at Gerald Peters
by Karen Wilkin - A.i.A. corresponding editor Sue Taylor has received the 2005 Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award, presented by the editorial board of American Art, published by the Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Shirin Neshat is the winner of the 2006 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
- Hermitage plundered from within
by Stephanie Cash - Beyond the great interruption: the Institute of American Indian Arts recently sponsored the First Indigenous Biennial, featuring artists from the U.S. and Canada
by Charles Dee Mitchell - Deborah Grant at Roebling Hall
by Brian Boucher - Sebastiaan Bremer at Roebling Hall
by Susan Harris - Patrick Berube at Skol
by Melissa Kuntz - The Judith Rothschild Foundation, which gives grants to support the work of recently deceased, under-recognized artists, has presented 21 grants of $3,000 to $15,500, totaling $250,000
- Protect us from what we don't know: in two recent gallery exhibitions, Jenny Holzer used declassified government documents and contemporary poetry as sources for her artworks, including an unprecedented display of oil paintings
by Cathy Lebowitz - Brendan O'Connell at Morgan Lehman
by Joe Fyfe - Julio Galan 1959-2006
by Raphael Rubinstein - Jason Rhoades 1965-2006
by Stephanie Cash - Munchs recovered
- The decollation of Saint Marcel: evoking Salome and St. John the Baptist, a critically neglected 1937 photo-tableau epitomizes Marcel Duchamp's self-defined roles as perpetual Bachelor, cultural prophet and conceptualist king
by Sheldon Nodelman - II Lee at Art Projects International
by Edward Leffingwell - Elaine Spatz-Rabinowitz at OK Harris
by Edward Leffingwell - Scott Burton at Albion
by David Coggins - The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston has given grants to visual artists from Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas as part of the Katrina Artists Trust Fund
- Russell Crotty at CRG
by Edward Leffingwell - Christoph Ruckhaberle at Zach Feuer
by David Coggins - Key Iraqi culture chief resigns
- Refreshing the Smithsonian
by Lee Rosenbaum - An infinity of objects: in his latest works, one of them on an atypically grand scale, Josiah McElheny plays upon modernist designs to undermine the certitudes of modernity
by Gregory Volk - Joanna Malinowska at Canada
by David Coggins - Angelo Filomeno at Marianne Boesky
by Susan Harris - Slawomir Elsner at Sutton Lane
by Jane Neal - Obituaries
by Stephanie Cash - Josef Albers and Yuko Shiraishi at Leonard Hutton
by Kirsten Swenson - Eddie Martinez at ZieherSmith
by David Coggins